Mosaic Boston • Jamaica Plain

What matters most in your life? There is something about pain that forces us to get a real perspective on life. That sensation is heightened even more when our lives are at risk. People that are terminal are some of the least diluted humans on earth, being vividly aware of what’s most important. Pain and suffering have a way of making what’s really important crystal clear. This week, Pastor Ivey walks us through Jonah's miserable three-days inside a giant fish. On the brink of death, what was most important became absolutely clear to him.

Can you escape God? This is the question that Jonah didn't fully think through. On our most difficult days, we want a God who is close to us. We probably quote Scripture about how he will never leave us or forsake us. But there are days when we wish God wasn't all that close. Days when we want to do our own thing and go our own way. If that's you, you'll relate to Jonah. Join us for an outdoor worship service this week as we watch Jonah attempt to escape God in three different ways.


In week two of The Rebel Prophet, we take our service outdoors.

Jonah was the rebel prophet who fled from God's call. In this week's message, we'll see that the Jonah wasn’t running aimlessly, but he escaped because he was following his heart. He had placed three things ahead of God, making them idols: culture, false-doctrine, and control. This week Pastor Ivey warns us to watch out for our own idols that drive us away from God.

This Sunday guest speaker Dennis Rivera brings a powerful and relevant message from Psalm 46. Often we feel like the world is out of control, but Psalm 46 reminds us that truly the Lord has everything in his hands and under his control. Dennis is a pastor at City Light Church in Worcester, MA. He is also a high school teacher and football coach. Let this word work on you this week.

This week we get to hear a powerful message from Pastor Robert Connolly. Robert pastors Rezarec Church in Brockton, MA. The new church launches this September. Listen this week as he takes us to 2 Kings 22 and talks about what it means to act like the woke church.

For our third week of Woke Church, Pastor Ivey went a different direction. He began the week with a message from Pastor Tony Evans called "Oneness Embraced." In that message, Pastor Evans explains how God brings together his diverse children. Following Tony Evan's sermon, Pastor Ivey gives some practical steps we can take as a church to fight racism. Pastor Tony Evan's sermon is not in the video this week, but it is linked below.

This week we look at a passage from the prophet Amos. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Amos took the idea of a dangerous torrential raging river and flipped it on its head. When he wrote this text, God’s people were drowning in wickedness, marred with self-deception, and hypocrisy, but they didn’t even know it. That was not the life the Lord ever wanted for his people. He wanted a raging unstoppable torrent of justice and righteousness into the world. This week Pastor Ivey examines how the church should be a torrential gospel river for good to the world.

In this new series, we’re not looking at what society calls woke, but what God calls woke. Christian “Wokeness” looks very different than society’s version. Christ-centered wokeness is being awakened from our deadened, sinful thinking. The most “woke” people in the world should be Christians, but for much of history, the church has been anything but. When we are redeemed, our former way of life died giving way to a new life walking in the light of Christ. This is a life that is fully awake. This week, Paul warns that while spiritually awakened, the church can live asleep.

No one likes living in constant chaos, because we all want to be at peace in our lives, and it’s in this final chapter that Paul reveals his secret to inner peace. He is going to show us three peaces: Relational, Situational, and Emotional peace. First, we will look at the biblical definition of peace, and then we'll examine how Paul achieves this peace in his life. Join us this week as Pastor Ivey unpacks this last chapter of Philippians.

This week, in Philippians 3, Paul wants to shift our purpose from a life focused on the here and now to a life focused on Christ. Paul's life was interrupted and radically changed by Jesus. For Paul, Christ was his everything, and all the other things in life were garbage. He desired for every decision of Philippi to revolve around Christ Jesus because Jesus is their greatest need. He did this by pushing us to be a "One thing" people who keep our eyes focused ahead on Christ. This week we see how Paul's "One thing" lifestyle can revolutionize our lives.