Epic Life with Andres Flores

Epic Church is celebrating its 9-year anniversary on October 16, 2021! In this week’s episode, Pastor Andres will share a motivational message told through the powerful story in John 16:33. 

Connecting the significance of the story to our own time, Pastor Andres will remind us of why we celebrate the past and how we can own the future of our church.

People spend a lot of time figuring out their identity, who they are, and where they are going. Today's episode introduces a new message series that covers the identity of God's people as they wait for the Second Coming of Jesus. Pastor Andres will share two dimensions of our identity as we follow Christ and how embracing this identity enables us to live empowered lives on this earth.

This week, we’ll learn what baptism means in the life of those who commit their life to Jesus. Pastor Andres will share how baptism is the external demonstration of an internal transformation by the power of the Holy Spirit.

As we’re still fully grasping the short and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, two questions must be asked: How is your faith doing and how has the pandemic shaped your spirituality? On this episode of Epic Life, Pastor Andres will share three challenges followers of Jesus face in our new post-pandemic reality and three callings from God that can help you emerge from this crisis strongly grounded in your relationship with Christ.

If you had to choose one life rhythm, one thing in life that could bring you everlasting happiness, what would you choose? Exercising? Journaling? Spending time with friends? What about prayer? Prayer is the one discipline that Christians and followers of Jesus practice to sustain their daily walk with Christ. This week, Pastor Andres will share why prayer is the one life rhythm you can't live without. He’ll share how our joy increases as we grow our prayer life.

All of us want to experience joy in our lives. And yet, there is one habit that kills our joy like no other habit - the habit of complaining. Negative complaining is defined as simply expressing dissatisfaction without any positive action. In this episode of Epic Life, Pastor Andres will show us seven ways in which complaining kills our joy and one alternative habit that actually increases our happiness and satisfaction.

Everyone wants to be happy. The problem is, happiness is often associated with whatever we can achieve through our own performance. What if our current understanding of happiness is what is actually making us unhappy? In this episode of Epic Life, Pastor Andres shares three metaphors (Joy as Presence, Joy as a Fruit, and Joy as a Gift) to better understand happiness and experience Supernatural Joy.