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These weekly Lent podcasts are a time for you to join us in prayer, meditation, and conversation. In this episode, Caleb offers a guided reflection on Psalm 51 and the invitation to confession. We follow this up with a conversation about self-control and how it might be cultivated in our lives as we walk with the Spirit in confession and trust. For our Lent resources, visit https://www.thegardensa...

Part 6 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Looking at chapters 8 and 9, Caleb leads us to reflect on the knowledge of God and how it is inextricably tied to our love for one another. For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 5 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Looking at chapter 7, Robert Saenz joins us to teach on marriage, singleness, and the call to live with contentment in each season. For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 4 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Everybody shares a God-given desire for belonging. The Church is meant to be a place in which belonging is a gift for all who will receive it from Christ. But how do we respond when we or the people around us begin to intentionally disconnect from the gift of the Body? Looking at Paul’s words in chapters 5 and 6, Caleb addresse...

Part 3 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Through the lens of Paul’s words in chapters 3 and 4, Caleb leads us to ask ourselves what is worth building our lives upon. God invites us not to do this work individually, but to be the temple of His Spirit as a community. For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 2 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Paul spends the end of chapter 1, and the beginning of chapter 2 speaking about the strange nature of God’s wisdom. Caleb unpacks these themes to invite us to receive wisdom as a gift from God, even and especially as it transcends our understanding.  For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 1 of “Love Is The End Of The World”, our series in 1 Corinthians. Looking at Paul’s opening address in verses 1-17, Caleb highlights the parallels between the struggles of 1st-century Corinth and the struggles of division in our day. There's a unity to which the Body of Christ is called, and it's a gift we can embrace in our local churches in daily life. For more info, visit thegarden...

Part 6 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": Through the lens of Micah’s closing words, Jordan invites us to soften our hearts so that we might receive and notice the ways God is already present in our lives.  For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 5 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": Placing the story of the shepherds who receive the news of Jesus’ birth side-by-side with Micah 6-7, Caleb invites us to see the light God brings as a gift. Though light can create panic, it is a jarring experience, like it was for the shepherds, because the God who brings light longs to redirect us in love, so that he can lead us into what w...

Part 4 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": Our friend S.O. joins us to continue the journey through the book of Micah. Looking at Micah 4 and 5, we are faced with questions of how to respond when life doesn’t go the way we expect it to go. S.O. encourages us to seek a God who is present in our suffering. For more info, visit thegardensa.org . Check out S.O.'s music !

Part 3 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": Micah 3 begins with an indictment of the leaders who abused God’s people in Micah’s day. Caleb unpacks how this is still a timely critique by advocating for gentleness and compassion to be the marks of our leadership today. Ending in Micah 4, we look forward to the return of Christ, who is with us in the waiting, by His Spirit. For more info,...

Part 2 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": Journeying from John 10 to Micah 2, Caleb teaches on an ache that has existed in the human soul long before Micah’s days: the ache for home. Micah looked around and saw how corruption had turned Israel into the opposite of a home for the poor and oppressed. Jesus offers us a home, and his words of invitation are still counter-cultural gifts t...

Part 1 of our Advent series, "Carry The Day": We’re spending the season of Advent going through the book of Micah. Starting with chapter 1, Caleb begins the series by outlining the communal need for repentance that led Micah to prophesy to Israel. The story of God’s people doesn’t rush through tension, but acknowledges it all and waits for the One who can ultimately resolve it. For more...

The last part of our series, “On Prayer”. Looking at a story from Acts 4, Caleb teaches and leads the church through exercises that highlight how praying together leads to deeper unity and transformation in the Body of Christ. For more info, visit thegardensa.org

James Ward from San Antonio Cru looks at Mark 4:35-41 to invite us to a life of deeper trust in Jesus.

Part 7 of our series, “On Prayer”: Through the lens of Jesus’ teachings on prayer from Luke 18 and Luke 11, Caleb looks at the ways God encourages our persistence in asking, seeking, and knocking. Prayer can get tiring when we are not seeing results, but it transforms us in the process, and leads us deeper into the heart of God. For more info, visit thegardensa.org

Part 6 of our series, "On Prayer": Looking at Psalm 143, Caleb walks us through what it means to recover the longstanding and necessary tradition of lament. God is thoroughly interested in our lives, and we are invited to bring the deepest pain and longing before Him in prayer. For more info, visit: thegardensa.org

Part 5 of our series: "On Prayer". Jordan looks at Elijah's encounter with God from 1 Kings 19 to see what it might show us about meeting with God in and through silence. For more info, visit thegardensa.org .

Part 4 of our series: "On Prayer". It is normal to question the effectiveness of prayer. Does it really matter if we pray? This week, looking at Romans 8, Caleb walks through how the Spirit works in us, through us, and around us, whether we see it or not. For more info, visit thegardensa.org.

Part 3 of our series: "On Prayer". Caleb walks through Jesus' teaching on prayer from Matthew 6, and how the prayer he gives to his disciples can form our prayers today.

Part 2 of our series: "On Prayer". Caleb reflects on Paul's prayer from Ephesians 3:14-21, and how a greater understanding of the love within the Trinity can deepen our relationship with God in prayer.

Part 1 of our series: "On Prayer". Caleb walks through Psalm 19 as an invitation to recognize God's initiative and desire for intimacy with us in prayer. For more info about The Garden, visit our website: thegardensa.org

The Garden celebrates its official launch, and Pastor Caleb Saenz teaches on Jeremiah 29:1-14. Listen as we explore the tension between living in exile and receiving the hope that God offers to His people. For more info about The Garden, visit our website: thegardensa.org

Pastor Caleb Saenz preaches on Luke 8:4-18 and what Jesus says it takes to live a fruitful life from the soil of a good heart. For more info about The Garden, visit our website: thegardensa.org