Novation Church Weekly Sermons

• The blessing that UNITY brings “Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, so that with one purpose and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 15:5–6 NASB2020 • The… Read More »Blessings

Romans 14 “Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to have quarrels over opinions. One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables. The one who eats is not to regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats,… Read More »Guidelines, Guardrails, and Getting Along

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ…” Philippians 3:20 NASB Romans 13 How Should My Heavenly Citizenship Direct How I Live In My Earthly Citizenship? “Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it’s God’s order. So live… Read More »Dual Citizenship

How Does The Gospel Transform Our Lives? “Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that… Read More »Transformed

Romans 11 “I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? Far from it! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.” Romans 11:1-2a NASB  “I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to… Read More »Our Roots and His Covenant

What Is It Going To Take To Fulfill Your Life Mission And The Mission Of The Church? “Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their… Read More »Our Roots and Our Mission

“…salvation is from the Jews.” Jesus in John 4:22 The calling of the Hebrew people “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of… Read More »Our Roots and Our Salvation

How can we face suffering without losing hope? 1.          Develop a better vision for the future “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18 NASB 2.          Recognize the tension between our present reality and God’s… Read More »Be Free: Pursuing Life in the Spirit Part 2

“I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.… Read More »Be Free: Pursuing Life in the Spirit Part 1

The battle “I can anticipate the response that is coming: “I know that all God’s commands are spiritual, but I’m not. Isn’t this also your experience?” Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I… Read More »Winning the Battle Within

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?” Romans 6:1-2 NASB  To Walk The Road To Wholeness I need to know my union with Christ “Or do you not know that all of us who have… Read More »The Road to Wholeness

Jesus justifies us “Therefore, having been justified by faith,” Romans 5:1a NASB Jesus is our peace “we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” Romans 5:1b NASB Jesus is our hope “through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we celebrate in hope… Read More »What Jesus Means For Us

“For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.” Romans 3:28 NASB What is the Good News? Jesus did for us what we could never do for ourselves. “He who was delivered over because of our wrong doings, and was raised because of our justification.” Romans 4:25 NASB What Is Our Response To… Read More »Have You Heard the News? Part 2

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written: “But the righteous one will live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17 NASB What is the bad news? Universal guilt… Read More »Have You Heard the News? Part 1

1.   The Creation Mandate “Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”… Read More »A Biblical Theology of Work

“I, John, your brother and fellow participant in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.” Revelation 1:9 NASB How NOT To Read Revelation •           Don’t read to much of our modern world into it •           Don’t get… Read More »How to Read the Book of Revelation

Question: Who is God? Answer: God is an eternal relationship between the Father and the Son, through the Holy Spirit. Question: What is God like? Answer: God is like the life we see revealed in Jesus Christ. “No one has seen God at any time; God the only Son, who is in the arms of the Father, He has explained Him.” John… Read More »Life, Light, and Love

“Dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written to you; in both letters, I want to stir up your sincere understanding by way of reminder, so that you recall the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the command of our Lord and Savior given through your apostles.” 2 Peter 3:1-2 CSB “ Therefore I… Read More »Because of Jesus

1 Peter 1:1-9 The antidote to discouragement, defeat, and despair is HOPE Hope is having confidence in Jesus’ FAITHFULNESS to HIS WORD To daily live in hope I need to remember four truths This world is NOT OUR HOME “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and… Read More »You Are Not Hopeless

Authentic faith PERSEVERES and MATURES through trials and tests “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing…Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the… Read More »Pursuing Authentic Faith