Valley Lights Church Podcast

Today’s message is entitled how to survive a wildfire. You might never be in a real wildfire, but fire is an ongoing metaphor throughout Peter’s letter. That’s because – when dealing with harmful people – it can feel like a fiery trial. We take some heat, we get damaged, maybe even burned by others.

We’re in a series called Worst-Case Scenarios. We’ve been walking through the letter of 1 Peter in the New Testament. Peter writes, Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you, as if something unusual were happening to you (4:12). When you go through something very difficult, it’s pretty normal. Worst-Case Scenarios do come. God’s Word gives us the guidance w...

As we continue in 1 Peter, we investigate a passage geared towards married people - husbands and wives but the insight goes beyond marriage. When conflict arises, you might cause pain and you might feel pain. Regardless, we look at how to navigate these dynamics in our relationships.

As we continue through the book of 1 Peter, we'll see how Peter writes about navigating cultural and government authorities that persecuted Christians. Ultimately, we see that our suffering is meant to be a witness to Jesus Christ and continue to testify to the truth. We can have Christ's love shine through our lives in the midst of opposition.

Today we continue our series and look at 1 Peter. Jesus Christ offers spiritual life to our dead souls - we have no spiritual pulse without him. After Jesus' death and burial, his resurrection breathes new life into our deadness.

In this new message series we’ll look at the worst-case scenarios of Simon Peter, a disciple of Jesus, His letter (1 Peter) was copied and circulated to the 1st century Christian churches and offered "faith scenarios" that were opportunities to build his faith.

Any endeavor we begin, if it’s done with a mind to honor God, that effort is not done in vain! Christ-followers have a unique hope in this regard. We can be confident that nothing we do FOR GOD is a waste of time or effort. Even if things pan out BADLY, our hard work is not USELESS.

We continue in 1 Corinthians 15 to gain a greater understanding of Heaven and Hell. They are real places. By putting our faith in Jesus, we can have complete assurance that we will experience the new, resurrected body in God’s glorious eternity. If we have made peace with God, it’s part of our mission to help other people seriously consider their eternal destination.

The reality of Christ’s resurrection invades our everyday life in a radically powerful way. Today, we'll look at Bible passages that could significantly impact decisions that you’ll make today, this week, or in the weeks to come.

In this new series, we're going to look at the Bible to see how the resurrection of Jesus connects to our lives in a very significant way. God did the impossible by raising Jesus from the dead. And if God can do that impossible feat, He can certainly change some impossible situations in our lives.

Barry Rogers shares about handling fear. When we get into fear, we can choose to have faith in God rather than let fear lead us. We need to lead lives that are “propped against” God. We believe and have experienced God has come through for us but over and over we have to choose to do things his way….no matter what. Even if it seems scary to do it.

Sadness is one of those emotions that we've all experienced but limiting sadness is a difficult thing to do. Pastor Bruce will share different ways that we experience sadness and helpful responses to get a grip on this emotion when we struggle.

Anger can damage and destroy our health, relationships, property, families, and future. This week, Pastor Bruce takes a look at the emotion of anger and how we can response in ways that don't damage and destroy, but rather demonstrates compassion and honors God.

In a new message series, "Triggered," for the next four Sundays, we’re going to get more specific and practical about what the Bible says about dealing with our emotions. What triggers them in us? What are their positive functions? What is the damaging when unchecked? And most importantly, how do we handle each one rightly?

As we wrap up this series today, we have looked at four ways we can experience the “fresh air” of life in the kingdom of God.

It is worth the work! Many at Valley Lights have discovered what a delight there can be in relationships. Our core values help set the culture of relating to one another. This is a major focus of our church. Lots of churches emphasis lots of different things, but this is toward to the top for us. Building healthy relationships. Carefully obeying God’s commands for biblical community.

True community forms when people are on mission together. In Part 2 of this series, we look at life of Joshua and the tribe of people God brought around him so that, together, they could help accomplish God's mission.

Today we celebrate our Re-Grand Opening at Rio Norte Junior High. Pastor Bruce shares a message on the importance of the Church. Whenever people try to do life apart from God, things tend to get toxic and polluted. Relationships crumble, emotions run the show, we can make damaging decisions we regret. As it turns out, God is the designer of life on Earth, and wherever people are living according t...

In chapter 4, Paul brings this small, but powerful letter to a close. He writes about some things these newer believers should remain focused on.

The world’s styles and fashions are always moving and changing. God’s ways don’t go out of style. You try on His ways and it truly changes who you are, and you’re able with HIS power to PLAY those ROLES that He has assigned you to play.

Jesus plus nothing equals everything - We have all we need in him. This whole letter to the Colossians contains instructions on how to grow strong faith; how to be rooted in Jesus; how to become spiritually mature and strong.

This week we start a new message series on Colossians. It's all about how to grow strong faith - a life rooted in Jesus Christ alone.

In the last message of the series, we are reminded that Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He offers a reliable peace that is not dependent on our circumstances.

Everything that wears down, expires, breaks, or gets outdated – it all should remind us that us the temporary nature of life. Whether it’s physical items, our bodies, or intangible precious things… most stuff in life tends to deteriorate. But true, everlasting life can be found in God!

We look at the name of Might God. God wants to be the strength of your heart and He is available when we ask him to help us deal with our fear.