Pastor Nathan continues our current sermon series, with the age old question of Kingship. In our modern era the term "King" may feel ancient and outdated, yet when we look around we can see that this is still relevant to us in the American context. Nathan walks us through the passage in 1 Samuel, where the people ask for a king and the Prophet warns them of what that will ultimately entail. God, in the story, allows the people to get what they want. This sermon searches the complexities of this ...
Jul 07, 2025•27 min
Rob Surratt brings a powerful message out of John 8, centered around Jesus responding to the pharisees regarding sonship. Rob make a clear and compelling contrast between earthly fatherhood and God, the heavenly father, urging us to examine the questions of "Who is your Father?" Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Jun 16, 2025•21 min
Derrick Collins returns to preach a message from the book of Revelation. The message that God has won and reigns now and forever, our calling is to live into that reality. A powerful word that reveals to us the biblical principle of ownership, submission and grace. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
May 20, 2025•24 min
Elder Paul Granger brings a timely and challenging word from the book of Philippians. He unpacks the invitation to Kingdom Commitment, exploring why it often makes no sense, presents significant unknowns, and requires us to step beyond our human limitations. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
May 06, 2025•30 min
Pastor Nathan continues our Kingdom Come series with the parable of the Mustard seed, found in Matthew 17. He couples this with the story of Peter walking on water, each account giving a unique angle on how Jesus views faith. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Apr 29, 2025•23 min
The Gospel has always been counter cultural, transformative and threatening to the status quo. Pastor Nathan encourages us to submit to God's Kingdom during this Easter season and not the empires of our time. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Apr 23, 2025•28 min
Co-Lead Pastor Don Coleman walks us through a simple yet profound look at the Lord's Prayer and it's connection to God's Kingdom. He shows us how God has remained the same throughout history and it is our job as the "Ekklesia" is to get to know the Jesus of the Bible. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Apr 15, 2025•28 min
Elder Sherika Chew, walks with us through the parable of the Sower. A powerful message about the soil of the heart and the realization that the message of the gospel will not be received by everyone who hears. Sherika brings an honest and unique perspective to this familiar passage, where the listener can see that she has wrestled deeply with the words of Jesus. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on...
Mar 18, 2025•29 min
Derrick Collins preaches on the parable of the weeds from Matthew 13. The parable illustrates how a farmer sows good seed, but an enemy introduces weeds among the wheat. Derreck reflects on the nature of God's Kingdom, contrasting it with worldly power and emphasizing spiritual transformation. The message encourages believers to recognize the enemy's schemes without fear, highlighting that the world has already been changed through Christ's sacrifice. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTu...
Mar 10, 2025•27 min
Abigail George continues our series Kingdom Come with the parable of the Vineyard. She shows us the uniqueness of Christian citizenship and pushes us to really grapple with the words of Jesus. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Mar 07, 2025•29 min
Pastor Nathan reflects on the passages from Matthew 18 and 19 where Jesus emphasizes the importance of humility and childlike faith in the kingdom of heaven. He teaches that greatness in the kingdom comes from taking a lowly position, as exemplified by children. The message highlights the need to welcome children and the marginalized, reflecting God's love and acceptance. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Fo...
Feb 24, 2025•19 min
Pastor Nathan reflects on the mustard seed and yeast parables found in the book of Matthew. These stories beautifully illustrate how small beginnings can yield great results, highlighting the importance of patience and active waiting needed for God's kingdom. Nathan encourages us to seek God's direction communally and prayerfully, recognizing that the kingdom's manifestation requires time and sensitivity to the Spirit's work. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our websi...
Feb 19, 2025•24 min
Rob Surratt walks us through the parable of the hidden treasures, found in Matthew 13. He contrasts the biblical definitions of God's kingdom in the Old and New Testaments, highlighting the need for a deeper understanding of God's nature . Rob discusses parables used by Jesus to convey deeper truths, suggesting that true treasures are often found in ordinary places. He reflects on the transformative power of Jesus' love, urging us to recognize their worth and the call to serve others. Watch full...
Feb 11, 2025•25 min
Pastor Nathan addresses the metaphors of salt and light found in the gospel of Matthew. He takes time to highlight the fundamental properties of both elements, and how we might apply this to our modern spiritual context. He also opens up the mic for the congregation to share examples they have seen in their own life. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Feb 04, 2025•42 min
Pastor Nathan continues our sermon series by showing us what a citizen of God's kingdom looks like, according to the Beatitudes. He shines a spotlight on how the world views a "hashtag-blessed" life and contrasts that with the teachings of Jesus. Unsurprisingly, the values are drastically different. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Jan 28, 2025•22 min
Pastor Nathan discusses the early ministry of Jesus as depicted in Matthew chapters 9 &10. Nathan shows us the importance of living in light of the new reality of God's kingdom, highlighting Jesus' compassion for the crowds and his commissioning of the twelve disciples to spread the good news and heal the sick. The prerequisite of being used by God is not our holiness, but our willingness. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Fol...
Jan 21, 2025•26 min
Pastor Nathan kicks off our new sermon series, Kingdom Come, with the story of Jesus calling the first disciples. In this sermon, Nathan sketches out the new reality that God's Kingdom ushers in. A Kingdom that causes people to drop everything to follow its King. Join us as we seek to understand the type of kingdom that God called the first disciples into and how that applies to us in our modern context. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our New...
Jan 14, 2025•27 min
We wrap up our Repairers of the Breach sermon series with a panel discussion with 3 members of our congregation. Diamond Walton, Elena Aronson and Denzel Mitchell share their experiences and insights, stressing the necessity of humility in conversations about race and the value of diverse perspectives. The panel was hosted by Abigail George, one of the elders of our congregation. It was originally recorded on Sunday, December 15th, 2024. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Vis...
Dec 17, 2024•54 min
Our current sermon series continues into the first week of Advent. Pastor Nathan reflects on Jesus' ministry as described in Luke 4:14-22, where Jesus claims to fulfill Isaiah's prophecy by preaching good news to the poor, freeing prisoners, and healing the blind. This holistic approach combines spiritual and tangible freedom, urging the church to engage in justice and repair work. Pastor Nathan shows us the importance of discernment in joining Jesus' work and the transformative power of recogni...
Dec 02, 2024•25 min
Elena Aronson, one of EEF's elders, reflects on the importance of community and the challenges of identity, particularly in the context of racial and social issues. Drawing from the biblical story of Nehemiah, she emphasizes the need for both physical and spiritual repair within communities. Nehemiah's response to the brokenness of Jerusalem serves as a model for acknowledging personal and collective sin, leading to confession and repentance. Elena pushes us to grieve the brokenness, recognize o...
Nov 18, 2024•25 min
Continuing in our sermon series Elder Abigail reflects on the theme of repair within the church and society, particularly focusing on issues of racial division and white supremacy. Drawing from the book of Ezra, Abigail emphasizes the importance of worship as central to the identity of God's people. The historical context of the Israelites' return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple serves as a metaphor for the need to restore authentic worship in the modern church. Too often the American church ...
Nov 12, 2024•31 min
In this sermon Rob Surratt, reflects on racial healing, humility, and the importance of collective identity versus individualism, using the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:9-14. Rob, encourages self-examination among white individuals regarding their privilege and the tendency to distance themselves from others, particularly in the context of systemic racism. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us o...
Oct 22, 2024•25 min
East End Fellowship Elder, Sherika Chew, brings a passionate word from the book of Ephesians. This is a heartfelt and challenging plea for us as believers to cling to Christ and his supremacy above everything else. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Oct 15, 2024•32 min
This sermon focuses on the account in Acts 6 of a dispute between Hellenistic and Hebraic Jewish widows. The apostles respond to inequity by empowered leaders who are members of the marginalized group to develop a plan to address the injustice in the community. This sermon focuses on the importance of surrendering power in order to ensure that those who have the least power are able to experience equity within Christian community. It challenges all of us to consider the cost of the type of commu...
Sep 16, 2024•28 min
In the second week of our new sermon series, Pastor Nathan draws from the traumatic story found in Numbers chapter 21. God punishes Israel for their disobedience by sending venomous snakes among them and instructs Moses to lift up a bronze serpent as their path towards healing. The sermon connects Israel’s trauma with the reality of racial trauma today, emphasizing that the path to racial healing today involves facing the very realities that have harmed us. Watch full video of this sermon on our...
Sep 10, 2024•27 min
The first installment in a new series, this sermon focuses on the story of Jesus healing the paralytic by the pool of Bethesda and Jesus’ initial question to him: “Do you want to be well?” Pastor Nathan invites us to acknowledge that the spiritual sickness of white supremacy has affected and infected all of us, yet the good news is that Jesus has come to make us well. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow...
Sep 03, 2024•40 min
Derrick Collins wraps up our Divine Interruptions sermon series, by sharing with us a story from the early church. A powerful message that challenges us to put to death whatever belongs to our earthly nature, to live as those made alive in Christ, and to grab a hold of our true identity. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Aug 20, 2024•28 min
Pastor Nathan examines Noah's experience of a divine interruption that led him to build something that could interrupt the trajectory of brokenness in his society. God’s call on his life required time, resources, and energy, but enabled him to play a role in the type of world that God sought to build. What type of community does God desire to build in our church? How can we provide a safe haven for our surrounding community? How is God positioning us to interrupt brokenness in our city? Watch fu...
Aug 13, 2024•29 min
Desireé Lucas, our Duke Divinity Intern for the summer, brings us Yuletide greetings in the dead of summer. Her sermon highlights the story of Mary and the virgin birth of Jesus, found in Luke chapter 1. Get ready to experience this narrative in a new and personal way. Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Jul 23, 2024•24 min
Elder Elena Aronson walks us through what kept the prophet Jonah from being able to respond obediently to God’s call. The narrative of Jonah and his resistance to what God was saying to him holds a particular relevance to us as a Church today Watch full video of this sermon on our YouTube channel Visit our website Sign Up for our Newsletter Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook...
Jul 15, 2024•20 min
