Lakewood Vineyard Sermon Podcast

What do you want to leave behind? This video explores Paul’s last letter, written from prison to a young friend. Paul reminds us that faith and values are passed down through generations, starting with a grandmother, then a mother, and now him. It’s all about the legacy we build and share. You’ll hear about real mentorship, the impact of showing up for others, and how influence often comes from wh...

Every jersey we put on says something about where our loyalty lives. This message starts with a story about Tim Tebow, a young quarterback who wore his faith as boldly as his team colors, and it uses that story to ask a harder question: what do we actually give our allegiance to? Working through Romans 5 and 6, the message explores what happens in the waters of baptism: an old life buried, a new o...

You can be sitting across the table from someone you love and still feel completely alone. This message looks at why loneliness and isolation have become the default setting for so many of us, even when we're surrounded by people. Starting in Genesis, Keelan traces how humans were built for connection from the very beginning, and how a culture built around grabbing your attention, and now your att...

Most of us are running our lives on autopilot, and never stop to ask why we do what we do. Pastor Christian digs into the hidden motivation behind our habits and spiritual practices, whether it's fear of disappointing God, a sense of duty, trying to earn approval, or something else entirely. Working through Romans 12 and Paul's call to offer our lives in response to God's mercy, the message lays o...

Everyone is being shaped by something, whether they notice it or not. The shows you watch, the feeds you scroll, the people you keep close - all of it is quietly forming who you're becoming. Christian asks a simple but uncomfortable question: if you kept living exactly as you are right now, who would you be in five years? Drawing from the story of Jesus calling his first disciples on the shore of...

Every relationship can become something it was never meant to be. In this message, Josh and Johanna open up about the season when their marriage almost didn't survive, when admiration quietly turned into idolatry and connection turned into distance. They trace how looking to each other for what only God can provide left them drifting apart, and what it took to find their way back. Along the way, t...

What if the thing you're waiting for God to call you to is already happening right in front of you? In this message, Ollie shares an unfiltered look at wrestling with purpose, from a chaotic teenage house party gone wrong to a surprising prophetic word about doing the dishes. Drawing from Matthew 28, he unpacks what Jesus actually meant when he told his followers to go and make disciples, and why...

Ever wonder why almost everyone is told to start reading the Bible at the same spot? There's a reason, and it says more about how the Bible was written than most people realize. Aaron walks through four questions worth asking about any part of the Bible: who wrote it, who it was written for, where the reader is coming from, and why they're reading it at all, and uses them to unpack what kind of bo...

He came to Jesus after dark, and he wasn't broken, desperate, or falling apart. Nicodemus was educated, respected, and religiously successful, the kind of man everyone assumed had it figured out. Yet Jesus looked at him and said he needed to start over completely. This message walks through one of the most famous conversations in the Bible, the late night meeting behind John 3:16, and asks why Jes...

In 1914, millions of young men marched into the trenches expecting glory and found a slaughterhouse instead. Out of that same darkness, two men drew opposite conclusions. The painter Otto Dix saw proof that beauty was a lie, and J.R.R. Tolkien saw hints of something truer breaking through the ruin. Kyle walks us through Lord of the Rings to sit with a question worth asking: is the hunger for power...

The walls we build to protect ourselves have a way of becoming the walls that hold us captive. This message uses the story of The Shawshank Redemption to look at what happens when hope starts to feel dangerous, when waiting on a breakthrough wears you down, and when self-protection quietly turns into a prison of its own. Through the contrast between a man who clings to hope and a man who has given...

Everyone pictures the rescuer as the one who has it all together, but the truth is harder and better than that. This message draws on years spent on a backcountry search and rescue team to reframe what Jesus meant when he said he came to seek and save the lost. It follows a real midnight search for a four-year-old boy who wandered off at a lake, then turns that night into a plain question about ho...

Most of us carry a quiet list of reasons we think we're too far gone. A failure we can't undo. A season we're ashamed of. Something done to us that we never asked for. Moses had all of that. He grew up in a palace, killed a man, and spent forty years hiding in the desert, convinced his story was finished. Then a bush caught fire, and God called him anyway. Pastor Christian walks through Moses' lif...

Control feels like safety. More often, it's a cage. What happens when life stops following your script: a job change you didn't choose, a diagnosis you didn't expect, a kid who grew up faster than you were ready for. Using the panic of a father watching his daughter get married in Father of the Bride, Janna asks a simple question. What are you really holding onto when you grip your plans so tightl...

You've tried to pray it away, think it away, distract it away, and somehow it only gets louder. If that's been your experience with anxiety, this message is for you. Drawing on the movie Inside Out 2, the moment Jesus sweat blood in the garden, and real research on how the anxious brain actually works, this message challenges a belief many of us quietly carry: that feeling anxious means we're fail...

Most of us could name a celebrity, a politician, or a favorite athlete without hesitating. But the eight people who live closest to us? That's a different story. This message gets at why we've become so good at abstract, generalized love while completely overlooking the real people next door. From a 3,000-year-old command in Leviticus to the story of the Good Samaritan to a surprisingly honest con...

Most of us are carrying a younger version of ourselves who is still running the show. A kid who learned somewhere along the way that big feelings weren't safe, that certain needs were weakness, that the real you had to be managed and hidden. So we built armor. We called it maturity, responsibility, moving on. But the wound never went anywhere, and we kept building our whole lives on top of it. Thi...

Most people know what it feels like to carry anxiety into a room and never put it down. But what if the real problem isn't your circumstances? What if you've been trying to manage them on your own? This sermon digs into the Greek word dunamis, the resurrection power that raised Christ from the dead and now lives in every believer. It's not self-confidence. It's not a mindset shift. It's a power th...

Most of us were taught to chase love instead of receive it. Pastor Christian works through why the modern definition of love (subjective, consumeristic, defined by feelings) leaves people anxious, lonely, and afraid. Pulling from 2 Timothy 1:7 and 1 John 4, he makes the case that real love has to come from a source outside ourselves. God is love, and His love does not respond to loveliness; it cre...

Every family passes something down, whether they mean to or not. The question is what. In this Mother's Day message, the conversation turns to the kind of inheritance that doesn't show up in an estate sale: the truth, wisdom, and steady inner life we hand to the next generation through the way we live, speak, and respond. Anchored in 2 Timothy 1:7 and a walk through the Proverbs, this sermon explo...

Most of us walk through life treating it like it's ours to do with as we please. But what if everything you have, your time, your money, your relationships, your abilities, was never really yours to begin with? Aaron takes the Parable of the Talents and flips it on its head, using the relatable lens of house-sitting to show what it actually means to be a good steward. There are three kinds of peop...

Most of us are living on autopilot, putting one foot in front of the other, moving fast, and missing what's right in front of us. On this baptism Sunday, four young people stepping into the water reminded us what it actually looks like to slow down, pay attention, and live a life that's genuinely compelling to the people around you. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 2 and Philippians 2, this message is a...

What does it actually mean to do justice? Not just talk about it, but live it out in a way that changes communities and breaks cycles of poverty for good. We look at the biblical vision of justice and generosity from the early church all the way to a man in Nairobi, Kenya, whose entire family escaped generational poverty because one person in Canada chose to act. The connection between what God ha...

In this first message of our new series "Hot Mess," Pastor Christian digs into Acts 6 to show how the early church faced real conflict, overlooked people, and organizational breakdown, and instead of falling apart, they leaned into shared leadership, radical care, and the Holy Spirit to come out stronger. Whether you've been burned by church, walked away from faith, or you're just trying to figure...

On the road to Emmaus, two heartbroken disciples walked away in defeat, not realizing the risen Jesus was walking right beside them. This Easter, we explore what happens when Jesus doesn't appear the way we expect, how our "preferred version" of Jesus can blind us to what he's actually doing, and how true hope is restored when we let him reinterpret our story. Luke 24 | Easter Sunday 2026