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Church IRL: Covenant Over Content

Christian Lee (2025 June 1, Sunday, Storyline Church)
In an age of endless content, how does the local church still matter?
In this message, we explore the difference between consuming online spiritual content and belonging to a covenant church IRL. Following Jesus isn’t just about what you watch—it’s about who you walk with. The Church isn’t just another piece of content to chew on, it’s a sacred people you commit to.
⚠️ If your faith has become content-driven, individualistic, and detached, this sermon is a voice calling you back to the church and the indispensable grace that's found within.
⛪ Three Elements of Speaking the Truth in Love
⛪ Covenant vs. Content
⛪ How the application of biblical content carries more substance than the accumulation of it
⛪ Curating your image is overrated, what we all desire is to be fully known
⛪ The local church as an exceptionally unique institution that carries the dynamics of a movement
⛪ A call to reimagine what the church is and what it can be
 
Passage: Ephesians 4:14-16 (NLT)
 

Two Ways You Can Be Lost

Christian Lee (2025 May 25 Sunday, Storyline Church)
What does a respected religious insider and a scandal ridden outsider have in common? The rule keeping Nicodemus and the rule-breaking Samaritan woman couldn’t be more different. Yet both are hiding, both are spiritually thirsty, and both have an encounter with Jesus. Whether you’ve been running from God or trying to earn His approval, this message is for you.
➡️ Discover the two ways people can be spiritually lost: one is by breaking the rules. The other is by keeping them.
➡️ Why do I still feel empty even when I’m doing everything right?
➡️ Hear the invitation to drop your pride, leave your water jar, and step into the life God designed for you.
Passage: John 3, 4

You're Not a Foreigner, You're a Forerunner

Christian Lee (2025 May 18, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Have you ever felt like an outsider? Social alienation, marginalization, or rejection are some of the most painful, visceral emotions we can experience. If you are living away from home or working/studying in a new environment, have you ever asked, “Why am I here?” Does it feel like you’re just surviving? This message helps you see that you are not here by accident, you are here on assignment. You’ve been sent with purpose and power to courageously build the future. Exile is where God forges his most courageous people.
Passage: Jeremiah 29:5-7 (ESV), John 20:21 (ESV)

The Foundation of Every Identity

Christian Lee (2025 May 11, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Modern stories are constantly bombarding us with the message that external expectations are oppressive and true happiness can only be found in detaching, leaving the community, and going out to find ourselves. Identity affects our behavior, attitudes, emotions, and values. How I live and act flow out of who I perceive myself to be. How are we doing identity formation and what does the Bible have to say about it?
Passage: 1 Corinthians 4:3–4, Philippians 3:8, 9
 

The Thief of Comfort

Erin Lee (2025 May 4, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Currently, a badly needed emphasis on emotional health has been wonderful for the body of Christ. But when emotional health becomes the main goal, people can interpret anything that's uncomfortable as being bad. This can lead us to confuse comfort for wholeness and idolize it at the expense of our personal growth and a life of faith.
Passage: Judges 6
 

How to Handle the Tests of Life

Christian Lee (2025 April 27, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Life is full of tests. Small and big. Nobody likes tests but you can’t advance without it. Following Christ is about preparation and practice so that when a test comes, it feels like an opportunity rather than a trap. Whether a test is an opportunity or a trap depends on your preparation and attitude. We unpack the wisdom in the Lord's Prayer for handling the tests of life.
Passage: Matthew 6:9-13, I Corinthians 10:13 (ESV), James 1:2-3 (NLT)Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 7 of 7
 

Overcoming Unforgiveness

Christian Lee (2025 April 20, Easter Sunday, Storyline Church)
Unforgiveness. Nothing has ended more friendships, more marriages, resulted in deteriorating mental health, physical health, church splits, started more wars... there's no cause greater than an unforgiving heart. If you live in a fallen world, you can’t avoid getting mistreated, abused, injured, and hurt. Thus, you’ve got to learn how to overcome an unforgiving heart. It’s as dreadful and deadly as being diagnosed with high blood pressure or heart disease or cancer. But too many Christians in the church don’t deal with it with the level of seriousness it deserves. Today we’ll be looking at how to overcome an unforgiving heart: how forgiveness is essential, how it is simple, how it is complex, and where we get the power to forgive.
Passage: Matthew 6:9, 12, 14-15; 18:21-35 (ESV)Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 6 of 7

Three Traps of Petitionary Prayer

Christian Lee (2025 April 13, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Many Christians believe that prayer is wonderful. Prayer fills us with joy, peace, and hope. But how come so many people struggle to pray regularly? Is it solely an issue of procrastination or lack of discipline? One reason people struggle with prayer is because they are unaware of the traps of prayer. The traps of prayer can lead someone into futility and cynicism. Today’s teaching will touch upon these traps and how daily bread can help you overcome your struggle with prayerlessness!
Passage: Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV)
Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 5 of 7

The One Prayer Everyone is Scared Of

Christian Lee (2025 April 6, Sunday, Storyline Church)
This is the one part of the Lord’s Prayer that many of us have a problem with. We got no problem with ‘your kingdom come’ or ‘give us this day our daily bread,' but we feel an aversion to “your will be done.” Why do we have such a problem with, “your will be done”? Why do we find it so scary?
Passage: Matthew 6:9-13 (NIV)
Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 4 of 7

The Kingdom Wins When We Lose Well

Christian Lee (2025 March 30, Sunday, Storyline Church)
As we pray, “your kingdom come,” here in the already-not yet period, we rest on what is already true of us in Christ and we fight til the day we receive the fullness of everything in the not yet. But the way that we fight and win looks different than the way the world fights and wins. The way we win in the kingdom is through following in Christ’s steps of servanthood and sacrifice. And in a fallen and broken world that is hostile to God, that often means the kingdom wins through losing. When the kingdom is consummated at Christ’s return, Christ will win by triumphing militarily and in justice over his enemies. But until then, Christ seeks to sanctify and prepare a bride that is pure, spotless, and loves him for him. This means the kingdom comes by losing. And this can only happen by... not just losing, but losing well.
Passage: Matthew 6:6, 9-13 (NIV)
Sermon Series: The Lord's Prayer, 3 of 7