bread church

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Weekly talks from bread, in Hollywood, CA.

Bread is an open-minded, Spirit-filled, non-denominational church in the heart of Los Angeles. We believe in the world-changing power of Jesus and

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January 26, 2026 Live the revolution: blessedness.
Matthew 5:3-12
When it comes to "living the revolution" the question arises - for whom is
the revolution good news? Who gets to join in - and who is excluded? So,
from the outset of His revolutionary invitation, Jesus makes it clear -
even those who have been discarded and set aside socio-culturally are able
to join Him in turning the world right side up.
But, it will come at cost - they, once joined, can no longer define
themselves by exclusion! Qualification is in Jesus' hands - not theirs. And
so is the mission to which He sends us.
By Bill Dogterom
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38min
January 21, 2026 Live the revolution: introduction to the sermon on the mount.
Matthew 5-7
Many of Jesus’ most familiar teachings come from the Sermon on the Mount,
the aim here is not to treat it as a list of moral instructions, but to
understand the new day Jesus was announcing. Set against a deeply divided
and oppressed Israel, Jesus’ announcement that “the kingdom of heaven has
come near” was not a threat of judgment, but a declaration that the long
wait for God’s action was over. The Sermon re-centers the Law, not as a
path to salvation, but as a vision of life under God’s reign—and Jesus’
rhetoric shows it was never meant to be achievable through human effort.
From the opening line of the Beatitudes onward, He makes clear that the
kingdom is available to all who can admit they can’t do this on their own
(spoiler - that’s all of us - that’s the whole point!) Rather than driving
us to despair over our shortcomings, the Sermon on the Mount trains us to
live within a reality Jesus opened up to every one of us, through God’s
presence and the power of His Spirit.
By Hannah Flint
Books referenced:
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God by Dallas
Willard
The Narrow Path: How the Subversive Way of Jesus Satisfies Our Souls by
Rich Villodas
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42min
January 13, 2026 Jesus fantastic.
In Paul’s letter to the Colossians (⁠Colossians 1:15-23)⁠ he presents Jesus
as so attractive as to be utterly compelling. We’re called to do something
similar, in our similarly pluralistic context of Los Angeles: to present
Jesus as he is--unapologetically the center of the universe.
Jesus is the one everyone is looking for: he’s the only one who fully
satisfies us, the only one who is supreme over us, and the only one who
continues to sustain us. In a world that is so obviously broken and in
pain, let us invite everyone we know to meet him; the one who makes us
whole. He’s fantastic.
By Ed Flint
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37min
January 05, 2026 Taste and see that the Lord is good.
As we head into 2026, let us consider a simple invitation from Psalm 34:
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
From Genesis to Revelation, the scriptures demonstrate God inviting us to
receive his wonderful love in tangible, authentic, and embodied ways.
Through Jesus, the hard work has been completed, and our job is to receive
from him. What gets in the way of us “tasting and seeing” the goodness of
God? Let us run (with abandon) into the perfect Arms of love as a community
this year.
By Nelly D’Alessandro
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December 22, 2025 Advent: a weary world rejoices.
As Advent draws to a close, we reflect on the phrase, the thrill of hope, a
weary world rejoices. We're reminded daily of the weariness of our world,
but what was going on when Jesus was born? Why was the ancient world so
weary?
In this talk, we dive into what was happening politically and culturally
for the people of Jesus' time, explore what we get wrong about the
Nativity, and how by reframing our understanding of Luke 2, we can better
understand the Hope that Jesus brings. Because hope does not belong to a
select few: it's for everyone.
By Rebekah Covington
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27min
December 18, 2025 Advent 2025: Prince of Peace.
Christmas declares ‘Glory to God and on earth, peace’. Peace, which is more
than just an absence of conflict, but rather everything being right and
good with the world, is what God intends for his world. But we know all too
well how peace-less the world can be: there’s a lack of peace globally, in
our communities, and in our own hearts and minds.
This is because the lasting peace Jesus promises is always dependent on
him. And without him, we can never experience the peace He brings. But when
we embrace Him as the center of our universe, our community, our personal
lives, he does what no-one else can do. He destroys the peacelessness that
afflicts us, and re-creates us so that we have peace with God, other people
and ourselves. This is the message of Christmas!
By Ed Flint
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22min
December 08, 2025 Bread end of year giving.
1 Timothy 6:3-19⁠
Every December, we launch our End of Year Giving Campaign. In this talk, we
consider how, as followers of Jesus, we are called to treat money. Paul
writes to Timothy with instruction to three groups of people: those who
have lost sight of Jesus and who are solely interested in financial gain;
those who are materially poor; and those who are wealthy. And, in this
context, he exhorts Timothy, and all three groups, to refrain from being
distracted.
Our focus is not the love of money, but to take hold of the kingdom of God.
It is only here where we are freed from the power money can exert over us
to become the generous givers we have been made to be. There is no better
use of the resources we have been given than to give them away for the sake
of the Kingdom of God.
By Ed Flint
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52min
December 02, 2025 Jesus wins by losing.
Isaiah 52:13-15; Isaiah 53:1-12
As we wrap up this short series on Isaiah (a fitting moment to enter
Advent), we come to Isaiah 53—the Suffering Servant—arguably the text that
shaped the early church’s understanding of Jesus’ death and resurrection
more than any other. It gives us the clearest Old Testament picture of what
Jesus came to do and why it matters for real life.
But it’s not a pretty picture: this is a God who heals by taking the
brutality of all human sin and pain on Himself. We ask how this song might
shape the way we understand our own suffering, and how it calls us toward
compassion and mission in our city.
By Hannah Flint
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34min
November 24, 2025 Jesus comforts those in distress.
Isaiah 40:1-11
The Bible never promises us a stress-free life. Indeed, we’re regularly
told that, as Christians, we can expect suffering. However we can also
always expect God to be our great comforter whatever we face. His comfort
is so extraordinarily powerful that even when circumstances are at their
most dire, we are lifted up, drawn closer and enlivened in our faith.
God comforts us by his nature, his word, and through the comfort of his
people. Isaiah prophesies about God’s comfort coming to his people in
distress. In Jesus, and by his Spirit, that same comfort is available to us
now and always.
By Ed Flint
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39min
November 17, 2025 Jesus gives you a home.
Isaiah 35 offers a vision of hope and home to God’s people in exile,
hundreds of years prior to Jesus. It poetically speaks of the wildness of
God’s compassionate mercy and his surprising power.
From this passage we can see a theme that extends far forward as well, that
Jesus has come to give us a forever home that is secure. And because of his
love and power—even in the driest, most hopeless places—songs of joy and
gladness can spring up in our lives.
As he made a desert road for the exiles from Judah, so he has made a road
home for us in the midst of our pain and wilderness-seasons.
By Nelly D’Alessandro
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36min

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