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Good Trouble

This week Jonny Morrison continued our series, Good Trouble, exploring the way of life that comes in the aftermath of Easter. We are a people of the resurrection, but what does it mean to live that reality out in our everyday? We don't have all the answers but we can guarantee it'll get us into a little trouble, and that's a good thing.

Good Trouble - Colossians 3

This week Tony Simoncini continued our series, Good Trouble, exploring the way of life that comes in the aftermath of Easter. We are a people of the resurrection, but what does it mean to live that reality out in our everyday? We don't have all the answers but we can guarantee it'll get us into a little trouble, and that's a good thing.

Good Trouble - Philippians 2-3

This week Jonny Morrison continued our series, Good Trouble, exploring the way of life that comes in the aftermath of Easter. We are a people of the resurrection, but what does it mean to live that reality out in our everyday? We don't have all the answers but we can guarantee it'll get us into a little trouble, and that's a good thing.

Good Trouble - Acts 19

This week Heather continued our series, Good Trouble, exploring the way of life that comes in the aftermath of Easter. We are a people of the resurrection, but what does it mean to live that reality out in our everyday? We don't have all the answers but we can guarantee it'll get us into a little trouble, and that's a good thing.

Good Trouble - Mathew 16:13-20

This week we started a new series, Good Trouble, exploring the way of life that comes in the aftermath of Easter. We are a people of the resurrection but what does it mean to live that reality out in our everyday? We don't have all the answers but we can guarantee it'll get you into a little trouble, and that's a good thing.

Holy Words - Psalm 85

Jonny finishes our series, Holy Words with Psalm 85. During this season of Lent we are exploring the Psalms of Lament. Most of us don’t have tools to worship and pray through the fullness of human life. The Psalms of Lament give us freedom and tools to live in all the complexity of human life. Like the Psalms of Lament, the season of Lent challenges our sentimentality by drawing us into the temptation, suffering, and death of Jesus––and in turn our own. And like the Psalms of Lament, the seas...

Holy Words - Psalm 80

Heather continues our series Holy Words with Psalm 80. During this season of Lent we are exploring the Psalms of Lament. Most of us don’t have tools to worship and pray through the fullness of human life. The Psalms of Lament give us freedom and tools to live in all the complexity of human life. Like the Psalms of Lament, the season of Lent challenges our sentimentality by drawing us into the temptation, suffering, and death of Jesus––and in turn our own. And like the Psalms of Lament, the se...

Holy Words - Psalm 79

Heather continues our series Holy Words with Psalm 79. During this season of Lent we are exploring the Psalms of Lament. Most of us don’t have tools to worship and pray through the fullness of human life. The Psalms of Lament give us freedom and tools to live in all the complexity of human life. Like the Psalms of Lament, the season of Lent challenges our sentimentality by drawing us into the temptation, suffering, and death of Jesus––and in turn our own. And like the Psalms of Lament, the se...

Holy Words - Psalm 74

Jonny continues a series exploring the Psalms of Lament. Most of us don’t have tools to worship and pray through the fullness of human life. The Psalms of Lament give us freedom and tools to live in all the complexity of human life. Like the Psalms of Lament, the season of Lent challenges our sentimentality by drawing us into the temptation, suffering, and death of Jesus––and in turn our own. And like the Psalms of Lament, the season of Lent shows that even the hard of our lives are Holy Word...

Holy Words - Psalm 60

Heather Thomas continues our series this week looking at Psalm 60, another community lament Psalm. The Psalm reveals a people holding onto both fear and faith in the midst of uncertainty and pain. We can relate to this in our own lives as situations we find ourselves in often have more questions in them than they have certainty or resolution. As we read the Psalm of lament we realize that we are not asked to be dismissive nor defeatist in the midst of our circumstances. Lament means we don’t...

Holy Words – Psalm 44

Jonny Morrison begins a new series for the season of Lent, walking through the Psalms of Lament, entitled "Holy Words." This is going to be an interesting work for us because the American Church is not all that good at Lament. We don’t have tools to lead us into unknown and hard places. Instead of practicing Lament we tend towards: • Easy answers – trite, cliché, or superficial explanations for our experiences. • Quick Fixes – what we often call coping mechanism. Ways to deal and manage but ...

God is the Gospel - Week 5

Pastors Jonny Morrison and Heather Thomas talk about the reality of fear and trust; about listening to who God is and then risking when we hear him. To be invited into trust, they invited Missio to rehearse the Psalms we’ve been looking at over the last few weeks. They ended on a blessing Psalm, one that helps define who we are as a people. A major part of moving out of fear is knowing and believing who God is and listening to him. Our response, or action, which often feels like a risk, come...

Goodbye Letter

God is the Gospel - Week 4

There is an intuition in almost all of us to hide where we have fallen short or where others have hurt us. We think it protects us and keeps us from further hurt. But followers of Jesus are asked to live a different way. We are asked to trust God with those things we keep hidden. We are asked to believe that he will be attentive to our pain and struggle and in Jesus proves he is worthy of that trust

God is the Gospel - Week 3

Kyle Costello continues our current sermon series by teaching from Psalm 23. For some, it's difficult to ever conceive of God as interested in our daily lives. The picture many have been invited to know about God is that He is unapproachable, distant, and uncaring. Jesus shows us that picture is false. Jesus and Psalm 23 reveal that God is intimately linked with His people. It shows that He provides in the daily mundane and in the extraordinary. He may do it in ways that at first challenge ou...

Blueprint for Breakthroughs

Elder Mark Parrett explores what God is doing at Missio through a pair of interviews.

The (Not So Easy) Art of Transformation

Ministry resident Nate Ray teaches on Romans 12 and invites us to look at the call to become a living sacrifice with fresh eyes.

God is the Gospel - Week 2

Before the sermon, and included in this podcast, the elders and pastors of Missio share a major announcement for the Missio Dei Community: Kyle and Joy Costello have taken a position with a church in California and will be moving at the end of February. Their final Sunday will be February 24. Following the announcement, Kyle continues our new sermon series, God is the Gospel, and shares how these are his prayers for Missio Dei, and have been prayers for himself. He shares from Psalm 121, tel...

God is the Gospel - Week 1

Kyle Costello begins our "God is the Gospel" sermon series by sharing from Psalm 1. Depending on your personality you can look at the new year in a whole variety of ways. Maybe the new year excites you as you ponder possibilities? Maybe it overwhelms you? Or maybe you don’t even care? Regardless of your thoughts on the new year, God is always calling us into new and deeper ways of knowing Him. In the beginning of a book in the Bible called the Psalms, God does just that. God asks us to not ...

There Is No Hurry Here

How do you attempt to manage fear and anxiety? What are the ways you cope with it? We all have different ways of trying to mitigate, manage, and control our fear but the truth is, we can’t. The only way to truly confront fear is to risk in trust and practice rest. Which is exactly what God invites his people to do when they feel the pressure and reality of fear. To risk in trust and practice rest. It’s not easy and it doesn’t manage or deal with the fear in our life. Rest doesn’t offer strate...

Learning to Live Free

Nate Ray teaches on the Passover story.

Christmas Eve - Blessed Intervention

Kyle Costello wraps up our Advent sermon series Blessed Intervention during our Christmas Eve service.

Blessed Intervention Week 4

Kyle Costello continues our Advent sermon series, Blessed Intervention.

Blessed Intervention - Week 3

Heather Thomas shares from Philippians 2, which helps us understand the significance of Jesus' coming. With the season of Christmas it can be all too easy to forget the significance behind all of our celebrations. It can also be challenging if this season is hard for us to engage with. As we look to the text, it grounds and reorients us to what Jesus is revealing through His arrival. The coming of Jesus reveals what is means to be God and gives a vivid picture of who God is. Jesus' coming al...

Blessed Intervention - Week 2

Kyle Costello continues our Advent sermon series, Blessed Intervention. When stories become familiar they can become tame or easily dismissed. Maybe no time of year is that temptation greater for the Jesus follower then at Christmas. We sings songs of hope, but is there any? This baby Jesus is supposed to mean something, but does he? During Advent this year we are going to look at the story of Jesus coming to earth and let the Bible tell us why its so profound. This week we begin by looking ...

Blessed Intervention -- Week 1 (Dec. 2, 2018)

Kyle sits down with Josh Rosenthal to discuss why and how we sing our worship.

Age of Rage - Week 9

Jonny Morrison finishes up our series Age of Rage with Galatians 6. The book of Galatians is a letter to a church about how to be Church in a divided time. For 8 weeks we’ve explored how the gospel unifies hows, how the cross free us, and how the Spirit empowers us to love. In his final word to the Galatians Paul applies all that he’s said to real everyday life. What does it look like to love like Jesus? Carrying the burdens of others especially those who hurt us.

Age Of Rage Week 8

Kyle Costello continues our Age of Rage series by examining Galatians 5.

Age of Rage - Week 7

In our series, Age of Rage, Kyle Costello takes a look at Galatians 4:8-9. At some point in our life we have to be willing to assess how we follow Jesus and in what areas we don’t. Throughout this series we have discussed many ways we can buy into false gospels rather than God’s Gospel, and today it gets more personal. Today we look closely at ways we are still choosing to be enslaved rather than to be free in Christ. Today we look to the Bible not for rules to get us free from slavery, but...

Age of Rage - Week 6

In out series, Age of Rage, Jonny Morrison looked at Galatians 3:10-29. Throughout the series we’ve been exploring the feelings of our cultural moment by asking, "Why does our world feel the way that it does?" Yesterday we specifically asked why our world seems so divided and tribal? Tribalism and division are fundamental concerns for Paul in the book of Galatians because he is watching the young church dived along theological and racial lines. In Galatians 3 Paul pinpoints the false gospel u...

Age of Rage - Week 5

It's not popular to confess that you have been fooled, but has there ever been a time in your life where you have been? What did that feel like? When Paul writes to the Galatians, he says that they have been fooled or bewitched into believing a message other than the message of Jesus. Do we do that? How? This week Kyle Costello teaches through Galatians 3 and looks specifically at the questions Paul asks the Galatians to help them see how they have trusted in a message other than that of J...

Age of Rage - Week 4

How tempted were you to judge someone today? Even if it was just a dialogue in your head, how tempted were you or how did you give in to a desire to shame, judge, mock, or blame someone? Where does that come from in us? How do we address issues when people hurt us or as Christ Followers when people in our community live outside of the Gospel? These are important questions and thankfully Jesus and his followers not only dealt with them but gave us a way to follow as we seek to be people who of...

Age of Rage: Week 3

We are currently in a series entitled, Age of Rage, exploring the feelings, emotions, and tensions of our current cultural moment. The goal is to diagnose and address feelings of dissonance, resentment, anger, loneliness, and anxiety––diagnose and address with the gospel and ask how the Church can respond. We’ve been rooted in the book of Galatians and the Apostle Paul doesn’t mince words in his diagnoses of our deepest problems he says we’ve trusted in false gospels, rival “good news” storie...

Age of Rage - Week 2

In week 2 of our series Age of Rage, Kyle Costello continues walking through Galatians 1 and exploring the feelings of our current cultural moment. The world doesn’t politely suggest ways to fulfillment; rather it intensely confronts you with them. The world says wealth and importance is paramount. It says the powerful are the real valuable people. If we choose a different way the world mocks us. So where does that leave the Christ follower? Can we mix the gospel of the world with the Gosp...

Age of Rage - Week 1

Kyle Costello opens the new sermon series, Age of Rage. We all trust a “gospel” in our lives. Whether we claim to follow Jesus or not, we all have “good news” that we run to for hope, meaning, and healing. In the book of Galatians the author suggests that just because you are a Christian does not mean that you always trust Jesus as your true gospel. In this series we begin to look at the Gospel of Jesus and compare it to the gospels that the world offers us. We will look closely at our own w...

Isaiah 61

Heather Thomas walks the community through Isaiah 61. Last week Kyle talked about the vision for who we are at Misiso based out of Jeremiah 29. In Jeremiah 29 the people are in exile. Exile happens throughout the OT as a result of humanity failing; not honoring their relationship with Yahweh. Adam and Eve are sent away from the garden: exiled. Israel is sent away from Jerusalem: exiled. The broader textual meaning is that exile creates in humanity a feeling of being dislocated and lacking a...

Family Service - September 2

As a church sometimes we have to step out of our rhythms to reflect on what God has done and is doing. The first Sunday of every month is our opportunity to do that. This month we ask the question, "What is the Missio Dei?". Sure its our name, but what does it mean or more specifically what does it look like to join God on his mission. Kyle Costello interviews several members of the church community within the context of Jeremiah 29:4-7.

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 9

Kyle Costello preaches from John 18:33-38 and John 19:9-11. To end our series we close with one of the most fascinating conversations in the life of Jesus. As he is set to be crucified Jesus comes face to face with Pilate. Jesus represents the Kingdom of God and Pilate represents the most powerful nation on earth. In their exchange Jesus teaches Pilate and anyone who reads of their account that he is a God who is extremely personal and all powerful, but not even close to the way the world wo...

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 8

Kyle Costello preaches on joy. Joy is anything but an emotion of happiness. Joy propelled Jesus to the cross and the invitation of Joy compels sinners to trusting in Christ. Today we look to the scriptures to get at the heart of Joy and what it means to be people who don’t just fake happiness, but rather immerse ourselves in Joy.

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 7

Jonny Morrison preaches from Luke 19. We are currently in our series entitled, Exclusion & Embrace, which focuses on stories of Jesus with people. We spend a lot of time talking about the theology of Jesus or the doctrines of Jesus but in his time with people we see a lived theology of presence that shapes our vision for who God is and what it means to be his people. This week we looked at the, flannel graph favorite, story of Zacchaeus. Interestingly only Luke records the story of Zacchaeu...

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 6

Kyle Costello speaks about Mark 5. Throughout the series we have been looking at the way Jesus embraces and invites people to know him, his love, and his mission. Today, we continue down that path but with a tweak. Today we ask, how do we live his embrace? What does it look like when we accept him for who he is and then actually live out the grace and mercy he has given us. To put it more clearly, how do we live as people who are practicing their faith? The story of Jairus that is linked wi...

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 5

Pastor Tony Simoncini from Missio South Jordan preaches on Mark 5.

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 4

Kyle Costello speaks from Matthew 19. Whether you study people who believe in a God or gods or people who don’t, one thing you find is that we are always asking some fundamental questions. How do I belong? How do I qualify for love? What things do I need to do in my life to “get right.” People of Jesus' day were no different. What’s remarkable about Jesus is the way he engages these questions. He challenges the questions and seems to assert that we are asking the wrong questions. This wee...

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 3

Exclusion and Embrace - Week 2

Exclusion and Embrace - week 1

Heather Thomas preaches on Jesus's conversation with Nicodemus in John 3.

Mostly: Witness

Pastor Heather Thomas speaks on value and what it means to be a witness.

Mostly: Generosity

Luke's writing in Acts is showing us God’s presence isn’t gone in Jesus' absence, but instead, that the Holy Spirit is God’s personal presence come to take up residence in the new dwelling place: His people. As His presence shows up in His people they begin to look differently. This week we looked at how they embodied both gratitude in worshipful feasting together and generosity in openhanded sharing of what they had.

Mostly: Teaching and Correction

As the Christian Church began to grow up in the Book of Acts they needed teaching and correction. As we grow up and mature in our desire to follow Jesus we need teaching and correction. When we first hear that it can challenge us. There seems to be nothing good or attractive to being corrected. But, what if we are seeing teaching and correction through the lens of shame or control rather than what Jesus is inviting us into. As we look to Acts this week we see that Teaching and Correction are ...

Mostly: Repentance

When you hear "repent" what do you think? Bullhorn guy on the corner? Angry preacher on television? Would you ever picture Jesus saying that? The reality is he said it and he said it a lot. But why? What was he inviting us into? This week we are asking anyone and everyone in our community to set aside what they think about when they think about repentance and to give an ear to the book of Acts, and other texts, that invite us into one of the most beautiful gifts God has given us: Repentance!