Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Ephesians 2:1-11
This is what it means for us to pledge our faithfulness to Jesus: a new life, a new relationship with God, and a new future – forever.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Acts 2:1-41
No matter how strong, rich, or smart we are, we still can’t do it all on our own…but God can. There is no repentance or embracing of the truth, without God’s Holy Spirit.
Cindy Comiso // Associate Pastor
Acts 17:16-34
We know that God is good and His goodness is breaking through into our world. What is holding us back from sharing our hope and faith in Him?
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
2 Chronicles 7:11-16
Lost people returning to God, desperate people finding new hope…sounds good, right? But how badly do we want revival? Do we want God enough to earnestly and truthfully seek His face?
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Isaiah 66:1-2 and 18-24
Let’s talk about the good news that God is in control even when it doesn’t seem like it, and His perfect will is, even now, breaking through into our broken world.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Galatians 2:11-21
Do I belong to God…or not? Am I “in” or “out?” If I’m basically a good person, is that good enough? Let’s explore what it means to give our allegiance to Jesus and be justified through unity with Him.
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Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Romans 8:18-25
No idea or moment in history will have more impact than the day a living Jesus walked out of the grave. Resurrection is God bringing us hope.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 6:16-18
God is the giver of all good things, and fasting is a spiritual practice by which we can access even more of the good things that He wants us to experience.
The rewards of fasting Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Galatians 5: 13-26
In Galatians, Paul writes about true freedom — not hedonism, but servanthood and submission that leads to closeness with God. How can we achieve this in our modern lives?
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Exodus 20: 8-11
God offers us the practice of Sabbath — not a duty we have to submit to, but a gift given to us for flourishing. It’s both a rhythm for finding peace and a resistance against the pitfalls of a world that is always demanding that we do more, strive for more, want more, and take more.
Michael Chu // Guest Speaker
Selected passages from the Book of Job
Just when Job thinks that God does not care about him, God speaks — to show that He does care, He asks for our reverence, and He draws us near to His holy presence.
Out of the whirlwind Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Job 28:1-28
The book of Job pushes us past questions like “Why do we suffer?” or “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Instead, we can take lessons from Job and lean into pursuing God’s wisdom for our lives.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Luke 24: 36-48
Why do we suffer? Through Jesus, we find that our world is built on the wisdom of a God who is able to take suffering and out of it create life and restoration.
Jesus, the perfect Job Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Job 12 and 13
“What did I do to deserve this?” When it feels like your world is falling apart, can you approach God with your anger and your pain? The answer is yes — Jesus makes a way for each of us to contend for the heart of God.
Making sense of the world Read More »
Michael Chu // Guest Speaker
Job 2:13 and Job 3:1-8
We often assume that showing our pain to God or others is a sign of weak or even collapsing faith, but nothing could be further from the truth. We learn from Job that when we have the courage to bring our genuine, broken selves to God, He draws us near to Him.
After silence falls Read More »
Cindy Comiso // Associate Pastor
Job 1 and 2
How can we survive suffering and steward it into something greater than ourselves? Pastor Cindy explores God’s purposes amidst pain and its meaning for us as Christ-followers.
When suffering hits Read More »
Michael Chu // Guest Speaker
Proverbs 9:10 and 8:13; Ecclesiastes 5; and Job 1:1-6
The book of Job epitomizes the experience of going through hardship and suffering even when no wrong has been done. In this sermon we explore how we can process, metabolize, and survive the journey of hardship and suffering, which all of us, without exception, will encounter throughout our lives.
Paradise disrupted Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
John 15:1-8
Do you feel like what you’re doing in your life just isn’t working? A “rule of life” can lead you in a journey towards closeness with God and spiritual thriving.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Luke 10: 25-37
The effect of hurry is devastating — not just for our emotional and physical health, but for our spiritual lives. If we push God to the margins, will we find the richness of life that we are meant to experience as Christ-followers?
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 2: 13-18
The true story of Christmas is a rescue plan — a plan executed by God to save everything, including all of us. The same God who heard the cries of people so long ago hears our cries today. Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises, and will redeem us even from the most devastating circumstances.
