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Are you staying spiritually alert when the world feels crazy? How do you stay watchful without circling the wagons and hiding out? Some signs are loud. Some just quietly never return. This one is about learning to notice the difference. Ready to go deeper in your faith? Download the free Spiritual Growth Checklist at https://www.focuschurch.com/spiritual-growth-checklist/

Everybody around you seems to want the same things and live the same way. So what happens when following Jesus means you don't? Abram was 75 years old when God told him to leave his country, his relatives, and his father's house for a land he'd never seen. No maps. No internet. Just a promise. And he went. God has been calling His people to live differently ever since. Moses heard it. The prophets...

It is so easy for us as believers to slip into autopilot and just go through the motions. We show up on Sunday, carry a big two-pound leather Bible, and check off our daily app devotions, thinking we are in a great spot. That's not the way it works! God doesn't care about the surface things; He is looking straight at what drives your heart. Here's the thing: when life is relatively peaceful and pr...

Some battles don't make sense until you realize who you're actually fighting. If the same struggle keeps wearing you down and nothing you try seems to touch it, this one is for you. It starts at the edge of a forest in The Two Towers, where the Ents finally see the damage they'd been ignoring. From there we walk into Luke 11:21-22, where a strong man stands fully armed, and Isaiah 59:17, where God...

Most of us want Jesus and a backup plan. We follow Him on Sunday morning, then live by our own rules the other six days and hope it all balances out. Legend says Hernán Cortés burned his ships in 1519 so nobody could turn back. A farmer named Elisha did something like it with his oxen, and Jesus asked ordinary people for the same kind of discipleship. It sounds hard because it is hard. But there's...

Why does it feel like everyone else gets the blessing while you just get the next problem? If you've been asking God what in the world is going on, you're not the only one. Joseph had every reason to ask that question. He was sold by his own brothers, falsely accused, thrown in prison, and forgotten for years. Yet when he finally stood face to face with the brothers who betrayed him, he said somet...

We slap labels on ourselves all the time. Christian, believer, good person. But if someone opened the can and looked inside, would they find mercy? Mercy isn't just feeling sorry for someone. It's kindness and compassion that actually moves toward the hurt. You'll meet a king who went looking for a man he had every reason to ignore, and a servant who was forgiven a mountain of debt and couldn't ex...

You can have the best spiritual high of your life and still end up spiritually blind by the following week. That's not a warning about people who don't know God. It's what happened to one of the most respected prophets in the Bible. Picture a guy who just watched fire fall from heaven in front of a stunned crowd, and days later is hiding in a cave, convinced God has forgotten him and he's the only...

Ever had the evidence right in front of you and still couldn't make yourself believe it? Not because you're not smart enough to see it. Because some part of you didn't want to. This week Todd walks through a group of people who watched God split open the Red Sea and still, days later, begged to go back to slavery in Egypt. He gets honest about how easy it is to do the exact same thing today, with...

Have you ever looked up and realized you are not quite sure how you got so far from where you used to be with God? You did not make one big decision to leave. It just happened, one small drift at a time, until walking away from God started to feel normal. This episode looks at an old story about a son who left home, lost everything, and ended up further from his father than he ever imagined. Somew...

You are exhausted, and you keep waiting for the exhaustion to earn you something. More hours, more hustle, one more push before you finally get to rest. This week we look at a king who spent years preparing for a project he never got to build himself, and what that says about the difference between grinding through life and actually living in the presence of God. It is a message about timing, abou...

Ever caught yourself quietly pulling away from God because He didn't move the way you expected Him to? You didn't mean to. It just happened. A prayer went unanswered, a season dragged on too long, and somewhere along the way, offended became the word for what you were really feeling. This message walks through what happens when we let that offense take root, using the story of a king who let humil...

Your bills are still due. Your boss is still difficult. Your body still hurts in the same place it hurt yesterday. So how are you supposed to believe you're living in eternity right now? Todd tells the story of an ice cold well that ran on his family's property in East Texas every single day, no matter the weather, right next to another pool of water that just sat there going nowhere. It's the sam...

Be honest. Is your faith growing, or are you just maintaining it? That question sits at the center of this episode. We look at what real discipleship actually looks like, not a six week class or a program with an end date, but a daily, deliberate choice to grow closer to Jesus. We walk through the story of David before Goliath and realize his confidence didn't come out of nowhere. It came from yea...

You looked at the situation. You weighed it out. You made the smartest call you knew how to make. So why does something still feel off? Elisha’s servant woke up to an army surrounding the city and he was not wrong about what he saw. The horses were real. The chariots were real. He just wasn’t seeing all of it. This message walks through what happened on that hillside, what Paul prayed for the chur...

You can walk with God faithfully for decades and still get the ending wrong. That's not a comfortable sentence, but it's a true one. This week we look at King Asa, a good king who sought the Lord, defeated an army twice his size, and had God's favor on him for 36 straight years. And then something shifted. A prophet's warning he didn't want to hear. A decision to handle things his own way instead...

You've got a big decision in front of you — and the pressure of getting it wrong is real. You've asked everyone around you. Maybe you've Googled it, prayed about it, and still feel stuck. What if the answer isn't found by looking outward, but by trusting what's already on the inside? In this message, Pastor Todd Sepulveda walks through the story of King Rehoboam, the moment Peter went from Jesus'...

Most of us know what it feels like to be chained to something. A habit. A regret. A version of yourself you thought you'd left behind. The chain looks different for everyone, but the feeling is the same. You pull, you tug, and somehow you're still stuck in the same spot. This episode is about what real freedom actually looks like. Not the kind you celebrate with fireworks, but the kind that reache...

You know that feeling where nothing is firing — where you're just going through the motions and even God feels distant? That place has a name, and you're not alone in it. In this message, we walk through one of the most raw moments in David's life — when his village was raided, his family was taken, and his own men were ready to turn on him. What David did next is the key to understanding how the...

Ever wonder if knowing the right things about God is the same as actually belonging to Him? What if you’ve got all the right answers and you’re still missing it? In this message, Pastor Todd walks through Jesus’ tense exchange with the religious leaders in John 8 — people who had the bloodline, the knowledge, and still missed who God really was. It’s a conversation that gets right to the heart of...

Discover God's way to deal with worry and anxiety in this powerful, life-changing message. If you are struggling with stress, racing thoughts, or feeling overwhelmed by the world, learn how biblical truth can quiet the noise and restore your peace. Learn practical steps to protect your mind and walk in true spiritual freedom today. In this foundational teaching, we explore the spiritual roots of t...

Maybe someone has said it to you. Maybe you've said it yourself. Four words that can shut down any conversation in a heartbeat: are you judging me? It's a real question that deserves a real answer — and the Bible actually has a lot more to say about judging others than most people realize. In this episode, Pastor Todd walks through what Jesus actually meant in Matthew 7, why Paul had no problem ca...

Is your faith mostly a Sunday thing — something you show up for, and then set aside until next week? That tension is more common than you might think, and it might be the thing that’s keeping your walk with God from feeling as alive as it could. In this message, Pastor Todd takes a close look at the early church in Acts 2 and asks a simple but honest question: what made those first believers so di...

Have you ever felt like you’re missing something — like there’s a layer to your faith you’ve heard about but never quite experienced for yourself? What if the answer had been hidden in plain sight for thousands of years? In this episode, we explore the ancient Festival of First Fruits — a Jewish harvest celebration most Christians have never heard of — and discover how God quietly embedded the sto...

You've been given something — and chances are, you're not fully using it. Not because you're lazy or indifferent, but because no one has really explained what it is or why it matters. In this episode, Pastor Todd opens up one of the most practically important passages in the New Testament — 1 Corinthians 12. He walks through the nine spiritual gifts that every believer has access to, not as a theo...