By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
We have some exciting news!
Beginning Sunday, July 1, 2012, our Westside site is moving – but only about 10 blocks away, to Santa Monica High School.
Why is this good news for our community,… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
We have some exciting news!
Beginning Sunday, July 1, 2012, our Westside site is moving – but only about 10 blocks away, to Santa Monica High School.
Why is this good news for our community,… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
I recently read an article that suggests a tension I hope we can speak to as a church.
I love Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have benefited from it, and have heard several similar… Continue Reading
by Jeremy Weese, Pastor
We decided to re-post this encouraging article on resurrection as a follow-up to Rankin’s message on Easter (click here to listen). Now that we realize the significance of… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
People often ask me, “What are you reading these days?” OR “Do you have any book recommendations?” Here’s one.
Written almost 40 years ago, Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Denial of Death remains as… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
James Proctor wrote a hymn entitled “It is Finished” that speaks to our incessant tendency to live based on our performance rather than by the grace of God, as if our “doing” secures our “being”… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor
We’ve been talking about what my friend Ben Milner once called his “idol clusters.” Those patterns that tend to steal our energy, capture our emotions, catapult us into fear. The patterns we feel ourselves sliding… Continue Reading
By Marshall Brown, Pastor
A couple weeks ago our church staff took a field trip to downtown LA. Our Director of Hope for LA, Dave Kleinknecht, had planned an afternoon and evening for us eating, touring and serving in the… Continue Reading
By Brian Godawa, Elder
Some of us struggle to stay awake reading the Bible, let alone study it. It just doesn’t read like the latest bestselling novel or self-help volume. The stories don’t always flow like watching a movie. Who… Continue Reading
by Jeremy Weese, Pastor
“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
Resurrection. In this one word we find all the incredulity of Christianity’s claims, and yet all of its… Continue Reading
By Rankin Wilbourne, Lead Pastor, and Chris Weldon, Director of Worship
On January 15th we began projecting song lyrics on a screen at both our Westside and Downtown worship services. We are keeping it very simple – white text projected on a black background without images.
This… Continue Reading