Grace Mosaic DC: Recent Episodes
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Pastor Russ deliver his final message as Grace Mosaic’s Senior Pastor and concludes our Spring sermon series, Unity in Diversity.
Pastor Russ returns from his sabbatical and begins our new sermon series, Unity in Diversity.
Our Pastoral Resident, Joshua Putrasahan, preaches a sermon on the story of David, Bathsheba, and Uriah. The points for this sermon are 1) The Faithful Sheep, 2) A Reptentant Wolf, and 3) The True Shepherd-King.
Our Pastoral Resident, Caleb Jakana, continues our Life of David sermon series. The sermon points are David’s Pious Plan, The Lord’s Response, David’s Prayer, and The Preferred Plan.
Pastor Joel continues our Life of David sermon series with an exploration of spiritual friendship through the story of David and Jonathan.
Pastor Glenn from Grace Downtown shares a message on how to welcome those young in years or young in faith in the likeness of Christ with our presence, time, and care.
Pastor Cyril from RUF at Howard University delivers a sermon on how Jesus meets us in our doubts with compassion, with evidence, and with a revelation.
Pastor Joel continues the Life of David series with a sermon on the story of David and Goliath found in 1 Samuel 17:1-11, 20-27, 31-50.
Pastor Joel kicks off the Life of David sermon series by exploring a prelude text from 1 Samuel 8-9. He explores Israel’s demand for a king, what we do when we feel the concerns of life, and how the Lord is working in the midst of it all.
Pastor Irwyn reflects on the question “Why does Epiphany matter?” in this sermon, Ready for Royalty.
Pastor Duke continues our Advent sermon series, The Story of Advent, with an exploration of Isaiah 52:1-12. The sermon points are Waiting in the Ruins, Watching for Christ’s Return, and Witnessing to His Reign.
Pastor Russ kicks off our Advent sermon series, The Story of Advent with an exploration of Genesis 2 and 3.
Pastor Russ wraps up our Jesus According to Scripture series with an exploration of Hebrews 12:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to Scripture," from Mark 14:43-15:15.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to Scripture," from John 5:21-25.
Pastor Joel continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from Luke 7:36-50.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from John 12:20-36.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from Matthew 19:16-26.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from John 4:1-42.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from Mark 4-5.
Pastor Russ continues our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," from Mark 4.
Pastor Russ begins our fall sermon series, "Jesus According to the Scriptures," so that we may see, believe, and obey the Jesus of Scripture, rather than the fraudulent versions of Jesus in popular imagination.
Rev. Cyril Chavis (RUF Howard) encourages us to trust God's transforming grace for all of our needs from Acts 2:36-47.
Pastoral Resident Josh Putrasahan reminds us of the full life found in Jesus from Zephaniah 3:14-20.
Pastor Russ closes out our summer series exploring the basics of Christianity through 1 John.
When it comes to assurance, often our own hearts are our biggest sources of condemnation. What or who can we turn to when our hearts condemn us? Listen in as Pastor Russ reminds us that God is greater from 1 John 3:16-24.
Pastor Russ continues our summer series in 1 John, exploring God's fatherly love from 1 John 3:1-15.
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Assurance of faith can seem hard to grasp in our everyday, ordinary lives. Follow along with us in 1 John 2 as Pastor Russ explores how we can heighten our subjective experience of the objective reality of life in Christ.
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We all demand justice to some extent when someone has sinned against us. But what about when we're the ones who have sinned against another, the ultimate Other? Pastor Russ shares with us the good news of how God deals with our sin against Him from 1 John 2:1-6.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis,” demonstrating the Easter promises in Jesus of life and hope through Joseph’s provisional rule in Egypt.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis,” walking us through the line of rescue from Joseph to Jesus.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis,” exploring the fruitfulness that comes from faithfulness in the life of Joseph.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis,” demonstrating through the life of Joseph how being “full of faith” helps us fight the appetite for temptation and sin around and within us.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 37, introducing the next cycle of the patriarchs: Joseph.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 32, demonstrating the intertwining of wrestling with God and true faith.
Pastor Joel continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 29, exploring the story of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel and how we are to seek from God what we often anxiously seek from others.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 27:1-45, exploring true blessing from the Father.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 23:1–20, tracing the theme of our longing for home from Genesis through Revelation.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 21 exploring the theme of redemptive sacrifice.
Pastor Russ continues our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 15:1-21, exploring the contours of true saving faith.
Pastor Russ kicks off our spring sermon series “The Gospel According to Genesis” from Genesis 11:27-12:9.
Pastor Glenn (Grace Downtown) continues our network Advent series, “Songs of Advent” with the Angels’ song The Gloria from Luke 2:8–15.
Pastor Duke (Grace Meridian Hill) continues our network Advent series, “Songs of Advent” with Zechariah’s Benedictus from Luke 1:5-58, 67-79.
Pastor Russ begins our network Advent series, “Songs of Advent” with Mary’s Magnificat from Luke 1:39-55.
Pastor Joel wraps our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” exploring the contours of true and enduring faith from 1 Peter 1:1-9.
Pastor Joel continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” exploring true hope in the midst of suffering from Lamentations 3.
Note: Lower quality audio was pulled from our live stream Pastor Joel continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” exploring wealth through contentment and simplicity from 1 Timothy 6.
Rev. Chris Reed (Howard RUF) continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” commenting on true endurance from James 5
Pastor Russ continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” exploring the contours and demands of true love from 1 John 4.
Rev. Dr. Irwyn Incecontinues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News,” exploring God’s upside-down vision of true victory from Matthew 11:1-19.
*Please note that this sermon has been pulled from our livestream so be aware of lower quality audio* Pastor Joel continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from John 15, exploring false vs. true formation and change.
Pastor Russ continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from Luke 10, using the classic Parable of the Good Samaritan to compare false and true justice.
Pastor Russ continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from Revelation 7, demonstrating the ways modern culture tries but fails at diversity, and how the Gospel is the only paradigm that can create true and unifying diversity.
Pastor Russ continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from Luke 14, comparing false and true belonging and welcome.
Pastor Joel continues our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from 2 Corinthians 4, exploring the dynamics of false and true power.
Pastor Russ kicks off our fall series, “Why the Gospel is Good News” from John 5:1–17. In this series, we’ll be exploring different vignettes from the Gospel accounts and showing how Jesus fulfills completely and more fully any promise our modern world tries to offer.
Pastor Joel closes out our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2,” exploring God’s shalom from Psalm 122.
Pastor Chris Reed (RUF Howard) continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm 42.
Pastor Joel continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm 16.
Pastor Russ continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm3455.
Pastor Joel continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm 55.
Pastor Russ continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm 20.
Pastor Joel continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2” through Psalm 47.
Due to technical difficulties, the following audio has been pulled from our livestream. Expect lower audio quality. Pastor Russ continues our summer psalm series, “Songs in the Key of Life Vol. 2.”
Pastor Duke Kwon preaches at our annual Network-Wide worship service from Romans 15:14-22, celebrating the twenty years of ministry in DC behind us, and exhorting us to belong to the truth for the years before us.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” walking through the characteristics of faithful leadership from Acts 20:13-38
Pastor Joel continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the messiness of community while pursuing our mission from Acts 15.
Pastor Chris Reed (RUF Howard) continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the inevitability and necessity of suffering in mission.
Pastor Joel continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the fervent prayer life of a missional church.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” on the necessity of cross-cultural lenses for mission.
Pastor Joel continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the kingdom call of the church out of exclusion into embrace from Acts
This Easter Sunday, Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” highlighting the resurrection implications of mission.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” highlighting the necessity of cross-cultural mission for the church today.
*Due to technical difficulties, the first half of the sermon’s audio is pulled from our youtube livestream. Our normal audio quality resumes around the 26 min. mark*
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the necessity of witness and suffering in the Christian life.
Pastor Joel continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the reality of suffering that comes from bearing witness to the Kingdom of God.
Pastor Chris Reed of Howard RUF blesses the community of Grace Mosaic with a powerful word about God’s enduring love from the book of 1st Peter!
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the imperative balance of the church to be faithful to both Word and deed.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the necessity of conflict in Christian mission.
This Sunday we had the privilege of hearing from Rev. Joel St. Clair, lead pastor of Mosaic Silver Spring. Pastor Joel continues the them of our Acts series, giving us a word of encouragement to continue our call to Kingdom mission in northeast DC!
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring where true power comes from for the sake of mission.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring the paradigms of thinking around and among us, and how the Gospel speaks to them.
Pastor Russ continues our series, “Acts: From the Church to the World,” exploring community as a place of healing for our neighbors.
Pastor Russ continues our series “Acts: From the Church to the World” from Acts 2:22-47.
Rev. Russ Whitfield continues our series through the book of Acts, exploring the Power for Mission.
Rev. Glenn Hoburg wraps up our network Advent series, sharing a word of strength for the weary.
Rev. Duke Kwon (Grace Meridian Hill) continues our network Advent series through Isaiah 40.
Pastor Russ kicks off our network Advent series, “They Who Wait For The Lord,” an exposition of Isaiah 40.
Pastor Russ concludes our sermon series through the Ten Commandments, exploring contentment and the tenth commandment.
Pastor Russ continues our series on the Ten Commandments, exploring the ninth commandment, “Do not bear false witness.”
Pastor Russ continues our series through the Ten Commandments, exploring repair from the eighth commandment.
Rev. Russ Whitfield continues our series through the Ten Commandments, exploring the seventh commandment and sexuality.
Rev. Russ Whitfield continues our exploration of the Ten Commandments. This week we look at the sixth commandment from 1 John 3:11-18.
Pastor Russ continues our series on the Ten Commandments, exploring the fifth commandment and honor.
Pastor Russ continues our exploration of the Ten Commandments, highlighting love and reverence from the Third Commandment
Pastor Russ explores the question “Who gets to decide how God is to be worshipped?” through exploration of the second commandment and the story of the golden calf in Exodus 32.
Rev. Russ Whitfield kicks off our fall series “Rule of Love,” an exploration of the Ten Commandments.
Rev. Cyril Chavis, RUF Campus Minister at Howard University, takes over the Grace Mosaic pulpit for the next three weeks. Listen in as he reminds us of the goodness of the good news from Ephesians 2:1-10.
Chris Reed (assistant Campus Minister at Howard RUF) explores the call to follow from Matthew 16:13-28.
Pastor Russ explores the theme of rest from Psalm 127, continuing through our summer Psalms series "Songs in the Key of Life."
CJ Francis continues our series “Songs in the Key of Life,” exploring lament and judgment in Psalm 137.
Rev. Russ Whitfield continues our series “Songs in the Key of Life,” exploring repentance from Psalm 51.
Chris Reed, assistant Campus Minister at RUF Howard explores the song of thanksgiving in Psalm 30.
Rev. Russ Whitfield explores giving the glory to God and grasping the glory of God in Psalm 29.
Rev. Joel Littlepage explores the disorientation of pain and the reorientation of praise in Psalm 73.
Rev. Russ Whitfield concludes our Easter sermon series, "Living in Light of the Resurrection."
Rev. Joel Littlepage on how the Resurrection shapes our pursuit of cross-cultural living and learning!
Rev. Joel Littlepage on Phil. 3:20–4:9 exploring joy in light of the Resurrection.
Sermon Notes:
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
Tish Harrison Warren’s NYT article
Rev. Russ Whitfield continues our post-Easter series, "Living in Light of the Resurrection."
Rev. Russ Whitfield introduces our new sermon series “Living in Light of the Resurrection” on 1 Peter 1:3-9.