Sermon Title: New Phone, Who Dis?

Passage: Ezra 7:1-8:14

Sermon Series: Rebuilt

Speaker: Sam Cassese

Date: May 3, 2026

We love new! New phones, new clothes, new opportunities. But if we’re honest, most of what we call “new” is just surface-level change. Same life ... fresh paint. Deep down, there’s a quieter longing, not just to look new, but to be new. To change from the inside out. There’s this deeper kind of new we can’t quite manufacture. But we can’t stop wanting it either.

In this sermon, we step into a moment when everything looked new, yet something still wasn’t right. And we realize through the story of Ezra that perhaps the “new” we’ve been chasing isn’t something we can create, but something only God can do.