College View Church Audio Podcast

Speaking this week is our Young Adult Pastor. Most ads promise more than the product can deliver, and plenty of the ads we have run for God haven't been much different. On the night He was betrayed, Jesus sat down to dinner with a tax collector, a zealot, two brothers who once wanted to call fire down on a village, a friend who would deny him before sunrise, plus the man who had already sold Him, and then He got up and washed their feet. This Communion Sabbath, we look at the table He was setting and good news that's better than anything that we could imagine.

Speaking this week is our Lead Pastor. In the Bible, God the Father runs. He's full of joy when His children come home, but the grace He offers is not limited to forgiveness. His grace gives us salvation for our past sins, holiness in our present journey, and hope for our future. Grace literally allows us to live abundantly.

Speaking this week is our Lead Pastor. In the parable of the lost son, Jesus invites all His children to the table of abundance. Jesus wants us to know that abundance isn't about wealth. It is found in His kingdom of unlimited love and grace. His invitation is experienced in community with others. That fellowship brings us into the abundance of God's kingdom as Jesus transforms how we experience His abundance communally.

Speaking this week is the assistant professor of Youth and Young Adult Ministry at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary in Andrews University. His message reminds us that faith isn't inherited by accident, it's handed down on purpose. God had a plan to carry His people's faith beyond the desert, and He's counting on us to carry it to the next generation. Don't just hold it. Pass it on.

Jesus invites everyone to come to His banquet, but not everyone responds. It is hard for us humans to come to the table sometimes because it is a table of grace. We don't prepare it...it is a free gift. In Luke 14 we learn three truths about God's table of grace: it is a table of humility, it is a table of blessing, and it is a table for all who are hungry.

We'll explore the stories of three strong spiritual leaders who loved their people but had a mindset of exclusion. To preserve their people, they cosed their doors to others. Jesus is the opposite. He opens His table to ALL. His mindset is that the table belongs to God; that God desires to expand His table, not restrict it, and that God's table has room for all.

Speaking this week is our Family & Women's Ministries Pastor. This Sabbath, we'll explore what happens to our faith when God's work doesn't unfold according to our expectations. Through the story of John the Baptist and Jesus' response to his questions, we'll discover that moments of uncertainty and disappointment don't have to weaken our faith -- they can deepen and strengthen it. We'll be challenged to remain faithful even when we understand, and especially when we don't. We'll consider three truths: 1) Our faith is challenged when our expectations are interrupted; 2) Our faith is shaped when our expectations are interrupted; 3) Our faith is sharpened when our expectations are interrupted.

Sometimes I can get arrogant because of what I know, or insecure about what I don't know. Sometimes my spiritual journey and my interactions with others is injured as it can so easily turn into a debate about who knows enough to prove the other person wrong. I continue to grow in my understanding of what I know for sure, and what I don't. Let's continue the journey of discovering what to stand firm with and what to open up for further understanding.

Paul is a true missionary. He wants to share Jesus where no one else has gone, but he knows he can't do it alone. He needs the body of Christ. In Romans 15, Paul invites us to consider three important truths about unity in Jesus through life in the Spirit: God unites us in hope. God unites us in mission. God unites us in prayer.

Speaking this week is our Children's Pastor. What separates us from one another? And what does it take to cross the distance? Sometimes distance is measured in physical space, but sometimes it is created by shame, fear, hurt, difference, power, or the stories we tell about one another. Sometimes we are the ones who create the distance. Sometimes we inherit it. And sometimes we find ourselves standing on the other side of a distance we don't understand. Through the story of Zacchaeus, we will explore the distances that separate us, the God who moves toward us, and what might happen when an encounter with divine embrace changes the way we see -- and move toward one another.