Immanuel Community Church

It is in his love and mercy for us that God exposes the sins that we try to hide from ourselves and others. This is to lead us to confession of our sin and bring us to a place of God’s forgiveness and wholeness.

The story of David is the story of a person growing more and more alive to God and his love for Mephibosheth demonstrates a heart that is growing in its pursuit of God.

The following message was given on Thrive Sunday and with the launch of Thrive@Work.

The entire Bible is the story of God’s unbreakable promises to his people. 

We can only see Jesus as Great and the Most High, he can't be seen as anything else.

Love is central to our identity as Jesus’ disciples—it is the defining quality a Christian, but we must first receive God’s love for us, before we can truly love others. 

The brokenness of this world makes us doubt wether love can be a solid enough foundation on which to rest our deepest hopes. But God’s perfect, unfailing loves perfects our own love so that we are no longer driven by our fears and is the greatest love we could have ever hoped for.

We are reluctant to approach a holy God because of our struggle with sin, pain and sorrow. But the love of God expressed through the empathy of Christ invites us to come to Him with confidence - knowing that He understands us and receives us with open arms.

It’s not until we realize how utterly impossible it is to meet God’s demands through our own strength that we begin to truly understand why we need God’s grace in order to be saved. As our Champion, Jesus not only paid the penalty for our sins, but also lived the perfectly righteous life that we couldn’t live and credited it to us.

The gospel is the story of God's forgiveness, but why did God sacrifice His Son to accomplish this forgiveness? God saw that the only solution to this problem is that He himself must pay the penalty for our sins.  

Superstition attempts to manipulate God’s power through our actions but the fear of the Lord is the only proper foundation for a life of faith.

There are some invaluable lessons that God desires to teach us but they can only be learned in the silence and solitude of the wilderness. Listen as the man after God’s own heart reveals the heart of God to all who seek Him.

In the chaos of life, God does not call us to take control of what we believe His plan for us to be, but to yield control to Him and grow in our faith through a posture of patience, waiting and trusting in Him.  

How has your faith played a role in processing your pain? Do you know how to lament in the Lord? To lament is to honestly acknowledge and express our emotions to God and seek God’s understanding and help in processing the pain of our past.

We need to deal with our emotions because they are the most honest windows into our hearts and through lament we are able to express our pain, sorrow, fear, anger, or grief to God. The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and is entitled "Lament" and comes from 2 Samuel 1. It comes from our sermon series on the life of David entitled, "After God's Heart". ​

In the messiness and chaos of life in a fallen world, God is still able to accomplish his will. The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and is entitled "God in the Mess" and comes from 1 Samuel 27-30. It comes from our sermon series on the life of David entitled, "After God's Heart". 

The fool lives life with no acknowledgement of God in any of his or her choices and begets greater foolishness, but God often offers us the protection of his wisdom through the counsel of others. The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and is entitled "Playing the Fool" and comes from 1 Samuel 25. It comes from our sermon series on the life of David entitled, "After God's Heart".

The following message was given by Pastor Chris Kim and is entitled "Trusting God's Justice" and comes from Psalm 17. It comes from our sermon series on the life of David entitled, "After God's Heart".

We need wilderness experiences to grow, but simply going through a wilderness experience doesn’t guarantee growth. God used the wilderness to retrain David’s eyes to see a world in which He is everywhere and in total control.  The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and is a part of our sermon series on the Life of David. 

Biblical friendship stems from a covenantal love that God first extends to us and we are called to extend to one another. The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and comes from our sermon series on the Life of David.  

Our courage comes from understanding that we worship a living God who fights on our behalf. The following message is the third in our series in the Life of David and was given by Pastor Steve Lee and comes from 1 Samuel 17. 

Our worth comes not from our attractiveness or accomplishments but from God's grace. The following message was given by Pastor Steve Lee and comes from 1 Samuel 16:1-13.

God's great desire is to capture our hearts and the story of David is one of an imperfect and broken person growing more and more alive to God. This is the first message on our new sermon series on the Life of David and comes from 1 Samuel 15 and was given by Pastor Steve Lee.

The following message was the final from our brief series on "Essentials" and looks into relationships. It was given by Pastor Steve Lee and comes from various biblical texts.

The following message was given by Pastor Eujin Ahn at our "Family Service" and comes from 1 John 4:8-10.