Avalon Church

Have you ever felt like your story was already written, that your mistakes and your past had settled how your life would go? Or that God has gone quiet? In “When God Seems Absent,” Pastor William Nieto brings us into the book of Esther, where God’s name is never mentioned, yet His fingerprints are on every page. Esther and Mordecai faced a decree that couldn’t be revoked, until a new decree was written. That points us to Jesus, the new decree who gives forgiveness and grace and rewrites our story. If you’re in a hard season, this message is for such a time as this.

Speaker: Pastor William Nieto
Scriptures: Esther 8, Esther 4:14, Esther 7-8, Romans 3, 5, 6 and 8, Colossians 2:13-14, Psalm 103:8

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jla0NOvw6Es
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/14

Link for all scripture: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther%208,Esther%204:14,Esther%207-8,Romans%203,Romans%205,Romans%206,Romans%208,Colossians%202:13-14,Psalm%20103:8&version=NIV

God is still at work in us, forming us into people who look more like Jesus, and we can trust him to finish what he started as we follow him together.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: Philippians 1:3-11

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Tbke9MgSY
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/13

Every day, we are being shaped by our experiences, relationships, and habits, so the question is not whether we are being formed, but who or what is forming us. Through following Jesus, we grow in spiritual maturity as the Holy Spirit transforms our character, attitudes, and actions to reflect Christ.

Speaker: Ken Figueroa
Scriptures: Colossians 3:1-17

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxD00zE80NQ
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/12/transcript

Colossians 3:1-17 (NIV)

1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Jesus sends us, empowered by his Spirit, to share his love and new life by intentionally blessing the people around us.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: John 20:19–23; Genesis 12:1–3

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2h4j5RB-ZU
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/11/transcript

John 20:19-23

New International Version

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

Genesis 12:1-3
 
New International Version

The Call of Abram

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.”

Because every person matters and everyone has something to contribute, we trust God through change and use the gifts he has entrusted to us to serve others and join his work.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: Psalm 46:1–2, 6, 8–11; 1 Peter 4:10–11

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0Jgmplnik

Everything we have belongs to God, and faithfulness means using whatever he has placed in our hands for his purposes rather than comparing, wasting, or burying it.

Speaker: David Sauls
Scriptures: Matthew 25:14–30; Psalm 24:1; 1 Peter 4:10; Exodus 4:2

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPOv2KYj3s
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/9/transcript

Our unity is not built on agreeing about everything, but on our shared allegiance to Jesus.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 1:10–13, 30–31; Romans 14:1–4, 13, 19; Ephesians 4:3

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAAY1v3S9eU
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/8/transcript

Maturity in Christ happens together as we live in unity, speak truth in love, and each do our part in the body.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: Ephesians 4:1-6, 11-16

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbqIlakjqOA
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/7/transcript

We are Avalon: a people following Jesus together, becoming family, and blessing our neighbors as we join God’s story of making all things new.

Speaker: Pastor Don Dodge
Scriptures: Mark 1:14-18, John 5:39

Episode Page.& Transcript:  https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/6

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GGZ8OuCWJI
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/6/transcript

We are called to use technology as image-bearers of God, not allow technology to remake us in its image.

Speaker: James Cowan
Scriptures: Genesis 1:26–27; Genesis 2:7; Psalm 139:13–14; Acts 17:28; Genesis 11; Psalm 139:1–4; Genesis 1:28; John 1:14

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Z9JSJvedk
Transcript: https://avalonchurch.transistor.fm/s2026/5/transcript