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The final week of No More Night. Week 1 was what heaven is, week 2 was what’s happening in the heavenlies right now, and this week Pastor Shannon O’Dell gets to the question the whole series has been building toward: how do you actually know you’re going? Three things. An atmosphere, out of Psalm 23, where God prepares a table in the presence of your enemies and there are only two chairs at it. Armor, out of Ephesians 6, with the helmet that tells everybody what team you’re on and the sword that’s really a dagger because spiritual battles are close-range. And a cross, because the other two don’t matter if you’ve never crossed over. It ends with the gospel laid out plainly and an invitation. If you’ve been living on a maybe, this is the one to watch.

Week 2 of No More Night. Last week was what heaven is. This week is what’s happening in the heavenlies right now, while you’re sitting there reading this. Out of Ephesians 6, Pastor Shannon O’Dell lays out the three heavens, the four ranks of the enemy’s team, and the angels working on your behalf as ministering spirits, as protection over your kids, and as escorts home. Then it gets practical with Moses’ hands, Daniel’s twenty-one days, and Job, where physical acts of obedience here move things there. It lands on atmosphere. You vote on what gets invited into your home, your car, and your mind, and the weapons for changing it are not carnal.

Week 1 of No More Night, a three-week series on heaven. The title comes from Revelation 22:5, where John is shown a place that never needs the sun again. Pastor Shannon O'Dell walks through two guided tours of heaven in Scripture, John's and Paul's, and then lays out six wonders: the three stages of heaven, what your body will be like, the rewards and crowns waiting there, what you'll actually do, who you'll see again, and what won't be there at all. It's a lot of Scripture in one sitting, and the notes in the Brand New Church app have every reference he doesn't get to out loud. Coming up: week 2 is how heaven participates in your life right now, and week 3 is how you get from here to there.

The final week of Cosmetheology Instead of Cosmetology. Pastor Shannon O'Dell lands on one of the strangest texts in Scripture: 2 Kings 2, where a group of young men mock Elisha for being bald and two bears come out of the woods. Before getting there, the message sets up who Elisha actually was. The double portion he asked for, the three things Elijah told him that got him there, and the fact that his bones were still raising the dead after he died. Then it gets practical. Honor God's house by belonging instead of attending, guarding it, and contributing instead of consuming. Raise a generation that honors authority. And watch out for the bear you think is harmless, because one in twenty-five will kill you no matter what you think of it.

Week 4 of Cosmetheology Instead of Cosmetology. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell is in Luke 7, where a woman with a reputation walks into a Pharisee's house, breaks open an alabaster jar, and wipes Jesus' feet with her hair. The message works through what she did and what Simon didn't. Praise is where Jesus shows up. Her past became her worship. And you get two options in the story: question it from a safe distance, or quit your old life and pour it out. It lands on the part most of us skip. Jesus already told us what he likes in worship, so stop projecting your version onto him and go read the receipts.

Week 3 of Cosmetheology Instead of Cosmetology. There are more than 100 verses about hair in Scripture, and this week Pastor Shannon O'Dell lands on one of the most personal ones. Out of Matthew 10, Jesus says the very hairs on your head are numbered. Not counted. Numbered. And in the original language, it was already finished before the world was made. The message works out what that means for how you live: fear God instead of everybody else's opinion, trust that you matter, give him all of yourself instead of a trimmed public version, and quit living in proving mode. It ends on the dream you've had sitting on the back burner, and five things that move it to the front.

Week 2 of our series on the stories of hair in Scripture. Last week was Absalom. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell takes on Esau, the hairiest man in the Bible, and the day he traded his birthright for a bowl of soup. Out of Genesis 25 through 32, the message unpacks what he calls the Esau syndrome: trading the when and then of heaven for the here and now of earth. It covers how to dodge impulse and hold onto your inheritance, two warnings for parents out of Isaac and Rebekah, and what changed in Jacob at the Jabbok when he finally stopped running. It ends where the whole thing has been going. A new name, a new walk, and change that carries past you to the next generation.

Absalom had everything going for him. Good looks, a following, and five pounds of hair he weighed in front of the whole town once a year. He also had ambition his father never handed him, and it cost him his life in a forest outside the city. In this message, Pastor Shannon O'Dell walks through 2 Samuel 14 through 18 and what the Bible has to say about hair, image, and the environments we wander into. The woods killed more of Absalom's men than the sword did. They were good soldiers. They were just in the wrong place. If you've been fighting a battle you were never called to fight, or carrying bitterness toward someone who hurt you, this one is for you. Scripture referenced: Matthew 10:30, 2 Samuel 14:25-26, 2 Samuel 15:1, 2 Samuel 15:6, 2 Samuel 15:24, 2 Samuel 16:23, 2 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 18:8-9

Family Game Night, Week 4. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell pulls out the OG Trouble box and talks about kids, because kids are trouble. The message walks through three "pop-o-matic parenting myths" a lot of Christian homes believe, then gets into what actually shapes the next generation. Out of 1 Timothy 3, Deuteronomy 6, and Hebrews 12, it comes down to getting your vertical relationship with Jesus right so the horizontal ones work. If you're a parent, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, a coach, or a teacher, this one is for you. It closes with four things you can start tonight, and a reminder that it's not too late.

Family Game Night, Week 3. This week Pastor Shannon O'Dell uses the game "Sorry!" to get at the difference between being sorry and actually asking for forgiveness. Out of 2 Corinthians 7, the message walks through what godly sorrow produces in a person and why worldly sorrow just leaves you with regret. It also gets into living offended, what offense does to your relationships over time, and the three words most people can't get out of their mouth. If you're carrying something from 2012 or 20 years ago, this one's for you.

Family Game Night, Week 2: Scrabble | Pastor Shannon O'Dell | Brand New Church In Scrabble you don't just play the first word you see. You look at the tiles you were handed and work for the best possible play. Pastor Shannon uses that picture to talk about communication in your home. Most relationship problems come down to a communication problem, and the words we throw out reactively are usually the ones that do the damage. This week covers six things worth scratching out better words for: your feelings, conflict, priorities, habits, building people up, and honor. Honor is the one that changes the game. Mark 6 says Jesus could not do miracles in his hometown because they would not honor him, and dishonor at home still costs us more than we realize. 10 verses to center your home on: Philippians 2:14 Proverbs 26:18-19 Proverbs 10:19 Joshua 24:15 Philippians 4:13 1 Corinthians 15:33 Hebrews 10:35 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Philippians 2:4 1 Corinthians 13:5 Also referenced: Proverbs 3:3-4, Philippians 2:5, Ephesians 4:25-26, Matthew 6:33, Ephesians 6:1, Colossians 3:20, 1 Peter 2:17, John 1:14, Mark 6:4-5, 1 Peter 3:7 All of these verses are in the Brand New Church app, ready to copy and send to yourself.

Jenga is Swahili for "build." You stack 18 levels, three blocks wide, and then everybody starts pulling pieces out. The tower stands or falls on one thing: what's underneath. Pastor Shannon opens a new series on the family with the game on stage and five building blocks that decide whether a home holds up. Authority. A Roman officer in Matthew 8 gets something most religious people missed, and Jesus is amazed by it. Get the order right (God, then your spouse, then your kids, then your job) and everything else has somewhere to sit. The Bible never says family first. It says seek first the kingdom. Identity. The day your identity shifts from Jesus to your kids is the day you stop living for Jesus and start living for them. Children are arrows, and arrows have a target. Three ways parents get this wrong: performance, reputation management, and emotional dependence. Plus the one nobody wants to hear, living vicariously through your kids instead of releasing them to be victorious. Responsibility. Nobody shapes your child's soul but you. Some homes are run by CEO kids who set the calendar, decide about church, and call the shots. Parents, be the CEO of your home. Priority. Priorities are what you say. Commitments are what you do. If you want to know what somebody actually prioritizes, don't ask, just look at what they're committed to. Shannon calls it the decision before the decision, and it's why he doesn't have to think about whether he's praying with Cindy tonight. Consistency. You're parenting a worshiper. That doesn't happen in a week. It happens when you do it again, and again, on the days you don't feel like it. Scripture: Matthew 8:5-10, Matthew 6:33, Romans 13:2, Psalm 127:3-5, Ephesians 6:4, 1 Timothy 5:8 Wherever your foundation is right now, you can go back and fix it. That's the whole point of the series. Subscribe for new messages every week from Brand New Church.

Jesus told Paul he was going to Rome. The sail should have taken three or four weeks. It took two and a half years. In between, Paul sat in a Jerusalem jail, got put on a ship that never should have left, spent 14 days in a storm with no sun or stars to steer by, watched all 276 people on board give up hope, and got bit by a snake about five minutes after washing up on an island he'd never heard of. None of that canceled what God said. We're in Acts 27 and 28 this week, walking through three things that didn't change the promise: the delay, the difficulty, and the detour. Delay shows you where you've started cutting corners. Storms show you what you actually trust when the cargo goes over the side. And Malta, the island nobody would have picked, is where the gospel landed and stayed. That island is over 85% Christian today, with a port named after Paul and a holiday every year for the day the ship wrecked there. You don't get to pick the storm. You do get to pick whether you trust Jesus in it and how you respond. Some of what we cover: The delay in your life doesn't change the promise over your life Cutting the rope on the lifeboat (Acts 27:30-32) God never promised Paul the boat. He promised him Rome. Paul shook the snake into the fire and got back to work Stay faithful where you are, because everything you need to get where you're going is already there Scripture: Acts 9:5, 9:15, 23:11, 27:20, 27:30-32, 28:1-10, Philippians 1:12-14, 4:22 If this one hit you, like it, subscribe, and send it to somebody sitting in a season they didn't plan on.

Jesus once pushed a boat out from the shore, sat down, and told seven stories that answered one question: what is the kingdom of heaven really like? In Week 4 of the Summer Boat Parade, Pastor Shannon walks through Matthew 13 — the only chapter where Jesus explains two of His own parables — and lands on the one picture that may describe the modern American church better than any other: a field where the wheat and the weeds grow side by side, looking almost identical until the harvest. If you've ever wondered whether you're truly saved or just familiar with church, this message is for you. You'll learn the five marks of a weed — compromise, callousness, compartmentalization, being "churched," and living on a maybe — and the four marks of wheat: committed, consistent, convinced, and a changed choice. "You can believe in soap and still die dirty. But you cannot live like hell and expect heaven." Don't wait on a maybe. Settle it today. 📖 SCRIPTURES: Matthew 13:1-30, Matthew 7:20-21, Luke 9:23, Romans 6:6-11, Galatians 2:20, Galatians 5:24, Colossians 3:3, Colossians 3:10, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 6:23, Romans 10:9, Romans 10:13, 1 John 1:9 🙏 MADE A DECISION TODAY? Let us know — [LINK] 📱 GET THE APP for message notes — [LINK] ❤️ GIVE — [LINK] 🌐 PLAN A VISIT — [LINK] Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the rest of the Summer Boat Parade series.

In Matthew 24, standing on the Mount of Olives, Jesus reaches back thousands of years and tells one more boat story — the days of Noah. A boat the size of a football field and a half. A door open for decades. And a world that walked right past it without changing a thing. This week in the Summer Boat Parade, we're asking a question that goes deeper than "am I saved?" — it's "what am I doing with the boat?" Because Jesus didn't just save you from something. He saved you for something. We'll look at how you know you're on mission: loving God supremely, trusting Him completely, obeying Him wholeheartedly, praising Him continually, and using your life willingly. And we'll walk through the questions that tell you you're building the right boat — does it agree with God's Word, does it make you more like Jesus, does your church family confirm it, and is it consistent with how God shaped you? The door is still open. There's still time to build. Scripture: Matthew 24:37 • Genesis 6:5, 6:8-9, 6:22, 7:4, 8:20 • Hebrews 11:7 • Philippians 2:5 • Proverbs 8:34, 11:14 • Luke 21:33