Posts in 2022
Parables | The Ten Virgins

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Be prepared. Jesus tells a parable of a groom arriving for their wedding ceremony at midnight, to teach us that God will arrive at a date we cannot predict. To live prepared is to be found living in a way today that lines up with God's coming kingdom.

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Parables | The Lost Son

Speaker: Ken Calvert

Daniel has a vision of yet another king and kingdom causing destruction for his people but he also is given word that a day is coming when God will fully deal with sin and guilt, while bringing in everlasting righteousness.

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Parables | A Treasure and a Pearl

Speaker: Lorissa Medrano

What would you do if you came across a hidden treasure worth enough to change your life? What would you do? What id it cost you everything you have to get your hands on it? Would it still be worth it?

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Parables | Wheat and Weeds

Speaker: Vince Medrano

We want a God who weeds out. Our recommendation is that he acts immediately and decisively. But his method is much more patient. He will deal with evil and we will learn to pursue the ways of his kingdom.

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Parables | Stories of the Kingdom

Speaker: Vince Medrano

The parable of the sower is a meta-narrative told by Jesus to move us to a decision. Will we be a people who press in further to know him and his ways? If so, then so much more will be revealed to us.

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How Long, O Lord?

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Daniel has a vision of yet another king and kingdom causing destruction for his people but he also is given word that a day is coming when God will fully deal with sin and guilt, while bringing in everlasting righteousness.

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Daniel | The Story Retold

Speaker: Lorissa and Vince Medrano

Daniel's dream in chapter 7 has unsettling and even confusing imagery in it, but more importantly it's a powerful story of the hope, deliverance and redemption of humanity because God reigns over all.

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Daniel | Daniel 6

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Across different empires and a variety of kings, Daniel retains an ability to be faithful to God and a blessing to others. A three times a-day rhythm of prayer calibrates him to heaven while he lives in a foreign land.

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Daniel | Living Cultures

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Through a dream God reveals to Nebuchadnezzar the temporary, fragile nature of empire but also reveals the arrival of God's Kingdom. We are to take notice which culture has our trust and focus.

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Daniel | Hope in the Chaos

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Daniel and his friends are taken from the palace of Jerusalem into the courts of Babylon. Now they live in overlapping realities which means a life of tension. They seek the good of the city while staying faithful to God.

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Easter | Seeking & Turning

Speaker: Vince Medrano

This is the story of someone looking for God; and upon finding him they realize life has been turned around. The motif running through the story of Mary at the Empty Tomb is the Great Reversal. What has been turned around into something new? Not just for Mary's life but for all of creation.

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Giver of Life | Gifts of the Spirit

Speaker: Vince Medrano

The Corinthian church faced problems of division, disruption, and a devaluing of others - and this flowed into how they approached the gifts of the Spirit in their gatherings. His response was not to avoid the gifts of the Spirit but to encourage them to pursue the way of love and desire the gifts amongst them.

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Giver of Life | Fruit of the Spirit

Speaker: Lorissa Medrano

This week we explore Galatians 5:16-25, where Paul wrote about the struggle we all face when it comes to real and lasting change in our lives. How does change happen and what does a life led by the Spirit look like?

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Giver of Life | A Gift for the Troubled Heart

Speaker: Lorissa Medrano

In John Ch. 14, the disciples greatest point of despair, grief and confusion is the context for Jesus' promise to send the Holy Spirit. If the helper is who Jesus knew the disciples needed in their greatest point of need - don't we think that Jesus' gift of the Holy Spirit can meet us in our deepest points of need today?

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Giver of Life | Diversity and Unity

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Through the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit thee early church was able to become a totally different kind of people than the world around them. With their diversity and differences the church lived with one another as true equals in a powerful reflection of the life of God.

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Giver of Life | Breathe

Speaker: Vince Medrano

Humanity has lived from their own power and has caused us to be restless and out of breath. The longing of God's people has been for God to breathe out his Spirit afresh.

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