Posts with the category “spiritual-growth”

The woman at the well found living water that satisfied her soul. Discover what true satisfaction in Jesus looks like — and how to find it. Start here.  Read More

The woman at the well kept returning to empty sources. So do we. Discover what living water from Jesus really means and why it truly satisfies. Start here.  Read More

Joy in Jesus is not a feeling you manufacture. Pastor John Starke unpacks John 3 to show why (and how to rest in what Jesus has already done). Start here.  Read More

What does "born again" really mean? Jesus told a morally elite man he needed new life, not a fresh start. Explore it at Apostles Uptown.  Read More

From the sermon preached on April 5, 2026 | Psalm 56 | EASTER SUNDAY The fear of man is not simply a matter of caring too much what people think. It goes deeper: it is the creeping belief that other people hold the final word over your life — your reputation, your security, your future. Psalm 56, read through the lens of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, offers a specific and honest answer to that...  Read More

From the Sermon preached on April 3, 2026 | Psalm 56 | EASTER SUNDAY Good Friday confronts every person with a question that goes deeper than doctrine: not merely "Do you believe in the cross?" but "Where are you standing in relation to it?" In Luke 23:44–49, the evangelist Luke the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles records three groups who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesu...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 29, 2026 | Jesus Cleanses the Temple When good things quietly crowd God out of our lives, intimacy with God doesn't die dramatically — it just slowly goes cold. That's the real problem Jesus addresses when he walks into the temple in John 2: not outright wickedness, but displacement. Not obvious idolatry, but legitimate things occupying illegitimate places.Pastor...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 8, 2026 | Come and See There's a particular kind of loneliness that doesn't always show up on our radars: it’s the loneliness of knowing a lot about someone and still feeling like you don't really know them at all. Knowing Jesus personally isn't about accumulating the right theology or showing up to the right services. According to the Gospel of John, it's someth...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on March 1, 2026 | Behold the Lamb of God A few weeks before he died, actor James Van Der Beek said something most of us quietly dread having to face. He had been diagnosed with cancer — thin, exhausted, alone in an apartment — and found himself staring down a question he'd spent his adult life avoiding: Who am I, if I'm not any of the things I've built? Jesus, the Lamb o...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 22, 2026 | The God Who Speaks For Himself There's a particular kind of loneliness that Manhattan specializes in. You can be surrounded by eight million people on the subway, in your building, on the sidewalk outside your door — and still feel profoundly unknown. Known by no one. Seen by no one. Just another face moving through the city.Most of us have learned ...  Read More

From the Sermon delivered on February 15, 2026 | Propitiation Propitiation meaning, at its simplest, is this: Jesus Christ became our high priest, took the full weight of human guilt before God, and resolved it — not managed it, not minimized it, but removed it entirely. Most of us have never used that word out loud, but if you have ever carried guilt that self-awareness could not fix, that time h...  Read More