<div>We kick off our new series, Words, by going back to the original language of one of the most quoted verses in the Bible. Genesis 1:27 says God created humanity in his image. The Hebrew word is tselem, the same word used for statues and idols.</div><div><br></div><div>In the ancient world, a king placed his statue across his land to say, "This ground is mine. My rule reaches here." God did the same thing. He placed you on the earth as his living, breathing representative. You don't just bear God's image. You are his image.</div><div><br></div><div>That changes how we see the second commandment, how we see the person we can't stand, the person on the street corner, and the person in the mirror. It also shows us a God who walked through the covenant for us and still pursues us today.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 1: Tselem (Image) EP01

<div>"I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Most of us have seen that verse on a mug or a meme. But the three Hebrew words behind it say far more than we realize.</div><div><br></div><div>Yada means known. Not a file on you, but the deepest, most intimate, nothing hidden kind of knowing. God knew you before you were formed in the womb, and He still chooses you.</div><div><br></div><div>Pala means wonderful in the way the Red Sea splitting is wonderful. It is the word the Old Testament uses for miracles. And it is the word David uses for how God made you.</div><div><br></div><div>Yare is the trembling awe of Isaiah in the temple and Moses at the burning bush. That is the right response to what God did when He created you. So the next time that voice tells you you're not enough, answer it with three words: Yada. Pala. Yare.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 2: Yada | Pala | Yare EP02

<div>What does God do when things fall apart?</div><div><br></div><div>Genesis 6:6 reads like God regretted making us. But the Hebrew word behind "repented" is Nacham, and it has nothing to do with admitting a mistake. Nacham means to be so deeply moved that you can't stay still. You have to act.</div><div><br></div><div>In this episode we follow Nacham through the Scriptures. It shows up in Genesis 6, where it ends with an ark. It shows up in Isaiah 40, "Comfort, comfort my people." It shows up in Exodus 32 and Judges 2. Every time it ends the same way: God feels it fully, and that feeling moves Him toward His people for rescue.</div><div><br></div><div>If you've believed God pulls away when you mess up, this message is for you. He isn't distant, and He isn't done with you. The God who made you is the same God who moves toward you when things fall apart.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the full message, request prayer, and get every study guide in the SOH App. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>Sundays 9 &amp; 11 AM</div><div>Deer Park, NY</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 3: Nacham (Deeply Moved) EP03

<div>What is God rescuing you to?</div><div><br></div><div>Most of us think shalom means peace: no conflict, no noise, a quiet moment to breathe. But shalom comes from the root shalem, which means to make whole, to make complete, to restore something back to its original design. Shalom isn't the absence of something. It's the presence of everything working the way God designed it to.</div><div><br></div><div>In this episode we trace shalom from the garden, where God called creation very good, through Genesis 3, where shalom shattered, all the way to Jesus. "Blessed are the peacemakers" becomes blessed are the shalom makers, the people who see what's broken and help restore it. And when Jesus says "My peace I give you," He isn't handing out a calm feeling. He's giving wholeness.</div><div><br></div><div>God isn't hoping you feel a little less stressed. He's actively rebuilding what sin shattered: your relationships, your identity, your purpose. He's not trying to make your life quiet. He's making it whole.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the full message, request prayer, and get every study guide in the SOH App. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>Sundays 9 &amp; 11 AM</div><div>Deer Park, NY</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 4: Shalom (Wholeness) EP04

<div>Does God's love have a limit?</div><div><br></div><div>Most of us have heard someone say "I'm not going anywhere," and then watched them leave. After enough of that, we start wondering if God works the same way. What happens when I keep messing up? When is enough enough?</div><div><br></div><div>The answer is a Hebrew word with no English equal: hesed. Translators have tried mercy, loving kindness, steadfast love and loyalty, but none of them capture it fully. Hesed is a covenant love that refuses to let go even when the other party breaks the covenant.</div><div><br></div><div>In this episode we see hesed in Exodus 34, where right after the golden calf God names Himself abounding in hesed. We see it in Hosea buying back an unfaithful wife, in Ruth refusing to walk away from Naomi, and in Psalm 136, where Israel sang "His steadfast love endures forever" twenty-six times so they would never forget it.</div><div><br></div><div>God can be grieved by your failure and still refuse to be done with you. His commitment is bigger than the damage. His hesed doesn't run out when you do.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the full message, request prayer, and get every study guide in the SOH App. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>Sundays 9 &amp; 11 AM</div><div>Deer Park, NY</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 5: Hesed (Covenant Love) EP05

<div>What happens when a promise costs more than you planned to pay?</div><div><br></div><div>Every promise eventually reaches that moment. That's where most of them end. But this Palm Sunday message looks at a covenant that was built to hold.</div><div><br></div><div>The Hebrew word for covenant is berith, and it comes from a word that means "to cut." In the ancient world, two parties made a covenant by cutting animals in half and walking between the pieces together, saying with their lives: if I break this, let it happen to me.</div><div><br></div><div>In Genesis 15, God tells Abraham to prepare that path. Then God puts Abraham into a deep sleep and walks through the pieces alone, as a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch. God signed both sides. If I break it, let it fall on me. If you break it, let it fall on me too.</div><div><br></div><div>That is why Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, exactly as Zechariah 9:9 said. He wasn't coming to show off. He was coming to pay what was already signed. You weren't even awake when God signed it, and nothing you've done can outpace what He already agreed to pay.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the full message, request prayer, and get every study guide in the SOH App. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>Sundays 9 &amp; 11 AM</div><div>Deer Park, NY</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 6: Berith (Covenant) EP06

<div>What if the gospel isn't an offer, but an announcement?</div><div><br></div><div>In the ancient world, when a king sent his army to war, the city waited for a runner. If the runner came over the hill shouting disaster, everyone packed up and fled. But if he came shouting basar, it meant one thing: the battle is over and your king has won.</div><div><br></div><div>Basar is the Hebrew root behind the word gospel. Isaiah saw it coming: "How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news." Jesus declared it from the cross: "It is finished." And on Resurrection morning, Mary Magdalene became the runner, telling the disciples, "I have seen the Lord."</div><div><br></div><div>This Easter finale ties together all seven words of the series. You are God's Selem. He yada'd you, formed you with Pala power, and your life produces Yare. When you broke, He nacham'd and moved to rescue you toward Shalom. That rescue is fueled by Hesed, guaranteed by Berith, and announced as Basar.</div><div><br></div><div>You're not waiting to find out who wins. The runner has already come. So stop fighting battles that have already been won for you.</div><div><br></div><div>Watch the full message, request prayer, and get every study guide in the SOH App. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>Sundays 9 &amp; 11 AM</div><div>Deer Park, NY</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Words Week 7: Basar (Good News) EP07

<div>A wealthy young official runs up to Jesus, kneels, and asks what he has to do. He has kept the commandments his whole life. Jesus loves him, and then raises the bar. In this first week of Sorry Not Sorry, Pastor Jason D'Ambrosio walks through Mark 10 and asks a simple question: are you willing to move if God shows you a new standard?</div><div><br></div><div>Before God gave Israel the commandments, He reminded them who brought them out of Egypt. Deliverance came first, then the standard. You are already accepted. You are already free. The standard is not about earning God's love. It is about walking into everything that freedom was meant to lead you to, and leaving behind the comfortable bondage that keeps you stuck.</div><div><br></div><div>From the Sermon on the Mount to Paul's race in 1 Corinthians 9, Philippians 3 and Hebrews 12, this message calls us to a faith of the heart and not just the hands. Be disciplined when nobody is watching. Keep pressing on. God satisfied His own standard at His own expense, and all He asks is that you believe, be willing to move, and let Him do the rest.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Sorry Not Sorry Week 1: The Standard EP08

<div>Large crowds were following Jesus, and instead of riding the wave, He slowed them down. Count the cost before you build the tower. In week two of Sorry Not Sorry, Pastor Jason D'Ambrosio is honest about something nobody likes to hear: pursuing what God has for you is going to cost you something. Your comfort, your approval with others, your certainty, and sometimes the person you used to be.</div><div><br></div><div>But this is not about earning God's love or being accepted. You are already equipped for what is in front of you. Paul was beaten, shipwrecked and deserted, and at the end of his life he said, "But the Lord stood with me." He wanted out at times and kept going anyway. Wanting to quit is not a character flaw. It is evidence that you are doing something hard enough to matter.</div><div><br></div><div>Pastor Jason also tackles the quieter danger of drifting, like Demas, and shares how a simple flyer outside a CVS put him back on the path. God does not apologize for the cost because He paid it first. Whatever it takes, the return is worth it.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Sorry Not Sorry Week 2: The Cost EP09

<div>In the old covenant, the priest stood day after day offering the same sacrifices on a shift that never ended. Jesus offered one sacrifice and sat down. You do not sit down until the work is done. In the final week of Sorry Not Sorry, Pastor Jason D'Ambrosio asks why so many of us still walk around with our feet hurting, trying to pay off a debt that was already paid in full.</div><div><br></div><div>Colossians 2 says the certificate of debt was canceled, taken out of the way and nailed to the cross. On the cross Jesus said tetelestai, the word stamped on receipts: paid in full. Gratitude runs on love. Debt runs on fear. If your view of grace has never made anyone uncomfortable, including you, you may not have preached it all the way.</div><div><br></div><div>Through the woman in John 8, Jason shows a Jesus who refuses to hand anyone over, and a God who says, "Neither do I condemn you." Such were some of you. Your life is not a performance, it is a process. Sorry, not sorry that God is good, that His grace is bigger than our worst day, and that we get to walk out freely forgiven.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Sorry Not Sorry Week 3: The Grace EP10

<div>We all know the story. A man, a boy, a mountain, a knife. Most of us skip past it or turn it into a sermon about giving up the thing you love most. But in Look Again, we read the familiar stories of Scripture inside the world they were written in, and that changes everything.</div><div><br></div><div>Abraham came from Ur, in a world where the gods of Mesopotamia and Canaan demanded children. Molech wanted your firstborn. So when God says, "Take your son," Abraham doesn't argue. That is what gods do. Then, with the knife in his hand, the God of Abraham says what no other god in the ancient world ever said: Stop. Do not lay your hand on the boy. Yahweh Yireh, the Lord will see to it. He provides the substitute Himself, on the same mountain where, generations later, the Father would provide the Lamb.</div><div><br></div><div>If you were taught a God who demands, takes and tests you through suffering, you were taught something that looks more like Molech than Jesus. The God of Genesis 22 is the God who says stop performing, stop pretending, and let Me in. You don't worship for victory. You worship from it.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Look Again Week 1: The God Who Stopped the Knife EP11

<div>God tells a prophet to marry Gomer, a woman who will not stay faithful. Their children are given names that sound like judgment: God scatters, not loved, not my people. Then Gomer leaves. And when she ends up on the auction block, God says something no reasonable person would say: Go buy her back.</div><div><br></div><div>In week two of Look Again, Apostle Johnny Ova walks through Hosea with the history and the Hebrew in view. Fifteen shekels of silver plus barley, the poor man's grain, adds up to thirty shekels, the price of a slave. Hosea scrapes together everything he owns and pays full price for a wife who walked out on him. That is hesed, covenant love that does not break just because we did. It is the word Jesus pointed the religious leaders back to when He said, "Go and learn what this means."</div><div><br></div><div>God says a day is coming when His people will call Him Ishi, my husband, and no longer Baal, my master. He does not want a slave. He wants a bride. In Hosea 11 He speaks as a Father whose heart turns over inside Him: "For I am God and not a man." If you have been relating to God out of fear, this message is an invitation to see the face you never let yourself believe was real.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

Sound of Heaven TV | Look Again Week 2: The God Who Brought Her Back EP12

<div>Most of us learned the felt board version of Rahab. She hides the spies, hangs a red rope, God saves her, cool story. But in week three of Look Again, Apostle Johnny Ova slows the story down. Rahab was a Canaanite, from the people at the top of Israel's enemy list. The Hebrew calls her zonah, a prostitute, and the text does not clean it up. She lived in the wall of a city about to fall. By every religious standard of her day, she was the last person God would have anything to do with.</div><div><br></div><div>The whole city heard the same reports about the God of Israel, and the whole city responded with fear. Rahab heard the same thing and said, "The Lord your God, He is God." Faith is not about having better information. It is about what you do with what you have heard. She asks for hesed, covenant love, and hangs a scarlet cord in her window. The Hebrew word is tikvah, the same word translated hope. Like the blood on the doorposts in Egypt, judgment passes over the house marked in scarlet.</div><div><br></div><div>Then Matthew 1 names her in the family line of King David and of Jesus. Hebrews 11 and James 2 still call her Rahab the prostitute, because her past is the point. God did not wait for her to get her life together. He sent for her and brought her home. You belong before you believe. If she is not disqualified, neither are you.</div><div><br></div><div>Download the SOH app to watch full messages, request prayer, and get every study guide. Search "soh.church" in your app store.</div><div><br></div><div>Sound of Heaven Church</div><div>375 Commack Rd, Deer Park, NY</div><div>Sundays at 9 and 11 AM</div><div>soh.church</div>

John Ova