How to Take on Pharaoh (Part 2) // Life of Moses // Exodus 2:11-17, 3:7-11

In this message, we continue our exploration of the theme of justice: two weeks ago, we considered justice through the courage of the women in Exodus 1–2; today, we shift to Moses’ adult life and the tension between his deep, God-given passion for justice and the misguided, self-driven ways he first tries to pursue it. This passage leads us to a bigger question: how does an encounter with God transform our approach to injustice—from personal mission to divine calling? Join us as we look at Exodus 2 and 3 and discover what it means to join God’s work of true liberation in the world. Recorded December 7, 2025.

How to Leave a Legacy // Life of Moses // Exodus 2:11-21 - Corrected Audio

In Exodus 2:15–22, we meet Moses in a season of dislocation—fleeing Egypt, finding refuge in Midian, starting a family, and naming his son Gershom, “a foreigner in a foreign land.” This moment opens a deeper question the passage raises for us today: What does it mean to leave a legacy? Not a legacy of success, achievement, or family status, but a legacy shaped by the ongoing work of God in a life that is still in process. Recorded November 30, 2025.

How to Take on Pharaoh (Part 1) // Life of Moses // Exodus 1-2:10

In today’s episode, we continue our series on identity through the early life of Moses, turning to one of the most urgent themes in the Exodus story: justice—what it means to “take on Pharaoh.” Exodus 1–2 opens with God blessing Israel in a foreign land, a picture of flourishing that echoes a new garden. But that blessing provokes fear in a new Pharaoh, who twists power into oppression, slavery, and eventually genocide. In the face of this darkness, the story lifts up an unexpected group of heroes: the Hebrew midwives, Moses’ mother and sister, and even Pharaoh’s daughter—women who quietly but courageously resist injustice at great personal cost. Their actions flow from a deeper allegiance, a reverence for God that redefines justice and dethrones Pharaoh’s claims over their lives. Today we explore what their example reveals about seeing oppression truthfully, resisting the cultural temptation to center justice on our own personal fulfillment, and practicing courageous, creative faithfulness right where we already are. This is the invitation of Exodus: to worship the God who is above every Pharaoh, and to join him in the work of life, liberation, and flourishing. Recorded November 23, 2025.

How to Lament // Life of Moses // Exodus 1-2:10

This week, we look even further back in Moses’ origin story at the courage of Shiphrah and Puah, a desperate mother, Miriam’s boldness, and Pharaoh’s daughter’s compassion - and the way God responds to lament long before they see deliverance. We explore lament as a true form of worship—honest, raw, and welcomed by God—and how the Bible always pairs lament with hope. Psalm 77 becomes our guide, reminding us to anchor our questions in God’s past faithfulness and, ultimately, in the resurrection of Jesus. Recorded November 16, 2025.

How to Be Blessed // Life of Moses - Exodus 2:1-10, 3:4-6

In this episode, we continue exploring Moses’ origin story in Exodus and the question at the core of his life—Who am I? Today we go deeper to the longing beneath it: Who is my father? From a name shaped by rescue and rupture to a life searching for belonging, Moses carries a story many of us recognize—a "father hunger" to be known, chosen, and loved.

At the burning bush, God meets Moses not just with answers, but with Himself—the Father who pursues, names, invites, and restores. It’s a story about identity, longing, and the God who comes close, calls us His own, and sends us out to love others the same way. Recorded November 9, 2025.

How to Belong // Life of Moses - Exodus 2-3

In this week’s message, we continue our series on Moses’ question, “Who am I?” by exploring the theme of belonging. Moses’ story reveals the tension of hybrid identity—born Hebrew, raised Egyptian, caught between race, culture, and place—and his failed attempts to resolve that tension by choosing sides and defining himself against others. But when God meets Moses in the wilderness and declares, “I AM WHO I AM,” Moses’ sense of belonging is redefined—not by ancestry or geography, but by encounter and worship. In the same way, our deepest belonging is not found in race, culture, or place, but in knowing the God who meets us where we are and sends us into the world as His people. Recorded November 2, 2025.

How to Work // Life of Moses - Exodus 2-3

This week, we explore the question “Am I what I do?” and the pressure many of us feel to find meaning and identity in our work. Looking at Moses in Exodus 2–3, we see someone who longed to make a difference but discovered that vocation is not driven by personal willpower or achievement. God meets Moses in the ordinary and calls him first to be a responder, then a participant in God’s work to bring freedom and renewal. Our careers and roles will change, but our true identity is rooted in the God who calls us, equips us, and sends us to join his healing work in the world. Recorded October 26, 2025.

How to Create an Identity // Exodus 3:11, 14

This week we begin a new series based on Moses' question in Exodus 3:11 - "Who am I?" While previous cultures answered this question by looking outside of ourselves, our culture answers it by inviting us to look inside of ourselves. However, in this message, we see how Moses’ encounter with God reveals a better way—our true identity is found not in who we are, but in who God is: the great I AM. Recorded October 19, 2025.

Rule of Life // Acts 2:37-47

In this message, the two responses to the good news of Jesus in the book of Acts. First, Peter invites his listeners to "repent and be baptized" as an entrance practice into a community of the good news. Second, we learn how the early church took on common practices that continually shaped them to become people who looked like Jesus - and how we're invited to do the same. Recorded October 12, 2025.

Choosing the Better Part: An Invitation to Be Present // Luke 10:38-42

This week, we were blessed to have Carl Amouzou lead us to reflect on the story of Mary and Martha, and the challenge we all face between being distracted and being present. Through personal stories of busyness, shame, and the struggle to rest, we’re invited to hear Jesus’ gentle words: You are seen, you are loved, and you are called to choose the better part—the way of presence with Him. If you’ve been feeling anxious, pulled in many directions, or worn thin, this sermon offers a reminder that Jesus’ invitation is not to do more, but to be with Him and find rest. Recorded September 28, 2025.

Extending the Table // Acts 2:37-47

This week we begin to explore the early church's practices in Acts 2, focusing on the surprising emphasis on eating together. Communion reminds us that Jesus’ broken body and poured-out blood re-story our lives, but the table doesn’t stop there. We’re invited to come to the table, carry it into our homes, and extend it into the world—sharing the good news of Jesus through relationships around tables. Recorded September 21, 2025.

Jesus is Reality // Colossians 2:17

This week we’re kicking off a new series on who we are as a church, starting with our name: Reality Church. Drawing from Colossians 2:17, we explore how all the identity markers we chase—success, approval, belonging—are just shadows, whereas true identity and lasting fulfillment are found only in Jesus, the one who is reality. Recorded September 14, 2025.

Psalm 32

We finish our summer series looking at Psalm 32, which reminds us that God doesn’t watch us with judgment but with love. Hiding our struggles only wears us down, but freedom comes when we bring our whole selves—sins, wounds, and weariness—into God’s presence. Like the woman who reached out to Jesus in faith, we find blessing when we stop hiding and let his unfailing love surround us. Recorded September 7, 2025.

Psalm 84

In Psalm 84 we hear the psalmist’s passionate cry: “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.” But what does that mean for us when our hearts often long for “a thousand elsewheres” — vacations, success, comfort — more than the presence of God? This sermon explores that tension honestly, naming how we can sometimes sing worship songs without fully meaning the words. The psalm reminds us that the Christian life isn’t just about avoiding sin or “sin management,” but about entering into the presence of the living God — the place where healing, wholeness, and true life are found. Like choosing between cities or destinations, what we think is “better” is shaped by the stories and songs that capture our imagination. Marketing trains us to long for other things, but Psalm 84 invites us to retrain our hearts to long for God through worship, community, and pilgrimage with Jesus. In him, we discover that God’s presence is the ultimate “stuff” our souls were made for. Recorded August 24, 2025.

Psalm 72

This week, we explore Psalm 72 which teaches us to long for a king who brings justice and shalom—peace, wholeness, and flourishing. This hope is fulfilled in Jesus, the greater King who defends the vulnerable, heals the broken, and confronts injustice with sacrificial love. As His followers, we’re invited to pray, see others with His eyes, and live out justice and mercy so that God’s kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven. Recorded August 17, 2025.

Psalm 24

Psalm 24 calls us to meet the majestic Creator with clean hands and pure hearts. Revival begins not with programs or crowds, but with holy discontent and God’s people being filled with Him. Transformation starts when we let Him cleanse our actions, motives, and allegiances. Where do we long for God to arrive, and how are we preparing? True revival is a community becoming deeply God-conscious—starting when we open our lives to the King of Glory. Recorded August 10, 2025.

Psalm 127

Psalm 127 reminds us that without God’s presence, even our hardest work can become empty toil. This sermon invites us to see all we do—whether in jobs, homes, relationships, or ministry—as “kingdom work,” joining God’s ongoing activity to bring life, hope, and flourishing in places big and small.

Psalm 63

In her first sermon ever (!), one of our church elders, Christiane, reflects on Psalm 63 and what it means to long for and find satisfaction in God. Through honest storytelling and spiritual insight, she explores how our deepest desires point us toward God—and how Scripture and simple practices can help us meet Him in everyday life. Recorded July 20, 2025.

Psalm 121

We continue our study of the Psalms this summer by looking Psalm 121. In this teaching, we explore how mountains are a place of significance, how mountains reinforce our identity, and hear the invitation to ascend the mountain with King Jesus. Recorded July 13, 2025.

An Invitation to Worship in Every Season // Psalm 8

Psalm 8 invites us into a posture of worship by recognizing God as the majestic Creator and King over all. Whether we feel powerful or powerless, the Psalm reminds us that everyone worships something—and only worship of God leads to life, not destruction. As we enter summer, this message encourages us to enjoy beauty, rest, and connection, but to do so with intentionality—seeing every moment as an opportunity to turn our hearts toward God in worship, just as Jesus did in both his strength and vulnerability. Recorded July 7, 2025.