Subject: James 5.13-20 - Prayer

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): James 5:13-20

Date of Delivery: August 31, 2025

Relentless struggles of pain, fatigue, and the weight of pain carry such burden on the one who daily endures illness. Being sick even for a little can bring with it a lot of irritability and the feeling of being overwhelmed, let alone enduring a long illness. The answer is the same as affliction and joy, to pray. James here isn’t just speaking of physical illness alone, but the immense heaviness of spiritual sickness. How it separates us from God, and bears a burden most people don’t recognize they carry alone.

Subject: James 5.13-20 - Prayer

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): James 5:13-20

Date of Delivery: August 24, 2025

We turn to prayer in many moments of our days and lives. Yet the most often forgotten moment to turn towards God is in our times of joy. When the emergencies are met and the needs are abated our God takes a back seat in our lives as the crisis has passed and our joy complete. These are the moments we absolutely must turn to God in prayer, to praise His name and rejoice in Him. To set in our minds that this is not the work of self or man, but the gift of God in our everyday life.

Subject: James 5.13-20 - Prayer

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): James 5:13-20

Date of Delivery: August 17, 2025

Pain seems to be a constant in this life. The first time the word is used occurs in Genesis where Eve’s “pain” is multiplied greatly in childbirth. Pain is something we often go to greater painful efforts to avoid. But pain is a blessing as well. It tells us that something is wrong. Pain makes us aware of medical attention, tells us that touching fire is dangerous, and teaches us our limitations. Pain reveals the sinfulness of this world. What should we first do when we are afflicted physically, emotionally, or mentally with pain? Pray!

Subject: Subs

Speaker or Performer: Elder Pedro Ruiz

Scripture Passage(s): 1 Peter 1:8-9

Date of Delivery: August 3, 2025

Peter points out the similar situation we are in to the prophets, that though we do not see Him (Jesus) we love Him. Yet now we can see a little more tangible than the prophets for He has revealed Himself through His Word, Spirit, and people. What they saw in part, we can see more clearly, until the day we see Him face to face.

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): Acts 18:5-11

Date of Delivery: July 27, 2025

Paul finds respite in Corinth. 18 months of ministry with the whole team together. Although initially troubled over his rejection after preaching in the synagogue, God offers comfort in His word and presence, “I Am with you.” are powerful words that speak not only to comfort and encourage Paul, but to us in every situation.

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Date of Delivery: July 20, 2025

After Athens, Paul finds himself in Corinth where he will spend the next 18 months planting and nurturing a church. While there he works alongside a tentmaking couple, Aquila and Priscilla. This couple boasts nothing but Christ Himself and sets an example of how being an ordinary Christian can bring extraordinary results.

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): Acts 17:16-31

Date of Delivery: July 13, 2025

Athens stands as one of the most powerful and influential Greek cities that has come under the authority of Rome. This has resulted in a loss of their reputation as warriors who rival Sparta, but a heavy pouring into their arts and philosophies. It is a city shaped by its past and constantly pursuing knowledge.

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): Acts 17.10-15

Date of Delivery: July 6, 2025

Paul and Company, having left the persecutions of Thessalonica, find themselves in a very welcoming synagogue in Berea. Yet they are still hunted by the previous town residents who have followed them over 40 miles to stir up another riot. When the attacks keep coming, how can we respond?

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): Acts 17.1-9

Date of Delivery: June 29, 2025

Although what Paul and team find in Thessalonica is further persecution, it is the church that is targeted when Paul cannot be found on the premises. Even though they suffer and will suffer much persecution, the church of Thessalonica develops a reputation amongst all the churches for their faithfulness to Christ our Lord.

Subject: The Acts of the Apostles

Speaker or Performer: Pastor Anthony Rodriguez

Scripture Passage(s): Acts 16.25-40

Date of Delivery: June 22, 2025

Acts 12 is an interesting parallel to this story. While Peter’s earthquake provided a means of escaping the death sentence of Herod, Paul’s earthquake provides a means of saving the life of a jailer and bringing the Gospel into his house. God uses each of us and our circumstances as He wills and for His purpose.