New Collective Church

John 20:1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.    Still Here.  Still His. You're not DEFINED by what was — you're being REFINED by the I Am. STAY while it's DARK.     2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lo...

An Expectation Shift   Matthew 21:1-11 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away." 4 This t...

Luke 5:27-32 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. 29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.   30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sec...

What do you find life in? Luke 12:13-34 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 14 Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?"  15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions." 16 And he told them this parable: "The ground of...

Lost It   Acts 7:20-36 "At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family.    21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.    22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. 23 "When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people,...

Distant.  Divided.  Dysfunctional.  Devour.  Devastation.  Honor is due. Love is the greatest commandment. Forgiveness is a given.  Trust can be eroded or earned. Proverbs 25:28 Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. Boundaries are beneficial. Boundaries help prevent the bad, and promote the good.  Two types of people you don't want to become in regards to b...

Distant.  Divided.  Dysfunctional.  Devour. Devastation.  Honor is due. Love is the greatest commandment. Forgiveness is a given.   Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. Proverbs 11:13 A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.   Trust   Trust can be eroded or earned. Eroded Apathy Exaggeration Dece...

Distant.  Divided.  Dysfunctional.  Devour.  Devastation.   Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.  Matthew 6:12-15 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.' 14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenl...

Distant.  Divided.  Dysfunctional.  Devour.  Devastation. Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.  39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' Love is the greatest commandment.     1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is...

Distant.  Divided.  Dysfunctional.  Devour.   1 Peter 2:17  Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.   Honor is due.   Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image . . .    Matthew 10:40-42 "Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.  41 Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet's rew...

Colossians 3:1-17 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.    2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.    4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever be...

James 1:16-17 Don't be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. Hebrews 13:8  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. God, there's nothing new about You. Divine Constancy  No Qualitative Change No Quantitative Change Psalm 102:25-27 In the be...

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:   2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."   3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.   5 The sun rises and the sun sets,  and hurries back to where it rises....

Acts 16:22-26 22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods. 23 After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24 When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.  25 About midnight Paul and Si...

An Undignified Arrival Luke 2:1-7 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to...

Peace was promised.   Isaiah 9:6-7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end.   Peace is possible.   Luke 1:26-38 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a c...

Jesus: The Fulfillment of God's Promise and the Blessing of Joy Luke 2:8-12
"And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people....

Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.   Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned   Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall...

God is Here.  God is Worthy.  Altars and Offerings Genesis 8:20 "Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it." Genesis 22:9 "When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood." Exodus...

There's more that God wants to place in you.   There's more in you than you realize.   There's more in you that God wants to transform.   There's more that God wants to do through you. There's more people that God wants to reach through you.   The motivation of more must be the glory of God.     (Above & Beyond switch) 5Gs  Gatherings  Growth Generations  Good Works for Our Communities Global Disc...

Ephesians 3:20-21 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.   To See God do Immeasurably More In and Through You   It Will Be a Struggle    Ephesians 6:10-24 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty p...