Reality La Audio Podcast: Bible Teaching

Pastor Jeremy Treat begins our year in the gospel of Mark. Written for broken people by broken people, Mark shows how the good news of Jesus creates a path of discipleship we walk together.

Pastoral candidate Mike Portland shares a sermon from a passage by the prophet Micah giving a biblical perspective on the appropriate way for us to respond to our sin.

Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon on the biblical model of church leadership and what Scripture has to say about the offices of elders and deacons, then introduces the candidates for Reality LA's first set of deacons!

In this special teaching, Pastor Jeremy Treat shares about our church’s identity, our mission in Los Angeles, where we’ve been in 2017, and where we sense God leading us in 2018.

Nathan Potter concludes 2017 with a look at the final letter of John and the love of Christ, which changes who we are, how we live, and where we belong.

"'Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and they shall call his name Immanuel' (which means, God with us)." Pastor Jeremy Treat shares a Christmas Eve sermon on the angel's announcement of Jesus' birth to Joseph.

Pastor Adam Smith concludes our Advent series with a sermon on justice as a form of cultural renewal. In Christ, judgment against oppression and the restoration of our dignity meet at the cross.

Pastoral candidate Mike Portland continues our Advent series with a sermon on relational renewal. With Joseph and his brothers as an example, Mike looks at how we acknowledge the ways we've been harmed, re-tell our story in light of God's story, and seek restoration over revenge.

Advent is here! Pastor Jeremy Treat begins our Advent sermon series with a look at Psalm 27 and how living daily in the presence of God changes everything about every aspect of our lives.

Pastor Jeremy Treat concludes our series through Galatians with a sermon on the book's final verses, which summarize its theme of dead religion versus living faith and send us out into every area of life in the grace and transformative power of the gospel.

Jonathan Fitzgerald continues our series through Galatians with a look at the way the gospel creates a spiritual family that gently restores drifting members, takes responsibility for self and others, reaps what they sow, and does good to all.

In this sermon, Pastor Jeremy Treat looks at the works of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit and how they aren't lists of dos and dont's, but the expression of what's happening in our hearts. Saying "yes" to the Holy Spirit is the key to saying "no" to the flesh.

What does it mean to be free? Free from what? For what? Pastor Jeremy Treat examines Paul's answer from Galatians: what freedom is and, perhaps more importantly, what it is not.

The Old Testament God is not a different God. The New Testament does not change or replace the Old Testament, but continues and fulfills it. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Galatians on the connection between Jesus and the Old Testament.

As we reach Galatians 4, Pastor Jeremy Treat examines how we grow and become mature in our faith by embracing the new identity it gives us, not looking back, and enduring to the end.

Pastor Jeremy Treat gives a sermon on the relationship between God's law and God's gospel, and how they don't contradict each other, but rather each points us to the other.

Pastor Adam Smith continues our walk through Galatians with an examination of how the Holy Spirit creates and sustains our life in Christ: our justification, sanctification, and glorification begin by the Spirit, advance by the Spirit, and are perfected by the Spirit.

The biblical term "justification" may seem stern, but it's actually a concept full of grace. Pastor Jeremy Treat examines the central thesis of Paul's letter to the Galatians: that in Christ, we are justified by faith and approved by God.

We continue our series through the book of Galatians with Pastor Jeremy Treat's sermon on a confrontation between Peter and Paul. Not just a dispute about 1st-century church politics, this passage shows us how the gospel answers hypocrisy, ethonocentrism, and poverty.

What defines us? Pastor Jeremy Treat examines Paul's autobiography from Galatians to see how the gospel affects our lives, and what it looks like to be developed by God over the long term.