Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 24 by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in our Exiles series, we look at Jeremiah 31:1–14 and discover how God meets weary people with His restoring love.

Through the Good Shepherd, we’re reminded that true rest is not found in easier circumstances, but through relationship with Jesus. Even in seasons of sorrow and exhaustion, God leads His people from mourning into joy and from striving into rest.

Scripture References:

Jeremiah 31:1–14

John 10:1–19

Matthew 11:28

WEEKLY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What burden, sorrow, or weariness do I need to bring before Jesus today?

2. What distractions may be keeping me from hearing and following the Shepherd’s voice?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 17 by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in Exiles, we explore Jeremiah 30:11–24 and how God meets us in the reality of our sin and suffering. Our deepest wounds cannot heal themselves, but through Jesus, God brings restoration, healing, and new life.

Scripture: Jeremiah 30:11-24; 1 Peter 2:24; Ephesians 2:3-5

WEEKLY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. Where am I resisting God’s correction or conviction in my life?

2. How is Jesus inviting me to stop hiding my brokenness and receive His restoration?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 10 by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in our Exiles series, we look at Jeremiah 30:1–11 and how God speaks hope into seasons that feel unstable and uncertain. Even when fear shapes our present reality, God’s presence, promises, and restoration are greater than what we can currently see.

Scripture: Jeremiah 30:1–11 | Psalm 30:1–5

WEEKLY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What fear has quietly become the loudest voice shaping my thoughts or decisions right now?

2. How have suffering or disappointment impacted the way I see God, myself, or the future?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 3 by Pastor Oscar Navarro. This week in our Exiles series, we look at Jeremiah 29:15–32 and what it means to discern truth when competing voices promise easier paths and quicker hope. Even when false voices distort reality, God calls us to trust the True Prophet, knowing our future is secure because Jesus has already made the way home.

WEEKLY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What lies do you tend to believe about God, the world, and yourself?

2. In what ways is God calling you to live a “long obedience in the same direction”?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on April 26 by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in our Exiles series, we look at Jeremiah 29:8–14 and what it means to trust God when life isn’t going as planned. Even in seasons that feel uncertain or unclear, God calls us to trust Him and seek Him, knowing He is present and at work.

WEEKLY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What voices have been shaping your thinking in this season? Are they leading you toward trust in God or away from it?

2. What would it look like for you to seek God in that place this week, not for answers, but for Him?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on April 19 by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in our Exiles series, we look at Jeremiah 29:4-7 and what it means to follow God when life isn’t going as planned. Even in seasons that feel temporary, uncertain, or out of place, God calls us to faithful presence, not passive waiting.

1. Where is God calling me to be faithful in places that feel temporary or incomplete?

2. What would it look like for me to pray for, not just tolerate, those I tend to oppose or avoid?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on April 12 by Pastor Amen Bains. We begin our new series Exiles by looking at Israel’s story of being removed from the Promised Land, and what it reveals about our own lives when things don’t go as planned. Even in exile, God is not absent. He meets us there, reshapes us, and calls us back to Himself.

1. What places in your life feel like exile, far from what you planned?

2. What disappointment or disruption am I trying to escape instead of allowing God to use?

Easter Message give by Pastor Amen Bains at Community Church Playa on April 3, 2026. As we look at the resurrection of Jesus, we recognize that sin and death do not have the final say, and that nothing in our lives is beyond His power to restore.

Good Friday message from Community Church Playa given on April 3 by Pastor Amen Bains. Peter walked closely with Jesus, yet in His final hours, he drifted, grasped for control, and ultimately denied Him. In this Good Friday message from Mark 14, we’re invited to see our own story in Peter, and to discover that even in our failure, Jesus remains faithful, offering a hope that meets us right where we are.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on March 29 by Pastor Oscar Navarro. In Mark 11, Jesus enters as the King we welcome, yet reveals a kingdom that confronts everything we thought we wanted.

1. Where am I drawn to a version of Jesus that fits my expectations rather than the King He actually reveals Himself to be?

2. What outcome am I hoping Jesus will deliver that may be blinding me to what He’s actually doing?