Living Stones Christian Church - East Bay

How Not to Love | Jonah 4 (Anti-Hero) 15.06.2025 43:15 ↓

God loves the wrong people. Will we allow God's merciful and just character to grow compassion in our own hearts?

The Destination | Exodus 19:1-6 08.06.2025 36:33 ↓

The destination of our journey being God Himself, and how our witness as holy priests will allow the whole earth to know his glory.

How Not to Preach | Jonah 3 (Anti-Hero) 01.06.2025 43:51 ↓

Jonah preaches a half hearted gospel, but reveals the deep mystery of God's purpose to partner with humans in the course of history. No matter what the people do, God never goes back on his covenant purpose to use this family to bless the nations.

Pure & Undefiled religion | James 1:27 18.05.2025 55:41 ↓

Caring for the orphan

How Not to Pray | Jonah 2 (Anti-Hero) 11.05.2025 32:32 ↓

Jonah's time in the fish is portrayed as a kind of death. But will this passage through death into new life change him? That's the big question explored in the last chapter of Jonah.

How Not to Answer God's Call | Jonah 1 (Anti-Hero) 04.05.2025 34:46 ↓

Jonah rebelliously flees the call of God, but saves the sailors. Even our evil can become an instrument of God's purposes.

The Great Commission | Mt 28:16-20 27.04.2025 41:27 ↓

After the resurrection, Jesus sends us out as his witnesses

Resurrection Mindset | Col 3:1-14 20.04.2025 41:59 ↓

Put your minds on things above

Palm Sunday: The Unexpected King | Luke 19:28-44 13.04.2025 33:35 ↓

Jesus is The King We Didn't Expect, But The King We Need

One: Obedience | Jn 14:15, 21-24; 1 Jn 5:3-4 06.04.2025 35:46 ↓

Obedience brings us into the heart of God's love

Discerning the Times | Eph‬ ‭5‬:‭15‬-‭17‬ 01.04.2025 52:19 ↓

Responding to the times with intentionality and discernment, active not passive, and in discernment, following what God is stirring and doing.

Abundance | 2 Cor 9:6 16.03.2025 28:31 ↓

Kingdom living from abundance rather than scarcity

One: Know Thyself | Ps 139:1-6; 23-24; 2 Cor 13:5 09.03.2025 18:58 ↓

Journey inward (into interior castle) with Christ, confronting imperfections, recognizing God's presence within 

One: Suffering | Jn 12:20-26 02.03.2025 44:43 ↓

Because of the suffering of Christ, we are empowered to live a life of surrender and through that, we can experience an abundant life.

Becoming a Neighbor 23.02.2025 40:24 ↓

As we serve those on the margins, God also changes us

One: Inside Voice | Jn 14:15-27 16.02.2025 45:25 ↓

We can personally experience God guiding us through his Spirit

Baptism: One in Christ [LATE PUBLISH] 09.02.2025 35:50 ↓

Baptism + Testimonies

One: God's Spirit in Us | Acts 4:31-35; Eph 4:30 02.02.2025 42:40 ↓

The real presence of God filling/dwelling within us.

One: All of His is Ours | Eph 1:17-20 26.01.2025 40:38 ↓

Our union w/Christ means that all that is Christ's becomes ours

God's Unrepayable Gift | Luke 14 19.01.2025 35:51 ↓

God gave us a gift of his son that cannot repaid, and as an outflow, we give others that cannot repay.

One: God First | Jn 1:1-14 12.01.2025 33:25 ↓

God wants to be in union with us, and reached out to us

"The Gift Giver: The Gift of Love | 1 Jn 4:9-10; Rom 8:37-39; Ps 63:3 " 15.12.2024 33:40 ↓

God gives us the most unbreakable, precious gift: His love. And we know the depth of his love because of the depth of his sacrifice: He gave us his one and only Son, even when we did not love him. We don't deserve his love, nor can we earn his love; God gives us his love simply out of his grace. All we have to do is receive his love.

The Gift Giver: The Gift of Peace | Isaiah 9:6; John 14:27; 2 Corinthians 9:15 08.12.2024 24:53 ↓

Just as Israel was full of worry and anxiety under the oppression of Rome, we experience the oppression of worry and anxiety in our world today. It's no wonder that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is peace. Jesus is not just the Prince of Peace, nor does He keep peace to Himself as a possession. Rather, in His grace, Jesus has given us HIS PEACE by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can h...

"Prepare Him Room | Luke 2:4-7" 01.12.2024 33:51 ↓

Practical steps to make room for Jesus in Advent

Choose Hope | Lam 3:19-24 17.11.2024 42:38 ↓

In trials, we can choose hope because of God