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Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 27, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus lays before us the most important choice we must make in life. The broad path that is taken by many leads to destruction and is symbolic of the way of the world that leads away from God. The narrow path that is taken by few leads to life and is symbolic of the path that leads to God through the Savior.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 20, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus lays out for us The Golden Rule. The Golden Rule tells us how to treat other people. The Golden Rule tells us how to be a true reflection of who Jesus is. The Golden Rule has the power to change and transform our world.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 20, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus lays out for us The Golden Rule. The Golden Rule tells us how to treat other people. The Golden Rule tells us how to be a true reflection of who Jesus is. The Golden Rule has the power to change and transform our world.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 13, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding persistence in prayer. As we said in a previous message, for many people prayer is one of the most neglected areas in the Christian life. Jesus understood this and encourages us to be persistent in our prayer life, always having an open line of communication with God.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 13, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding persistence in prayer. As we said in a previous message, for many people prayer is one of the most neglected areas in the Christian life. Jesus understood this and encourages us to be persistent in our prayer life, always having an open line of communication with God.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 6, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding judging other people. Christians are often accused of self-righteously passing judgment upon the actions of other people. However, if the Christian is truly following the teaching of Jesus, such condemnation is not possible. In this passage Jesus condemns such self-righteous criticism and turns the tables on the critic. On the other hand, Jesus does encourage us to bring correction to those who are sinning and in error and in this discussion Jesus encourages us to do so as long as our hearts are right and we are not be hypocritical.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, November 6, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding judging other people. Christians are often accused of self-righteously passing judgment upon the actions of other people. However, if the Christian is truly following the teaching of Jesus, such condemnation is not possible. In this passage Jesus condemns such self-righteous criticism and turns the tables on the critic. On the other hand, Jesus does encourage us to bring correction to those who are sinning and in error and in this discussion Jesus encourages us to do so as long as our hearts are right and we are not be hypocritical.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, October 30, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding financial worry. We are living in a world full of uncertainty and fear. The current economic situation that our country faces with runaway inflation and ever climbing prices for life's necessities has only added fuel to this fire. Jesus teaches us that the solution to hard economic times is faith in God. If God clothes lilies of the field so exquisitely, He is certainly capable of taking care of us.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, October 30, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus instructs us regarding financial worry. We are living in a world full of uncertainty and fear. The current economic situation that our country faces with runaway inflation and ever climbing prices for life's necessities has only added fuel to this fire. Jesus teaches us that the solution to hard economic times is faith in God. If God clothes lilies of the field so exquisitely, He is certainly capable of taking care of us.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, October 9, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus highlights for us the importance of forgiveness. This discussion occurs directly after Jesus' teaching of the Model Prayer. Of all the important principles that Jesus teaches us in the model prayer, forgiveness is the only one that He chooses to elaborate on after the prayer is over. This fact serves to underscore the importance of forgiveness in the believer's life. As we will see, we need forgiveness and we need to forgive others as well.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, October 9, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus highlights for us the importance of forgiveness. This discussion occurs directly after Jesus' teaching of the Model Prayer. Of all the important principles that Jesus teaches us in the model prayer, forgiveness is the only one that He chooses to elaborate on after the prayer is over. This fact serves to underscore the importance of forgiveness in the believer's life. As we will see, we need forgiveness and we need to forgive others as well.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, September 25, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about prayer. Prayer can be looked at as an ongoing dialogue that we have with God. In His life here on earth Jesus was in constant dialogue with His Heavenly Father and modeled a powerful prayer life for us to follow. In this message we explore Jesus' instructions on how to pray. Jesus will then put these instructions to use as He teaches us the model prayer, which we will be looking at in our next message.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, September 18, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about generosity. Jesus wants all of his followers to be generous and to be looking out for the needs of others. It is also important that we perform our charitable deeds with the right motivation and in the right way. In this section of Scripture, Jesus explains what true generosity is and how it is to be carried out.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, September 11, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about love. The 1st century religious leaders in Israel had taught the people a mixed message on love when they declared, "Love your neighbors and hate your enemies." The second part of this sentence regarding hate is not found in the Bible. Jesus was rightly offended by this and corrected it by saying, "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you." Why? Because in so doing you become a true reflection of God and His love. In this message Pastor Larry discusses Jesus' teaching and how we can live up to this challenge.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, September 4, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about how to handle interpersonal conflict and our natural tendency towards retaliation. In this passage Jesus commands that we meet the personal insults and the hostile actions of others that come our way with radical grace.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, August 28, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about the importance of honesty. The Bible says that we are living in a fallen world among a fallen people. An unfortunate result of these circumstances is the multiplication of dishonesty. In this message Pastor Larry explores Jesus' teaching regarding honesty. Jesus wants His followers' lives to be set apart by honesty and trustworthiness and in every interaction they have with others.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, August 21, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now receive a lesson from Him about divorce. In this message Pastor Larry discusses Jesus' perspective on divorce and how it applies to our lives.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, August 14, 2022. As we continue on in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we encounter a lesson about adultery. Pastor Larry shows us how Jesus' prohibition on adultery extends to every area of our sexual lives and encourages purity and fidelity to our mate even when that relationship is yet in the future.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, August 7, 2022. Pastor Mike explores the Apostle Paul's discussion of baptism and the symbolism he presents. The bottom line is that the believer's life is now under new management and the trajectory of the believer's life been radically changed.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, July 31, 2022. As we continue in our study of the Gospel of Matthew and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus begins to focus our attention on some very serious issues. First up is the issue of murder. Murder has been a plague on humanity since Cain murdered his brother Abel and today we are living in some of the most violent times in the history of the earth. Jesus shows us that solution to this problem must begin by changing the condition of the human heart.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, July 24, 2022. As we continue in our study of the Gospel of Matthew and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we now begin to examine the main body of the Sermon. Jesus begins this section with an affirmation of His fidelity to the Scriptures. In this message we will see how important the Bible is to Jesus and how Jesus is the focus and the fulfillment of it.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, July 10, 2022. The Bible says that when we receive salvation in Jesus Christ that we become citizens of heaven. The Bible also instructs us to obey the governing authorities here on earth. How do we balance the reality of dual citizenship? In this message Pastor Mike Galindo lays out some biblical principles that we must follow.

Complete Church Service, Sunday, July 3, 2022. As we continue on in our study of the Beatitudes in Jesus' masterful Sermon on the Mount, Jesus now turns His attention to the issue of persecution. According to Jesus, persecution in the Christian life is guaranteed. In this message we look at persecution and the blessings that Jesus pronounces upon those who endure it.