A People Set Free

Pastor Bobby continued our Sunday morning Zoom living room season expanding on the shared hearts that we have at The Church We Hope For! We are a people set free!

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Desperation as Inspiration

This sermon was recorded for Own Your Faith ministries in Santa Clarita, CA, under the leadership of Pastor Phil Allen Jr. In this message, we look at the story of Peter walking on water in Matthew 14. And we focus on Peter’s desperate prayer of, “Lord, save me!” as an inspiration for how we may […]

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In Matthew 5:1-12, the Beatitudes Message is a Black Lives Matter type of message. Jesus is aware of the current oppressive realities of the crowds that gather to listen to him. This crowd has been waiting for a savior from the oppression of the Roman Empire for 400 years…much like our African-American sisters and brothers […]

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In light of the recent national racial trauma and violence against our black brothers and sisters, we led a time of lament to enter into the sacred space of protesting before our Creator and in community together. We decry the dehumanizing and atrocious lynching of our beloved brother #GeorgeFloyd who bears the image of God. […]

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Love Revisited

It was a privilege and joy for us to be with Mountainside Communion today, and to be invited to preach in their sermon series on Fruit of the Spirit: Love Revisited. We focused on the trinitarian shape of love embodied through covenant relationship with one another. The kind of love that’s empowered by the Spirit […]

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