New Community Church of Tacoma

Andy Cooley kicks off our Foundations series by teaching on God's word and the beautiful fact that God spoke and continues to speak today.

Bo Noonan finishes our series Come Home by looking one last time at Luke 15, where we see God's commitment to find what has been lost. In this teaching we take time to look more deeply into the biblical truths of justification and sanctification. If we misunderstand the differences in these two truths we can find ourselves trying to earn God's love rather than learning to receive it as a gift we never could earn. God's joy, and all of heaven's joy, is MASSIVE towards each of us who has been found! As we meditate on this truth it motivates our loving obedience - not to earn God's love, but to live out the truth that he knows what is best for us!

Our good friend Jeremiah Pervez shares from his personal experience and from God's word, teaching us how to view suffering, persecution, and hope. As we bring our pain to Jesus' feet, offering it to him, he converts it to honor. As we bring our bitterness to him, offering it to him, he converts it to hope. This is grace...and undeserved gift from Jesus himself because he has known pain and converted it into something glorious...our salvation.

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15:11-23, the story of the prodigal son in our series Come Home. He takes a deeper dive into the concept of "coming home" and how Jesus came to make a way for humanity to do just that.

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15, where we find the great lengths God will go to find what he lost...his children whom he so greatly loves. On this Easter we begin a new series about the Prodigal Son story, which exposes our hearts to God's lavish love, grace, mercy, and desire to be in restored relationship with us.

Wes Swarthout teaches from Luke 19 - a story known as Jesus' Triumphal Entry. In this story we see Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey - a symbol of both peace and royalty. He comes with the express purpose of going to the cross to accomplish his Father's work. He is intentional and intense, yet, instead of riding a war horse to declare war on Israel's enemies, he enters on a donkey to bring peace and to bring ultimate victory over sin and death - our spiritual enemies. With great grief and great hope he submits himself to his Father's will. In doing all of this, he also extends this same work to our lives today, inviting us to submit ourselves to his ultimate act of love.

Miguel Villahermosa teaches through a biblical survey of worship throughout the Old and New Testaments. Throughout the Bible we see worship as a submitting of our will and our heart to God, as well as numerous actions that can follow. Worship includes praise through music, but it also includes much more.

Waymond Hampton teaches through Luke 1 in our Lenten miniseries on Luke. In Luke 1 the birth and lives of John the Baptist and Jesus are foretold to their parents. These foretellings speak of amazing promises, yet the way each story is lived out is full of both triumph and incredible difficulty. In a culture that tells us "you can do anything you set your mind to" and "anything is possible" we need the truth of God's word to help us see how crucial it is to submit our stories to the One who is writing The Story.

Bo Noonan finishes up our series Life in Bablyon by teaching through Daniel 10-12. In these verses we have more apocalyptic and prophetic teaching from Daniel. Once again, we need to remember that this type of teaching is full of symbolism, but that symbolism is meant to point us to the final victory of Jesus and not to confusion and fear. As the book of Daniel finishes, we see that even when chaos is all around, God is still working good and working his plan. This perspective helps us: even if most of the chapters of our lives are painful, we have a promise from God that, in the end, it will all make sense because he is both the author and perfecter of our faith.

Carl Medford teaches through Daniel chapter 9, where we find another set of dreams that Daniel shares with God's people. As we mentioned in our last teaching, these "apocalyptic" or "prophetic" texts are not meant to confuse and cause fear, but rather to help us look to our savior and king, Jesus, and the sovereignty of God, our good Father. May we be encouraged to actively learn to listen and to live a life of faith!