Rich Villodas
Host of New Life Fellowship NYC Sermons
Rich Villodas has hosted 339 Episodes.
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Finding God Through Suffering
February 15th, 2021 | 44 mins 49 secs
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To kick off the Lenten season we are beginning a new series through the book of Job. This Sunday, Pastor Rich gives an overview of the book of Job, and offers a way to respond to the pain and suffering that often comes our way.
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Life Together: Making Room for the "Other"
February 8th, 2021 | 44 mins 32 secs
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Hospitality in the Bible is quite different from how the word is used today. We will look at what it means in Scripture and how it draws us deeper into the love of God.
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Life Together: The Way of Forgiveness
February 1st, 2021 | 41 mins 31 secs
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The topic of forgiveness is one that we need to revisit regularly, as it makes or breaks community life. This Sunday, Pastor Rich preaches a message on the healing act of forgiveness.
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Life Together: Dealing with Conflict
January 25th, 2021 | 49 mins 33 secs
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Pastor Rich continues our series called Life Together. We take a look at one of the most important stories in the Bible that helps us navigate the conflicts we come across. We will gain some insights as to how to work through conflict in a way that is marked by love, integrity, and the way of Jesus.
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Life Together: Drawing Near to One Another
January 18th, 2021 | 40 mins 10 secs
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This Sunday, Pastor Rich starts a new sermon series on the importance and power of community. To start the series, we look at an important passage from the book of Hebrews on the call to draw near to one another.
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Not Forsaking Our Baptism
January 11th, 2021 | 44 mins 53 secs
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In response to this past week's riot on the Capitol, Pastor Rich preaches from Romans 6 as a word of encouragement to the church community.
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Giving Thought to our Ways: The 4 Most Important Questions for a Spiritually Healthy 2021
January 3rd, 2021 | 38 mins 35 secs
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The first Sunday of the year is a good time to make conscious changes and build new habits to ground us in God's love. This Sunday Pastor Rich offers 4 of the most important questions we need to ask ourselves as we launch into a new year.
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Waiting with Isaiah: God With Us
December 20th, 2020 | 38 mins 7 secs
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In this final Advent sermon of 2020, Pastor Rich preaches on the 3 most important words of the season--God with us. In a world marked by pain, isolation, and fear, these words demonstrate the heart of God, as well as the call to live faithfully in this world.
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Advent - Waiting with Isaiah
December 1st, 2020 | 43 mins 29 secs
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Today marks the beginning of the Advent season, a time of preparation for Christmas. During Advent we fix our attention on the coming of God in Christ. For the next four weeks we will journey with Isaiah the prophet, listening to his words of hope in a world marked by darkness, sin and injustice. This Sunday, Pastor Rich teaches on a vision Isaiah saw of the coming Messiah, and the hope this vision brings to our lives.
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Facing Trouble in the World
November 17th, 2020 | 33 mins 32 secs
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We live in turbulent and troubling times. Covid spread, economic hardship, racial unrest, and political uncertainty are some of our present realities. How do the words of Christ empower us to face trouble in our world? This Sunday, A. Redd Sevilla, Launch Pastor of New Life East, will explore the answer to this question. We invite you to read John 16 and 17.
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Resisting Powers and Principalities
November 9th, 2020 | 43 mins 39 secs
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In this final sermon from our God, Politics and The Church series, Pastor Rich examines the powers often hidden behind the chaos of our world. This message will help us recognize the larger battles before us and what it means to be faithful to Jesus in this polarized, political world.
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An Alternative Community
November 2nd, 2020 | 44 mins 40 secs
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Pastor Rich continues our God, Politics and the Church series with a call to remember our prophetic and counter cultural call to be a different kind of community.
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Resisting the Politics of Fear
October 26th, 2020 | 46 mins 26 secs
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In this sermon, Pastor Rich leads us to consider the ways fear is used as a strategy to perpetuate hostility and division. We will learn how to love well in ways that resist fear and promote healing in our world.
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God, Politics and the Church — Disordered Attachments
October 20th, 2020 | 41 mins 34 secs
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In this sermon, Pastor Rich explores the ways politics takes a place in our lives that damages our relationship with God and each other. He spends time teaching on “political enmeshment” and how to faithfully engage politics without losing our distinctive call to follow Jesus.
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God, Politics, and the Church
October 12th, 2020 | 40 mins 47 secs
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This week, we begin a new sermon series on "God, Politics, and the Church." In a world caught in political hostility, the call to be Christ-followers is desperately needed. Pastor Rich offers a vision of Christian formation that helps us resist political entanglements, while bearing witness to the healing power of Jesus for the world.
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Vision Sunday: Becoming Who You Already Are
September 21st, 2020 | 35 mins 32 secs
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Every September, we take the time to re-explore our Vision as a Church family. This Vision Sunday, Pastor Rich offers fresh insight into the kind of life that God calls us into. A life marked by particular values, rhythms and practices.