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The Book of James: Disciplined Living – January 31, 2021

James 3:13-18

Pastor David Cay

The Christian life is a bit like growing teeth. We are either growing in the right way and in the right spot creating a great smile, or we are growing in the wrong way. The way we grow can have lasting effects in our lives.

If you grow the wrong way, you’ll spend a lot of your life wandering aimlessly. If you grow the right way, you will become all that God wants you to be. You will do really well for yourself and everyone you love.

So my question today is: how can we grow in the right way? Our passage today is telling us that we have to grow in godly wisdom. To do that:

  1. We need to grow out of the wrong wisdom that we live by.
  2. We need to grow into the right wisdom that only God can give.

The Book of James: Disciplined Living – January 24, 2021

James 1:26-27

Timothy Nguyen

When it comes to things that you bet your life on, you don’t want to depend on counterfeit things. This is especially true with our religion. Just like all things, there’s a real Christianity, and there’s a knock-off Christianity. We see it in movies and TV shows, Christians who are judgmental jerks, or Christians that raid and burn buildings and promote violence and anarchy in the name of Jesus. That cannot be the Christianity that Jesus had in mind.

Occasionally, you come across Christians who are unbelievably courageous. They’re on a whole different level. William Wilburforce, for example, ended the slave trade in the British empire. Orr Dietric Bonhoeffer, who resisted the Nazis and almost succeeded in killing Hitler. That Christianity is worlds away from the one we see in the media. One, you admire and the other, you despise, And rightfully so.

So our question today, what is real Christianity? In our passage, we’re going to see that real Christianity lives out an extreme commitment to following Jesus by doing good. We see that in two points:

  1. Real Christianity avoids causing harm.
  2. Real Christianity excels in doing good.

The Book of James: Disciplined Living – January 17, 2021

James 1:12-15

Pastor David Cay

Despite our best laid plans, life sometimes doesn’t go the way you expect. You have all these plans, you’re excited for it, only for it to implode! It doesn’t go your way. It actually goes worse than you thought and it can hit us like a ton of bricks.

My question today: What do we do when life doesn’t go our way, when life gives us lemons?

Our passage tells us that we need to find the blessing in the trouble, and resist temptation within us.

The Book of James: Disciplined Living – January 10, 2020

James 1:4-5

Pastor Tony Henshall

There are Christians who dream their life, and there are Christians who live their dream.

What I mean is, there a Christians who talk a lot about following Jesus, making the sacrifices, and achieving great things for Him. Then, there are Christians who actually get those things done. It is those who can finish, who can get past the stage of ideas, who are most blessed in life.

So if we want to be blessed in life we need to… Finish with PERSEVERANCE.

Two keys to perseverance are:
1. Patience
2. Planning

Genesis: Starting Right – January 3, 2021

Genesis 6

Pastor Enoch Chee

What’s the best way to adapt to change? I believe this is a super important question, not just because we are in a pandemic, but also because we live in a world that is changing really fast. I think about the rise of artificial intelligence and how I expect my children to grow up in an age of super intelligent computers and super high quality entertainment. And with the new technology there will be more temptations and more ways to go wrong.

So the world is changing. Fortunately for us, the Bible gives us the tools we need to handle a changing world. In a changing world, we need to:

  1. UNDERSTAND what God says
  2. DO what God says

Genesis: Starting Right – December 27, 2020

Genesis 5:3-5, 21-24

Pastor David Cay

For some of us, we go on social media and we look at people’s lives and we feel like their lives are more remarkable and impressive than our own life. We see what they have: their riches, their houses, their cars, the clothes, the fame. We can become envious of how extraordinary their lives are.
And we feel that we could never have that. We could never have an extraordinary life like that. But, the Bible suggests that we actually can live an extraordinary life.
But the question is this: What is the Bible’s definition of an extraordinary life? When we look through it, we see that the Bible’s definition is very different from our culture’s definition.

Christmas Series – December 20, 2020

Luke 2:1-7

Tim Nguyen

Where do we find hope when nothing goes our way?

  1. We find hope in God’s PLAN – God is working, and he has given us a role in his plan — to make the most of what he has given us.
  2. We find hope in God’s PROVISION – So we give thanks for the nice things, but also, for the difficult things because both are intended for our good.

Christmas series: Advent – December 13, 2020

Luke 1:26-33,38

Pastor David Cay

We take a break from our series on Genesis for a couple of weeks to focus on Christmas.

Do you want your life to be an awesome story? And if you do, can we have an awesome story without pain or trouble? Or are they pre-requisites for a great story, for a great life? The Bible tells us that the mot blessed life is one that will have a worthy trouble. Our passage comes from Luke 1:26-33 and 38. It’s the story of the time the angel appeared to Mary.

Genesis: Starting Right – December 6, 2020

Genesis: 4:2-7

Pastor Enoch Chee

Does the Christian life have to be hard? I think this is an important question because a lot of Christians try to find a way out of the difficulty. But if it’s inevitably hard, then our strategy changes to making the most out of it. And we don’t try to be comfortable, but instead we look for a reason to get past the suffering, and equip ourselves with resources to succeed. Our Bible story today answers our question.

Our story is about two brothers, Cain and Abel. They were the first children of Adam and Eve, and they were born right after their parents messed up in the garden. So at this point in the story, sin had entered the world, but not everything was broken yet. And everyone still had a relationship with God. But as we’ll see, Cain and Abel had two different kinds of relationship with God.