Southall Church Podcast

In Mark 2, Jesus is saying that you wouldn't use an old piece of cloth to patch a garment or put new wine into old wineskins. Similarly, we can't just patch God onto our lives. We can't combine our way of life and God's way – we have to be totally transformed. We cannot receive the gospel of grace and remain the way that we are! We need a whole new wineskin, we need to be rebor...

Sometimes when we pray God says "yes." Other times, God says "no." And then there are those times when God says, "not yet" – those are the times that we're tempted to stop asking, seeking, and knocking. We live in a world of immediate gratification, and we’ve forgotten how to persist. It’s in the “not yet” where we find out if we really trust God, His character,...

This morning Pastor Rob taught on the parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18 who was forgiven an enormous debt that he could never repay and then turns around and demands repayment of a much less significant debt from another man who owed him. Jesus uses this illustration because the reality is, we are all the first servant in the parable who owes a debt that cannot be paid. It's a...

At the end of Matthew 7, Jesus tells a parable of two builders – one who built his house on the rock, and one who built his house on the sand. Jesus says in verse 24 "Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock." He's saying we have two options here...if we obey His commands and put His teachings into practice, we...

Fasting is not just self-denial, it’s self-denial for spiritual investment. You’re fasting in order to develop greater levels of intimacy, dependence, communion, and communication with God.  This is why biblical fasting is always intimately linked with the practice of prayer.   In today’s message Pastor Rob outlines what fasting is, 7 benefits of fasting, and different types of fasting in preparat...

Maybe you've thought your entire life that being saved and accepted by God was about your behavior or your morality, but the good news is, it's not about what we can do for Jesus, it's about what He has already done for us. Christ came down from heaven for you, of all people. He came so that you would know beyond the shadow of a doubt that God is with you, He is for you, not against...

Spiritual blindness in is an impaired ability to recognize Truth, and unless the Holy Spirit opens our spiritual eyes, we will not be able to perceive or accept spiritual reality. Apart from the work of God in our life, we are blind to our own blindness, to the glory of grace, and to the purposes of God. We need the Spirit of God to give us Revelation so that we will be able to perceive and unders...

The beauty of the gospel is that Christ came down, and entered into every aspect of the brokenness of the human experience, to heal the brokenhearted. His mission is to bind up the wounds of your broken heart, to gather you under the shelter of His wings, and to breathe life into your soul. He took on your brokenness so that you could be made whole. He was rejected so you could be accepted. He was...

Jesus came down to bring us freedom from not only the penalty of sin but also its power over our life. He paid the price to set us free for a life of purpose. A life of Kingdom impact. We’re freed not only for our sake, but also for the sake of the people around us who need us to walk in freedom. Some of us aren't walking in that freedom from the power of sin in our lives, but it is available...

Extravagant generosity is born out of a grateful heart. Grateful people are generous people. And God always rewards His people that are generous. But the reward is not our motivation. Biblical Generosity is when you give without any expectation of receiving anything in return. No strings attached. God is the most extravagant giver, and when we’re generous, we become like Him.

This morning Pastor Rob taught on the difference in offerings from Cain and Abel found in Genesis 4. While the offering was not a priority at all for Cain, Abel brought his best to God – his first to God, withheld nothing from Him, and trusted God to provide for him. Only when we believe that God really is as kind, loving, and as generous as He says He is will we then be able to make a sacrifice t...

When we obey God with money, we are actively tearing down the idol that has more pull on the human heart than almost anything else. God is inviting us to trust Him with our money and to trust Him to be our provider. If we will trust God with the tangible, practical resources that He’s entrusted to us, and do it with cheerfulness, we believe God will begin to open doors that have been closed, softe...

This morning we had the pleasure of hearing Bill Spencer, the Executive Director of Narrow Gate, teach on Mark 5, and the abundant life that trusting in Jesus brings. 

We live in a self-seeking culture of scarcity, but we believe in the God of abundance. There is nothing that you need that He can’t give. He’s a God of abundant, radical, overwhelming generosity toward those who trust in Him. When we truly grasp who God is, and trust that He will provide like He says He will, that enables us to live generously to those around us.

Walt Heyer shares his redemptive story of life transformation and coming to relationship with Christ after enduring years of trauma, sexual abuse, and also identifying as a woman for 8 years of his life. Now Walt travels all around the country to share his testimony and help others who also have sex change regret. You can learn more about Walt's story and find additional resources here: sexch...

This morning Pastor Rob wrapped up the Disciplines of a Disciple series by talking about what it means to be faithful stewards of all God has entrusted to us. We do this by living submitted to God, living simply, and living generously. These practices that we've talked about throughout this series aren’t about earning something from God, but about delighting yourself in King Jesus, and living...

In Kingdom Stewardship, Part 1, Pastor Rob explains the importance of understanding what Jesus means when He speaks about the Kingdom of God and how it impacts every single aspect of our lives. As followers of Christ, we need to know and understand what this Kingdom is so we can align ourselves with King Jesus, and measure success the same way He does. To live according to His value system, His wi...

Shodankeh Johnson joined us from Sierra Leone to preach such a powerful message on the hope for the Church in America! 🙌 God is calling the Church in America to repent, turn back to its first Love, and go out and make disciples that make disciples. But if we are going to see a disciple-making movement sweep through the Church in America, we first must see a prayer movement begin in the Church in...

This morning Pastor David walked us through what it looks like to live on mission in a healthy way, which really means that you’re doing and saying what God tells you to do and say. Period. Oftentimes we say we want to live on mission, but we don’t want it to interfere with our comfort, our finances, and a whole list of other things. But if you are living on mission your life should and will look...

This morning Pastor Rob talked about the disciplines of hospitality and confession and the importance of incorporating them into our lives. Recognizing that it was our sin that put Jesus on the cross and that He bore the wrath of God on Himself so that we could be freed, chosen, given new life, and welcomed into His family, compels us to confess our sins, and to biblical hospitality by welcoming p...

This morning Pastor Jimmy continued the Disciplines of the Disciple series with a powerful message on the importance of Biblical Community. Before the fall of man, the only thing that God said was not good in the entire universe was man being alone. God created us to be in relationship with others! The enemy of our souls would love nothing more than for us to feel alone, anxious, and depressed, be...

In part three of the Disciplines of a Disciple series, Pastor Rob dove deeper into the disciplines of solitude, prayer, and fasting. The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the solitary place, and Jesus continued to return there over and over again. We have no idea how to do this because our pace of life is so fast, we’re distracted, we’re all addicted to our phones, and we have a million excuses for why w...

In part two of the Disciplines of a Disciple series, Pastor Rob went deeper into private devotion and the disciplines of reading Scripture and keeping the Sabbath. It can be hard for us to make time for these things, but they are a gift for us to grow deeper in our relationship with the Lord. Rather than getting in the Word because you feel like you have to, allow your reading of the Scriptures to...

Have you struggled to make time for things like reading your Bible or prayer? Or maybe you do make time, but it’s just a rushed 10 minutes in the morning so that you can check off that box? When it comes to spiritual disciplines we often focus more on accomplishing the task than the reason we’re actually doing it, but these aren’t practices we need to keep up in order to be saved, or in order for...

Pastor Rob gives three foundational pillars that this body is being built upon and that will continue to shape our church family to look more and more like Jesus. We believe the gospel changes everything, we believe discipleship is the process, and we believe everyone owns the mission. This is who we are. This is where we’re going. This is the foundation that everything else is being built upon be...