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Weekly talks from bread, in Hollywood, CA. Bread is an open-minded, Spirit-filled, non-denominational church in the heart of Los Angeles. We believe in the world-changing power of Jesus and the present day work of the Holy Spirit.
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Faith in God’s Call.
Genesis 11:27 - 12:9 Abraham is known as the father of faith, and held up as an exemplar of faith by the New Testament writers. If we want our faith to grow, we can learn a lot from Abraham. In this introduction to our new series, we see this dynamic — growing faith is always initiated by God,...
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A vision for bread: a Community church.
God never intended for us to go through life alone. Being in community is an essential part of the spiritual life, and central to the healing mission of Jesus. Examining the story of the woman with the bleeding condition, we will see how Jesus models bringing people on the outside of society into...
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A vision for bread: a Functioning church.
What if the ordinary parts of our lives are not separate from the sacred? Tracing a story of stewardship from Genesis through the New Testament, we explore how practical gifts, small acts of attention, and the systems we build can become expressions of love and worship. Operations, at its best…
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A vision for bread: a Serving church.
Jesus describes himself as the one who “did not come to be served, but to serve," so if we are being formed into his image, then it's an imperative to understand that service isn’t an optional extra; everything we have been given is given that it might, in some form, be given away. But…
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A vision for bread: a Worshipful church.
Worship isn't just the opening act for a sermon. At bread, our vision is to be people who know how to worship God in Spirit and in Truth, as Jesus asks. This sermon looks at how worship through our music continues the ancient tradition of accessing the presence of God through singing, and how…
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A vision for bread: a Discipling church.
Throughout the New Testament, the early disciples, despite their vast differences and in spite of the likely tensions and challenges, together, were taught and they taught each other. They listened and shared. They observed and they actively participated. They heard and they questioned…All of…
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A vision for bread: an Empowered church.
Jesus doesn't leave us with marching orders and then tell us we’re on our own. Rather, Jesus empowers his church with all the power of heaven by the gift of his Holy Spirit. We’re neither left alone, nor weak. So, the supreme need for every Christian individual and every Christian church is to be...
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A vision for bread: a Good News church.
The Bible describes Jesus as good news. His church, therefore, must be somewhere where people hear good news - good news that in Jesus, God can be known, He is a friend who understands, He offers a way out of cycles of destructive behavior, He goes before us in everything, He champions us like an...
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A vision for bread: a Now and Not Yet church.
John 13–17 Jesus announced - and demonstrated - that the Kingdom of God had come. And yet, on the night before his death, Jesus prepared his disciples for a reality they had not expected: the Kingdom had come, but it had not yet come in its fullness. It is a tension we still live in 2000 years...
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A vision for bread: a Biblical church.
Acts 6:11-13 & Acts 7 From the beginning, Jesus' Church has been rooted in the Scriptures. This is seen no more clearly than in Stephen's biblical defense of the fledging Christian community in Acts 7. At bread, we aspire to be a Biblical church. This means, amongst other things, never reducing…
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 2.
Psalm 2 This prophetic Psalm is one of the richest, Messianic Psalms written, giving us an understanding of the absolute authority of Israel’s coming Messiah. Psalm 2 points us to the future of the Messiah’s Kingship and Kingdom, and the ultimate subjugation of Christ’s enemies and the kings of...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 51.
Psalm 51 Psalm 51 gives us incredible insight into how David viewed God even when he had gravely sinned. It’s a study in the nature of our Heavenly Father. David didn’t allow shame to make him cower before God. He didn’t see Him as a hard taskmaster to be feared, but rather as his safe place to...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 46.
Psalm 46 Psalm 46 reminds us that God is not only supreme and powerful, but also eternally merciful. By painting the picture of a God who rules over all creation, as well as the warring nations, the Psalmist reminds us of His love and mercy towards His people. That even in the midst of total…
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 139
Psalm 139 To be human is to be made for intimacy - with other people vitally, but also with God primarily. In Psalm 139 we see how nothing is hidden from God. He knows us intimately. This can lead us to do two things - run away from Him; or run towards Him. We run away because we're afraid -...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 110.
Psalm 110 More than any other, Psalm 110 reveals the identity of the Messiah. Jesus is the fulfillment of David’s prophecy in this psalm: Jesus has completed the work God assigned him setting us right with God, Jesus is Lord over all that we ever face, Jesus is our eternal priest caring and...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 19
Psalm 19 (NIV); Psalm 19 (Message) The Psalms don't just tell us about God—they teach us how to speak to him. Psalm 19 invites us into an ancient prayer of orientation, that begins with the skies, delights in instruction, and ends with a simple prayer of surrender. But to hear it well, we have to...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 8
Psalm 8 God of Humanity The Bible answers the fundamental question of what it means to be human, by saying: it means to be in relationship with God. It's less about who we are and more about whose we are. When we start with God, we experience life as it’s supposed to be lived: we see that God is...
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Songs of the Kingdom: Psalm 96.
Psalm 96 At bread, we value the manifest presence of God above all else. Worship is essential for that. Since the beginning God's people have sung songs of worship. We are commanded to do so; it's who we were created to be; and He alone is worthy of it. Worship will always be the ultimate goal…
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The kingdom needs you: the talents pt 2.
Matthew 25:14-30; Genesis 2:15 Returning to Jesus' parable of the talents, we consider how this story relates to all areas of our lives other than money. We have all been variously gifted by God - not just in respect of our abilities or talents, but also with regards to our history, our...
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The kingdom needs you: the great banquet.
Luke 14:15-24; Isaiah 25:6-8 The Parable of the Great Banquet is Jesus opening the doors to everyone. After being invited to dinner by a group of Pharisees, Jesus answers their question on who’s in and who’s out in his new kingdom. Drawing from Isaiah’s messianic banquet prophecy 700 years…
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The kingdom needs you: the mustard seed
Mark 4:30-34 The Kingdom of God being parabolically described as a mustard seed by Jesus in Mark 4 was surprising to his listeners by the shore of the sea, to say the least. And his reference to nesting birds might seem benign enough to us, but to them, the splendid cedar of imperial messianic...
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The kingdom needs you: the sower.
Matthew 13:1-23 The Kingdom of God is what life looks like when Jesus is in charge. It has already begun through Jesus, but it’s not yet fully visible; it is present, but hidden, and we as His people are called not just to be in it, but to participate in God’s kingdom work in the world. The…
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The new life Jesus promises.
John 3:1-8, Ezekiel 36:25-27 Following on from last week's talk about who the real Jesus of the gospels is, today we consider the sort of life he promises to bring. In his interaction with Nicodemus, Jesus promises something more radical than any religious, political or social leader has ever...
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Invite your friends to Alpha.
Sign up for alpha With our upcoming Alpha course beginning April 28th, we consider what it is we’re doing when we invite our friends to the course. Ultimately we’re inviting them to meet Jesus. And He always meets people just as they are. From his interaction with the Samaritan woman (John…
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Serving the city.
How do we seek out the lost sheep? What does loving the most vulnerable look like? How do we see and love people with the heart of Jesus? Our guest speaker Bob Ekblad shares his story and experiences of working with people on the margins: folks struggling with addiction, inmates, immigrants, and…
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Easter Sunday 2026
The resurrection means everything good will be restored. Because of Jesus’ bodily, historical rising from the dead, a new day has dawned. Just as the power of sin touched every single part of creation at the fall, the power of the resurrection is redeeming every single part of creation since...
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Live the revolution: down the narrow path.
Matthew 7:13-29 Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount concludes with a choice: which road will we walk? The “narrow way” is not about securing a distant afterlife, but about embracing a transformed life here and now—one shaped by the Spirit’s ongoing work within us. Set against the backdrop of Israel’s…
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Live the revolution: do good.
Matthew 7:1-12 The Sermon on the Mount is not merely about behavior, but about a deep transformation of the heart that enables Kingdom living from the inside out. As we conclude our series, we consider Jesus' closing statement: “do to others what you would have them do to you.” His “Golden Rule”…
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Live the revolution: treasures.
Matthew 6:19-24 The Revolution Jesus is leading us into has to work its way into our systems of valuing - exposing what we treasure. Jesus presses this issue because He is fully aware of the duality resulting from trying to live in both Kingdoms - of Mammon and of God - at the same time. The…
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Live the revolution: The Lord’s Prayer.
Matthew 6:5-15 Today we focus in on The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus’s teaching on what is called prayer in Matthew 6:5-15, and how prayer is for everyone at all times. We also learn about the radical state of practicing the presence of God through prayer without ceasing as exemplified by the life of...
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Alpha Holy Spirit Sunday
In a break from our 'Live the Revolution' series, and at the conclusion our most recent Alpha Course, we dedicate our Sunday Service to the subject of the Holy Spirit: Who is the Holy Spirit? What does the Holy Spirit do? How can we be filled with the Holy Spirit? The Christian life is not just...
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Live the revolution: for the audience of one.
Matthew 6:1-8, 16-18 Having shown what a kingdom heart and the kingdom life looks like, Jesus concludes His Sermon on the Mount with a series of warnings about inhibiting the kingdom life. The first concerns the desire for approval from anyone other than God our Father. When our motivation to…
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Live the revolution: love they neighbor.
Matthew 5:21-48 What does this revolution actually look like in real life? Torah Law was always about love — love of God, self and neighbor — but somewhere along the way it had became something to manage, manipulate, and weaponize. In six startling case studies, Jesus takes Israel’s Law, and…
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Live the revolution: beyond the goodness of Pharisees.
Matthew 5:17-20 Having announced his kingdom, invited all to enter it, and described that people of the kingdom as salt and light, Jesus elaborates on how kingdom people live. Our goodness is to surpass that of the Pharisees. This is life beyond legalistic righteousness. So, Jesus hasn’t come to...
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Live the revolution: salt and light.
Matthew 5:13-16 Jesus turns things upside down when it comes to who is invited into his kingdom - it’s everyone, really everyone. What’s more, the invitation to receive the blessing of his kingdom is not dependent on anything that we might deem a qualification or a disqualification. But Jesus...
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Live the revolution: blessedness.
Matthew 5:3-12 When it comes to "living the revolution" the question arises - for whom is the revolution good news? Who gets to join in - and who is excluded? So, from the outset of His revolutionary invitation, Jesus makes it clear - even those who have been discarded and set aside...
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Live the revolution: introduction to the sermon on the mount.
Matthew 5-7 Many of Jesus’ most familiar teachings come from the Sermon on the Mount, the aim here is not to treat it as a list of moral instructions, but to understand the new day Jesus was announcing. Set against a deeply divided and oppressed Israel, Jesus’ announcement that “the kingdom of...
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Jesus fantastic.
In Paul’s letter to the Colossians (Colossians 1:15-23) he presents Jesus as so attractive as to be utterly compelling. We’re called to do something similar, in our similarly pluralistic context of Los Angeles: to present Jesus as he is--unapologetically the center of the universe. Jesus is the...
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Taste and see that the Lord is good.
As we head into 2026, let us consider a simple invitation from Psalm 34: Taste and see that the Lord is good. From Genesis to Revelation, the scriptures demonstrate God inviting us to receive his wonderful love in tangible, authentic, and embodied ways. Through Jesus, the hard work has been...
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Advent: a weary world rejoices.
As Advent draws to a close, we reflect on the phrase, the thrill of hope, a weary world rejoices. We're reminded daily of the weariness of our world, but what was going on when Jesus was born? Why was the ancient world so weary? In this talk, we dive into what was happening politically and...
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Advent 2025: Prince of Peace.
Christmas declares ‘Glory to God and on earth, peace’. Peace, which is more than just an absence of conflict, but rather everything being right and good with the world, is what God intends for his world. But we know all too well how peace-less the world can be: there’s a lack of peace globally…
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Bread end of year giving.
1 Timothy 6:3-19 Every December, we launch our End of Year Giving Campaign. In this talk, we consider how, as followers of Jesus, we are called to treat money. Paul writes to Timothy with instruction to three groups of people: those who have lost sight of Jesus and who are solely interested in...
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Jesus wins by losing.
Isaiah 52:13-15; Isaiah 53:1-12 As we wrap up this short series on Isaiah (a fitting moment to enter Advent), we come to Isaiah 53—the Suffering Servant—arguably the text that shaped the early church’s understanding of Jesus’ death and resurrection more than any other. It gives us the clearest…
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Jesus comforts those in distress.
Isaiah 40:1-11 The Bible never promises us a stress-free life. Indeed, we’re regularly told that, as Christians, we can expect suffering. However we can also always expect God to be our great comforter whatever we face. His comfort is so extraordinarily powerful that even when circumstances are…
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Jesus gives you a home.
Isaiah 35 offers a vision of hope and home to God’s people in exile, hundreds of years prior to Jesus. It poetically speaks of the wildness of God’s compassionate mercy and his surprising power. From this passage we can see a theme that extends far forward as well, that Jesus has come to give us…
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Jesus restores what you’ve lost.
Isaiah 11:1-10 Isaiah prophesies the kingdom of Judah’s downfall at the hands of the Assyrians. The people of God are like a tree felled to a stump. But all is not lost. From that stump, the remnant of Israel, God’s Messiah will come, and he will restore all that has been lost. On a personal…
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Jesus dispels darkness.
Isaiah 9:1-7 Jesus is the prince of peace, the prince of shalom. Shalom is more than just an absence of conflict. It is everything being made complete and right. In our world, we can be very aware of the darkness. The news is often filled with it. And we have darkness closer to home; in our…
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Devoted to growth.
The early church grew at a phenomenal rate. Churches are supposed to grow. This is because God’s will is that every single person know him and be part of his community of love. So, a church that refuses to grow is outside the will of God. Growth is always the work of God. We’re simply called to...
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Devoted to praise.
Worship is an integral part of what it is to be human. All of us are worshippers. But the only thing worthy of our worship is the God who is infinite. Every other object of our worship will eat us alive. By contrast, worship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, means we enter into the life the Trinity...
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Devoted to sincerity.
In Luke's characterization of the early church, he describes them as having "sincere hearts"...but what does that mean? In the context of our modern culture, the definition of sincerity seems to shift depending on who you ask: is it just saying what's on your mind? Is it being "real" (whatever…
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Weekly talks from bread, in Hollywood, CA.
Bread is an open-minded, Spirit-filled, non-denominational church in the heart of Los Angeles. We believe in the world-changing power of Jesus and the present day work of the Holy Spirit.
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