Mosaic Waco: Recent Episodes
Mosaic Waco
Domesticating Jesus
Revelation 1:9-20 | Slim Thompson
I. Re-evaluate Your View of Jesus II. Do Not be Afraid III. Reclaim The 167
Apocalyptic Rebels: Uncovering Hope And Defiance in Revelation
Revelation 1:1-8 |Slim Thompson
I. The Revelation of Resistance
II. The Redeemer Led Rebellion
III. The Return of the King
The Speck and the Plank
Matthew 7:3-6 | Slim Thompson
Get PersonalBe GenerousUse Wisdom
Follow the Money
Matthew 6:19-21 | Slim Thompson
Treasure that RotsTreasure that LastsFollow the Money / Find Your Treasure
The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness
Matthew 6:12,14-15 | Slim Thompson
The Language of ForgivenessThe Limits of ForgivenessThe Lessons of ForgivenessThe Law of Forgiveness
2 Reasons Your Prayers Don't Work
Matthew 6:5-8 | Slim Thompson
BECAUSE WE PRAY….1) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ PRAYERS2) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ PRAYERS3) HOW TO GET IT RIGHT
Radioactive Words and How to Avoid Them
Matthew 5:21-22 | Slim Thompson
The WordsWhy They're RadioactiveHow to Avoid Them
THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE BIBLE: making sense of it all
Matthew 5:17-18 | Slim Thompson
AbolishFulfillUnlock
Be the Light
Matthew 5:14-16 | Malcolm Foley
The Light of a Spirit-filled CommunityThe Light of Spirit-fueled IlluminationThe Light of Spirit-empowered Righteousness
Stay Salty My Friend: The Point of Christianity
Matthew 5:13 | Slim Thompson
What it doesWhat it isWhat's its power?
A Simple God Desires a Simple People
Matthew 5:8 | Malcolm Foley
Have you ever wondered what it means to be 'pure in heart' and how this elusive concept can transform your spiritual life? Our latest episode embarks on a soul-searching journey through the Beatitudes, particularly the blessing of purity in heart as taught by Jesus in Matthew 5.8. We peel back the layers of our religious practices, questioning whether they spring from authenticity or mere outward show. Together, we dissect the crucial alignment of our actions with pure intentions and the profound promise of a transformative experience with the Divine for those who live out this beatitude.Amidst the quest for spiritual authenticity, we confront the motivations behind our righteous deeds. It's a candid conversation about the intersection of virtue and intention, where we challenge ourselves to reflect on the true driving force of our actions. As we navigate the disciplines of faith, we acknowledge the transformation that awaits when practice and genuine desire converge, moving us toward a more intimate relationship with God. Our dialogue on intentionality in faith acts as a mirror, urging us to evaluate whether our hearts are in harmony with the path we walk.As the sermon reaches its zenith, we grapple with the mystical promise that the pure in heart shall indeed 'see God.' We grapple with the tension between the intangible, holy nature of God and the yearning to experience the divine. Through a rich tapestry of theological insights, including the Eastern Church's stages of Christian growth, we explore the dual aspects of this encounter—here in the present and in the eternal. Join us as we seek to prepare our hearts and minds for the ineffable vision of God's wisdom and love, an endeavor that promises to reshape our lives and faith.
Mercy Matters: How God's Compassion Can Heal and Restore Your Life
Matthew 5:7 | Slim Thompson
MERCYWhat it isWhy it mattersHow to get it
TEAMWORK: A Case for Equality Across Genders
ACTS 18:24-26,GAL. 3:28, EPH. 5:21 | Slim Thompson
Holding Back is Holding You Back!
Isaiah 54-55 | Slim Thompson
From Legacy From Intimacy From True Life
The Secret to a Good Night’s Sleep: 3 Simple Steps from Isaiah 51&52 Isaiah 51:9-52:12 | Slim Thompson DON’T HAVE NIGHTMARES DREAM DREAMS WAKE UP
GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN YOU: 3 SIGNS OF GOD’S EVERLASTING LOVE Isaiah 49 | Slim Thompson THE PICTURE OF GOD’S LOVE THE PROMISE OF GOD’S LOVE THE PROOF OF GOD’S LOVE
Your God is Too Small Isaiah 45 | Slim Thompson The Mystery of the Unlikely The Majesty of the Unexpected The Message for the Nations
THE STRENGTH GOD GIVES Isaiah 40 | Slim Thompson Behold Your God Fast from a comfort Comfort Another
The Meaning of Pentecost & How To Know If You Have The Spirit
Acts 2 | Slim Thompson
THE POWER OF PENTECOSTTHE POINT OF PENTECOST
From Devastation to Restoration: The Path to Joy
Isaiah 34&35 | Slim Thompson
Justice
Joy
Jesus
KING ME
Isaiah 32-33 | Slim Thompson
THE CHARACTER OF THE KINGTHE QUALITY OF THE KINGDOMTHE CALL FROM THE KING
The City of God
Isaiah 24-27 | Slim Thompson
The goodness of the city The evils of the city A city within a city
"Making peace isn't about creating good happy feeling. It's reweaving the fabric that has been torn."
Presuming on God's Grace
Isaiah 22 | Slim Thompson
The managent of sin
The death of hope
The truth of repentance
"The sin that can't be forgiven."
A Refuge For Refugees
Isaiah 14:28-16 | Slim Thompson
The RefugeeThe RefugeThe REFURB
"Death makes refugees of us all"
Trust God in Uncertain Times | Hope in Hard Times
Isaiah 11 | Slim Thompson
THE SHOOT THE FRUIT THE ROOT
"A tree you could actually build your house around"
Pride: The Deadliest Sin
Isaiah 9:8-10:34 | Slim Thompson
The Proud
The Arrogant
The Humble
"These hands are rated E for everyone"
"Christian Nationalism is an ideology that fuses a particular kind of Christianity with American civic belonging and participation."
JUDAS, DISAPPOINTMENT, AND THE REDEMPTION OF ALL THINGS MARK 14: 1-10 | Dr. Jonathan Tran
The Resurrection: Everything sad is Coming Untrue John 20:1-18 | Slim Thompson the unimaginable evidence of the miraculous “The Resurrection is Unimaginable Evidence of the Miraculous”
Tap Into The Vine John 15:1-17 | Malcolm Foley What Does It Mean? Why Does It Matter ? How Do You Get It?
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"
"Being like Jesus and treating others as He did exposes us to being treated like He was."
"Each of Christ’s miracles is not only an act of love and an act of revelation. Each one is an act of holy rebellion against empire."
“The King has come! The devil’s expiration date has been set. But the milk is just getting more and more putrid.”
Beating Swords Into Plowshares Micah 4:1-7 | Rev. Blake Purcell The chronos of the dream The characters of the dream The calling of the dream The cost of the dream The cross of the dream
"When Jesus takes up human nature to redeem it, the redemption of the cosmos is present in seed form. The Kingdom of God breaks through.
When He dies, that seed is planted.
When He is raised, the bloom begins."
The Good Shepherd John 10:1-21 | Arthur Kiwala The Shepherd’s Voice The Door The Good Shepherd
"The same sun which melts wax hardens clay. And the same Gospel which melts some persons to repentance hardens others in their sins." - Spurgeon
“The Magnificat is a rebel's cry calling us to stand in solidarity for the people at the bottom of every power curve.”
A New Wineskins Church Luke 5:37-39 | Jemar Tisby Old Wineskins New Wineskins Bursting Wineskins
"Christ is judge of all peoples because Christ alone came to all peoples as a human being. He is not a judge who has never experienced the pain and the joy of the human condition."
"The Samaritan woman's testimony led to, basically, the salvation of many in her town. Why not yours?"
"Maybe the Samaritan woman wasn’t a spectacular sinner, but rather a spectacular sufferer."
"The strategy to avoid being looked down upon is to live a life worthy of being looked up to."
“No matter how good you are you NEED to be born again. But no matter how messed up you are you CAN be born again!”
“The key difference between my anger and Jesus’ anger: Jesus gets angry FOR people. I’m angry at people. The root of what makes Jesus angry is a deep love for people.”
"This is a Gospel addressed to those who like Belle in Beauty and the Beast sing, 'There must be more than this provincial life.' There is. There is a cosmic story."
"Do you see church like the milk crate challenge? Why would I put myself through that?"
“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.” - 2 Corinthians 4:17
Justification is a Declaration, that answers a Dilemma, and makes a world of Difference.
"We need 4 hugs a day to survive, 8 hugs to maintain ourselves and 12 hugs to grow.” - Virginia Satir
"See, only a human can substitute for human lives But only God can take the wrath of God and survive See the humanly unsolvable obstacle? With God all is plausible, nothing's impossible" - Shai Linne
“Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” - Job 26:4
"Many of us are pulling apart of the belief system we were raised in. This is what happens when the questions you’ve pushed down your whole life finally bubble over the surface, and you’re forced to stare honestly at your doubts. I hope we can stare at our doubts today."
"Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves." - Genesis 11:4
"No other passage in the Bible has had such a disastrous influence through human history as Genesis 9:18-27." - David Brion Davis
"I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth." - Genesis 9:13
Sharing the Gospel, Sharing Ourselves 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 David Billingslea David is the campus minister at University of Texas Dallas working with international students. https://ruf.org/ministry/university-of-texas-at-dallas-ruf-international/
Was the flood real? Was it world-wide? Were there Dinosaurs on the Ark? All this and more important questions in this message.
"All of the areas where you need to ask for forgiveness in your life is a place where you believe God is a liar."
'Why rest? It's a rest in poetry. The silence forces you to return to what came before to find its meaning."
"We are broken pieces of mirrors cutting others, brandishing our jagged edges but claiming them to be smooth."
In the midst of death, we were going to have a celebration. In the valley of the shadow of death, we were about to turn up.
Character Over Competence
Slim Thompson | Titus 1:5-9
Qualifiers
Qualifications
Q-arachter
“Character is who you are when no one is looking."
Nitty gritty processes of eldership. How to nominate, and what an elder specifically does.
“We have somehow got hold of the idea that error is only that which is outrageously wrong; and we do not seem to understand that the most dangerous person of all is the one who does not emphasize the right things.” - Martin Lloyd Jones
“Spiritually abusive churches don’t set out to be abusive. They set out to be amazing." - KJ Ramsey "
"God raised Him up to show you that divine laughter gets the last word. Divine joy wins the day. And divine joy sustains those who are united to Christ."
"The BEAST will have its day – but there is an ANCIENT OF DAYS who will out live, out last and out crush these monsters."
"the reason for the delay, the reason we have to endure in a world of sin, is not God’s silence, but his patience."
"As citizens of heaven, we need to take every opportunity to gather with our fellow exiles, so that we can remind one another of our true home."
"Abraham gave away his own bride to save his life, but Jesus gives away his own life to save his bride"
"At the cross we see God being torn apart. Jesus’s death was God fulfilling his promise way back in Genesis 15."
Mosaic is not colorblind. God has stamped every man, woman, and child with His IMAGO DEI.
Taking Calculated Risks for the Sake of Gospel Mission Acts 21:17-26 Marq Toombs of Rockwall Pres https://www.rockwallpres.org/im-new/leadership/marq-toombs
Wide Awake Acts 20:1-16 Slim Thompson The Awakened Church has a 1) plurality of leaders, 2) dual focus, 3) singular power.
The Philippian Flip ACTS 16:16-40 Slim Thompson “Who is truly in prison?” “The time of the abuser has come to an end! Christ has claimed victory over the grave and over sin and death. The Breakout from our slavery to sin has begun” “And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will […]
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Acts 14 Robbie Mills Robbie is the founding pastor of https://www.newcitydallas.org a new church plant in Dallas.
“so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.” - Romans 12:5
"The God who has the power to melt you with ‘let there be light’, creates galaxies with stars whose sole purpose as far as we can tell is to just show off his creative handiwork, who measures the heavens with his hand - that God …had to be swaddled.
"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11
"Forgiveness is, in a sense, the refusal to hate. And we need to realize that this is a gift that God has given us."
"God’s forgiveness was not painless. He secured it at great cost to Himself. And all who forgive feel that cost. To ask someone to forgive is to ask them to eat that cost and that’s a heavy thing to ask."
God saves the Chief of sinners so that you and I as Padawan sinners (sinners in training) could look to the chief and say, “If God could save Saul! Than he can do that with me!”
"That place that reminded you of your unworthiness, that place that placed your deficiency and deformity before your eyes, Has been transformed by the work of Christ into the declaration of your healing. "
How can I know when it is the Spirit of God that is speaking to me?
How do we know when the Spirit of God is speaking to us?
How do we know that we have the Spirit of God?
God has created you in the image of God! Imago Dei. All Day! All day we preach the Imago dei. All day we teach – you’re loved and valued and you are precious in my sight and in God’s sight! This is why we're not colorblind! Because God sees you! He sees you in all your beauty and in all our colors!
"To say it quite bluntly, suffering may lead to your death, but it will not lead to your destruction." "Even if we fail, Jesus Christ, sure as heaven, will not. "
"The Greatest thing I need in this world is not silver or gold but its Jesus. " ... "I’m not blotted out of the book of life! But my sins are!"
"Men, we need our sisters. They’re not just nice to have around. We need them. We need their wisdom, their insight, and their perspective. Young, you need the old…they’re not just nice to have around. You need them. Especially their seasoned experience of the world and of the daily struggle of being united to Christ. My white brothers and sisters, you particularly need your brothers and sisters of color. They’re not just nice to have around. You need them. You need to hear their experiences in a country that you may experience quite differently. You need to know their history, their struggles and their triumphs. "
"they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do? And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you..."
He Didn’t Just Get Up. He Went Up! (A Church of the Ascension) Acts 1:1-11 Malcolm Foley
"Hospitality is not having a perfect put together home. But to have a generous spirit where you welcome people in and help people to feel at home."
"Evangelism is joining a conversation the Holy Spirit is already having with another person.” - Darryl Johnson "Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread." -DT Niles
This week we discussed Jemar Tisby’s book : The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism We love this book and pretty much anything Jemar puts out, so we highly recommend you grab a copy, read it, review it, and share it. Then let’s get together and discuss it! […]
Today’s discussion was led by Malcolm Foley. If you haven’t read this phenomenal book, please go grab it!
“Missions is conceived as something to which the church donates money, not something it actually engages in. Thus, the tools of the Holy Spirit grow rusty, held back by an inert missional culture.” Doug Logan We covered Parts 1&2 of Doug Logan’s On The Block to think thru how God […]
By Shirley Langston Shirley has vast ministry and corporate experience. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Restoration Haven, Inc., serves as a passionate professional bringing restoration, transformation and empowerment to families in at-risk communities. Alongside of this she works as a Family Support Specialist for G.W. Carver Middle School through Transformation Waco. As […]
This Sunday we answered the Question: What’s a Worship Service at Mosaic look like? Rather than just discuss it, we worshipped! This is the sermon from the time. Matthew 28:5-6,11-15 And HERE is the order/flow of the service.
What are our networks? Who’s in our corner and who’s corner are we in? In this core-team discussion we talked about our denominational affiliation and Acts 29. We also referenced Tim Keller’s Article Why Plant Churches? http://download.redeemer.com/pdf/learn/resources/Why_Plant_Churches-Keller.pdf
This is only the Q&A from discussing this Value. Sadly, we didn’t capture the teaching time. But hopefully this serves as a teaser to more discussions.