Cuyahoga Valley Church Sunday Sermons (Broadview)

 Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we can look spiritually faithful on the outside while our hearts remain far from God, and he warns that religious habits can hide sin, pride, bitterness, greed, and unbelief. He calls us to let God search our hearts, repent sincerely, and trust Jesus to forgive us and make us new from the inside out. 

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Pastor Dale Piscura reflects on grief in the church and teaches that believers mourn with hope because Jesus is present, prays for His people, and promises eternal life. He urges the church to guard against hard hearts, stay close to Jesus in life’s storms, and respond with prayer, faith, repentance, and love for others.

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Lead Pastor Joe Valenti invites us into Mark 6 by showing us the Shepherd-heart of Jesus, who meets our exhaustion with compassion and rest. He reminds us that when we feel like we don’t have enough, Jesus asks what we do have, then multiplies it and sends us out to share His provision.

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Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we move from comfort to costly obedience by trusting God’s power and provision when Jesus sends us out dependent on Him rather than on our readiness. He also shows us faith in God’s purpose and providence, because obedience is measured by faithfulness, not outcomes, and God is never absent or out of control even when we cannot see what He is doing.

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Founding Pastor Rick Duncan calls us to examine how we respond when Jesus challenges our expectations, confronts our comfort, and asks us to surrender what we would rather control. We see that when resistance rises, we either take offense or take a knee, and we are invited to trust Him fully so that He marvels at our belief rather than our unbelief.

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This week Elder Kyle Gustafson walks us through Mark 5 and invites us to slow down and trust Jesus when urgency, interruption, and delay press in on our lives. We see that Jesus is not weakened by waiting, that His presence restores the overlooked and overcomes death itself, and that we are called to keep believing even when His timing does not make sense to us.

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This week Lead Pastor Joe Valenti shows us how Jesus intentionally forms us through Mark 5 by leading us into uncomfortable places, toward difficult people, and into risky obedience that forces us to rely on His power instead of our comfort or competence. We remember that Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth, so we go tell what He has done in our lives, trusting Him to meet us in hard places and use us for His mission.

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This week Lead Pastor Joe Valenti invites us to reflect on how God’s grace transforms us like it did Peter and Bill Fay, moving us from self-dependence to God-dependence, from spiritual carelessness to watchful faith, and from living for the temporary to living with eternal hope. We are reminded that God is not finished with us, that our failures do not disqualify us, and that through humility, prayer, and trust in Christ, He continues shaping us for meaningful purpose in His kingdom.

In the third week of our Unstuck series, Founding Pastor Rick Duncan shows us that when shame has us stuck, Jesus comes looking for us, welcomes us back to his table, and restores love for him instead of leaving us on probation. As Jesus restores Peter in John 21, we stop disqualifying ourselves, receive grace and truth, and follow Jesus into renewed purpose as we feed and care for others.

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In week two of the Unstuck series, Lead Pastor Joe Valenti reminds us that when growth meets pressure, we often drift by relying on ourselves instead of staying dependent on God. From Peter’s story in Luke 22, we learn that when we mess up or drift, we don’t have to give up, because Jesus sees the battle ahead of us and is already praying to restore and strengthen us.

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