Everyday Church Sunday Messages

We are a people remembering the poor. We serve the poor, overlooked, and marginalized in a way that embodies the way of Jesus and seeks to find God in the face of those on the outside. DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organisms have DNA that defines how they develop, grow, function, and reproduce, so do churches. Our Everyday DNA is our seven cor...

We are a people seeking spiritual awakening. We pray fervently for an outpouring of the Spirit, that brings revival to the church, and a spiritual awakening in the larger culture. DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organisms have DNA that defines how they develop, grow, function, and reproduce, so do churches. Our Everyday DNA is our seven core con...

We are a people who are thoughtful engaging with secular culture. We preach the Gospel in a way that deconstructs cultural idols and proclaims the Gospel as the fulfillment of all personal and existential longings in our cultural moment. We seek to creatively engage our cultural context and reach the lost. DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organis...

We are a people who are moving in the power of the Spirit. We embrace the gifts and ministry of the Spirit to equip the church for her mission in the world.   We seek to be a people of God’s manifest presence, so that people may say, “surely God is among them.” DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organisms have DNA that defines how they develop, gro...

We are a people who are moving in the power of the Spirit. We embrace the gifts and ministry of the Spirit to equip the church for her mission in the world.   We seek to be a people of God’s manifest presence, so that people may say, “surely God is among them.” DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organisms have DNA that defines how they develop, gro...

We are a people with a courageous fidelity to orthodoxy. We hold to the historic faith with joy, boldness and confidence in a time of widespread theological and ethical compromise, particularly in the areas of scripture, sex, money and power. We are committed to the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus. DNA: Seven Core Convictions That Make Us Who We Are In the same way that most living organisms have D...

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories. It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings a...

There is a wide, well-worn road that promises to be the way to success. Countless crowds travel along it, carrying one another forward in pursuit of lives filled with meaning and purpose. Yet Jesus claimed that this wide road of the world ultimately leads to destruction. Paradoxically, he taught that it is the narrow, constricted road of self-denial that leads to the wide-open, spacious life he of...

From TV talent shows to the court of public opinion, we love to render judgment on other people in all sorts of ways. The words of Jesus, "Do not judge," are familiar to many but what does that actually look like in practice? How can we move away from condemning others, and instead actually help them in the areas in which they struggle?

Our day-to-day lives are full of things that can cause us to be anxious. Front and center are worries about our physical wellbeing and security. Whether they have a lot or a little, concerns about provision consume many people's thoughts: Can I make rent this month? Will I have money to buy the kids new school clothes? How are my investments doing? Will I have enough to retire on? But Jesus of...

Every human being has a God-given desire for peace and pleasure, but rather than seeking the peace that Jesus gives and the eternal pleasures that we find in God's presence, we often chase after the fleeting peace and pleasure that money and wealth offer to purchase for us. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus calls this way of living "storing up treasure on earth," and instead invites us into a radi...

As founder of 24/7 Prayer, Pete Grieg observes, prayer is at the heart of the Christian life, but yet we're not very good at it. It can be difficult to know where to begin, which is why Jesus, when giving his disciples instructions on prayer, offers them a framework that we can use to get us started. This simple, yet powerful prayer of Jesus that has come to be known as the Lord's Prayer,...

If we're honest with ourselves, many of us take on different personas throughout our week depending on whom we're trying to impress or curry favor with, often without even realizing it. We can be doing all sorts of good things, but often with selfish motives. Living this way is exhausting, but Jesus invites us to live a much simpler life — a life where we do the right things for the right...

We never mature beyond any of the four stages of prayer we are exploring in this Practice, but the further we progress in prayer, the more we desire to speak to God, to listen to God, and to just be with God. As a general rule, you can gauge the intimacy in a relationship by how comfortable you are being alone together in the silence. When applied to God, this type of wordless prayer has come to b...

There comes a point in our relationship with God where we desire not just to speak to him, but to listen — to hear his voice. As Jesus said in John 10:27, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” But how do we hear God’s voice? PrayerPrayer, at its most basic, is the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. Over four weeks we'll learn how, in our busy an...

In week two of our Prayer Practice we begin to learn how to talk with God. Praying pre-made prayers is a beautiful way to pray. It’s where we start our prayer journey, and it’s a place we revisit all through our lives. But at some point in our life of prayer, we desire to pray our own words to God — to share what’s on our mind, our heart. Our pain, our joy, our hopes and fears. We can’t help but d...

We begin our Prayer Practice by exploring the first stage of prayer: talking to God. When the disciples asked Jesus, “Teach us to pray,” in Luke 11, Jesus replied, “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name...’” He gave them a pre-made prayer to pray to God. Pre-made prayers can look like praying the Lord’s Prayer, singing through the Psalms or using a praye...

In one sense we are the most connected society that has ever walked the face of the planet. But that same technology which, at it's best, enables us to talk face-to-face with someone on the other side of the world, at it's worst, enables us to pretend that someone in the same room as us doesn't even exist. The connection that the online world claims to offer us is an illusion and it&#3...

We've been taught that faith is about a decision (choosing to trust in Jesus) and a destination (going to heaven when we die), but the Gospel of the Kingdom that Jesus preached seems to put a lot more weight on the part in between the decision and the destination than we sometimes do. The journey of faith — the way we walk out our apprenticeship to Jesus — is at the heart of being a Christian,...

This Mother's Day we brought together six women in our church family who are various stages of motherhood to get their perspectives on life and hear what God has taught them through the joys and struggles of being a mom.

The modern Western world is a very confusing place. Recent generations have become more and more adept at deconstructing age-old ways of thinking and living, but what is often missing is the ability to reconstruct the dismantled pieces into a workable framework for living in the 21st Century. This leaves many standing amid the rubble of a world that belonged to previous generations with no clue as...

Most people in the Western world live life at a break-neck speed. The technology that was once predicted to expand our leisure has instead expanded our labor. This state of constant exhaustion and crippling anxiety is the enemy of life with God, but by practicing the ancient Way of Jesus, it is possible for us to find rest for our souls. This radically different way of life that stands in defiance...

What does it mean to follow Jesus in 2026 on the Central Coast of California? So many people feel stuck in their spiritual journey much of the time, but following Jesus is an ancient way of life that so many have walked before us, including Jesus' first disciples. What can we learn from their experience as we reimagine our discipleship and community life for the 21st century? Ancient//Future J...

What is life really all about? The average Christian might answer, "To have a relationship with God, so that when I die, I can go to heaven and be with him for all eternity." That's not a bad answer, but according to the pages of scripture, it's an incomplete answer. When Jesus discusses eternal life with his disciples in Matthew 19, he points out two key truths that the modern w...