Speaker: Vince Medrano
Pastor Vince completes our "Advent" series.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
Waiting on God can be hard, especially when His promises take longer than we expect. In our Advent series, "The Angel, The Old Man & The Child," we explore the story of Simeon, a man who faithfully waited his entire life to see God's promise fulfilled.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
At the start of our advent series entitled, "The Angel, The Old Man & The Child," we hear the message from the angel to the shepherds. Highlighted in this message is that we would know God's saving activity and presence is happening today.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
The human heart, like a compass often points away from God, leading to a cycle of disobedience and suffering. Despite this, God's love and guidance persist, reaching us even in our darkest moments and imperfect situations. The exiled Israelites are instructed to build homes and pray for the prosperity of Babylon, despite its conquest of their land. This message challenges their expectations and warns against false prophets promising immediate deliverance. The certainty of their eventual return to Jerusalem provides hope, encouraging them to live with purpose and faith in God’s promises. The compass of their hearts are to be recalibrated toward the hope their future city and no longer toward Babylon.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
God speaks through the prophet Isaiah to bring a message of hope to a people living in darkness.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
True worship transforms every aspect of life, leading to justice and righteousness. Amos confronts Israel's own contradictions and calls them to embrace God's love, which results in a life of justice and compassion.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
God uses a gentle whisper and a hidden people to show Elijah he is not alone in his work.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
In looking at the stories of the Tabernacle and the building of the temple we see God's longing to dwell with his people. Because at this core is a desire to give and forgive we are to have daily habits that help us seek God's presence and experience his grace.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
God meets Samuel in one of the deepest point of pain in his life, and helps Samuel lift his eyes to see that God has a way forward.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
Join us as we explore how the life of Samuel helps us to learn to grow in our ability to recognize God's voice speaking.
Speaker: Kevin Dolbee
God is not only rescuing Israel from Pharaoh, He is meeting traumatized people where they are and calling them to a new way of being human.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
God meets Moses when he is a stranger in a strange land. He's a man without a land, and outside of his people. God's seeing Moses creates an expectation for how He sees the Hebrews, who are also strangers in a strange land.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
In Jacob's story we find a man who spent his life trying to scheme and grasp blessing, but who encountered a God who wanted to freely and give and bless.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
God's consuming passion is to bless humanity and to install them as His image bearers, a plan he has pursued since the opening pages of Genesis. Despite humanity's tendency to turn inlays and away from God, He remains faithful to his plan. He is a God of life, who is continually meetings humanity in their place of attempting to seize blessings under their own power. Within this framework, Genesis 22 is a moment where we see if Abraham serves God out of a place of trust or for his own personal gain.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
Pastor Lorissa continues our sermon series, "The Story."
Speaker: Vince Medrano
The Bible is not meant to be mastered, but to master us, shaping our hearts and minds to align with God's story. Through a life-long meditative engagement with scripture, we are prepared to receive Jesus and grow in our trust of Him and His way.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
This week we delve into the life of Zacchaeus and his life-changing encounter with Jesus. Through Zacchaeus', we learn that no one is beyond redemption and Jesus seeks us out personally and calls us by name, offering grace and belonging regardless of our past.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
Job’s friends: Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, initially comfort Job but soon shift to blaming his suffering on sin. Their theologies, while true in a lot of ways, fail to account for Job’s innocence, highlighting the struggle to reconcile God’s goodness with human suffering. This struggle mirrors our own tendency to seek control and understanding in the face of uncertainty.
Speaker: Vince Medrano
The disciples overlooked the little boy and his tiny lunch as any kind of solution of provision by Jesus took what the little boy had and gave thanks to his His Father.
Speaker: Lorissa Medrano
This week we delve into the stories of several courageous women in Exodus 1-2 whose lives were used by God to bring about deliverance. We explore how acts of faithful obedience in our everyday spheres of influence can be powerful tools in God's redemptive plan.