Lantana Community Church

Two good plans. Two closed doors. No explanation. In Acts 16, Paul tries to take the gospel to Asia, the Spirit says no. He tries Bithynia, the Spirit says no again. He ends up at the edge of the sea with nowhere obvious left to go. And that’s when the guidance finally comes… not as a map, but as a face. A man from Macedonia asking for help. This week in Walking with God Into the Unknown, we’re le...

What do we do when we can’t see what’s next? Most of us want a map… certainty, a plan, answers. But God rarely gives the map first. He gives Himself first. In Galatians 5, Paul doesn’t tell a struggling church to try harder. He tells them to walk… to keep in step with the Spirit. Not achieve the list. Not arrive. Just stay close enough to move when He moves. This week we’re beginning a new season...

Most of us aren’t losing faith because of doubt. We’re losing heart because of pace. We want transformation to happen faster than it does. We want the prayer that changes everything, the sermon that breaks it open. And when growth feels slow… we wonder if anything is happening at all. In Mark 4, Jesus tells a parable about a farmer who scatters seed, goes to sleep, and wakes up to find it growing....

We’ve been in the story of the Good Samaritan before. Last year we asked what mercy looks like. This year we’re asking something harder: what gets in the way? The priest and Levite weren’t monsters. They were busy. They had somewhere to be. And maybe that’s the most uncomfortable thing about this parable… most of us understand them. In Luke 10, the hidden villain isn’t bad theology. It’s urgency....

We want faith to feel like a firework. Dramatic. Visible. Significant. But Jesus keeps pointing somewhere else… at the small thing. The ordinary act. The quiet obedience nobody applauds. Luke 16:10 offers a principle that reframes the whole Christian life: whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much. Small faithfulness isn’t the waiting room until the real thing begins. I...

Martha opens her door, starts the preparations, and somewhere in the middle of it all… she loses the person she was preparing for. In Luke 10, Jesus doesn’t criticize Martha’s service. He addresses what the serving has done to her, the worry, the resentment, the slow drift away from her reference point. And then he says something that reframes everything: only one thing is needed. This week in &qu...

Message about discipleship and the Road to Ammaus.

It’s early morning. The nets are being washed. A failed night is finally over. And that is exactly when Jesus shows up. In Luke 5, Jesus doesn’t call Peter out of his ordinary life… he steps into it. He borrows the boat. He enters the workplace. And from the middle of Peter’s most exhausted, ordinary moment, something begins that will change everything. This week we’re launching a new summer serie...

This might be the hardest sermon in the series, because this week the cost becomes personal. It's one thing to move toward people, restore the broken, or open your hands. It's another thing entirely to release the debt someone genuinely owes you. In Matthew 5, Jesus takes the Law's long trajectory toward limiting retaliation... and completes it. Not as weakness, but as the most powerfu...

What does formed love do with what it has? In Acts 4, the earliest followers of Jesus did something remarkable, they stopped treating what they owned as fundamentally theirs. Not because they were required to... but because resurrection life had so thoroughly reordered them that their grip on everything loosened. This isn't a sermon about giving more. It's about becoming the kind of people...

Real life isn't always clean. Sometimes love has to navigate real sin, complicated situations, and people convinced they're right. In John 8, the religious leaders drag a woman before Jesus, not in the interest of justice, but to win an argument. She's been reduced from a person to a prop. And Jesus refuses to play along. He slows everything down, turns the spotlight around, and speaks...

We all know what it looks like when someone just needs a break; a meal, a hand, a moment of relief. But Jesus consistently goes deeper than that. In Mark 2, four friends tear open a roof to get their paralyzed friend in front of Jesus. And when he gets there, Jesus doesn't lead with healing. He leads with forgiveness. Before the body is restored, the shame is dismantled. The identity is reclai...

We've spent months being formed; through discipleship, through Lent, through Easter. Now we ask the harder question: what does that formation actually look like in real life? In Mark 1, we find Jesus doing something unexpected... he moves toward a man everyone else avoided. Before he heals him, he touches him. He didn't have to. He chose to. That touch restored dignity before the miracle r...

The tomb is empty...and that changes everything. This Easter Sunday we explore what comes after the resurrection. Before Jesus ascended, He walked into a locked room where frightened disciples were hiding and offered them something unexpected: peace. Not a debrief. Not a theological lecture. Just grace. And then, almost immediately, a commission, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.&...

Today we explore the gap between the king the crowd expected and the king who actually came. Drawing from John 13:1–5, we'll examine the Greek phrase eis telos ... to the end, to the uttermost ... and what it means that Jesus loved his own all the way through. The crowd cried Hosanna, save us, with no idea what saving them would cost. By Thursday, the king was washing feet. He knew what was co...

The Christian life is not sustained by trying harder but by walking with Jesus. Drawing from Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus invites the weary and burdened to find rest in Him. In His day, rabbis taught a "yoke" of 613 laws plus countless traditions that exhausted people spiritually. Jesus offers a radically different yoke: His teaching is easy and His burden is light because it is relational, n...

Amazing Message

Standing in grace means receiving God's love before we can ever extend it to others. Like Ted Stallard, we all carry invisible pain and need grace we cannot earn. Romans 5:1-5 reveals what happens when we stand in God's grace: we find peace, discover hope, and are formed into people of character. God changed everything by sacrificing Himself for those who caused the pain. Through suffering...

Sunday service focus on Mission

Today we conclude the "Formed to Be Sent" series while launching into Lent as a season of deeper formation. We're looking at John 15:1-8, and discover that fruit grows from connection, not effort. Branches don't strain to produce grapes; they simply stay connected to the vine. Everything discussed over five weeks...formation, being sent, entrusting, everyday obedience...flows fro...

Discipleship is not something we schedule for special occasions or reserve for spiritual professionals. It shows up where life already happens. Drawing from Luke 10, we see Jesus sending ordinary people into ordinary places: homes, meals, towns, and conversations. The mission of God has always traveled through dinner tables and neighborhoods, not impressive platforms. Acts 1:8 reminds us to start...

What does God intend to do with what He's forming in us? Today we explore how spiritual formation is meant to be entrusted to others through Paul's model in 2 Timothy 2:2. Biblical multiplication is not about producing numerical results but about faithful stewardship of what we've received. Discipleship begins with receiving, not inventing, and involves walking alongside reliable peopl...

What does it actually mean to be formed into the image of Christ? If discipleship is about becoming like Jesus, then what does Jesus actually look like? In today's message, we discover that the image of Christ is self-giving love. A life oriented toward others rather than toward self. Drawing from Philippians 2, we see how Christ emptied Himself and moved toward us in humility and obedience. T...

Discipleship is often misunderstood as a program to complete or a list of duties to perform. What if it isn’t about trying harder, but yielding to the One who shapes us? In today's message, we peel back the layers of misconception to reveal the heart of spiritual formation: being formed into the image of Christ. Drawing from the ancient metaphor of the Potter and the clay, we explore how God’s...

Pastor Bruno Ponce message