Mosaic United Methodist Church

Do you remember stories of churches where they were living in the missions of God, but now they are breaking into battles over very minor issues? The secret to good community is the mission of Jesus Leads. Join us as we read together Paul's final letter to the Corinthians.

So a few weeks ago, we talked about how the Resurrection is not some spiritual existence in the afterlife. It is God raising up physical bodies for the life to come. But what will those bodies be like? How are they like the bodies we currently have? How will they be different?

So what is the gift of prophecy, and how does it function in normal church life? Building on top of that, why is it such a powerful gift that Paul would say, when the outsider hears it, he would be so convicted in his heart that he would fall down and say surely God is among you?

And now these three remain faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love. Throughout church history, the church has held faith, hope, and love as the theological virtues, why because they are the virtues that prepare us to live both now and for eternity. The Gospel, however, reveals that we need to know the one who is love in order to walk in love. Come as we continue to explore what it looks like to embrace the Gospel in community.

Have you ever noticed that some people seem to hear God all the time and some people are very reticent to think that God is speaking to them. How do you know if God is speaking to you? How do you know if it's not just your own mind talking to you?

Christopher and Laura Curry discuss an upcoming ministry called FIRM. FIRM stands for Families in Recovery Ministry.

Perhaps the most critical difference between Christianity and all other world religions is Christianity roots itself in one fundamental, historical act. The Resurrection is not a myth. It is historically researchable event where Jesus himself physically defeated death. Come find out this weekend how that changes our day to day lives and can the trajectory of our futures.

What do you do when you're reading scripture and there's just very limited light? Like, you just don't really understand what's going on. Then you read all the scholars, and they tell you they don't understand either. Well, that's this Sunday! Join us as we have a conversation together as a community about difficult texts of scripture and discover how to live faithfully to God in the midst of it.

Sometimes faith can almost feel like magic where we confuse what is real, active faith in Christ and magical solutions to problems. In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul begins to ask similar questions of the church community in Corinth. But then he warns them of the need to stay faithful. It's not good enough to just know Jesus as a past entity. God wants to be known, experienced, and relied upon in our daily lives.

So Paul says run the race as if to win the prize. What does that look like in our normal CSRA suburban lives? How do we orient our lives in such a way that they will bear fruit that will bring glory to God both now and forever.

We've all heard you must obey your conscience, but what is a conscience? And how does that connect to wisdom from above? In Chapter 8, Paul will teach us how to think about our sense of conscience as something that is developing towards a conscious awareness of God and learning to practice his presence in the day-to-day life and inside of community.

We learn in recovery that often times we are tempted to seek a geographical solution for a spiritual problem. So we think that our circumstances are the problem instead of learning how to be God's man or woman inside the circumstance itself. This Sunday, Paul will teach us to think about our our own context and how the gospel can be embodied and brought to bear in our day-to-day lives in the unique circumstances that each of us find ourselves.

I would like to tell you guys a story of perhaps the most awkward and challenging experiences I have personally observed in church. What it taught me is that love is difficult. Sometimes we want to make love out to be a feeling when it requires thought and process. But if we walk that out, we get to see God's kingdom advance.

Don't fear the fire! Last week, we talked about powerlessly reigning and power. This week, we're gonna talk about what it means to not fear the fire. We all go through situations that test our faith. In any given moment, the people we love are going through the same. How do we learn to look through the fire and to see the God who is with us?

Paul says, "My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me." What does it mean to have a clear conscience? What does it mean to reign with Christ? How do these two things interconnect?

We are learning how to live out the gospel in community. Have you ever noticed that contending to win and contending for truth are often not the same? Contending for truth calls you to deal deeply with the inner person. In some ways this is at the heart of embracing Christ Crucified in community. So this week the call is to “Contend for the Gospel of Christ-Crucified inwardly and it will have power to build-up God's people corporately."We are learning how to live out the gospel in community. Have you ever noticed that contending to win and contending for truth are often not the same? Contending for truth calls you to deal deeply with the inner person. In some ways this is at the heart of embracing Christ Crucified in community. So this week the call is to “Contend for the Gospel of Christ-Crucified inwardly and it will have power to build-up God's people corporately."We are learning how to live out the gospel in community. Have you ever noticed that contending to win and contending for truth are often not the same? Contending for truth calls you to deal deeply with the inner person. In some ways this is at the heart of embracing Christ Crucified in community. So this week the call is to “Contend for the Gospel of Christ-Crucified inwardly and it will have power to build-up God's people corporately."

Followers of Jesus are given the mind of Christ, but what does that mean? How do we learn to walk by the Spirit? What's more, how do we know the difference between the Holy Spirit and our own thoughts? Join us this Sunday as we continue our series of Discerning Gospel Community with 1 Corinthians 2.

Paul says that our wisdom is “Christ Crucified”. But what does that mean? And how do we embrace that wisdom in everyday life as a community? Join us as we step into our Discerning Gospel Community series. It will be a walk through 1 Corinthians.

Our goal this Sunday is to bridge the gap between Matthew and 1 Corinthians, we will do that by taking a look at how Acts calls us to live into community.  Last week, Chris challenged us to “Take a leap of faith and live into the resurrection, which reshapes family, purpose, and presence”. Church, we are taking the leap into the resurrected life, and where we go…We Go Together, and we can only go together through the power and grace of the Holy Spirit.

There are certain watershed moments in each of our lives. They are turning points in which much of life forever changes. Graduating high school or college or getting married are powerful moments in which life is altered significantly. The Resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate watershed moment over all of human history. Perhaps this is why we literally divide human history based on before His birth and after it. But how does this watershed moment affect our day to day lives?

For this whole series in Matthew, we've been saying that the Gospel is that Jesus is King! But how does He ascend to the throne? Also, we hear that we are saved through the cross, but how does the cross save us? In these final two weeks, in the words of N.T. Wright, we will see "How God Became King!"

Happy New Year! As we start a new year, it's easy to get bombarded with statements like, "New Year, New You." But this week Matthew challenges us to let Jesus discern the deeper things in our souls. It's in letting the Lord discern the deeper places in our souls that we are truly and deeply renewed. We are looking forward to starting this new year with both Jesus and with you. See you Sunday!

What is better than the Continuing the Conversation Podcast than the Continuing the Conversation Podcast LIVE? That's where we're going this Sunday! Join us as Gordon Spivey and Christopher Goss will be discussing Matthew 25 and helping us find the good news that Jesus Christ is King.

The countdown is on! Only a few shopping days left til Christmas! I love this time of year, but there is another countdown on the way. The question is: What will we do with what we know?

Kingdom Holiness is grown in the tension between the inner and the outer life. Jesus is on His way to the cross. He is contending with the religious leaders of the temple. And He is exposing the need for fidelity between the inner and the outer life of a followers of God. Join us as we take a dig deeper into the Word.

The great Jonathan Edwards once said, "Heaven is a world of love." Learning to live in love is also learning to live in Heaven. Join us as we focus on how to have a heart fit for Heaven.

The King is making His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The question is, how will the old Jerusalem receive him? Maybe on a deeper level, the question is how am I preparing to receive the King? Join us as we walk through Matthew 21.