Come Home: Part 1 - Easter 2024 - New Community Church of Tacoma

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Come Home: Part 1 - Easter 2024

March 31, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Luke 15

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15, where we find the great lengths God will go to find what he lost...his children whom he so greatly loves. On this Easter we begin a new series about the Prodigal Son story, which exposes our hearts to God's lavish love, grace, mercy, and desire to be in restored relationship with us.

Come Home: Part 4

April 28, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Luke 15, Galatians 2:16, Galatians 3:6, Genesis 15:6

Bo Noonan finishes our series Come Home by looking one last time at Luke 15, where we see God's commitment to find what has been lost. In this teaching we take time to look more deeply into the biblical truths of justification and sanctification. If we misunderstand the differences in these two truths we can find ourselves trying to earn God's love rather than learning to receive it as a gift we never could earn. God's joy, and all of heaven's joy, is MASSIVE towards each of us who has been found! As we meditate on this truth it motivates our loving obedience - not to earn God's love, but to live out the truth that he knows what is best for us!

Come Home: Part 3

April 14, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Luke 15:1–2, Luke 15:11–32, Revelation 21:4–5, Matthew 8:20

Bo Noonan teaches through Luke 15:11-23, the story of the prodigal son in our series Come Home. He takes a deeper dive into the concept of "coming home" and how Jesus came to make a way for humanity to do just that.

Come Home: Part 2

April 7, 2024 • Bo Noonan • Luke 15:1–2, Luke 15:11–32, Leviticus 11:44, Luke 18:14, Psalm 138:6

Bo Noonan teaches through the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32 during our series "Come Home". In this teaching he lays out two main worldviews that encompass most cultures: moral conformity and self-discovery. Both of these worldviews are seen clearly in this story, and both - according to Jesus - fall short of what God has called us to. We see in this story that the good news of Jesus is fully for the person who is trying to create their own self-focused world AND for those who feel that their obedience has earned them something from God. The good news of Jesus shows us that both of these worldviews are deeply wrong, yet all of us who hold these worldviews are deeply loved. Our great need is that we admit our need and submit to the love of Jesus.