Christian Lee (2025 November 2, Sunday, Storyline Church) We are familiar with the metaphor that God is a good Father to us. But to Ephraim, this metaphor was foreign. In fact, they may have had an aversion to it because the implication was that they are sons and they fully knew how God's law dealt with rebellious and stubborn sons. And yet, God does not carry out the full force of his justice against their evil and is filled with compassion for them. On what basis was God able to refrain from treating them as their sins deserved and in addition, to prophesy a future hope for them? Scripture: Hosea 11

Christian Lee (2025 October 26, Sunday, Storyline Church) We’re experts at hiding — behind work, image, or religion. But every mask eventually cracks. Every mountain we look to to cover us from the holiness of God and accountability to him, will crumble. The gospel calls us out of hiding and to live in the light because of the one who faced God's wrath and did not cower or hide, on our behalf. Scripture: Hosea 10

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 October 19, Sunday, Storyline Church) In Hosea 9, God interrupts Israel’s celebration to expose a dangerous lie: their joy was counterfeit and built on privilege, not on pleasing God. They oppressed the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized and mistook prosperity as the mark of God's approval. This message explores what happens when faith fuses with nationalism and political power — and why God sometimes ends our celebrations so He can restore our soul. Through Hosea’s warning and the gospel, we discover that God's delight isn’t found in dominance or tribalism, but in returning to the God who desires mercy and  justice, grace and truth. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 9

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 October 12, Sunday, Storyline Church) What happens when we try to run life on our own strength? In Hosea 8, God confronts a people who traded trust for control — who “sowed the wind” and ended up reaping a whirlwind.This message calls us to recognize the storm that self-dependence creates, and the peace that comes when we surrender back to God. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 8

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 October 5, Sunday, Storyline Church) Many people today want just enough of God to feel safe—but not enough to be changed. Hosea 7:8 calls that a “half-baked faith.” In this message, discover how Jesus—the true Bread of Life—can take your divided heart and make it whole. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 7 

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 September 28, Sunday, Storyline Church) Many people say “sorry” to God but never truly turn their lives around. In Hosea 6, God confronts His people for their shallow repentance—words without love, religion without mercy. Jesus quoted this same verse when He challenged the Pharisees, and He pointed to Judgment Day in Matthew 25, showing that the way we treat “the least of these” reveals the authenticity of our repentance and transformation. This message unpacks what true repentance looks like: not just words out of your mouth, but love out of your life—especially justice and compassion for the poor, marginalized, and broken. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 6:1-7:1

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 September 21, Sunday, Storyline Church) What do you do when God feels more like a lion than a lamb—when He wounds instead of comforts, or withdraws instead of speaking? In Hosea 5:14–15, God says He will tear and step back, not to destroy, but to heal. This message explores why God sometimes allows pain and silence. Discover how the God who wounds is also the God who heals, and how His withdrawal is not abandonment, but mercy that leads us back to His presence. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 5

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 September 14, Sunday, Storyline Church) We are swimming in an ocean of information but thirsting for knowledge. Hosea 4 calls us back to the one thing that holds life together: the knowledge of God. This isn’t just head knowledge about God—it’s information and intimacy, law and loyalty, doctrine and devotion, head and heart. Truth lived out in love. But where Israel and humanity fails, there is One who is sent to justify many by his knowledge. And Scripture prophesies he will return one day to fill the whole earth with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea. When the knowledge of God is lost, everything fractures. But when the knowledge of God is restored, everything flourishes. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 4; Isaiah 53:11, 6; Habakkuk 2:14; Jeremiah 31:34

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 September 7, Sunday, Storyline Church) In one of the shortest chapters in the Bible, we see one of the clearest pictures of God’s love. Hosea buys back his unfaithful wife — and through this, we get a glimpse of the gospel: God’s love pursues us, redemption comes at a price, and he restores us to oneness with him. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 3:1–5

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 August 31, Sunday, Storyline Church) We all walk through valleys—seasons of failure, regret, or pain that feel like dead ends. But in Hosea 2, God makes a stunning promise: “I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope." Discover how God’s grace meets us in our lowest places and opens the way to restoration and new beginnings. Your valley isn’t a dead end—it’s a doorway to hope. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 2:2–23

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 August 24, Sunday, Storyline Church) What do you do when love keeps running into rejection? In Hosea 1, God calls a prophet into the most painful sermon illustration imaginable: a marriage to an adulteress woman that mirrors God’s relationship with His people. Through Hosea’s family story, we see the scandal of unfaithfulness, the weight of sin’s consequences, and the relentless mercy of God. The truest thing about you is not your past, not your failure, and not the labels others put on you. The truest thing about you is the name God gives you in Christ. 📖 Scripture: Hosea 1:1–2:1

🎙️Erin Lee (2025 August 17, Sunday, Storyline Church) Are you chained to your past or consumed by your future? Or do you indulge in distractions? Time matters. But our relationship to time matters more. How we see time impacts the way we live our lives. 📍 Scripture: Ephesians 5:15-17

🎙️Joel Lee (2025 August 3, Sunday, Storyline Church) What if success in the church isn’t about attendance, but obedience? In this challenging and empowering message, we revisit the early church in Acts to recover what really matters: making disciples and living on mission. Paul’s final words to the Ephesian elders give us a powerful charge—one message, one mission, one charge—that still calls us today to believe, obey, and be sent. 📍 Scripture: Acts 20:20-28 If you'd like to support what Joel and his family are doing on the missions field in Lebanon, visit the donate page at http://thearrow.org  

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 July 6, Sunday, Storyline Church) We live in a world divided—by class, race, politics, and power. But what if the deeper fracture lies in how we see ourselves and each other? In this message, we explore the biblical truth that every human being is made in the image of God (Imago Dei)—and how this truth can restore dignity in a world marked by division. Drawing from Genesis 1 and touching on themes from the film Parasite, we uncover how sin has distorted the image of God in all of us and how one man was sent to restore it.  📍 Scripture: Genesis 1:26–2:3

🎙️Woolim Ma (2025 July 20, Sunday, Storyline Church) It's wonderful to consider what we are saved from but today Pastor Woolim of Favor Church unpacks what we are saved for using I Peter 2. What does it mean to be living stones that make up the house of God? What does it mean for us to be royal priests? And what does it mean to offer spiritual sacrifices? 📍Scripture: I Peter 2:4-5

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 July 6, Sunday, Storyline Church) Are you following Jesus—or just admiring Him from a distance?Jesus never drops the bar on what it means to follow him. He doesn't try to hide it but smacks people with it up front! In a world where we emphasize self-care and self-esteem, this message explores how Jesus' radical call to follow him involves self-denial. 📍Scripture: Luke 9:23-25

🎙️Christian Lee (2025 June 22, Sunday, Storyline Church) Self-pity can quietly drain your strength, cloud your perspective, and keep you stuck. It can even lead people to justify all kinds of poor behavior and sins. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus shows us a better way. This sermon dives deep into Mark 14:32–42, revealing how Jesus didn’t just model courage under pressure—He endured unspeakable agony in your place. When His suffering becomes personal to you, it will give you new power to face your own trials with perseverance and purpose. 💡 Topics Covered: - What self-pity really is—and its negative effects - The difference between self-pity and self-compassion - How Jesus’ active and passive obedience secure your worth - How beholding Jesus in Gethsemane drives out self-pity 📍Scripture: Mark 14:32–42

Christian Lee (2025 June 22, Sunday, Storyline Church) Why are we so restless—even when we’re busy, successful, or surrounded by good things?This message explores how our inner ache often points to disordered loves—when we put something above God in our hearts. But rather than condemn us, that restlessness becomes a holy invitation to return home. This sermon challenges us to: recognize our restlessness, repent of misplaced loves, and reorder your heart on God's love by fasting from distractions and leaning into the spiritual practices that lead to true rest in God. 🎧 For anyone feeling tired, distant, restless, or spiritually off-center—this is for you. Passage: Psalm 42:1-2 (ESV)

Christian Lee (2025 June 8, Sunday, Storyline Church) In a culture saturated with distractions and endless scrolling, many fail to realize we are being molded and shaped by what we give our attention to. The war for our attention is actually a war for our formation because as 2 Corinthians 3:18 reveals, you become what you behold. Whether you feel stuck in your faith or hungry for a deeper, more authentic walk with Jesus, this message will challenge your habits and call you to behold the new prototype for humanity, the second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ. Passage: 2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)

Christian Lee (2025 June 1, Sunday, Storyline Church) In an age of endless content, how does the local church still matter? In this message, we explore the difference between consuming online spiritual content and belonging to a covenant church IRL. Following Jesus isn’t just about what you watch—it’s about who you walk with. The Church isn’t just another piece of content to chew on, it’s a sacred people you commit to. ⚠️ If your faith has become content-driven, individualistic, and detached, this sermon is a voice calling you back to the church and the indispensable grace that's found within. ⛪ Three Elements of Speaking the Truth in Love ⛪ Covenant vs. Content ⛪ How the application of biblical content carries more substance than the accumulation of it ⛪ Curating your image is overrated, what we all desire is to be fully known ⛪ The local church as an exceptionally unique institution that carries the dynamics of a movement ⛪ A call to reimagine what the church is and what it can be   Passage: Ephesians 4:14-16 (NLT)