Series Title: The Superiority of Jesus

Series Summary: The book of Hebrews begins with the audacious claim: Jesus is God’s last word. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the one who brings together all of the voices of the Old Testament. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the divine Son - God himself speaking to us. With this claim comes a question: Are we listening?

Passages: Hebrews 2:1-4

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

On this Pentecost Sunday, we will look at both Acts 2 and the book of Hebrews to see how the Spirit of Christ speaks to us and fills us with his power and presence. Power and presence that allow us to live as a royal priesthood.

Series Title: The Superiority of Jesus

Series Summary: The book of Hebrews begins with the audacious claim: Jesus is God’s last word. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the one who brings together all of the voices of the Old Testament. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the divine Son - God himself speaking to us. With this claim comes a question: Are we listening?

Passages: Hebrews 2:10-18

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

Jesus is fully God. Jesus became fully human. The pastor who wrote Hebrews underlines this again so that we can understand the help Jesus offers us in the gospel: freedom from the fear of death and freedom from the penalty of sin.

Series Title: The Superiority of Jesus

Series Summary: The book of Hebrews begins with the audacious claim: Jesus is God’s last word. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the one who brings together all of the voices of the Old Testament. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the divine Son - God himself speaking to us. With this claim comes a question: Are we listening?

Passages: Hebrews 2:5-9

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

In this week’s message, we continue to see the supremacy of Jesus over the angels. Jesus is crowned with glory and honor because he humbled himself and became lower than the angels by taking on human flesh.

Series Title: The Superiority of Jesus

Series Summary: The book of Hebrews begins with the audacious claim: Jesus is God’s last word. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the one who brings together all of the voices of the Old Testament. Jesus is God’s last word because he is the divine Son - God himself speaking to us. With this claim comes a question: Are we listening?

Passages: Hebrews 1:5-2:4

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

In this week’s sermon, we begin exploring the first of four comparisons that the pastor makes in his sermon. Jesus is superior to the angels. Jewish tradition taught that angels delivered the word of God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Since Jesus is superior to the angels, this means that the message he brings is superior to the message they brought. If Israel was warned not to ignore the words given to Moses, how much more should we pay careful attention to the word given to us by Jesus?

Contrasting and comparing our current world to the Narnia world, Geoff shares the similarities and explains that as sons (and daughters) of God, we have a vocation given us by God himself. After hearing a different yet insightful perspective of the passage, we can better understand what our vocation is and reveal in the glory that was given to Jesus, and now to us.

Passage: Roman 8:15-21

Guest Speaker: Geoff Hsu

In this week’s sermon, Pastor Scott Cauble is preaching about the faith of the disciples in the days after the resurrection.  Scott is a chaplain in the US Navy. 

Speaker: Scott Cauble

Series Title: Holy Week

Series Summary: Over the Lenten season, we focused our attention on Lament. As we come to Holy Week, our attention shifts to hope. On Palm Sunday, we will see how praise and lament collide as Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, revealing himself as the prophet who not only laments but acts to bring an end to all laments. On Easter Sunday, we will celebrate how the risen Christ meets us in our sorrow, as we see him meet two disciples traveling on a road toward the town of Emmaus. There, we get a glimpse of a future where lament is healed, and God wipes away every tear.

Passages: Luke 24:13-35

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

On the Road to Emmaus, the sorrow of two disciples is transformed. Their hearts were “burning” as they met the resurrected Jesus. The resurrection offers the promise that all that we lament will be healed when we draw near to Jesus, and Jesus draws near to us.

Series Title: Holy Week

Series Summary: Over the Lenten season, we focused our attention on Lament. As we come to Holy Week, our attention shifts to hope. On Palm Sunday, we will see how praise and lament collide as Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, revealing himself as the prophet who not only laments but acts to bring an end to all laments. On Easter Sunday, we will celebrate how the risen Christ meets us in our sorrow, as we see him meet two disciples traveling on a road toward the town of Emmaus. There, we get a glimpse of a future where lament is healed, and God wipes away every tear.

Passages: Luke 19:28-44

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

As Jesus rides into Jerusalem that crowds are shouting praises. They do not, however, fully grasp who he is and why he is coming into the city. As a result, Jesus laments over the city. Jeremiah lamented after Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians. Jesus laments before its destruction by the Romans. Jesus is the prophet greater than Jeremiah. He not only laments over us, but he has the power to do something that will end our laments.

Series Title: Lamentations

Series Summary: This Lent, we will journey together through the book of Lamentations, learning how Scripture gives voice to grief, suffering, and faithful protest before God. Beginning with the devastation of Jerusalem (2 Kings 23-25), we will explore how God’s people wrestle with shame, loss, divine sovereignty, worship, humility, and the call to corporate lament in the face of deep pain. Along the way, we will be invited to examine how our responses to suffering—both our own and that of others—reveal what we believe about God and ourselves. This series will encourage us to resist quick answers and instead learn how to sit honestly before God with our sorrow and questions.

On Palm Sunday, we will see how praise and lament collide as Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, revealing himself as the prophet who not only laments but acts to bring redemption. Finally, on Easter Sunday, we will celebrate how the risen Christ meets us in our sorrow and promises a future where lament is healed, and God wipes away every tear.

⁠⁠⁠⁠LAMENT GUIDE⁠⁠⁠⁠

ResourcesHere are some resources you can use to help you study Lamentations on your own

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bible Project video and guide ⁠⁠⁠⁠on Lamentations
• ⁠⁠⁠⁠A Bible study ⁠⁠⁠⁠on Lamentations
• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop⁠⁠⁠⁠ - a book that studies the theme of lament in Scripture, it focuses on both the psalms of lament as well as lamentations.
• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Prophetic Lament by Soong-Chan Rah ⁠⁠⁠⁠- this book is an extended meditation on Lamentations, drawing applications to the church in the United States. This book pushes the reader in ways that are uncomfortable. You may not agree with him on everything, but you will be challenged to think about Lamentations, and it’s meaning for us today.

Passages: Lamentation 4

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

At the end of the day, all suffering is personal. In Lamentations 4, we see the devastation faced by the people on the streets. While the judgment was deserved, Jeremiah has hope that the Lord will not prolong it.

Series Title: Lamentations

Series Summary: This Lent, we will journey together through the book of Lamentations, learning how Scripture gives voice to grief, suffering, and faithful protest before God. Beginning with the devastation of Jerusalem (2 Kings 23-25), we will explore how God’s people wrestle with shame, loss, divine sovereignty, worship, humility, and the call to corporate lament in the face of deep pain. Along the way, we will be invited to examine how our responses to suffering—both our own and that of others—reveal what we believe about God and ourselves. This series will encourage us to resist quick answers and instead learn how to sit honestly before God with our sorrow and questions.

On Palm Sunday, we will see how praise and lament collide as Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, revealing himself as the prophet who not only laments but acts to bring redemption. Finally, on Easter Sunday, we will celebrate how the risen Christ meets us in our sorrow and promises a future where lament is healed, and God wipes away every tear.

⁠⁠⁠LAMENT GUIDE⁠⁠⁠

ResourcesHere are some resources you can use to help you study Lamentations on your own

• ⁠⁠⁠Bible Project video and guide ⁠⁠⁠on Lamentations
• ⁠⁠⁠A Bible study ⁠⁠⁠on Lamentations
• ⁠⁠⁠Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop⁠⁠⁠ - a book that studies the theme of lament in Scripture, it focuses on both the psalms of lament as well as lamentations.
• ⁠⁠⁠Prophetic Lament by Soong-Chan Rah ⁠⁠⁠- this book is an extended meditation on Lamentations, drawing applications to the church in the United States. This book pushes the reader in ways that are uncomfortable. You may not agree with him on everything, but you will be challenged to think about Lamentations, and it’s meaning for us today.

Passages: Lamentation 3

Speaker: Omar Ortiz

The memory of what happened to Jerusalem has dominated the first two poems in Lamentations. Like the Lady Zion and the Prophet Jeremiah, our own Laments are filled with the memories of loss, injustice, and suffering. But Christian lament also calls to mind the character of God. Lamentations 3 invites us to hold the memory of loss and God’s faithfulness in tension with each other.