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With last week's sermon, Pastoral Resident unpacks Matthew 22:34-40. Knowing these two commands, it makes both the religious and the irreligious ask, who can fully love God?

When you fail, whose voice has the final word? In the concluding message of The Comfortable Words , we explore 1 John 2:1–2 and the good news that Jesus Christ is our righteous Advocate. Far from minimizing our sin, the gospel tells the truth about us, and then speaks a better word. Through Christ's advocacy and atoning sacrifice, we are welcomed into the Father's presence and transformed...

There are few sentences in all of Scripture more comforting than these: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." But that comfort only reaches us when we're willing to admit who we really are. In this message, we explore why the gospel isn't for people who have it all together, but for those who know they need grace. Following the example of the Apostle Paul, we discov...

As we enter the summer and conclude another ministry year, we'll spend four weeks reflecting on what Christians have historically called The Comfortable Words —four brief passages of Scripture traditionally read after confession in the Book of Common Prayer. In earlier English, comfortable didn't mean easy or sentimental. It meant strengthening, encouraging, and giving courage for the jour...

This week, our pastoral resident, Sean Davis, takes us through John 14:15-27, where we learn more about the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

The Tenth Commandment forbids more than wanting good things. It warns against desires that grow unchecked — desires that become demands, and when unmet, harden into envy and resentment. But here’s the tension: if coveting helped create the problems we inherited, what makes any generation think it will be different? Every generation says, “We’ll be different.” Yet real change begins when we recogni...

Today we explore both a commandment and a calling. At the surface, it’s about honesty—but underneath, it’s about something deeper: whether we’re willing to live in reality—with others, with ourselves, and with God. Listen to the latest in our series on the Ten Commandments. "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

Like murder and adultery, most of us don’t think of ourselves as “thieves.” And yet, we all have ways of taking, withholding, and justifying. We don’t just break the commandment, we reinterpret it. Today, as we consider the Eighth Commandment, we ask: When does your heart decide the rules don’t apply to you?

We said last week that some commandments we think we understand, and others we don’t. Certain commandments we assume are really for other people. The Seventh commandment might feel like one of those. But it’s not. Whether you’re married or single, this commandment is for you.

When we look at the Commandments, some make sense, some confuse us, and some confront us immediately. But there are a few we tend to feel relatively “safe” around—like we might actually move through life and keep them. The sixth commandment is near the top of that list, but are you sure you haven’t broken this command?

Luke 12:1-12 If Easter is true, our assumptions about reality need to change. We functionally assume: Death is final, that Power wins, and that Time is the eraser of all things. Bodily resurrection, however, means that Life can come out of Death, Weakness can defeat Power, and Hope can come from the most unlikely of places.  Easter means there is always more to the Story.

For John, Palm Sunday is Passion Sunday. John makes it unmistakably clear, that “ This is the moment when everything begins to move toward the cross— the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” Which means what looks like a coronation… is actually the beginning of a crucifixion. John 12:12-36 

When God calls Israel to honor Fathers and Mothers, God is speaking to our first identity—as sons and daughters—and saying that at every stage of life, we are to honor our parents. For some of us, that feels natural. But for others… it feels impossible. What do you do when God commands you to honor someone who has both given you life… and deeply disappointed you? Exodus 19:1-11

In God’s original design, we were made to work with God and rest in God. But in a fallen world, and in our fallen condition, our relationship to both is broken. We mismanage our emotions, mismanage our relationships, mismanage our time, because we’ve mismanaged our relationship to Him.

Worship is one of the natural things human beings do, but right worship is one of the most challenging things we’ll ever do. Why is that? Because right worship comes about through revelation. Listen and discover why the second command is so helpful. Exodus 20:1-4

You can hang a sign on a wall, but you cannot force a heart to love. We live in a world that feels like it has too many laws, yet we never seem to have enough to fix the human condition. What are we to do? Join us for our Lenten Series on the Ten Commandments. Exodus 1:1-3

As Jesus prepares His disciples for a hostile world, He introduces the Holy Spirit with a singular, radical purpose: to give the Church  Access . Discover how the Spirit ensures we can truly know and possess God in this life. Jesus desires for you to have access—come find your seat at the table. John 15:18-27

One of the key doctrines of the Christian faith is that this world is not Home. But if this world isn’t your home, then what is? Is there a place that you’re made for?  In John's gospel, Jesus gives us great insight into who and what we were made for in order to live here and now with great love and hope.

Having reflected, in December, on Isaiah’s imagery of a shoot (a tendrel, a vine, growing out of a stump, we now turn to the life of Christ at work in the lives of New Yorkers. This series ministers to our hearts while addressing our hopes for 2026, by reminding us of our unique mission as a local church in NYC: to be a community that abides in the Vine for the sake of the city.

Having reflected on Isaiah’s imagery of a shoot growing out of a stump, we now turn to the life of Christ at work in the lives of New Yorkers. This short series will minister to the hopes and expectations we have for ourselves in 2026, as we’re reminded of our own unique mission as a local church in NYC.

To walk by the Spirit is to walk in conflict, and because of that, in life there is the good, the bad, the ugly, and the hope.

The passage from Isaiah 11 is not a parable, but it is a metaphor from human history that touches on themes similar to Shell Silverstein's, The Giving Tree. But unlike the Silverstein poem, the promise of Isaiah 11 is that one day, because of the cross of Jesus Christ, man will be united to God and to one another, and the peace of the Lord will permeate all of Creation.

In this message, Sean Davis explores the profound themes of hope, the person of hope, and the security of that hope as presented in Isaiah 9:2-7. He emphasizes the historical context of Isaiah's prophecy, the significance of the birth of Christ, and the eternal nature of His kingdom. The message invites listeners to reflect on their own longings and the hope found in Jesus, the child born to b...

If Christ has done everything, why is the Christian life still so difficult? The Apostle Paul teaches the Galatians the difference between spiritual freedom and slavery, and the power to transform self-centered love outward towards others.

What if the core issue of spiritual burnout isn't what you do , but a fundamental misunderstanding of who you are ? What if the anxiety you carry comes from living like a hired hand, desperately working for a status you actually inherited? Paul shows us that when the fullness of time came, God sent His Son to redeem us so we could receive adoption into God’s family. We're grateful to have...