Long Beach Christian Fellowship

In this first message in the series on women and Jesus, Ms. Mary discusses what the gospel says and doesn't say - about this familiar passage and how her story is both a comfort and a commission for each of us.

Camille & Esther Ntoto, leaders of our ministry partners Africa New Day, bring the message this morning. Camille notes that God has called each one of us specifically to fulfill a particular calling. Everyone is able to respond “I am the ONE” (God’s chosen one).

At the heart of Jesus’ ministry is caring for the poor. This care is especially prominent in the Gospel of Luke as the author cites it as Jesus’ mission. Jesus through various parables and judgments against religious leaders reiterates why this is at the heart of what it means to be followers of Jesus. To be good stewards, Jesus teaches, that we must be mindful of those in need as we wait for Chri...

In the Good Samaritan parable, Jesus once again points his questioners to the need for grace and to the need for us to create neighbors by being neighbor to each other.

This Sunday we make space to encounter the Spirit through prayer, reflection, and communion. In a Lectio Divina format, we read some passages from Ephesians and reflect on the two questions: "what do you hear God saying to you in these texts?" and "What do you imagine God saying to our community in these texts?"

Both of these short parables tell us something about the character and attributes of God. First of all, he looks for things that are lost...he searches for us...as a shepherd. He is faithful and merciful to his sheep! In ancient Israel, shepherds, considered "unclean," were never clean enough to worship with God's people in God's presence, they were outsiders. And then there is the woman, also a s...

This parable is about the widow and the judge or rather outcast + widow +identity + perseverance = faith

As Christ followers, we are commissioned to serve GOD and love each other. Through the parable of the wicked farmers, we ask ourselves three pivotal questions which help guide us as we seek to expand His Kingdom in the areas we live, work and play.

A teaching on the Parable of the Shrewd Manager and a reminder of the freedom we have in Jesus to give our full selves to enjoying, sharing, and partaking in the good news.

In today's message, we will see how God's kept promise of His Spirit to His people enables the Church to do His work. In Pentecost, we see together a wide diversity with Jesus Christ as the goal, at the center.

This Sunday we celebrated baptisms at LBCF. The Bible calls us to our baptism as an act in community, in family, and as a practice of laying our lives down daily. Jesus modeled this public declaration in his life and invites us to do the same.

In the parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee, we are invited to imagine and wonder where we see ourselves in this story and how often we are both the proud Pharisee, wanting to do everything ourselves, and the tax collector, desperately in need of mercy from our Savior.

In the parable of the prodigal son, we see not just one but both sons had missed the heart of the father - a heart that shows us to love without keeping others in our debt.

In the parable of The Great Banquet, we learn that the table is big enough.

In the parable of The Rich Fool, Jesus warns us of the dangers of greed. Jesus shows us that we don't always notice how selfish choices darken our ability to enter God's kingdom. So this parable calls us towards a biblical idea of stewardship, one that calls us towards love and justice.

In this new series we are looking at how we are called to renew our imagination through story. In this parable Jesus calls us to imagine the Vineyard Owner as one who is both just and full of grace and compassion, and structures the entire day around making sure that scandalous grace is evident to all.

For this message we look at how the invitation into eternal life is not just one of receiving but in turn one of offering life to those around us

This message explores the story of Jesus clearing the temple on the second day of Holy Week. Christ brings down the walls built to keep people from close relationship with Him. What does it look like to be present with our self, including our grief, and present with our loving God?

As we read the story of Jesus' triumphal entry Steve calls us to wonder how or where we might have shown up in our own calls for rescue.

Dave and Troy share the great justice-bringing work their organization is doing for girls at risk, providing them with community and education.

In this episode of the LBCF podcast, Pastor Ryan discusses the biblical pictures of the Church as a body, and a family where we are all siblings. When we learn how transformational that is we can be better neighbors and more filled with the awe and gratitude at the fact we are seated at the table at all.

Barb Sunofsky - Church, a Roadmap to home Barb Sunofsky In this message on Church as family Barb looks at Romans 12 as a great pathway to a beautiful interdependence with each other.

Jesus calls us not only to claim to be for people but to stick with them, and how we do that can be the way people experience God's compassion on Earth.

Deepening our sense of community through the spiritual practice of listening+seeing one another. This message explores Acts 10 (Peter's Vision) and how setting aside religious and societal norms to truly see and hear one another expands the kingdom of heaven here in Long Beach and beyond.

God, by the power of your Holy Spirit and a growing knowledge of your Son, could we: Do Justice, with you, Love Mercy, for each other, Walk Humbly, for ourselves; All for the sake of making your name great, through Love, in all the places we live, work and play, and all the new places your spirit will call us.