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Renovation Church is a multiethnic community in Atlanta, GA where you can belong and be loved while you work out what you believe

Renovation Church Sermon Podcast Léonce B.Crump Jr.

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.8 • 52 Ratings

Renovation Church is a multiethnic community in Atlanta, GA where you can belong and be loved while you work out what you believe

    Jesus Revolution | Courage Under Fire | Acts 4:1-12

    Jesus Revolution | Courage Under Fire | Acts 4:1-12

    Our host culture, for many reasons—some understandable—is oppositional to our faith in Jesus. We are unlikely at this stage to face the end of a knife or even lose our job for loving Jesus, but there is still opposition, and if we are honest, we do not want to contend with it.
    If you are anything like me, the threat of opposition can create a palpable fear in you. And then, when you give in to the temptation to shrink in the face of resistance to your faith, a wave of shame usually follows. 
    “I should have said more…” “I should have said something…” “I knew the truth and I pushed it down.”
    But can I encourage you? Fear and shame should not have the power to silence your faith. Every person who practices the way of Jesus should be able to live a courageous faith.
    I do not say that without empathy. Rest assured that I completely understand the fear and shame that arise from not being bold about my faith. I am intimately familiar with those emotions. But you can overcome those emotions.
    Over the years, especially the last four years, I have gained what can only be called a holy confidence, and that confidence came through repeated exposure to the Holy Spirit. 
    Being filled and refilled with God’s Spirit keeps the truest truth at the forefront of my mind—who I am in Jesus is what matters most. I encourage you to embrace that same truth, and courage will come, courage that does not fold in the face of aggressive or passive-aggressive opposition.
    In Acts chapter four, Jesus’ followers find themselves similarly faced with a moment that will test their mettle.

    • 39 min
    Jesus Revolution | Times of Refreshing

    Jesus Revolution | Times of Refreshing

    “I don’t believe you can be at your optimum without your faith. Sports is sports, it’s a game. My faith is everything. It’s the gas that propels the courage, the truth, keeps me going. It’s the wind, it’s the wings, it’s the air that pumps into my lungs that provokes me to live. Faith is everything.” - Coach Prime
    By all accounts, Coach Prime is a faithful representative of the message and work of Jesus, using his platform to reflect the need for diversity in coaching and, more importantly, to make much of Jesus.
    And I believe, like Coach Prime, you want to be a faithful representative of the message and work of Jesus. You may not have his reach or platform, but if you are engaged with Jesus and His people in any way, beneath everything, this is a desire of your heart.
    But there's a challenge with your and my ability to be faithful representatives of Jesus’ message and work, right? I am sure your mind is swirling with all of the possibilities, but one stands out from any other possible answer—Many of us don't trust the message of Jesus.

    • 36 min
    Jesus Revolution | A Community of Healers | Acts 3:1-10

    Jesus Revolution | A Community of Healers | Acts 3:1-10

    Do you see the brokenness that surrounds us, hidden often by bright lights, exciting events and blissful ignorance, or do you think I am over-exaggerating? 
    The question reminds me of a funny conversation I had with my little bro, Jason, who worships here with his family. At lunch, I asked him, “Are you as tired as I am of seeing trash all over the streets in our city?” To which he replied, “I don’t think I have ever noticed.”
    A few days later, he texted me, “Why did you do this to me? Now that I see it, I can’t unsee it, and I see it everywhere!” 
    Whether you believe what I am sharing is true or think it is overblown, the reality is that once you open your eyes to see it, you cannot unsee it. 
    And even before I shared those several examples, many of you were already affirming the thought in your mind—there is a great deal in need of healing in our metro.
    When discussing brokenness, one question often leads to another, and the question of “why” is inevitable. Why do these things exist? If you practise the way of Jesus, then I imagine you think, as I do, that sin has shattered all of creation, especially humanity.
    And because of that needed healing, I know many of you want to see communities transformed because broken people and situations are healed and made whole. I truly believe many of us want that very thing in light of what we have seen and cannot unsee. We want to solve it.
    But there's a problem with fulfilling that hope: our city's brokenness' often seems too consuming to heal.

    • 30 min
    The Jesus Revolution | A New Social Reality

    The Jesus Revolution | A New Social Reality

    Forming deep, meaningful relationships takes time, and it cannot happen if we allow the busyness we adopt and the isolation it causes to win the day. Deep relationships only form when our lives are unhurried and communally grounded.
    And it is the desire of your heart. You want to be in a life-giving community. You want deep, lasting friendships. You want to find your people for the years ahead and the moment life ends on this side.
    But there's a problem with getting what we want—the pace of our lives has led to our isolation, which leads to incredible loneliness. Researchers realised that Americans were lonelier than ever before the pandemic hit, leading them to conclude that we have an epidemic of loneliness. - Cigna Health Group

    • 33 min
    Small Group Showcase

    Small Group Showcase

    • 17 min
    Transfiguration Sunday

    Transfiguration Sunday

    C.S. Lewis poingantly wrote, in his work Mere Christianity, “I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher ... You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool ... or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
     Jesus left us little room to believe He is a mere man, and I believe we want to be confident about Jesus and not unsure. But there is a problem, and it may be so obvious that you overlook it. It’s doubt. Doubt is a subtle, creeping thing. It does not come on all at once.

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
52 Ratings

52 Ratings

cass.miller15 ,

LOVE these podcasts

These podcasts are an amazing way to start and end my day. I love hearing Leonce preach and I feel like I’m actually in Renovation church just listening to these. I saw Leonce on a YouTube video of racial reconciliation years ago and have followed him ever since. He has a was of speaking that makes you feel like his friend and gives the cold hard truth. I love the vulnerability and rawness in his messages. God is truly working. I hope to one day visit Atlanta and go to Renovation church and see all that God is doing!

VA mtn girl ,

Not Bible teaching

There is no “systemic racism” in America. But there IS a lot of false information. We need to come together as the body of Christ and look past our color and cultural differences. Let’s do what Jesus said, Love one another!

FireFileHead ,

Saved My Life

I first visited this church as a wayward prodigal. God has used all of the elders, pastors, as well as lay members of the community to teach me The Gospel. I grew up a pastor’s kid with a rebellious heart and it took twenty-seven years as well as this very special breed of church (one that is transcultural, theologically sound, intellectually honest, and methodologically charismatic) for The Holy Spirit to break through my stubborn mind and hardened heart. My soul is now safe thanks to Renovation. This is my church and my family and I’m so thankful for them!!

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