Haven City Church Sermons

Josh Turansky
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Haven City Church started in Baltimore City in 2017. The church is committed to the weekly proclamation of the Gospel.

  1. Amos 9

    6d ago

    Amos 9

    Amos delivered a devastating word to a prosperous people who had mistaken God's patience for His approval. Within 38 years, every word of judgment came to pass — the Northern Kingdom was scattered across the Assyrian Empire, the booth of David reduced to rubble. But Amos wasn't finished. Against all odds, God promised to raise what looked irreparably broken. Seven hundred and ninety years later, James stood up at the Jerusalem Council, quoted Amos chapter 9, and said: "This is happening right now." The resurrection of Jesus was the moment the booth of David was raised — and the nations bearing God's name were always in the plan. If you've ever wondered whether you belong in Israel's story, this chapter has your name in it.

    45 min
  2. Amos 7-8

    May 26

    Amos 7-8

    In this message, Pastor Josh continues our series in Amos by walking through God’s visions of the plumb line and the basket of ripe fruit. We’ll see how Israel mistook God’s patience for permission, how Amaziah the priest embodies the danger of managing God’s word instead of receiving it, and how these warnings point us to Jesus—the true plumb line and the One who bears the judgment our sins have ripened for. This sermon calls us, here in Baltimore, to stop assuming we’re “fine” and to respond to God’s kindness with real repentance while there’s still time.

    44 min
  3. Amos 6

    May 18

    Amos 6

    In this sermon from Amos 6, Pastor Josh Turansky explores why God says, ‘I loathe Jacob’s pride,’ and how that word speaks directly into life in Baltimore today. Walking through the text, he shows how Israel’s pride took the form of complacent ease, insulated luxury, and practical atheism—using God’s gifts to hide from God’s heart. Then he contrasts biblical pride with a healthy, gospel-shaped self‑image as ‘blessable image-bearing covenant partners.’ Finally, he points us to the alternative God desires: humble, grieving dependence—people who are grieved over the ruin around them, who boast in the Lord rather than their own strength, and who follow the pattern of Christ’s self‑emptying humility.

    46 min
  4. Amos 5

    May 12

    Amos 5

    In this sermon from Amos 5, Pastor Josh explores what it means when God says He actually hates His people’s worship—not because He’s against singing or gatherings, but because their rituals are divorced from justice, righteousness, and real repentance. Through Amos’ funeral lament over “Virgin Israel,” the repeated invitation to “seek Me and live,” and the warning that the Day of the Lord will be darkness for complacent religious people, we see a God who both mourns our rebellion and urgently calls us back to Himself. The message lands in the gospel: Jesus steps into the Day-of-the-Lord darkness on the cross so that compromised, churchy people like us can find forgiveness, new life, and Spirit-empowered lives where worship and justice finally flow together like a never-failing stream.

    46 min
  5. Amos 4

    May 4

    Amos 4

    Amos 4 will help us ask an uncomfortable but freeing question: What if some of the hard things in our lives are not random, but invitations from God to come back to Him with our whole heart? Together we’ll hear the sobering call, “Prepare to meet your God,” not as a threat for other people out there, but as a gracious warning for us—to repent of empty religion, selfish comfort, and injustice, and to rediscover a living, responsive walk with the Lord.

    45 min
  6. Amos 1-2

    Apr 27

    Amos 1-2

    Haven City Church Sermons

    45 min
  7. Amos 3

    Apr 27

    Amos 3

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    43 min
  8. Matthew 24:29-35

    10/23/2025

    Matthew 24:29-35

    In this sermon Josh Turansky teaches from Matthew 24:29-35, contrasting the kingdom present in the heart (Sermon on the Mount) with the future kingdom revealed in the Olivet Discourse, asserting that belief in Christ's return is necessary to justify the hardships of living as a kingdom citizen now. Jesus details the immediate post-distress cosmic cataclysms, the visible arrival of the Son of Man on the clouds with power and great glory to gather His elect, and instructs believers to interpret these signs—which will occur within a single generation—as assurance that He is "near, at the door".

    49 min
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Haven City Church started in Baltimore City in 2017. The church is committed to the weekly proclamation of the Gospel.

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  • Creator
    Josh Turansky
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    187
  • Rating
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