Real Life Church Podcast

The New Year often brings new changes to our lives. Many of those changes come as we face the ups and downs of each day, life, marriage, decisions, death, but some of them come because of our desire to change the way we've been going through life. Sometimes the Christian life can seem difficult because we're too busy working for something we're trying to earn instead of for someone we're trying to...

Like babies who come into the world with nothing but the love of their parents, we come to Jesus with nothing except His love for us. We come to Him in weakness, unable to earn heaven and unworthy of it even if we somehow could. But Jesus overcame the weakness and frailty of humanity to live a perfect life so He can empathize with our weakness but He also can grant us grace and mercy for our sin s...

God's standards are often at odds with our cultures definition of accomplishment and success. Whether God was looking for sailor, a spokesman or a savior He didn't pick from the top of the pack but from the bottom of the barrel. That's because what's important to people isn't so important to God's plan. So if you want to be used by God it's far better to be a humble nobody than a haughty somebody.

Opening our eyes to see God in a fresh way by reminding ourselves of who He is, what He desires and How He communicates with His creation. The Israelites had returned to Jerusalem from exile in Babylon but they had not returned to God. Though they started the journey with much hope and happiness they were now struggling with hunger, few people and very little economy. But they were learning that G...

Opening our eyes to see God in a fresh way by reminding ourselves of who He is, what He desires and How He communicates with His creation. In the first message we saw God's love for His people, in part 2 we'll discover how God desires to be treated and how different we often treat Him. Since God loved us the proper response is to love Him in return.

Opening our eyes to see God in a fresh way by reminding ourselves of who He is, what He desires and How He communicates with His creation. We start off with how much God loves His people - that's you! While your circumstances may look bleak, He's always working and never leaves you.

God has always had the victory over Satan. Then Jesus won humanities freedom and victory over Satan at the cross and tomb. So there's never been a question about the place Satan takes on the stage - he always has and always will come in last. But that doesn't mean that from time to time we're not going to feel like satan won. Sometimes his victory seems secure, but in Christ we have this promise -...

Satan is always setting the bait for our failures and he always uses exactly the right kind of bait to catch us. Like an expert fisherman he understands our likes and dislikes and puts the bait in the exact right spot at the exact right time for us to feel we have no other choice but to take it. But we do have a choice. And God is always right there with you urging you to endure when you want to i...

Because the fight for believers is not fought with flesh and blood, the weapons we use are not earthly weapons but spiritual. God has given us powerful weapons through which to stand and fight our spiritual enemy and they call come from knowing Him and His Word.

When struggles and battles come in our lives we often find ourselves swinging at whatever or whoever happens to be closest. We fight our finances, our families, our friends and even our own feelings. And after we've exhausted all our energy we realize we never laid a glove on our real opponent. When we fight spiritual battles with physical strength we get nowhere, like fighting the marionette inst...

In order to find the hidden option you've got to have faith that God's perspective is greater than your perception - in this series wrap up you'll learn how!

If you're trying to get to Jesus you won't find him in philosophical reason or dead ritual, He's only found through a relationship.

From beginning to end the Bible is a story. An incredible, twisting and turning story filled with wonder and fear and turmoil and Joy and confusion and hope. And from the first page to the last this story is about Jesus. Nasser al'Qahtani helps us see how the Bible is put together and how it all points to Jesus as we kick off this new series, Christ Alone.

Like Peter Parker and Mysterio, believers are in a battle with an enemy that appears much bigger and stronger than he actually is. It's tempting to buy into what we think satan's abilities instead of what we're told about Him in God's Word. Like Spider-Man we've got to get past the fake bigness of our enemy so we can deal with the reality of our war. But our part in the battle is pretty simple, st...

In Toy Story 4 Woody and friends embark on an epic quest to find their lost friend Bo Peep. Along the way they make a new friend, Forky. At first Forky is afraid of everyone and constantly tries to run away, but Woody especially pursues Forky relentlessly and "saves" him over and over again - it brings to mind the old saying, 'no toy left behind.' Woody's recognition of Forky when the rest of the...

Godzilla is no god. He only shows up when there's trouble. Doesn't care about those that he's supposed to protect. And he isn't even powerful enough to defeat his enemies on his own. That doesn't sound like a very good God. But unlike Godzilla God wants to do life with you. He cares about you more than you do and there is no one who can stand up to Him. He's an actual good God.

Everyone's been angry. We get angry about big things and little things and sometimes, no thing. But what did anger ever accomplish? We use anger as an excuse for the things we say or do and then just deal with it like it's impossible to live without. But you don't have to deal with anger, you can defeat it.

As believers our lives should change from who we were before to who we're becoming (hint: it's more like Jesus). Part of that process has to be our speech, since the words we use hold both life and death in them. Many of us growing up heard the saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, but it's not true. Our words can hurt and even kill. But here's the truth about...

Salvation puts us in the right relationship with God - that's His gift to us. But once were in that relationship we must make an effort to walk away from our old life and walk in the new life God has called us to in Jesus. Ultimately, whether you're the old you or the new you depends on you. If you continue in your old ways you're gonna get old results. But you can choose to be made new in your mi...

The lemons that come into our individual lives are not just "mine." God can use "my" lemons to help someone else when we let Him and when we recognize that our lemons may not have been His plan, but they will absolutely fulfill His purpose for our lives and the lives of others. With special guest, Angie, founder of the You Are Lovely Project.

Chances are good that someone somewhere at sometime wronged you. They gossiped, stabbed you in the back, sold you out or just abandoned you. Our reaction to being wronged is usually, well, wrong. We want to retaliate when we're wronged but has that ever succeeded in undoing the wrong done? The truth is that we will be wronged, probably many times. And While we can't keep from being wronged we can...

Most of us hate it when trouble comes into our lives and hate the thought that trouble will come into our lives. But trouble is necessary if you're going to build trust. You can't fully know the peace of God if you've never experienced the storms of life. In this message we'll see how David looked back over his life and recalled God's faithfulness to help him develop trust that God would continue...

Everybody gets lemons. Challenges, struggles, pain, frustrations, trouble - whatever name you give it, whatever form it comes in we all get 'em at some time or another. Many people give in or give up when life turns sour, but through Holy Spirit God can grow us through these difficult times so that we are better able to handle them and help others through them.

One of our core values here at Real LIfe is the value of being “real, because it’s not our perfection that draws people to Jesus, it’s the way we handle our problems. When those on the outside see us dealing with our problems with faith instead of fear it gives them hope. Hope that maybe they wont be pulled under by their problems. Hope that there really may be something to this Jesus life.

Many people believe that the Christian life is about who can best obey the rules and regulations. The better you adhere to the rules the better, more loved by God, Christian you are. Because of this some put a LOT of emphasis on how you dress, how you talk, what version of the Bible you prefer or how spiritual you sound. But the Christian life is not about rules its about relationship. The most pe...