Submerge Sermons

Learning how to "love well" and have healthy relationships with each other is a key part of our relationship with God (Jesus said so!). And the starting point for learning to love others well is learning to how to listen well--just like Jesus listened to others, and listens to us...

God doesn't give us hope just to hoard it--but to share it, to become "hope dealers"! In this message we learn how to share hope everywhere we go, in ways that are natural to us and compelling to others. We learn how to become "ushers instead of bouncers" and "build wells instead of fences"--so that everyone can experience the hope of Jesus!

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do to give someone else hope, is to speak words of encouragement to them--and it's something we are called to do daily! Learn with us some beautiful, powerful, & practical insights from the life of the underrated Barnabas on how to let God bring hope in encouragement through us & to us...

We all have to face our failures, mistakes, & regrets--but did you know they don't have to have the last word in our lives? That God has lots of hope & grace waiting for us? In this message we learned how to embrace the hope, freedom, & forgiveness that lies in front of us in Jesus--and that even though we can't change our past--He can change our future!

We all face the storms of life regularly in our lives--and they can either push us away from God, or draw us closer to Him and be used in powerful ways in us & in others. Which will you choose? Learn with us how to find hope in God & learn new perspectives when life gets hard...

Hope isn't just something we need when our world is falling apart-- it's something we need every morning when we wake up & face our daily lives. In this message we learned from Peter's powerful story of attempting to walk on water, and from some important insights in his letters, about how to choose hope each day, what to "set our hope on" each day, and how to find the beautiful "counterweights" of life that balance out the hard stuff.

As the world seems to get harder, darker, and scarier, and as we face more & more challenges in our own lives--we all find ourselves looking for hope, wondering if there's any reason for hope left. And that's exactly what God specializes in--hope! This Sunday we kicked off our new series based on the life of Peter, all about how to find hope, and in this message, it's how to find hope in God's calling on our lives & His plan for the world...

How do we handle our "disappointment with God", when things don't turn out like we hoped? In this message, we learned some important perspectives from the final chapter (surprising cliff-hanger ending) of Jonah's story--like to "never confuse life with God". And we found hope in knowing how God can bring overwhelming good out of things that feel overwhelmingly bad...

In this message, we learned the beautiful truth from Jonah's story (Chapter 3) that our God is the God of second chances (and 3rd, 4th, and 100th chances)--and that's what grace looks like! Learn with us how to recognize these second chances, to embrace them, obey God in them, and experience His renewed calling in our lives through them...

When we realize we've been running or drifting away from God, or just feel distant from Him (and wonder if He's abandoned us)--how do we find our way back to Him? In this message we learned from Jonah Ch. 2, that "the road back to God is always shorter than you think..."