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  Sermon Big Idea:  Because we are weak and the enemy is real, Jesus teaches us to pray with honest dependence every single day. Sermon Summary: Pastor Jason begins by discussing how we live in a culture that rewards projecting strength and hiding weakness — and if we're honest, the church has picked up the same habit. But in the very prayer Jesus personally designed for his disciples, he builds i...

Mark places the scene at the head of the passion week and frames it as an intercalation. The fig tree and the temple are bound together so that each interprets the other. Jesus rises from Bethany hungry, sees a leafy fig tree, and pronounces, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” The fig tree stands there with the look of life but no fruit, and Jesus treats it as an enacted parable of judgme...

Sermon Big Idea: Forgiven people, forgive people. Sermon Overview: Harvard's Global Flourishing Study surveyed 207,000 people across 23 countries measuring health, happiness, relationships, and meaning — and one of the strongest predictors of human flourishing wasn't a vaccine, a policy, or an economic system. It was forgiveness. Researchers concluded it was a public health issue worthy of greater...

Sermon Big Idea: Jesus teaches us to pray "give us today our daily bread" because learning daily dependence on God is the only cure for self-sufficiency. Sermon Summary: Food has a way of telling the story of a people. The bánh mì sandwich — that iconic Vietnamese street food found on every corner from Hanoi to the countryside — carries within it over 170 years of complex history, the fingerprints...

Sermon Big Idea: Praying "Your kingdom come, your will be done, ”is a bold request that seeks and welcomes God’s "holy disruption" into everyday life.  Sermon Summary: If you were asked to summarize the central mission of Jesus in one sentence, what would you say? Most people point to his ethical teachings — love your neighbor, care for the poor, treat others the way you want to be treated. And wh...

Sermon Big Idea:  Before Jesus teaches us to ask, he teaches us to see. The way we see God determines everything about how we pray. Sermon Summary:   The Lord's Prayer is the most memorized set of words in human history — recited by an estimated two billion people every single day, in hundreds of languages, across every culture and time zone on earth. Within fifty years of the New Testament the ea...

For the full Bible study, click HERE . Sermon Big Idea: While prayer connects us to the most important relationship in life, it faces the greatest resistance in our daily routines. Sermon Overview: The Resistance of Performance (Matt. 6:5-8) We begin not with the Lord's Prayer itself but with an honest confession: most of us feel like we are failing at prayer — and we are not quite sure why. Befor...

For a full bible study: click HERE . Sermon Big Idea: The community that costs you the most transforms you the most. Sermon Overview: When we read the New Testament carefully, one thing becomes impossible to miss: there is no category for a disciple without a community. From the very first days of the church in Jerusalem, following Jesus was never designed to be a private, personal journey. The ea...

Sermon Big Idea: The cross frees us from the world and gives us a new life that extends far beyond it. Sermon Outline: THE COUNTERFEIT LIFE (6:11-13) THE CRUCIFIED LIFE (6:11-14) THE NEWLY CREATED LIFE (6:15-16) THE MARKED LIFE (6:17-18) Sermon Overview: Pastor Jason begins by identifying a universal human struggle: the instinct to boast. From childhood races to modern social media feeds, we natur...

Sermon Big Idea: We often look for the Spirit in the spectacular, but we must look for the Spirit in the sacrificial. Sermon Summary: Pastor Jason shows how Paul closes his letter to the Galatians not with more theological thunder but with a surprisingly tender and practical exhortation. After defending the gospel with explosive precision — grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone — he downshifts in...

Big Idea: The gospel grants believers a freedom that must be guarded, grounded, and guided.   Sermon Summary:   Pastor Jason begins by explaining how freedom is one of the most powerful words in human experience, and nothing illustrates its weight more than the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 — a legal declaration that set enslaved people free, yet many remained in bondage simply because the ann...

Sermon Big Idea: Easter isn’t about just believing Jesus came back to life—it’s believing he came to give us new life.   Sermon Summary: We all know the feeling of empty. An empty fridge. An empty bank account. An empty room where you expected people to show up. Most of the time, empty means something is missing — something you needed that just isn't there. It disappoints. It lets us down. And if...

Sermon Big Idea:  When Jesus comes, He doesn’t just receive praise—He cleanses what is corrupt and redefines worship. Sermon Overview: Palm Sunday is often celebrated with palm branches and festive singing — but Matthew 21 invites us to look much more carefully at what actually happened the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem. Pastor Jason unfolds the passage around a single big idea: when Jesus comes n...

Sermon Big Idea: The Gospel not only frees us from performing for God, it also matures us into children known by God.   Sermon Summary: In our journey of human development, we look for physical and emotional benchmarks to measure maturity—traits like flexibility, responsibility, and approachability. In Galatians 4, the Apostle Paul provides the ultimate metric for spiritual maturity: the transitio...

Sermon Big Idea: When you are united to Christ by faith, you become Abraham’s true descendant and the rightful heir to the same ancient promise of grace. Sermon Summary: We live in a world obsessed with rules and laws. From classroom expectations to city ordinances, we often operate under the assumption that if we just provide enough "clear boundaries," people will naturally develop the desire to...

Sermon Big Idea: The Christian life does not transition from God’s work then to our willpower. We are saved by faith and sustained by grace. Sermon Summary: The Galatians episode unfolds with a shift from reliance on God to reliance on human effort, which becomes the central problem. Paul confronts the folly of trading Spirit-led trust for performance-driven religion, arguing that the initial rece...

Sermon Big Idea: The gospel of Jesus not only unmask our hypocrisy, it also restores us through the grace of Jesus. Paul publicly confronts Peter over hypocrisy in Antioch, exploring how the fear of man led established leaders to compromise the gospel and how that compromise spread through the community. It emphasizes two gospel actions — unmasking sin and restoring sinners — and highlights the ro...

Sermon Big Idea: Our new identity that comes from the gospel compels us to live out that identity by maintaining unity in the gospel. Sermon Summary: In the mid-20th century, the phrase "winning hearts and minds" became a staple of military strategy. The idea was simple but profound: you cannot stabilize a region through brute force alone. To defeat an insurgency and establish lasting peace, you m...

Drawing on Matthew 7, Derek Maxson, our guest preacher serving our community in Poway, California,  confronts the chilling possibility of religious achievement without relationship: people who built impressive spiritual resumes — prophesying, driving out demons, performing miracles — can still be turned away by Jesus with the words, “I never knew you.” The exposition insists that outward spiritual...

This series will take a slow and deep dive through Paul’s urgent letter to a church in danger of drifting from the freedom of the gospel. Written to believers tempted to add religious performance to God’s saving grace, Galatians calls us back to the heart of the Christian faith: we are saved, sustained, and transformed by grace alone through faith in Christ alone. Throughout this series, we will d...

As we step into 2026, Psalm 100 reminds us that gratitude is not just a feeling — it is a way of life formed through worship. In a culture built on dissatisfaction and comparison, God invites us to enter His presence with thanksgiving and praise. The more intentionally we worship, the more deeply gratitude takes root in our hearts. The way we worship God in life will determine how grateful we are...

Sermon Big Idea: Waiting prepares us to receive God’s comfort before circumstances change. 1st Application: Waiting prepares us to receive God’s comfort before circumstances change. 2nd Application: Waiting reminds us of what ultimately lasts. 3rd Application: Waiting enlarges our view of God. 4th  Application: Waiting is our pathway to renewed strength.