Everyday Church Sunday Messages

The practices of Jesus are essential to our spiritual formation. They are how we do what we can do — sabbath, pray, read Scripture — to make space for God to transform us into the kind of people who can do what we currently cannot do — live and love like Jesus. And they slow our busy lives down to the pace and presence of “the God of peace.”

Because we are already being formed by our habits, relationships, environments, and more, all formation in the Way of Jesus is counter-formation. As apprentices of Jesus, our goal is to intentionally slow our lives down to find deep joy in walking with Jesus.

Spiritual formation isn’t a Christian thing or even a religious thing; it’s a human thing. To be human is to grow, to mature, to adapt over time. Formation is simply the process by which our “spirit,” or inner person, is formed into a particular shape or character. Over a lifetime, we are spiritually formed by a complex alchemy of genetic inheritance, family patterns, childhood wounds, education, habits, decisions, relationships, environments, and more.

The problem is, most of our spiritual formation is unintentional. It just happens. And often, we are “conform[ed] to the pattern of this world,” more than “transformed by the renewing of [our] mind” (Romans 12:2).

Following Jesus is more than going to church or believing the right things; it is practicing a way of life. The meaning of “follow Jesus” is rooted in first-century practices of rabbis and apprentices, practices that inform our understanding of how to follow Jesus today.

Despite the state of our world today, followers of Jesus have a secure hope for the future—the now and not yet kingdom of God. But this hope is not simply that God will whisk us away from this world of sin and rebellion for an eternity in heaven, but that God's grand plan is to remake and reunite heaven and earth as he always intended. This paradigm shift in our thinking about the future should change everything here in the present.

The concept of the Kingdom of God is woven throughout scripture from the first page to the last. It was Jesus' favorite topic, but today it is often a very misunderstood one. Join us as we trace this life-changing theme through the pages of scripture from the past, to the present, and into the future.

2,000 years ago Jesus declared that the kingdom of God had arrived, but what does life in this new kingdom reality look like and how do we interpret the resistance that comes with that kingdom life?

The concept of the Kingdom of God is woven throughout scripture from the first page to the last. It was Jesus' favorite topic, but today it is often a very misunderstood one. Join us as we trace this life-changing theme through the pages of scripture from the past, to the present, and into the future.

The concept of the Kingdom of God is woven throughout scripture from the first page to the last. It was Jesus' favorite topic, but today it is often a very misunderstood one. Join us as we trace this life-changing theme through the pages of scripture from the past, to the present, and into the future.

The roots of this concept are found in chapter one of Genesis where God creates human beings in his image so that we might rule his creation on his behalf as part of his kingdom. But at the start of the New Testament Jesus appears declaring that God's kingdom is arriving. What happened? Where did the kingdom go?

Following Jesus and being formed into his image is a life-long journey—the most important journey that we can ever walk. It can sometimes be a confusing journey but it's made much easier with both a map and a pathway to guide us.

Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Church and begin a new chapter in the life of our community.

The end goal of apprenticeship to Jesus is to do the things that he did, but how do we do that when we are not Jesus? What does it look like to do the things that Jesus did within the unique contours of our own lives in 2025 on the Central Coast?

Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Church and begin a new chapter in the life of our community.

Many people aspire to be like Jesus, but so often find themselves stuck in their apprenticeship to him—they want to become like Jesus but they don't know how. This process of spiritual formation happens through the work of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised his disciples in John 14. Through both power encounters and daily practices that excavate space in our busy lives, the Spirit of God transforms us from the inside out.

Join us for our Future Church teaching series as we explore the future of Everyday Church and begin a new chapter in the life of our community.