Sermons

2 Timothy 1-4 | Politics, Providence, and Prayer Part 3 | 11/17/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. As our nation deals with deep divides and tribalism, Pastor Matt dives into 2 Timothy with a timely message that reminds us to keep our hope in Christ and our mission as His people. Paul instructs Timothy in wisdom in strength for such a time as this.

1 Timothy 2: 1-8 | Politics, Providence, and Prayer Part 2 | Pastor Matt Jones. You may be happy about the results of the election, you may not, or you may be indifferent. Regardless, what does God say in His word about how we should think about and interact with the political powers that He has ordained for us? Pastor Matt explores God’s Sovereignty, preaching through 1 Timothy.

Various Scripture | Politics, Providence, and Prayer Part 1 | 11/3/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. With the national elections approaching this season, Pastor Matt will take us through the doctrine of election - the doctrine of how God chooses those He will save, by His grace and out of mercy alone, not by any of our words or merit.

Romans 5:6-8, 13:1-7 | 10/27/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Two Sundays ago, we acknowledged our local law enforcement on Faith & Blue Sunday. Today is First Responder Sunday, where we commemorate firefighters, paramedics, and others who leap to action in dangerous circumstances. Jesus is the ultimate first responder who responds to our greatest and most pressing need: our sinfulness that separates us...

Acts 9-13, Acts 20:15-38 | 10/20/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Today is a special Sunday, as we say goodbye to our beloved Ryan Richards family. Pastor Matt offers a sermon on friendship, mission, and the emotions of moving from the book of Acts.

Romans 13:1-7, Proverbs 21:15, Micah 6:8 | 10/13/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Faith & Blue Sunday is a program to foster closer ties between local law enforcement and faith communities. Today we welcome leaders and officers from Los Angeles Airport Police (LAXPD). Pastor Matt preaches from the Bible about what God wants us to understand about the role of government in restraining evil and crime, and...

Colossians 1:24-2:5 | Christ: The Hope of Glory, Part 3 | 10/6/2024 | Marcelo Pinell. Marcelo continues his series on the epistle to the Colossians. The mission of the church is to spread the good news of Jesus the Messiah to a sinful world who needs to (but often doesn't want to) hear it, even at great personal cost to ourselves.

Luke 18:1-17 | 9/29/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt teaches from the Gospel of Luke Jesus presents two parables, the persistent widow and the Pharisee and the tax collector, both intertwined with a profound lesson on salvation.

Luke 8:40-56 | Desperate Times | 9/22/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. As the old adage goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Pastor Matt shares a timely message from the Gospel of Luke where two people in desperate circumstances leaned on Christ as desperate measures were required.

Psalm 68:33-35 | Won't HE Do It?! Part 4 | 9/15/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. In the fourth and final sermon on Psalm 68, Pastor Matt explores God as the One who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens.

Colossians 1:15-23 | 9/8/2024 | Marcelo Pinell. Brother Marcelo continues his series in the book of Colossians by examining Christ as the Lord of the Cosmos, the Church and Creation.

Psalm 68:20-32 | Won't HE Do It?! Part 3 | 9/1/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. In the third sermon on Psalm 68, Pastor Matt explores God as a God of deliverances - delivering those who believe in Him from their enemies.

Psalm 68:8-19 | Won't HE Do It?! Part 2 | 8/25/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. In this second sermon on Psalm 68, Pastor Matt explores the power and graciousness of God.

Psalm 68:1-7 | Won't HE Do It?! Part 1 | 8/18/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt begins a short sermon series on Psalm 68, to the glory of God the Father and His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 12:12–19 | 8/11/2024 | Pastor Mike Nazarian. Guest speaker Pastor Mike Nazarian of Hope Chapel Hermosa Beach teaches from the Gospel of John on the King who has come, Christ Jesus, the courageous king who came to His people Israel in the midst of political expectation, unrest, and hopelessness that they didn’t fully realize they needed rescue from.

Colossians 1:1-14 | 8/4/2024 | Marcelo Pinell. Our brother Marcelo preaches the glory of Christ from the opening of Paul's letter to the Colossians.

Romans 8:31-39 | 7/28/2024 | Pastor Anthony Kidd. Pastor Anthony Kidd of Community of Faith Bible Church preaches from Romans chapter 8 on how God gives us everything we need for His glory, how God acquits us of anything that would disqualify us from His glory, and He keeps us through things that could block us from His glory.

The Book of Proverbs | 7/21/2024 | Pastor Tony Shen. The book of proverbs is full of practical wisdom that both believers and non-believers can benefit from. Pastor Tony teaches through selected proverbs that contrast the differences between the wise and foolish. Ultimately, wisdom does not save; we cannot earn or think our way into heaven. God must grant faith and repentance in Jesus for salvatio...

Joshua 6:22-25 | 7/14/2024 | Pastor James Iglesias. Our brother James Iglesias from Community of Faith Bible Church teaches on the story of Rehab the harlot and how even through her past sin she was able to find peace with God.

7/7/2024 | Marcelo Pinell. This Lord’s Day, our brother Marcelo takes us to the Book of Philippians examining the apostle Paul’s charge to the Philippian church to give all of themselves through any circumstance for the sake and cause of the Gospel of Christ.

Exodus 1-40 | 6/30/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt follows up last Sunday's sermon on freedom in Christ with an exploration of Exodus - how God set His people free from slavery with power and glory. This is not merely a historical event. We all need to be set free.

John 8:31-53 | 6/23/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Our nation celebrates Juneteenth, commemorating the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas after the Civil War. In this sermon, we explore a different kind of slavery - a slavery that all humankind has been subject to for its entire history. And we explore a different kind of emancipation - a kind proclaimed and effected by only one Rede...

Genesis 11-27; John 5,8,17; Malachi 1-4 | Father's Day 2024 | 6/16/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt delivers a stirring message of biblical fatherhood - both a description from the Bible of what fatherhood should NOT be, and prescriptions of what fathers SHOULD be.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 | 6/9/2024 | Micah Anglo. Our guest preacher, Pastor Micah Anglo of Pillar Bible Church in Long Beach, shares a timely message on how we can encourage each other and build one another up.

John 11 | 6/2/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Pastor Matt shares awful personal news. The Lord Jesus comforts us in our distress, as He too dealt with the death of a friend.