Sermons By Antioch Community Church in Waltham, MA (Boston Area)

What is behind the commandment from God about sacrifice? How does God win our hearts? By answering these questions, Brian led us through the surface of the commandment of "act justly, love mercy, walk humbly" to the depth of God's heart of love. We restarted our Minor Prophet series from Spring 2024 and we will finish the remaining Minor Prophet books.

How can we be a good witness of Jesus in this age? Love is the litmus test of our walk with the Lord. Sean invites us to live a life that is so good and intriguing in this generation that people around have nothing bad to say but give glory to God.

A survey in recent years shows that 63% of Americans claims themselves to be Christian, and yet only 4% self-identifies as followers of Jesus. Can someone be a Christian and yet not follow Jesus? Listen to Mark's sobering message that challenges us to not simply embrace a system of belief and doctrine but follows Jesus and truly lets Him be our Lord.

Listen to a word from Nikki (our out of town guest speak at World Mandate) for us and Mark's unpacking of Antioch Word of the Lord (WOTL) this Sunday. If you would like to learn more about WOTL, a good resource is https://www.antiochwotl.com/. We encourage you to discern, digest, and engage with us.

We are entering into a brief two-week Word Of The Lord (WOTL) series around our annual conference World Mandate. Mark used this time to look back at the Dunamis series we just finished and look forward to our upcoming series related to Practicing The Way. We will dive deeper into WOTL next Sunday.

Forgiveness is a command, a choice, and a process, and it's more a relationship activity than a religious activity. Listen to Christopher's message that inspires forgiveness and provides very practical guidelines about how to forgive. This message concludes our Dunamis sermon series.

We will continue to talk about weakness and focus on a major barrier to embrace weaknesses: shame. Christopher's message distinguishes sin, needs, and weakness and gives us language to categorize different types of shame.

We continue on the topic of weakness and are focusing on trauma today. Brendon's message unpacks trauma from both a scientific and a spiritual perspective and reminds us of the hope that our King empathizes and suffers with us in the midst of pain that isolates us.

We are going to kick off 2025 with a four-week series called Dunamis, which means "power" from 2 Cor 12:9. We live in a world where weakness is not celebrated but is ashamed of. Listen to Christopher's message and Jo's powerful testimony on how we should view weakness from the lens of God.

What is Christmas about? Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us, so that He can reveal who He is through us. Practically, we need to 1) pray up 2) plan to serve 3) expect to be uncomfortable and be ready to get over it 4) prepare to forgive and ask for forgiveness.