Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

Following Jesus is not mere words, it is not “inviting Him into your heart,” It is living and walking in the ways Jesus would, being like Him...because for many people you are the closest glimpse of Him they will ever see.

John falls at Jesus feet, terrified, but Jesus reaches out and says “John, it’s me Jesus, don’t be afraid.” As Jesus says to you and I, “don’t be afraid. I am the Son of Man and I hold everything (including you) in my hand.”

There is a great Shepherd and He longs to lead us home and offer us purpose even when we cannot hear it or see it. He loves us more than we know. His name is Jesus, He lived, died, and rose from the dead so we can have relationship with the Father again.

God packs a lot of what He wants to say into a few words. In Mark 1:9-11God the Father speaks of Jesus as a king, a servant, and His Son, who will become a sacrifice.

What Jesus does with Gezerah Shavah is state that loving your God will be born out in how you love your neighbor. Jesus says: “I’M HERE TO PUT FLESH ON THE WORDS.” THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES.

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God’s character has always remained constant throughout all of human history. Ages have come and gone, people have changed, and they have tried to place that change upon God. Our great God has always been a God of not only justice, but of righteousness, forgiveness, grace and hope.

Scripture is all about Jesus. When in doubt, look for Jesus in a passage or narrative. Everything ultimately points to Him as our redeemer and hope.

We saw that Jude starts his letter by pointing out that our salvation from beginning to end is the result of God gracious working in our life. Jude then urges the faithful to “contend for the faith once for all entrusted to the saints. But as we’ve seen through the rest of the letter, God doesn’t do the believing for us. We are responsible to REMEMBER his warnings, and to REMAIN in his love, to RE...

Jude goes to great lengths to describe the lifestyle of sin and ungodliness that characterized the false teachers in the church. They assume that the grace of God revealed in Christ gives them the freedom to do just about anything they want to do. They have no regard for the authority of Christ so they engage in all kinds of sins of the flesh. They are godless, yet they claim to be Christians. Jud...

If you're going to meet God: You have to meet Him alone. You have to meet Him for Blessing. You have to meet Him at the point of weakness.

Learn to connect the gift—which you already love—with the Giver, whom you want to love more. You start with what you already like and work your way back to its source, to God. You taste and see that the Lord is good.

Most people already know more than they need to know...it is simply LIVING what we claim we know that needs to be done. We don’t become doers on our own, as we read the Scripture, we ask the Spirit to help us understand what to do in response. The intersection of what the Scriptures teach and how our lives unfold will give us a never-ceasing stream to actually do what Jesus says. Video: http://www...

In one sense, you know yourself better than anyone in the world. You alone have access to your inner thoughts, feelings, and judgments. In another way, you know yourself worse than anyone else can know you. Because we hate being honest with ourselves about ourselves...we all rationalize, justify, minimize, forget, and embellish—and we do not even know when we are doing it.

We are so consumed with giving in this time of year, we forget to give God what we should be giving Him. Our love, our life, we are to live for Him in everything we do. We are great at quickly accepting the good things that He gives us, but we are slower to give back. We forget to give Him what He deserves: our love, for He first loved us.

One of the things the Holy Spirit does is encourage believers in their work. In reading the scriptures you realize God is still active, even today, and He is working. Work brings pleasure to the image of God in us.

People are hard to get along with because we are all evil. Sin is in us and comes out through our words and actions. Sin separated people from each other and God...sin leads to only death. The simple fact is that we all sin.

God is never anxious, worried or afraid. His presence in the midst of our lives should be a calming influence because He knows all that we will face. So today’s question section will be a little different.

People are okay telling a doctor that their bodies have a problem or telling a mechanic that their car has a problem. Why is it so difficult for people who sin to tell other people who commit sins that they have a sin problem?

Our greatest strength usually brings about our greatest weaknesses. Knowing both will help us better live on mission in the name of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

God created you to simply be you, not anyone else on the planet (or in all of creation). Unfortunately we all seem to think we need to be someone else in order to truly grow into who we think God wants us to be... but only GOD knows who he wants us to be.

Pride is the result of our fallen and deceitful hearts, whereby we look to ourselves and others instead of our God and creator, to find significance, approval and love. Pride puts us in competition with others as we seek our own glory above others and turns our focus onto ourselves. It is based on an unrealistic view of who we really are, and who God really is. Humility is the ability to see the t...

God’s story for humanity will be a good one...but the question really is, “what type of story are you living?” We are all in a story but are our lives something that would inspire us?

Mordecai issued a decree to all Jews to defend themselves from those who would attack them. After the defending(or attacking) was done, by the Jews, Mordecai issued another decree to celebrate. By law, Jews were to take two days and celebrate what God had done: how He had saved them from destruction, how He has sent salvation, how He has provided for His people…again. Celebrating God was a large p...

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