Missio Dei Community - SLC

There is an intuition in almost all of us to hide where we have fallen short or where others have hurt us. We think it protects us and keeps us from further hurt. But followers of Jesus are asked to live a different way. We are asked to trust God with those things we keep hidden. We are asked to believe that he will be attentive to our pain and struggle and in Jesus proves he is worthy of that trust

Kyle Costello continues our current sermon series by teaching from Psalm 23. For some, it's difficult to ever conceive of God as interested in our daily lives. The picture many have been invited to know about God is that He is unapproachable, distant, and uncaring. Jesus shows us that picture is false. Jesus and Psalm 23 reveal that God is intimately linked with His people. It shows that He provides in the daily mundane and in the extraordinary. He may do it in ways that at first challenge our ego and our pride, but as He reveals His ways and His faithfulness, we find comfort and love.

Ministry resident Nate Ray teaches on Romans 12 and invites us to look at the call to become a living sacrifice with fresh eyes.

Before the sermon, and included in this podcast, the elders and pastors of Missio share a major announcement for the Missio Dei Community: Kyle and Joy Costello have taken a position with a church in California and will be moving at the end of February. Their final Sunday will be February 24.

Following the announcement, Kyle continues our new sermon series, God is the Gospel, and shares how these are his prayers for Missio Dei, and have been prayers for himself. He shares from Psalm 121, tells the story of God speaking clearly to him and his family, and also invites us to consider how God may be speaking to us.

Kyle Costello begins our "God is the Gospel" sermon series by sharing from Psalm 1.

Depending on your personality you can look at the new year in a whole variety of ways. Maybe the new year excites you as you ponder possibilities? Maybe it overwhelms you? Or maybe you don’t even care? Regardless of your thoughts on the new year, God is always calling us into new and deeper ways of knowing Him. In the beginning of a book in the Bible called the Psalms, God does just that. God asks us to not just read about Him in the Bible, but to meditate on Him and then to even delight in Him. How does this happen? Why is this a good thing? As we kick off our new series this week, God is the Gospel, we will dig into the reality the the best news is that our God is so worth delighting in.

How do you attempt to manage fear and anxiety? What are the ways you cope with it? We all have different ways of trying to mitigate, manage, and control our fear but the truth is, we can’t. The only way to truly confront fear is to risk in trust and practice rest. Which is exactly what God invites his people to do when they feel the pressure and reality of fear. To risk in trust and practice rest. It’s not easy and it doesn’t manage or deal with the fear in our life. Rest doesn’t offer strategies, solutions, or easy answers to our problems. Instead, rest gets at something deeper by revealing to us more of who God is and more of who we are. As we tend to the presence of God in rest we also tend to our identity, and the result is we become a more distinct people who live and offer the world something different––better. Jonny Morrison preaches on the risk of rest.

Nate Ray teaches on the Passover story.

Kyle Costello wraps up our Advent sermon series Blessed Intervention during our Christmas Eve service.

Kyle Costello continues our Advent sermon series, Blessed Intervention.

Heather Thomas shares from Philippians 2, which helps us understand the significance of Jesus' coming. With the season of Christmas it can be all too easy to forget the significance behind all of our celebrations. It can also be challenging if this season is hard for us to engage with. As we look to the text, it grounds and reorients us to what Jesus is revealing through His arrival. The coming of Jesus reveals what is means to be God and gives a vivid picture of who God is. Jesus' coming also reveals who we’ll become as we live in relation to who He is.

Jesus sets aside his status and Jesus takes the form of a servant and enters into humanity. This is a loud declaration of what it means to be God and who God is. He is self-giving and that self-giving nature always moves towards us in love.