Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

This week we look at the minor prophet: Haggai. Consider your ways in terms of your faith and your priorities. What do they reveal is at the center of your worship? DOWNLOAD PDF SERMON NOTES HERE WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH RELATED TALKING ELEMENT EPISODE

This week we look at the minor prophet: Joel. Are plagues always a judgment of God? Why do you think God is more interested in a Heart change than He is in a behavioral or outward change in His people? DOWNLOAD PDF SERMON NOTES HERE WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH RELATED TALKING ELEMENT EPISODE

Questions Discussed: - Mark's piano play skillz - What is worship and where does it come from? - Rending of hear hearts not our clothes. WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

This week we look at the minor prophet: Hosea. Reflect on all the different marriages you have seen. How are the most incredible moments in the most incredible marriages in the history of the world only dim hints at God’s love for us? DOWNLOAD PDF SERMON NOTES HERE WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH RELATED TALKING ELEMENT EPISODE

We have a problem; our hearts are not centered on God. As a result of not being centered on God there is an infinite discontent and dissatisfaction that our lives have built up with everything. In Numbers 21 we are being shown a correlation of what is happening in Israel’s bodies is exactly what was happening in their souls. We have an unquenchable, all-consuming thirst that will eventually (if th...

Questions Discussed: - Recap Steve’s Lent Journey and his driving. - Our human sickness and God’s provision for saving and healing us. - How do we perform spiritual healing on our friendships? - How do we stop blame-shifting? WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

“If there is no judge in the world, there’s no hope for the world, because evil will win. If there is no judge, what hope is there for the world?...[BUT]…If there is a judge, what hope is there for us?” We are hopelessly lost unless there is a judge, and His name is Jesus. In Christ we have a way for God to deal with evil and suffering in the world without wiping us out. We must move our eyes from...

Questions Discussed: - Salvation: Decisive and Process, and how that has looked in your life. - Eric shares his story. - How God uses the mundane in our lives. - God’s Justice and meeting our needs in the Gospel. WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

Questions Discussed: - Mike’s journeys with shame - Mike’s heart for redemption groups. Learn more at ourelement.org/redemption WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

The type of culture much of the Bible was written in was one that focused upon honor and shame. American culture is what is known as an individualistic culture. An individualistic culture tends to be a right/wrong culture (innocence versus guilt). An honor/shame culture is not focused on an individual, but the community. Right and wrong in both cultures will be viewed differently, but God will use...

Last week it may have felt like we came to the end of the book of Job as we rounded out the last chapter and saw the change in Job. We saw all that God was doing, at least as far as we could understand it. It led to asking how we would begin to live if we truly understood who God is in His person. How would our suffering change when we trusted God more than our circumstances? In the end we get to...

Questions Discussed: - What desires has God given you that makes you come alive? More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

If you are following along in time with Element in this journey, the message today comes on what we call Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is when Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Sunday, the first day of the week, in order to reveal Himself. Some think it was to claim the title of Messiah at this time. Others think that as Passover sacrifices were usually chosen the Sunday before, Jesus was here presenting H...

Questions Discussed: - Kelly shares about her struggles of miscarriages and how she wants God to show up in difficult times. - Aaron shares about their similar struggles. More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

At the beginning of the book of Job, God points to Job as a godly man, instead of Job’s three friends; it is something that is supposed to stay in our minds as the story unfolds. Job’s three friends are not a picture of our enemies’, they are a picture of believers who misunderstand God and criticize others without relying on God’s guidance. Elihu does not sugar-coat his understanding of God and h...

Questions Discussed: - Sabin shares his story of call to repentance and coming to faith in his life. More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

As we have gone through each week looking at Job’s life and the responses of his wife and friends, we have seen the idea that suffering does not simply lead to negativity in our lives, but that suffering can lead us into a deeper relationship with God. We can grow in our faith and our trust of who God is by walking through hardship. We must be willing to look at our responses to the things we don’...

Questions Discussed: - Marianne’s favorite Element Memory - How has pain and tragedy caused you wonder about God and made you more dependent on Him? - Where do you find silence in your life? - What bad advice have you given? - What do you say when someone feels they deserve the pain and calamity in their life? More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE...

In speaking of our goals during this Lent journey, the ideas of prayer, self-denial, repentance, and giving to the poor and needy can become legalistic extremes if we don’t understand the Gospel. Many Americans love the ideals of hard work and self-determination. While hard work and taking responsibility are not bad things, if they become all we focus on, we start to sound like Job’s friend Bildad...

Questions Discussed: - In what ways has culture influenced our Theology? - Christie shares trials and calamity in her life and what God has shown her about His nature. More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

Today, Job’s three friends show up. The do an amazing thing as they silently mourn with Job for 7 days. But then they speak. Today we look at Eliphaz and the empty platitudes he delivers. More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent DOWNLOAD PDF SERMON NOTES HERE WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH RELATED TALKING ELEMENT EPISODE

Questions Discussed: - Job…Blameless and upright? - I know there are many times throughout the Bible when we clearly see God's wrath like in Sodom and Gomorrah or on the whole Earth when He flooded the earth. In those instances, the Bible says there were no righteous people. It was just. But, most of the time, it seems like God plays more of a passive role in our lives meaning that He allows bad t...

This week Doug shares about times of calamity in his life, and how he and his wife have responded and grown. More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element

Week one of our Lent. Life. Job. series. Where we look at the Accuser, who says, "He only worships you because he has the perfect life.” More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent DOWNLOAD PDF SERMON NOTES HERE WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH RELATED TALKING ELEMENT EPISODE

Questions Discussed: - What has God done and or is doing in your life? - What questions have you had for God over the past year? - What in your life have you lost, and how did you respond? - What has strengthened your faith in who God is? More info about our Lent Journey through Job: www.ourelement.org/lent WATCH FULL SERVICE ON YOUTUBE WATCH This Episode of Talking Element