THE TRUTH IS HER REASON FOR EXISTING IN THE WORLD

On Sunday, guest preacher Abelardo Muñoz from, Iglesia Gracia Soberana of Juarez, Mexico preached from 1 Timothy 3:14-16. He helped us to behold the beauty of the church as a pillar and buttress of God’s very truth. As a pillar and buttress, the church upholds and holds firm the truth. What is the truth she’s been called to promote and protect? It’s none other than the gospel - the supremely beautiful truth of the salvation found in Jesus Christ. This great redemption is the grand story of all of Scripture, and it’s the good news that all believers are called to prize, promote, and protect.

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A KINGDOM LIKE NO OTHER

On Sunday, guest preacher Mike Davis from our sending church, Sovereign Grace Church of Orange, preached from Colossians 1:13-14. He helped us to behold the beauty of the church as the kingdom of Christ. What makes this kingdom better and more beautiful than all the other kingdoms of the world? It is ruled by Christ, the amazing King who is supreme in power and abounding in love. It is a place of redemption, hope, and forgiveness freely given while the kingdom of this world is characterized by condemnation, enslavement, and hopelessness. Its citizens are a special people who proclaim the excellencies of the King and live out the beautifully strange culture of his kingdom. When we behold this beauty, there’s nowhere else we’d ever want to be. Listen to this message to learn more about the kingdom without comparison.

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THE BEAUTY OF THE CHURCH IS THE CHURCH LOVING THE CHURCH

On Sunday, guest preacher Tim Lambros from Sovereign Grace Church of Tucson, AZ preached from John 13:31-35. He helped us to behold the beauty of the church as the people of Christ. A people who are beautiful because they are marked by love. Created through the self-sacrificial love of Christ upon the cross. Called to live out this love with one another through service, patience, and perseverance. Known for beautifully shining forth the brilliant light of the love of Christ for all to see. Listen to this message to learn more of what it means for the church to be known by her love for the church.

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THE CHURCH CAN’T BE THE CHURCH WITHOUT ALL HER MEMBERS

On Sunday, guest preacher Trey Richardson from Center Church in Gilbert, AZ preached from 1 Corinthians 12:12-26. He helped us to behold the beautiful picture of the church as the body of Christ. A body that is beautiful because it is the unity of many different members under one Savior & Head, in which every member matters, and all members are serving and being served. If you’ve ever looked at the local church and wondered, “How can I be sure I belong? Where do I fit in? What’s my place here?” listen to this message and learn just how you need the church and the church needs you.

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DO YOU LOVE THE CHURCH?

This past Sunday marked the beginning of our summer sermon series, "The Beauty of the Church.” 6 weeks. 6 pastors. 6 reasons why we love the local church. This is a sermon series for those who: struggle to see the qualities of the church, tirelessly serve within her ministries, are dismayed by her apparent failures, have been “burnt” by the church, who have rare, unsustainable glimpses of her beauty, and at bottom, are most focused upon what the church does for us and not who she is. And when we ask the question, “Who is the church?” the foremost biblical response is, “The beautiful bride of Christ.” Acts 20:28 tells us why she’s beautiful. Because she is the “church of God,” whom God, the most beautiful of all, has chosen to reflect his glory to the world. Because she’s been made beautiful through cross of Christ, ransomed “with his own blood,” to magnify the grace, beauty, and love of her bridegroom. Learn to see the church as Jesus sees her and listen to the sermon here.

HIS JOY BECOMES OUR JOY WHEN WE SHARE HIS JOY

In Luke 15, Jesus shares three parables about things that have been lost: a sheep, a coin, and a son. And his point in all three is to demonstrate God’s love for those whom He’s called, but have become lost. Jesus calls His people to extend His love to those very same lost souls. In order to effectively carry out that mission we must understand three things that the parables in Luke 15 teach us, namely, the danger the lost are in, the value of the lost, and the joy that’s experienced in the salvation of the lost. As a church, we have a mission to spread the joy of Jesus to our Santa Ana neighbors. Listen to this last Sunday’s sermon to ground your own heart in the the teachings of Jesus to spark the evangelistic flame in your life.

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THE KING OF KINGS IS ALL FOR YOU

We spent 9 months walking together through a sermon series in the book of 1 Samuel. It would be a tragedy if after all that time, you left without a big picture lesson to take with you for daily life. So, this last Sunday, Pastor Kyle preached a message from 2 Samuel 1-12 to reinforce a central lesson that’s taught in 1 Samuel and reiterated through 2 Samuel. That lesson? That God’s promised King, who reigns over all other kings and the universe itself, is all for His people. And if you belong to that king - King Jesus - through the obedience of faith, you belong to that people. You can be assured through promises like the one God made to David in 1 Samuel 7 and through the story told in 1 Samuel 11-12 that He has exerted all His power and wisdom over the course of human history to do good to His people. This is a lesson you need to take with you wherever you go. Listen to Sunday’s sermon to learn more.

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AS DARK AS THE STORY LOOKS, IT ENDS WITH A GLIMPSE OF LIGHT

After 9 months of sermons, our series in the OT book of 1 Samuel has come to an end. And it ended in a similar way to how it began. 1 Samuel began without a king in the land and everyone doing what was right in their own eyes (see Judges 21:25). The story ends without a king in the land because he only did what was right in his own eyes. The story of the establishment of the monarchy in Israel ends with the death of the bad king, Saul. Saul was the king like all the nations that the people had wanted (1 Sam 8:5), but at the end of the day he was not the king they needed. His failure to deliver his people in battle represents the failure of every one of our false kings to deliver us from trouble and bring us into blessing.

On this dark day in Israel’s history, all the hopes the people had placed in Saul were dashed and disappointed as their army was defeated, their king was humiliated, and their lands taken by the Philistines in battle. Have your hopes ever come crashing down? Have you placed your trust in false kings that have failed you? There’s good news for you, because as dark as this day was, it ends with a glimpse of light. There’s hope because even though there was no human king on the throne, God, the King who is, never stopped reigning. And just as he removed the bad king, he’d raise up the True King who’d never let his people down. Listen to the message and renew your hope in the King who is.

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GOD WILL BE FAITHFUL TO HIS PROMISES

At times, the future looks bleak. It looks like there’s no way out of misery or into happiness. Yet God has promised good for those whom He loves. As His covenant people, in fact, how can we be sure any of His promises will come to pass for us? In a word, because of Christ. David, living long before Christ, found himself in a place where it seemed nearly impossible for God’s promises to him to come to pass. Yet, the same faithfulness that God will show to us was shown to him. Listen to last Sunday’s sermon from 1 Samuel 29-30 to learn more.

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WHEN LIFE FEELS LIKE DEATH, WALK YOUR SORROWS TO THE EMPTY GRAVE

In 2 Corinthians 1:8-10, Paul tells the church at Corinth that his recent suffering had been so deep that he had begun “to despair of life itself”. In fact, he felt like he was on death’s doorstep anyway. But despite the gravity of what he was facing, he was able to see what God was doing through that and he wanted to encourage his readers to see the same thing in the midst of their suffering. And it has everything to do with Easter and the resurrection of Jesus. Take a listen to our English/Spanish sermon from this Easter Sunday.

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