Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on January 11, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we’re launching a new series in the Gospel of Mark, discovering how Jesus offers a better hope and calls us into a life marked by true joy, deep purpose, and lasting peace.

Reflection Questions:

1. Where are all the places that I place my hope into?

2. What area in my life do I struggle to trust God’s best for me?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on January 4 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains studying Numbers 13. As we step into the New Year and wonder what 2026 may hold, Jesus invites us to step forward in faith, allowing us to walk into the unknown with a God who desires to be known.

1. How has God reminded you in the last year of His provision, protection and guidance?

2. When facing challenges, do you tend to minimize or maximize the challenges?

Christmas Eve message from Community Church Playa given on December 24 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. In the quiet and humble way Jesus chose to come into the world, through ordinary people, we see the beautiful truth that the Good News bringing great joy is meant for all.

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on December 21 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week in our Advent journey, we recognize that Jesus reveals a new standard of love, defined by service and sacrifice. We celebrate the enduring truth that God loves first.

1. How have past experiences of love shaped the way you view God’s love?

2. How does Jesus’ example of service and sacrifice challenge your current definition of love?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on December 14 2025, by Pastor Oscar Navarro. This week in our Advent series, we’re reminded that joy is not a fleeting happiness dependent on circumstances, but a lasting gift made secure through Jesus.

1. In what areas of your life do you find tempting to try to secure happiness? Work, status, relationships?

2. How does knowing that you are God’s treasured child change where you find joy?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on December 7 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we continued exploring Advent by reflecting on how God brings His peace into the world, a peace we can receive and carry. We recognize that His promise is not the absence of conflict but His presence within it.

1. Where do you currently feel conflict and unrest?

2. What steps can you take today to move toward reconciliation where there is division in your life?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on November 30 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we opened the Advent season by reflecting on Isaiah’s message that hope breaks through the darkness. He declares that light has come, bringing joy and the promise that God’s light will never be overcome.

1. Where do I currently feel the weight of darkness in my life?

2. In what ways am I allowing His light to shine through me to others?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on November 23 2025, by Pastor Oscar Navarro. In Jeremiah 31, we’re invited by Jesus into a new covenant, one that doesn’t depend on our own works or accomplishments, but allows us to rest in the fact that He has already finished the work for us.

1. How is Jesus inviting you to rest in His mercy instead of your performance?

2. Hebrews 8 describes a covenant built on “better promises”. What promises of God feel especially meaningful to you right now?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on November 16 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. Isaiah 53 reveals a Messiah who would suffer and die, but also promises hope, showing that His sacrifice opens the way to eternal life.

As you watch this week's message, consider these two questions:

1. What assumptions about God have made it difficult for me to trust Him fully?

2. Where do I struggle most to surrender my own plans and follow God’s direction?

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on November 9 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. All throughout Scripture, we see God’s relentless desire to draw near and dwell with His people. In Sundays message, we’ll explore how God’s nearness invites us to draw closer – not only to Him, but also to one another.

As you watch this week's message, consider these two questions:

1. What tangible reminders help you remember that God is with you?

2. What distractions in your life that can make it difficult to hear God’s voice in your life?