Community Church Playa

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on July 20, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This Sunday, we explored Philippians 1:12–26 and reflected on Paul's encouragement that even in seasons of difficulty, we can choose hope and strive to be a blessing to others.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on July 13, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This Sunday, we kicked off our new series on Paul’s letter to the Philippians. In our first message, we explored Philippians 1:1–11 and reflected on the powerful truth that we can have a far greater impact in our city when we partner together.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 29, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25). Through this teaching, Jesus warns us against empty religious rituals and instead calls us into a genuine relationship with Him.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 22, 2025, by Pastor Markel Croston. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) and the radical love and compassion Jesus calls us to display to others.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 15, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Bags of Gold (Matthew 25), where we are reminded that Jesus entrusts each of us unique gifts, abilities and talents and calls us to use those for His Kingdom.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 8, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20), where Jesus calls us live with a posture of gratitude versus envy.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 1, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Matthew 18), where Jesus calls us to cultivate a heart of forgiveness.

Parables of Jesus series from Community Church Playa in Playa Vista, CA.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 18, 2025, by Pastor Oscar Navarro. This week, we explored the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). Both sons faced barriers to God’s love – one trapped by shame over his past, the other by pride in his righteousness. Jesus reveals that God's love and mercy are not earned but freely given, a gift to be received.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 11, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we looked at the Parable of the Persistent Widow from Luke 18. We recognize that there is injustice in this world, and Jesus calls us to remain faithful and to put our trust in Him because He is a good and just God.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 4, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we looked at the Parable of the Sower, where Jesus calls us to examine the condition of our hearts and our openness to receiving His Word.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on April 27, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. We are starting a new series looking at the Parables of Jesus. This week, we seek to understand why Jesus spoke in Parables and examine if our hearts are truly open to see and to hear.

Easter message from Community Church Playa given on April 20, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. The invitation of Easter is to step into the new life Jesus calls us to, but so often, we can find ourselves stuck in the old. We examine Peter's life and see this same pull on his life. Thankfully for Peter and us, Jesus doesn't let us stay stuck, but will also pursue us.

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on April 6, 2025, by Pastor Markel Croston. In the final week of our series, we look at the reality that there are two pathways we can choose to walk in our lives and two foundations we can build on. Jesus invites us to walk the narrow road and build our foundation on the only thing that cannot be shaken.

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 30, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. In the sixth week of our series, Jesus calls us to examine our lives to reveal if we truly are treasuring the things of His Kingdom or if our hope and security lie with the things of this world.

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 23, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains, delves into the fifth week of our series. This week we see Jesus warns us against turning opportunities to grow deeper into our relationship with Him into acts of performance for the praise of others as the Pharisees had done with giving, prayer and fasting.

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 16, 2025, by Jared McKenna, delves into the fourth week of our series. In this message we look at how Jesus calls us to move from hearts of retaliation against those who may have wronged us towards love and mercy.

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 9, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains, delves into the third week of our series. In this message we contrast Jesus’ call for a genuine righteousness that resides within our hearts with the righteousness that the Pharisees presented through external acts.

Weekly sermon message from Community Church Playa. This message was given on March 2, 2025 by Pastor Amen Bains. It is the second week of the series the Sermon on the Mount. This week we explore the new identity and purpose we have through the community He is forming. Matthew 5:13-16.

We began a new series on the Sermon on the Mount. This is the first week of the series and we explore the Kingdom in which Jesus is inviting us into through Matthew 5:1-13.

We realize that, as Christians, our actions speak louder than words. Loving Jesus starts with a daily commitment to look more like Him by putting on his righteousness.

This is the final message in our series Who Are You?, where we explore the heart and character of God. In this message, we look at the reality that Jesus steps out of Eden to come to this earth to save us and rescue us back into Eden to live forever with Him.

This is the third week of our new series, Who Are You?, where we explore the heart and character of God. This message teaches us that God isn’t apathetic or simply sympathetic to what we are walking through, but His heart becomes overwhelmed with compassion, which flows into Him responding to our immediate and eternal needs.

This is the second week of our new series Who Are You? where we explore the heart and character of God. This message looks at the reality that God is listening and hears our prayers, hears our frustrations and hears our cries.

This is the first week of our new series Who Are You? where we explore the heart and character of God. This first message looks at the reality that God sees us and is paying attention to us.