Meta Church NYC

What do you do when you feel like God is absent or distant? How do you find God's presence when He feels like He's hidden in obscurity?

Is God the Father *actually* loving? And does He *really* love me? 

All of us have thoughts, views, and perceptions about who God the Father is...the problem is that many of our thoughts, views, and perceptions are WRONG.

Anyone can have a basic faith, but do you have a faith that sees miracles? 

Is God really good? This is a burning curiosity within each of us. We want to know if God is good, and if so, what makes Him good. Fortunately for us, the message of Easter reveals the goodness of God in our lives.

In this message, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares what makes Good Friday "good."

Romans 12:10 instructs us to "honor one another above ourselves" but what does this actually mean? In this final installment, Pastor Ricky Ortiz breaks down what it looks like to honor one another in the same way that Jesus has honored us.

Showing hospitality is a Biblical command given to us all of us believers by God, and it's something Jesus modeled for us in clear and demonstrable ways.

For too long, we've missed the mark on knowing what it means and what it looks like to grieve with one another. 

You were never called to carry your burdens on your own. And you were never called to ignore other people's burdens. Instead, we've been called to share one another's burdens. 

What if Christians, and the Church, became the most encouraging group of people and the most encouraging place possible? We're called to encourage one another, and in this message, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares what's required for us to encourage one another!

Unforgiveness is a weight that far too many people carry; that's they the New Testament instructs us to forgive one another so that we can walk in freedom.

Believe it or not, the Christian faith is not about you! Jesus (and the New Testament) make it clear that the Christian faith is about others.

We all want approval... the feeling of being good enough and accepted by others. The problem is that, left unchecked, approval and validation can easily become an idol that gets in the way of your relationship with God.

The Idol of Self manifests in a multitude of ways and in this message, Pastor Krista Ortiz helps us identify these idols so we can smash them!

Every child is taught that you don't always get what you want; unfortunately, that doesn't mean that we learn the lesson. As we grow up, we continue to crave and long for more. This desire for more eventually becomes an idol... The Idol of More.

We often measure success through our careers, our finances, our titles, or our networks; but God defines success in an entirely different way and it's not what you think.

In this week's message, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares the first idol we need to smash: the idol of Security! And when it comes to this idol, the question you have to ask is: Is This a Lie?

Smash the Idols is all about helping you destroy the things that stand in the way of you unlocking your spiritual potential and drawing close to God.

You can't dictate what you'll go through in 2025, but you can shape how you go through it! And these four 4 questions will help you do just that!

In this closing message of 2024, Pastor Ricky Ortiz highlights the things that are taking place and casts vision for what could be when we come together and give to our Christmas Offering.

Jesus made room for all people, and with Jesus all people felt at home! And in this week's message at Meta Church, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares vision for how we at Meta Church will continue to do the same.

We've seen our church grow, lives transformed, and people step into community and purpose while finding healing and acceptance. Our church has become more than a church – it's become a home!

Wherever the message of the Kingdom of God was proclaimed, it was received and celebrated as Good News. That's because the message of the Kingdom is greater than the politics of our days.

In this week's message, Pastor Krista Ortiz shares how God's people are supposed to navigate uncertain or unstable political times.

In this week's message, Pastor Ricky Ortiz shares three qualities that separate Jesus and make Him far superior than any candidate we could think of.

In a highly contemptible political climate, Jesus stepped injected Himself into the political narrative by announcing and proclaiming a new Kingdom.

Sin breaks our relationship with God, and unconfessed sin creates a burden that we were never intended to carry. This burden puts a cap on our transformation and it prevents us from becoming like Christ. But confession is the bridge that connects us back to God.

If you've ever felt distant or disconnected in your relationship with God, then this week's message is for you!

Worshiping in Spirit and Truth is about engaging our emotion and our intellect. In other words, it's about giving God all we've got!

Jesus didn't just tell us we should connect with God, but He demonstrated to us what it means and looks like to connect with God through prayer. 

What does obedience have to do with following Jesus and becoming like Him? Well, as it turns out: A LOT! According to Jesus, obedience is both a key measure of becoming a disciple and a measuring factor for how much you actually love Jesus. In John 14, Jesus said those who obey Him are the ones that actually love Him.

We see the world with our natural eyes, but we see the spiritual with the eyes of the Spirit. And as we see things through the Spirit we can see things as God sees them.

Do you remember those WWJD bracelets? They asked the question, "What would Jesus do?" Though well-meaning and inspired, it's somewhat a mute question. We don't need to ask what Jesus "would" do because we already know exactly what Jesus *did* do!

Thankfully, Jesus didn't just instruct us to follow His way, but He modeled the way for us so we could live like Him and become like Him.

During this conversation, Inés shares how her faith has fueled her work as well as the way her work has invigorated her faith. Inés has a passion for helping people follow Jesus, while also living in a such a way to that takes care of God's creation and God's people.

Meta Member, Wanda Staggers, was born in Harlem, NY, but after graduating from college she made her way down to South Carolina. She world as a single mom, raising four daughters on her own, while also learning to trust God in the big things and in the small things.

In this week's message, Maggie speaks on the significance of Jesus – who He is, what He does, and the difference He makes in our lives. The truth is that we not only need Jesus, but when we find Him, He changes EVERYTHING!

In her message, Fer shares her story of following Jesus and the way He has revealed Himself to her. She shares about the importance of actually being with Jesus and not just doing "Jesus things." This is something God has used to transform her and now she shares this message with us all.

In just a short time of following Jesus, EVERYTHING can change! That's the power of following Jesus! And that's the testimony shared by both Dan and Kaki in this week's Summer Mixtape message. Over the past year, Jesus has radically transformed who they are and how they're navigating faith, marriage, and life.

We live in a hurried, fast-paced world where we can easily find ourselves running at full speed 24/7. The challenge and difficulty with this is that we can also find ourselves easily burning out because we've run for so long or run without direction.

The pressures of culture and society push us to embrace a life apart from Jesus, which means the decision and commitment to follow Jesus into your 30s requires a lot more discipline and resilience.

What do you do when you've been patiently waiting for God for healing, deliverance, provision (or anything else really) and it doesn't seem like He's coming through yet?

Just because you've taken a step towards freedom does not mean you will continue to be free. If you want to be free, then you have to determine that you will remain free.v

Let's be honest: there are times where God tells us, or invites us, to do something and we would rather look the other way, pretend like we didn't hear it, or just flat out ignore what God has so clearly spoken.

Nobody wants to be called GREEDY. BUT… what if this thing that we say we despise is actually something that's a part of each of us? And what if this characteristic we say we hate is actually within each of us??

Is He worthy? This is a question every follower Jesus has wrestled with. Just like the rich, young ruler in Mark 10, we all have to ask ourselves, and answer, this question when it comes to following Jesus.

A recent study done by Cornell University found that 85% of the fears we have *NEVER* materialize, yet the overwhelming majority of people are gripped by fear! Yet for many Christians, fear has an incredible stronghold on their lives. This is especially true when it comes to generosity. Without question, Fear is the number one reason why Christians are *not* generous.

There are strongholds in our lives that are keeping us from becoming the people God has called us to become. But these strongholds don't need to keep us back, it's time to leave the stronghold and break free!

We all have questions about sex, dating, and marriage... and in our final installment of our SWIPE RIGHT series, Pastors Ricky and Krista Ortiz take time to answer YOUR questions about all this and more!

What if the goal wasn't simply to survive in marriage, but to thrive in marriage? In this week's message, Pastor Ricky Ortiz outlines the 5 KEYS YOU NEED TO THRIVE IN MARRIAGE. These five keys are essential to unlocking the potential, the joy, the fulfillment, the satisfaction, and the power that marriage has to offer!