Mosaic Church Teachings

Most of us have something we keep avoiding because it feels too small, too thankless, or too far beneath what we think we should be doing. We're waiting for the work that finally feels significant.But Acts 6 tells the story of a man appointed to manage food distribution for a group of overlooked widows, and he did it with everything he had. That unglamorous faithfulness led to one of the most consequential moments in the entire New Testament.In this teaching, we're talking about the invisible work, the stuff nobody applauds, and why God seems to pay the most attention to exactly that. If the most important work you ever do turns out to be the work nobody saw, would that be enough for you?

The early church in Acts wasn't held together by shared politics or similar personalities. They were held together by something far more durable: a common allegiance to a risen King and a willingness to let that allegiance cost them something. They sold land. They shared resources. They carried one another's burdens without keeping score. And the result wasn't just a tight-knit community. It was a community that turned a city upside down.That kind of unity doesn't happen by accident. It requires people who are willing to set aside their preferences, lower their defences, and lean into something bigger than themselves.What would it look like for you to take one deliberate step toward deeper community?

The disciples had already received the Spirit at Pentecost. So why did they need to be filled again?Because the Spirit isn't a one-time gift you open and set on a shelf. He is a continuously available, repeatedly renewable presence for whatever you're carrying right now.Acts 4 shows us a community that had just been arrested and threatened. When they were released, they didn't scatter. They gathered, they prayed together, and the Spirit filled them again. Not because they had failed, but because they loved each other enough to need more together.That's the kind of church we all want to be part of.So here's the question worth sitting with: Are you still drawing on a filling from years ago, or are you learning to return to the source again and again?

Peter and John walked into the temple with nothing in their pockets and everything in their hands. When a lame man asked them for money, Peter's response was honest: "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you."What he had was a name that wasn't his own.Most of us spend our lives building something; our reputation, our security, our legacy. We ask God to bless what we've already decided to do. Peter operated under an entirely different set of assumptions. He acted under someone else's authority, and the results were beyond anything he could have produced on his own.When you walk into your hardest situations, are you drawing on your own competence and history, or are you genuinely acting under the authority of Jesus?

Acts 2 describes a community so compelling that people were drawn to it every single day.They were sharing meals, carrying each other's burdens, learning together, and living with a generosity that made no sense by the world's standards. The Holy Spirit didn't just show up in their worship services. He shaped the entire texture of their lives together.Most of us are hungry for that kind of belonging. The question worth sitting with is this: does this community actually know you, or does it just recognize you?There's a difference, and most of us know exactly which one we're living in.

Motherhood changes everything. It reshapes how you see yourself, what you're willing to fight for, and what you're finally willing to let go of. It is one of the most profound transitions a person can walk through, and it rarely gets the honest conversation it deserves.In this teaching, we are sitting down with a panel of mothers who are willing to get real about the hard parts, the holy parts, and everything in between. They'll talk about identity, letting go, finding your village, and what it actually looks like to mother with faith in the middle of it all.Whether you are a mom, you have a mom, or you simply know how much it takes to love someone well, this conversation is for you.

Peter denied Jesus three times. He was so shattered by it that he went back to fishing, as if the whole thing had never happened. Then the Holy Spirit came, and that same Peter stood up in front of thousands and preached the sermon that launched the church.Most of us disqualify ourselves based on our worst moments. Peter's worst moment is recorded in all four Gospels. But God used him anyway, perhaps even because of it.What failure or limitation have you been treating as evidence that God can't use you?The promise of the Spirit isn't reserved for people who have it all together. Join us for this teaching and hear how that promise might be for you too.

Wind. Fire. Strangers suddenly speaking languages they'd never learned. Nobody in that room had a category for what was happening on the Day of Pentecost.That's kind of the point.We tend to imagine the Holy Spirit arriving quietly, like a warm feeling or a gentle nudge. But Acts 2 describes something that stopped people in the street. Something that looked, to outside observers, like chaos. The Spirit showed up and upended everything before anything made sense.God has a pattern of disrupting before delivering. Unsettling before strengthening. And most of us, if we're honest, have experienced something we couldn't explain but couldn't quite dismiss either.What if the things about God that make you most uncomfortable are actually invitations rather than obstacles?

Waiting is hard for most of us. We tend to treat it like wasted time, something to push through until the real thing finally starts. But the early church did something completely different with their waiting.Between the Ascension and Pentecost, 120 believers gathered together in an upper room in Jerusalem. They prayed consistently and with purpose. They opened the Scriptures and let them speak into their uncertainty. They made a significant decision together, trusting God to lead them through it. They didn't wait passively or anxiously; they waited expectantly.In this message, we're continuing our series, The Church on Fire, with a close look at what good waiting actually looks like in real life. Because the way you wait reveals what you truly believe about God.What does your waiting say about your faith?

What would it look like if you were genuinely excited about God again?That's the question at the heart of our new series, The Church on Fire. We're going back to the very beginning of the Church, right after the resurrection, to watch a small group of confused and hopeful disciples figure out what comes next. Spoiler: Jesus doesn't give them a strategy. He gives them a promise. The Holy Spirit is coming, and everything is about to change.Maybe your faith feels dry right now. Maybe you've plateaued, or you've been going through the motions longer than you'd like to admit. This series is for you.What's one area of your life where you'd love to experience a renewed sense of God's presence?

Easter changes everything.Jesus spent his final moments on the cross forgiving enemies, caring for his mother, asking God the hardest questions, and ultimately trusting his Father with his last breath. These weren't the words of a victim. They were the words of someone who knew exactly what he was doing and why.His death proves his love. His resurrection proves his power. And because he walked out of that tomb, we have every reason to believe that the painful, confusing, unresolved chapters of our lives are not the end of the story.What would it look like to live now the way Jesus died then—with faith, surrender, and hope anchored in something bigger than what we can see?

This teaching is from Palm Sunday as we continued our Last Words series with the most loaded three words ever spoken: "It is finished."Not "I am finished." Not "I give up." Those three words were a declaration, not a defeat. Something was completed on that cross, something so total and final that Jesus announced it like a finished work.But here is the question worth sitting with today: what exactly did Jesus mean when he said it was finished, and what does that mean for the weight you are carrying right now?Whatever you are walking into this week, those words were spoken with you in mind. Join us for this teaching and let's explore that together.

Jesus didn't die with a tidy explanation. He died asking a question. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He took on our confusion, our silence, our moments of feeling completely abandoned, and he still called out to the Father.That changes everything about how we pray and how we sit with people who are hurting. We don't have to rush to explain suffering. We don't have to have the right answer ready. Sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is stay in the room with someone and refuse to leave.You don't have to clean up your questions before bringing them to God. The confused, grieving, angry version of you is exactly who he wants to hear from.What question have you been carrying that you haven't brought to God yet? Join us for this teaching and let’s explore this together.

Most of us have been taught that the crucifixion was something that happened to Jesus. Rome won, evil won, and a good man was crushed by forces bigger than himself.But John won't let you read it that way.He tells you that in the middle of the worst moment of his life, Jesus was knowing; aware, present, in full possession of what was happening and why. When he said "I thirst" from the cross, it wasn't desperation; it was completion. The final move of a sovereign God who came to finish something, and did exactly that.That changes how you read suffering, not just his, but yours. If the cross wasn't chaos, maybe your hardest chapter isn't either.What would change in your life if you actually believed that God finishes what he starts?

There's something about the cross that strips everything down to bare honesty — no pretense, no religious resume, no time left for anything but the truth.This week in our Last Words series, we're sitting with one of the most unexpected conversations in all of Scripture: Jesus, dying, turning to a criminal beside him and offering words of comfort and hope. Not a lecture, not a condition—just grace meeting a man at the end of his rope.Luke 23:32-43 has a way of reminding us that nobody is too far gone to receive what only Jesus can give.What's a moment in your life when grace showed up where you least expected it?

When everything was falling apart, he was still building something enduring. While hanging on the cross in unimaginable pain, Jesus looked at his mother and his close friend and formed a new family in that sacred moment.What if the cross was never only about personal forgiveness, but also about creating a new kind of belonging that reshapes how we live together?This week we are reflecting on the moment when Jesus says, “Behold your mother,” and entrusts people to one another in covenant love. The scene is tender and deeply human, yet it carries a weight that challenges how we think about church and responsibility. Church is not about attendance patterns, polished branding, or curated experiences that keep things comfortable. Church is about covenant love expressed through real commitment and shared burdens.Who has God placed in your life that requires more than casual connection? Who might need your steady presence in a season of quiet suffering?If you long for deeper connection and a faith that moves beyond routine, listen to this teaching and step into the community the cross is forming among us.

We are stepping into a new series called Last Words as we journey through Lent toward Easter. We are slowing down to consider what Jesus chose to say in the most painful moments of his life. When betrayal, injustice, and violence surrounded him, he did not curse his enemies or defend his innocence. He prayed for their forgiveness.The cross exposes the worst parts of us, including our fear, our compromise, and our hunger for control. It also reveals a mercy that moves toward us before we clean ourselves up. Jesus asked the Father to forgive people who were still driving the nails and dividing his clothes. That prayer reaches further than we imagine.Some of us are carrying shame that feels permanent. Others are gripping resentment that feels justified. Check out this teaching and sit with the words of Jesus as we consider where we need to receive forgiveness and where we are being called to give it.

What if grace is not just something you believe in, but something that is actively holding you together right now?So many of us are waiting for circumstances to shift before we can breathe again. We tell ourselves that peace will come when the diagnosis changes, when the relationship heals, when the job stabilizes. But what if grace is already at work in the middle of the unfinished story?Grace is not distant or theoretical. It is God’s present help. It steadies shaking hearts. It strengthens tired souls. It sustains ordinary people in complicated seasons. Even when nothing around you seems to move, God is not inactive. He is forming resilience, deepening trust, and building quiet endurance within you.If you are walking through a season that feels unresolved, you are not alone. Check out this teaching and discover how grace meets you right where you are, and what it is actually doing in your life today.

There are seasons when change has already arrived, but clarity has not yet caught up. You sense that something no longer fits, yet you cannot fully name what comes next. That in-between space can feel disorienting, lonely, and strangely holy all at once.Scripture reminds us that feeling unsettled is not always a sign of disobedience. Sometimes it is evidence that your hope is being stretched beyond what your current circumstances can hold. Abraham lived faithfully while feeling like a stranger, trusting promises he would only see from a distance.Faith does not erase the ache of not belonging, but it gives that ache meaning and direction. We are not tourists passing through life for quick inspiration or easy answers. We are pilgrims being formed through waiting, working, and trusting God’s presence right where we are.If you find yourself restless, unsure, or quietly longing for something more, this message is for you.

Some seasons in life do not shatter faith outright, but they slowly thin it over time.The prayers feel quieter than they used to feel before. Certainty feels farther away than it once did. What once felt solid now feels worn down by disappointment, loss, or unanswered questions that linger longer than expected. You may start to quietly wonder if something is wrong with you.Because fragile faith is not failed faith. It is often the very place where grace is doing its deepest and most honest work.In Scripture, Jesus does not avoid doubters or shame fearful people. He steps into locked rooms, speaks peace, and offers presence before providing answers. Grace becomes the strength that holds us when we do not have much strength left to offer.If you are carrying questions, fatigue, or a faith that feels thin right now, you are not alone. Listen to this teaching as we explore how God’s grace sustains us when faith feels fragile.

Most people do not want to quit at the beginning of a journey, and they rarely want to quit when the finish line is finally visible. The desire to give up usually shows up in the long middle, that quiet stretch where nothing seems to change and prayers feel unanswered. This is the season where energy fades, hope thins out, and faith feels more like endurance than confidence.Scripture reminds us that God often works most deeply not through escape, but through presence. Grace is rarely dramatic or instant. It is ordinary, daily, and just enough for today. “I’m still here” does not mean everything is fine. It means God has not left, and you are still standing in the middle.If you are navigating a long season of transition, discouragement, or waiting, join us and watch this teaching on grace in the gray.

How has gathering with others shaped your faith journey?In this teaching we conclude our series Reset: Sacred Rhythms for a New Year. This message is about anchoring ourselves in community and worship. From the families of Israel gathering for Passover to John pointing to Jesus as the Lamb of God, God calls us into rhythms that connect us—to him and to one another.Worship is more than a moment; it’s a shared story, a pattern that shapes our hearts and our lives. When we commit to these sacred rhythms, we discover God’s presence, protection, and joy together.Listen to this teaching and take the next step in resetting your life with God and his people.

We live in a world obsessed with shortcuts, promising faster results, easier fixes, and change without real cost. Deep down, we know that kind of transformation never lasts, because meaningful growth always asks something of us.This week in our Reset series, we are talking about a Rule of Life. It is not a rigid checklist or another spiritual achievement to unlock. It is a way of intentionally arranging your life around who you are becoming, not just what you are doing. Jesus consistently placed identity before behavior, because good fruit always flows from a healthy tree, not from trying harder when pressure hits.When life squeezes you, what actually comes out of you in those moments of stress and disappointment? Is it anxiety and defensiveness, or patience, humility, and love shaped over time?A Rule of Life becomes a trellis that supports steady growth rooted in Christ, forming habits that hold when storms arrive. There are no shortcuts here, only faithful practices that shape us slowly and deeply.Join us for this teaching and wrestle with this question: who are you really becoming?

A new year doesn’t need louder goals or more pressure to reinvent everything overnight. It needs clearer direction and deeper attention to what is forming us.This week in our Reset series, we’re exploring the practice of choosing a Word of the Year. This isn’t about catchy slogans or New Year’s resolutions that fade by February. It’s about naming who you are becoming and allowing focus to shape formation. Most of us enter January pulled in multiple directions, reacting to demands instead of discerning what truly matters.Choosing a word is a way to slow down and listen for the Spirit’s leading. That word can become a steady guide for decisions, relationships, and daily habits throughout the year. It doesn’t promise easy answers, but it does offer clarity amid distraction.Join us for worship this week as we learn how to discern, pray, and commit to a Word for the year ahead. Wherever you find yourself right now, this is a meaningful place to begin.Listen to this teaching and reset with us.

We live in a world that rarely stops. Busyness is rewarded, exhaustion is normalized, and rest often feels like something we have to earn. In this opening message of our new series, Reset: Sacred Rhythms for a New Year, we explore the practice of Sabbath as God’s invitation to slow down and live from rest instead of chasing it.This teaching looks at why our culture struggles to stop, how hurry and distraction shape our souls, and why Sabbath is not a luxury but a spiritual practice rooted in trust. Rather than another productivity tool, Sabbath reorients our identity and reminds us that our value is not tied to output.Where might God be inviting you to stop and delight in this season of life?Watch the teaching and consider how sacred rhythms could reshape the year ahead.

Christmas reminds us that light does not wait for life to get easier before showing up, but enters real moments marked by long nights, heavy hearts, and questions that do not have quick answers. Many of us carry more into this season than we let on, and that is exactly where the story of Jesus meets us.Scripture tells us that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it, not because the darkness disappears, but because God is present within it. The birth of Jesus shows us a God who does not stand at a distance, but steps into ordinary life, uncertainty, and places we would rather avoid.If you are walking through a season that feels unclear, tiring, or unresolved, you are not alone, and this message is meant for real life rather than a polished version of it.Join us for this teaching as we reflect on the theme Light in the Darkness and explore what it means to trust the light that still breaks in.

None of the people in the Christmas story were looking for disruption. Mary had plans. Joseph had expectations. The shepherds were just doing their jobs. Simeon and Anna had been waiting a long time. And yet God showed up right in the middle of ordinary life and changed everything.Those interruptions weren’t accidents. They became openings. Openings for courage, trust, renewal, and a deeper kind of hope than they had known before.What if the disruptions you’re facing aren’t obstacles to God’s work but invitations into it?In this teaching, we’ll explore how God often brings hope not by smoothing our path, but by interrupting it in ways that reshape us for the good.Join us for our worship and teaching livestream and lean into the hope God may be offering right where life feels unsettled.

Advent doesn’t arrive in perfect conditions. It shows up in the middle of real life.In our current series, Unexpected Advent, we’re leaning into a truth we often miss: Jesus doesn’t enter the version of life we post online. He steps into the version we actually live. Confusion. Fear. Fatigue. Disrupted plans. Long nights and ordinary days.Scripture tells the story through people like Zechariah, Joseph on the run, and Joseph forgotten in a dungeon. None of it is polished. All of it is holy ground.The incarnation reminds us that God is not waiting for you to get your life together before He draws near. His presence meets us right where things feel tangled and unfinished.

Advent has a way of sneaking up on us. This week in our Unexpected Advent series, we’re sitting with one of the most stunning lines in Scripture: “The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood.” If that’s true, then God doesn’t stay at a distance. He brushes up against our real lives. He shows up in what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.We’ll talk about how the incarnation invites us to pay closer attention to the small, ordinary moments we usually rush past. Because those moments might be where God is already meeting us.If you need a reminder that heaven draws near in ways you can actually feel, check out this teaching.

Sometimes God shows up in the places we’d never think to look. The Christmas story isn’t polished or grand. It begins in a forgotten town, with ordinary people, in a manger that smelled like animals, announced to shepherds who didn’t hold any influence.Why start the story this way? Because God often begins renewal in small, hidden places. And the same pattern shows up in our lives. The moments we overlook. The people we underestimate. The parts of our story we’d rather skip.This week we’re starting a new series called Unexpected Advent, and we’re exploring the surprising way God enters our world, and our lives. Join us for today’s worship and teaching and take a step into a grateful, grounded life.

Gratitude isn’t meant to show up once a year. It’s a rhythm that steadies you, softens you, and pulls you back to what matters. This week we’re exploring how thankfulness becomes part of the daily fabric of life—prayer that slows you down, rest that resets your heart, meals that draw people close, and relationships that anchor you.When you build simple gratitude habits into the everyday moments, you begin to notice how God is already at work in places you once rushed past. Peace grows. Connection deepens. Your home starts to feel more grounded and whole.If you’re longing for a steadier way forward, check out this teaching and take a step into a grateful, grounded life.

Gratitude is powerful, but it is not meant to sit still. It is meant to move. This week we are looking at how gratitude grows when it turns into action. When we receive something good and let it change how we show up for others, joy expands. When we keep it to ourselves, it fades.We will explore how a thankful heart reshapes the way we see our possessions, our work, and the people in our lives. Many of us live with a low-level fear that there will never be enough. Yet something shifts when we choose to give our time, attention, money, or presence. The world feels larger. Our hearts feel lighter.If you need a reset or want to learn how to live with a deeper sense of abundance, check out this teaching. It might be the spark you need to move from receiving to giving and from fear to joy.

Real gratitude isn’t pretending life is fine when it’s not—it’s learning to see God’s presence right in the middle of tension, disappointment, and waiting.In this teaching, we’ll explore what it means to live The Grateful Life. Not gratitude as denial, but as defiance. Jesus gave thanks before the breakthrough, on the very night He was betrayed. That’s the kind of gratitude that changes how we suffer and how we hope.Join us as we learn to give thanks not just in the tension, but even for it, trusting that God is shaping something sacred in the struggle.

We’re beginning a new series called The Grateful Life and in this message, we’re naming the hidden force that keeps us restless: discontent.Our culture runs on comparison and consumption. Every ad, every scroll, every “next thing” whispers the same lie: you don’t have enough. But what if the first step toward gratitude isn’t forcing ourselves to be thankful, but recognizing how this lie shapes our habits, our marriages, and even our faith?Jesus slept through a storm not because he was unaware, but because he was unafraid. Gratitude doesn’t ignore reality, it resists being consumed by it.In a world that profits from your dissatisfaction, gratitude becomes an act of rebellion, a way of saying, “What God has given is enough for today.”Join us for this teaching as we learn to live with open hands and peaceful hearts in a culture of scarcity.

Josh Siders teaches about God the Father, who is present with us, on Father's Day.

Josh Siders begins a new series on God's heart for us.

Mosaic Church celebrates relocating to a new worship space and all the work of our community to get there.

What would it do to your soul if you took 52 sabbaths in this next year? How would your life look different--including the stress you carry and the anxiety you feel? It's possible, through some planning and preparation, to enter into a life filled with more peace, calm, and rest while spending more time with the people you enjoy most.

Pastor Josh Siders continues our Radical Jesus series by talking about sexual formation--that God wants to form us mentally, emotionally, spiritually and, yes, sexually. But what does that look like for us? Watch along and find out what that grace-filled journey looks like.For more resources visit mosaicmhk.com

Josh Siders continues our teaching series about controversial topics, Radical Jesus, by talking about the mistreatment and abuse church community can experience from unhealthy leaders.

Pastor Sarah Siders talks about mental health and well-being for our Radical Jesus series. Drawing upon her years as a therapist, she shares from her perspective on integrating holistic health and how followers of Jesus can embrace this approach.

Pastor Josh Siders talks about digital and social media use, its effects on use, and how we can think about how our families can use it while minimizing its harm.

Pastor Ben Deaver addresses refugees and immigrants and how we think of their inclusion in our country, all while viewing it from the perspective of the Kingdom of God.

Pastor Josh Siders teaches on American politics as it relates to the Kingdom of God and following Jesus.

Pastor Josh Siders begins our Radical Jesus series by teaching about the cross-pressures of the cultural moment we find ourselves in and how we can practice curiosity towards others and intentionally choose relationships with others instead of deepening the divide.

Pastor Josh Siders wraps up our series on community with a teaching about three key habits for growing in healthy relationships.

Josh Siders begins a new series on the importance of community so we can grow together and push back against loneliness and the radical individualism of our culture.

Pastor Ben Deaver continues our teaching series about being set apart for God by asking where we might see God working already this year in our lives.

Pastor Josh Siders begins this new teaching series on being a people who are awaiting God's movement in their lives. He looks at the Jordan River crossing and the Last Supper as moments that impacted history and asks how we can prepare ourselves for God's work.

Pastor Josh Siders teaches about God's invitation to his people to practice the Sabbath. During these times, we are welcomed to rest, recharge, and dwell with God in his presence.