Christ Church Los Angeles Sermon Podcast

True affluence is found in serving Christ and one another.

At the Tower of Babel rather than lifting up God's name, man decides to make a name for himself. This is at the very center of pride and as long as we are prideful we can never really know God. Yet, God shows up once again to graciously redirect us towards himself.

Yes the Flood is a story about divine judgement, but more than that it's a story about salvation. And the covenant God makes with Noah points to the promise of ultimate salvation to come in Jesus Christ.

Genesis 4 & 5 reveal how God's people always live in a city within a city, worshipers and non-worshipers living side by side. We see the pervasiveness of sin and how it can turn a city inward toward the self and countered with Seth and his family line who break this pattern of sin turning outward to God by calling upon the Lord and living faithfully.

The sensationalized part of the story is the murder. But the actually sensational part of the story is how God shows up in Cain's life before and after the murder to show mercy.

Creation cries out, Scripture cries out and we cry out to know our God. Psalm 19 walks us through our part in growing closer to God. We must acknowledge our need of a savior. We can know God through his creation, through His word, and through the confession of our sins.

In Genesis 3 we learn God desires to be near us and invites us into close relationship with him with gentleness and grace. To quote Nat's sermon, ”If you take God out of the picture, you've once again fallen into the snare of the snake.” We must learn to trust him with every breath we take.

In Genesis chapter 2 we learn that God desires to walk with us in the same way that he walked in the garden with Adam & Eve.

The main emphasis of Genesis 1 is that God created humankind in His image. There are two major implications one for how we view others and one for how we view ourselves.

The book of James teaches us to develop the practice of prayer in our normal everyday lives so that when life's challenges come, it will be second nature for us to pray.

The book of James shows us that perseverance in the hardest times of life is possible if we have developed the wisdom of patience in the normal every day of life.

The book of James reveals the wisdom of praying for God's will to be done.

Listen in as we celebrate the new life offered through the resurrection of Christ.

In this sermon we walk through the Passover meal as Jesus ate it and look at the significance behind what they ate.

The book James teaches us that our lives are most shaped by the answer to the question: What do you want?

In this passage the book of James teaches that wisdom comes from two places and only one leads to a good life filled with peace.

Shockingly James says that the tongue is the most important part of our body and that how we use it determines if we become wise or foolish.

James is the New Testament book for wisdom. In this message we learn what wisdom is, how to get it and who gives it.

How can a person's whole world crash down around them still live by faith? That is the question we've been investigating throughout this whole series. Join us as we wrap up our series on this book on how we can live by faith.

If wisdom is what comes out of you when you're under pressure, how do you develop into a wise person of faith for the time when the crisis comes. Join us today as we learn from Habakkuk, about how to develop into a person of wisdom through an enduring prayer life.

What do you do when you're doing all the right things, but nothing is going right? Join us this week as we go back into Habakkuk and investigate this passage is an exercise in living by faith when everyone around you is prospering but you.

Jesus calls us to be wise with our money, whether we have a lot, or we have a little. However we think about our wealth, our central conviction as Christians should be to conform our ideas about money to Jesus teaching. Join us today as we start to do this together by looking as a well known parable of Jesus about money.

Hope during times of suffering comes from being anchored in God's promises. Join us this week as Dr. Leon Harris leads us through our passage this week.

What do you when you don't like the answers to your prayers? This week we explore the personal story of Habakkuk and how to live by faith when you can't make sense of what God is doing in your life.

When tragedy strikes, when injustice prevails, is it right to question God? Is it okay to ask why? In the wake of the wildfires ripping across Los Angeles, Habakkuk helps us gain the perspective while we are questioning God, trusting God and shows us how to have the faith to do both.

Our problems are loud, and they often catch a lot of our attention. But, it is impossible to live by faith when we are zoomed in on our problems. Join us this week as we learn the way we can truly live by faith from the lessons we learn in the book of Habakkuk.

God's love is not sentimental. His love is tangible, and rooted in action. In a season where love is on the mind, how do we reorient our hearts to experience the tangible unfailing love of God? Join us today as we explore the theme of God's unfailing love from Psalm 107, and how it can come to each of us in Christ this Christmas.

Although most of us desire to have joy, it is elusive. The problem is if we only focus getting joy itself, we miss joy all together. Join us this week as we explore psalm 98 to see how we can truly experience joy this Christmas.

Peace is more than just a relaxing day on the couch, it's a realization of your deepest desires. Yet, we habitually desire the wrong things. Join us in this teaching as we comb through Psalm 84 to find the root of our peace, in desiring the thing that can give us true peace this Christmas season.

The Advent season is about preparation for the arrival the hope, peace, joy, and love that Jesus brings. This week we explore the theme of hope by diving into a couple of Psalms which show us what hope is and how to get the hope that sustains us through our darkest times.

How does Jesus treat people who are guilty as charged or even condemned? In our passage today we examine the story of the woman who was caught in adultery, and we see Jesus heart for those who are caught in the depths of their own sin.

Throughout Jesus ministry, he was known as a healer. Although we believe it is always good and right to ask for healing, most of us are left with a lingering question: Why are some healed, and some are not? Join us today as we dive into a few different texts where the Gospels speak about Jesus healing women. In these stories we discovering a surprising and hope filled answer to this question.

It's easy to get stuck in your faith, especially if you feel like you don't measure up. So how can you praise God with you whole heart, when you know your whole heart isn't truly loving him? Join us as we walk through Psalm 111 to see how we can live and worship as a genuine Christian in light of our obvious inconsistencies and flaws.

Many of us can point to a unsatisfied desire in our lives and in our hearts. This is not a new phenomenon. Join us today as we learn about what truly satisfies our deepest desires as we peer into the Jesus longest recorded private conversation in the gospels.

What does it mean that we are in the kingdom of God? And what affect should it have on our everyday lives? Join us today as Dr. Leon Harris walks us through what it means to live in the deliverance of the Kingdom of the Triune God.

Our character in the big moments of life is shaped in the ordinary moments. Today we can a lot of what it looks like to build this kind of Godly Character by looking at Jesus through the eyes of Marry and Martha as they followed Jesus.

Women are a feature in the life of Jesus from the very beginning. Join us as we revisit the "Christmas" story at a slightly different angle in order to learn from and understand Jesus from the eyes of the women who were among the first to meet him.

In Jesus day your family was your resume. Included in Jesus family history are a few key women who help to tell us not only who Jesus is, but what he came to do. Join us in this week as we explore Jesus in the stories, conversations he had with women throughout the Gospels.

Does God value a "stiff upper lip?" It's easy to believe that when we come before God we should only be grateful that we are allowed to exist and breathe. But, as we see in Psalm 22, God is glorious enough to handle both the wonderful realities of our lives and our suffering. Join us today as Dr. Leon Harris walks us through Psalm 22 and presents a pattern that we can use to pray to God through the reality of our lives.

What are the practical and even cosmic reasons we gather as a church? Join us as we briefly look at Acts 2:42-47 to see the incredible thing that happen as we gather together.

Many stories in the Bible portray David as the hero, the good guy, and the Christlike figure. But, David - like us - was human, sinful, and fallen. So how does a man after God's own heart respond when he does something unimaginably wrong? Join us today as Daniel walks us through this deeply human story, and how we can see God's redemption and grace within David's lowest moment.

Friendship is essential to make it through life's toughest times. In this passage we see the ingredients that make up a biblical friendship and we're pointed to the ultimate friend.

It's easy to believe that Christians employ a "fake it till you make it" strategy when the don't feel like praising God. But, the Bible tells us to do something quite different. Join us today as our friend Yannick from Stockwell Baptist Church in London walks us through Psalm 103 to explore what the Bible teaches about our motivation to praise God.

The David and Goliath story is firmly set in most of our imaginations, but the message behind this story has been long misunderstood. Join us this week as we survey this deep story about how God meets us in our weakness and inadequacy with his strength and provision.

What does it look like to move at God's pace? Often we can believe God only works in fast and powerful ways, but as we will discover as we walk through the life of David, God's pace is not our pace.

God has a long history of offering hope in the midst of seemingly terrible, and hopeless situations. But, it's not always in the way that we are looking for. Join us this week at Dr. Leon Harris walks us through how the hope communicated to the nation of Israel meet us in our own hopelessness.

It's easy to import our political, intellectual, and individual agenda onto Jesus and his message, but that's nothing new. As Dr. Leon Harris expounds John 7 he shows us how we might know Jesus is the right answer, we often ask the wrong question. Join us today as we explore what it looks like to align our agenda to Jesus agenda in a way that brings light and life to our lives and the world around us.

Most religions are predicated on the idea that we can become good in order to receive God's favor and blessing. But, in Christianity, it is our admission of our own unworthiness that unleashes God's grace and blessing in our lives. Join us today as we explore the faith of a man that amazed Jesus, and how it impacts our faith in Jesus authority today.

We all carry around with us those things we wish we could change, but never do. But, the power to chance flows from God, not our ability. In this story we see how Jesus approaches a hopeless and dejected man with dignity, and fully restores him by his power.

In order for love to be eternal, God must be eternally loving. The Trinity gives us a picture of what John is talking about when he says, "God is Love." Tune in this week as we look at the glorious reality of the love of the Trinity, and how it is incredibly practical for our daily lives.

Marriage, parenting, and slavery. These are three vital relational dynamics that have caused division, wounds, and wars since the beginning of history. Our passage today shows how the Christian gospel presents a right-side up vision for these relationships which challenges upside down narrative in our culture.