Community Church of West Garden Grove

  The Resurrection asks us to reimagine and reconsider reality.  From Numbers 13 to Matthew 28 to Romans 8 the whole scriptures are sign posts from the future, challenging what we believe to be true about suffering, the universe, sin and our mortal bodies.    Text: Numbers 13, Matthew 28.1-10, Romans 8.18--25 Teacher: Eric Williams

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies The sixth week of our series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment.   Most times parenting is just reactive, in the moment, day by day decision making.  But what would it look like to take a long view, observe the big picture and parent with some end goals in mind?  Eric shares 4 'Big Picture Parenting' observati...

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies The Fifth week of our series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment. Ted and Suzanne Williams share on what it is like to be parents for 40 years.   Teacher: Ted and Suzanne Williams Text: Colossians 3.12,13a

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies The fourth week of our series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment. We will spend the month of February looking at the way we can love our spouses.  This week we discuss coitus.  Do I need to say anything else? Text: 1 Corinthians 6.16,17; 7.1--6 Teacher: Eric Williams

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies The third week of our series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment. We will spend the month of February looking at the way we can love our spouses.  This week we discuss choices and changes in marriages Text: Ephesians 5.21--33 Teacher: Eric Williams

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies The second week of our series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment. We will spend the month of February looking at the way we can love our spouses.  This week we discuss conflict and communication in marriages Text: Ephesians 5.21--33 Teacher: Eric Williams

Loving Others: Spouses, Children, Neighbors, Friends, Enemies   This week we started a new series on Loving Others - the second half of Jesus great commandment. We will spend the month of February looking at the way we can love our spouses.  This week we discuss the core of Christian marriage - submission, self-sacrifice, and selflessness. Text: Ephesians 5.21--33 Teacher: Eric Williams

What does 2018 have in store for us and what changes are going to be made as a church? This is a family-business style gathering in which we talk about the future of the C's with the G's

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. Let's bring it all together and see what we have learned and heard from the Lord.   Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 

This week Cass Bensberg and Bryan Traviglia perform an impromptu sermon/skit based around some contemporary debates regarding Christianity.  Science and the Bible, the Divinty of Jesus, and How can a Good God Allow Suffering? are some of the topics they share on.

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. We observe the Last Supper through the names that the early Christians referred to it as.  A 5 dimensional experience. Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 22.7--23

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. A right brained, imagnatiave and medative morning looking at the story of the wee-little man, Zacchaeus.   Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 19.1--9

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. We travel a little backwards in the book of Luke to visit Jesus once again eating with a Pharisee.  Before Jesus speaks the six woes, he comments on the controversy of handwashing...which is a classic Hillel vs. Shammai debate.  But who are Hillel and Shammai?  Lets investigate the Pharasaic movement. Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 11...

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. In part 5 of Jesus eating at the prominent Pharisees house, Elliot Stone leads us into our final teaching about the cost of discipleship/death.  As standard, history and Christianity are intertwined in a challenging and compelling sermon.  Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 14.25-35

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. In part 4 of Jesus eating at the prominent Pharisees house, we dive further into how we can choose the seat of death.  This week we look at the folks at the party Jesus instructs us to throw.  It is a social death we are called to choose - to party and celebrate with the marginalized, afflicted, powerless and in that find resurrection li...

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. In part 3 of Jesus eating at the prominent Pharisees house, we dive further into how we can choose the seat of death.  This week we look at the economics of death.  Giving ends up being a type of death, but as always with Jesus, when you choose death, you end up with life.     Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 14.12--14

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. In part 2 of Jesus eating at the prominent Pharisees house, we dive further into how we can choose the seat of death.  This week we look at shame and vulnerability as a way of choosing death.  One of the more imoirtabt themes in my life over the past few months, this is a crucial way for us to stay at Jesus' end of the table. Teacher: Er...

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. Next up is dinner at a Pharisee Supervisor's house.  Here we ponder where Jesus sits at the table and the implications it has for the healing of dropsy guy and subsequent parable. Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 14.1--12

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. Mary and Martha both have something to teach us about: 1. Female discipleship 2. Sibling Rivalry 3. Distractions and the One Thing Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 10.38--42

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. How about a meal with 5000 of your closest friends?!?!  In this passage, Jesus here not only says who he is, but demonstrates his identity. Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 9.10--17

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. Jesus went from a tax collectors table to a Pharisees table.  In this passage he encounters Simon and a particular woman who happens to be the star of the evening.  She teaches us some keys to loving more and experiencing deeper forgiveness Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 7.36--50

Eat It - The Gospel of Luke viewed through Meals and Tables. Jesus first stop was at Levi's house.  Levi was a tax collector and an enemy of the Israelites, yet Jesus dines with him.  The religious elite is furious and Jesus gives them the key to his kingdom - hesed or loving kindness. Teacher: Eric Williams Text: Luke 5.27--39

Recapping our series on the Women of the Old Testament and leaving some breathing room for God's voice to speak to us.  

Leo and Mary Arancibia are this weeks teachers as they lead us through the book of Esther.

The narrative of Ruth revolves around where she was born and the tribe she was affiliated with.  Her loyalty to Naomi and subsequent marriage to Boaz bring together one of the most beautiful books of the New Testament and depict God extending his hand and reconciling tribes that have been splintered.  Teacher: Maria Stone and Eric Williams Text: Ruth