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Haven City Church SermonsAmos 7-8In this message, Pastor Josh continues our series in Amos by walking through God’s visions of the plumb line and the basket of ripe fruit. We’ll see how Israel mistook God’s patience for permission, how Amaziah the priest embodies the danger of managing God’s word instead of receiving it, and how these warnings point us to Jesus—the true plumb line and the One who bears the judgment our sins have ripened for. This sermon calls us, here in Baltimore, to stop assuming we’re “fine” and to respond to God’s kindness with real repentance while t...
2026-05-2644 min
Haven City Church SermonsAmos 6In this sermon from Amos 6, Pastor Josh Turansky explores why God says, ‘I loathe Jacob’s pride,’ and how that word speaks directly into life in Baltimore today. Walking through the text, he shows how Israel’s pride took the form of complacent ease, insulated luxury, and practical atheism—using God’s gifts to hide from God’s heart. Then he contrasts biblical pride with a healthy, gospel-shaped self‑image as ‘blessable image-bearing covenant partners.’ Finally, he points us to the alternative God desires: humble, grieving dependence—people who are grieved over the ruin around them, who boast in the Lord rather than t...
2026-05-1845 min
Haven City Church SermonsAmos 5In this sermon from Amos 5, Pastor Josh explores what it means when God says He actually hates His people’s worship—not because He’s against singing or gatherings, but because their rituals are divorced from justice, righteousness, and real repentance. Through Amos’ funeral lament over “Virgin Israel,” the repeated invitation to “seek Me and live,” and the warning that the Day of the Lord will be darkness for complacent religious people, we see a God who both mourns our rebellion and urgently calls us back to Himself. The message lands in the gospel: Jesus steps into the Day-of-the-Lord darkness on the...
2026-05-1245 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 24:29-35In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 24:29-35, contrasting the kingdom present in the heart (Sermon on the Mount) with the future kingdom revealed in the Olivet Discourse, asserting that belief in Christ's return is necessary to justify the hardships of living as a kingdom citizen now. Jesus details the immediate post-distress cosmic cataclysms, the visible arrival of the Son of Man on the clouds with power and great glory to gather His elect, and instructs believers to interpret these signs—which will occur within a single generation—as assurance that He is "near, at the door".
2025-10-2348 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 24:15-28In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 24:15-28 and the cosmic battle theory, explaining that humanity was created as image-bearing covenant partners placed in the midst of an ongoing war against Satan, where acts of faithfulness constitute spiritual warfare. Jesus provides a key end-time sign, the abomination of desolation, which is a defiling act leading to unparalleled great distress, and warns believers not to be deceived by false messiahs because His eventual return will be universally visible, flashing "as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west".
2025-10-2349 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 23:37-39In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 23:37-39, explaining Jesus's lament over Jerusalem just days before his crucifixion. He describes how this passage reveals God's persistent, compassionate love for his people, likening it to a hen gathering her chicks, and contrasts it with humanity's tendency toward spiritual stubbornness and self-sufficiency.
2025-09-3036 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 22:1-14In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 22:1-14, presenting Jesus's parable of the wedding banquet as a rebuke to the religious leaders who rejected God's invitation to His kingdom. The parable illustrates the historic rejection of God's invitations by the initially invited, the subsequent broad invitation to all, and the essential requirement of accepting God's provided "wedding garment" of righteousness for entry into His kingdom.
2025-07-3145 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:33-46In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:33-46. He presents the parable of the tenant farmers, where a landowner's servants and son are abused and killed by the farmers entrusted with his vineyard, symbolizing Israel's rejection of God's prophets and ultimately His Son. Jesus uses this to declare that the kingdom of God will be taken from those who reject Him and given to a people who produce fruit, emphasizing the responsibility of humans as "tenant farmers" to steward God's entrusted relationships, resources, and opportunities with justice and righteousness.
2025-07-1736 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:28-32In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:28-32. He explains the parable of the two sons, contrasting the son who says "no" but obeys with the son who says "yes" but fails to act, emphasizing the importance of follow-through and genuine obedience to God's will. Jesus applies this by stating that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before the religious elites because they changed their minds and believed John's message, whereas the elites gave only lip service.
2025-07-1742 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:18-27In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:18-27. He explains Jesus' cursing of the fig tree as a profound spiritual diagnosis of outward appearance without inner fruitfulness, contrasting it with God's desire for a living trust and faith that enables one to do mighty things. He also discusses Jesus' encounter with the religious elite, highlighting how Jesus' question about John's authority exposed their hypocrisy and hard hearts, demonstrating God's loving but direct engagement.
2025-07-1736 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:12-17In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:12-17, explaining Jesus's cleansing of the temple where he drove out buyers and sellers, overturned money changers' tables, and healed the blind and lame, declaring the temple a "house of prayer" rather than a "den of thieves". Josh contrasts the indignant response of the religious leaders to Jesus's actions and the children's praises with Jesus's reference to Psalm 8, and he concludes by drawing a parallel to believers as the "temple of the living God," urging them to allow God to cleanse their lives of things not aligned with His glory.
2025-06-2642 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:12-17In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:12-17, explaining
Jesus's cleansing of the temple where he drove out buyers and sellers,
overturned money changers' tables, and healed the blind and lame, declaring
the temple a "house of prayer" rather than a "den of thieves". Josh
contrasts the indignant response of the religious leaders to Jesus's
actions and the children's praises with Jesus's reference to Psalm 8, and
he concludes by drawing a parallel to believers as the "temple of the
living God," urging them to allow God to cleanse their lives of things not
aligned with His glory.
2025-06-2642 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:1-11In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:1-11. He explains Jesus's intentional triumphal entry into Jerusalem, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy as a humble king on a donkey rather than a warhorse. Josh contrasts the crowd's desire for a political liberator with Jesus's true mission to save humanity from sin and offer reconciliation with God, highlighting that Jesus is the exclusive path to the Father.
2025-06-2641 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 21:1-11In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 21:1-11. He explains
Jesus's intentional triumphal entry into Jerusalem, fulfilling Old
Testament prophecy as a humble king on a donkey rather than a warhorse.
Josh contrasts the crowd's desire for a political liberator with Jesus's
true mission to save humanity from sin and offer reconciliation with God,
highlighting that Jesus is the exclusive path to the Father.
2025-06-2641 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 20:29-34In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 20:29-34, focusing on the healing of two blind men near Jericho. He explains that the kingdom of God responds to desperate faith and humility, particularly when those in genuine need refuse to be silenced by cultural or religious pressure, and that Jesus asks questions as an invitation for honest engagement that facilitates His compassionate and restorative work.
2025-06-1243 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 20:1-16In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 20:1-16, using the parable of the vineyard workers to explore the principles of the kingdom of heaven. He explains that God's economy operates on radical grace and generosity, challenging human tendencies toward merit-based thinking, comparison, and resentment, as all recipients of God's blessing are ultimately recipients of unmerited favor.
2025-06-1243 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 19:27-30In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 19:27-30, where Peter asks what reward the disciples will receive for leaving everything to follow Jesus. He explains that while "leaving everything" is a heart matter and a call to radical commitment and surrender of ownership of one's life to Jesus, not necessarily a physical change of profession or location for everyone, Jesus promises significant future rewards, including reigning with Him in the "renewal of all things" (palegenesia) and receiving "a hundred times more" alongside eternal life.
2025-06-1242 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 19:16-26In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 19:16-26. He teaches about the rich young man's encounter with Jesus, emphasizing that true discipleship involves identifying and surrendering one's "one thing" or idol—which often serves as a source of security, hope, and meaning—and reorienting one's entire life to Jesus, because while entering the kingdom of God is impossible with man, all things are possible with God.
2025-06-1239 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 19:3-12In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 19:3-12, discussing Jesus' teaching on marriage, divorce, and singleness. He explains Jesus' ideal for marriage from Genesis 1-2 and contrasts it with Moses' accommodation for divorce in Deuteronomy 24 due to the hardness of human hearts, also addressing the meaning of "defiled" in that context and listing other biblical accommodations like polygamy and slavery. The sermon also explores the disciples' reaction to Jesus' strict standard for marriage and Jesus' teaching on singleness for the sake of the kingdom.
2025-05-0141 min
Haven City Church SermonsEaster SundayIn this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Romans 6:3-7, explaining that Christians are united with Christ in his death and resurrection through baptism. This union means the old self enslaved to sin has died, and believers are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life, no longer having to be enslaved to sin.
2025-05-0135 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 19:1-12In this sermon, Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 19:1-12 about Jesus' response to the Pharisees' question regarding divorce. Jesus points back to God's original design for marriage in Genesis 1 and 2 as a permanent, one-flesh union, and explains that Moses permitted divorce due to the hardness of human hearts, highlighting the difference between God's ideal and scriptural accommodations for a fallen world.
2025-05-0140 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 18:21-35In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 18:21-35 about the themes of offenses, sin, and particularly forgiveness within the Christian faith. He explains Jesus' teaching on unlimited forgiveness in response to Peter's question and uses the parable of the unmerciful servant to illustrate the importance of extending forgiveness to others based on the immeasurable forgiveness believers have received from God. He further elaborates on the complexities of forgiveness by introducing a framework of four quadrants based on conditional/unconditional forgiveness and the presence/absence of consequences, drawing on various biblical examples.
2025-04-1040 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 18:15-20In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 18:15-20. He explains
Jesus's instructions on how to address sin within the Christian community,
emphasizing a three-step process from private confrontation to involving
witnesses and then the church, ultimately aiming for restoration. Turansky
also discusses the concepts of binding and loosing, the authority given to
the church, and the importance of prayer and the presence of Jesus when
believers gather in His name, particularly in the context of church
discipline.
2025-04-1042 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 18:15-20In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 18:15-20. He explains Jesus's instructions on how to address sin within the Christian community, emphasizing a three-step process from private confrontation to involving witnesses and then the church, ultimately aiming for restoration. Turansky also discusses the concepts of binding and loosing, the authority given to the church, and the importance of prayer and the presence of Jesus when believers gather in His name, particularly in the context of church discipline.
2025-04-1042 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 18:1-9In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 18:1-9, where the disciples question Jesus about who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Using a child as an example, Jesus explains that true greatness in His kingdom is found in humility and childlike dependence, while also warning about the severe consequences of causing believers, referred to as "little ones," to stumble in their faith and emphasizing the need for a radical approach to dealing with personal sin.
2025-03-2040 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 17:22-27In this sermon, Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 17:22-27 about Jesus's discussion on paying the temple tax. He explores how this passage reveals a pattern for Christian cultural engagement, balancing our identity in Christ with the need to be responsible and avoid unnecessary offense for the sake of our witness. Ultimately, the sermon emphasizes trusting in God's provision as we navigate these tensions.
2025-03-0639 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 15:21-28In this sermon, Josh Turansky explores Matthew 15:21-28, revealing how Jesus transcends cultural boundaries and challenges us to expand our understanding of the Kingdom of God. He illustrates through the story of the Canaanite woman that true faith knows no borders, urging us to look beyond our comfort zones and embrace a broader vision of God’s work.
2025-01-0744 min
Haven City Church SermonsMatthew 15:1-20In this sermon, Pastor Josh Turansky explores Jesus’ confrontation with the Pharisees in Matthew 15:1-20, addressing the dangers of prioritizing man-made traditions over genuine faith and obedience to God. He challenges us to examine our hearts and recognize that true righteousness comes not from external rituals, but from a transformed heart that honors God in spirit and truth.
2024-12-0542 min