Lantana Community Church

As I begin my 9th year of ministry, we'll reflect on a transformative 2025 and cast vision for 2026. In this annual report, we'll celebrate remarkable accomplishments. From over 1,000 people at the Easter egg hunt to Harvest Christian School's 224 students and back-to-back state championships. More significantly, I will trace how God has been preparing our congregation through intentio...

Today we conclude the Advent journey by exploring how God's love is revealed through incarnation in John 1:14. The Word became flesh, demonstrating that love does not stay distant but comes near. God's response to a broken world is presence, not distance. Jesus embodies both grace and truth, showing that authentic love is honest yet compassionate. When love draws near, it cannot ignore nee...

This Sunday we will explore how joy enters ordinary and unexpected places through the stories of shepherds and Joseph. The shepherds experience sudden, loud joy when angels announce Christ's birth in their fields, demonstrating that joy doesn't wait for perfect conditions or qualified people. Joseph's experience reveals a different kind of joy: slow, quiet, emerging through confusion a...

Amazing Message by Pastor Angel

This Sunday we light the second candle of Advent and remember that Christ brings peace into the very places where life feels chaotic. The peace Scripture speaks of is more than calm moments or quiet days. It is shalom… God putting the world back together. In Luke’s story, Jesus enters a world that was crowded, pressured and uncertain, and He still brings peace. As we gather, we’ll reflect on the p...

Today we'll explore how hope enters the world, not when circumstances improve, but precisely in the darkness of "those days." Drawing from Luke 2:1-3, we see how God moved during Roman oppression and centuries of silence, announcing hope in the midst of hard reality. The gathered church becomes the place where hope is proclaimed through worship, Scripture, and community, reminding be...

This Sunday we wrap up our “Family of God” series with Jeremiah 29:7, “Seek the peace and prosperity of the city.” God didn’t place us in Lantana, Argyle, Flower Mound, Denton, or Lewisville by accident. He positioned us on purpose… to bless our community with ordinary faithfulness, visible good works, and prayer that turns frustration into intercession. We’ll talk about being a faithful presence...

Revival is proven by reconciliation. This Sunday we’re in Matthew 5:9—“Blessed are the peacemakers.” Jesus doesn’t bless peace-lovers but peace-makers, people who enter broken places with healing grace. We’ll talk about how humility opens doors pride keeps shut, how to move toward tension instead of away, and how to live out peace through one simple rhythm: B.L.E.S.S.—Begin in prayer, Listen, Eat,...

This Celebration of Ministry Sunday explores 1 Corinthians 12:18-31, teaching how God has designed the church as one body with many parts. The service includes four movements: One Body/Many Parts, You Are Special, Everyone Has A Place, and Our Motive is Love. We'll highlight community partnerships including our school and uplift ministries, and introduce each ministry team - from worship and h...

This week marks a pivot in the "Growing the Family of God" series from internal formation to external mission. We're going to look at Micah 6:8 and Luke 14:12-14 and see how God's people practice justice and mercy in ordinary places, starting at our dinner tables. We'll explore what biblical justice (mishpat) and mercy (hesed) actually mean, then discover how hospitality beco...

Pastor Hosiah, how to become part of the family of God.

Faith should feel less like a to-do list and more like something we live. This week we're in Acts 2:42-47, where the first Christians practiced simple, repeatable rhythms...Word, Table, Prayer, and Service. This formed them into a joyful, generous family. We're going to look at what "devoted" really means, why meals with "glad and sincere hearts" can change a neighborho...

Ever feel like you have to earn your place with God? Scripture says otherwise. This week we discover that, in Christ, we are adopted...wanted, named, and given full rights as sons and daughters. In Paul’s world, adoption meant a new family name and secure inheritance; in God’s family it means freedom from fear. The Spirit Himself whispers “Abba” to our hearts, silencing the old orphan reflexes of...

Ever felt like a guest in God’s house? Ephesians 2:19–22 says you’re no longer a stranger, you’re family. The gospel doesn’t just rescue isolated people; it builds a home where God lives among us. In this message we move from the doorway of belonging to the foundation...Jesus, the cornerstone...and see how God is fitting us together into a living temple. Whether you’re new, returning, or ready for...

I believe God is calling our church to become an irresistible aroma to our community. Imagine a church where the aroma of Christ mingles with the aroma of home-cooked meals every week. Imagine dinner tables where people who might never come to a traditional service can experience the love of God through genuine fellowship and conversation. This is why we're fasting. This is what God is prepari...

The Harvest is all around us! In Matthew 9, Jesus saw the crowds and had compassion on them. He noticed they were like "sheep without a shepherd." He gave the instruction to "ask the Lord of the harvest" for the workers. Here's what we should catch about Jesus' command to pray for workers. Jesus called His 12, gave them authority, and sent them out. The disciples who he...

This week we see why Jesus often chose meals as His ministry tool. In Luke 5, He calls Levi...a despised tax collector...and then sits at a banquet filled with “outsiders.” Meals break barriers, embody grace, and create belonging. Around the table, people meet Jesus in ways that feel natural and relational. Today, we experience a live Dinner Church demonstration, reminding us that evangelism doesn...

Can we shift our mindset to say, week after week, I'm not attending, I'm hosting? We're not creating a new program, we're changing our posture. A posture that considers mission. This is moving from reclining with Christ to hosting with Christ. If we can all shift from consumer to host, our gathered worship becomes a living witness to our community and Sunday morning becomes practic...

Message from Pastor Angel

What might happen if we truly embraced this dinner church, grace upon grace approach. Imagine dinner tables throughout our community becoming places where people encounter the love of Christ for the first time. Here's what I believe God is showing me. He's calling us to start multiple dinner churches in our neighborhoods. To be the church who starts a movement of grace that reaches every n...

What kind of impact do you think it would have if we all started inviting people to church regularly? Not in a weekly or forced or coercive way, but in an "I'm so excited, you've got to check this place out" kind of way. What if inviting people became natural and normal? Can you picture walking into this sanctuary and meeting people you've never seen before? Imagine the impac...

You are more ready than you think. We don't need more training or a perfect testimony. God uses regular, people in ordinary places to share extraordinary news. In other words, God uses us, ordinary people, empowered by an extraordinary God. What would happen if every person in our church started paying attention to God's nudges in their everyday lives. Imagine the conversations you could h...

After six weeks away on sabbatical, I’m returning with something far more valuable than a new plan—I’m coming back with a heart that’s been freshly tuned to the voice of God. In this message, I share two significant moments from my time away: one when I felt the overwhelming weight of God’s compassion for lost people, and another during a breakfast conversation that reminded me how easily God show...

Message from pastor Jerry Porter

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