Reality La Audio Podcast: Bible Teaching

In this sermon from Jeremiah 12:1-6, Pastor Jeremy Treat looks at an important aspect of faith we often overlook: lament.

Pastor Jeremy Treat uses Jeremiah 11:1-5 to examine what it means for God to have a covenant relationship with his people and traces the story of that covenant from creation to new creation.

The opposite of worshipping God is not atheism but idolatry -- making good things into ultimate things. Pastor Adam Smith preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 10:1-16's comparison of the worship of created things versus the worship of the Creator.

Everyone boasts. In fact, you were made to boast. You are wired to have outbursts of adoration, exclamations of awe and wonder. But the nature of sin is to take all of our God-given desires and impulses for glory, and to turn them in on ourselves. "But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth" (Jeremiah 9:24). Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 9:23-24.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 5:11-30 looking at some of the most common ways we misunderstand God's judgment, then looks at the Biblical understanding: that God's judgment is a sign of his goodness.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 4:1-3, examining how God's call to turn to him has further implications than simply the changing of an individual heart.

Pastor Nathan Potter preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 3:6-17 on God's call to return to him and his promise to dwell with us.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches through Jeremiah 2:1-3:5 and unpacks one of the Bible's most prevalent metaphors for sin and our relationship with God.

Pastor Jeremy Treat begins preaches a sermon from Jeremiah 1:11-19 looking at how God's word, God's justice, and God's people become God's renewal.

Pastor Jeremy Treat begins our Rooted sermon series in the book of Jeremiah with a sermon from Jeremiah 1:1-10 on our call to be rooted even in the midst of exile.

In this special teaching, Pastor Jeremy Treat looks at who we are as a church, why we're in LA, where God led us in 2018, and where we sense his leading as we look forward to 2019.

In the first sermon of 2019, Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Hebrews 10:19-25 on the importance and necessity of the community of the church.

Pastor Jeremy Treat concludes 2018 with a sermon from Matthew 6:25-34, examining in some very practical ways the priority, perspective, and power it gives our lives to "seek first the kingdom of God."

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from John 1:1-18, unpacking why God's answer to the chaos and pain of this world is to enter the messiness of our lives as a baby.

We reach the end of our year in Mark as Pastor Jeremy Treat explores Mark's concluding narrative: the resurrection of Jesus -- the problem of death solved, victory announced, and true life opened to all.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from the climax of Mark's biography of Jesus: his crucifixion and death.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Mark's account of the betrayal, trial, and denial of Jesus...and how those events affect our daily lives to this day.

Pastor Adam Smith preaches from the story of the only prayer of Jesus to be recorded in the book of Mark: the one he prayed in Gethsemane the night before his crucifixion.

Pastor Jeremy Treat's sermon examines Mark's account of Jesus' institution of one of the central sacraments of the Christian faith -- the Lord's Supper.

Guest pastor Josh Butler preaches a sermon from Mark's account of Jesus' anointing at Bethany: a lavish act of worship and mourning which Jesus describes as "a beautiful thing"...but which was also the final straw for Judas.