We have been joined to God in Christ to bear the fruit of the Kingdom and to become who God has always envisioned us to be. Rules and regulations cannot do the work of the Spirit. So, look upon each other, your neighbor, your kids, your parents, yourself with New Creation eyes today and see the work that’s already begun. Thanks be to God! We have been set free from the need to control so that we can become servants of the Spirit.

At our baptism, we step into New Creation. We're not just saved for a future reality, but we’re empowered today to live from our New Story. We're no longer slaves to the destructive will of Sin but we’re authorized agents of the Risen Jesus, bringing the justice and rectification of God’s beautiful kingdom right into the old. We don't just get saved but we get to live out and declare a new story.

Through Jesus’ faithfulness, God brings the reign of His grace right into the most broken parts of our stories. He rescues us from the tyrants called Sin and Death that defile God’s good world and cause us to turn on each other. In Jesus, God writes a new story over us: One of vindication and justice. Be assured, nothing in your story is wasted. Where Sin seeks to enslave you unto Death, God’s power and presence are ready to liberate you unto life.

In Christ we are given a new operating system for navigating the inevitable conflicts and struggles we face. No longer are we left to endure division alone or navigate it with the same old methods. Because today we stand in the secure grace of knowing that God has poured the love we need into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. This Holy Spirit leads us to face and befriend conflict as the ground on which to encounter God’s reconciling power to save. 

In Christ, we are secure in the lineage of God’s generational faithfulness. Today, there is a cloud of witnesses who know and trust in the promises of God surrounding us with the message that we belong! So, rest in the confident hope of your identity as God’s children as he teaches you how to trust him like those who've come before.

Our God is faithful. He keeps his promises. God’s faithfulness to us is seen most clearly in Jesus’ faithfulness to God. In Him, God fulfills his promise to redeem us, and He ransoms us from the sin that separates us from each other. This faithful God invites all to trust him, even when we can’t comprehend how he chooses to show his faithfulness.

Sermon by Jay Francoeur.

God’s judgment leads us to the truth that his presence can be found in every image bearer. So resist the temptation of superiority that leads to destruction and instead receive the gift of learning, even from those you consider beneath you. Blessed are the teachable, for they will receive the praise of God.

Sermon by Jay Francoeur. (We apologize for the lack of audio quality in this recording)

God is so committed to making peace that he will lovingly and directly confront our biases and prejudices. Because there is room for everyone in New Creation, there is no room for judgmentalism. We are invited to reckon with our assumptions around who’s bad and who’s good, who’s in and who’s out. All are subject to the kindness of God. Let that kindness lead you to repentance so that you can stand up for those who are judged unfairly for who they are. This is what God does for us in Jesus his son.

Preached by Jay Francoeur.

God is present and at work even in the most broken of relationships. He gives both his Word & Himself as a gift to those who are hopeless & divided. Through Jesus, we too are invited to trust again in God’s right-making, reconciliation-forging, justice-dealing peace. In what relationships do you need this power today? Will you believe the new word & trust in the new thing God is doing right now? He’s eager to share his power with you today.

Preached by Jay Francoeur

God is our redeemer, not just buying us back from the consequences of our sin but delivering us and freeing us from our brokenness, weakness, confusion, and misconceptions. He surprises us with revelations that expose the truth. Whatever confronts us He is our rock. When our reality is shaken, He alone is our anchor, our sure foundation.