The Mosaic Church Podcast

——————— Sunday Sermons is the recorded messages from Mosaic Church in Charlotte, NC. You can catch the entire service by joining us live on Sundays at 9:30 and 11am EST at www.mosaicCLT.online.church Learn more about our diverse community that lives by faith, is known by love and is a voice of hope at https://www.mosaicchurch.tv/ And be sure to check out our other podcast, Becoming Church , where...

There’s a lot of dating advice out there for people who are single, whether or not they’re actually looking for “the one” to be in relationship with. But when it comes to being in any kind of relationship - marriage, friendship, a situationship - we have to make it about ourselves first. In week 1 of a 3 week series, “Bumbling Through Love,” Pastor Naeem uses Psalm 139 to help us ask the most impo...

The word “Christian” has a negative connotation - even from Christians themselves. This message looks at 4 things followers of Jesus need to stop doing so we can reclaim what it means to be a Christian using Jesus’ own sermon from Matthew 5. This was the last part of our series, I Quit, on quitting the things that are keeping us from living the lives God has for us. You can listen to the entire pl...

A lot of people are leaving the church and this pastor knows why. Stories of church hurt, pastors doing damage and reasons why people no longer believe in the institution of organized religion seem to outweigh the people who still attend church regularly on Sundays. This message, on the 4 types of churches you need to quit attending, will shed light on a new way to do church and what Jesus actuall...

The Bible has been used to control, shame and justify a lot of things. It can leave you feeling disappointed in unfulfilled promises or confused about what God really means. But scripture was never meant to be read literally or taken apart verse by verse to proof text or prove a point. If you skip the verses that don’t make sense or have stopped reading your bible altogether, this message will hel...

God may not be who you think he is. He isn’t waiting to catch you doing something wrong so he can punish you. He doesn’t use guilt and shame to control your behavior. He isn’t even solely concerned with your morality and goodness. If any of those sound untrue to you, it may be time for you to quit on your version of God. In this message, Jesus uses 3 parables in Luke 15 (the parables of the lost s...

Maybe to live the life you want, you don’t need to start anything new. You just need to quit. In order to change your life, you just need to stop doing and believing certain things so you can do what you were uniquely created to do. Using a story in Mark 10, this message will challenge you to stop living a fake or familiar life to follow Jesus into a life where everything is possible. ——————— Sund...

The real message of Christmas isn’t about a baby or a miraculous birth. The true meaning of Christmas is that God loves you so much, he wants to be with you - always. In this Christmas Eve message, Pastor Naeem explains the difference between God and Santa, shows us how to hold on to hope when God’s intervention messes up our plans and reminds us that more is going on behind the scenes than we rea...

Are we asking the wrong people to love us? Or are we the problem when it comes to being unlovable? In a world that says “All you need is love,” Pastor Naeem says “Love is what you need”…but in a particular way. Even the best intentioned humans can only love conditionally but the agape love of God is perfect, unconditional, sacrificial and pure. This is the love you need and that’s available to you...

Jesus brought joy to the world at Christmas so what does it mean when you don’t feel joyful? Are joy and happiness synonymous or unrelated? In this advent message on joy, Pastor Naeem uses a garden analogy to help us understand that having joy and being happy are like picking flowers versus planting a garden. God wants you to be happy but He also wants to give you joy. Share this message with some...

It’s said that Baby Jesus brought peace to Earth but isn’t it tempting to look around and wonder if we’ve missed it? The world is at war, there is conflict in our families and many of us carry around secret struggles that leave us feeling unsettled. Is true peace possible or is this part of the Christmas story another promise that hasn’t been fulfilled? Pastor Kristin continues Mosaic’s Advent ser...

The Christmas season brings a lot of things: hope, peace, joy and love. But the holidays can also be hard: remembering loved ones who are no longer with us, trying to celebrate amidst the diagnosis of an illness, gathering among people in conflict. With all that we are carrying - mentally, physically and emotionally - how does the spirit of Christmas really help? In week 1 of Advent, Pastor Naeem...

Every family has a bit of dysfunction but we can move toward peaceful relationships by asking a few key questions. In this last week of Generosity Gospel, Pastor Mike walks us the family language of 1 Thessalonians 5 to show how peace is possible…even around the holidays with extended family time! We’d love for you to be part of our family. Please use the links below to reach out if you’re looking...

In week 2 of Generosity Gospel, Pastor Naeem explains how to know if money is your master, like a pet owner leading you on a leash. If not having enough money makes you anxious or critical of people who have an abundance of finances, this talk will help you get out from under the shame, deceit and control of money. Through scripture, we see that when Jesus talked about money it was to teach us how...

There’s a lot of stigma and negativity around the church and money. But the truth is, for Christians, generosity isn’t really about finances at all. Living a generous life is a response to the grace of God that we have been freely given through Jesus. In week 1 of our series “Generosity Gospel,” Pastor Kristin uses all 4 gospel accounts of Jesus feeding the 5,000 to see the lesson Jesus was trying...

There are a lot of varying thoughts on demons, angels and the supernatural. Maybe you’ve experienced things that can’t be explained, you’ve never really given it much thought or you don’t believe in things you can’t see. Regardless, we believe there is power at work in and around your life. There is even power that you can use. Pastor Naeem celebrates his spiritual birthday by sharing a little bit...

Why does it seem like the closer people get to God, the less grace they extend to others? Sometimes the most spiritual people extend the least amount of grace. As we continue with Everyday People, Pastor Naeem uses the story of Jonah to show us the grace we’ve been given and the grace we need to give others. If you have a hard time extending grace to people who don’t believe what you believe, who...

Compassionate Generosity is a value that drives who we are and what we do at Mosaic. It opens our eyes to the needs of others and reminds us that God wants to meet those needs through our time, talents and resources. Because Jesus’ gospel of love requires action, we came together for Serve Sunday to actively be a voice of hope in our community - and beyond - living out Matthew 25. To hear how Mosa...

Gratefulness can feel like a checklist of things we’re happy to have (or we’re supposed to be happy to have). But choosing to be grateful and see the effect of Jesus in our lives is actually a choice - usually a hard one - that we have to practice making. Gratitude helps us to see what IS instead of what isn’t. If you find it easier to complain, compare, compete or cancel other people, this messag...

Forgiving people often feels hard to do. But forgiveness is necessary in the process of learning to love other people better. If we hold on to unaddressed hurts, it can lead to anger, bitterness, sadness and resentment.   In week 3 of Everyday People, Pastor Terrell Huntley explains why forgiveness is mandatory for followers of Jesus and how we forgive when it’s hard. ——————— Sunday Sermons is the...

Trust is complicated because you may trust someone to do one thing, but not another. When our trust is broken, we often carry that distrust into other relationships. It’s even possible to love people you don’t trust - which makes relationships difficult. In week 2 of our series, Everyday People, Pastor Naeem walks us through 5 questions we can ask ourselves about other people - and about God - whe...

Loving people is hard for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s different love languages, sometimes it’s because we don’t know how to receive love ourselves, sometimes it’s just because…people. Jesus said to love our neighbors  as  ourselves but it seems to have been misinterpreted to love the neighbors who are  like  ourselves. In this message, Pastor Kristin challenges us to use the mute button:...

People often go to church or turn to God because they want a blessing. But what Jesus really calls us to as the church is to  be  a blessing to other people. Not only does God answer our prayers, but He allows us to be an answer to prayers. In this message, Pastor Naeem uses the story of the paralyzed man who was lowered through a roof in Luke 5 to demonstrate how we can leverage our faith for peo...

Do you ever put in effort that doesn’t give back the expected results? Change in our lives often requires more than one magical moment of transformation but we have to be wiling to stick with the process. In the last message of Mind Games, Pastor Naeem helps us move from moments of revelation to creating momentum of change through conviction, courage and community. For other messages on changing y...

Relationships are easy when people do what we want and make us happy. But when people disappoint us, it can be hard to extend grace and love. Using children, donkeys and sheep in Matthew 18, Jesus shows his disciples how to go backwards to get ahead with other people. In week 3 of Mind Games, Pastor Kristin challenges us to look at the way we treat people and how we define relationships based on p...