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Sermon Big Idea:

 When Jesus comes, He doesn’t just receive praise—He cleanses what is corrupt and redefines worship.

Sermon Overview:

Palm Sunday is often celebrated with palm branches and festive singing — but Matthew 21 invites us to look much more carefully at what actually happened the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem. Pastor Jason unfolds the passage around a single big idea: when Jesus comes near, He doesn't just receive praise...

Sermon Big Idea:

The Gospel not only frees us from performing for God, it also matures us into children known by God.

Sermon Summary:

In our journey of human development, we look for physical and emotional benchmarks to measure maturity—traits like flexibility, responsibility, and approachability. In Galatians 4, the Apostle Paul provides the ultimate metric for spiritual maturity: the transition from a slave performing for a mas...

Sermon Big Idea:

When you are united to Christ by faith, you become Abraham’s true descendant and the rightful heir to the same ancient promise of grace.

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We live in a world obsessed with rules and laws. From classroom expectations to city ordinances, we often operate under the assumption that if we just provide enough "clear boundaries," people will naturally develop the desire to follow them. But as any parent, tea...

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The Christian life does not transition from God’s work then to our willpower. We are saved by faith and sustained by grace.

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The Galatians episode unfolds with a shift from reliance on God to reliance on human effort, which becomes the central problem. Paul confronts the folly of trading Spirit-led trust for performance-driven religion, arguing that the initial reception of the Spirit proved God’s wo...

Sermon Big Idea: The gospel of Jesus not only unmask our hypocrisy, it also restores us through the grace of Jesus.

Paul publicly confronts Peter over hypocrisy in Antioch, exploring how the fear of man led established leaders to compromise the gospel and how that compromise spread through the community.

It emphasizes two gospel actions — unmasking sin and restoring sinners — and highlights the role of Scripture, the Spirit, and fa...

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Our new identity that comes from the gospel compels us to live out that identity by maintaining unity in the gospel.

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In the mid-20th century, the phrase "winning hearts and minds" became a staple of military strategy. The idea was simple but profound: you cannot stabilize a region through brute force alone. To defeat an insurgency and establish lasting peace, you must win the trust and loyalty of th...

Drawing on Matthew 7, Derek Maxson, our guest preacher serving our community in Poway, California,  confronts the chilling possibility of religious achievement without relationship: people who built impressive spiritual resumes — prophesying, driving out demons, performing miracles — can still be turned away by Jesus with the words, “I never knew you.” The exposition insists that outward spiritual activity, however impressive, is n...

This series will take a slow and deep dive through Paul’s urgent letter to a church in danger of drifting from the freedom of the gospel. Written to believers tempted to add religious performance to God’s saving grace, Galatians calls us back to the heart of the Christian faith: we are saved, sustained, and transformed by grace alone through faith in Christ alone. Throughout this series, we will discover that grace not only forgive...

As we step into 2026, Psalm 100 reminds us that gratitude is not just a feeling — it is a way of life formed through worship. In a culture built on dissatisfaction and comparison, God invites us to enter His presence with thanksgiving and praise. The more intentionally we worship, the more deeply gratitude takes root in our hearts. The way we worship God in life will determine how grateful we are in life.

Sermon Big Idea:

The way ...