Everyday Church Sunday Messages

Despite the centrality of the Holy Spirit to the Christian faith, 60% of committed Christians believe that the Holy Spirit is a force to be wielded and not a person. In this introduction to our new teaching series we explore the work of the Spirit throughout the history of God's people in order to build up a biblical picture of his role in our apprenticeship to Jesus today. Join us for this Holy S...

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories. It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings a...

Stories are hardwired into our brains — they are how we make sense of the world around us and our experiences within it. From ancient cave paintings and oral histories, to classic novels and plays, to blockbuster movies and TV shows, our culture is both understood and shaped by stories. It should come as no surprise then that Jesus came as a master storyteller. God created us as narrative beings a...

“If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.” We are not designed to travel the spiritual journey by ourselves. We need community to practice the Way. And Jesus’ call to community goes far beyond church attendance to relationships of depth, vulnerability, and a commitment to transformation. The Practicing the Way Course Two thousand years ago, Jesus said to his discip...

A Rule of Life is a schedule and a set of practices and relational rhythms that create space for us to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. It’s an intentional plan to slow down and simplify our life around being spiritually formed by Jesus. To turn the vision of spiritual formation into a reality. It is an ancient idea, whose time has come again. The Practicing the Way Course Two tho...

Jesus once said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17). He likened sin to a disease and himself to a healer. Based on this text, ancient Christians called Jesus “the doctor of the soul.” And trying to go on the spiritual journey of discipleship without healing from sin is like trying to run a marathon with a broken l...

Jesus once said, “In this world you will have trouble.” Pain and suffering are inevitable in this life. Often, when we begin to practice the disciplines, the unhealed wounds of a lifetime rise to the surface of our hearts. Everything in us wants to run in the opposite direction — to deny, detach, or drug our pain. But the invitation of Jesus is to meet him in our pain, and let it become the crucib...

Easter Sunday was the greatest day in history. But why? Why is Easter more than just the happy ending to a traumatic story? Easter Sunday was the day that everything changed. It was the ground breaking ceremony for God's grand re-creation project—the new heavens and new earth—and the moment that God invited us to become future people here in the present as we share in the resurrection of Jesus...

The practices of Jesus are essential to our spiritual formation. They are how we do what we can do — sabbath, pray, read Scripture — to make space for God to transform us into the kind of people who can do what we currently cannot do — live and love like Jesus. And they slow our busy lives down to the pace and presence of “the God of peace.” The Practicing the Way Course Two thousand years ago, Je...

Because we are  already being formed  by our habits, relationships, environments, and more, all formation in the Way of Jesus is counter-formation . As apprentices of Jesus, our goal is to intentionally slow our lives down to find deep joy in walking with Jesus. The Practicing the Way Course Two thousand years ago, Jesus said to his disciples, “follow me.” But what does it mean for us to follow Je...

Spiritual formation isn’t a Christian thing or even a religious thing; it’s a  human  thing. To be human is to grow, to mature, to adapt over time. Formation is simply the process by which our “spirit,” or inner person, is formed into a particular shape or character. Over a lifetime, we are spiritually formed by a complex alchemy of genetic inheritance, family patterns, childhood wounds, education...

Following Jesus is more than going to church or believing the right things; it is practicing a way of life.  The meaning of “follow Jesus” is rooted in first-century practices of rabbis and apprentices, practices that inform our understanding of how to follow Jesus today. The Practicing the Way Course Two thousand years ago, Jesus said to his disciples, “follow me.” But what does it mean for us to...

Despite the state of our world today, followers of Jesus have a secure hope for the future—the now and not yet kingdom of God. But this hope is not simply that God will whisk us away from this world of sin and rebellion for an eternity in heaven, but that God's grand plan is to remake and reunite heaven and earth as he always intended. This paradigm shift in our thinking about the future shoul...

2,000 years ago Jesus declared that the kingdom of God had arrived, but what does life in this new kingdom reality look like and how do we interpret the resistance that comes with that kingdom life? The concept of the Kingdom of God is woven throughout scripture from the first page to the last. It was Jesus' favorite topic, but today it is often a very misunderstood one. Join us as we trace th...

The concept of the Kingdom of God is woven throughout scripture from the first page to the last. It was Jesus' favorite topic, but today it is often a very misunderstood one. Join us as we trace this life-changing theme through the pages of scripture from the past, to the present, and into the future. The roots of this concept are found in chapter one of Genesis where God creates human beings in h...

Following Jesus and being formed into his image is a life-long journey—the most important journey that we can ever walk. It can sometimes be a confusing journey but it's made much easier with both a map and a pathway to guide us. Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Church and begin a new chapter in the life of our community.

The end goal of apprenticeship to Jesus is to do the things that he did, but how do we do that when we are not Jesus? What does it look like to do the things that Jesus did within the unique contours of our own lives in 2025 on the Central Coast? Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Church and begin a new chapter in the life of our community.

Many people aspire to be like Jesus, but so often find themselves stuck in their apprenticeship to him—they want to become like Jesus but they don't know how. This process of spiritual formation happens through the work of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised his disciples in John 14. Through both power encounters and daily practices that excavate space in our busy lives, the Spirit of God transfor...

In an age where all sorts of people are vying for our attention, offering little of substance in return for our loyalty, Jesus of Nazareth stands alone as the one who can offer us life in all its fullness. Giving us a method of following him that is just as transformational today as it was for his first apprentices 2,000 years ago, Jesus begins by inviting us to simply be with him—to learn to valu...

Down through the ages followers of Jesus have remained faithful to the basic tenets of the Christian faith while reimagining the spirituality of the Church for their own unique situation. In a world afflicted by the twin challenges of anxiety and exhaustion, what does a church for this cultural moment look like? Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Chu...

The world of today with all of its brokenness and beauty would be an unfamiliar place to those of previous generations. So how does the church rediscover its place and purpose in this Brave New World? God is inviting us to partner with him in his great project of renewing all of creation—the uniting of heaven and earth. Will we join him? Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore...

We live in a quick-fix world where many people struggle to commit to relationships for the long haul and the local church is no different. But if we learn to embrace God's design for the church as a spiritual family we will experience incredible benefits.

Christmas is "good news of great joy," but all too often we don't experience that joy in our everyday lives. As we look at the Christmas story in Luke 2, discover how we can both protect and increase our joy by treasuring and pondering God's goodness in our lives just like Mary did.

There's a lot that goes into making Christmas the "most wonderful time of the year". Decorations and parties and gifts and food and movies... the list goes on and on. Why does a season of supposed peace cause us so much exhaustion and anxiety? And more importantly, how can we rediscover the peace of God in the midst of our busy lives all year round? The answer lies in rediscovering the practice of...

Like the Christmas story, all hope begins in the place of pain and disillusionment. But if we can fix our eyes on a good God, trust his plans for our lives and our world, and invite the Holy Spirit to be our journeying companion through the process, hope will never fail us.