"Smoke, nothing but smoke. There's nothing to anything -- it's all smoke. What's there to show for a lifetime of work, lifetime of working your finders to the bone?"

This is the ancient question that opens up the perplexing book of Ecclesiastes. Even though this book is around 2500 years old, it speaks to modern fears of meaninglessness, modern hopes of leading a decent life, and the deepest of all modern questions: What is the good life?

Join us as Pastor at Anchor South West, Arnaldo opens up our new series "VANITAS: Life Under the Sun".

Thank you for tuning in and we hope you were blessed by this teaching. We hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon. 

The dangerous idea of the resurrection is earth shatteringly relevant. The resurrection of Jesus not only secures our future but bring peace to our present!

Good Friday is the solution to the problem of forgiveness without justice.

On Palm Sunday we remember Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. But what's so significant about his choice of animal? James Wong unpacks Luke 19:28-38 and helps us see how Jesus' entry communicated his mission: to bring sinners peace with God.

In a 24/7, always-on, relentlessly busy culture, perhaps sabbath rest acts as out biggest act of resistance and defiance against the cultures formation of us!

Jesus lived a life that demonstrated generous justice to the least of these. In time where there is so much injustice around the world and in our own backyard, how are we to respond? In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus shows us a model of how we're to demonstrate the love of God in how we demonstrate the gospel through generous justice. 

Jesus got proximate with the people he came to save. The incarnation is a model for mission and ministry. We identify with people without losing our identity.

Jesus lived in attentive obedience to the Father. What motivated Jesus to a life of attentive obedience was his unique, intimate, personal, and loving relationship with the Father. We too have been invited into this special relationship with the Father through the Son. Only then we can partner with him in living the life he has called unto live, a life of attentive obedience for the sake of his glory.

Prayer isn't a shopping trolley of requests that we ram into the gates of heaven. Prayer forms us! More than just 'asking', prayer is about communion with our Father, partnering with Him in what He's doing in the world, while He shapes us into the image of Jesus.

The only way to flourish in your faith and endure hardships is to meditate deeply on God's word! Scripture meditation is our 2nd practice in the way of Jesus.