Love Gives
A full sermon page with summary, key ideas, Scripture, manuscript space, and related teaching.
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Teaching
Scripture for ordinary life.
Sermons, shorter teachings, and notes centered on Scripture, spiritual formation, the local church, and becoming people who increasingly resemble Jesus.
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A fuller teaching experience
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Sermons
Messages from the local church · 2024–2026
You Are Not A Grasshopper
Fear can become a way of seeing. This message explores how God reshapes identity and teaches us to see possibility where fear once defined the limits.
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Living The Resurrection
Easter is more than something we celebrate. Resurrection changes what is true about us now and invites us to live from new creation.
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The Weight of Waiting
Waiting can feel like absence, but it can also become a place of formation. A reflection on disappointment, character, and trusting God in the delay.
WaitingTrustFormation
Love God, Love People. Period.
When faith becomes heavy with pressure, performance, and proving, Jesus brings us back to the foundation: love God and love people.
LoveGraceDiscipleship
Who Are You?
Identity is not something we earn through performance. Paul invites us to live from the calling we have already received in Christ.
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Hostility to Wholeness
The walls we build to protect ourselves can become prisons. Christ tears down hostility and leads us toward reconciliation, grace, and shalom.
ReconciliationPeaceGrace
Prayers For The Church
Paul prays for enlightened hearts: hope, identity, and the power of God becoming more than ideas we know and realities we learn to see.
PrayerHopeIdentity
The Fight You Have To Lose
Jacob’s wrestling match becomes an invitation to surrender the identities, fears, and control we cling to so tightly.
SurrenderFreedomIdentity
Humility Gives Opportunity
Abram’s response to God shows humility not as passivity, but as a willingness to trust, obey, and step into what God is doing.
HumilityObedienceCalling
Bad2Rad
Jairus meets Jesus in desperation and discovers that the presence of Jesus can bring hope where a situation feels beyond recovery.
HopeFaithJesus
Humility
Humility turns our attention away from self-importance and toward loving and serving God and others.
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The 2 Seeds
A reflection on the competing seeds of flesh and Spirit, and the kind of life that grows when we learn to walk in step with the Holy Spirit.
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Good Plans
What happens when the unexpected interrupts the plans we carefully made?
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The Lord’s Prayer
A walk through Jesus’ model prayer and the life it forms in those who pray it.
PrayerKingdomFormation
The archive below includes the current speaker listing plus older public messages still available on New Wine’s site. Each title links to the original New Wine Church sermon page.
Teachings
Shorter messages, devotions, and gatherings
In Remembrance of Me
A short communion reflection on receiving the table as remembrance, participation, and grace.
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New Wine, Fresh Wineskins
The newness of Jesus cannot simply be contained within old patterns of fear, control, and self-protection.
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Notes & Thoughts
Ideas still being worked out
What is technology forming in us?
A developing reflection on software, efficiency, attention, and why the Church should ask not only what technology allows us to do, but what kind of people it is teaching us to become.
Generosity and the open hand
Notes on fear, scarcity, Mammon, and the movement from receiving God’s generosity to becoming a generous people.