Pacific Church

1)The Selah that Silences  Psalm 3:1-2 NASB 1 O Lord, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me. 2 Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.  1)A Selah that Silences  2)A Selah that Sees  Psalm 3:3-4 NASB 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. 4 I was crying to the Lord with my voice, And He answe...

Table of Psalm 23  Psalms 23:1-6 NASB 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I will not be in need. 2 He lets me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For the sake of His name. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 Y...

Psalm 73:26 NIV 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  1) The Ruin  Psalm 73:26a NIV 26a My flesh and my heart may fail…  Psalm 73:21-22 NIV 21 When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. Psalm 73:26 NIV 26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my h...

Psalm 42:1 NIV 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. We need to be desperate for God.  Psalm 42:1 NIV 1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.  Luke 15:13 -16 NIV 13 Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent...

Psalms 1:1a NIV 1a Blessed is the one who… The Happy Person is Described by: What He/She Declines Psalms  1:1 NIV 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers  Psalms 1:1 NIV 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take…  Psalms 1:1 NIV 1 Blessed is the o...

Jonah 3:10 NIV 10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.  Jonah 4:1-11 NIV 1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a...

Jonah 1:11 -12 NASB 1995 11 So they said to him, “What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us?”— for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy. 12 He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you.”  Jonah 1:15 -16 NASB 1995 15 So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the...

Jonah 2:1-10 NIV  1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.  2 He said: “In my distress I called to the Lord and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help and you listened to my cry.  3 You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.  4 I said, ‘I have been banish...

Jonah // Our Story   Jonah 1:1a NIV 1a The word of the Lord ….   Jonah 1:1 NIV  1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai …   Jonah’s Name   Ephesians 5:8 NIV 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.   Matthew 5:13 -16 NIV 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no...

What and Why is Juneteenth Celebrated?  Hosea 4:6 NIV 6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.  John 8:31 -36 NIV 31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will kn...

Identity // Navigating Seasons - Floats & Flowers   Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 NIV 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, 3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, 4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, 5 a time...

Identity // Pentecost   Acts 2:1a NIV    1a When the day of Pentecost came…   Matthew 5:17 NIV 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.   Passover   1 Corinthians 5:7b NIV    7b For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed…   Passover fulfilled is SALVATION.   Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV     8 For it is by grace you hav...

2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV 14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.   2 Chronicles 7:14 a NIV 14a If my people, who are called by my name,   2 Chronicles 7:14 a CJB 14a If my people, who bear my name…   James 1:22 -24 NLT 22 But don’t...

Identity // How We See Others   Matthew 22:36-40 NIV 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”...

Identity // Healthier Relationships   Matthew 22:36 -40 NIV 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandm...

Identity // What’s In A Name                                                                                                                          Genesis 2:19 -20 NIV 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 2...

Identity // Back to the Beginning   2 Peter 3:8 NIV 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.   Genesis 1:1 NASB 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   bara - to fashion something out of nothing.   Genesis 1:3 NASB 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.   1. Our Comm...

Identity // Where to Start   1. Where did I come from?   Genesis 1:26 -27 NIV 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created the...

Resurrection Pursuit, Purpose, and Power                                                                                                                         Luke 24:1-6a NIV   1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find th...

Palm Sunday // We Want Freedom!   Luke 19:28 -37 (NIV) 28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here...

Seasonal Sabbath // Roundtable Reflection   Pacific Coast Church   Pastors JF and Ashley Wilkerson

1. Does My Faith Act?   James 2:14 NIV 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?   James 2:15 -19 NIV 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way,...

Proverbs 18:21 NASB 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.   James 3:1-8 NIV 1 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. 3 When we put...

James 1:1-27 NIV 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If an...

Hebrews 1:1-3a NIV 1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.   John 1:14 NIV 1...