Living Faith - Sermons

This letter from Jesus is a highly contextualized letter to the church in Laodicea. But we get through this letter what a truly successful church looks like and what it doesn’t look like. In so many ways, this letter is a church revitalization letter.

Pastor Darryl Williamson continues our series in Revelation — We need more than apologetics to be faithful. If you’re going to be faithful, you’ll need more than just answers and winning debates. You’ll need something more personal. One of the key tenets to a victorious Christian life is not being distracted by the various voices and faces that are all around you, including the internal voice of y...

Pastor Dave Saville continues our series in Revelation and preaches from Ch. 3:1-6. Repentance is obedience. It’s not all of obedience by itself, but repentance is obedience. The first step is to repent and to keep on repenting. The church can wound us badly, whether on purpose or unwittingly. Yet Jesus is saying here, 'Keep going. You’re still learning how to love, how to be patient. Stay togethe...

If we're going to be witnesses to the world, we can no longer be on the sidelines of issues like justice and race. The church should be concerned about justice because God is a just God who cares for the widow, the orphan, the poor, the unborn, the oppressed, and the immigrant

Lament is good for our faith as we take our troubles, our fears, and our difficulties to the Lord. It was in times like these that the psalmist cried out to God. When times bring us to our knees, Yahweh is our only hope for deliverance and salvation.

We don’t value smallness—in the church, outside the church, etc. We value strength, influence, talents, ability, money. But there are some aspects of God’s grace that we can’t know outside of real vulnerability. There are some graces that are reserved for the weak and the broken. Slander is violence, verbal violence. It diminishes the social capital of people. You bring them down in the minds and...

Pastor Darryl Williamson begins our new series in Revelation 2:1–7 “The scariest human situation in all of Scripture and human reality is what we can call ‘deceived righteousness’—when I look at myself and perceive a sort of righteousness, and others look at me and see righteousness, but God looks at me and sees self-righteousness.” Pastor Darryl

Minister Jon Aragón gives us a fuller character sketch of “doubting” Thomas (spoiler: he wasn’t a one-dimensional doubter, but so much more), how Jesus met him in his doubt, and how that led him into mission. He exhorts us to experience Jesus and to allow that to propel us into His mission.

Minister Marc Diaz gives us a powerful word from John 20:19-23 19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to the...

Pastor Darryl brings a powerful word of encouragement from John 20:1-10. 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put...

Is crying a virtue? We would have a warped view of God if we envision a God that does not cry when it is right or righteous to do so. The word of God shows here in this passage that Jesus cried not because He is human but because He is good.

Our first Live Streamed service with Pastor Darryl. How do we find comfort and understand what God is doing during these uncertain times?

Amid the uncertainty and fear in our country and world at this time, Pastor Randall gives an encouraging word from the Lord on trusting God through difficult circumstances, and reminds us of Paul's exhortation for us to bring everything to our loving God in prayer, as well as God's promise to guard our hearts and minds with His peace.

Pastor Darryl reminds us of the responsibility we have as believers to love our neighbors and the salvific implications of it as seen from the passage from Luke 10:29-37.