College Avenue Baptist Church - San Diego

We can encourage ourselves in the past, but should not be anchored to the past.  We must keep an upward look and a forward look.

God is much more concerned with our heart than with our form of worship. Worship is about how, not when and where.

Worship is what we were created for.  When God created the universe, He wanted it to display the value of His glory.  He created us so that we would see His glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it - with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. As we seek to live out this purpose for our lives, we are faced with three questions:  What is worship?  What is the rhythm of worship?  What is the heart of worship?  Those are the questions our sermons will address for the next three weeks as we plunge into the Bible together

Worship is a conversation between God and His people – a rhythm of revelation and response.  God speaks to us, and we respond to Him.

Worship is what we were created for.  When God created the universe, He wanted it to display the value of His glory.  He created us so that we would see His glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it - with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. As we seek to live out this purpose for our lives, we are faced with three questions:  What is worship?  What is the rhythm of worship?  What is the heart of worship?  Those are the questions our sermons will address for the next three weeks as we plunge into the Bible together

Worship is the response of our entire lives to God.

Worship is what we were created for.  When God created the universe, He wanted it to display the value of His glory.  He created us so that we would see His glory and reflect it by knowing and loving it - with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. As we seek to live out this purpose for our lives, we are faced with three questions:  What is worship?  What is the rhythm of worship?  What is the heart of worship?  Those are the questions our sermons will address for the next three weeks as we plunge into the Bible together

God delights in using the foreign, the frail, and the empty to accomplish His purposes and bring fullness again.

Resilience. Perseverance.  Determination.  Commitment.  Sacrifice.  These words describe the main characters in the Ruth story.  Ruth is a short story of about a Moabite woman and her Jewish mother-in-law. The story happens during the time of the Judges while Israel was in a repeating cycle of rebellion against God. Israel would sin.  Next, God would send punishment. Then they would cry out to God in their misery and repent.  Finally, God would deliver them.  The downward cycle would repeat with Israel’s morality plunging deeper and deeper. During this grim season in Israel’s history, we read the story of help for two helpless women when God seems to be MIA.  Do you feel like God is MIA in your life?  If so, these women will remind you that God is the Helper of the helpless!      

Sometimes obedience to God takes radical, even questionable steps.

Resilience. Perseverance.  Determination.  Commitment.  Sacrifice.  These words describe the main characters in the Ruth story.  Ruth is a short story of about a Moabite woman and her Jewish mother-in-law. The story happens during the time of the Judges while Israel was in a repeating cycle of rebellion against God. Israel would sin.  Next, God would send punishment. Then they would cry out to God in their misery and repent.  Finally, God would deliver them.  The downward cycle would repeat with Israel’s morality plunging deeper and deeper. During this grim season in Israel’s history, we read the story of help for two helpless women when God seems to be MIA.  Do you feel like God is MIA in your life?  If so, these women will remind you that God is the Helper of the helpless!      

When My Soul Needs a Shepherd

Jesus had the ability to see through our masks that we usually wear in public to the realm of the soul. He could see people’s deepest needs, longings, and wounds. Bryce Klabunde, College Avenue Pastor of Soul Care, shares with us the compassion that Christ has for our souls.

God’s hesed (unfailing kindness to the helpless) is unshakable even when our lives fall apart.

Resilience. Perseverance.  Determination.  Commitment.  Sacrifice.  These words describe the main characters in the Ruth story.  Ruth is a short story of about a Moabite woman and her Jewish mother-in-law. The story happens during the time of the Judges while Israel was in a repeating cycle of rebellion against God. Israel would sin.  Next, God would send punishment. Then they would cry out to God in their misery and repent.  Finally, God would deliver them.  The downward cycle would repeat with Israel’s morality plunging deeper and deeper. During this grim season in Israel’s history, we read the story of help for two helpless women when God seems to be MIA.  Do you feel like God is MIA in your life?  If so, these women will remind you that God is the Helper of the helpless!      

When your world collapses, your challenge is not so much to figure why it happened, but to trust God in the mess. When you do, you can experience God’s love at a whole new level.

Resilience. Perseverance.  Determination.  Commitment.  Sacrifice.  These words describe the main characters in the Ruth story.  Ruth is a short story of about a Moabite woman and her Jewish mother-in-law. The story happens during the time of the Judges while Israel was in a repeating cycle of rebellion against God. Israel would sin.  Next, God would send punishment. Then they would cry out to God in their misery and repent.  Finally, God would deliver them.  The downward cycle would repeat with Israel’s morality plunging deeper and deeper. During this grim season in Israel’s history, we read the story of help for two helpless women when God seems to be MIA.  Do you feel like God is MIA in your life?  If so, these women will remind you that God is the Helper of the helpless!      

Bad things happen to good people

Resilience. Perseverance.  Determination.  Commitment.  Sacrifice.  These words describe the main characters in the Ruth story.  Ruth is a short story of about a Moabite woman and her Jewish mother-in-law. The story happens during the time of the Judges while Israel was in a repeating cycle of rebellion against God. Israel would sin.  Next, God would send punishment. Then they would cry out to God in their misery and repent.  Finally, God would deliver them.  The downward cycle would repeat with Israel’s morality plunging deeper and deeper. During this grim season in Israel’s history, we read the story of help for two helpless women when God seems to be MIA.  Do you feel like God is MIA in your life?  If so, these women will remind you that God is the Helper of the helpless!