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 I want you all to know that in a few weeks it's my birthday.  I wanted to give you time to get presents.  And it's the big one --- 42nd!  A couple years ago, I turned 40, and as most of us do when we hit a milestone, we spend time reflecting.  I started looking at what I had accomplished, how God had used me.  A question that most of us ask at certain milestones of our lives --- Am I where I thou...

The topic I'm looking at is a transformed view of God.  That's a big topic to take.  My hope is that we'll be able to come up with some kind of a working definition that may kind of stretch us a bit; we've got to be stretched when we're talking about God.  I believe very strongly, as I've been working on this sermon, that this view that we have of God influences the way we view life.  I think it's...

Toward the end of July I was approached by a gentleman in this church that I did not know well, who asked me how my family was doing. I shared with him the excitement that my wife is pregnant with our fourth, and that Jesus definitely doesn’t love me because it is another boy and I wanted a little girl. The man (whom I won’t mention by name because he’d get mad) piped in and very caringly asked, “...

Uuugghhh!  For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.  For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.  (Romans 7:18)  For I do not understand my own actions.  For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.  (Romans 7:16-17)    For I delight in the law of God, in...

Some of you may know that my wife Heidi and I used to live overseas for most of a decade.  The question we're asked the most is "What do you miss about living overseas?"  It's really easy to answer that because we miss the community.  Whenever you leave someplace you tend to idealize it, so I realize that could be part of it.  But we were, as a foreign community, several hundred in a city of sever...

We're in a series called "Transformed" and the last few weeks have been journeying together toward biblical wholeness.   We’ve talked about how the Scriptures call us to be transformed, and that we are being transformed into the wholeness of Jesus.  I love what professor, pastor, and author Robert Mulholland says:  "The Christian journey, therefore, is an intentional and continual commitment to a...

As Pastor Larry said we're going to continue our series on "Transformed," and we're going to look at an issue that's hugely important in my life and your life....and that's relationships.  I'm going to ask you to join me in prayer and then we're going to unpack a variety of Scripture to see what the Lord would show us today on this crucial part of our lives.  So let's bow together in prayer:  Fath...

I went to Florida last week.  I used to live in Florida and one of my favorite beaches is called Clearwater Beach. It's consistently rated in the top beaches in the country.  I parked my car and immediately went to the beach, dropped my towel, and got into the water.  It felt so amazing!  I bobbed and floated a bit, and then I saw these two guys on a sandbar.  A sandbar is sand you can stand on ou...

As a young boy, I remember my dad taking me camping in the Nantahala Forest in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Now if you’re a rugged Colorado adventurer, you might turn your nose up at our itinerary for the weekend, but to me this was adventure.  A weekend with my dad in the woods.  I’d get to ask him life’s questions, we’d share some holy moments, and he’d share his heart, and maybe I’d shar...

April 22, 2019, started out like any other Monday, post Easter.  We had a fun time as a community, leading up to Easter.  We did an Easter Art Show that was amazing.  We had over 1400 people coming to our campus over Easter weekend.  The Monday started out with me having a lot of energy, a lot of excitement over all that God had done, but our team was a little bit tired.  The other thing that was...

Pastor Yvonne Biel  ---  Have you ever felt like your life was unraveling?  As if all the threads that held your life together at one point were coming undone.  I've been there.  I woke up at age 27 in my high school bedroom looking at a calendar with absolutely nothing to do.  I was thinking back on a time in my life where Jesus seemed to make sense, and I knew who God made me to be.  I was livin...

Before we look at this text, please join me in prayer.  Our Father, we gather together today to worship you in the name of Jesus.  I thank you for every person who's here today.  Thank you so much for South Fellowship.  Lord, wherever we're at today---emotionally or spiritually or physically---I pray that you would come and meet with us in a very, very personal way.  That you would show us, experi...

It is an honor to be part of this series of The Parables of Jesus.  Today, the parable/story that we are going to explore is found in Mark chapter 7. It’s one of those deeply memorable stories with a powerful meaning behind it and I know that after hearing it, you will quickly go out and tell your friends, family and neighbors.  Gathering a crowd, he told this story.  Nothing that goes into a pers...

[Ryan begins with thanking Aaron Bjorklund for singing his original song, "Multiply Me," and his wife Kelly for her support over the last seven years.] The last two months, for me, have been a rollercoaster, to say the least.  We had the chance to go to Disneyland on our vacation two weeks ago, and I can tell you that Disneyland has nothing on two months of processing a move across the country.  T...

Good morning! My name is Billy Berglund, and for the last four years, I've had the privilege of being on staff here at South Fellowship, working part-time with the students as I pursued my Masters from Denver Seminary. It's just been a real privilege to my wife Hannah and I. We've had an eventful summer so far. Our son Cooper joined us on May 31st. He was born six weeks early, so he kind of surpri...

We’ve been in a series the last couple of weeks where we are studying the Parables of Jesus. I have to admit,  parables can be difficult. They aren’t explicit in the way a simple story is.  Jesus at one time said, "I spoke in parables so that you would get this and others wouldn't get it."  They can be a little bit tricky to interpret. Parables are stories with a meaning, often to jar a listener i...

We started a series last week called "The Parables of Jesus."  This series is all about the parables of Jesus.  Over the course of the summer, we're going to be studying together these stories that Jesus told.  That's what a parable is.  A parable's a story.  It's two words put together---"para" which means alongside of and "bollo" which means to throw.  It's stories for normal everyday people----...

A week ago today, my family and I were leaving to go to a week at Mount Hermon.  I taught there last week, and the family went and had an awesome time.  Kelly and I are both Type A people.  Our flight left at 8:45 and we left the house at 6:00 am because we like to be on time.  If you followed the news last Sunday, you might have heard there was a little bit of an accident on Peña Boulevard.  If y...

We are finishing up a series we're calling "Brave in the New World."  Over the last two months, we've been tackling difficult issues, socially, and trying to figure out what it looks like to live as a follower of Jesus in this new world.  How many of you would agree that the world is changing quite rapidly?  Actually that's not just a feeling; a sociologist studied our cultural moment.  They're sa...

I've had a number of people come up to me and say, "We're so sad that you're leaving, Ryan, but are you going to finish this series?"  Yes, I am.  Today, we're going to jump into the subject of science and the Scriptures; then, next week, yes, on Father's Day, I'm going to be teaching on the issue of sexuality and Brave in the New World and how that all ties together.  You're welcome.  I promised...

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Fear stopped me in my steps this week.   I know we shouldn't fear, but what do we do when we do?  I wrote my message on Monday.  Tuesday, I was in a meeting with Aaron and we were planning a future worship service, and our phones started to blow up, like yours probably did too.  Got the news that there was an active shooter situation at STEM.  Gathered our staff together to start to pray.  Tried o...

I'm really glad that you're here today. We are on week two of a series that we're calling "Brave in the New World." A number of months ago we did a church survey, and one of the questions we asked on that survey was "What are some of the things you'd like to see more teaching on?" Turns out, you guys like hard subjects and we made a series out of a lot of those answers, so over the next few weeks,...