Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

The Cinema. Today's modern day pulpit... telling today's story through the digital story form. We'll watch these popular movies and follow up with an expository exploration of the narrative themes and spiritual parallels of these movies.

A man is someone who uses his strength to stand against injustice, protect the princess (your wife) and defend that powerless (your children) and the downtrodden

A man is someone cultivates hope by understanding that he is someone under God's ultimate authority

A man is someone who longs to take the things that God (his father) has taught him, and impart it to others.

God redeems us and gives us the strength to change. He has already blessed us more than we can ever imagine…

We do not use the cross as a way to wallpaper over our unrepentant heart to temporarily feel good. We earnestly seek Christ knowing He has forgiven us at the Cross.

God calls us to become the kind of people through whom His blessings flow. Bless the people you work with, bless whoever God sends you through the day, bless the next generation; just bless everyone.

God gives us permission to live and have a plan. We don’t need to live as the rest of our culture does living week to week with no eye towards our legacy. Jesus did not get out of the grave for us to be like everyone else. He called us to be a blessing.

Being a mom is NOT an easy job. Being a parent is hard, being a Christian parent in our culture in even harder so I have asked 3 of my friends to join us on Mother's Day. These ladies are from three different walks of life, but they are all Mothers (hopefully one of them will resonate with where you are at).
Jessa, Pam & Amanda share some of their story of being a Christian Mother.

In the end we must realize that our God, who could have stacked rocks against us, has dropped them. He has sought us, forgiven us, and restored relationship with us…how can we do any less?

Joseph’s brothers were redeemed to once again share life as a family, the Israelites were redeemed to eat with God on the mountain, and we are redeemed to forever eat meals in Christian community and with Christ Himself.

In the Genesis story God has been working on everybody. When everyone actually knows and follows God everything will work out because the closer they grow to Jesus, the closer they will grow together.