Submerge Sermons

“Forgiveness is love’s hardest work–and love’s most important work.” We all face the choice constantly in every relationship (and with ourselves)--forgiveness, or resentment? Learn with us what forgiveness really IS and is NOT, how it actually adds to healthy boundaries, and how to get really good at it...

Conflicts are inevitable in nearly every relationship--so how do we get really good at navigating them (like Jesus did)? On Sunday we learned some practical skills of "peace-making", including how to start "believing the best" instead of "assuming the worst" in conflicts, situations, and people!

Learning how to have healthy boundaries in our lives is a vital skill for all of our relationships, and actually frees us to be able to help even more people! Jesus was a master at boundaries, and can help us grow in them. On Sunday we learned from His stories & Paul's teachings, how to "carry our own loads", "share each other's burdens", and love well...

Our words carry "the power of death and life", and are vital to having healthy relationships--which must be why the Bible has so many words about our words! On Sunday we learned new perspectives & practical skills on how to "speak like Jesus" and let our words become life-giving fountains to others.

Learning how to "love well" and have healthy relationships with each other is a key part of our relationship with God (Jesus said so!). And the starting point for learning to love others well is learning to how to listen well--just like Jesus listened to others, and listens to us...

God doesn't give us hope just to hoard it--but to share it, to become "hope dealers"! In this message we learn how to share hope everywhere we go, in ways that are natural to us and compelling to others. We learn how to become "ushers instead of bouncers" and "build wells instead of fences"--so that everyone can experience the hope of Jesus!

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do to give someone else hope, is to speak words of encouragement to them--and it's something we are called to do daily! Learn with us some beautiful, powerful, & practical insights from the life of the underrated Barnabas on how to let God bring hope in encouragement through us & to us...

We all have to face our failures, mistakes, & regrets--but did you know they don't have to have the last word in our lives? That God has lots of hope & grace waiting for us? In this message we learned how to embrace the hope, freedom, & forgiveness that lies in front of us in Jesus--and that even though we can't change our past--He can change our future!

We all face the storms of life regularly in our lives--and they can either push us away from God, or draw us closer to Him and be used in powerful ways in us & in others. Which will you choose? Learn with us how to find hope in God & learn new perspectives when life gets hard...

Hope isn't just something we need when our world is falling apart-- it's something we need every morning when we wake up & face our daily lives. In this message we learned from Peter's powerful story of attempting to walk on water, and from some important insights in his letters, about how to choose hope each day, what to "set our hope on" each day, and how to find the beautiful "counterweights" of life that balance out the hard stuff.