New Life Young Adults

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Here at New Life Young Adults we're passionate about addressing topics that are not just interesting but pertinent to life as a young adult in today's world. That's why our monthly series cover a wide range of topics from friendships to finding God's will for our lives to scoring the digits of that guy or girl you've had your eye on. Everything we talk about is geared to help your life practically and to equip you to live in God's best for your life. Tune in and see what God would speak to you today!

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Episodes

Ears to Hear: Pt. 3 - The Inner Voice

April 28, 2019 16:30 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MB

For week 3 of our Ears to Hear series we discussed the ways that the Holy Spirit speaks to us internally and three ways that we can test and discern this voice.

Ears to Hear: Pt. 2 - The Speaking God

April 14, 2019 16:30 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MB

For our second week of "Ears to Hear," we studied the central belief in the Scriptures that Yahweh is a speaking God and began to discuss what things need to be present in our hearts and lives, if we are going to hear him clearly and consistently.

Ears to Hear: Pt. 1 - Silence and the Voice of God

April 07, 2019 16:30 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MB

Brandon Robinson talks about hearing the voice of God in silence.

Live a Life Worthy of the Calling You Have Received

March 31, 2019 16:30 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB

Pastor Matthew talks about being prepared for your calling starts with grasping the love of Christ and being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 6 - The Way of Obedience

March 24, 2019 16:30 - 32 minutes - 32 MB

For the conclusion of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the role that obedience plays in our life of faith and what disobedience and sin does to us even after conversion.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 5 - Sin and the Kingdom

March 17, 2019 16:30 - 30 minutes - 30.6 MB

For part 5 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied one of the main ways that the gospel is presented and articulated in the New Testament - "the Kingdom" - and discovered the importance of interpreting sin through this important paradigm.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 4 - Sin and the Sacrificial System

March 10, 2019 16:30 - 25 minutes - 12.7 MB

For part 4 of our series on sin, we studied in brief the sacrificial system, how it was a response to the destruction of sin, and how Jesus fulfilled this system with his death and resurrection.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 3 - Sin, Torah, and the Nation of Israel

February 24, 2019 16:30 - 31 minutes - 15.5 MB

For week 3 of our Ancient Chaos series, we studied the giving of Torah to the people of Israel and his promise of Shalom that was available to them, if they lived in covenant obedience to Yahweh. In this study and within this framework, we found that sin is not going against the arbitrary preferences of God, but violence against Shalom and the way things are supposed to be.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 2 - The Fruit and the Fall

February 17, 2019 16:30 - 30 minutes - 14.9 MB

For week 2 of our series on sin and shortcomings, we studied Yahweh's ordering of the universe (Genesis 1-2) and Adam and Eve's act of sin (Gen. 3) that ushered in and inaugurated the reign of chaos in God's good creation.

The Ancient Chaos: Pt. 1 - A Necessary Study

February 10, 2019 16:30 - 27 minutes - 13.4 MB

Why is it important to understand the topic of sin? Why engage in such a study? For week one of our series "The Ancient Chaos" we sought to unpack and answer these questions and, in doing so, found that to the extent that we understand our sin and depravity is the extent to which we can understand the depths of God's grace.

YA Stories: Bethany Cantrell

February 03, 2019 16:30 - 43 minutes - 20 MB

Our own Bethany Cantrell shares her story of the journey that the Lord has taken her on in the valley and how she has learned to trust him even in seasons of darkness.

A Life of Listening

January 20, 2019 16:30 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MB

Jesus taught his disciples in John 16 that one of the primary things that the Holy Spirit would do is guide His followers into all truth. If the Holy Spirit is about guiding us into truth then we should be about posturing our lives to listen. This week we looked at the role that listening for the Holy Spirit plays in our lives and why it's so important to our lives of faith.

Prayer: God's Yes

January 13, 2019 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB

Pastor Andrew talks about what it looks like to engage God in prayer.

Choosing Stillness and Silence

January 06, 2019 16:30 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MB

Pastor Gabe talks about meeting with God through solitude, stillness, and silence.

A Ruthless Trust

December 16, 2018 16:30 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MB

Pastor Brad talks about how to cultivate a deeper trust in Christ.

YA Stories: Sarah Bram - Creative/Discipleship Coordinator Young Adults

December 09, 2018 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

Our own Sarah Bram shares her story of the journey that the Lord has taken her on in her search for community and becoming comfortable with the person God has made her to be.

Whole: Pt. 2 - Q&A Discussion

November 18, 2018 16:30 - 52 minutes - 24.5 MB

Pastor Josh, Dr. Mark Mayfield, and Pastor Brad field some live questions about the issues of mental health.

Whole: Pt. 1 - The Power of Being Seen

November 11, 2018 16:30 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MB

Dr. Mark Mayfield talks about the power of being seen.

Life Together: Pt. 3 - A People at Peace

November 04, 2018 16:30 - 36 minutes - 17.9 MB

For the final installment of our Life Together series, we looked at the connection between our relationship with God and our relationships with one another and found that reconciliation in broken relationships is crucial to pursue if we are going to live in right relationship with God.

Life Together: Pt. 2 - Be One.

October 28, 2018 16:30 - 39 minutes - 19.4 MB

Pastor Matthew talks about John 17:21, "that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

Life Together: Pt. 1 - The Communal Journey

October 14, 2018 16:30 - 29 minutes - 15.1 MB

As we began our series titled "Life Together," we looked at what the author of Hebrews has to teach us about the relationship between faith and community and what this truth means for us today.

Called: Pt. 4 - If Tomorrow Comes

September 30, 2018 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

For the final installment of our series on calling and vocation we looked at the trap that we can fall into in trusting on the certainty of tomorrow. In doing so, we discovered that Kingdom vocation is not "one day" but is here and now. At every turn we are invited into faithfulness and attentiveness to what God's put in front of us today.

Called: Pt. 3 - The Safety of Counsel.

September 16, 2018 16:30 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MB

For part 3 of our series on calling and vocation we looked at what Scripture has to say about counsel in decision-making and found that often the greatest impediment to us discerning the leading of God in our lives is our deep-seated individualism.

Called: Pt. 2 - Handling the Gift

August 26, 2018 16:30 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB

Vocation is a gift from God yet we all too often fall prey to the temptation to abuse it and turn it into something it was never designed to be. For week 2 of "Called" we gave attention to this reality and defined the three primary ways that we as young adults can mishandle the gift of vocation in our lives.

Called: Pt. 1 - The Transcendent Calling

August 19, 2018 16:30 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MB

In kicking off our series on vocation and the will of God, we looked at and defined the two-fold calling that transcends every other calling: to be reconciled to the Father and to engage our sphere of the world with the ministry of reconciliation.

All: Pt. 6 - Identity

August 12, 2018 16:30 - 32 minutes - 15.4 MB

"Who am I?" is a question all of us wrestle with. It is the question of identity. In this teaching, Pastor Andrew discusses how the encounter with Jesus shifts the source of our identity.

All: Pt. 5 - Love in the Valley

August 05, 2018 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MB

How are we to live wholeheartedly when we enter into seasons of trial? What ought to anchor us in these painful seasons? In week 5 of our "All" series, we explored these questions and more and found that suffering both plays a unique role in our life of faith and can be the terrain upon which we learn to love God well.

All: Pt. 4 - The Centrality of Joy.

July 22, 2018 16:30 - 30 minutes - 14.7 MB

In week 5 of our "All." series, we study the role that joy serves in our lives today and a great enemy to maintaining joy in our lives: envy.

All: Pt. 3 - The Grace of the Seventh Day.

July 15, 2018 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16.8 MB

For part three of "All," we studied the gift of Sabbath and the role it played in the life of Israel and the role it continues to play in our lives today.

All: Pt. 2 - Innermost.

June 24, 2018 16:30 - 31 minutes - 14.8 MB

For week 2 of our "All" series, we looked at the great paradoxical confession of the church - that God is transcend and immanent - and pinpointed a big deterrent from us living with an awareness of God's immanent presence with us - clutter.

All: Pt. 1 - Life with Him.

June 17, 2018 16:30 - 28 minutes - 13.7 MB

How are we to live in such a way that God has all of us? How are we to fully obey the commandment to love our God and our neighbor? For part 1 of our series called "All," we began to answer these questions and found that there is inseparability of living for God and living with Him.

Out With The Old? Pt. 3 - Interpreting the OT Christologically

June 03, 2018 16:30 - 48 minutes - 22.9 MB

Pastor Andrew talks about how to find Christ in the Old Testament.

Out With The Old? Pt. 2 - Reading The OT As Narrative

May 20, 2018 16:30 - 48 minutes - 22.9 MB

Pastor Jason talks about how the OT stories come together in the great story of God's kingdom.

Out With The Old? Pt. 1 - Ground Rules

May 13, 2018 16:30 - 38 minutes - 18.5 MB

As we began our series "Out With the Old?" we established the "ground rules" that are necessary to keep in mind if we are to responsibly and correctly engage the Old Testament. In doing so, we found that the Old Testament plays a crucial role in our lives as "new covenantal" believers.

Navigating Seasons of Discouragement

May 06, 2018 16:30 - 36 minutes - 16.5 MB

Pastor Brad discusses ways to successfully get through difficult seasons in young adulthood.

Eternity: Pt. 4 - Eternity Now

April 29, 2018 16:30 - 23 minutes - 12.4 MB

In wrapping up our Eternity series, we sought to answer the question, "How now shall we live?" as we look ahead to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

Eternity: Pt. 3 - Rethinking Heaven

April 22, 2018 16:30 - 41 minutes - 20.4 MB

In the third installment of our Eternity series, we examined how our modern notions of heaven fit and do not fit into the Bible's narrative of God's redemption of humanity and creation.

Eternity: Pt. 2 - Hell and a Loving God.

April 15, 2018 16:30 - 34 minutes - 17.6 MB

For week 2 of our Eternity series we explored the topic of hell and how it relates to the nature of God. In doing so, we found that though hell is inescapably present in the teachings of Scripture, God is still presented in both the Old and New Testament as a God who is all-loving to his creation and worthy of our trust.

Eternity: Pt. 1 - The Great Mystery.

April 08, 2018 16:30 - 36 minutes - 18.1 MB

For the first installment of our Eternity series we considered what Scripture does and does not clearly say about death and the afterlife. In considering this, we discovered the New Testament authors' primary purpose in explicating death and the afterlife in the first place: to excite hope for our future resurrection and the life of the world to come.

Philippians 4

March 25, 2018 16:30 - 35 minutes - 16.5 MB

Pastor Matthew talks about Philippians 4 and thinking about such things and putting them into practice.

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 6 - For Thine Is The Kingdom...

March 18, 2018 16:30 - 56 minutes - 27.1 MB

Pastor Andrew explains how the concluding line of the Lord's prayer pushes into radical dependance on God.

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 5 - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread...

March 11, 2018 16:30 - 34 minutes - 16.8 MB

For part five of our series on the Lord's Prayer we looked at the prayer for daily bread, forgiveness, and deliverance and found that the God who we ask provision of is the God who has perennially made himself known as the God who provides. This Jehovah-Jireh (the God who provides) can be trusted to meet the needs of our lives.

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 4 - Your Kingdom Come...

March 04, 2018 16:30 - 37 minutes - 18.2 MB

For week four of our series "Teach Us to Pray", we examined the heart, the grand movement of the Lord's Prayer that pleads for the Kingdom of God and his reign to extend both in the public spheres of the earth and in our personal lives today.

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 3 - Hallowed Be Your Name

February 25, 2018 16:30 - 30 minutes - 15 MB

In week 3 of our series "Teach Us to Pray," we studied the phrase "Hallowed be your name" - the first of five requests found in the Lord's Prayer. In doing so, we found that praying these words reminds us that our life is not about our life and that the honor and glory of God stands as the supreme purpose for which we were made.

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 2 - Our Father in Heaven

February 18, 2018 16:30 - 32 minutes - 16.1 MB

In week 2 of our series "Teach Us to Pray," we studied the first phrase of the Lord's prayer and discovered the reawakening that can occur when we come to God anew as "Father."

Teach Us To Pray: Pt. 1 - The Greatest Prayer

February 11, 2018 16:30 - 37 minutes - 18.1 MB

What's so important about the Lord's Prayer? What role is it to serve in our lives today? As we began our series "Teach Us To Pray", we answered these questions and discovered that this prayer, the greatest prayer, is the one that grounds and informs all other prayers.

You & the New Year: Pt. 2 - Breathe In. Breathe Out.

January 14, 2018 16:30 - 32 minutes - 15.6 MB

For week 2 of our series, You & the New Year, we look at Jesus' invitation to Kingdom life, which we find is a life characterized by receiving the love of God and extending love back to him and to our fellow man. In doing so, we find life as it was meant to be lived.

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If Tomorrow Comes

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