Experience Church San Francisco

We as Christ followers in Western churches have embraced values and ideas that are not only unbiblical but actually contradict the gospel. But we have a choice: we can chose to continue with business as usual or we can take an honest look at the Jesus of the Bible - and live differently.

Self-centeredness seemingly tells us that we're doing good things for us and others when we are not - we can even have so many visions that we miss Jesus. But he is the only way out of this subtle disease.

We are more than conquerors: a conqueror gets things done on his own strength, but we can use the weapons of someone who has already conquered for us - the blood of Jesus, the name of Jesus and the word of God.

How do we live a life of audacious faith? By not distancing us from the world and by standing firm: we think that the current is strong, but all we have to do is stand up on God's promises and principles.

Hardened, shallow or distracted - let's be honest: how does your hard look like? And why would having an open heart be so much better for you?

Jesus says that God's kingdom is near, we even pray "Your kingdom come" - but what does this mean for our lives? How can we seek, step into, be changed by and live in God's kingdom?

Are we prepared for what God wants to give us? Will we be able to retain it? We need to dig ditches and locate the well that supplies and retains life-giving water.

Our identity is not based on who we are, but whose we are. Let's not fall victim to spiritual identity theft - someone telling us we're not a child of God or trying to make us get our acceptance from something or someone else.

Jesus said: "Offenses must come." So how do we neutralize the toxic power of criticiscm and live life not on the defense but boldly and graciously on the front foot of love?

Our relationship with God is more than a crisis relationship. The power of the kingdom should control our lives - not banks, people and circumstances.

A challenging message on why we don't pray and what happens when prayer stops. But when we pray, things will change - and here's how we can pray.

If living in bondage hurts and isolates us, why don't we allow Jesus to fix the broken things in our life? He is ready to heal - are we ready to be made whole again?

If we can understand the relation between sheep and a good shepherd, we can begin to understand what it looks like to have a relationship with God: he is our leader, not our life coach.

Jesus' call to follow him is always at his initiative, surprisingly simple and amazingly life changing. Just as powerful and significant is his command to abide in him - not to live for him, but to live in him.

Struggle and pain are often signals from God that something new is about to happen or needs to happen - don't think God has deserted you if you or your faith are going through some pain.

We are oversaturated with words that are big on information but small on revelation or impartation. But power for living our natural lives and victory over the enemy in our spiritual lives is all accessed from the word of God.

Sometimes we are worried about the outcome of our life. Here are four points that can help us in being obdient to God's word and to trust him.

When we live our lives by default instead of by design, we find ourselves saying "Must I?" instead of saying "I must!" We can't decide or determine our destiny, our "I must", however - we need to discover it.

Let the God of justice show you how to find freedom from your own injustices so you can help others find freedom from theirs.

Important and supernatural things happen in upper rooms - in both the Old and the New Testament. What can we learn from these and why is it important to not just stay in there?