Living Stones Christian Church - East Bay

God meets us in displacement before we ever learn to trust Him.

NOTE: We had a technical issue that resulted in poor audio, apologies! Trying to secure God's promises through control fractures the soul even when it "works."

God's calling comes before our maturity; we are chosen long before we are healed.

The risen Jesus forms us into witnesses who embody his peace, his presence, and his mission in the world.

The resurrection is the intrusion of a new creation and Lordship that is awesome, confounding, but intriguing — which changes us forever.

Jesus confronts our false expectations and calls us to recognize the things that make for peace.

Jesus' mercy not only saves individuals—it repairs what is broken and transforms our communities.

We depend on God's power—not our own strength—to resist temptation and be delivered from evil.

Experiencing God's forgiveness frees us to become people who extend forgiveness to others.

The rich and poor need each other

Prayer trains us to depend on God for our daily needs with simplicity, trust, and freedom from anxiety.

Prayer aligns us to God's will, teaching us trust and surrender rather than control.

Panel featuring various congregants sharing about how prayer is both a challenge and a gift

God never responds to our needs with divine irritation, so we respond to interruptions of the needy with grace and compassion.

We pray for God's kingdom to come—aligning our desires with Jesus' reign of healing, justice, reconciliation, and peace.

Prayer begins with worship—aligning our hearts to honor God above all else.

Prayer begins with knowing God as Father, which heals our distorted images of God (and fathers) and reorients our identity as His beloved children.

The Lord's Prayer draws us into intimacy with God and forms us into people aligned with His heart and kingdom.

Even in weakness, suffering, and death, God's resurrection power shines through us like treasure in jars of clay. Hope is not found in what is seen, but in the unseen promise of glory.

In Advent waiting, we prepare by embodying justice: sharing with the needy, refusing exploitation, living with integrity. The candle of justice burns as a sign that God's kingdom is breaking in.

Paul and Silas sang hymns in the midnight of their prison cell, and Habakkuk rejoiced even when the fields were empty. Praise is a defiant light in the dark—a refusal to let despair have the last word.

Remembering what God has done -- fills us with thanks, hope, and strength

Instead of leaving how to know God, purpose, truth up to ourselves, the Bible is revelation from God.

Jesus is someone to experience, not just learned about

God is pursuing us

The divine can intersect with our human lives, God speaks – it's about listening and responding.

Serving the poor brings spiritual renewal to the helper

We commit our body and sexuality to God, because Christ died for our bodies, and his Spirit lives with in us, making our bodies temples for his glory

We ultimately work for God and his glory. This profoundly impacts how and why work.

We use the power of our words for God's glory. But that also means taming our tongues.

Being a spiritual influence and compassionate neighbor in the burbs

Blessed for a kingdom purpose, not just to enrich ourselves

God is creating a new kind of community in the land of individualism, nuclear families, and segregation

Cultivating a deep life of the soul in the land of busyness and consumption

Living like Jesus instead of just the Jones'

Sharing your personal transformation makes Jesus real to others; every story matters

Serving displays God's love in action; practical acts of love prepare hearts for the gospel

Eating breaks barriers; God draws people like Zacchaeus through presence and grace

Listening is evangelism; join what God is already doing; prepare to be interrupted

Conflicts are born out of fear and offer an invitation to step out of the 'fear dance' draw near to God for our legitimate needs.

God loves the wrong people. Will we allow God's merciful and just character to grow compassion in our own hearts?

The destination of our journey being God Himself, and how our witness as holy priests will allow the whole earth to know his glory.

Jonah preaches a half hearted gospel, but reveals the deep mystery of God's purpose to partner with humans in the course of history. No matter what the people do, God never goes back on his covenant purpose to use this family to bless the nations.

Caring for the orphan

Jonah's time in the fish is portrayed as a kind of death. But will this passage through death into new life change him? That's the big question explored in the last chapter of Jonah.

Jonah rebelliously flees the call of God, but saves the sailors. Even our evil can become an instrument of God's purposes.

After the resurrection, Jesus sends us out as his witnesses