Community Hemet Podcast

Text: Various Theme: While we can lust for many different kinds of things, this week we’re taking a personal look at sexual lust. This isn’t about making people feel worse, it’s about helping people find healing and freedom. Key Verse: James 1:14-15 (NLT) Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.  15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin...

Text: Various   Theme: While there may be times when anger is the appropriate response to injustice, most of the time anger just gets us in more trouble. This week we’ll discover God’s plan to deal with the wrong kind of anger in our lives.  Key Verse: Proverbs 14:29 (NLT) People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness. Message Notes: https://my....

Text: Matthew 6:24; various  Theme: After looking at why we get into debt, this week we’ll look for God’s wisdom on how to get…and stay…out of debt.   Key Verse: Matthew 6:24 (NIV) “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.”    Message Notes: https://my...

Text: Exodus 32; Romans 1:25, Various Theme: As we begin our series, “Wrecked”, we need to take a deep look into why we get in trouble with debt. Money may not be the problem at all, but when we find out what is the problem, we need to seek God’s help to find true freedom. Key Verse: Romans 1:25 (NIV) They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than...

Theme: This weekend we lay the groundwork for what we’ll be doing and learning over the course of the next 12 months. Pastor John will be sharing some key information on what Community is going to be focusing on as we move forward. Key Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! Message Notes; https://my.bibl...

Theme: The divide in our culture is palpable. We’re divided by race, politics, moral issues and so much more. As the divide grows, our ability to truly connect with others (who may not agree with us on everything) slowly is becoming nearly impossible. This week we’ll look at how we can connect and love and serve…even in this divided culture.  Key Verse: Acts 10:34-35 (NIV) Then Peter began to...

Text: John 13:34-35; various Theme: We are in desperate need of genuine connection with others. God wired us this way. This week we’ll take a personal look at how we can do this in our daily life. Key Verse: John 13:34-35 (NIV) “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love on...

Text: Acts 1:8; Matthew 28:19-20; various Theme: This week Pastor John interviews our long-time mission partner Christopher Lapel and will find out more about his work with Hope for Cambodia.  Key Verse: Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”  Mes...

Text: 2 Samuel 11:2—2 Sam 12:13   Theme: Temptation is a constant companion in life. It seems that no matter what we do, temptation always returns… so how do we confront temptation?    Key Verse: 2 Samuel 12:13 (NIV) “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.”    Message Notes: https://my.bible.com/en-GB/events/48932786

Text: John 10:1-42 Theme: This week Ben Browen helps us take a closer look at Christ’s commitment to us. Key Verse: John 10:10 (NIV) “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.”

Theme: Jesus heals the blind man and then shows him the Son of God.  Key Verse: John 9:25 (NIV) He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”  Message Notes: https://my.bible.com/en-GB/events/48921658

Text: John 8:1-59 Theme: Jesus declares a truth, so confrontive, people are not left with the option of standing in the middle. You’re either with Him … or against Him. This week we’ll look at what Jesus said and why it’s the cornerstone of our faith as Christians. Key Verse: John 8:31-32 (NIV) To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples....

Text: John 7:1-52    Theme: Jesus promises something truly special in John 7. This week we’ll look at what that is and how it changes everything!   Key Verse: John 7:37-38 (NIV) On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water wi...

Text: John 6:22-71    Theme: Where do you go for truth? Google? Alexa? That one friend who seems to know a little bit about everything??? There is one source of truth that’s never wrong, never gets His facts mixed up. His truth is the kind of truth we can build our life on.   Key Verse: John 6:68-69 (NIV) Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of et...

Text: John 5:19—6:21    Theme: This week we’ll discover the powerful lesson learned from one of Jesus’ amazing miracles. When Jesus feeds thousands of people, He does more than just give them food.   Key Verse: John 6:11 (NIV) Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.   Message Notes:...

Text: John 4:1—5:18 Theme: When Jesus changes one life, it affects many more. This week Donnie Criswell takes us through an amazing story in John’s book. Key Verse: John 4:29 (NIV) “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” Message Notes: https://my.bible.com/en-GB/events/48905150

Text: John 3:1-36    Theme: One of the most famous verses in our Bible comes from the discussion Jesus has with a man named Nicodemus in John 3. His words will forever help define what it means when we’re Stepping In to a relationship with Jesus.   Key Verse: John 3:16 (NIV) “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish...

Text: John 2:1-25    Theme: Jesus seriously shook things up. His passion and mission didn’t line up with the religious priorities of the day. While the religious elite had a system they were quite comfortable with, that was all about to change when Jesus showed up.   Key Verse: John 2:17 (NIV) His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”  ...

Text: John 1:35-51   Theme: This week Ben Browen leads us through the second half of John 1. Together, we’ll be looking intently at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and His first encounters with His followers.  Key Verse: John 1:41 (NIV) The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ).    Message notes: ht...

Text: John 1:1-34    Theme: The book of John is unique and stands out from the other Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life we read in Matthew, Mark and Luke. John specifically wants his readers to know that Jesus is God in the flesh. In week one of our series, we’ll find out John wastes no time in making his point.   Key Verse: John 1:14 (NIV) The Word became flesh and made his dwelli...

Text: Hebrews 6:19a; Matthew 25:14-30; various   Theme: When we are all in, we are all His! Now we believe our lives and everything we have belongs to God and is to be used for His purposes.  Key Verse: Matthew 25:23 (NIV) “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your mast...

Text: Hebrews 6:19a; Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12; Acts 2:38-39; various Theme: How to begin a relationship with Jesus is not something we have to figure out on our own. The Good News is just that, GOOD NEWS, and He tells us exactly what we need to do next. Key Verse: Romans 6:4 (NIV) We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the de...

Text: Hebrews 6:19a; Acts 4; various  Theme: Jesus ALONE saves. This Easter we’re looking at God’s perfect plan to invite us in to His family…and to pay the price Himself.   Key Verse: Acts 4:12 (NIV) “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”   Message Notes: https://my.bible.com/en-GB/events/48875188

Text: Luke 14:15-24; various    Theme: Jesus is the light of the world, but then He tells us to be the light of the world. So, what are we supposed to do? In week two we’ll see how critical our personal invitation really is to someone who needs to know Jesus.   Key Verse: Luke 14:23 (NIV) “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to co...

Text: Luke 5:27-32; Various   Theme: Jesus is the light of the world, but then He tells us to be the light of the world. So, what are we supposed to do? In week one we begin to look at how our love can make a difference.   Key Verse: Luke 5:31-32 (NIV) Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to...