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Drop Your Nets

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 July 6, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Are you following Jesus—or just admiring Him from a distance?Jesus never drops the bar on what it means to follow him. He doesn't try to hide it but smacks people with it up front! In a world where we emphasize self-care and self-esteem, this message explores how Jesus' radical call to follow him involves self-denial.
📍Scripture: Luke 9:23-25

Stop Letting Self-Pity Ruin Your Story

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 June 22, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Self-pity can quietly drain your strength, cloud your perspective, and keep you stuck. It can even lead people to justify all kinds of poor behavior and sins. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus shows us a better way.
This sermon dives deep into Mark 14:32–42, revealing how Jesus didn’t just model courage under pressure—He endured unspeakable agony in your place. When His suffering becomes personal to you, it will give you new power to face your own trials with perseverance and purpose.
💡 Topics Covered:
- What self-pity really is—and its negative effects
- The difference between self-pity and self-compassion
- How Jesus’ active and passive obedience secure your worth
- How beholding Jesus in Gethsemane drives out self-pity
📍Scripture: Mark 14:32–42

What Our Restlessness Reveals

Christian Lee (2025 June 22, Sunday, Storyline Church)
Why are we so restless—even when we’re busy, successful, or surrounded by good things?This message explores how our inner ache often points to disordered loves—when we put something above God in our hearts. But rather than condemn us, that restlessness becomes a holy invitation to return home.
This sermon challenges us to: recognize our restlessness, repent of misplaced loves, and reorder your heart on God's love by fasting from distractions and leaning into the spiritual practices that lead to true rest in God.
🎧 For anyone feeling tired, distant, restless, or spiritually off-center—this is for you.
Passage: Psalm 42:1-2 (ESV)

You Become What You Behold

Christian Lee (2025 June 8, Sunday, Storyline Church)
In a culture saturated with distractions and endless scrolling, many fail to realize we are being molded and shaped by what we give our attention to. The war for our attention is actually a war for our formation because as 2 Corinthians 3:18 reveals, you become what you behold. Whether you feel stuck in your faith or hungry for a deeper, more authentic walk with Jesus, this message will challenge your habits and call you to behold the new prototype for humanity, the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Passage: 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)

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