When God Doesn't Answer My Prayers

This week Fernando Castillo, our District Supervisor (think "bishop") led us in a reflection on how to live when God doesn't answer our prayers the way we would like. How often has many of us received answered prayer for a parking space in a crowded lot but did not see God move on our behalf on behalf of family members who are suffering? Unanswered prayer hurts and challenges our trust in a loving God. Unanswered prayer is a reason why many walk away from an abiding faith in God. How shall we live when God doesn't answer our prayers our way? 

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Viva La Vida: How Shall We Now Live? (Part 2)

This week we look at Romans 13. What does is the role of government and our responsibility to it as followers of Jesus Christ? How do we live as residents in a nation when we are citizens of a different kingdom with allegiance to a different "King"? This week we look at the theological foundations for Paul's understanding of government. We hope you will find this helpful!

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Viva La Vida: Light up the world!

We take a slight detour from Romans 12 to listen to Jesus' observations, warning, and encouragement about what His followers can expect and what Jesus expects from His followers as we endeavor to express genuine love in our world.

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Viva La Vida: The Next Big Thing (Part 3)

This week we look at Romans 12.14-21 – Paul's "mini-message on the mount" where he exhorts followers to live a culture challenging life that confronts evil with love. These words ARE challenging and yet wouldn't the world be better if followers of Jesus endeavored to live the life described here?

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Viva La Vida: The Next Big Thing (Part 2)

This week we return to our discussion of  the Next Big Thing that has the potential to disrupt our world with a love that is as powerful as it is humbling, and as expansive as it is personal. But is this doable or merely an idealistic vision that is out of touch with reality? 

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Viva La Vida: The Next Big Thing

We continue with our overview of Romans 12. This week we identify the Next Big Thing that has the potential to disrupt our world. Its identity might surprise you

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Viva La Vida (Part 2)

This week week reflect upon how faith in Jesus will immediately point us to our relationship with people with a warning that we don't view ourselves in a manner that would cause us to disconnect from others... In these days of division, how liberating that faith in Christ empowers us to transcend divisions and saw peace that overcomes hostilities. Have a listen!

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Viva La Vida

Have a listen this week as we start our year considering that Paul's call to present our bodies a living sacrifice means that we’re presenting to the Lord the fullness of our lives..  and we’re making a very real connection between our living and our worship. We want to live our lives in 2017 on point with liberty, generosity, and gallantry!

 
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Awkward Family Christmas - Tamar

God chooses compromised and desperate people to express His grace and release His purposes. If that was true for Tamar, who seduced her father-in-law and joined the lineage of King David and Jesus, it can be true for us... have a listen!

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Romans: Think Different!

God has a vision for His people. His vision is to create a dynamic, unified, and life-giving people whose diversity is their strength. Yet, the Church has always struggled to celebrate her diversity and unleash it in a beneficial way that expresses and presents God's presence. If we are going to succeed in fulfilling God's vision for His people then we are going to have to think differently... and that is the theme of this week's message.

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Romans: Rethinking how you think!

Your mind matters! Everything you think, imagine, create, and feel happens "between" the ears. But how should we think about ourselves? How should we think about ourselves if we think too highly of ourselves? Or, more critical for many for many of us, how do we think about ourselves when we think too lowly of ourselves. What is a sound self-assessment based on? Join us as we reflect on these questions this week...

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Romans: Your mind matters!

Our mind matters because the mind is the soul's vehicle for contact with God. Here in Romans 12.2 Paul says that we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So what is a Christian mind? Is a Christian mind narrow? Fearful? Intolerant? Is a Christian mind different from a "secular mind"? Join us as we consider why your mind matters!

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Romans: How THEN shall we live? (Romans 12.1-4)

Last Sunday, September 25, we looked at Romans 12.1-4 where we discovered what makes the Christian life unique, relevant, and compelling amidst these incendiary times enflamed by racial tension and mistrust. The apostle's solution for the racial tension and division among Christians in Rome may well be the solution for the times in which we live too... What do you think?

 
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