Mosaic Boston • Jamaica Plain

Zephaniah isn’t a book that we talk about often, but it’s message that we all need to hear. This week Pastor Ivey looks at the prophet from the royal line of the great reformer king Hezekiah. Zephaniah sees his people on a crash course for God’s judgment, and he proclaims a message of repentance. He hopes that a young new king named Josiah will listen, repent, reform God’s people, and find safety in the Lord. Listen this week and learn where safety can be found.

This week we look at Nahum. Nahum is a little different than the other minor prophets. Where most of them focus on the sin of God's people, Nahum focuses on how God's people had been sinned against. This week pastor Ivey shows us the importance of being an advocate for those in need.

This week we start season 2 of our Minor Prophet series “Outspoken.” In this series is about 12 faithful men who changed the world, not because the were popular, had the biggest platform, or made a good living. These men preached radical renewal to God’s people, before Christ was born, and many of them faced great hardship because they did. This week Pastor Ivey dives into the book of Micah to see the miracle God was going to do for his lost people.

Have you ever been in a situation where God was your only hope of survival? You’re not alone. That was basically the life of King David. This week Pastor Ivey takes us to the 124 Psalm, where David shows us how he has made it through life’s most difficult days. On his own, David would have been a dead man, but with the Lord’s help David could make it through the impossible. Watch this week as we finish out series in the Psalms.

We need God every day, but there are times when we get in over our heads and confront God-sized problems. Problems where, if God doesn't pull through, we have no chance. This week we continue our series in the Psalms by seeing how David called out to God when he is in trouble. Pastor Ivey walks us through Psalm 54 so we can learn how to call to the Lord for aid on our most difficult days. Plus we work through how to understand passages of violence in the Bible.

We use prayer to communicate with God, but how does God communicate with us? God is infinitely transcendent, above us, is it even possible for God to speak our language? This week Pastor Ivey explores Psalm 19 and we'll discover the two languages God has used to communicate to us.

The Psalms are not just one type of thing. The represent the hymn book of the Jewish people. Just like we have different genres of music like pop, classical, hip hop, or emo, Psalms is similar. Those different genres will have a different ways of communicating. Last week we looked at a wisdom psalm and this week we jump to a royal psalm. Pastor Ivey explores how to live as a Christian in a world that is complex and chaotic.

At the beginning of this new year we are starting a new five-week series in the Psalms. This week Pastor Ivey takes us through Psalm 1. In this Psalm the writer reveals the secret to happiness. The way he does this is kind of backward. Rather than giving us all the steps to be happy, the Psalmist shows us three places we look for lasting happiness and never find it. His surprising revelation is that we need to be less like culture and more like a tree if we want to be happy.

Summary: Names can tell us so much about a person. So when God sent his Son he gave him four names to describe the type of Messiah he would be. This week we wonder at how Jesus is our Eternal Father. Which is strange, because Jesus is the Son of God. So, pastor Ivey unpacks how the Son can be a father to us. Whether your dad was good, bad, or complicated, we’ll see all the ways that Jesus is the father we’ve all dreamed about. Then we see why that matters in our lives. Join us this week as we learn about Jesus, our Eternal Father.

This Sunday we explore what it means that Jesus is our Wonderful Counselor. Pastor Ivey helps us understand the miraculous nature of Jesus the Wonderful Counselor. It’s more than a title, it was the way of Jesus while he walked earth. But even more than that, today he is still our wonderful counselor. He welcomes our problems without judgment and heals our deepest needs.