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.
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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.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 2: 1-12
Christmas isn’t about good cheer, presents under the tree, or even about family. It’s about salvation coming to the entire world through something as small, fragile and messy as a human baby. Christmas radically upends all the broken things of this world and gives us what we are truly longing for…if only we are able to see it.
Herod and the Magi Read More »
Cindy Comiso // Associate Pastor
Matthew 1:18-25
Are you open to the “new thing” that God may be doing in your life? In this dialogical sermon, Pastor Cindy explores how to cultivate brave obedience in the face of unexpected circumstances.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 1:1-17
The genealogy of Jesus more than just a long list of names. It represents hope for a broken world, and deep belonging for you and everyone you know.
The genealogy of Jesus Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
1 John 4: 7-21
One of the main things causing people to deconstruct their faith today is love. But how can that be, when the greatest of the gifts we can possess is love? How we live out the truth of what God intended love to be has a massive impact on whether people want anything to do with Jesus or the Church.
Love: the new religion Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
1 John 4:1-6
There is so much information at our fingertips in the world today that you can easily pick which truth you want to hear…so how do we know what is really true? The process of weighing information to figure out what is truth and what is a lie is called discernment. In this sermon, Pastor Stephen teaches the four points of discernment that let believers engage with the truth. This episode includes an interview with Dr. Audrey Matimelo, executive director and co-founder of Zimele Wethu Foundation.
How do we know what is true? Read More »
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Psalm 22:1-24
Can we trust that God loves us even when our lives don’t go exactly how we planned? Instead of tearing down the God who doesn’t always give us everything we want, let’s lean into what God actually promises us.
Stephen Sharkey // Lead Pastor
Matthew 27:15-26
Each day of your life you make a choice between two Jesuses — King Jesus, or the Jesus of your own making. Let’s self-reflect on the ways we deconstruct, re-make and re-image Jesus in our desire to be lord of our own lives.
The kingdom of God Read More »
