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Neighborhood Church of Greenwich VillageNeighborhood Church of Greenwich VillageSnapshots of the Spirit: RestJeremiah Lepasana, City Chapel 1 Chronicles 22:1-5 | Matthew 11:27-30 May 12th, 20242024-05-1326 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCA Container for The Chaos - Psalm 13 // Psalms - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-05-1227 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCClearing Out Your Soul-Cache - Psalm 4 // Psalms - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-05-0530 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCFrom Failure to Overwhelming Restoration - John 21.1-19 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah LepasanaJohn 21 answers two foundational questions we find ourselves asking now and again: 1) given the pain I see others experiencing, what hope is there for the world? and 2) what about me...what hope is there for me? The story of John 21 opens with the disciples struggling to catch fish. They worked overnight and nothing they did worked. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, Jesus shows up and at this Word and instruction there were fish - lots of fish! I know not many of us are fisher-people. But the point is larger than fish and fisher-people. The connection i...2024-04-2136 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCWhere Are You Seeking Life? - John 20.24-31 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-04-0727 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCFrom Catastrophe to Eucatastrophe - John 20.11-18 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-04-0726 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCSomething Happened in the Middle of History - John 1.1-4, John 20.1-10 // The Resurrection & Today - Jeremiah LepasanaModern people don’t believe resurrection of the dead is plausible, was it just more plausible for people of the 1st century? Did people during the time of Jesus (1st Century) think this sort of thing could happen? The short answer is not at all. And the only plausible explanation for the first Christians’ belief in the Resurrection of Jesus is that it actually happened! John and the other first Christians were blown away because they believed that something happened “in the middle of history” that changed everything about reality as they experienced it. 2024-03-3124 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 6.13 - "The Enemy's Traps" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-03-1730 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 6.10 - "Our Father's Will" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-02-2525 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 6.9-10 & Isaiah 64 - "Our Father's Kingdom" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-02-1132 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 6.9 & Exodus 33.15-19 - "Our Father's Name" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-02-0437 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 6.5-8 - "A Window and Journey" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah Lepasana2024-01-2137 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMatthew 5.48 - "Perfect?!" // The Lord's Prayer - Jeremiah LepasanaThis past Sunday, we started a sermon series on the Lord's Prayer but looking at the larger context of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' most famous sermon. We dug into the phrase translated in the ESV as, "You therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." We (hopefully) saw together that instead of experiencing this sentence as the command of a terrifying drill sergeant, it is meant as both an invitation into a counterculture and an invitation into a promise. 2024-01-1433 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCThree Statements for a New Year | Jeremiah Lepasana | Isa 62024-01-0738 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC1 Corinthians 16.22 - "Our Lord, Come" // Advent 2023 - Jeremiah LepasanaTucked away at the very end of 1 Corinthians, the book's author grabs the pen of his amanuensis and writes the Aramaic phrase, "MARANA-THA," translated as "Our Lord, come." Pastor Eugene Peterson in his Bible paraphrase translates the phrase, "Make room for the master!" This past Sunday, we focused on this ancient creedal statement and (hopefully) saw the prayer it gives us during the season of Advent. 2023-12-0331 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCHebrews 4:1-13 - "Entering God's Rest" // Hebrews: Unshakeable - Jeremiah Lepasana2023-11-1930 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCHebrews 5:1-10 - "A Perfect Priest" // Hebrews: Unshakeable - Jeremiah Lepasana2023-11-1224 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCHebrews 12:18-29 - "A Mountain of Feasting" // Hebrews: Unshakeable - Jeremiah LepasanaLast Sunday, we started a short sermon series through the book of Hebrews entitled Unshakeable. Over these three weeks, we will see that in order to experience an unshakeable forever hope, the author invites us to 1) live from a "Mountain of Feasting," 2) trust a Perfect Priest-King, 3) strive for "Permanent Rest." We saw last week from Chapter 12 that we can live from either a Mountain of Fear and Danger or a Mountain of Feasting and Dancing! And, because of Jesus, we have come to this second mountain where God welcomes us into his town, his party, and into...2023-11-0527 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCCreated for Fig-less Belonging // Series: Genesis 1-3, Removing Alone-ness | Jeremiah Lepasana2023-10-0132 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCCreated for Adoration // Series: Genesis 1-3, Removing Alone-ness | Jeremiah LepasanaLast Sunday, we started a new sermon series entitled Removing Alone-ness. We began in Genesis 1 and saw that the first step to Removing Alone-ness is to allow creation to lead to adoration. All of creation declares the glory of God, yet we often zoom in on the creation and dismiss the Creator. Scripture urges us to see that all creation is an invitation to relationship with Jesus—for “all things were created through him and for him.”2023-09-1729 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"How to Not Waste a Crisis" - 2 Chronicles 20 | Jeremiah Lepasana2023-07-2330 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"A Fellowship of Wave-Kissers" Psalm 130 | Jeremiah LepasanaThis past Sunday we spoke about how life in this world will include moments of chaos! And knowing this, we asked the question, “what do we do in the face of chaos?” From Psalm 130, we looked at how the poet writes about God with three distinct prepositions - to (You), for (You), with (You). First, the poet, in their distress, cries “to” God. Scripture is utterly realistic about the pain the world - it does not minimize. Yet, the poet embodies a faith that turns to God and not away from in moments of chaos. 2023-07-0224 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCA SSUTT Fellowship - Acts 2.41-47 | Jeremiah Lepasana | Acts: DifferentThis past Sunday we started a series through the Book of Acts called "Different," and we saw an early church fellowship - "koinonia" - that was SSUTT - Special, Supernatural, Unnatural, Tangible and Transformational. This "koinonia" was supernaturally formed by the Spirit, and models for us today a shared life motivated by intimacy-desire instead of consumption-desire. Intimacy-desire sees others not as objects but subjects. It carries a promise of ultimate-fulfillment, and is not marked by restlessness. It is measured not by accumulation (net worth!) but by dispossession. Intimacy-desire wants you, yourself, and not your use-value. What would...2023-06-2529 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCAntipsalm 23 v Psalm 23 | Jeremiah LepasanaThe day-to-day challenges we experience often leave us feeling overwhelmed, alone, and unsafe.Yet, in Psalm 23, the author describes an experience of life marked by safety, security, and confidence rooted in God’s perfect leadership and intimate presence. This past Sunday, we looked at what this author saw and how the same hope and confidence is available to us today. 2023-06-1133 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEzra-Nehemiah: How to Rebuild When It All Falls Apart: Jeremiah Lepasana | "The Book Speaks Story" - Nehemiah 8.1-8BIG IDEA: This strange Book pulsates and reverberates with the story of God’s great love for you!RECAPI. The Book is Strange, v.1-8We looked at chapters in Nehemiah that are realistic about how strange it can be to approach Scripture. God’s people are listening to Scripture read, and it is written in a different language, culture, and time from them. In the same way, it can often feel challenging to understand what Scripture says. BUT IT IS WORTH IT! Why? Because…II. The Bo...2023-06-0440 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEzra-Nehemiah: How to Rebuild When It All Falls Apart: Jeremiah Lepasana | "Repairing Walls and Gates" - Nehemiah 1.1-3REFLECT & APPLY: What was/am I relying on to give structure, stability, and safety to my life? Who in my life is experiencing the instability of broken walls and destroyed gates? Who might Jesus be sending me to serve? RECAPI. In the passage we saw broken down walls and gates destroyed by fire. The big point was for an ancient city walls embodied a sense of safety, and gates were the place of justice and stability. Therefore, broken walls and dest...2023-05-2835 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEzra-Nehemiah: How to Rebuild When It All Falls Apart: Jeremiah Lepasana | "Rebuild with a Song" - Ezra 3.7-13How do we find strength to rebuild when things fall apart? We find strength to rebuild by singing and being sung over.This past Sunday we saw that the reality of building or re-building can be incredibly discouraging. In Ezra 3 and 4, God’s people faced constraints in resources, constraints in power, and people actively trying to frustrate their efforts. So, we asked the question, how do we face the realities and challenges of piecing up pieces? We saw in the text that the sound of rebuilding is marked by bot...2023-05-2133 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEzra-Nehemiah: How to Rebuild When It All Falls Apart: Jeremiah Lepasana | "Begin at the Altar" - Ezra 3.1-6What are you sacrificing?In the last few years many of us have lost something significant—whether a relationship, community, church, job, or place we called home. And, in light of our losses, we currently find ourselves in a process of rebuilding. Yet, how do we rebuild well? In this series through Ezra + Nehemiah, we will see that rebuilding has four main components: 1) altar, 2) temple, 3) walls, and 4) Word. And, the four together allow for an all-encompassing communal recovery of identity! This past Sunday, we began with the altar. 2023-05-1445 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"Exceedingly Magnificent" - 1 Chronicles 22.2-5 | Jeremiah LepasanaWe should long to form an exceedingly magnificent fellowship–marked by rest.In 2 Chronicles 22.2-5, King David desired to build an exceedingly magnificent house for God, because David knew that this is what God deserved. This house required a selective profile of builder (a person of rest), extravagant provision, and abundant participation.The early Christian writers of the New Testament explain that this house has now become a people--the church! Therefore, the church is not meant to be either a building or a business enterprise, but an exceedingly magnificent fellowship. And, th...2023-04-3036 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEaster 2023 | Jeremiah Lepasana | What is your hope in life and death? | 1 Cor. 15.3-6On this Easter Sunday, we asked the simple question, what is your hope in life and death? We spoke of the need for a hope that not even death can extinguish.  From 1 Corinthians 15, we saw that the Resurrection of Jesus carries with it three hopes: 1) a historical hope, 2) a cosmic hope, and 3) a personal hope. First, we saw that the central question of Christianity is "did Jesus rise from the dead?" Today, we can often be tempted to categorize Jesus as one option among many in the marketplace of spirituality. However, the first Christians who saw and to...2023-04-1021 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCThe "Meat" Is In The Street: Knowing and Following Jesus into His Mission | Jeremiah Lepasana | Getting Our Expectancy Up | Eph 3.14-21, 1 Sam 17This past Sunday, we continued our series The Meat Is In The Street: Following Jesus Into His Mission by talking about how we can grow our sense of expectancy! We looked at the story of David and Goliath in 1 Sam. 17 and saw how David modeled expectancy. In the scene, a mighty warrior named Goliath challenged God's people to a "battle of champions," where each side would choose one representative in a winner-take-all battle. And, God's people, seeing the size, stature, and strength of Goliath refuse to step forward. One imagines that these soldiers paralyzed with f...2023-04-0337 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCThe "Meat" Is In The Street: Knowing and Following Jesus into His Mission | Jeremiah Lepasana | Reframing "Mission" for the Cynics Like Us | Mt 28.16-20, Jn 1.43-51This past Sunday, we continued our series The Meat Is In The Street: Following Jesus Into His Mission by simply acknowledging that in this part of the country it is easy to be cynical about mission! "I have to do, so others can behave" And, we are cynical because if we are honest, our underlying suspicion is that mission can be boiled down to, "I have to do, so I can get others to change how they behave." We are tempted deep down to believe that what religious communities really want for...2023-03-2732 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCRivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | Implication #5: Beauty for Ashes, Isaiah 61:1-4This past Sunday, we finished our Rivers of Renewal series, by talking about Cultural Beauty. We began by reviewing a key idea that unlike a modern culture that merely loves as a response to what it finds lovely...God's presence makes lovely! This contrast is important because a dysfunctional culture--that merely responds to what it finds lovely--creates a world of pretenders and strivers, who spend endless energy looking to manufacture loveliness. In Isaiah 61.3, we see that instead of seeking to manufacture loveliness through things like work, we are invited to trade...2023-03-1536 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCRivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | Implication #4: Rivers of Justice, Amos 5.24This past Sunday, we continued our Rivers of Renewal sermon series by focusing on God’s heart for Social Justice. We saw that we can make two key mistakes in regard to justice:We could deny that it is important. We could think it is important, but still not allow this conviction to change how we live—for example, how we spend our time or money. From Amos 5, we saw three things: 1) what God wants, 2) why we struggle to do it, 3) how we do it. We saw in Amos 5 that God wants oceans o...2023-03-0636 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCRivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Implication #1: Personal Conversion" - John 4:1-26, 39-42This past Sunday we continued our Rivers of Renewal series by discussing one implication of renewal: personal conversion. We started by mentioning that conversion to Christianity appears to be increasingly taboo. In 2019, the Barna Group found that 47% of millennial Christians somewhat agree that it is wrong to share one's faith with someone of a different faith with hopes that they will one day share the same faith. However, it seems as though conversion is a natural way of being in the world. Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan argues that we absorb and engage the world around u...2023-02-0643 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCRivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | "The River's Promise" - Ezekiel 47.1-12This past Sunday we continued our vision series, Rivers of Renewal, in Ezekiel 47 by speaking about the River's Promise. We saw that the river contains 1) a promise of radical reversal, 2) a life-producing power, 3) and an "active" invitation. First, the river contains a promise of radical reversal. The river in Ezekiel 47 calls back to the Garden of Eden, declaring a vision of the world as it should be. In addition, at the very end of Scripture in Revelation 22, we see another river, which shows us that this river in Ezekiel 47 alludes to not only the world as it 2023-01-2434 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCRivers of Renewal: Our Collective Hope and Vision | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Temple: The River's Source" Ezekiel 47.1This past Sunday we started a sermon series entitled Rivers of Renewal based on Ezekiel 47. In this chapter, we see a picture of a trickle of water that widens into a full-blown river, healing and restoring everything it touches. We opened the series by focusing on "the River's source," which is the Temple. We did that to see how through the Temple God invited ordinary people into a dynamic relationship. And, we started there, because our hope in this series is that it would increase our collective vision of who God uniquely is. In Ezekiel, we...2023-01-1639 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCThree Promises For A New Year | Jeremiah Lepasana | Acts 5:17-42The new year will no doubt bring incredible highs and lows. This past week, we talked of three anchoring promises from Acts 5.17-42 that I hope you remember this year:God unlocks tightly guarded doors.   God repurposes our gravest failures. God invites us into His inevitable movement. In the first, we saw the first Christians thrown into jail and an Angel of the Lord set them free. From this, we know two simple truths, God cares and God acts. If you do not believe God cares about you and God acts...2023-01-0936 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCDesiring Advent - Love | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Make You Feel My Love": John 3:16Here' is the link to the video shown at the beginning of the sermon.This past Sunday, we talked about love from John 3.16. We saw that love's 1)objects, 2) ends, and 3) nature. John 3.16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.In the first, we saw from Scripture that love is not, as we often view, a merely internal subjective experience, but it is something that God has within God's self. It is something he is, wh...2022-12-1940 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCDesiring Advent - Joy | Jeremiah Lepasana | "A Jesus Class on Joy": John 16: 9-11This past Sunday, we saw the Joy equals possessing what you are desiring. So, looking at Jesus' mention of joy, we asked two questions: 1) what should we desire? and 2) how do we possess it?Quite simply, Jesus tells us to pursue:a FULL joy in a world of partial joy. a PERMANENT joy in a world of temporary joy. a PREGNANT joy that goes backwards into time to transform even our deepest agonies into glory. And, how does one possess this joy?This joy is caught by "infection" when in contact with His Presence. An...2022-12-1144 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCDesiring Advent - Peace | Jeremiah Lepasana | “The Opposite of Trauma": 2 Thessalonians 3.16This past Sunday, we considered our second Advent theme of Peace. We saw that there is no good translation of peace as it is described in Scripture. It is neither inner serenity, nor lack of conflict. Peace, as described in Scripture, is something so much greater. And, we ventured to put forward that if it can be described as anything, it would best be described by what it solves—the presence of all trauma that multiplies chaos and dysfunction in our world. Therefore, to properly understand biblical peace, we must see that it is equivalent to “The...2022-12-0431 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCBarriers | Jeremiah Lepasana | “The End of Barriers": Exodus 34: 29-352022-11-2141 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCBarriers | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Barrier #4: Missing the Point": Exodus 332022-11-1441 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCBarriers | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Barrier #3: Obsession With Speed": Exodus 32.1-14This past, we continued our series on Barriers to a Deeper-life with God in Exodus 32.1-14, by talking about Barrier #3: Obsession w/ Speed. We looked at the text by asking 1) how are we tempted to respond when God and his promises seem distant; 2) what does our response signal; 3) how can we be saved?In part 1, we saw that when things do not happen as quickly as we would like, we are tempted to either reject God out right in favor of a more proximate substitute that we "can wrap our arms around" or mix God in with...2022-11-0745 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCBarriers | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Barrier #2: Failure": Exodus 3.1-12This past Sunday, we continued our series on Barriers to a Deeper-life with God in Exodus 3.1-12, by talking about Barrier #2: Failure. We looked at 1) Failure's Power, 2) God's intervention, and 3) Our Many Objections.  In part 1, we saw that our present experience in the wilderness can be colored by our failures and the failures of others that have greatly impacted us. Yet, in part 2, we saw that God jolts us by welcoming us into sacred space and sending us into a sacred mission of rescue and restoration. In part 3, we saw Moses offer not 1 but 5(!) objections, ea...2022-10-3144 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCBarriers | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Barrier #1: Respectability": 2 Samuel 6In many ways my father was a conventional Episcopalian, a believer in Jesus Christ. But he also worshipped another secret deity— respectability. Colonial house, beautiful wife, obedient kids, my father enjoyed having these things, but what he really cherished was his friends and neighbors knowing he had them. He liked being admired. - Phil Knight, Shoe Dog.This past Sunday, we began a new series called Barriers, where we will consider different obstacles to a deeper and more vibrant life with God.We began the series in 2 Sam 6 with King David and the Ark of th...2022-10-2450 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCWhere I'm From | Jeremiah Lepasana | “From Suffering to Shelter”: Rev 7.9-17Where I'm From Poem by Ralph Manlapig This past Sunday, we finished our Where I’m From series by looking at Rev. 7.9-17. We saw from the passage that at the end of history we will be: 1) A People of a Celebration, 2) A People of Endurance, and 3) A People of a Savior.More than anything else, we hoped you heard about and experienced a Jesus who is Sovereign, a Shelter, and a Shepherd.2022-10-1031 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCWhere I'm From | Jeremiah Lepasana | “From Insecurity to Invitation”: John 1.43-51Where I'm From Poem by Alex WatersFrom John 1.43-51 and the interaction between Nathanael, Philip, and Jesus, we saw that in our day to day we can operate from two different engines--either from 1) insecurity (can anything good come out of Nazareth?) or 2) invitation (practical, particular promissory).Then I quoted Pastor Leah Pursley who told the story of the 12 spies searching out the Promised Land in Numbers 13. Pastor Leah said that the insecure 10 asked the following:Am I enough?Will we be safe?What is this going to cost me and my family?...2022-10-0242 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCWhere I'm From | Jeremiah Lepasana | “Not Towers But Tables”: Genesis 112022-09-2032 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCWhere I'm From | Jeremiah Lepasana | “Not Instruments But Images”: Genesis 162022-09-1236 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCJeremiah Lepasana | “Joyful Confidence”: Acts 17.16-212022-09-0427 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCHoly Hulu: Everything Everywhere All at Once | Jeremiah Lepasana | “Three Lies of Functional Nihilism”: Psalm 18In Everything Everywhere All At Once the single great enemy is nihilism—the belief that everything is meaningless and that nothing really matters. Though few would admit to believing this completely, we spoke about how it is very possible to functionally live as though nothing ultimately matters.How do we get there? We can fall prey to three lies made visible in E.E.A.A.O.:I am alone.I have been abandoned.I am unloveableWe then jumped into Psalm 18 to see how Da...2022-08-3029 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCHoly Hulu: The Bear | Jeremiah Lepasana | “The Things We Ask to Save Us“: Psalm 1272022-08-1532 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCJeremiah Lepasana | "Finding Your Footing": Matthew 14.22-362022-08-0832 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 11: Jeremiah Lepasana | “Households of Beauty": Ephesians 5.21-6.9This past Sunday we covered Ephesians 5.21-6.9 famously known as the "Household Codes."And the headline was this: households are 1) communities of interdependence (not always related by blood) 2) living as a Jesus counter-culture 3) intentionally and organically cultivating beauty.Households can live as a Jesus counter-culture by first, relinquishing power in a culture obsessed with hierarchy and second, bearing the interest of others in a culture that idolizes autonomy and individuality.This topic feels like an important one! Andy Crouch recently wrote, "If you are looking for a single proximate cause of loneliness that...2022-07-2533 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCLife's a Beach; Get in the Water | Jeremiah Lepasana2022-07-1132 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 10: Jeremiah Lepasana | “Escaping Darkness": Ephesians 5.1-212022-07-0531 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 8: Jeremiah Lepasana | “On Juneteenth": Ephesians 6.5-9; PhilemonJeremiah Lepasana2022-06-2034 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 7: Jeremiah Lepasana | “Member-ship": The Benefits of Belonging in an Age of Autonomy: Ephesians 4.7-16If we are honest, many of us carry a healthy skepticism towards participating and committing to something like a church. We may worry (with good reason from past experience!) about the ways a church could become unhealthy and oppressive! In addition, we may also worry that committing could infringe on our freedom and autonomy in inconvenient ways. So, we have to ask, are there any benefits to joining and committing to a church?Yesterday, I asked three questions: 1) what are the riches you miss by not committing to a church?; 2) how are these ri...2022-06-1339 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 6: Jeremiah Lepasana | “Unnatural Ties": The Need for Reconciliation Ephesians 4.1-7In Ephesians we see that a church is full of people that do not naturally belong together.We arrive and participate in this community bringing with us different worldviews—narratives about how the world works—and personal experiences that make it easy for us to feel overlooked and neglected.Therefore, a church must allow God's boundless love, spoken about in Ephesians 3, to transform our most visceral reflexes—of arrogance, harsh-ness, and impatience—towards others and lean into supernatural resources marked by humility, gentleness, and patience. When this happens, we live out of a countercultural reality of a peo...2022-06-0635 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 2: Jeremiah Lepasana | Strange Church - Ephesians 1.15-23Jeremiah Lepasana2022-05-0238 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCEphesians: The Magna Carta Wk. 1: Jeremiah Lepasana | The Long View - Ephesians 1.3-14Jeremiah Lepasana2022-04-2430 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCGarden of Easter | Jeremiah LepasanaJeremiah Lepasana2022-04-2234 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"Teach Us to Pray" Wk. 6: Jeremiah Lepasana | When the Devil Tries to Jam You - Matthew 6.13Jeremiah Lepasana2022-04-0332 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"Teach Us to Pray" Wk. 5: Jeremiah Lepasana | Choking for Thousands But Forgiven for Zillions - Matthew 6.12Jeremiah Lepasana2022-03-2935 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC“Teach Us to Pray” Wk. 4: Jeremiah Lepasana | Neither Poverty Nor Riches, Just a Goldilocks Tranche - Matthew 6.11Jeremiah Lepasana 2022-03-2030 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"Teach Us To Pray" Wk. 2: Jeremiah Lepasana | Where Do We Start? - Matthew 6.5-9Jeremiah Lepasana2022-03-0630 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYC"Teach Us To Pray" Wk. 1: Jeremiah Lepasana | Does Prayer Even Work? - Luke 18.1-8With war and suffering at the forefront of our thoughts, we asked the question, "does prayer even work?" In Revelation 5, we see prayer as incense - and this might confirm our worst fears about prayer - that it is a light and ethereal thing with little power. Yet, Jesus in Luke 18 teaches us that we pray 1) with hope for a reimagined world marked by justice, 2) persistently, surrendering to Him our timelines and expectations, and 2) with confidence that He will act. In Revelation 8, we also see what the incense was intended to do. In God's hands, the prayers of his...2022-02-2733 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCPeople of a Story: Jeremiah Lepasana | Listen - Deuteronomy 6Series: People of a Story | Jeremiah Lepasana2022-02-1324 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCPeople of a Story: Jeremiah Lepasana | Genesis 15Series: People of a Story |  Jeremiah Lepasana 2022-01-3035 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCPeople of a Story: Jeremiah Lepasana | On Fear, Genesis 32Series: People of a Story | Jeremiah Lepasana2022-01-2337 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCPeople of a Story: Jeremiah Lepasana | On Crushing Disappointment, Gen. 29Series: People of a Story | Jeremiah Lepasana2022-01-1633 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCMake You Feel My LoveChristmas Standalone - Luke 1.39-45 | Homily: Jeremiah Lepasana | Song: Ariana and Alex Waters 2021-12-1225 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCAdvent's DarknessSeries: Advent | Jeremiah Lepasana2021-11-2832 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCLord's Supper // Tables of JesusSeries: Tables of Jesus By: Jeremiah Lepasana2021-11-2134 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCOn Repentance // Tables of JesusSeries: Tables of Jesus By: Jeremiah Lepasana2021-11-0726 minCity Chapel NYCCity Chapel NYCGood Portion // Tables of JesusSeries: Tables of JesusBy: Jeremiah Lepasana2021-10-1737 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City Sermons12/13/20 | Advent | JoyJeremiah Lepasana2020-12-1325 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City Sermons11/1/20 | Subversive Unity | OppositionJeremiah Lepasana2020-11-0121 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City Sermons9/20/20 | Pursuit | Living Life in Soul-CrisisJeremiah Lepasana2020-09-2019 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsLiving Apart: Gospel Promises (Social) Distance Can't Steal 8/9/20Jeremiah Lepasana2020-08-0919 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsLiving Apart: Gospel Promises (Social) Distance Can't Steal 6/28/20Jeremiah Lepasana2020-06-2817 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsRooted (Week 2) Jeremiah Lepasana - The SwarmJeremiah Lepasana2020-04-2619 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsPromise of Resurrection / Easter Sunday / Take Heart Wk. 2Jeremiah Lepasana2020-04-1224 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsUnprecedented Prayer / Palm Sunday / Take Heart Wk. 1Jeremiah Lepasana2020-04-0526 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsEveryday Liturgy / Week 04 / Who Are Your Priests?Jeremiah Lepasana2020-02-0930 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City Sermons(Un)Expected / Week 01 / Waiting Through DisappointmentJeremiah Lepasana2019-12-0132 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsHope On The Move / Week 3 / Out - Compassion - EvangelismJeremiah Lepasana2019-10-2039 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsLove and Beauty // Song of Songs Wk. 4Jeremiah Lepasana2019-08-0431 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsPraying While Weak // Jesus and Prayer Wk. 4Jeremiah Lepasana2019-06-2327 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsShameless Pleading // Jesus and Prayer Wk.1Jeremiah Lepasana2019-06-0231 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsWhy is everything so screwed up? // Problem of God Wk. 1Jeremiah Lepasana2019-04-2829 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsConnecting Out: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing // Life of a Disciple Wk. 6Jeremiah Lepasana2019-04-1432 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsConnecting Up: Does it make a difference? // Life of a Disciple Wk. 2Jeremiah Lepasana2019-03-1746 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsWonder, Humility, Boldness // Telos, First Principles Wk. 2Jeremiah Lepasana2019-02-1030 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsCrowds and Thirst // Telos, Temptations Wk. 2Jeremiah Lepasana2019-01-2035 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsPreparation // Advent Wk. 1Jeremiah Lepasana2018-12-0221 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsRisk // Faith & Finances Wk. 2Jeremiah Lepasana2018-11-1124 minHope Jersey City SermonsHope Jersey City SermonsAnxiety // Faith & Work Wk. 3Jeremiah Lepasana2018-10-1432 minSojourn GalleriaSojourn GalleriaLent | Lamentations 5 | Jeremiah Lepasana | 04/02/17Sojourn Galleria Sunday April 2, 20172017-04-0538 min