New City Church - Nashville

This sermon from Trey Hayman is about The Lord's Prayer and how you see God. Everyone views father figures in different ways due to personal life experiences, so how can we trust in God if our view of who God is has been drastically wounded? "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." - Matthew 6:9-13

This sermon from Trey Hayman is about practicing to pray utilizing the Lord's Prayer. "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." - Matthew 6:9-13.

This sermon from Darrell Gwaltney is about praying with the psalms. This sermon we learn different approaches to prayer alongside using scriptures, such as Psalms, as guidelines to prayer.

This sermon from Kristoff Hart is about simplicity. About how stripping away the complexities of life can lead to a richer relationship with God. "Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody." - 1 Thessalonians 4:10b-12

This sermon from Trey Hayman is about what it means to walk into the light. "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." 1 John 1:7

It's one thing to have an idea of community. It's another thing to have it. In this message, Pastor Trey does a deep dive into Acts 2:42-47, looking at the early church and what that means for our context today.

You need community, but if you've ever been around it, you know it is not cheap. It takes time, energy, and money. It takes forgiveness and much more. In this message in our community series, we're talking about the cost of community and why it is worth it for you to still pursue the type of deep relationships God wants for you. If you're looking for a place to get connected, we'd love for you to join us sometime. www.newcitynash.com

The story of the Bible starts with God making things and calling them good. The sky, the sea, the birds, the fish — good. Humans — very good. So what's the first thing in the Bible God specifically says isn't good? Here's a hint: it wasn't lying. Or murder. Or stealing. Or greed even. Pastor Trey opens a new series on the theology and practice of community with Genesis 2:18 — "It is not good for the man to be alone" — and traces the theme through the whole story of Scripture: you weren't made to be alone. God made you for family. Community is not optional for the follower of Jesus. It's not an addendum. It is absolutely essential.

What does it mean for you, if Jesus truly rose from the dead and if He is truly who He claims He is? Why is that the most beautiful and good message in the world? What does it mean about who you are and what you're meant to do? In this final message of the You're Invited series, Trey Hayman walks line by line through Matthew 28 — the passage famously called the Great Commission. Throughout this series we've been looking at invitations from Jesus and how people responded, in an effort to learn what His voice sounds like when He calls to us. Thus far they've been invitations to come to him, to follow him, to let the children come to him, to come down, to come and have breakfast. But this week we're looking at an invitation to go. Or rather, to come with Him in his going to seek and save the lost and make things right. This message covers: — The objections to the resurrection that the Bible itself records (Matthew 28:11-15) — Why worship and doubt can coexist — What it means that Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and on earth — What a disciple actually is, and what it means to make disciples — Baptism, teaching, and the promise of His presence If we want to grow into who He's made us to be, we have to go. New City Church is a church in Nashville, TN, seeking to be people of presence, for the good of our neighbors and the glory of God. 📍 newcitynash.com #GreatCommission #Matthew28 #NashvilleChurch #Discipleship #Sermon

Why does the risen Jesus cook breakfast over a charcoal fire? The only other charcoal fire in John's gospel is the one in the courtyard where Peter denied him. In this message from the You're Invited series, Pastor Trey walks through John 21 — where Jesus meets his disciples doing the most ordinary thing imaginable, fishing — and shows how God often speaks through the ordinary to bring healing to the places our bodies still remember. Three denials. Three questions. One invitation: come and have breakfast. Sometimes the places we most feel ashamed are where we most need freedom — and the same voice, by the same sea, still says, "Follow me."

Zacchaeus wanted to see. He was a chief tax collector — wealthy, and considered a notorious sinner, an outsider, a guy who didn't belong with those who had their theology right. And the text doesn't whitewash his background. The Bible isn't in the business of pretending people didn't do the things they did — which is what makes the grace and forgiveness all the more astonishing. The crowd is presented as a real obstacle. Sometimes people are the barrier for you seeing Jesus. Have you been kept from seeing Jesus by the crowd? And a message for the church: are we the crowd here — blocking people we don't think should get to see Him? So how did Zacchaeus see? He positioned himself in a place where he knew Jesus was going to walk by. Here we get a very important lesson about learning to hear Jesus in your life: if you want to hear from Him, position yourself in a posture of paying attention. And what he finds out is that though he was looking for Jesus, Jesus had been on a mission, looking for him. At some point it has to move from knowing about Jesus to knowing Jesus — from looking at to being with.

Two men follow Jesus down a road and he turns and asks, "What do you want?" Their answer isn't what you'd expect: "Rabbi, where are you staying?" Not fix this. Not get me out of here. But what is it like to be near you? Jesus' response is an invitation still open to every person searching for more: come and see. Come and look around. Get to know me. This message traces the word menō — abide, remain, stay — through John's gospel and lands on the practice nobody puts on the highlight reel. They came, they saw, and they stayed. And in that staying, it was enough to reorganize the rest of their lives. Because you cannot be formed by someone you're not around. There's no version of this where you get the fruit without the vine. The curse of our modern times is that we want life change without the effort. A cultivated garden in an afternoon. But this isn't the way. The way is to accept the invitation. Scripture: John 1:35-39. Recorded at New City Church in Nashville, TN.

When you mess up, what do you hear? Not just "I messed up" — but "I'm a failure. I never do anything right." Voices that may have been around a long time. And if we're really honest, they're underneath a lot of our decisions. In this message from our series You're Invited, Pastor Trey looks at Mark 10 — where parents bring their children to Jesus for blessing, a rich man runs up asking what he must do to inherit eternal life, and Jesus' voice is notably different than what we expect. The only thing Jesus is said to be angry about is people standing in the way of people encountering Him. The qualifier is admitting you need Him. And that isn't a statement meaning you now are defeated — it's a statement about reality. You needed Him before you knew you did. So how do we become like children? We come humble and hungry. If you want to hear God's voice in your life, it means coming open handed.

Every yes is also a no. Whenever we say yes to one thing, we're saying no to other things — and a lot of us forget that reality, feeling pressure to be all things to all people. In this message on learning to hear the voice of God, we sit with two things Jesus said in Luke 14: a direct invitation to a banquet, and a statement about what it costs to respond. We look at why we settle for something that isn't God's best, why we struggle to believe his ways are actually better, and how a commitment to follow Jesus is also a commitment not to follow or worship other gods. We don't say no because God wants to ruin our lives. We say no because we want a better yes. You don't have to settle for less. Come — the banquet is ready, and it's a wedding feast. And whose wedding? Ours.

This week we transition into a new series on learning to hear God's voice and what God's voice sounds like. As Trey shares, when he was in college, he came to believe that God didn't only speak through the Bible, but through the Holy Spirit — not against Scripture, but in accordance with it. But that left a problem: what does it feel like to hear God's voice? How do you know for sure if it's God's voice and not your own? Anybody ever wondered that? We start in Mark 1 and 2, in the calling of Simon, Andrew, James, John, and Levi the tax collector — four ordinary people working ordinary jobs, and another guy working a job people really didn't like. Jesus comes to them while they're working and says, "Follow me," and immediately they leave everything. We so often miss this in the discipleship stories. We get caught up on "would I follow like that?" But it wasn't anything in particular about the people or what they offered. It was about the one who called them. When it comes to hearing God's voice, so often we fixate on what he's calling us to do. But it's about who is calling you and who he is calling you. Following him here was relational: follow me, walk with me, talk with me, be with me. That's what discipleship starts with. God wants to spend time with you, and he wants to speak with you. The qualifier is just admitting you need it. God wants you to hear his voice more than you want to hear his voice. And we believe he already is and already has.

Look, I am coming soon. These are nearly the last words of the Bible — and the question for us today is this: would you notice Jesus if he came to meet you today? Here and now? Throughout our series, we've talked about what Revelation is and what it isn't. For many, it's been a book about deciphering the signs of the end of the world. But the word apocalypse doesn't mean "end of the world" — it means unveiling. It's pulling back the curtain to see beyond what you can see. Revelation, as Eugene Peterson said, is not about prediction. It's about perception. So more than a code book for the future, this book pulls back the curtain on the present — on the dragon and his beasts, on power and propaganda that claim Jesus's name but look nothing like him. And it pulls back the curtain on where Jesus actually is: standing among the lampstands, among his church, wiping every tear from our eyes. The one we worship isn't far off. He's close. He isn't playing hard to get. The prayer "Come, Lord Jesus" may be one of the most dangerous prayers you can pray — if you mean it. And frankly, even if you don't. As we close our journey through Revelation, four questions to pray: Jesus, where am I wrong about you? Where do I not trust you? Where am I worshiping created things instead of you? Where am I missing you in my life — will you pull back the curtain and show me? He is the bright morning star. The morning star appears when the night is at its darkest — still dark out, but it signals the night is over. Light is coming. Come, Lord Jesus. — If you're in the Nashville area, we'd love for you to join us. If you're not, we'd love to help you get connected with a local church. New City Church | newcitynash.com

It's easy to get lost in the monotony and struggle of life. Early on we spend so much time thinking about meaning and how to grow, and then we get more settled into our routines and it becomes really easy to get lost in the monotony and wonder, is this all there is?In this message through Revelation 21–22, we talk about our longing for something more. We sit with the question: what if the ache you feel in your soul is actually evidence of what you were made for? As C.S. Lewis said, creatures aren't born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. Maybe earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy that ache, only to arouse it — to suggest the real thing.We look at the new heaven and the new earth, the city our church is named after. Not a spiritual environment devoid of physicality, but more physical, not less. A God who doesn't just wipe away death and pain, but who wipes every tear from your eyes — intimate, close, not mad. A God who tells you your pain is not wasted. And the most sacred place no one could enter — the holy of holies — now thrown open as the whole city, with full access, no veil, forever.When you feel that ache, don't dismiss it. And don't blindly follow it wherever it leads. Look through it. Because what if it's true?🕊️ If you're in the Nashville area, we'd love for you to join us. If you're not, we'd love to help you get connected with a local church.New City Church | newcitynash.comPeople of presence, for the good of our neighbors and the glory of God.#Revelation #NewHeavenNewEarth #CSLewis #Hope #Nashville #Sermon #Christianity #Heaven

A note from Pastor Trey: As a kid, few things scared me more than hell. Every altar call, I thought it was for me. At some point I realized my relationship with Jesus really wasn't only a response to love — it was really about fear. This week we deal with a text that makes us face the things we'd rather avoid: the great white throne, the books being opened, the lake of fire. One of the beauties and challenges of preaching through a whole book of the Bible is that I don't get to pick and choose the texts I would like to preach. In this episode: why God being on the throne is really good news, what it means that God's judgments are just and true, the three main perspectives Christians hold on hell and how to test them against scripture, why God's justice is an extension of his love, and the one book that leads to life — the Lamb's book, which lists not my deeds but his. The question for all of us: are you letting the Bible determine your position, or are you just using the Bible to defend your position?

The text we read today is a fiercely debated text in Christian circles. Some have formed whole worldviews around it, made money off of it, and instilled fear into the hearts of millions — based on what is a theological persuasion. But when it comes to exactly what happens when Jesus returns, we agree on the central ideas more than we disagree. In this episode we walk through Revelation 20:1–10: the three views on the millennium (pre, post, and amillennialism), where dispensational premillennialism and the Left Behind series came from, where the rapture idea actually originated, and why it's not mentioned in Revelation. The frame is the millennium debate. The painting is Christ on the throne, Satan thrown down forever, and a new world coming. We can be technically right about the frame and miss the painting entirely. Jesus wins. Evil loses. God's people will face opposition, but Jesus' Kingdom will not be stopped. The best is yet to come. Don't spend your one life arguing about the frame and never once look at the painting. New City Church | Nashville, TN

Revelation is not just a book about the future. It's pulling back the curtain on the present moment, using wild apocalyptic biblical imagery to show you that Jesus is on the throne now and that he will come back to make all things right. In this sermon on Revelation 19:11–21, Pastor Trey Hayman walks through the second coming of Jesus and the central message of the whole book of Revelation: Jesus wins. He has won, he is winning, and he will win. What does Jesus win? What does it mean that his sword comes from his mouth and not his hand? Why is his robe dipped in blood before the battle even begins? And what does any of this have to do with the lies we believe about ourselves today? This sermon was preached at New City Church in Nashville, TN. Learn more at newcitynash.com. Key themes: A heavy dream Revelation as imagination, not just information What does Jesus win? Justice, the human heart, new creation The unholy trinity and the warning against cultural Christianity How Jesus wins — not by a sword in his hand, but by a word from his mouth When Jesus won the final battle (and why his robe is already dipped in blood) How we also win: lampstands, not lamps Why Jesus wins: because of who he is #Revelation19 #JesusWins #SecondComing #KingOfKings #LordOfLords #NewCityChurch #Nashville #Sermon #ReturnOfChrist