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In this service we read the whole of Matthew 18:1–20 asking what those famous words about confronting a brother or sister are actually for. Jesus spends seventeen verses on disciplining ourselves before he says one word about confronting anyone else. These aren't church rules. This is what a community looks like when following a King whose glory and suffering are for serving people. Here, Jesus affirms littleness rather than innocence. He gives stern warnings to the seriousness of harming one of these little ones. He is the shepherd who counts a hundred and asks where the one is. By reading all of Matthew 18, we can see the difference between confronting sin between believers and reporting crimes that belong to the authorities. Gospel Reading: Matthew 18:1–20  A NOTE ADDED AFTER RECORDING: Matthew 18 governs sin between believers. It does not govern crimes. Child abuse, assault, and sexual assault are crimes; they are reported to the police, and calling the police is the loving thing to do. This is love in action for the person harmed and for the person who did it. The Apostle Paul writes to the church in Rome that the governing authorities are God's servants, and that they do not carry the sword for nothing (Romans 13:1–7).Not all harm done by someone in spiritual authority is prosecutable. Sometimes the person harmed was an adult, or too many years have passed since the abuse happened. Like crimes, these fall outside what Matthew 18 is addressing. The text does not account for that kind of power imbalance.PLEASE KNOW — if someone with power over you used that power to harm you, Matthew 18 is not instructions requiring you to sit down alone with them first.If you need to talk to someone right now: National Sexual Assault Hotline, 800-656-HOPE (4673), 24/7. Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 800-422-4453, call or text. In immediate danger, call 911.For more on abuse in the church, go to GRACE at netgrace.org. Sunday Worship Service — September 6, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

Peter got the confession right saying "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God," and five verses later, Jesus called him Satan. In this message from Matthew 16:21-28, Pastor Scott Crowder looks at how the same stone that becomes a foundation can also become a stumbling block, and what it means to have the right confession about Jesus but the wrong position toward him.Scripture: Matthew 16:13-28 · Jeremiah 15:15-21 · Psalm 26:1-8 · Romans 12:9-21DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

This Sunday we read and considered Paul's charge in Romans 12 to offer our bodies — plural — as one living sacrifice. It's a passage most of us hear as a solo, exhausting demand; this morning's message unpacks why Paul actually wrote something more freeing: you are not the whole sacrifice, you're a member of one. Along the way we ask what it means to think accurately about ourselves rather than less of ourselves, and to trust the measure of faith we've each been given rather than someone else's. Sermon Text: Romans 12:1–8 (with Matthew 16:13–20) Sunday Worship Service — August 23, 2026 DreamHouse Church | Newport News, Virginia

In this Proper 15 worship service, we explore Isaiah 56, Romans 11, and Matthew 15 and ask whether our hope for salvation is wide enough to include the people we've quietly written off — even when following Jesus means being offended on purpose.Gospel Reading: Matthew 15:10-28Sunday Worship Service — August 16, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

Elijah is so worn out he asks God to let him die. God doesn't question him first, but feeds him without requiring Elijah to explain. This Sunday sits with that same rhythm found throughout Matthew 14, Jesus draws away to pray alone on the hillside while his disciples are sent out onto a storm-tossed sea, and when Peter's courage gives out and he starts to sink, Jesus doesn't correct him first, he grabs him. Drawing on St. Anthony the Great's teaching on the "three wars" of hearing, speaking, and seeing, this sermon asks what it looks like to draw away with the Lord before we're asked to do anything at all — and to hear, in the middle of the storm, an invitation that comes before any explanation: come and eat, come and drink. Gospel Reading: Matthew 14:22-33  Sunday Worship Service — August 9, 2026 DreamHouse Church | Newport News, Virginia Sermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

When Jesus in his grief over the death of John the Baptist meets a crowd of five thousand, he doesn't retreat. Matthew’s gospel tells us that he has compassion on them. Where the disciples just see the impossible, he invites them into something greater. "You feed them."  Drawing on N.T. Wright's sense of vocation and Pope Benedict XVI's writing on public faith, this sermon on Matthew's feeding of the five thousand asks what it means to bring what little we have — five loaves, two fish, our own exhaustion — into the hands of the One who blesses it, breaks it, and hands it back to a hungry world through ordinary people.  For the disciples, "you feed them" was about bread. For Jesus, it was an invitation into communion and fellowship with him, the one who sees people and has compassion. Gospel Reading: Matthew 14:13-21Sunday Worship Service — August 2, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

The kingdom of heaven does not arrive the way we expect. It comes small, hidden, unhurried, and free from any need to prove itself. Yet it is alive, resilient, and steadily transforming the world. And once its true value is seen, surrender becomes not merely a cost, but a joy.This week's sermon is by Daniel Amotsuka who walks us through Jesus’ parables of the kingdom in Matthew 13—the mustard seed, the yeast, the hidden treasure, and the pearl of great value.Join us as we consider what it means to loosen our grip on our possessions, expectations, and competing desires—and receive the freedom of life under God’s reign.Scripture: Matthew 13:31–33, 44–52 · Ezekiel 17:22–24 · 1 Kings 3:5–12 · Psalm 119:129–136 · Romans 8:26–39DreamHouse Church meets Sundays at 10 a.m. in Newport News, Virginia.Follow along and join us in person or online each week.

What do you do with a field that isn't finished sorting itself out yet? Jesus tells a story about a farmer who plants good seed — and an enemy who sows weeds into it overnight. When the workers want to pull the weeds immediately, the farmer says no: let them grow together until the harvest. This week we sit with that refusal, and with the question underneath so much of our lives — why doesn't God do something? — to find out that the answer was never "someday." It was Easter morning. Scripture: Isaiah 44:6–8 · Psalm 86:11–17 · Romans 8:12–25 · Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43 (CSB) Follow along and join us in person or online each week Sundays at 10am in Newport News, VA.

In this Proper 10 worship service, we sit with Jesus' Parable of the Sower and Isaiah's promise that God's word never returns empty. Whatever ground you're bringing this week — hardened, rocky, crowded, or ready — the Sower is not waiting for you to prove yourself good soil before he scatters the seed. Gospel Reading: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Sunday Worship Service — July 12, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

In this Proper 9 worship service, we sit with Jesus' invitation in Matthew 11 — "Learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." It's an invitation into apprenticeship with a gentle King, not another burden to carry alone. Gospel Reading: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Sunday Worship Service — July 5, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

Healthy people don't need a doctor — sick people do." On Proper 5, we follow Jesus from Matthew's tax booth to a synagogue leader's house and a bleeding woman's reach for his robe, and we hear the one thing God keeps saying through Hosea, the Psalm, and the Gospel: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. A word about the God who doesn't keep mercy at a safe distance — who comes into the room, takes us by the hand, and like a surgeon tears only in order to heal.Texts: Hosea 5:15–6:6 · Psalm 50:7–15 · Matthew 9:9–13, 18–26 (NLT). With Amy Carmichael as our witness from the cloud, and a journal entry from Thomas Merton on the mercy hidden in our dryness.Sunday Worship Service — June 7, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder

In this Sunday worship gathering on May 18, 2025, we read from Acts 11:1-18 and Psalm 148  with a sermon by Pastor Scott Crowder out of John 13:31-35 and Revelation 21:1-6.A prayer -- "Surprising God, in the resurrection of Jesus Christ you make all things new. Long ago you called your church to a love beyond all cultural, political, and social differences and gave them the gift of your Holy Spirit to open their hearts to enact such love. Give us that same spirit of openness, that we too might discern new directions in our day for your dream to reconciles and heal all creation. In Jesus' name we come to you and pray. Amen!"This Sunday worship service video is shared for your convenience and as an outreach of our ministry.  www.JesusLoves757.com/sunday

We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ in this Sunday worship service. Listen to scripture readings from Isaiah 65:17–25, John 20:1-18, and 2 Corinthians 5:17–6:2 and a sermon by Pastor Scott Crowder.What difference does believing that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead make?Because Jesus is risen... it is the right time to accept the kindness of God; to return to Christ; to live as a new person; to forgive — and be forgiven; to seek justice — and embody peace; to reconcile with others; to be an ambassador of healing in a divided world.This Sunday worship service video is shared for your convenience and as an outreach of our ministry.  www.JesusLoves757.com/sunday

For your convenience and as an outreach of our ministry, this video is shared from our Sunday Worship Service. This week, we continue in the season of Lent by reading from Luke 19:28-40 with a sermon by John & Mary Crowder. www.JesusLoves757.com/sunday

For your convenience and as an outreach of our ministry, this video is shared from our Sunday Worship Service. This week, we continue in the season of Lent by reading from John 12:1-8, Philippians 3:4b-14, and Psalm 126 with a sermon by Scott Crowder.[Leader:] As people FORMED by God, we give praise to God:[ALL:] Dry ground in the sea,rivers in the desert,Christ among us—God is doing a new thing![Leader:] As people RESTORED by God, we give praise to God:[ALL:] Dry ground in the sea,rivers in the desert,Christ among us—God is doing a new thing!​[Leader:] As people PRESSING ON in faith, we give praise to God:[ALL:] Dry ground in the sea,rivers in the desert,Christ among us—www.JesusLoves757.com/sunday