Renewing Wineskins - Katia Adams

This week, Katia Adams joins us with a message from Matthew 9, inviting us into a fresh, elastic faith . Preaching from Jesus’ teaching on new wine and new wineskins (Matthew 9:14–17), Katia unpacks the broader movement of the chapter—miracles, mercy, controversy, and compassion—to reveal a central question: What kind of wineskin are we becoming? Through personal reflection and pastoral challenge, she explores how disappointment, fear, comparison, and cynicism can slowly harden our hearts—shrinking our expectations of what God can do, who He will work with, and how abundantly He intends to move. Contrasting the audacious faith of the woman with the issue of blood, the blind men, and the desperate father with the rigid unbelief of the Pharisees, this message calls us to examine the boundaries of our belief. Katia challenges us in four key areas: the limits we place on God’s power, the mercy we withhold from others, the comparison-driven ways we approach spiritual disciplines, and the small expectations we carry about the harvest in our cities. With Jesus’ declaration ringing in our ears—“The harvest is plentiful” (Matthew 9:37)—we are invited to let the Holy Spirit re-oil our wineskins so that fresh faith can expand us again. This message is a call to elasticity: to allow the new wine of the Spirit to determine our shape and size, not our past disappointments. As we yield to Him, we become communities able to steward fresh moves of God—full of mercy, bold in faith, and confident that the harvest before us is far greater than we imagined.