Mosaic Boston • Jamaica Plain

What is the point in giving gifts on Christmas? When you get down to it, in its purest form, giving is about tangibly express that we love someone. God tangibly expressed his love for us when he sent his son. In this final Christmas message, Pastor Ivey looks at the greatest Christmas gift ever given and what it means for us.

In this Sunday's sermon, God's redemption plan through Jesus becomes clearer. We take look at the heart. Throughout scripture, God is always less concerned about genes, upbringing, pedigree, or wealth. He is far more concerned about the heart. When he established a royal house for Jesus to be born into, he found a person with a good heart.

The Christmas story finds some of its earliest beginnings in the unreasonable God ordained test of a famous old testament character named Abraham. Listen in as we look at how God tested Abraham, how he reacted, and why it matters to us 4000 years later.

In this week's sermon, we go back to the infancy of God's redemption plan through Jesus as we look at Cain and Abel in Genesis 4. Hope can seem fragile unless our hope rests fully on “Him who is able.” We can't find our hope anywhere but in Jesus. While Cain and Abel were not the promised ones, their story points to the one who would come thousands of years later: Jesus.

We've probably all experienced being saved at just the right time. Perhaps in school, you were saved by the bell. Maybe someone came to your rescue in a medical emergency. Whatever your story is, being saved just in time is always good. Jesus came to us at just the right time so that we could have salvation. Listen to the start of our new series, "In the Fullness of Time."

In this final message of our Strange Kingdom series, we’re finishing our look at Jesus’ upside-down kingdom. There comes a time where we want a seat at the adult table of life, but that means we're going to have to adult. And adulting is hard work, but in the end, staying a kid forever will cause you and everyone around you a lot of pain.

Christians belong to a strange Jesus centered kingdom, but what does that even look like? Pastor Bill talks through the last chapter in Colossians that hits on a number of essential practical elements of the Christian life: prayer, thanksgiving, living and speaking wisely, and how we interact with people that don't follow Christ.

We are changed people. We have new God-given desires and habits... ideally. Christians are both citizens of Heaven and earth. We struggle with living like God wants. There is a tension between sinful us and the new us. How are we to handle this tension? Paul tells us in Colossians 3:5 to kill the old sinful self. This week we explore what he means.

Have you ever learned something that wrecked your life? This week Pastor Ivey takes us through how Jesus wrecks our ideas and philosophies and gives us true understanding. Then we look at how Jesus wrecks our religious effort and gives us freedom from the tyranny of doing. Jesus wrecks everything but in the best way possible.

Everyone likes a good mystery. It builds excitement and suspense. Yet, we don't want mysteries to remain unsolved. Eventually, we want to know the answer to whatever mystery is before us. Paul speaks of a deep and beautiful mystery in the book of Colossians. It's a mystery that changes our lives and pushes us toward spiritual maturity.