Mosaic Boston

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Good morning. My name is Andy. Welcome to all of you who are here in person and those of you who are online. I'm just thrilled to be here. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic, along with pastor Jan and pastor Shane. I just want to plug it as we always do. If you just arrived and you're new, or you're just chiming in online, you can fill out a connection card. This is the best way for us to get to know you and for you to get more information about us. You can fill that out in person, put it in the white collection box in the back here, or fill it out online, or on our connection card on our app. Today, we are continuing our Advent series. This is a time of the year where we spend extra time meditating on what Christ's first coming means for us: his birth, his life, his de

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston in our neighborhood, churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Welcome. My name is Shane, I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic, and we're so glad to have you with us today. We would love to connect with you, and if you would like to connect with us, we do that through the little connection card. You probably grabbed one of those on the way in, you can just fill that out and drop it in the little white box at the back of the room on your way out this morning. You can also do that online. There's a link to that on our homepage. And if you fill that out for us, we would like to just follow up with you this week and also just send a small gift to you in the mail, to thank you for being with us today. One quick announcement before we get started. Tonight, we're having our final prayer service. It's going to be here at 5:00 PM. You're all

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Good morning. Welcome again to Mosaic. Good to see you this morning. My name is Shane. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. And if you're new, welcome. We're so glad that you're here. We would love to connect with you. The way we do that is through our connection card. Hopefully, you were able to grab one of those on the way in, if not, we have that also available on our website. You can find a link to that on our homepage. But if you fill that out for us, we would love to just follow up with you this week, and also just send a small gift to you, to thank you for being with us today. And if you fill that out this morning, you just drop that in the little white box at the back of the room on your way out later on. Just one quick announcement before we get into the sermon

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. We're in the book of Malachi. Malachi is sent by God as a prophet to reawaken his people who are in spiritual stupor. They have grown numb to God. They are indifferent to the cause of God, the word of God, to the mission of God. They're indifferent to the work of the temple. The reason why they're indifferent is because their heart has been divided, they are in the middle. They're on the one hand loving the world, on the other hand, asking for God to bless them. And they're starting to ask questions like, is this worth it? Is it worth following God? Is it worth doing his work? Is it worth trying to live a godly life? As they're looking around and seeing that the people who are pagans, people who are living any way that they want seems like they're happier, seems like they'

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood, churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic. And if you're new or if you're visiting welcome, we're so glad you're here and we'd love to connect either through the connection card and the worship guide or in the connection card in the app or online. If you filled out allegedly, we will get in touch with you over the course of the week. That said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word? Heavenly Father, we thank you for the privilege it is to come into your presence because of the sacrifice of your son, Jesus Christ on the cross, by the power of your Holy Spirit. Lord, you command us that we are not to have any gods before you. You summarized Jesus, the law of the Lord by saying, love God with all your h

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. We'd love to connect with you. We do that through the connection card, either the physical connection card or the one that you can get online or in the app. With that said, would you pray with me over the preaching of God's Holy word? Lord, we come to you with humble and grateful hearts for the fact that you, the God of the universe did not reject us when we rebelled against you. Instead, you chose to pour out your love upon us. You chose to extend mercy to us and grace. Lord, we take a moment now to repent of the fact that we take your love for granted, we take your acceptance for granted, we take a relationship with you for granted. Lord, we repent of the fact that often we are bored in our relationship with you. We are apathetic toward you. I pray today, Lord, send a fire

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston Church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Good morning, welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy, if you're new or if you're visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that officially through the connection guide and the worship guide or the connection card in the app or online. If you filled that out, we'll be sure to get in touch with you over the course of the week. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word. Heavenly Father, we are so thankful because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross bearing the penalty, the wrath of God for our sin, we now have access into your presence. We don't need a temple and we don't need a high priest, we don't need sacrifices, Lord, because on the cross,

Audio Transcript: Good morning and welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastor's here at Mosaic along with Pastor Andy and Pastor Shane. If you're new or if you're visiting with us, we'd love to connect with you, either through the connection card that you can fill out and then toss in the box at the at the back. Or you can fill out the connection card in the app or on the website. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's Holy Word? Heavenly Father, we come into Your presence with fear and trepidation. Trepidation, because You are a holy and a mighty God. We thank You that You are just. And as we thank You for Your justice, we recognize that we deserve to be punished for our sins. So we cannot pray for Your justice without also asking for forgiveness for our sins. We're thankful for Jesus Christ who lived the perfect life and died the death that we deserved to die. By grace through faith in Him, we are given imputed righteousness and now we can cry out,

Audio Transcript: Good morning, welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with pastor Andy and pastor Shane and if you're new or if you're visiting with us, we're so glad you're here. If you'd like to connect with us, we do that either through the connection card that you can pick up in the back and then leave it in the back, or online in the app, or on our website. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word. Heavenly father, we thank you for the Holy scriptures and we thank you that in the scriptures you do not gloss over sin. Even the greatest heroes in the faith have fallen because every single one of us is a sinner by nature and by choice, and we thank you for the example of King David. We thank you that you pursued him, you did not relinquish him to his sin, instead you came and you made him see the darkness of his sin. We pray Lord that you today send us the Holy Spirit and let us see the darkness of our sin. It's within e

Audio Transcript: Good morning, and welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic, along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy. Today we are celebrating our ninth birthday as a church. Happy birthday Mosaic, happy birthday. Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday. My wife asked if we're having cake today. I said, "Baby, what is it? 2019? No. We'll have extra cake in 2021 at our 10 year birthday." Lord willing, Lord willing. Thank you, everyone for your sacrifices, for your service, for your ministry. In particular, everyone who's been here one plus years, raise your hand if you've been here more than one year. Wow. Praise God. More than two years. More than three years. More than four years. More than five years. Vlad and Edgar. You've been here for five years? Six years. Seven, eight, nine. Elizabeth raising her hand, my daughter, Elizabeth. I remember how old Mosaic is because of Elizabeth. She's also nine. And Edgar. Edgar's been here from the beginning. Edgar starte

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Or for us here today, good afternoon. My name is Andy. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic, along with Pastor Jan and Pastor Shane. This is a prerecorded service. We are meeting online right now this Sunday, because the temple where we meet has plans and preparations for one of their great annual holidays. So, we are meeting online. We look forward to seeing you next week. Thank you for just being flexible, after a long season of being flexible. But we pray that the Lord would continue to work profoundly through the mediums of technology that he's given to us. Today, we are continuing. Before I go into that, if you are new to Mosaic, you can still sign one of our connection cards. You can click on a link and fill one out. If you want to learn certain information about the church, the body here, our values, community groups, fill that out. We want to get to know you. We will follow up with you. Please do that. But today, we are continuing in our series, Balm Psalms. We've b

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. And it's so good to worship together. If you'd like to connect with us and you're new, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the Connection Card and the Worship Guide or in the app or online. We'd love to get connected with your information and we would like to send a little gift in the mail to say, "Thank you for coming out." With that said, would you please... Oh. One quick announcement. Next Sunday we are not meeting in person. Unfortunately. We will be meeting online. And I will be in the Facebook Live chat. I really enjoy that. And there might be a chicken wing question. Who knows. Who knows. Would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word? Lord, we thank you for the Holy Scriptures. We thank you that the Holy Scriptures reveal so much about your character. About how gracious you are. About how loving you are. How pure you are. How holy you are. And we thank you t

Audio Transcript: Good morning. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. If you're new, if you're visiting, welcome. We're so glad you are here. We'd love to connect with you. If you'd like to connect with us, we'll do that through the connection card that you hopefully received, or you can fill it out online. With that said, would you... Happy September, by the way. We're entering the most glorious season in Boston, September and October. It's all downhill from there, so enjoy. Would you pray with me over the preaching of God's Word? Holy God, we thank you that you are a great God. You are a glorious God. You are an all-powerful God. You care for us. I pray, Lord, that you bless these series in the Psalms. I pray, Lord, that you deepen our devotion for you as you expand our vision of you. Not only are you glorious, but you are beautiful. You are so creative. You are the greatest artist, and you're the greatest poet. I pray that your Psalms, your poetry, becomes our poetry, that these words b

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy. And if you're new or if you're visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the digital connection cart which you can find in the app, or on our website or if you're watching online in the comment section below. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Oh, holy God, I pray that you today open our eyes to the reality that is all around us, a reality of holy war, of spiritual warfare, the reality that there are two kingdoms with two kings both vying for the same throne, the throne of our hearts for now. And I pray today, Lord, that you show us that when we come to you, Jesus, when we ask for you to forgive us of our sins, to liberate us from sin, to liberate us from the shackles of sin that you also call us to submit our wills to yours for you are the great King of Kings. Lord, I pray that you give us d

Audio Transcript: We're back. Hallelujah. Praise you Jesus. I've gotten a lot more charismatic over the past six months. Praising God. Hallelujah. Praise you Jesus. I'm so glad we're back. Welcome if you're new to Mosaic, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through a digital card and either on the website or in the app. We are still in our sermon series in the book of Luke transitioning soon. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word. Heavenly father what a good father you are, you're a father to us corporately and you're a father to us individually. And we thank you for adopting us into your family because of the work of your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus you are our older brother. You are our Lord and savior. You paved the path for us. You made the way for us to follow you and follow you into the presence of God the father by the power of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit we pray today, we ask for more of you. Jesus, you promised that when we ask more of the Holy Spi

Audio Transcript: Good morning Mosaic, most of you, some of you. It's a foretaste of next Sunday. So glad to see every single one of your eyes, and glad you're here. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessing it is. What a blessing it is to gather as your people. It's so good to come together in the House of the Lord. Jesus, You are here amongst us. We feel Your presence and we pray by the power of the Holy Spirit, minister to us today. Speak a powerful word to us and show us how desperately we need the only good Samaritan, the only truly ultimately good Samaritan. Jesus, You offer us mercy. And some of us are too self-righteous and blinded by our self-righteousness to accept the grace and mercy, the compassion that you so long to pour out into our lives. Then once we receive that mercy, make us a people who extend mercy to others. It's hard, it's costly, it's emotionally taxing, but you're always there to refill our

Audio Transcript: Good morning. My name is Andy. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Jan and Pastor Shane and it is good to be here today in the full glory of my quarantine hair with all of you after being behind the screen, facilitating the Facebook activity during our services the past few months. Today I just want to jump right into the text. First of all, I'll remind you, if you're new to Mosaic we want you to fill out the connection card. Even when we're online, we are going to hammer this home. We want to get to know you. We want to try to build true community here we gather, still online via Zoom via Google Meet and Word of God moves through those platforms. So if you'd like to get more connected to our church, ask questions, submit prayers, please fill that out. We'd like to get to know you. Today, I just want to jump right into the Scripture. We're continuing our series in Luke. The last passage says, ends with anyone who wants to do the work, continue the work and the heaven,

Audio Transcript: Hello. Welcome again to our livestream service. So glad to have you watching along with us. If you're new, I especially want to welcome you. My name is Shane. I am one of the pastors here at Mosaic. As Pastor Andy mentioned earlier, we would love to connect through our digital connection card. You can find that link in the description of this video, or it should be popping up in the chat if you're watching on Facebook or YouTube. If you fill that out, can you give us some information about yourself? We would love to follow up with you this week and just send a small gift to your email to thank you for being with us. Then you can also check off on there to receive some more information from us about ways to get connected here at Mosaic. The last couple of months have been pretty crazy for our family. Beyond just COVID crazy, we made the decision back around May, that it was time for us to begin looking for an apartment and to move. We began that process. Part of the reason is... My name is

Audio Transcript: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Mosaic. If you're new, or if you're visiting, please fill out a Connection Card online. If you're tuning in online, I just need to share how rapturous that experience was. I feel like today is my birthday, it's Christmas, it's Easter, it's my anniversary and it's pay day all in one. Just singing in person, seeing my brothers and sisters in person, what a gift this is. Hopefully, we'll reopen soon. August 26th is the date, tentative date. While we prepare for that, we are doing living streaming as you see. As Pastor James said, "Please excuse the technical difficulties." With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Holy God, what a gift your presence is. What a gift the presence and the fellowship of our brothers and sisters is. Lord, thank you for giving us the gift of your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus, we thank you that you came in the flesh, God incarnate. That you tabernacled with us. That you pitched your tent to b

Audio Transcript: Good morning church. That is if you are watching it live on premiere. But if you're not, then good afternoon or good evening or good whatever time you are watching this. I'm so glad to be here speaking God's word to all of us, including myself, as Pastor Jan pointed out two weeks ago. I'm preaching to myself today and it's an encouragement to be with you all and speaking with you. Today we're actually going back to a series that we had started a while ago, going through the book of Luke and we're picking up right where we left off, Luke chapter 9. And we're going to be looking at verses 18 through 27. And what we're going to be talking about today is this idea that I call outliers of faith. Now, many of you have heard this term outliers before, many of you may be haven't. And it's something that when I looked up the definition actually had somewhere around 10 different definitions. So it could mean a lot of different things. So I want to be clear about what I'm talking about. And I'm goin