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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April 24, 2022 The Way Into Life
The week after Easter: Thomas doesn’t meet the risen Jesus until a week
after the resurrection. He’s an intriguing character- alone, doubting,
troubled- but he goes on to doing extraordinary things. As such he is the
perfect example of how Jesus changes people. Following Thomas we’ve got to
be honest, we’ve got to believe, but more than that- we’ve also got to
acknowledge Jesus as Lord. This is simple, but not easy. But the
consequences are huge- this is the way into life in all its fullness.
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38min
April 21, 2022 Good News of Resurrection
The most important moment in all of human history is the resurrection of
Jesus of Nazareth. In the resurrection Jesus provides all humankind with
answers to our most fundamental questions - is there a God? What happens
when we die? Is there more to life than just the material? - as well as our
most longed for needs - do we matter? Can we change? will we be ok?
When Jesus rises from the death all pain and sickness, evil and death are
defeated - and he welcomes us into a new world order of love and peace and
joy with him.
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18min
April 10, 2022 The Paradox of the Triumphal Entry
On this important day en route to Easter, we celebrate Palm Sunday as a
paradox. Jesus was not the sort of king that God’s people were expecting.
In the same way, Jesus experienced the heaviness of disappointment in God’s
people missing the point. This message digs into the paradox of the
now-and-not yet of Christ’s kingdom and how we can make room for Him and
listen to the Spirit in new ways.
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38min
April 03, 2022 Discipline of Worship
Worship! Props! Let’s go!
The practice of Christian worship is rooted in the Old Testament and
knowing this can help inform how we engage in it today. Ben walks us
through the significance of worship with lots of visual aids we thought,
you’ve gotta see this.
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51min
March 27, 2022 Discipline of Confession
It’s not quite the most attractive of the disciplines but it is just as
powerful. Confession is naming where we are and what we’ve done. It is
unguarded truth-telling. Its unguarded because we know who we’re confessing
to. When we know God to be eager and ready to forgive, we can approach him
with anything we may be carrying. In confession, we’re released from the
pressure to pose, to hide in shame, and we receive the forgiveness of
Jesus. His forgiveness is immediate; he takes our sins, hides it, and
forgets about it. The goal of all confession, whether it’s confession to
God or to one another, is healing. This kind of healing-nourishment results
in what Psalm 32 calls, true happiness. The more regular this practice
becomes in our journey, the more confident we are in Jesus’ loving and
transformative power.
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30min
March 20, 2022 Discipline of Celebration
Considered alongside other disciplines like prayer, worship or confession
for example, celebration may seem incongruous. However celebration is
integral to the christian life. After all the gospel begins with
celebration, ends with celebration and has celebration at its heart: Jesus’
kingdom is one built on the foundations of the Old Testament concept of
Jubilee. The gospel literally means good news, and good news must be
celebrated. So how do we become more joyful people? Paul gives us three
steps on the path to celebration - doing away with anxiety, presenting our
requests to god, and fixing our hearts and minds on the beauty of our
world. Despite all the trouble we may have in this world, joy is the
hallmark of those who have placed their lives in the hands of good God who
comes to bring good gifts to his children.
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40min
March 13, 2022 Discipline of Meditation
Ever heard a talk on how to meditate in church before? Us neither. But the
crossover between what the science says about mindful meditation being
brilliant for our brains, stress-levels, focus, memory sleep patterns and
approximately a zillion other things, and the way we - in the spirit-filled
church - prepare our minds, bodies and souls to experience the holy spirit,
seems like a weirdly undiscussed marriage. And Jesus did make it quite
clear that the spirit was the one who was going to show us how to do this
whole christian thing. So let’s talk about it.
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43min
March 06, 2022 Discipline of Prayer
It’s hard to overestimate quite how foundational prayer is to our spiritual
health and connection to god, yet in reality many find prayer very
difficult. But when we see prayer as Jesus did - a means of partnering
with, hearing from and experiencing the intimacy of our Father - prayer is
transformed into a life-giving, exciting, joyful, essential pursuit.
Prayer’s goal becomes not what Jesus can do for us, but Jesus himself.
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43min
February 27, 2022 Introducing the Spiritual Disciplines
Many have grown up with the Christian faith being represented as one long
slog of discipline - Do this, Don’t do that, Try harder, Be better. This is
not what the Spiritual Disciplines are about at all. Rather they are tools
in the spiritual tool kit God gives us. Their job is to place us in a
position to receive more of God’s grace directly from him. It is only ever
grace that changes us. The two most common method for trying to overcome
our old sinful nature are both equally flawed: either we rely solely on
their will power, or we remain passive and hope for the best. By contrast
the Spiritual Disciplines involve our wills - we have to choose to engage
with them, but they rely entirely on God’s grace to change us. They are the
keys to how we mature in our faith, becoming better people, and come closer
to Jesus.
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40min
February 20, 2022 Revelation: City of the Lamb
The final chapters of Revelation depict a glorious vision of heaven. In our
final talk on the series we look specifically at what the people of heaven
are like. There’s a lot of them; they are you and me and everyone else who
responds to Jesus; they are not just future, they are present; and most
importantly they take a like God’s emissaries, his vice-regents, his
high-priests. This means we, as heavenly people, have purpose and calling -
to witness to and extend God’s heaven here on earth. It is what makes sense
of life and brings us fulfillment. The vision we have at bread is that all
of us play our unique part, with our unique gifts, and so get to enjoy all
the glory of heaven, and bring it to a world in need.
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40min

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