Petaluma Christian Church

Ultimate Hope: A Paradise Ahead, A Paradise Behind, A Better Paradise.

The Apostle Paul shares the key for becoming the kind of person who is humbly confident.

Sacrifice is the only way to make mercy & justice work together.

We have questions to which we may not realize: God has answers. Who's to blame for Suffering? is the 1st of 4 Questions we'll address from God's Word.*Note: This sermon was recorded from an orphanage we support in Baja, Mexico.

Writing a 1000 years prior, David points ahead to an Everlasting Hope in both Holy Saturday & Easter Sunday.

Jesus' go-between sacrifice not only forgives but also reverses pride in us.

Why is it that parents step back & withdraw when their engagement is most needed? And how might we see this tendency healed? Insight & direction from the life of David.

Psalm 51 isn't helpful on just any occasion, but it's the Bible's ideal resource when racked with guilt for sin that does damage.

Practical help & redemptive hope for all who quietly struggle with lust.

Learn what a life of joyfully participating in the person & activity of God looks like.

Practice celebrating others locally while praising Jesus globally.

Anger requires intervention.

Make a merciful plan for inevitable opposition.

More mercy for us means more glory for God...so cry 'mercy' more.

develop a divinely-directed zeal.

Indulge in Sovereign love for the strength to face Goliath.

The secret fuel for a life of open-handed generosity.

Learn the Bible's secret of steady resolve through the roller coaster of life.

Tools to stay attached to God, others, & your sanity.

Commitment issues? The Apostle Paul gives wise reasons for why I should join myself to a local body of believers.

God's counterintuitive wisdom for how to press on when we get stuck.

those often overlooked & how we might honor them.

Rethinking obedience as an opportunity.

Unity comes by choosing relational humility and trusting God do the exalting.

Paul's unique model for imitating Christ.

Guest Preacher Sive Nogada.Rejoicing when Christ is proclaimed... even in our suffering.

what it looks like to partner with God's people & how to do it.

Gospel service cultivates joy; self-service enslaves.

Helping people flourish in the good news.

Our future of heaven on earth can produce an unusual tenderness in and through us.

God wants to make us into free lovers of Him and uses a combo of present suffering + future hope to get us there.

Our true older brother reveals a new way to relate to God.

Why did God wait so long to send a Savior? For the same reason it takes us so long to admit our need for one.

Getting good news at our lowest point is relationally & practically necessary.

My role in God's good creation.

Am I the right person to intervene when the people I care about aren't getting along? If so, how?

hold out to others God's refreshing alternative to the divisive either-or choice in America.

practical help for peacemaking & spreading peace in your workplace.

Parents provoke their kids because of misplaced goals. Paul hints at how we can turn that around.

3 reasons kids should obey their parents.

The difference and attractiveness of God's family from an outsider's point of view.

Why actually verbalizing the words "I forgive you" or "Will you forgive me?" is critical to relational health & peace.

Sometimes relational conflict or tension requires we have the hard conversation. Here's how to have it.

How to own my share of any relational conflict or tension.

Make conflict hit different to a watching world.

reasons to initiate peace even when it's "mostly not my fault."

why and how to intercede in prayer on behalf of the vulnerable.

why trust is hard, why the trust required of you is realistic, and why trust is effective.

Learn how to become a cheerfully generous person through Abram, Melchizedek, and the king of Sodom.

why it is God chose a particular people (versus choosing everyone).