The Garden Church

The goal is not just to live but to pour your life out for Jesus. If there is no God there's nothing really worth pouring yourself out to. It all fades away in the end. But if Jesus is who He said He was, there's something deep and eternal with giving yourself to. So how do you live poured out? There are powerful insights in Revelation 6:9-17 that will pour into you. GET BAPTIZED COMMIT...

This episode is the story of  the first year of planting roots in the West Valley. Pre-launch was a story of Gospel-risk, beautiful community, and the collective ownership of the mission by humble, Jesus-centered people . Post-Launch has been like re-living the book of Acts! The Holy Spirit is moving in the West Valley. In this conversation with Nolan and Lindsey, we pause and reflect on what He h...

The end is coming! Buuuut we can't know when... Instead of predicting precise details of the end times, the book of Revelation puts forward life-changing truths in the midst of our everyday struggles. Specifically pain.  What are you going to do with the problem of suffering and hardship? In the famous passage about the four horsemen of the apocalypse, we see that Jesus is the hope you need i...

If the resurrection of Jesus is true, it changes everything. It can move you from heartache to hope, from weeping to worship. In this teaching, we zoom in on a scene around the throne room of God, where we see the resurrected Jesus celebrated, and the meaning of the death and resurrection explained. There's power in what Jesus did that will change your life today--it can move you from weeping...

The fastest growing worldview today is "no religious affiliation". Every corner of culture screams "right now is all you have". But John sees a vision in Revelation 4 that tells a totally different story: right now counts forever.  Behind reality is the throne room of God. From flying creatures to glowing rainbows, the throne room is something to behold! There are insights we g...

Eschatology is the study of last things. Everyone has an eschatology, even atheists. Bertrand Russel said humanity is destined “to extinction in the vast death of the solar system” so you should build your life on the “foundation of unyielding despair”. Christianity offers something infinitely better.  Sadly many Christians, especially young Christians are functionally agnostic about the return of...

Today we’re eavesdropping on a letter from Jesus to a church that had lost her taste for Jesus. There was a detached, numbness inside of the church of Laodicea toward Jesus, a numbness brought on by their interest in themselves and thus disinterest with Him. Jesus is so disturbed by their lukewarmness that he says it’s actually He that will spit THEM out of his mouth! Have you grown cold and apath...

Are you an effective evangelist? In this passage we find two powerful principles for being an effective and unflinching witness to Jesus.  Jesus promised his followers in the ancient city of Philadelphia an open door to advance the Kingdom. What if you could impact eternity? Listen to this teaching to learn how.

Are Christians to avoid culture or engage it? Often, in a right desire to live honorable lives Christians, followers of Jesus err by losing all touch with those who don't yet know Jesus. But rather than hiding away on defense, the Church is called to be an influence. Jesus calls us to be on offense.  In the letter to the church of Philadelphia, Jesus says He is going open for them a door for...

Do you know someone who walked away from Jesus because of Church hurt? Data reveals that the number one reason people say they disbelieve in God is the hypocrisy of Christians. Christian hypocrisy hurts people. That's why in Revelation 3:1-6 Jesus addresses a church marked by a better reputation than character. The church of Sardis seemed to be alive but in actuality was dead. How do we know...

From fact checkers to deep fakes to fake news to lies surround us everywhere today. But that's nothing new. And fake bible teachers and false prophets are no exception. But the truth is lies aren't always insidious. Sometimes they feel really good and really tempting. Jesus writes to a church that feels like that. Thyatira is tempted by the idea that they can follow Jesus and embrace any...

We live in a world where up is down and down is up. Increasingly, people are being challenged to compromise morally. So are you. Where do find the burden to stay true to God, His Word, and His ways?  In this passage taught by Justin Doyle, we find a Jesus who is unwilling to let His people slip into compromise. He calls the church of Pergamum to stay faithful in the midst of a culture where Satan&...

We have created the safest, most padded life possible in 2024 America. What if safe isn't actually what the human heart is most deeply longing for? The worst thing isn’t dying. The worst thing is not having anything worth dying for. The earliest Christians knew had something worth dying for. What made the early church so resilient? You can have what they had. Jesus puts something in souls tha...

Have you lost your fire? What happens between when you were head over heels in dating and the time when you're numb towards your spouse? What happens between the time that you on fire for Jesus and willing to serve anyone and you become disenchanted with God and the church?  In this teaching we see Jesus, the ultimate coach corrects the church of Ephesus back to love they had at first. Like a...

This message is all about true worship. What is your view of Jesus? Maybe you’d say he's just dead rabbi that has had some influence on Western society the same as Sigmund Freud or Charles Darwin. He’s interesting but not personally consequential. Or maybe you’d say you believe in God, but Jesus and church are basically just a nice thing we can add to our lives. In this teaching, Nolan Tjaden...

We live in a cultural that's spiritually lost at sea. In Jesus alone we find true north. In the opening of the book of Revelation we start to see the weight of Jesus' authority. If you're new to the book of Revelation you'll learn about the book's author John, understand the purpose of the book, and begin to see why Jesus must be the defining north star of the church and o...

At the end of the book of Colossians 4:2-18 we see Paul charge the church to fulfill their ministry. We too need to fulfill our call to advance the Kingdom. But how?  He shares two things that can help us as we do:  01. The Power of Kingdom Prayer  02. The People who advanced God's Plan  Looking for a church in The West Valley of Phoenix? We're a new a church in Surprise, AZ and we'...

What story are you going to live? The dominant story assumed in our culture is that  everything came into existence on accident and will eventually come to nothing. The Bible challenges that narrative with another story: the promise of Jesus' birth.  If Jesus is "God With Us" then the sad story we once believed unravels and hope rushes in. Beauty or joy we once thought impossible is...

Today's world is full of chaos. But Jesus brings peace. In this message Justin Doyle works through four prophetic names of Jesus. Meaning 700 years before Jesus a prophecy was spoken detailing the power of what Jesus would accomplish. One name is Prince of Peace. Do you need peace? Do you need hope? Jesus is that peace and He offers that hope. Listen this teaching to learn more about peace.

We live in a dark and often painful world. But it's into the real pain of this life that the promise of Jesus shines brightest. The arrival of the long awaited savior Jesus to the little town of Bethlehem brings otherworldly wonder and joy in the midst a broken world. 

Society looks like it’s falling apart around us. But that started with the disintegration of home first. Strong marriages are the stability of a society. In fact, the most powerful witness to Jesus we could offer to the West Valley is redeemed marriages that reflect Jesus. So how's your marriage?  Is there a war in your home? God's vision for your marriage is much better: you and your sp...

What is a Spiritual Gift? How do I know what my gift is? How can I get involved in God's purposes? In this teaching the believer will better understand spiritual gifts and the skeptic will be engaged with why Christianity alone offers is the mission they've been longing for.

If you got a second chance at life life, how would you live differently? Salvation--or becoming a Christian--is being given a new life. It's is an even more profound shift than being raised from physical death. In a real and spiritual way, when you become a Christian, you receive a brand new life. You have been raised from the dead with Christ. So, you've become a Christian, now what? No...

Faith feels like an abstract religious term, but does it actually mean? In Hebrews 11 there's a beautiful and clear description of how faith works. In this teaching, a guest speaker, Scott Bean, unpacks a ton about how faith works. How simply believing in Jesus by faith makes us right before God, how faith is clinging to our hope of an eternity with Jesus, and how Jesus helps us walk through...

Religion minimizes God to a mere cosmic vending machine and cheapens the christian life to a game of rule following creating in us either pride or despair . But knowing Jesus is something quite the opposite. It's being captured by the love of God who is loyal to the unfaithful. Listen to this teaching by Nolan Tjaden to learn about the difference between the Gospel and Religion from Colossian...