Experience Church San Francisco

Coveting is one of the key factors in producing the global economic and the environmental crisis. God challenges us to value people more than things and learning the art of contentment: being grateful what we already have while becoming generous with it.

Us lying? Never! But what about raising our reputation at the expense of others, speaking in grey terms or repeating something we hear about someone we don't like?

When we honor our physical and spiritual parents, their gifts reflect back on us - but how do we honor them if we live or have grown up in a dysfunctional family? And how can we be parents worthy of honor?

We frequently expect a little too much a little too soon. But God's plan is for a man and a woman to be partners in purpose and destiny - looking not only for a good choice but a God choice.

Scripture seems to indicate that God created human sexuality primarily for pleasure and bonding; procreation appears to be a secondary purpose. But God wanted to make sure sex was never being used as a weapon for division, pain and breakdown.

We don't think of ourselves as thieves - but how are we handling the goods our employer and God are entrusting us? And what about the sin of omission, be it in taxes, tips, wages, love, forgiveness, tithes and debts?

Though most of us have never killed anyone, the sixth commandment applies to all of us; because killing and murder, the seeds of anger and hatred, are everywhere - even inside of us.

God wants us to stop working on the Sabbath, but that's not the whole story: he also wants us to start worshipping.

Even if we aren't abusing God's name to curse something or someone, we as Christians can still misuse his name in four different ways.

Environmentalism, sex, the body, power and possessions are five current idols that cheat us of a living God - but there is only room for one photo in our spiritual wallet.

Are we really worshipping the true and living God? To whom or what do our thoughts automatically turn when they are free to roam?

Are we pushing forward arrogantly with our own ideas on finance, relationships, health and grace while expecting that God is going to bail us out? And what is really the most important thing in our life?

"The Test of Now" is the test of being tempted to short-circuit God's best for what seems good or expedient for now. Why can't we as children of the king have it now? Because we have to learn to be a king first.

When we are coming together as a church, do we really want to see and encounter Jesus? Are we ready to hand him the things we believe to be our securities?

When we step out in faith and do something for God, very often the enemy is going to attack us. Why does this happen? And what can we learn from the disciples and how they dealt with those difficulties?

The issues relating to our relationship and communication with God are reflected in our relationships and communication with people - if we struggle with others, we will with God, too. We need not just words, but A.C.T.S.

The bible tells us in many scriptures that we can't seperate salvation and healing - so why do we find it easier to believe God for the eternal than to believe him for the temporal?

You are not what you are suffering from and you are not defined by your problem - but by God's promise and your potential.

Three persons, three stories - each dramatically involved in the original Easter. Maybe one of them relates to you and your situation this year?

God's ear is tuned to praise, not to complaints. So how do we praise him, even if our circumstances sometimes aren't exactly praiseworthy?