A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.God is good! Satan is evil!  The coming of Jesus brings this battle into clear focus. The life and ministry of Jesus is only a few years compared to the span of thousands of years, which covers the Old Testament. However, in this very brief period there is a surge of activity and exposure of the devil and his work in the world. The many healings and exorcisms in the life of Jesus clearly demonstrate that he has come to destroy the works of the enemy. Jesus had a discernment of the human condition where he could clearly heal disease as well as discern demonic strongholds. With a word, Jesus destroys demonic strongholds and oppression which held people in terrible suffering for prolonged periods and manifested outwardly as a disease. The Church needs to seek such a gift of discernment so that we can live in the victory that Jesus has brought for us. Only the church can do this. We are the disciples of Jesus and as the church we represent this inbreaking of the kingdom of God.  We are called to bring a healing ministry that sets people free. Jesus is Lord!

A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont.God is always revealing himself to humankind. If God did not draw near to us, opening our eyes and hearts to His glory, we would remain in the dark.This movement of God becomes our hope, not that we are sufficient in ourselves, but that God is drawing near to us, revealing and fulfilling His promises to us, even amid difficult circumstances, uncertainty, or struggle.Paul spoke of this in 2 Corinthians 3:4 when he wrote, “Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God.”Elsewhere in Scripture, God regularly revealed his glory to encourage his children with an experiential knowledge of his nature and power. God does this even more today, the Spirit accomplishing in us what we could never hope to accomplish on our own.Let us draw near to God this Sunday in response to his nearness, his glory, his presence in our midst!   May we behold him anew, and never be the same.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.The name Jesus means Savior. Every mention of the name of Jesus is an invitation for the Savior to work within us. There are two primary ways in which Jesus saves us.  His saving work saves us from sin and death. Having saved us from sin and death, we are not left weak and helpless. His saving work continues in giving back all that the enemy has robbed and destroyed in us. It is abundant life that Jesus gives us, not just a restoration of what the enemy robbed from us. In the next four weeks we will look at the saving work of Jesus from sin, disease, demons, and flawed nature.  These are often related experiences and not completely independent.  We can easily misread these experiences and reduce them to just the physical or the demonic. Or we can conflate them and give undue validity to the demonic.   Spiritual warfare is having a new vision of victory in Jesus. As Christians we are not at the mercy of evil, but we are given a new inheritance that Jesus has won for us. Jesus our Savior has inaugurated the kingdom of God here on earth and invites us into his abundance.  The Father invites the prodigal son to enjoy the party and to realize that the waste of the past is incomparable to the inheritance of the future.Jesus is my Savior!

A Sunday morning of baptisms by Pastor David Singh.This Sunday is unique in our life together. We have two children who are being dedicated, one infant being baptized, and a young boy who has confessed Christ being baptized by immersion.  Eternity Church is unique in that we are not one denomination but one catholic [universal] church.  We come from a variety of historic traditions and denominations and have chosen to be deliberately multi-denominational. We are not independent because we depend on the historic traditions. We are not non-denominational because we cherish the strengths that different denominations bring. Does this mean that we are not clear in our theology of Baptism? Quite the contrary; we are more robust in our understanding of the sacrament of Baptism. On what basis, you may ask. We follow the biblical record and pattern set by Jesus’ family as well his own example in choosing to be baptized.  In addition to biblical authority, we are also guided by the church through the ages and around the world. Baptism is a sacrament ordered by the Lord Jesus. We baptize in obedience and inherit by faith. In Mark 10:13-16 Jesus received and blessed children at different levels of faith. The blessing of baptism is a visible demonstration that we are all called to receive the kingdom of God like a little child. 

A Sunday morning sermon by Peter Kumar.1 John 3:8b “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”  This is the theme for this weekend of teaching and ministry.  Good Friday reminds us that Christ has won the victory. Easter is the evidence that even the grip of death is destroyed. Pentecost is the indwelling of God that makes us witnesses of his kingdom on earth. Suddenly with the coming of Jesus, there was hope for healing as never before. Just by touching the hem of Jesus’ garment people were healed.  The power of God over all disease was demonstrated time and again by the many healings of Jesus. Demons trembled at his presence and were evicted from people’s lives. This is what the Church is called to continue to do. So come and seek healing and deliverance. Let us learn how we can be disciples of Jesus Christ with a prophetic voice, which proclaims that the kingdom of God has come. Come! The Kingdom of God is here!

An Easter Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.The Cross leads us in victory over death and into life.  The Resurrection leads us from life to eternity. Death has no dominion over us because Jesus has conquered death and claimed us for himself.  As we remember and relive what Jesus has done, may our witness become that of Mary Magdalene: “I have seen the Lord.” Mary is the one from whom seven demons had been cast out. And Jesus chose her to be the first one to see him risen from the dead and to go and proclaim that she had seen Jesus. Imagine the change in her that happened. She moved from being under the control of multiple evil powers to the freedom not only of being loved and set free by Jesus but experiencing the victory over death itself. Her witness is truly one of moving from death to life. As we go through the holy week, let this become our witness that we too have seen the Lord. 

A Palm Sunday sermon by Pastor David Singh.Zechariah 9:9 (ESV) "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey." The king is coming humble and mounted on a donkey. Can you imagine the President of the United States coming for his inauguration riding on a donkey? This is so incongruous. A king on a donkey. What is even more striking is that this is not just a king but the Son of God. What does Palm Sunday teach us about God? God comes to us humbly. True humility is very powerful. Jesus emptied himself and took human form and became a servant. It is this very humility that makes every knee to bow before him. The three wise men recognized this when they bowed before the child Jesus. To follow Jesus is to learn humility. Discipleship and humility cannot be separated. Let us learn to come before each other humbly!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor David Singh.Can you imagine Moses being the leader for hundreds of thousands of people as they came out of Egypt? Today for a task of this magnitude we would need a consultant to map out a master plan and a competent staff with a track record hired to manage just the logistics. Moses had no clue where God was leading him. All he knew was the call of God and the promise that God’s presence would lead them. In Exodus 33:14 the Lord says: “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”  Nalini and I had so much work to do and there were so many barriers. As we were driving I saw this verse painted on the walls of my old church. Even as I read this, I knew the Lord was speaking personally to me. I can honestly confess that most of the time I have no idea where I am going. And this is good. The Lord’s presence is our rest when we don’t know what is coming. To walk by faith is learning to trust God for each day and listening to him on a continual basis.  Moses was such a man and whenever he entered the tent of meeting the Lord’s presence would descend and they would talk as friends. May the Presence of God go with you and give you rest!

A Sunday morning sermon by Dr. Jesse Joyner.Psalm 136 is one of God’s gifts of love to us - itself a ceaseless reminder of his love for us. In fact, the key term in the repeated phrase, “his love endures forever” is “love.” The Hebrew term here is hesed, which is loaded with meaning that stretches beyond the sometimes ambiguous English term “love.” Hesed is enduring love embedded in faithfulness. Hesed is about promise, loyalty, and commitment. But it is also a love full of desire, enjoyment, and gladness. That is the love that God has for us. His love is the perfect co-mingling of promise and passion.We are called to extend this love, mercy, patience, compassion, and endurance to others. The prophet Micah says that God requires of us not obligatory sacrifices, but rather three things: (1) to act justly, (2) to love mercy (hesed), and (3) to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8). How do we do that? It all starts with God’s love (and, as Micah says right there, walking alongside him). He first loved us by sending us Jesus as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:7-12). We must abide in this kind of love so that we can then share it with those around us. 

A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont.Perhaps you have heard the phrase, “if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.”In Isaiah 55 the prophet carries words of tender invitation to the people of God saying, “Come, everyone who thirsts come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat!”From our perspective, this seems like an easy decision to make. We can imagine only needing one invitation to gladly accept, yet the prophet repeats again and again, “come” “listen” “hear, that your soul may live.”Why is an invitation this good so hard to accept?Jesus says in Matthew 6, “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.”The “eyes” of our soul can become darkened for many reasons, through our own choices, or the choices of others. Regardless, God comes to our areas of darkness, speaking words of comfort, compassion, and invitation. Our hearts and minds need regular cleansing and refreshing to hear and believe the invitation of God.Let’s come to worship Sunday prepared to have our minds, hearts, and eyes opened in new ways to the abundant love of God in Jesus Christ!