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The scandal of Grace is that Jesus extends it even when we deny Him. God's love for us is never in question, but when Jesus asks Peter, "Do you love me?" in John 21, we see that God values our love. This Sunday, Pastor Josh gave a powerful message on how love leads to obedience — and how loving Jesus always looks like loving others.

Jesus draws near to us even in disappointment because He wants to journey with us and build a foundation in our lives. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on our hope in Christ. We are built to hope and designed to believe through Jesus for our future. When we place our hope in Him alone, there is a fire that burns inside our lives that produces a life full of love, full of faith — and overflowing to a world in need.

On the cross, Christ defeated everything that stands between you and God—not one thing has been left in debt, everything redeemed! But there's a reason He covered us with His grace: that we might have a New Beginning, receiving and living by His Spirit. This Sunday, Pastor Josh explored Jesus' encounter with the disciples as He appeared in the midst of their fear and breathed the Spirit of life into them (see John 20). Jesus restores us to our original design — image-bearers of God and carriers of His Spirit — by setting us free from fear and bringing us into an encounter with His life-giving Spirit!

God is committed to your flourishing. This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes shared a message from John 20, Mary's encounter with the risen Christ, on planting and flourishing in the garden of God. Whenever Jesus seems to not be found in your life, He is closer then you think. Jesus is the gardener of new creation, trust in His unfailing love for you today. If you are looking for purpose to flow through your life, plant yourself in the garden and find yourself in the house of God.

This Easter Sunday, Pastor Josh showed the lengths Jesus went to find us and rescue us. His grace is stronger than our sin. The Cross is stronger than death. Love may be able to die, but Perfect Love could not stay dead. In the cross and resurrection we see Him giving us a new hope, a new creation, a new beginning.

This Sunday Pastor Georgie Kelsey unpacked the idea that people who know they are well loved by God are equipped and empowered to love others well. When Jesus laid out His new commandment in John 13—that we love others as He loved us—He raised the bar on what loving others looks like. It's the love we have for others, whether they are neighbors or enemies, that will distinguish us as Jesus' disciples and followers. Pastor Georgie encouraged us to learn to receive the love of God better, so that we can love others better—like Jesus loves us.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey launched our new series, PERFECT LOVE! God wants us to grow in love so that we can show others His true love. His agape love is a one-way love that expels fear in our lives — and since fear is a spirit not a feeling, it takes the Spirit of God and His perfect love to drive out all fear. Where fear leads us into bondage, God's Spirit of Love will lead us and others into true freedom.

This Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes challenged us to count the cost in our walk with God. If we are going to follow Jesus toward who He's called us to be, it's going to cost our passion, priorities and possessions. We love others best when we love God most.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey shared on the gospel of peace, which brings a peace with God, with yourself and with others. Speaking out of Ephesians 6, he revealed how essential it is to wear the gospel of readiness on our feet as we walk with God. God makes us ready to move forward in life, to gain traction in our walk and to get a firm grip on who we really are in Christ. Let's put the gospel of peace on our feet today to gain forward movement in our purpose and our lives!

God is constantly preparing us for something, He never leaves us where we are at. This Sunday, Pastor Mark Kelsey encouraged us about all that God has prepared for us to become and to do, to bring God's glory to the earth. He unpacked three stages of preparation — the Cross, our progression in reconciliation, our role as a voice crying in the wilderness — to help us see just how much God has done to prepare us to shine His glory in New York City.

This Sunday, Pastor Josh calls us to return to the table of the Lord, the place He has prepared for us to encounter the identity, acceptance, and right-standing with Him that He freely gives to us. At this table, when we learn to sit with Him, we will learn who we really are in His eyes and all that He's already prepared for us. Once we've sat, we will know to what kind of table we are inviting others.

Fighting the good fight for others means overcoming opposition. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey encouraged us out of Mark 2 on how we fight for others in our lives. Our faith carries others when they cannot carry themselves. When we risk for the gospel, lives are transformed as they meet Jesus. We are called to do whatever it takes to get people to the feet of Jesus.

In order to fight the Good Fight of faith, it's important to know that our faith comes by hearing the word of Christ—and there is a battle for our hearts to be receptive to His word! This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey walked us through the parable of the sower to challenge us to grow in faith by ensuring that the soil of our heart is good. The level of growth and harvest of the Kingdom in our lives is directly related to the condition of our heart. His word may start as a seed, but it grows into a Kingdom!

Faith lives in the realm of impossibility, don't let what you haven't seen God do prevent you from seeing what God can do. This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message stirring our faith to believe in anything through Christ. Faith, moving in an atmosphere of compassion, can expect the miraculous things of God to happen in our lives.

Let's step into the good fight of faith because faith is the primary battleground we face in life. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey challenged us to fight for our faith, to strengthen and train ourselves to build our lives in Christ. There is a fight in your life right now which means there is something of worth on the other side. The future is brighter with faith in your heart.

This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey finished our SUPREME series with a message encouraging us to be clothed in Christ by walking in our new identity in Him. The higher our view of Christ is, the higher our level of humility. Through Christ we are able to put on our new identity and bring true compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience into our world. Jesus is the solution.

The more we discover who Jesus is the more we discover who we are. This Sunday Pastor Josh challenged how we think about salvation and the future of the world. If we see salvation as a ticket to heaven, rather than as a message to transform the world today, then we miss out on the ways that God is renewing the world here and now. The message of the Cross is a message for the renewal of our world, today—and that message of renewal is what we need to return to in order to see things change in our culture.

We are set free knowing the fullness we have in Christ. In each of our hearts, we have a throne, and who we choose to crown King dictates much of our lives. This past Sunday, Emmanuel Hastings preached on the fullness that only Jesus can give us. Alone we cannot achieve fullness; we can only receive fullness through Christ being on the throne of our hearts.

We are here to elevate Jesus as supreme. The most dangerous place for the church to live is when Jesus is kind of important. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached in our SUPREME series challenging us to elevate Jesus as king in our lives. When we have supreme love for Christ we will find radical faith, to live not as lukewarm but as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

Jesus is supreme. Jesus is ultimate, He is the highest expression of glory. This past Sunday, we kicked off our new series SUPREME with our annual Dream Sunday. Filmore shared about how we can reset our hearts to make the Lord first in our lives by seeking first God's kingdom. When we dream with His heart, our dreams will always include others.

Since the beginning of time, man has attempted to create a savior and tried answer the question, "Why I am here?" The virgin birth shows us that salvation requires no effort from man—God so loved us that He overruns every guilt and every shame in our lives. This week during our special Carols by Candlelight services, Pastor Josh Kelsey shared an encouraging message on Jesus' birth. His perfect love came to live inside of us, through the Holy Spirit. Who can resist perfect love?

When the Good News of Jesus' birth was announced to the shepherds, the angel's first words were, "Fear not." This was the Kingdom announcement of the end of fear because Christ came to break the distance between us and God. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on Jesus restoring our lives and bringing an end to fear. We can live in freedom knowing that Jesus is with us and for us.

We often carry burdens we aren't meant to in our own strength - circumstances, worry, fear, or guilt. Jesus came to release all of that from us, for us to receive rest rather than trying to achieve it. This Sunday, Filmore Bouldes preached on coming to Jesus to truly find our rest. We need to stop running to ourselves and recognize our need for help, for Jesus.

Jesus isn't asking us to fix ourselves up. He is present and here to heal and redeem and is looking for us to reach out for help. This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey helped us grasp the heart of resting in who God is. God made Himself vulnerable through Jesus so He could save us. Everything Jesus asks of us He says He will do it for us and through us. His yoke is easy and His burden is light, through Christ we find real rest.

Jesus elevated a symbol of weakness, a child, as the greatest in the Kingdom. Our society tells us to hide our vulnerabilities, but Jesus, who entered this world clothed in the weakness of a newborn baby, calls us to that same childlike humility, vulnerability and dependency on our Father. This Sunday, Emmanuel Hastings shared a powerful message kicking off our Advent series, challenging us to push past the pride and self-reliance we often develop in our adulthood in order to recover our much-needed posture of humility and wonder. To live by God's strength and grace, we enter the Kingdom like a child.

Ambitious praise is the crescendo of our faith because praise reminds us of the One who saved us. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey urged us to live a life overflowing with praise and thanksgiving to God. Praise will always be the result of a life that is firmly rooted in Christ. The certainty of our faith will give us access to all the riches of God as we discover His great mystery.

Generosity is the way of the Kingdom. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on Vision Sunday encouraging us to step out in our giving to build God's Kingdom in New York City and beyond. We give because we have already been accepted — not to earn salvation but out of the overflow of His grace in our lives. We release the miracle-working power of God when we give what may seem insignificant to us but can be used significantly by Him. May we be ambitious in our generosity, build the Kingdom and have hearts sown deeply in God's vision.

We need to use the ambition God has given us to lift up the name of Jesus in our city. This Sunday, Pastor Josh launched our November series AMBITION on seeking to reclaim our generation's desire to build the Kingdom of God. The God we serve is an ambitious God — like Abraham, we are called to step out of our limited tents, lift our eyes to His unlimited vision and count the stars. Nothing is impossible with God, and as we trust Him, we will see Him do more than we can imagine.

God is not looking at the eloquence of the words in our prayers — He's looking for our honesty, our heart. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey finished our Motel series with fresh insight into the Lord's Prayer. Prayer gives God access to our hearts and shapes our earthly desires into heavenly ones — shifting our focus off ourselves and onto Jesus and His Kingdom. The more we surrender to His will, the more earth will look like heaven.

We are made in love and wired for love through Christ. God gave us intellect, so our intellect is spiritual and God-breathed but functions fully when we're connected to the Vine, the Holy Spirit. This Sunday special guest speaker and cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Caroline Leaf linked scientific principles of the brain to spiritual, intellectual and emotional issues in a practical way. We have a responsibility to steward and step into God's leading in our minds.

What is the state of the internal conversation going on in your life? This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey continued in our Motel series, sharing one of David's Psalms and challenging us to shift our internal dialogue from that which is temporary to the eternal. Through remembering what God has done for us, we overcome the negative thinking that tries to dominate our internal conversation and are free to be a blessing to others. When we remember His goodness, we discover that Grace is a love that will never stop pursuing us.

The earth was always designed as a reflection of heaven. This Sunday, Pastor Josh continued in our Motel series, encouraging us to live out our calling as citizens of Heaven. Jesus is our great leader of this kingdom of grace, and He's given us the rights, privileges, and authority to represent Him here on earth. Through Him, we can live in freedom knowing that His love has secured our future.

God is not afraid of our running; His light will chase darkness down everyday. The battle between faith and fear is constant in the world around us. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on God's eternal purpose in our lives and how faith propels us confidently forward as we rely on the unseen instead of the seen. Fear produces anxiety, but faith produces peace.

We are all on a journey, and God has a place and a spiritual home for each of us. He wants us to live with an eternal perspective to break free from a temporal mindset. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey launched our new series MOTEL sharing on checking out of the temporal to build the eternal. God wants us to lift our eyes to see in a new perspective — what is impossible with man is possible with God.

The Church is God's people. It's His place to save the whole world, to reveal that He is real. This Sunday as we celebrated our 3rd Anniversary as a church, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on Jesus being the center of our lives and elevating our view of the church as we embark on this next year together. We are a part of the greatest move of God there has ever been.

Our souls are eternal and can only be satisfied by an eternal God. Our souls thirst just as we thirst physically when we are dehydrated. Are we spiritually dehydrated? We need Jesus, we need living water—this is what our soul craves and desires. This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey encouraged us to recognize our thirst. God does not judge us but has come to pour out living water upon our thirsty souls.

Our purpose is tied to God's grace and discovered in our surrender. We reveal the glory of God by enjoying Him above everything else. When we see God we see who we are and see the purpose He has for our lives. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached in our DRIVE series on the moment of surrender being the moment we find our purpose.

Whenever God gives purpose, it never leaves heaven without grace. At #ALLIN Team Night, Pastor Josh Kelsey shared a message on living the unbalanced, grace-filled, kingdom life as followers of Christ. Serving and building God's House is the purpose of God for every believer. God wants us to lean fully on Him and go all in with our unqualified faith.

Our purpose is built on the trust of Jesus. God wants to rebuild the engine in our hearts to drive us to His purpose for our lives. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey kicked off our new series, DRIVE with an encouraging message on our purpose in Christ. If Jesus is driving us, we will fulfill the purpose He has for our lives.

Jesus has given us an eternal identity. We are preservers of grace—preserving everything that looks like Jesus. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached the final message of our HUMAN series on what it means to be the salt of the earth. We are now the constant reminders, preservers and purifiers of His grace. As salt, we are the living examples and reminders that God's covenant of grace is active and real.

Where is your treasure? We're called to live not burdened by the things of this world, but with our eyes lifted by faith to see there's more to live for. In Christ, we've been given eternal riches beyond compare to the temporal riches of this world. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey encouraged us from the parable of the Rich Fool. God is generous toward us, and as His followers, we're called to be generous toward others.

The Beatitudes are portals to a new way of thinking. They are not platitudes, but paradoxes. This Sunday, special guest Pastor Brian Zahnd shared in our Human series on the Beatitudes. They offer blessings to those the world would deem 'unblessable.' The Beatitudes are the politics of Jesus in the government of God. If we can become a people formed by the Beatitudes then we will receive comfort and mercy.

Jesus wants to reform and regenerate our mindset through relationship with Him and prayer. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on the power of prayer in our lives. God wants us to be shameless, bold, and persistent with Him in our prayers. The answer to our anxiety, stress, and fears will be solved in prayer.

Jesus uses our experiences as seeds for others to encounter Him and find freedom. Freedom is walking in the identity that God has for us. This Sunday, we had the privilege of hearing from two members of C3 Brooklyn, Nathalie David and Samuel Nicolosi, on the power of being found in Christ.

This Sunday, guest speaker Dr. Robi Sonderegger, clinical psychologist renowned for taking psychology from the frontline to the home front, shared how understanding and extending forgiveness is central to our faith. Through forgiveness, we become fully alive, learning to reconcile our past in order to get on with our future.

This Sunday, at our Bushwick location, Pastor Mark Kelsey shared an empowering message on overcoming fear. Humanity has been plagued with fear since the garden, but in Christ, the cross enables us to live above fear. Through His death, He's given us access to the presence of God which destroys fear's power in our lives.

The way we are going to change a system of power is by Jesus's radical love. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message of hope with authenticity and courage about the important role of the church in our city and nation in light of the events that occurred last week. In a world of oppression and injustice, Jesus examples the way that we can bring to heaven to earth and take down the wall of hostility.

God has an unlimited supply of grace, and the more we use it, the more it multiplies. This Sunday in our HUMAN series, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a key message on grace out of the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25. Jesus came to change our perspective of the Father so that we don't bury the Spirit of Grace but are free to enjoy life. As His church, we are released to be fully alive, fully joyful, if we dig up and invest His currency of grace.

The more we find Jesus, the closer we get to knowing who we are. He is discovered by revelation and has a blueprint for our lives. At #ALLIN Team Night, Pastor Phil Pringle shared a message on building the church. We can stay humble by keeping ourselves in an environment where we build others up. Our unity builds the House of God.

In Him we have been made overcomers. This Sunday, Pastor Phil Pringle, the founder and president of the C3 movement, preached on our identity in Christ. We have been given power from God to walk humbly and boldly as His sons and daughters. Through trials and triumphs, we are forgiven, accepted, and highly favored in Him.