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Cultivate NJ
by Cultivate Church
Cultivate is a church committed to growing communities rooted in Christ that produce fruit for the good of the Garden State and the world.
Episodes
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Reclaiming Revelations: Jesus Among the Lampstands
Revelation is not about predicting the future, it’s about living faithfully in the present. This series is Reclaiming Revelation. Last week we learned how revelation literally means unveiling. Pulling back the curtain to reveal the truth about the world as it is right now! For this week we are...
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Jude: Words of Wisdom, Warning, and Hope
Jude looks to mobilize the faithful, to enlist each of us to stand up for the true faith we have been given and to reject anyone who would take us in a different direction. He wants to sensitize us to any scalawags who only look out for number one, especially those lurking within the congregation...
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Teach Us To Pray: High Priestly Prayer
We are called into a relationship with our Father God that stretches into eternity. For now, we participate in our Father God’s mission in the world to bring others to known Him. Jesus calls us to pray, as he prayed, for power, protection and unity that all may come to know Him as he really is…
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Teach Us To Pray: Praying With & For One Another
In prayer, God meets us where we really are and invites us to join in his healing work. When we pray for others, we don't have to control the outcome or have all the answers—we simply offer ourselves as a loving presence and trust God to work through us. Church, today we are invited to pray...
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Teach Us To Pray: Prayer As Participation
God is already present and at work in us and in the world around us, and God has chosen to invite our prayers, our lives, and our actions into that work. We don't have to control God or carry the weight of the world ourselves—Prayer is how we learn to trust, surrender, and participate in what God...
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Teach Us To Pray: Kingdom Power Glory Forever
God has established a Kingdom in Jesus that does not reign through coercion, violence, or domination, but through love, mercy, and self-giving power. Church, today we are invited to declare where our allegiance belongs and to become people who live according to the logic of God's Kingdom…
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Teach Us To Pray: Save Us From Trial
God does not lead His children into evil or delight in their suffering. He is the Father who walks with us, provides what we need for today, and works to redeem what evil intends to destroy. Church, today we are invited to trust our weakness to His care, rely on His presence in every trial, and...
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Teach Us To Pray: Deliver Us
The good news this morning is that our God has been and is battling for us against spiritual forces that would overwhelm and destroy us, and He is victorious! However, because that evil is still at large in this world, Jesus counsels us to be humble, vigilant and to pray for deliverance from the...
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Teach Us To Pray: Forgive Us
God sees that sin has made fools of us all. And we act out of our foolishness. And instead of abandoning us, He comes looking for us. Church, that's the gospel. Forgiveness begins long before we ever think to ask for it. God has already been searching the garden. Our Merciful Father has chosen…
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Teach Us To Pray: Daily Bread
Our Father knows what we need, delights to provide for His children, and invites us to become part of His provision for one another. Church, today we are invited to trust Him more deeply, share more generously, and stand more closely with those in need.
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Teach Us To Pray: On Earth As It Is In Heaven
God's will is not simply something that we wait to escape into, nor is it a secret plan for our lives. God's will is to bring the very life of heaven to earth. So, church, today we are invited to embody that life even as we pray for it to come. So take up your calling today, beloved, and commit...
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Teach Us To Pray: Hallowed Be Your Name
God is more beautiful, loving, and trustworthy than we can imagine, and God longs to be known as He truly is. As God's people, we are being freed from false images of God and transformed into living reflections of divine love. Beloved, let us welcome God's work in us by praying that God's name…
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Teach Us To Pray: Our Father
The Lord’s prayer is NOT just a prayer script we repeat at church or in our own prayers. It CAN be those things, but it’s so much more as well. This prayer Jesus gives his disciples is a way of learning to become the people of God who are becoming more and more open to the presence of God. The…
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Pentacost
Pentecost is the revelation of a slave-freeing, fear-healing, deliverance-dealing, all-embracing movement of God. Church, behold God's presence and power in your body, among our body, reaching forth in the world to call every-body home.
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Beyond the Gates
The work of God moves forward by the spirit of Jesus outside the gates, among the excluded and the marginalized, making peace until all fear is vanquished and all people find a home in god's community. To whom is the spirit of Christ moving you and moving us to today?
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Glory In The Chaos
Jesus—the risen and glorious One—is Lord over all chaos. He calls us into a love that reaches beyond space and time. As we love one another, God’s glory breaks through, pushing back the forces of sin and death, drawing all things toward new creation. Beloved, let’s press deeply into love today,...
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Secure In Jesus' Hands
And what kind of shepherd is Jesus to us? He is the One who lays down his life for the sheep… the One who knows us and calls us by name… the One who shares our suffering and cares for us in our sorrows… the One who holds us securely in his loving hands, protecting us from all the powers that seek...
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Expect To Find Jesus
You’re not crazy if you feel like we’re living in a world on the brink of disaster, not in a world where Jesus is raised in victory. Can you relate? If so friends, we declare our need and we proclaim good news into this. Beloved, take heart. The kingdom of God will not be jailed up, damned up, or...
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Easter Sunday: Be Alive In Christ
Christ is RISEN. He is the first fruit, raised ahead of us, reigning with us until the last enemy, death, is destroyed. Church, in Adam all die, but in Christ we are all made alive. Be alive in Christ this Easter day.
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Cross
The cross of Christ reveals the horror of what we've done to the world, to each other and to ourselves; and in the same moment, reveals the depths of God's love for us and the potency of God's power to save us. Beloved, we really are in bad shape, but we are held with a love that goes deeper than...
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Jejosheba
Yahweh is our unbreakable promise… He always finds a way to fulfill His word and work powerfully through quiet, unseen acts of courage and obedience. As followers of Jesus, we are invited into that same story—trusting that even our hidden faithfulness matters and is part of a much bigger story…
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Bathsheba
The trauma of our past is not the final word on the quality of our future. Our God specializes in metamorphosis – turning silenced victims into archetypes of agency. Helping the voiceless find their voice. Transforming the shamed into paragons of promise. Beloved, your story is not over. This...
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Jonathan
Our God works through his people, and through our relationships with each other, to accomplish his plans and advance His kingdom. Our God is always present and at work. We look for and support what He is doing above all things and within the relationships and friendships given to us.
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Hannah
Beloved, though the days are dark and difficult, persist in prayer and don't lose heart. Because more is happening through our prayers than we can see. Though the way to better days may seem closed off for a time, God is good and is present with us in the barren places. He will remember his…
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Ruth
God is always doing a new thing among his people, overturning the xenophobia of the past to make way for his everlasting love. Even today beloved, God is expanding the boundaries of his ever-widening mercy – Turning the faithless into the faithful; Turning the bitter into springs of hope; Turning...
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Deborah
God delights to subvert our ideas of power, raising unlikely people and calling us to lead together for the flourishing of the world. Even now, God is stirring courage in ordinary hearts and inviting us to refuse the world as it is. When we say yes — even imperfectly — peace begins to take root...
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Tamar
God delights to work in and through overlooked and underestimated people. He uses the least who hold those with power to account and bring about justice when justice is denied. The Tamars of our world are here to enable us to open our eyes to injustice. They are often more righteous than us and...
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Siphrah and Puah
When we think about the book of Exodus our minds are typically drawn to the singular leadership of Moses standing up to Pharaoh, the 10 plagues, God demanding “Let my People Go”, the parting of the Red Sea, the giving of the 10 commandments, the golden calf, etc. But without the unsung women of...
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Hagar
The God Who Sees intervenes on behalf of the oppressed and mistreated. He calls them by name; hears their story; promises his goodness to them; and sends them into the world imbued with new status. Today beloved, see the God who sees you in your distress and look for those who need the waters of...
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Eve
This Message is the Start of a New Series: Hidden Figures: We will be looking at the stories of an array of people throughout the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). These are some of the women and men that partner with God to advance the story of redemption. They are often overlooked either…
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The Sorrow and Joy of Christmas
Even though we continue to suffer and doubt and grieve, tonight, our Advent longing makes room for Christmas JOY. Because in the incarnation of Jesus, the word made flesh, God has taken on all that it means to be human… All our suffering and pain and weakness and frailty are now shared by God and...
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Preparing for the Light
A new identity is given to us this Advent as we move toward the light of God’s presence this Christmas. But this light is a fire that has come to burn away all the junk in our lives and to make the soil rich for a plant that will bear much fruit. So, prepare for this light and fire by rethinking...
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Watching In The Dark
Advent means: Getting in touch with our own waiting, our own suffering, our own darkness in solidarity with the rest of God’s people as we watch and pray for the arrival of Jesus, light in the darkness. God is meeting us in the middle of this mess to instill HOPE and strengthen our hearts in...
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Resurrection of the Body, Life Everlasting
The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the PATTERN of Eternal Life. What has happened to Him WILL happen to us. Therefore, your body isn't a prison from which your soul needs to be set free. You ARE an embodied soul. And Eternal Life is FULL of bodies, moved and animated by God's…
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Forgiveness of Sins
The church is not a community of the pure; it is a community of the forgiven. Sin is not the end of our story; Sin is an identity crisis for those who have been claimed by love. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and this is what we are. So, let’s...
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The Holy Spirit, The Catholic Church, The Communion of Saints
The Spirit of God broods over creation today, bringing peace from the chaos of fractured human relationships. Brothers and Sisters, the church is a foretaste of that peace… offering communion and salvation to everyone. So, today, we are held firm together with all the church throughout history....
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Come Again to Judge
Beloved, Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead, and that will be the best thing that ever happens to us. When God renews the whole cosmos and makes everything sad become untrue, Jesus himself will be personally present as the center and the focus of new creation. He comes…
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Descended into Hell
Death does not defeat God's promise. Death is not separation from God. In Jesus, God has dwelt among the dead. God has touched the very limits of our nature, from birth to death, in order to renew us and to unite us to God. The Living has embraced the dead. Death has been subsumed by life. Now,...
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Suffered and Died
Today we arrive at maybe the most challenging statement for our modern, scientific minds to receive as true… I believe in Jesus Christ… WHO… suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. The good news we declare today is: In the person of Jesus, God suffered AS one of us…
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Conceived by the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary
The one born of a virgin by the power of the Holy Spirit is the fulfillment of God’s promise to bring life and order from death and chaos. So, fear not: God has not abandoned you. The One who was born to impossible odds has drawn near to make us children of the promise. Take heart and receive...
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We Believe in Jesus
The good news this morning is that the CORE of our faith is Jesus Christ. He was there at the beginning of time working for us. In love, He chose to be born among us and to die for us, and He is working for us now and until the end of time. Our faith and our lives are rightly centered on Jesus…
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Maker of Heaven and Earth
Today we arrive at the last piece of the first statement of the Apostles' Creed: “I believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth." The good news that we declare today: We live in a world made by the loving hands of God, redeemed with the loving presence of God, that will one day…
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Father Almighty
We are invited to confess and know God as Father… But this is not the coercion of an abusive or authoritative patriarch. This is the loving call of an attentive parent whose power is made perfect in weakness. So, draw close to this Father today and allow him to heal you of every wound.
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Believe in God
We are invited to give our whole hearts to the story of God’s unfolding, unfailing love for the world. Beloved, today you belong to and participate in the global, historic body of Jesus Christ, even if you’re not sure what that means. Because belief is about trust, not certainty, God meets us in...
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Mark 12 Questioners and Jesus' Answers
Many things start with a question. One of my teachers used to say “Questions are alive; answers are dead.” Sometimes a small question of curiosity ultimately leads to a scientific breakthrough. Sometimes a big sweeping question about the meaning of the universe could ready us for an encounter…
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In Between With Jesus
Jesus’ death is not a cosmic disappointment. Through his faithfulness to enter into suffering and death, Jesus gets to the root of evil, defeating the powers and principalities that seem to rule our world. So, church, as we wait for resurrection, let Jesus meet you in the in-between space…
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Expansive Good News
The way of Jesus is expansive and inclusive, granting acceptance and access to those who are rejected and excluded. Church, the world needs the good news of Jesus today, that he came to heal and save, not to attack and police and punish. How do you need that good news today? And how can we embody...
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Walking with Jesus
The good shepherd looks after His sheep. Let's journey with a servant heart. Let's commit to following Him.
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Kingdom Together
The good news of Jesus is that we either inherit the kingdom of God together or not at all.
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Aiding the Vulnerable
Hurt people hurt people BUT: Blessed people bless people. Healed people heal people. Secure people bring security to people. Whole people bring wholeness to people. Healing trauma in the kingdom of God can undo and reversethe trauma that’s been stored in bodies. That’s what the kingdom of God is...
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Cultivate is a church committed to growing communities rooted in Christ that produce fruit for the good of the Garden State and the world.
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