Bringing Scripture to Life

This year there will be more than a billion people celebrating Christmas -- from unwrapping gifts to attending Candlelight services, singing Christmas carols and taking in the savory smell of cedar and incense. This has been the scene that has been experienced by billions of people across the country all month long. In addition, there have been credit cards pushed to the max, tempers flaring to the fullest amongst shoppers, road rage as we race to get the closest parking spot and the occasional “Merry Christmas” -- when it is safe for those who care to proclaim it. It is as if from the moment we are finished celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday to the time Black Friday begins, some type of powerful, impatient, pushy, consumeristic monster overtakes the masses, up until the last department store closes on December 24 of every year. We then wake up Christmas morning with a new attitude, and are determined to experience the holiday glee, basking in the joy of giving and receivin...

Please join us for a special time of worship this Sunday, Christmas morning at 9:15am.   We will be spending time singing Christmas Carol Worship songs, and looking at a special Christmas message as to why this day should bring us so much excitement.

This message is from Mark 4, and is titled "The Perfect Storm", because the storm that Jesus and His disciples find themselves in, is a PERFECT storm to show us how Jesus is always with us during the difficult times in life. This storm is also a PERFECT way to show us how we are supposed to respond when we are going through difficulties.

DESPAIR: "The complete loss or absence of hope."  Do you know anyone whose life resembles this right now? Do you struggle at times with this type of despair? If so, please Join us at The Church at Promenade tomorrow morning at 9:15 am, as we look at an important message from God's Word that will give you hope in your current situation, and purpose for your future.

Good Morning Church Family, We wanted to remind you that we will be having a Christmas Service at The Church at Promenade on December 25, to celebrate the fact that God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son.  We hope you will join us as we worship with Christmas Carols, and celebrate the birth of our Savior through the Scriptures. On Christmas Sunday the children will be in church with the big kids, to celebrate together. Please invite your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers.  We hope to see you at Church on Christmas Sunday! _________________ The Church at Promenade in the movie theaters www.ChurchatPromenade.com (951) 302-7933

There is no greater thing we can pursue in life, and receive such an amazing blessing and reward for, than pursuing God and loving Jesus! This morning in my alone time with God, the Lord was moving upon my heart and I hope that as you read this, you will be just as blessed and inspired as I was when He was speaking to me. In my alone time today I was reading through Psalm 50:23, and it says, " Whoever offers praise glorifies Me : and to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God". I was thinking about how important it is for us to "offer praise" to God in our life so that we can bring Him glory. As  I was meditating upon this idea, I thought of 2 key areas in my life, and in your life where we can be purposeful about glorifying God by offering Him praise. 1. In the way we live our life each day for God's purposes and not our own. Jesus says, "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you...

Please Join us at  The Church at Promenade  tomorrow morning at 9:15 am, as we look at an important message from Mark chapter four, about the Parable of the Sower.  This is such a wonderful chapter from God's Word that teaches us about the importance of keeping our hearts receptive to what God's Word says. It is also an important reminder to us that Jesus always emphasizes that it is not a good sermon or good worship team that makes for a powerful worship service, but it is a worship service filled with hearts that are prepared to receive what He has given us from His Word. We hope you will come with a heart that is hoping to hear from Jesus tomorrow. 

Please join us this Sunday at The Church at Promenade as we continue our journey through the Gospel of Mark.

You may have heard about this new  180 Video  created by Ray Comfort and his ministry. This is a mind-blowing and powerful reminder that the truth can change a persons heart and set them free. Who would have ever thought that Adolph Hitler could help change peoples hearts? Watch this powerful video and see how.

Francis Chan shares a powerful sermon illustration about living for God in the limited time we have on this earth.

   This is one of the books I am currently reading that has been profoundly blessing me. One of the subjects that Tozer talks about is our view of God. Here is a profound statement that he makes about God, that should cause us to pause what we are doing, examine how we view God, and then meditate upon what this statement means, and how God would want to transform our view of Him.    "God is always greater than anything that can be said about Him. No language is worthy of Him. He is more sublime than all sublimity, loftier than all loftiness, more profound than all profundity, more splendid than all splendor, more powerful than all power, more truthful than all truth. Greater than all majesty, more merciful than all mercy, more just than all justice, more pitiful than all pity. Nothing anybody can say about Him is enough." - A.W. Tozer    This is a great quote to go along with the current series we are going through at The Church at Promenade , entitled "G...

This is the Church at Promenade's worship team playing God of Wonders.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that many of us put God in a Box in certain areas of our lives. If you would like to discover how you can stop putting God in a Box, and begin living the life of faith that you know you were meant to live, please join us at The Church at Promenade tomorrow morning at 9:15am as we look at part one of the series God Unboxed.

What does it take to be a person that Jesus can use to the fullest in life? In this message you will learn 3 important truths that will enable you to be that person...

This past Sunday, my wife Lyndsey and I celebrated our 12 th  wedding anniversary, and I have to tell you, and I realize before I say this that it may not seem very "manly" of me to say this -- at least by some men's standards -- but being married to my wife has been by far the greatest blessing in the world to me. On September 25th, 1999, I became, in my opinion, the most blessed man on the planet. God allowed me to marry one of His amazing daughters, Lyndsey, and it has been the greatest adventure and love story that I could ever have hoped to experience up to this point in life. I have to confess to you that our marriage has been absolutely blessed beyond measure as far our relationship is concerned. We have had arguments, of course, especially in the first six months of our marriage when God stuck two very rough lumps of clay together.  It was awkward at times, but we allowed the Potter to take His spirit and pour over us the living water in order to help mold...

Please join us this Sunday at The Church at Promenade , as we continue our study through the Gospel of Mark, with a message titled, "Breaking through the Obstacles of Faith".

   Have you ever wondered what Jesus did when He first woke up in the morning? Did He eat a bowl of cereal? Did He watch cartoons? Did He read the newspaper?    When looking at the Gospel of Mark, the Bible actually answers this question for us. The Bible tells us about Jesus getting up "a long while before daylight" (Mark 1:35), which is very early, and which came after a very busy day of ministering to people (Mark 1:21-31), that lasted well into the night (Mark 1:32-34).     It was the next morning after this extremely busy day, that we read about Jesus doing something very different, and for some, very difficult. And yet, it is what Jesus disciplines Himself to do each morning, that sets an amazing example for each one of us in how we should be living out our lives.     To find out where I am going with this, you can read how I recently  challenged The Church at Promenade to begin following in Jesus' footsteps at the begin...

   I am so excited to see what God is going to do in my good friend Dave Menard's life. Pastor Dave is one of my favorite bible teachers on the planet, and the Lord has called him to start a new work in San Diego.    The Mission Community Church is having their grand opening service this Sunday in San Diego. If you live in the area, I would highly encourage you to go visit this church. For directions you can go to their website at  The Mission Community Church .

This past Sunday at church, I threw out a challenge to our church. The challenge was to begin spending alone time with God each morning. I wonder if they have been doing this. I hope and pray that everyone has accepted the challenge and is being richly blessed by it. In this past Sunday’s message we looked at a message titled, “In the Secret Place with Jesus”, and we discovered that Jesus spent an entire day pouring himself out by ministering to many people. Jesus taught for hours in the synagogue, fought against demons and won, healed Peter's mother-in-law of a fever, and spent the entire evening healing the sick, casting out demons, and ministering to the entire town (Mark 1:21-34). I don't know about you, but that sounds like a very mentally and emotionally exhausting day! I know when I have extra busy days of ministry like that, when I wake up the next day I am completely drained, and the last thing I feel like doing is waking up extra early to spend time in prayer...