When you mess up, what do you hear? Not just "I messed up" — but "I'm a failure. I never do anything right." Voices that may have been around a long time. And if we're really honest, they're underneath a lot of our decisions.

In this message from our series You're Invited, Pastor Trey looks at Mark 10 — where parents bring their children to Jesus for blessing, a rich man runs up asking what he must do to inherit eternal life, and Jesus' voice is notably different than what we expect. The only thing Jesus is said to be angry about is people standing in the way of people encountering Him.

The qualifier is admitting you need Him. And that isn't a statement meaning you now are defeated — it's a statement about reality. You needed Him before you knew you did. So how do we become like children? We come humble and hungry.

If you want to hear God's voice in your life, it means coming open handed.

Every yes is also a no. Whenever we say yes to one thing, we're saying no to other things — and a lot of us forget that reality, feeling pressure to be all things to all people.

In this message on learning to hear the voice of God, we sit with two things Jesus said in Luke 14: a direct invitation to a banquet, and a statement about what it costs to respond. We look at why we settle for something that isn't God's best, why we struggle to believe his ways are actually better, and how a commitment to follow Jesus is also a commitment not to follow or worship other gods.

We don't say no because God wants to ruin our lives. We say no because we want a better yes. You don't have to settle for less. Come — the banquet is ready, and it's a wedding feast. And whose wedding? Ours.

This week we transition into a new series on learning to hear God's voice and what God's voice sounds like. As Trey shares, when he was in college, he came to believe that God didn't only speak through the Bible, but through the Holy Spirit — not against Scripture, but in accordance with it. But that left a problem: what does it feel like to hear God's voice? How do you know for sure if it's God's voice and not your own? Anybody ever wondered that?

We start in Mark 1 and 2, in the calling of Simon, Andrew, James, John, and Levi the tax collector — four ordinary people working ordinary jobs, and another guy working a job people really didn't like. Jesus comes to them while they're working and says, "Follow me," and immediately they leave everything. We so often miss this in the discipleship stories. We get caught up on "would I follow like that?" But it wasn't anything in particular about the people or what they offered. It was about the one who called them.

When it comes to hearing God's voice, so often we fixate on what he's calling us to do. But it's about who is calling you and who he is calling you. Following him here was relational: follow me, walk with me, talk with me, be with me. That's what discipleship starts with. God wants to spend time with you, and he wants to speak with you. The qualifier is just admitting you need it.

God wants you to hear his voice more than you want to hear his voice. And we believe he already is and already has.

Look, I am coming soon. These are nearly the last words of the Bible — and the question for us today is this: would you notice Jesus if he came to meet you today? Here and now?

Throughout our series, we've talked about what Revelation is and what it isn't. For many, it's been a book about deciphering the signs of the end of the world. But the word apocalypse doesn't mean "end of the world" — it means unveiling. It's pulling back the curtain to see beyond what you can see. Revelation, as Eugene Peterson said, is not about prediction. It's about perception.

So more than a code book for the future, this book pulls back the curtain on the present — on the dragon and his beasts, on power and propaganda that claim Jesus's name but look nothing like him. And it pulls back the curtain on where Jesus actually is: standing among the lampstands, among his church, wiping every tear from our eyes.

The one we worship isn't far off. He's close. He isn't playing hard to get. The prayer "Come, Lord Jesus" may be one of the most dangerous prayers you can pray — if you mean it. And frankly, even if you don't.

As we close our journey through Revelation, four questions to pray:

• Jesus, where am I wrong about you?
• Where do I not trust you?
• Where am I worshiping created things instead of you?
• Where am I missing you in my life — will you pull back the curtain and show me?

He is the bright morning star. The morning star appears when the night is at its darkest — still dark out, but it signals the night is over. Light is coming.

Come, Lord Jesus.

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It's easy to get lost in the monotony and struggle of life. Early on we spend so much time thinking about meaning and how to grow, and then we get more settled into our routines and it becomes really easy to get lost in the monotony and wonder, is this all there is?In this message through Revelation 21–22, we talk about our longing for something more. We sit with the question: what if the ache you feel in your soul is actually evidence of what you were made for? As C.S. Lewis said, creatures aren't born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. Maybe earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy that ache, only to arouse it — to suggest the real thing.We look at the new heaven and the new earth, the city our church is named after. Not a spiritual environment devoid of physicality, but more physical, not less. A God who doesn't just wipe away death and pain, but who wipes every tear from your eyes — intimate, close, not mad. A God who tells you your pain is not wasted. And the most sacred place no one could enter — the holy of holies — now thrown open as the whole city, with full access, no veil, forever.When you feel that ache, don't dismiss it. And don't blindly follow it wherever it leads. Look through it. Because what if it's true?🕊️ If you're in the Nashville area, we'd love for you to join us. If you're not, we'd love to help you get connected with a local church.New City Church | newcitynash.comPeople of presence, for the good of our neighbors and the glory of God.#Revelation #NewHeavenNewEarth #CSLewis #Hope #Nashville #Sermon #Christianity #Heaven

A note from Pastor Trey:

As a kid, few things scared me more than hell. Every altar call, I thought it was for me. At some point I realized my relationship with Jesus really wasn't only a response to love — it was really about fear.

This week we deal with a text that makes us face the things we'd rather avoid: the great white throne, the books being opened, the lake of fire. One of the beauties and challenges of preaching through a whole book of the Bible is that I don't get to pick and choose the texts I would like to preach.

In this episode:

• why God being on the throne is really good news,
• what it means that God's judgments are just and true,
• the three main perspectives Christians hold on hell and how to test them against scripture,
• why God's justice is an extension of his love, and
• the one book that leads to life — the Lamb's book, which lists not my deeds but his.

The question for all of us: are you letting the Bible determine your position, or are you just using the Bible to defend your position?

The text we read today is a fiercely debated text in Christian circles. Some have formed whole worldviews around it, made money off of it, and instilled fear into the hearts of millions — based on what is a theological persuasion. But when it comes to exactly what happens when Jesus returns, we agree on the central ideas more than we disagree.

In this episode we walk through Revelation 20:1–10: the three views on the millennium (pre, post, and amillennialism), where dispensational premillennialism and the Left Behind series came from, where the rapture idea actually originated, and why it's not mentioned in Revelation. The frame is the millennium debate. The painting is Christ on the throne, Satan thrown down forever, and a new world coming. We can be technically right about the frame and miss the painting entirely.

Jesus wins. Evil loses. God's people will face opposition, but Jesus' Kingdom will not be stopped. The best is yet to come. Don't spend your one life arguing about the frame and never once look at the painting.

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Revelation is not just a book about the future. It's pulling back the curtain on the present moment, using wild apocalyptic biblical imagery to show you that Jesus is on the throne now and that he will come back to make all things right.

In this sermon on Revelation 19:11–21, Pastor Trey Hayman walks through the second coming of Jesus and the central message of the whole book of Revelation: Jesus wins. He has won, he is winning, and he will win.

What does Jesus win? What does it mean that his sword comes from his mouth and not his hand? Why is his robe dipped in blood before the battle even begins? And what does any of this have to do with the lies we believe about ourselves today?

This sermon was preached at New City Church in Nashville, TN. Learn more at newcitynash.com.

Key themes:

• A heavy dream
• Revelation as imagination, not just information
• What does Jesus win? Justice, the human heart, new creation
• The unholy trinity and the warning against cultural Christianity
• How Jesus wins — not by a sword in his hand, but by a word from his mouth
• When Jesus won the final battle (and why his robe is already dipped in blood)
• How we also win: lampstands, not lamps
• Why Jesus wins: because of who he is

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this week

In a world where AI blurs reality, where innocent people sit in prison, where survivors don't get believed — how do we know what's true? In Revelation 15–16, the seven bowls bring God's wrath to completion, and we're forced to ask: is God's judgment true? Is it just? Pastor Trey Hayman walks through the third set of judgments in Revelation and lands at the cross — where the wrath of God and the love of God are poured out in perfect harmony.

📖 Scripture Revelation 15–16 (NLT) • Revelation 21:22–27 • Isaiah 40:3–5 • Isaiah 51:17, 22 • Exodus 14:13–14

⏱️ Chapters 0:00 — "They call OCD a doubting disorder" 3:30 — How do we know what's real? (AI, news, judicial systems) 4:15 — The Innocence Project: 20,000 innocent people in prison 5:15 — Reading Revelation 15:1–4 8:30 — Does the punishment fit the crime? (The 100:1 disparity) 12:00 — Three sets of judgments: seals, trumpets, bowls 14:30 — Reading Revelation 15:5–8: the temple thrown wide open 16:00 — Holiness is good for good, bad for evil 17:30 — Revelation 21: nothing evil will be allowed to enter 19:30 — Cast out what's not of you — in here, not just out there 20:30 — Reading Revelation 16:1–4 23:00 — Punished for your sin AND by your sin 24:30 — A voice from the altar: martyrs crying out 25:30 — Wake up. Do you not see Babylon is crashing? 27:30 — The Euphrates dries up 30:00 — Naked and unashamed: a reversal of Genesis 31:00 — What is Armageddon? 32:30 — Reading Revelation 16:17–21: It is finished 35:00 — Mountains leveled — God came down to us 37:00 — Five truths about God's judgment 38:30 — "It is finished" — echoes of John 19:30 39:30 — Jesus drinks the cup 40:30 — Don't be afraid. Just stand still.

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