LifeSpring Community Church - Talks Online

Pastor Fran shows us how the Christian life isn't all about getting all the doctrine and beliefs right, but about the Spirit of God in us.

Pastor Fran and Leslie Zurita have a conversation about our emerging faith as a church and its people.

KC Crino shows us how we can live through uncertain times by remembering God's inclusion of everyone and focusing on our relationship with Him.

Pastor Fran takes us through the story of Mary Magdalene to have a deeper meaning of the resurrection of Jesus.

Pastor Fran shares how we have we have a direct line to God through Jesus who sets us free from the bondage of our hurts and wounds.

Pastor Fran shows us, through the Gospel of John, the true meaning of communion.

Pastor Fran shares how Jesus reaches out to the wounded people that we are through the story of the woman at the well.

Pastor Fran reminds us to avoid attaching God to religious purification culture and instead realize that God is good and beautiful and already wild about us.

Through the Gospel of John, Pastor Fran shows how Jesus moves toward people and puts himself near to people regardless of what they do or don't really understand yet.

Pastor Fran interviews theologian and ethicist, Andrew DeCort.

Pastor Fran encourages us to look inside ourselves to know how to live as a Christian.

Pastor Fran helps you see how to seek wisdom through faith and the mystery of Christ.

Pastor Fran encourages us to not give up when we're confronted with challenges in life.

Leslie Zurita and Pastor Fran discuss questions people in our church community asked about the road ahead.

A conversation about questions many are asking the American Christian church today.

A conversation with KC & Gail Crino about looking outside the church to reach people.

In this message, Pastor Fran shares how we can find illumination like the Magi in the face of Jesus.

In this message, Pastor Fran shows us how we need to see the beauty and the glory of the Branch in order to experience His perfect love.

In this message, Pastor Fran shares how God sent a Song to be among us and the hopes that it will find find us during this Christmas season.

In this message Pastor Fran explores how in the mystery of the incarnation Christ enters into solidarity with the depths of our humanity.

In this Advent Message Pastor Fran unfolds four beautiful and mind blowing implications of God being born into the world.

In this Advent message, Pastor Fran shares how God shines light into the darkness of the world through the birth and love of Jesus.

In this sermon, Lay Pastor Leslie Zurita shares vulnerable stories of he own shame growing up, and brings us the good news that how God sees us is bigger than all those things. Come take in her words and move toward self-acceptance and freedom.

In this message Pastor Fran talks about how society so often moves on an honor/shame mentality related to various kinds of status, and how far too often Christianity just becomes an extension of this worldly honor/shame game. Jesus, in his teaching and at the Cross, exposes the falsity of this arrangement and invites us into the freedom of love and of seeing with his eyes.

In this post-election sermon, while avoiding partisanship, Pastor Fran points us to a life and politics that has firmly in its sights the story God is telling, the story of the restoration of all people, and also reiterates LifeSpring's promise to be a safe community for all people.

In this message Pastor Fran speaks of the primacy of love, and love alone, in our thinking about God and our life in Christ. It is a love that never shuts the gates, it always forgives, and it vanquishes the darkness.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about receiving the Bible as it is, seeing it not just as ink on a page to be obeyed, but rather pointing us to Christ who reveals the good and beautiful God who wants to write upon our hearts and make a new story out of us so that we might be whole and free and reconciled to one another.

In this sermon Pastor Fran takes a look at the wonder and variety of the Bible as both the revelation of God but also as an ongoing search and conversation of the people of God, and unpacks how Jesus is the glorious climax of the story and the key to our restoration.

KC Crino brings God's word that as children of God and the visible Body of Christ, we have the opportunity and responsibility to co-create with the Spirit spaces of peace and healing to those on Life's journey.

On September 29 LifeSpring participated in Global Mutual Flourishing Sunday, a day to hear Jesus calling us to care about peace and justice for the powerless. As part of this focus we increased our awareness of the history and recent events between Israelis and Palestinians, praying for an end to the slaughter and wanting to work for the flourishing of all human beings.

In this sermon Pastor Fran shows how some of the Christian ideas we've been taught actually end up making God seem smaller and more petty, and as a consequence turning us into smaller people. But when we begin to perceive the big and beautiful God whose image lives in every human being, we begin to find the freedom to love like God loves.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran brings us under the beautiful sky to of God's goodness as opposed to a sky dominated by wrath and judgment. Fran also challenges the theologies that present humans as only bad, emphasizing how Jesus moved toward people to bring healing and restore the good buried beneath the debris.

In this sermon of continuing to untangle Jesus, Pastor Fran covers seasons of hope. When Jesus is brought to the authorities, we see in His attitude that everything will be fine.

In this first message in the Walking Sunlit Fields series, Pastor Fran describes the disillusionment so many Christians are feeling with the church and current expressions of Christianity, and shares the key the early Christians knew that led to a more beautiful faith.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran covers Matthew chapter 6. In our journey, Jesus becomes more untangled when we let go of the wrong possessions and search our soul for what is sacred.

In the first message of this new series, Pastor Fran shows how the unentangled Jesus helps us get untangled from all the things we've tried to find our value in, suggesting that our real freedom will come with the deep awareness that we are in fact the beloved of God.

In this summer series conversation, Pastor Fran welcomes Keri Ladouceur of the Post Evangelical Collective to talk about the paradigm shift happening in American Christianity.

In this conversation Pastor Fran takes on some profound questions of life and faith, sharing answers that are both honest and hopeful.

In this summer conversation we get to see what an ongoing search for authentic faith looks like through the eyes of KC and Gail Crino across their amazing story of life, missions, and ministry.

In this summer discussion, Pastor Fran sits down and talks with the LGBTQ+ Community and allies of the cause. Fasten your seat belt! You're going to be taken for a ride with these stories of past church experiences, overcoming and resolution.

In this conversation, Pastor Fran and Leslie Zurita sit down with Diane Balaja and Todd Pierson to talk about struggle and suffering. With the awareness of trials and tribulations, we take heart knowing suffering is not the pinnacle of life.

Leslie Zurita sits down with Deb Augsburger, Ruth Kaufman, and Diana Gorshe to talk about the ways the church has limited and failed women, and whether the traditional views of women in the church really reflect a New Testament perspective.

Pastor Fran sits down with Larry Alicz to discuss the balance of certainty and mystery in the Christian's journey, and the necessity and beauty of both.

In this first sermon of a new Summer series, Pastor Fran and Leslie Zurita kick it off by talking about getting the bigger picture. Depending on who we listen to can shape our Christianity.

Beginning with the story of the woman caught in adultery in John chapter 8, Pastor Fran unpacks today how religion always defaults to shallow and judgmental places, but that Jesus is interested in something radically different, not retributive punishment, but restoration of our very humanity.

In this sermon about hope, Pastor Fran recalls the Holy Spirit experiences he had, from feeling God's presence to weird interactions with strangers. With Christ in us, our restoration is daily with new changes and new victories.

We live in a time of great questioning about the soul of Christian faith. In this message Pastor Fran unpacks how Jesus engaged fully with our humanity rather than steering us back into a narrow religious framework for life.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about how Jesus is more than the modern Christian package which he illustrates by distinguishing the difference between Christ, the Church and Christianity. He then encourages an honest and self reflective journey of the heart towards restoration and towards the life of freedom and wholeness.

These days more people are getting honest about the variety of things found in the Bible, and it's causing some people to abandon it. Today Pastor Fran unpacks some things we've been taught about the Bible, and how Jesus spoke about it in a way that allows us to accept the Bible as it is, love it even more, and let it point us to the finding of real life.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about why he is still a Christian - even with the past events of questionable church credibility. When we come out into the deep with Jesus, our faith can remain unshaken - no matter the past or present hurt of churches who have lost the plot.

In this sermon, Pastor Fran touches on how we as humans tend to make identities for ourselves and wear our failures that shroud us in so much darkness. Because of Jesus, our identity is recreated and we don't have to wear our failures. We cling to hope that God is restoring all things in due time.