Family Game Night, Week 4. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell pulls out the OG Trouble box and talks about kids, because kids are trouble.

The message walks through three "pop-o-matic parenting myths" a lot of Christian homes believe, then gets into what actually shapes the next generation. Out of 1 Timothy 3, Deuteronomy 6, and Hebrews 12, it comes down to getting your vertical relationship with Jesus right so the horizontal ones work. If you're a parent, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a coach, or a teacher, this one is for you.

It closes with four things you can start tonight, and a reminder that it's not too late.

Family Game Night, Week 3. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell uses the game "Sorry!" to get at the difference between being sorry and actually asking for forgiveness.

Out of 2 Corinthians 7, the message walks through what godly sorrow produces in a person and why worldly sorrow just leaves you with regret. It also gets into living offended, what offense does to your relationships over time, and the three words most people can't get out of their mouth.

If you're carrying something from 2012 or 20 years ago, this one's for you.

Family Game Night, Week 2: Scrabble | Pastor Shannon O'Dell | Brand New Church

In Scrabble you don't just play the first word you see. You look at the tiles you were handed and work for the best possible play. Pastor Shannon uses that picture to talk about communication in your home. Most relationship problems come down to a communication problem, and the words we throw out reactively are usually the ones that do the damage.

This week covers six things worth scratching out better words for: your feelings, conflict, priorities, habits, building people up, and honor. Honor is the one that changes the game. Mark 6 says Jesus could not do miracles in his hometown because they would not honor him, and dishonor at home still costs us more than we realize.

10 verses to center your home on: Philippians 2:14 Proverbs 26:18-19 Proverbs 10:19 Joshua 24:15 Philippians 4:13 1 Corinthians 15:33 Hebrews 10:35 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Philippians 2:4 1 Corinthians 13:5

Also referenced: Proverbs 3:3-4, Philippians 2:5, Ephesians 4:25-26, Matthew 6:33, Ephesians 6:1, Colossians 3:20, 1 Peter 2:17, John 1:14, Mark 6:4-5, 1 Peter 3:7

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Jenga is Swahili for "build." You stack 18 levels, three blocks wide, and then everybody starts pulling pieces out. The tower stands or falls on one thing: what's underneath.

Pastor Shannon opens a new series on the family with the game on stage and five building blocks that decide whether a home holds up.

Authority. A Roman officer in Matthew 8 gets something most religious people missed, and Jesus is amazed by it. Get the order right (God, then your spouse, then your kids, then your job) and everything else has somewhere to sit. The Bible never says family first. It says seek first the kingdom.

Identity. The day your identity shifts from Jesus to your kids is the day you stop living for Jesus and start living for them. Children are arrows, and arrows have a target. Three ways parents get this wrong: performance, reputation management, and emotional dependence. Plus the one nobody wants to hear, living vicariously through your kids instead of releasing them to be victorious.

Responsibility. Nobody shapes your child's soul but you. Some homes are run by CEO kids who set the calendar, decide about church, and call the shots. Parents, be the CEO of your home.

Priority. Priorities are what you say. Commitments are what you do. If you want to know what somebody actually prioritizes, don't ask, just look at what they're committed to. Shannon calls it the decision before the decision, and it's why he doesn't have to think about whether he's praying with Cindy tonight.

Consistency. You're parenting a worshiper. That doesn't happen in a week. It happens when you do it again, and again, on the days you don't feel like it.

Scripture: Matthew 8:5-10, Matthew 6:33, Romans 13:2, Psalm 127:3-5, Ephesians 6:4, 1 Timothy 5:8

Wherever your foundation is right now, you can go back and fix it. That's the whole point of the series.

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Jesus told Paul he was going to Rome. The sail should have taken three or four weeks. It took two and a half years. In between, Paul sat in a Jerusalem jail, got put on a ship that never should have left, spent 14 days in a storm with no sun or stars to steer by, watched all 276 people on board give up hope, and got bit by a snake about five minutes after washing up on an island he'd never heard of. None of that canceled what God said. We're in Acts 27 and 28 this week, walking through three things that didn't change the promise: the delay, the difficulty, and the detour. Delay shows you where you've started cutting corners. Storms show you what you actually trust when the cargo goes over the side. And Malta, the island nobody would have picked, is where the gospel landed and stayed. That island is over 85% Christian today, with a port named after Paul and a holiday every year for the day the ship wrecked there. You don't get to pick the storm. You do get to pick whether you trust Jesus in it and how you respond. Some of what we cover: The delay in your life doesn't change the promise over your life Cutting the rope on the lifeboat (Acts 27:30-32) God never promised Paul the boat. He promised him Rome. Paul shook the snake into the fire and got back to work Stay faithful where you are, because everything you need to get where you're going is already there Scripture: Acts 9:5, 9:15, 23:11, 27:20, 27:30-32, 28:1-10, Philippians 1:12-14, 4:22 If this one hit you, like it, subscribe, and send it to somebody sitting in a season they didn't plan on.

Jesus once pushed a boat out from the shore, sat down, and told seven stories that answered one question: what is the kingdom of heaven really like?

In Week 4 of the Summer Boat Parade, Pastor Shannon walks through Matthew 13 — the only chapter where Jesus explains two of His own parables — and lands on the one picture that may describe the modern American church better than any other: a field where the wheat and the weeds grow side by side, looking almost identical until the harvest.

If you've ever wondered whether you're truly saved or just familiar with church, this message is for you. You'll learn the five marks of a weed — compromise, callousness, compartmentalization, being "churched," and living on a maybe — and the four marks of wheat: committed, consistent, convinced, and a changed choice.

"You can believe in soap and still die dirty. But you cannot live like hell and expect heaven."

Don't wait on a maybe. Settle it today.

📖 SCRIPTURES: Matthew 13:1-30, Matthew 7:20-21, Luke 9:23, Romans 6:6-11, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 5:24, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:10, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9, Romans 10:13, 1 John 1:9

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In Matthew 24, standing on the Mount of Olives, Jesus reaches back thousands of years and tells one more boat story — the days of Noah. A boat the size of a football field and a half. A door open for decades. And a world that walked right past it without changing a thing.

This week in the Summer Boat Parade, we're asking a question that goes deeper than "am I saved?" — it's "what am I doing with the boat?" Because Jesus didn't just save you from something. He saved you for something.

We'll look at how you know you're on mission: loving God supremely, trusting Him completely, obeying Him wholeheartedly, praising Him continually, and using your life willingly. And we'll walk through the questions that tell you you're building the right boat — does it agree with God's Word, does it make you more like Jesus, does your church family confirm it, and is it consistent with how God shaped you?

The door is still open. There's still time to build.

Scripture: Matthew 24:37 • Genesis 6:5, 6:8-9, 6:22, 7:4, 8:20 • Hebrews 11:7 • Philippians 2:5 • Proverbs 8:34, 11:14 • Luke 21:33

Jesus asked Simon for one thing: push the boat out a little from shore. What

followed was a night of empty nets turned into two boats so full they started

to sink.

In week 2 of this series, Pastor Shannon walks through Luke 5:1-11 and the

question behind the whole story — how much of your boat have you actually

given to Jesus? Your marriage, your business, your kids, your resources, your

time. You can't control much, but you can control that.

Give God access to your boat. Do it His way. Launch out into the deep. Throw

something over the side. Then watch what overflow looks like.

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11, Psalm 23:6, Psalm 68:19, John 6:7, John 16:24,

Ephesians 2:4, 1 Timothy 1:14

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Jesus walking on water and Peter stepping out of the boat. What separates little faith from no faith? Discover the vessels in this parade — Jesus, Peter, the boat, the storm, and the disciples — and walk away with practical steps to get out of the boat and walk on water in your own life this week.

In this powerful Week 2 message of "The American Miracle" series, we uncover the untold story behind the Star-Spangled Banner and how America's founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights — reveal a nation built on the Word of God.

From Francis Scott Key on a truce boat during the Battle of Fort McHenry, to the four direct mentions of God in the Declaration of Independence, this message challenges the myth that America's founding was secular — and calls the church to rise up as a moral voice for this generation.

What You'll Learn

• The true story behind the Star-Spangled Banner and the flag at Fort McHenry
• Why the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are three separate documents (and why that matters)
• The five pillars every believer needs to know: religious liberty, self-governance, biblical truth, moral voice, and the gospel
• How to answer the claim that "God isn't in the Constitution"
• Why the local church — not government — is the key to national renewal

Scripture References

• 2 Timothy 3:16-17
• Matthew 5:13-18
• 1 Timothy 2:1-2
• Proverbs 14:12
• John 8:32
• 1 Peter 2:12
• Luke 21:13-15
• Ecclesiastes 3:11