Posts with the category “weekly-messages”

Christmas reminds us that God gave himself fully to this broken world. Think about that, God in his immeasurable fullness, gave himself fully, to us! Is that what you think when you think of Christmas...  Read More

We are a society that is enslaved to time.  There are many companies who have as their sole purpose, to make time saving devices.  We have laptop and tablet computers, cell phones, pagers, PDAs or a h...  Read More

This year looks truly different for most of the world. In the midst of a pandemic, political upheaval, and social injustice many of us have seen that in many ways, our world remains consistent. Partic...  Read More

If this is your first time tuning in to our podcast, I’m so glad you did! My name is Shawn Burgs and I’m the lead pastor of this Church Movement, called Movement Church. I get the honor each week of j...  Read More

Lately we’ve been discussing principles of becoming a fruitful follower of Christ. The Bible tells us we will know a tree by its fruit and we want to ensure that we are being fruitful and effective fo...  Read More

Evangelistically Faithful: Matthew 28:19-20Jesus Followers place their confidence (Romans 1:16) in the authority of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:18) by a willingness to instruct all whom they encounter (Ro...  Read More

With the current events and happenings in the world, there is a great call for prophetic preaching, but prophetic preaching doesn't mean that I tell you good things—prophetic preaching also afflicts t...  Read More

Politics divide like no other. This week we wrestle with what it means to be politically active, and yet still charitable toward those who disagree with us. With Christ as our ultimate authority, we w...  Read More

This Sunday, Pastor Dre teaches about good stewardship from Luke 21:1-4. Let’s take a look:"1 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. 2 And He saw a poor widow putting...  Read More

The Seven Habits of Fruitful Jesus Followers are practical barometers of our spiritual health and a guide for our progress as followers of Jesus. This week, we look at Healthy Families (Relationships)...  Read More

Sermon RecapThis week, Pastor Dre teaches about what Paul is trying to eliminate from our lives out of Ephesians 5:3-8."3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as i...  Read More

The Seven Habits of Fruitful Jesus Followers are practical barometers of our spiritual health and a guide for our progress as followers of Jesus. These Seven Habits were chosen by Pastor Dre to set a ...  Read More

We regularly attend church, know the hymns by heart, and teach our children about Jesus. We are doing the right things. So why do we feel so empty? Although Jesus promised His followers abundant life,...  Read More

Documentarian Melody Gilbert follows three girls' daily lives -- a 3-year-old Minnesotan, a 7-year-old Norwegian, and a 10-year-old German -- who share a sporadic disease: congenital insensitivity to ...  Read More

ARE YOU IN POSITION FOR YOUR DELIVERANCE?EXODUS 14:10-16: “10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to t...  Read More

“Waking up to preach this message, I ‘ve had to admitted to myself that I didn’t feel like doing this today. As John Coffee famously said, "I is tired Boss…"I FEEL COMPLETELY INADEQUATEResume for Fail...  Read More

With all that’s happening, we feel compelled to say something. Let’s start by defining discrimination, prejudice, and types of racism.Discrimination is differential, negative, and unequal treatment of...  Read More

We extinguish the fire of “more” in our lives: the burning desire to look a certain way, to temporarily fulfill the ache of happiness, to get more, buy more, and own more through the discipline and pr...  Read More

The simplicity of possessions moves us to contentment; the plainness of speech moves our attention onto others; the simplicity of finances moves us to generosity. The simplicity of pleasure and the pr...  Read More

After laying the foundation for the practice of simplicity, we move on to take materialism head-on. Materialism can influence life satisfaction both positively and negatively. The more you get, the mo...  Read More

After the redundancy, waste, and vanity of modern fashion is an ancient biblical story in which clothing is a response to sin and shame (Genesis 3:7-10).Throughout the Scriptures, Jesus and the writer...  Read More

Have you ever spoken words that you wished you could retract?Have you ever lashed out in anger? Spoken words of harsh criticism out of bitterness or a spirit of revenge? Prideful terms of Strife and C...  Read More

Everyone wants to be famous! It may seem fun but there’s tons of drawbacks that have very well known. We all want to be loved for what they have done and who they are. Did you know that 50% of the peo...  Read More

We are constantly distracted by everything, the ploys of advertising and the propaganda of more. Luke 12 helps us simplify our perspective and align it with Jesus’ teaching. There’s a point Jesus make...  Read More

We’re slowing down to focus on moving up, moving out and moving in.Silence, Solitude, Rest and Sabbath. Not only being with Jesus but actively trying to become like him. This season has given us an ex...  Read More

Why is focusing on Jesus the right way to focus? He’s proven himself to us. He’s remained faithful throughout others’s hardships and the proof of scripture allows us to be invited into a posture that ...  Read More

COVID-19 then the protests, then we remembered we have an election on top of it all. What happens if we decided to focus on Jesus? The author and perfecter of our faith? What if where we give our focu...  Read More

We’ve been haunted by the words “I can’t breathe” echoed by Eric Garner and George Floyd alike. We’ve also been convicted by Christ’s final words as he struggled to breathe on the cross. Pastor Shawn ...  Read More

How you see God is how you Love God. In our process of coming to grips with Generational sins and blessings, and how family influences us we need to reinvent how we see God if we are to move forward w...  Read More

As people we are prone to stumble and fall and to hurt one another, but in this week’s message we are looking at how we ask God for the faith that is strong enough to forgive others when they let us d...  Read More

NEW SERIES ALERT! We’re jumping into what it looks like to love each other and to love our city to life for the sake of a powerful Gospel movement. How do we share the power of the Gospel in our citie...  Read More

We’ve talked about generational hurts and patterns, but we haven’t talked about generational blessings. Its Mother’s Day, mothers are for sure a continual blessing to us all for their incredible daily...  Read More

We’re rounding out our series inspired by the initial shock of COVID-19 revealing our own dysfunctions with a powerful sermon tying everything from the past month and a half as we reconcile our own dy...  Read More

Patterns sneak in often and it takes a focused effort for us to identify and address them for what they are, especially in the context of family and family history. Sometimes these patterns become fou...  Read More

The first step to changing into the image of Christ is to reckon and deal with our past. Its our responsibility to evaluate and deal with our past. We can not begin to recognize the breadth and depth ...  Read More

What Comes Next? COVID-19 has cast a cloud of uncertainty on all of our lives. The Disciples after the crucifixion and resurrection asked these things as well. We like the disciples find ourselves in ...  Read More

Triumphal Entries are amazing. They never disappoint and God never disappoints especially during his triumphal entry in John 12:12-13 at the beginning of holy week. So how do we respond to Christ’s tr...  Read More

Sometimes busyness gives us a false sense of purpose. Success doesn’t tie directly to our busyness. Make no mistake, what we do matters and our busyness affects everyone around us. Sometimes, taking a...  Read More

We live in a culture that is GO! GO! GO! 24/7 Nonstop working, you have work, you have your side hustle, you have your social life, and your family life. The Discipline of rest was instituted all the ...  Read More

Are you curious about Movement Church? What we stand for and how we approach what we stand for? This sermon from Covenant week is a great introduction to the work God is doing in Movement Church as we...  Read More