Submerge Sermons

How do we find real peace this Christmas season--the kind that can enter into our chaos & our conflicts and flow deeply through all of it? The kind that isn't so fleeting, but can remain in our hearts & minds through this season and beyond? This is exactly the kind of peace Jesus offers us & Christmas can bring us, so learn with us from the ancient Bible Christmas stories about how to find it!

To kick off the Christmas season, we submerge into the first week of Advent--which is all about HOPE! Something we all need more of in our lives...Learn with us about how to find hope, why we can hope, and why hope isn't just feeling that comes & goes, but how it can actually become a daily choice for us...

Life always seems to turn out so much messier than we had in mind--how do we make sense of it all? Understand where God is in it all? See how it can possibly be used for good? In this service, we learned more about what God is up to in our lives, how to find purpose in it all, and how to stop settling for being villains/victims...

The most important skill to learn & grow in, for all of our relationships (and for our world)--is forgiveness. Join us as we submerge into forgiveness and learn why unforgiveness is so addictive, why forgiveness is different than trust, how to do better than "forgive and forget", and much more...

"Shalom" is a theme all throughout the Bible, and was a founding principle for Submerge. AND it's meant to become and important & meaningful part of your daily life. Learn with us all about how to experience and live out "shalom"!

Many of us grew up associating God/church with guilt, and we've carried around guilt & shame our whole lives. So what do we do with all this guilt/shame? And how do we learn to still listen when God is trying to show us we're off-track? On Sunday we learned from more of Joseph's powerful story (Genesis 42-44) about how to process all of this, so we can become people who learn how to listen to God, while being free of guilt/shame!

We're all in different season of life, so the question is: will we embrace this season, or waste it? Who are we becoming in this season? What is God trying to do in us/through us in this season? Learn with us from the story of Joseph (Genesis 41) how to make the most of each season & not miss the opportunities in them!

How do we become people who can wait well, endure trials, change from asking "why" to instead asking "what can I learn" and "who can I become" when facing the things we don't understand? Learn from Joseph's inspiring story with us!

"The hard thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing." We can't become who we hope to be (and who God hopes us to be) without integrity--living authentically and whole and as the same person in public as we are behind closed doors. So how do we live with integrity in the face of temptations & in the face of tough trials? Learn with us from Joseph's inspiring story!

Jealousy/envy doesn't seem like a big deal--everyone has felt it at some point. But when we let it creep into our lives, take root, and grow into bitterness--we end up damaging ourselves & our relationships, and doing things we never imagined we'd do. In this message we submerge into the powerful story of Joseph & his brothers (in Genesis), as kick off our new series on his life--and learn how to trade in jealousy/bitterness for a lot of freedom, contentment, & gratitude!