Warm sermons for practiced kingdom living.
New Community Church of Spokane is a sermon feed shaped by accessible teaching, personal stories, and close readings of the Sermon on the Mount. Its talks move from playground memories, poetry, parenting, and church life into questions about prayer, generosity, desire, resistance, and the way of Jesus.
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New Community Church of Spokane is a long-running sermon feed rooted in local church life and the teaching of Jesus. Recent episodes sit inside a Kingdom Come series on the Sermon on the Mount. The pace is measured. The talks often begin with something close at hand: National Poetry Month, an Easter morning joke, a childhood soccer rivalry, a conversation in spiritual direction, or the emotional weather of gathering as a community. Those openings are not throwaway color. They become the first steps toward bigger questions about prayer, power, forgiveness, generosity, desire, and what it means to live as people shaped by the kingdom of God. The show has a teacherly feel more than a performance-driven one. It lingers over words and assumptions, especially when a passage is so familiar that its force has gone dull. In the Lord's Prayer episode, poetry becomes a way to think about language, mystery, and the private life made public before God. On Palm Sunday, a question about someone's first experience of God turns into a question about someone's first experience of prayer. On Easter, the sermon reflects on speaking patterns and the strange, joyful pressure of proclaiming resurrection. The Generosity episode stays close to church life, moving through parents, grief, children, weather, and community before pressing into giving as formation. The Love Your Enemies episode uses a second-grade rivalry to make enemy-love less theoretical. The Eye for Eye teaching reframes turning the other cheek as active resistance to humiliation rather than passive surrender. The Oaths episode connects law, exile, sin, forgiveness, and the mounting urgency of Jesus' public ministry. The Adultery and Lust episode treats desire as more than behavior, asking about motive, coveting, and the deeper thing beneath the visible act. Across the feed, moral teaching is handled with seriousness but not clinical distance. The sermons can be funny, plainspoken, and self-aware, then suddenly grave when the subject turns to harm, oppression, or spiritual distortion. New Community Church of Spokane is best for listeners who want Christian preaching that thinks aloud carefully and keeps asking how ancient texts become embodied practice. It is not flashy. Its strength is the steady movement from ordinary scenes to costly discipleship.
Made for: For listeners who want Christian sermons that connect Scripture to daily choices, community life, grief, desire, prayer, and resistance to harm. It especially suits people drawn to reflective teaching rather than high-production religious commentary.
What sets it apart: The feed stands out for the way it begins in ordinary church life and patiently works toward theological consequence. Familiar Sermon on the Mount passages are treated as living challenges, not slogans.
New Community Church is a place of becoming where together we are committed to extravagant welcome and engaging in the ongoing story of Jesus.www.new-community.com
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Warm congregational teaching gives familiar Scripture historical texture, moral pressure, and a close tie to ordinary Christian practice.
New Community Church of Spokane sits in Religion & Spirituality as a Christian congregational teaching feed: Scripture read in the cadence of a gathered church, then pressed into ordinary life.
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A familiar saying becomes a public refusal of humiliation and control.
New Community Church of Spokane turns Matthew 5 into a close study of retaliation and the public force of shame. It lingers on the cheek, the coat, and the extra mile, tying each image to a concrete social scene rather than leaving it as a slogan.
A patient sermon on exile, sin, and Jesus' path toward forgiveness.
John Pell opens with a self-deprecating joke about his age and unreadable notes, then pivots into a serious meditation on exile, sin, and the law.
A steady, plainspoken sermon on desire, motive, and kingdom living.
This sermon begins in Lent and Ash Wednesday, then uses the Sermon on the Mount to frame the harder question of desire, coveting, and the motives underneath action.
An Easter message that starts with a joke, wanders through a civic sports plan, and lands on resurrection as the final emphasis.
It opens with a gardening joke before swinging into a long civic detour about a proposed 1,500-person soccer clinic in Spokane, with Spokane Public Schools, the United Soccer League, a t-shirt company, and a downtown fan fest all pulled into view.
A Christmas sermon finds God's welcome among shepherds and others who have felt overlooked.
Christmas arrives through people usually pushed to the edge of the story. The sermon begins with a cracked attempt at a high note during worship, then turns that small embarrassment into a point about offering: God receives the heart behind the song, even when the voice cannot…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This Advent sermon explores the biblical story of the shepherds to examine God's presence with the overlooked.
This episode introduces the Elephants 3.0 series, which discusses taboo topics within faith communities that are often avoided, building on previous versions from 2012 and 2018.
In this Easter Sunday sermon, the speaker explores the quiet, relational nature of Jesus' resurrection as described in the Gospel of John.
The New Community Church of Spokane sermon on Ephesians 1:15-23 examines Paul’s 200-word prayer for wisdom, revelation, hope, inheritance, and power.
Two escaped rabbits interrupt a pastor's anxious morning with unexpected joy and a new reading of Matthew 6.
This episode explores the connection between poetry and the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on the transformative power of words and metaphors in spiritual contexts.
A speaker reflects on Easter's joyous nature and discusses his approach to speaking, comparing it to Malcolm Gladwell's consistent style while noting his own teaching-oriented method.
This episode reflects on Holy Week and explores the impact of first experiences with God and prayer, encouraging listeners to consider their own spiritual journeys.
The speaker reflects on the joys and challenges of community life, sharing personal anecdotes about seasonal moods, building inspections, parenting struggles, grief, and a child's excitement for a puppy birthday party.
The speaker shares a personal childhood story about encountering his first enemy, Brett, who started a competing recess soccer game in second grade, disrupting his established role as the playground organizer.
The sermon continues the Sermon on the Mount series.
The host introduces John Pell as a guest speaker who has been part of the church community for almost 15 years and on the elder team for the better part of a decade.
The sermon opens in Lent and sets the scene with the Sermon on the Mount and the hope of Easter.
This episode introduces the Elephants 3.0 series, discussing how it addresses taboo topics within faith communities that were previously avoided, building on previous versions from 2012 and 2018.
This episode continues the Encounters with Christ series by discussing the resurrection, focusing on Mary Magdalene and reflecting on recent services about sin and Good Friday.
This episode explores the crowd's encounter with Jesus during the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday, focusing on their recognition of him as king as described in John chapter 12.
This episode explores biblical examples of encountering Christ, focusing on miracles like the wedding at Cana and the healing of ten lepers, highlighting themes of faith, gratitude, and transformation.