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God's Word preached.
by Woodland Park Bible Church
Woodland Park Bible Church in San Marcos, CA. Growing in Christ-likeness through the expository, verse-by-verse preaching of God’s Word.
Episodes
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Contentment, Part 6: God’s Strategies - Rejoicing
Text: Ecclesiastes 9:8 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Rejoicing in Christ does not mean pretending that grief, uncertainty, and sin don't exist. It means learning to face those realities with confidence in a Savior who never changes. Joyful faith is a God-given means of contentment and comes as…
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Devotion to the Priorities of the Church
Text: Acts 6:1–7 -- Speaker: Troy McMillan -- When a serious need and a threat to unity arose in the first local church, its leaders saw the urgency of the situation. Why did the church exist, and what were the responsibilities of the apostles? The issue was one of priorities, and the apostles…
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Contentment, Part 6: God’s Strategies - Enjoyment
Text: Ecclesiastes 9:7 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- How can Christians be content when the world is marked by sin, uncertainty, and death? Surprisingly, Scripture's answer to that is a command: Go—enjoy the ordinary gifts of God all around you in everyday life. Food, family, home, work,...
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Text: Ecclesiastes 9:1–6 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- There are three basic facts of life—three invincible and tragic realities that no one can escape: an unpredictable life, the certainty of death, and the corruption of sin within every human heart. Faith in Christ doesn't exempt people from…
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The One Priority That Makes WPBC a Church
Text: Acts 6:1–7 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- The first major conflict in church history forced the church to deal with the matter of priorities. Unquestionably, the needs of its widows were real and urgent, and the church was obligated to help meet them. But is that because the church is...
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Fairest Lord Jesus
Text: Psalm 45 -- Guest speaker: Rick Anderson, Pastor at Faith Community Church (Oxnard, CA) -- In Psalm 45, we have a divine song of love that lifts our eyes to the beauty, majesty, and victory of Jesus Christ—the King who is fully God, full of grace, and worthy of all our affection. It isn't...
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Take Up the Cross of Christ
Text: Mark 8:27–38 -- Guest speaker: Brett Nelson -- Who is Jesus, and why follow him? Jesus' response to Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ reveals how easily human expectations can distort the meaning of discipleship. Surprisingly, Jesus responds by telling Peter that the Son of Man must...
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Let the Main Thing Be the Main Thing
Text: Acts 6:1–7 -- Speaker: Don Sharp -- How did the early church face its first serious internal challenge without losing sight of its mission? Cultural tensions and overlooked needs threatened the church's unity, but the apostles protected it by clarifying the priorities of its leaders and...
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The Covenants and Free Will
Text: Selected Scriptures -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- In our final Q&A message this summer, we discuss the covenants—how they fit together and why God has done things the way he has. If God's intent was always to save us in Christ, why did he establish the covenants with Abraham, Moses, and...
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Aliens, Conviction, “In Christ”—Oh My!
Text: Selected Scriptures -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- What does it mean to be “in Christ?” How should believers respond to guilt or doubt? What about aliens—do they really exist? When we consider the Bible's answers to those questions, what becomes clear is that the believer is secure in...
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The Spirit’s Leading and the Will of God
Text: Selected Scriptures -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- How does the Holy Spirit guide believers, and how do I find the will of God? These are common questions that many Christians have. The Bible's answer is that the Holy Spirit's “leading” is tied to regeneration and to Scripture—not to inner...
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Who is the Holy Spirit and What Does He Do?
Text: Selected Scriptures -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Is the Holy Spirit a force or an energy, or is he actually a person? What is his role in our lives? Does he "lead us" by giving us a sense of peace, or feelings about what God wants us to do—and if not, then what exactly does he do?...
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Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Text: Matthew 18:20 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- What does Jesus mean when He says that where two or three are gathered in His name, He is there among them? Is this a promise about casual get-togethers, or is it about something more specific? This well-known and often-misquoted text means that...
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A Still Small Voice
Text: 1 Kings 19:12 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Most people today are looking for God in spectacular and extraordinary experiences, but Scripture teaches that God's work is quiet work. In the midst of Elijah's discouragement, isolation, and exhaustion, God was not absent at all—He was working...
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The Marching Orders for the Church
Text: Matthew 28:16–20 -- Speaker: Troy McMillan -- What exactly did Jesus leave His church to do? In Matthew 28, the risen Christ gives His people their marching orders: worship Him as the all-authoritative King, make disciples of all nations, and carry out that mission with the confidence that…
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I Can Do All Things Through Christ
Text: Philippians 4:13 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Philippians 4:13 is often treated like a promise of personal success. But in the context, Paul is talking specifically about the ability to be content in every circumstance and the grace to honor Christ whether in plenty or in need. He can do...
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Doing All to the Glory of God
Text: 1 Corinthians 10:31 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- It's common to hear 1 Corinthians 10:31 quoted as an altruistic, abstract goal. Sometimes it's even used as a justification for any and every practice—both in the church and in the lives of individual Christians. As long as we think that...
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Judge Not Lest You Be Judged
Text: Matthew 7:1–5 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- What does Jesus actually mean when He says, “Do not judge”? Is He forbidding all moral discernment, or is He exposing the hypocrisy of people who—to borrow the words of puritan Richard Sibbes—are severe on others but gentle with themselves? When...
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Addressing Our Hearts Amid the Hurt
Text: Psalm 42 -- Speaker: Lloyd Murphy, Pastor-Teacher at Firm Foundation Bible Church (Prescott Valley, AZ) -- What do you do when grief makes Romans 8:28 sound empty and your soul feels like it's either drying up or drowning? Psalm 42 gives the wounded believer words for both the pain and the...
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Why Woodland Park Bible Church Exists
Text: Matthew 28:18–20 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Jeremiah 29:11 can be found everywhere nowadays—from stickers to notebooks to 'girl-boss' Instagram account feeds. But what does it actually mean? Is it a blanket promise of personal success, or something else? When Jeremiah is allowed to…
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For I Know the Plans I Have for You
Text: Jeremiah 29:11 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Jeremiah 29:11 can be found everywhere nowadays—from stickers to notebooks to 'girl-boss' Instagram account feeds. But what does it actually mean? Is it a blanket promise of personal success, or something else? When Jeremiah is allowed to speak...
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Where to Find Meaning
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:16–17 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- The answer to life’s meaning cannot be found within the created order—not under a microscope, not in self-discovery, not in human wisdom, not in self-created spirituality. This is not to say that meaning doesn't exist, but it is to say…
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You Don’t Know Anything
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:16–17 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- God has put the question of eternity in our hearts, but He has not put the answer there. As a result, we are restless, relentless meaning-makers—always asking, always searching, always seeking, never finding. Man's endless search for…
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Contentment, Part 5: God’s Audacity
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:15 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Wait a minute… God commands an attitude of joy in the midst of a world where sin keeps succeeding, injustice is the norm, and life is full of disappointment and frustration? That's outrageous! And yet, that's exactly what He does. The…
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:12–14 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Job is the very first book of the Bible to be written. Surprisingly, its message is that God is not karma. God is not simply handing out good and bad results according to what we do. The reality is much deeper: God is sovereign, just, and...
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Crime and Punishment
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:11 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- When there is no punishment for crime, people commit more of it. Those are the cold, hard facts about fallen human nature. It also shows God's design for government. Civil government 'bears the sword' for the sole purpose of punishing crime…
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The Great Commission
Text: Matthew 28:16–20 -- Speaker: Don Sharp -- The Great Commission is not an optional extra for a few especially zealous Christians. It is Christ’s command to His whole church. Jesus sends His people into the world to make disciples, baptize them, teach them to obey everything He commanded, and...
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Jesus Rose to Sit
Text: Hebrews 12:1–2 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Salvation does not exempt Christians from the common troubles of life. When believers are weighed down by trials, what we need is not positive thinking or self-determination. We need a Savior who has endured the cross, who sees the glory on the...
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Love Shown and Love’s Results
Text: John 3:16 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- John 3:16 is often thought to be about who Jesus died for or about man's ability to believe. In reality, it doesn't talk about either of those ideas, but what it does talk about is the love of God and what it accomplishes. God loved the world in this...
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At Church but Unsaved
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:10 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Counterfeits always look and feel like the real thing. This is why false faith is so dangerous. Jesus warned that many who call him “Lord, Lord!” today will be exposed as strangers to him on the Day of his appearing. Genuine salvation is not...
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A Field Guide for Civil Disobedience (Part 2)
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:2–9 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- God has designed government to do one thing: punish evil and protect life. The reality, however, is that sin has turned this good institution into one of the most common sources of violence and oppression. As our culture shifts, our laws...
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A Field Guide for Civil Disobedience (Part 1)
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:2–9 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- God has designed government to do one thing: punish evil and protect life. The reality, however, is that sin has turned this good institution into one of the most common sources of violence and oppression. As our culture shifts, our laws...
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Why Church?
Text: Titus 1:1–3 -- Guest speaker: Chanton Petersen -- Why should we come to the fellowship of the saints when they gather corporately? If God is both glorious and satisfied in Himself, why does He call us out to spend eternity with Him? Why does God intensely pursue our holiness? The answer to...
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Who is Wise Among You?
Text: Ecclesiastes 8:1 -- Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Some people see life with true clarity, yet are crushed by what they see. Others love Christ but still think and react like the world around them. True wisdom is something different altogether. When faith in Jesus and a thoroughly biblical way...
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The Totality of Depravity
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:27–29 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Explanations abound for what’s wrong with the world: bad systems, bad leaders, or some particular group—maybe liberals, or Christians, or Jews, or men in general. The real reason, however, is that people are sinners, and that includes all of...
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Sexual Immorality: How God Sees It and What to Do About It
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:25–26 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Sexual immorality has become the air we breathe in the culture today. Finding it requires no effort; it's avoiding it that takes work. Scripture warns that slavery to sexual sin is “more bitter than death,” because it erodes life, hollows out...
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Humility by Depravity
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:21–24 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Do you really see yourself clearly? According to God's Word, our biggest problem is not “out there” but in the mirror. You and I are fallen, finite, and deeply sinful. When we understand this the way God wants to, the result is not…
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Brought Near by the Blood of Christ
Text: Ephesians 2:13 Speaker: Troy McMillan -- Sinners who were once far from God can draw near to God through the blood of Christ. That is Paul's message. By His sacrifice, Jesus breaks down every barrier between God and man and unites His people in one body. The contrast between our former...
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Nobody’s Perfect—But Are People Basically Good?
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:20 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Is Christianity about becoming a better person or finding personal fulfillment? Not according to God. Scripture confronts us with the sobering truth that no one is righteous before a holy God. No one's efforts or supposed "goodness" can solve…
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How to Save California
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:19 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- The problems we see in the state of California should cause us to ask ourselves: what shapes a society—politicians and policies, or the deep, presupposed, unexamined worldviews that drive them? God never gives us quick political fixes, but he…
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Sin and Self-Sabotage
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:17 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Why do some people—sometimes even professing believers—seem to wreck their lives long before their time, while others grow into full maturity in Christ? There is a danger in willful, habitual, unrepentant sin. It invites catastrophic…
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The Problem With Externalism
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:16 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- What does real Christianity look like, and what does true spirituality consist of? While man-made standards and external add-ons might seem spiritual, they can't change the heart. In fact, most of the time, externalism does far more harm in the...
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The Virgin Birth of Christ
Text: Matthew 1:18–25 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- The claim that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin is one of the hardest pills for the natural human mind to swallow, and rightly so. If God is not God, then it's both impossible and unreasonable. Of course, in that case, Jesus is just another...
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Christmas is About the Gospel
Text: Romans 1:1–6 Speaker: Steve Black -- Much confusion and mystery surrounds the origins of Christmas. Even so, what has always stood at the center of Christmas as we understand it is the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is not merely about a baby in a manger. It's about the Savior who was…
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Unto Us a Child is Born
Text: Isaiah 9:6 Speaker: Don Sharp -- Seven-hundred years before Christ ever walked the earth, Isaiah foretold the birth of a Savior who would bring light into a dark world. This promise found its beautiful fulfillment in the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem—the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,...
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Twin Ditches
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:16–18 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Life is rarely “balanced.” But God never called us to balance—He called us to be centered. In today's message, we learn that Solomon warns everyone to avoid two spiritual ditches that run alongside all of us: on the one hand, unbelief, and on...
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Consider the Unexpected Sovereignty of God
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:13–15 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- It's common to hear Christians say that “God is in control”—but what does that mean? Does it mean that God controls inanimate objects, and possibly the weather and the animals as well? Does it mean merely that God reacts better than any human...
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Evangelizing the Gospel
Text: 1 Timothy 2:3–4 Guest Speaker: Brett Nelson -- When fear, awkwardness, or feelings of inadequacy keep us silent, how will those around us ever hear the only message that can save them from eternal judgment? God’s answer to that question is not gimmicks or a watered-down, man-centered…
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Under the Shadow of Wisdom and Money
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:11–12 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Is money really the answer to our biggest problems? Or, could it be that it's the root of our problems? Society seems to believe that the answer to both of those questions is 'Yes.' But could it be that our entire perspective on money is…
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Four Wise and Better Pearls (Part 2)
Text: Ecclesiastes 7:7–10 Speaker: Tony de la Riva -- Why are we so quick to let anger get the best of us, and why do we long for the “good ol’ days,” imagining that they held more joy than what the Lord is doing today? In this second of two messages on the 'four wise and better pearls' found in...
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