New Story Church
New Story Church meets Sunday mornings at 110 Valley Park Road, Phoenixville, PA. For more information, please visit our website: https://newstorychurch.life
Episodes
678 episodes
Understanding Identity through the Lens of the Gospel with Dr. Mark Yarhouse
How do identities form in contemporary settings? How are identities formed in relation to our sexuality and experience of gender? This message engages historical, social, and linguistic changes that have influenced young people’s understanding ...
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Why Is There an Erotic Poem in My Bible? | Song of Songs
Why did God put an erotic poem in the middle of my Bible?I grew up in church. Sat through thousands of sermons. And somehow never heard about the Song of Songs—one of the most beautiful, confusing, and ignored books in the Bible.It'...
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The Stories Shaping our Sex Lives
We live in a world where there are narrative tensions (4 of them) that are at play in what story of sexuality people are telling, or inhabiting. Caught within a mixture of pleasure, shame, longing, and confusion, this sermon explores the pertin...
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What Sex Reveals About Heaven, Hell, and You
What happens when we ask sex to do what only God can do?In this message, we explore why sex can feel like heaven—and why it can so easily turn into something painful, confusing, or enslaving. Drawing from the Scriptures, church history,...
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Biblical Sex Ed: What Your Youth Group Never Told You
Most of us were told what not to do with sex.Very few of us were ever told what sex is actually for. In this message, we'll revisit a question my friend David asked in youth group: "What is sex?" It sounds simple, but the answer i...
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Valentinus: “Your Body Doesn’t Matter.”
If your faith feels disconnected from real life, your body might be the missing piece.An early Christian teacher named Valentinus claimed that the physical world didn’t matter and that salvation was escape. That idea didn’t die. It just...
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Arius: "Jesus isn't God."
318 bishops. 3 months of debate. 1 question that would shape Christianity forever: Is Jesus fully God—or just the greatest being God ever made?In 325 AD, a charismatic pastor named Arius was making waves across the Roman Empire. He wrot...
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Pelagius: The Ancient Lie We Still Believe
What if the deepest struggle you feel -- the pressure to be enough, do enough, fix yourself -- is a window into what you were truly made for? Enter one of the most important debates in Christian history: Pelagius vs. Augustine. The...
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Marcion: The Man Who Cut the Old Testament Out of His Bible | Leviticus 16
What happens when someone tries to cut the Old Testament out of the Bible?In the second century, a wealthy ship-owner named Marcion did exactly that—literally tearing out every page that didn't fit his vision of a loving God. The early chur...
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Strike the Ground: Our Church's Vision for This Cultural Moment | 2 Kings 13
What if God is placing opportunities right in front of you—and you don’t even see them?In this vision sermon, we explore 2 Kings 13 and the moment God invites King Jehoash to “strike the ground.” It’s a strange story with a powerful questio...
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The Sea: The Moment You Can’t Save Yourself | Exodus 13-14
Ever feel like following God has made life harder, not easier? Like you traded predictable pain for terrifying freedom? This is a message for anyone who has ever stood at a Sea moment and thought, “Maybe I should just go back.”In Exodus...
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Eat the Lamb: This is THE Moment | Exodus 11-13
Everyone has a defining moment. What if yours already happened—before you were born?In Exodus 12, death is coming. God commands His people: slaughter a lamb, paint its blood on your door, then gather your family and eat. This meal becom...
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First Unlearn Everything: How the Ten Plagues Reveal Who God Really Is | Exodus 7-10
The first step in knowing God is unlearning everything you think you know.In Exodus 7–10, God doesn’t just free His people from Egypt—He dismantles Egypt’s entire way of seeing the world. Through the Ten Plagues, He reveals Himself by u...
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Getting Your Soul Back: Restlessness & Sabbath
What if Jesus said to you, “You don’t yet look as happy as I mean you to be”?In a culture drowning in distraction, hurry, and exhaustion, Sabbath is God’s radical invitation to freedom. Drawing from Scripture, neuroscience, and real-lif...
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Remember to Rest: How Sabbath Reclaims Our Humanity
What if the very thing your soul is craving isn’t more achievement, more hustle, or more scrolling—but rest? Speaking to our modern exhaustion, is Sabbath unreachable? Is it wellness for the privileged, legalism, or a Jewish thing?...
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Why We Can't Stop Working (and How Sabbath Sets Us Free)
You can't stop working. Something won't let you rest.The Book of Exodus names that "something" - and shows you what God wants to do to break its power in your life.This sermon unpacks Israel’s slavery in Egypt and God’s strange ...
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When Following God Makes Your Life Worse | Exodus 5-6
Ever feel like following Jesus is making your life, not better, but worse?In this message from Exodus 5-6, we dive into one of the most honest and unsettling parts of the Bible—where God's people accept His promise of salvation, and the...
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God Has a Name | Exodus 3-4
Most people know God by a title… but did you know He has a personal name?In Exodus 3–4, Moses meets God in the wilderness and dares to ask: “Who are You?” The answer — “I AM” — is as mysterious as it is life-changing.This sermon exp...
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The Long Journey to Discovering Who You Really Are | Exodus 2
Who are you—really?It’s one of the hardest questions to answer. For Moses, it took eighty years. For many of us, it still hangs unresolved.In Exodus 2, we follow Moses’ journey from prince to murderer to nobody in the wilderness. Al...
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When the Story You're Living Starts to Devour You | Exodus 1
We all live by a story. Some give life. Others take it.The book of Exodus isn’t just about an ancient people escaping Egypt. It’s about us. It’s about you.It’s the story of being enslaved to a system that slowly grinds you down,...
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Releasing Anxiety, Rewiring Vibrancy
Philippians 4:4–9 explores how Paul’s (the apostle’s) prison-saturated words invite us to rejoice in the Lord’s nearness, release our anxieties through prayer, and rewire our inner life with God’s peace. With much of the West marke...
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Money is a Liar. Matthew 6:19-24
Money makes big promises: “I’ll make you happy. I’ll keep you safe. I’ll give your life meaning.” But money is a liar.In Matthew 6, Jesus pulls back the curtain on money’s hidden power. He shows us that our treasures aren’t neutral—they...
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Can I Doubt and Still Believe? John 20:24-31
Your doubts might be the place Jesus wants to meet you. We’re not the type of church to have a patron saint, but if we did, it might be “Doubting Thomas.” We live in an age of unrelenting doubt. It infects and affects us all. Thom...
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Is Faith Enough When I’m Anxious or Depressed?
In a world plagued by anxiety, depression, loneliness, and a 'connection crisis', what does faith have to offer our cultural moment? Biblically, transformation is not a linear approach, but a multi-faceted journey that involves our...
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How Do We Make Sense of Our Suffering? Our Story & the Story of Job
Why, God? How do we make sense of this? Where are You?In the wake of tragedy, the usual answers fall flat.This message turns to one of the oldest and rawest stories in the Bible—the story of Job. It’s unfiltered grief. At times,...
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