Pantano Christian Church

Anxiety is so prevalent in our society, whether you are a follower of Jesus or not. But, we have tools to defeat anxiety and create calm in our thoughts: Celebrate the truth about God, Ask for God's help, List things you are thankful for, and Meditate on what is true.

What comes into your mind comes out in your life. What stronghold is holding you back? What truth from God's word demolishes that stronghold? Write it, think it, and confess it until you believe it.

We can all have a mental filter that impacts how we think. But, we can choose the powerful tool of reframing, which is a different way of interpreting a situation or relationship by changing its meaning. Looking through the lens of God's goodness and gratitude is the first step in winning the war in your mind.

Jesus is the resurrection and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him and His resurrection. His resurrection is resurrecting us. His resurrection CHANGES EVERYTHING for us.

When you have been radically transformed by God, the natural response is to connect with other people to make a difference.

Scripture is God-breathed and is to inspire and transform our way of thinking, living, and loving. We need to be willing to allow God's word to transform the way in which we live.

Radical Generosity is us helping people not like us experience a Jesus who became just like us. When we go above and beyond with generosity, people experience the love and grace of an “above and beyond” God. Today, Pastor Trevor continues our series, Difference Makers, with the message, Radical Generosity Reshapes Our World.

If we truly want people to know Jesus, we must call them to something greater than ourselves. We must call them to a Kingdom and a royal priesthood. This will require us to reach those outside our culture, in new ways. Today, special guest speaker Jeremy Jernigan continues our series, Difference Makers.

Being right is not the goal or the posture we will take. Being like Jesus to help others see Jesus is the goal.

Grace is the first response we have with others. We will be a grace-giving people even when it makes no sense. We will lead with and love others with the grace we have received first.

What do you need to fully surrender to God? To truly pray, "God, send me," we need to have three things: A genuine experience with the presence of God, a genuine awareness of our sinfulness, and a genuine desire to go and do what God has called us to do.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts. What God reveals often heals. What often heals becomes our help for others.

Search me, O God, and know my heart. This prayer takes us to the place where we are most vulnerable with God. It is a dangerous prayer that David prayed in Psalm 139 when he asked God to search his heart, reveal his fears and uncover his sins.

You will be blessed as your heart breaks over something that breaks the heart of God. What if God's greatest blessings come from God's greatest breakings? It's better to hurt with a purpose than to exist without one. 

A lot of times, we think that the voice of God is going to be the big and booming audible voice of God. How do we learn to lean in and hear what God wants to say?

Why is it that we, as followers of Jesus, know that we have access to go boldly before the throne of grace, that God hears our prayers, he's moved by our faith, and yet so often, our prayer life can be inconsistent, can be haphazard, and is often faithless in so many ways?

Let's start the new year with Dangerous Prayers. Today, we’ll spend some time on worship and prayer, where you'll get the opportunity to pray through our campus and the various ministries we represent.

We hear the best Christmas Ever, but we don’t understand that Christmas in all of its goodness was actually really hard…but that is what makes it great. Joseph, gets what we think of as the best news, and it will be, but this is a hard moment.

In the midst of this story of hope that we celebrate, there is a story of grief and death. Yet the hope of eternity shows up in the middle of that grief and pain. In that moment, Jesus comes…the one that would later preach, “Blessed are those that mourn.” God does not protect us from suffering instead, he shows up in the midst of it - Emmanuel.

We hear “best” Christmas Ever, but we don’t understand that Christmas in all of its goodness was actually really hard…but that is what makes it great. Joseph, gets what we think of as the best news, and it will be, but this is a hard moment. His obedience is what makes this the Best Christmas Ever. 

We long to paint the picture of the best-looking family. We have matching pj’s, peppermint mochas, and the perfect card to send to all our Instagram-worthy friends. Yet, if we look at the family line of Jesus, we realize that he came from the most messed up and non-idealistic lineage ever.

To be more open-handed with our generosity (our time, talent, and treasure for the Kingdom), it starts in community. As we develop a devoted community that meets for movement and growth, we will generate a generosity so deep and so pure that there will be no one in need around us.

Today we will look at a word that we often underestimate the impact and significance it can have in our lives. It is a simple word: THANKS. The language of arrogance is complaining and criticizing, but the language of humility is gratitude and encouragement. It's a daily practice to remind ourselves to be grateful.

Paul is in chains again. Paul is before the king. Paul stays bold knowing by the law he could die, but by Jesus, he would be delivered. If Paul is not bold, he does not have the opportunity to go to Rome and shake the epicenter of the world by empowering them with the Good News of Jesus. Every time Paul faces opposition…he moves the Good News Forward. It is by being empowered in opposition that he...

Paul and Silas find themselves in prison for healing a girl and threatening a bad man’s way of life. Instead of sulking in their wrongful imprisonment, they worship God in such a manner that the literal ground shakes and changes the lives of the guards. When we worship in our pain, people find hope in their own despair.