New Life Fellowship NYC Sermons

Episode 261: Honor Your Father and Mother

March 25th, 2019  |  56 mins 4 secs

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In this sermon, Pastor Rich explores the 5th Commandment, Honor your father and mother. For many, this commandment contains many challenges due to the complexity that often marks our families. Pastor Rich highlights some of the important nuances of this commandment aiming at helping us see the liberating ways God wants to work in our lives.

Episode 260: Becoming World Class Christians - Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil

March 18th, 2019  |  52 mins 52 secs

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In this powerful message, Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil declares that the world is waiting for us and to get ready to be deployed as world class Christians.

Episode 259: How Free People Live - Remember the Sabbath

March 12th, 2019  |  55 mins 30 secs

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Pastor Rich continues our sermon series on the 10 Commandments. He offers some fresh perspective on the ancient practice of Sabbath-keeping. Sabbath-keeping is one of New Life's most important values, and through this message, we hope you will start the journey of keeping Sabbath or deepen it.

How Free People Live - Do Not Misuse His Name

March 4th, 2019  |  39 mins 12 secs

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In this third sermon on the Ten Commandments, we explore what it means to misuse the name of the Lord and how a free people of God are truly meant to speak.

Episode 257: How Free People Live - Do Not Make any Idols

February 27th, 2019  |  47 mins

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In this second sermon on the Ten Commandments, Pastor Rich explores the act of creating idols, and the impact it has on our lives with God. Far from being a distant practice in the ancient world, we learn how subtle this practice is in our everyday lives, and what it looks like to be set free.

Episode 256: How Free People Live - No other gods

February 19th, 2019  |  49 mins 53 secs

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In this sermon, Pastor Rich starts a new series on The 10 Commandments. He offers an introduction to this iconic and historical treasure of faith, while exploring the urgent need to take these words seriously. This sermon series will highlight the grace of God and demonstrate how everything in the 10 Commandments ultimately points to God's decisive action through Jesus Christ.

Discerning and Deciding to Step out of the Boat

February 11th, 2019  |  46 mins 23 secs

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In this final message of our Discernment series, Pastor Rich preaches through a familiar New Testament story. He explores the call to discern God's will, which results in taking a step of faith. He speaks to themes of courage, failure, and hope in the discernment process.

Episode 254: Orange Sunday

February 6th, 2019  |  56 mins 3 secs

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A special panel discussing the important role of our Family Ministries and the impact that has on a child's spiritual life and development.

Episode 253: Prudence as a Way of Discovering God's Will

January 28th, 2019  |  48 mins 1 sec

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In this sermon, Pastor Rich explores what it means to "use our heads" as we seek to discern God's will. He offers practical ways to think through some of the decisions before us, and show how God's grace moves towards us as we prudently reflect on our lives.

Episode 252: I Need You, You Need Me, We Need Him

January 23rd, 2019  |  43 mins 50 secs

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Special guest Kelvin L. Walker continues our series on Discernment, helping us to see how God comes to us through each other.

Episode 251: Understanding and Following Your Heart

January 14th, 2019  |  46 mins 31 secs

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In this sermon, Pastor Rich explores the importance of understanding and following your heart as an important element of discerning God's will. This sermon will explore commonly held ideas about the role of our feelings in gaining clarity about the direction God is calling us to move towards.

Episode 250: Discovering God’s Will For Your Life

January 7th, 2019  |  35 mins 59 secs

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To kick off the new year, Pastor Rich leads us in a new sermon series entitled, Discernment: Discovering God’s Will for your Life. If you are facing important decisions that require special direction from the Lord, this is a series you don’t want to miss. Pastor Rich preaches from Psalm 40:1-8.

Episode 249: Stick With Me

December 31st, 2018  |  44 mins 6 secs

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Scripture passage: John 15:1-8

Jesus encourages us to stick with Him as the source of the full potential of our lives.

The Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us

December 28th, 2018  |  20 mins 26 secs

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In this Christmas Eve homily, Pastor Rich Villodas explores the central message of Christmas through John 1:14

The Crucified God at Christmas

December 26th, 2018  |  48 mins

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In this message, Pete explores the unimaginable reality, and beauty, of our crucified God who frees us from demonic powers and sin, and longs for us to draw near to him. Pete applies this specifically to an invitation from God to quit rushing and to quit judging others – two tactics of the Evil One to cut us off from Him .

Episode 246: Recognizing Jesus

December 17th, 2018  |  44 mins 5 secs

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One of the greatest tragedies in history is the refusal to recognize Jesus. This sad reality has been repeated throughout history. In this Advent sermon, Pastor Rich leads us as we continue to explore John 1:1-14. He preaches on the ways we don't recognize Jesus, and the hope of growing in recognition of his presence in our lives.