Mosaic Boston

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Or for us here today, good afternoon. My name is Andy. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic, along with Pastor Jan and Pastor Shane. This is a prerecorded service. We are meeting online right now this Sunday, because the temple where we meet has plans and preparations for one of their great annual holidays. So, we are meeting online. We look forward to seeing you next week. Thank you for just being flexible, after a long season of being flexible. But we pray that the Lord would continue to work profoundly through the mediums of technology that he's given to us. Today, we are continuing. Before I go into that, if you are new to Mosaic, you can still sign one of our connection cards. You can click on a link and fill one out. If you want to learn certain information about the church, the body here, our values, community groups, fill that out. We want to get to know you. We will follow up with you. Please do that. But today, we are continuing in our series, Balm Psalms. We've b

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. And it's so good to worship together. If you'd like to connect with us and you're new, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the Connection Card and the Worship Guide or in the app or online. We'd love to get connected with your information and we would like to send a little gift in the mail to say, "Thank you for coming out." With that said, would you please... Oh. One quick announcement. Next Sunday we are not meeting in person. Unfortunately. We will be meeting online. And I will be in the Facebook Live chat. I really enjoy that. And there might be a chicken wing question. Who knows. Who knows. Would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word? Lord, we thank you for the Holy Scriptures. We thank you that the Holy Scriptures reveal so much about your character. About how gracious you are. About how loving you are. How pure you are. How holy you are. And we thank you t

Audio Transcript: Good morning. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. If you're new, if you're visiting, welcome. We're so glad you are here. We'd love to connect with you. If you'd like to connect with us, we'll do that through the connection card that you hopefully received, or you can fill it out online. With that said, would you... Happy September, by the way. We're entering the most glorious season in Boston, September and October. It's all downhill from there, so enjoy. Would you pray with me over the preaching of God's Word? Holy God, we thank you that you are a great God. You are a glorious God. You are an all-powerful God. You care for us. I pray, Lord, that you bless these series in the Psalms. I pray, Lord, that you deepen our devotion for you as you expand our vision of you. Not only are you glorious, but you are beautiful. You are so creative. You are the greatest artist, and you're the greatest poet. I pray that your Psalms, your poetry, becomes our poetry, that these words b

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Church. My name is Jan, one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy. And if you're new or if you're visiting, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through the digital connection cart which you can find in the app, or on our website or if you're watching online in the comment section below. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Oh, holy God, I pray that you today open our eyes to the reality that is all around us, a reality of holy war, of spiritual warfare, the reality that there are two kingdoms with two kings both vying for the same throne, the throne of our hearts for now. And I pray today, Lord, that you show us that when we come to you, Jesus, when we ask for you to forgive us of our sins, to liberate us from sin, to liberate us from the shackles of sin that you also call us to submit our wills to yours for you are the great King of Kings. Lord, I pray that you give us d

Audio Transcript: We're back. Hallelujah. Praise you Jesus. I've gotten a lot more charismatic over the past six months. Praising God. Hallelujah. Praise you Jesus. I'm so glad we're back. Welcome if you're new to Mosaic, we'd love to connect with you. We do that through a digital card and either on the website or in the app. We are still in our sermon series in the book of Luke transitioning soon. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word. Heavenly father what a good father you are, you're a father to us corporately and you're a father to us individually. And we thank you for adopting us into your family because of the work of your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus you are our older brother. You are our Lord and savior. You paved the path for us. You made the way for us to follow you and follow you into the presence of God the father by the power of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit we pray today, we ask for more of you. Jesus, you promised that when we ask more of the Holy Spi

Audio Transcript: Good morning Mosaic, most of you, some of you. It's a foretaste of next Sunday. So glad to see every single one of your eyes, and glad you're here. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessing it is. What a blessing it is to gather as your people. It's so good to come together in the House of the Lord. Jesus, You are here amongst us. We feel Your presence and we pray by the power of the Holy Spirit, minister to us today. Speak a powerful word to us and show us how desperately we need the only good Samaritan, the only truly ultimately good Samaritan. Jesus, You offer us mercy. And some of us are too self-righteous and blinded by our self-righteousness to accept the grace and mercy, the compassion that you so long to pour out into our lives. Then once we receive that mercy, make us a people who extend mercy to others. It's hard, it's costly, it's emotionally taxing, but you're always there to refill our

Audio Transcript: Good morning. My name is Andy. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic along with Pastor Jan and Pastor Shane and it is good to be here today in the full glory of my quarantine hair with all of you after being behind the screen, facilitating the Facebook activity during our services the past few months. Today I just want to jump right into the text. First of all, I'll remind you, if you're new to Mosaic we want you to fill out the connection card. Even when we're online, we are going to hammer this home. We want to get to know you. We want to try to build true community here we gather, still online via Zoom via Google Meet and Word of God moves through those platforms. So if you'd like to get more connected to our church, ask questions, submit prayers, please fill that out. We'd like to get to know you. Today, I just want to jump right into the Scripture. We're continuing our series in Luke. The last passage says, ends with anyone who wants to do the work, continue the work and the heaven,

Audio Transcript: Hello. Welcome again to our livestream service. So glad to have you watching along with us. If you're new, I especially want to welcome you. My name is Shane. I am one of the pastors here at Mosaic. As Pastor Andy mentioned earlier, we would love to connect through our digital connection card. You can find that link in the description of this video, or it should be popping up in the chat if you're watching on Facebook or YouTube. If you fill that out, can you give us some information about yourself? We would love to follow up with you this week and just send a small gift to your email to thank you for being with us. Then you can also check off on there to receive some more information from us about ways to get connected here at Mosaic. The last couple of months have been pretty crazy for our family. Beyond just COVID crazy, we made the decision back around May, that it was time for us to begin looking for an apartment and to move. We began that process. Part of the reason is... My name is

Audio Transcript: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Mosaic. If you're new, or if you're visiting, please fill out a Connection Card online. If you're tuning in online, I just need to share how rapturous that experience was. I feel like today is my birthday, it's Christmas, it's Easter, it's my anniversary and it's pay day all in one. Just singing in person, seeing my brothers and sisters in person, what a gift this is. Hopefully, we'll reopen soon. August 26th is the date, tentative date. While we prepare for that, we are doing living streaming as you see. As Pastor James said, "Please excuse the technical difficulties." With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Holy God, what a gift your presence is. What a gift the presence and the fellowship of our brothers and sisters is. Lord, thank you for giving us the gift of your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus, we thank you that you came in the flesh, God incarnate. That you tabernacled with us. That you pitched your tent to b

Audio Transcript: Good morning church. That is if you are watching it live on premiere. But if you're not, then good afternoon or good evening or good whatever time you are watching this. I'm so glad to be here speaking God's word to all of us, including myself, as Pastor Jan pointed out two weeks ago. I'm preaching to myself today and it's an encouragement to be with you all and speaking with you. Today we're actually going back to a series that we had started a while ago, going through the book of Luke and we're picking up right where we left off, Luke chapter 9. And we're going to be looking at verses 18 through 27. And what we're going to be talking about today is this idea that I call outliers of faith. Now, many of you have heard this term outliers before, many of you may be haven't. And it's something that when I looked up the definition actually had somewhere around 10 different definitions. So it could mean a lot of different things. So I want to be clear about what I'm talking about. And I'm goin

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to another edition of Mosaic-Brookline Online. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you're doing well. I hope your getting some sun, Vitamin D. It's very important. And, I hope you are enjoying the summer despite everything around us. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's Holy Word. Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are a God who has designed us in a way where we can experience joy and satisfaction and fulfillment as we are close to you, as we pursue you, as we are in relationship with you. And Jesus, we thank you that you didn't just come to forgive us of our sins, but you came to replace our sins with something else, to replace our sins with yourself and tell us that you are the bread ... Your body is the bread and your blood cleanses us from sin, and you replace that with satisfaction by the power of Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, we recognize today that we do have a spirit leak, every single one of us, and we do need to be fi

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to another online service of Mosaic Boston, Brookline. My name is Jan Vezikov, one of the pastors here along with Pastor Shane and Pastor Andy. Pastor Andy and his wife, Joyce, just had their baby this weekend. I think I can announce it. I don't know if they've announced it. Congratulations, Joyce and Andy. We are so happy with you, praying for you. Happy 4th of July weekend. I hope you are planning some time to spend with family, friends, enjoy some grilling, go to the beach, enjoy the good gifts from our Father. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy Word. Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you that you are a good father, that you want the best for us. And the best for us is the path that you laid out in the gospels. And at the center of the gospels is the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ, who didn't just walk a path, he laid the path, he ran that race for us in order to give us his righteousness and take our sin

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Hello. Welcome to another online edition of Mosaic Boston, Brookline. If you are tuning in online, live, thank you so much. We're so glad you're here. Take a couple moments say hello in the chat below. If you are at the beach while we are watching online, enjoy. But thank you for listening after you came home, or on the ride back, and paying attention. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's Holy Word? Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you. We thank you for the gift of life. We thank you that you have designed us to be people who live lives of joy rejoicing in you, and we experience the utmost joy when we are the absolutely, absolutely closest to you. And Lord, show us that often, the fact that we don't pursue you, the fact that we don't press into you, the fact that we don't strain forward, and press ahead to get as close to you as possible. That's actually the cause of so much of our unhappiness, our sadness, our depression, our a

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to another edition of Mosaic Boston, Brookline, online. So glad that you are joining us. Hope you are encouraged. Hope you're staying strong in the Lord and abiding in him. Would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's Holy Word. Heavenly Father we pray for peace in our nation. We pray for peace in our city. Lord, I pray that you continue to make us agents of reconciliation, agents of change. Make us peacemakers. As you told us, blessed are those who are peacemakers. And I pray, Lord, give us grace to do that. And Lord, remind us that apart from you not one of us is righteous, apart from you not one of us can justify ourselves, and apart from you we are not good, not at the center. And I pray, Jesus, that you apply your grace to our hearts today, that we take all of our earned righteousness, all of our merit, and we count it as loss in order for us to gain Christ, initially in justification and daily in sanctification, to take everything Lord that you em

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to another online service of Mosaic Boston, Brookline. Hope you're well. Hope you are abiding in the Lord, rejoicing in him, meditating in the gospel, and being filled with the Spirit daily. So happy that you are tuning in with us. Would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we pray that you bless our time in the word today. You have, every single week during this crisis. We felt it. People are being ministered to by your word and we're thankful for that. And I pray today, Lord, encourage us in the faith. I pray, Lord, encourage us with the example of Jesus Christ who came not to be served but to serve. Encourage us with the example of St. Paul who did the same. He served. Encourage us with the examples of Timothy and Epaphroditus, godly people, godly men who gave everything, sacrificed everything in order to encourage the faith of others, in order to plant the seed of the gospel, in order to plant churches. Lord, bless our t

Audio Transcript: Hello, welcome to another online service and Mosaic Boston - Brookline. So, glad that you are tuning in with us in this truly chaotic time. We are confronted with another confluence of crises with the COVID crisis and now the racism crisis, the chaos on the streets. There's no more important time than now to turn to the Lord. Would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's word? Heavenly Father, I pray that you bless our time and the Holy Scriptures. Lord, I pray with the psalmist in Psalm 44. I pray awake, O Lord. Why are you asleep, O Lord? Rouse yourself. Why have you forgotten us? How much longer will you turn your face from us? How much longer will you forget our affliction and calamity? Lord, bless our time, the holy word. I pray, Lord, take this word and comfort us. Comfort those of us who are grieving. Comfort those of us who are fearing. Lord, send us peace in our hearts to make us agents of peace in the world, agents of reconciliation to help reconcile our neighbors w

Audio Transcript: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to another edition of our Mosaic Boston Brookline online worship services. So glad that you are with us tuning in. Say hello in the comments section below if you're on Facebook live. Also, just a word to our regular attenders, if we have your email address and you are on our newsletter, you have received this week a survey, and we would love if you could give us the feedback, fill it out. It would help us tremendously in gathering all the information we need to gather so that we open a Mosaic and open well. With that said, would you please pray with me over the preaching of God's holy word? Heavenly Father, we love you. We thank you, Lord, that you are Father, and that you have many children, and that when you call us to be one of your children, you call us into a family. And Lord, we know in any family conflict arises. And I pray, Lord, that you today show us that by the gospel of Jesus Christ through grace you humble us. The gospel is t

Audio Transcript: Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Whatever time you're watching, thank you so much for tuning in to another edition of our online worship service. Take a moment to say hello to the people. If you're watching on Facebook live, in the comment section, send some emojis, some care emojis, heart emojis, whatever. Good morning. We're so glad that you're tuning in with us. If you're from the Boston area, from Massachusetts, you know that this week, Governor Baker issued the first stage of reopening the State, and religious gatherings are included in that stage, in that phase. And we are excited about that and optimistic. However, we are cautiously optimistic. Mosaic is a larger church. And in larger church, decisions like this are much more complex. There's many more moving pieces. So, we are taking this next week, couple weeks, to gather as much information as we possibly can to make the most prudent and informed decision we possibly can. So, we will, as a pastoral staff, send

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic Online. Good morning, Brookline. Good morning, Jamaica Plain. We are for the next few weeks here doing a series in Philippians. And so Pastor Jan and I are going to be switching back and forth in an act of gospel partnership, and we'll be talking more about that in just a minute. So thank you for being with us today. If you're new and you're watching, we encourage you to comment in the chat and let us know you're here, and we'd love to be able to talk to you more. If you have any questions about the message, if you have any questions about the service of the church, please get in touch with us. Also, the Connect Card is the best way that you can do that. We have a digital Connect Card and you can put as much information on there as you're comfortable with and we would love to get back in touch with you to help you stay connected to Mosaic, help you stay connected to anything really that has to do with the church. We would love to talk to you, so please fill

Audio Transcript: Good morning. Welcome to Mosaic church Brookline. My name is Jan. I'm one of the pastors here at Mosaic. Hopefully you've got a nice mask like I do. I got this from my dad. My only problem with this thing is, fogs up my glasses so can't see a thing. Happy Mother's Day, everyone. Here in the beginning, just a quick announcement. Could you do me a favor? If you're watching on Facebook right now, could you please hit the share button? I hate to ask. Feels like self-promotion, but it's basically the easiest way to share the gospel ever. Just press that button. Or if you're watching on YouTube, hit the subscribe button, and like, and comments and all that. It helps us get the word out. Also, if you are visiting, welcome. If you're not part of the Mosaic Brookline community, we'd love to connect with you and we do that through the connection guide. The link will be down in the comments on the Facebook Live premiere. And then also, we have another connection card either on our website or in our a