New Life Junior High

Pastor Nate highlights that we all look to something for meaning and security, but anything apart from Jesus will ultimately fail to save us. He challenges us to examine what we’ve attached our lives to and points to Jesus as the only true source of eternal life.

Pastor Stephen joins us this week, inviting people to see themselves in Jesus’ call to the weary and to trust that He is truly gentle and humble toward them. He encourages a response of reflection and surrender, where we bring our burdens to Jesus and learn from Him as the source of real rest.

In his message on Matthew 5:17–20, Pastor Aidan teaches that Jesus fully trusted the entire Bible, reveals that all of Scripture points to Him, and calls us to read it in a way that leads to true heart transformation.

Pastor Nate invites us into Holy Week by revealing that as Jesus the Messiah moves toward the cross, Matthew 26 doesn’t just show who He is, but exposes how each of us truly receives Him.

In his message on James 5:13–18, Pastor Nate shows that a life of faith is marked by constant prayer, reminding us to turn to God in hardship, joy, sickness, and sin because prayer invites God’s power and presence into every part of life.

In his message on James 4:6–10, Pastor Nate explains that while our conflicts reveal hearts divided between God and the world, God meets us with generous grace and invites us to draw near to Him through humility, repentance, and renewed devotion.

Pastor Nate’s message from James 3:13–18 teaches that true wisdom is not about intelligence or self-promotion but about living with humility, rejecting selfish ambition, pursuing peace, and reflecting Jesus, in whom all true wisdom is found.

Pastor Nate’s message from James 3:2–12 reminds us that our words direct our lives, carry great power, and reveal our hearts, calling us to surrender our speech to God’s grace.

Pastor Aidan's sermon from James 2:1–13 calls us to real faith that lives in harmony with what we believe by rejecting favoritism, loving people the way God sees them, and replacing judgment with mercy just as God has mercifully loved us.

From James 1:2–5, Pastor Nate invites us to see how trials test our faith and produce perseverance, revealing that God uses hardship to mature us, make us complete, and anchor us in Christ rather than the storm.