Sinopsis
Presenting the audio recordings of Messiah Lutheran Church, Yorba Linda, CA. Listen now for fresh, inspiring, and instructional messages. Discover ways to live out your mission to Love God Love One Another. Visit www.messiahyl.com to connect and learn more.
Episodios
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Lavish Love - Hope4Kids
17/09/2017 Duración: 23minIn pouring fragrant oil on Jesus, Mary of Bethany gave all she could to honor him. Jesus was right when he said we would be reflecting on her act of worship still in 2017. What does Jesus ask of us?…open our heart to do only what we can do. Being lavish in loving God and loving others requires us to put full faith in God and leave behind many negative voices (including our own) to be a difference maker. You can be a reflective source of hope today!
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Fight Song - Fall Kickoff
10/09/2017 Duración: 30minWhat are you fighting today? Fear, instability, illness, pain? Are you fighting God? Sometimes the gaps in explanations about life and what happens in it seem to echo into a void. We struggle with our understanding. We shake our fist at God. Even as we wrestle…we wrestle in God’s embrace…an embrace that will never let go. God’s desire is a blessing for us and peace in dwelling in a relationship together. God give us a fight song to carry us.
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Earning the Respect of Others - Get Wise
04/09/2017 Duración: 29minEvery one of us will leave a legacy. The question becomes “what will that legacy be?” The way we face life, relate to others, and deal with our circumstances will shape how we will be remembered…how we have earned the respect of others. What love, care, service, and action will show our heart and faith for God? Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" (Isaiah 6:8)
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Mad About You - Get Wise
27/08/2017 Duración: 32minIt might be a surprise to know that anger is a biblically endorsed emotion. Even in the Bible's "love" chapter, we're directed to be slow to anger. The key is to be angry for the right reasons, to not sin while angry, and not let the sun go down on our anger. These are tall orders and it takes a clear understanding from God's word to appreciate and act on the difference.
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Bite Your Tongue - Get Wise
20/08/2017 Duración: 27min“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never heart me!” is an untrue statement. Words matter! Just as words can be uplifting, they can also be deeply destructive. As a follower of Jesus Christ, we want every word we speak to be a reflection of the one we believe in. Before we speak, can we affirm it is true, complete, necessary, and loving? Our words can have the power to bless, heal, and change lives!
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Paying Attention - Get Wise
13/08/2017 Duración: 26minWe can get distracted by many things—technology, career, health, play, multi-tasking, and just plain busyness. These distractions can have dramatic effects. If we fail to pay attention to warning signs…things can go off the rails. God directs us to pay attention to our heart—not just our physical heart, but our heart as the center of our being connected to God. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do stems from it. Create in me a clean heart, O God.
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Need a Little Wisdom - Get Wise
06/08/2017 Duración: 24minLife is filled with many ups and downs. It takes wisdom to navigate the curves. From where does such wisdom come? The foundation for making good decisions is a very wide perspective—not just a fragment of an event or a glimpse of information. Wisdom doesn’t come from our energy: listening to more podcasts; reading books, or building knowledge. Wisdom is the correct use of knowledge. It comes from adopting God’s eternal view and from seeking God’s guidance; living in humble obedience.
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Service - GPS for the Soul
30/07/2017 Duración: 30minWhere are you God? Do you see that?...Why don’t you do something about it? “I did,” God said. “I created you.” Compassion is feeling more than sorry, it is seeing the problem and being moved by the need to raise people up to a higher place in life. To be compassionate means we are willing to enter the pain of another. One-by-one. Could my epitaph be? “Loved by God, went about doing good for others.” Should this be my story? Will it be?
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Prayer - GPS for the Soul
23/07/2017 Duración: 18minKids pray with abandon, like…“give us this day our jelly bread.” Perhaps, as adults, we should remember to lighten up a bit, too. It’s not about us and our needs only; prayer is not transactional. Is my intent…if I pray, God will you deliver? While prayer may seem just like our talking to God—prayer is a two-way communication. It is a chance to listen for guidance that we receive more deeply than audible ways. Put your life in the bigger hands of God.
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Worship - GPS for the Soul
16/07/2017 Duración: 27minLoving, Celebrating, and Sharing: these are universal human experiences found across the globe. These actions describe broadly the elements of worship…and everyone worships something! What is the focus of my worship? Career, family, money, recreation? Worship is our best shot at experiencing the joy that God wired us to have. Our entire life is meant for loving, celebrating, and sharing what God is actively doing in, through, and with us. This includes all our brokenness, too. Living a life honoring to God is an act of worship.
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Community - GPS for the Soul
09/07/2017 Duración: 30minThe church is a strange herd. We need each other as we do life together. As we discover what it means to reach out, connect, and get involved, we learn to look beyond our immediate walls to touch the needs of others. Community doesn’t happen overnight, but this is a place where we come alongside each other in all circumstances. As we have all been loved, cared for, and accepted by God; it is our mission to move God’s love into the world community.
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The Word - GPS for the Soul
02/07/2017 Duración: 26minIn our cars and on our phones we take advice from the GPS voice as we navigate our way to destination. God provides a trustworthy GPS for the soul…accurate directions for life and recalculated instructions for our mistaken turns. God’s Word is trustworthy. To maximize the GPS for your soul, give God access to your current location; keep a strong signal of prayer; declare your destination; avoid traffic and tolls (already paid for by Jesus on the cross); and save the route for reuse. In all your ways acknowledge God, and God will make straight your paths. (Proverbs 3:6)
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Forgiving - Forgiveness
25/06/2017 Duración: 27minWhat does it take to forgive someone else? Forgiveness is not mindless detachment, focusing on a positive future, or a power play over others. Forgiveness is an act of pure grace fueled solely by the Holy Spirit—seeking to move beyond the hurt, anger, betrayal, and sin with the ultimate goal of restoring the relationship, as much as is possible.
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Being Forgiven - Forgiveness
20/06/2017 Duración: 27minLife is tough, even when its good. Forgiveness is one of those tough things. Being forgiven is especially difficult to embrace when we are broken. When we do things that hurt ourselves or others, how difficult is it for us to let ourselves rest in God’s promise. “If we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins.” (1 John 1:9) Let’s pray that we break through the tough to be released for new life and community under the cross of Jesus. “Create in me a pure heart, oh God…Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” (Psalm 51)
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Power of Love - Power of...
12/06/2017 Duración: 23minHow do I know God loves me? “In this…the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.” (1 John 4:10) It is God’s first activity that models love without condition and it is also God’s forward promise to give us what we need. To know it is to share it. Let us love one another, for love comes from God.
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Power of the Holy Spirit - Power of...
05/06/2017 Duración: 30minWe can’t live without air…and we can’t live without the Spirit of God. Invisible, powerful, mysterious, life giving—God’s provision is an eternal promise of presence. The promise is not based on who we are, but wholly on who God is. To be fully and completely alive is to be filled with the Holy Spirit of Christ. I am alive! Our response is not just to go to church, but boldly BE the church into the world.
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Power of Vision - Power of...
29/05/2017 Duración: 32minThe power of vision grows from God’s transformative grace. Grace changes us from the inside out. It is an opportunity to bask in the love and presence of Jesus Christ from which we can see far beyond our own life’s horizon. As the Samaritan women once learned, and as we, even today, now learn…grace is living water for a thirsty soul. Grace is life giving; it changes everything!
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A Future Filled With Hope
22/05/2017 Duración: 28minWhat message does God give us at times of goodbye? As I prepare to say goodbye to Messiah this weekend, I've wondered what does it mean to show hospitality in goodbye? Messiah has taught me so much about hospitality, kindness and joy—and as I began my call here I had such a sense of the direction of the Holy Spirit. Now that the Spirit has sent us on divergent paths, how does Jesus remind us of a future filled with hope?
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What I Want for You - Mother's Day
14/05/2017 Duración: 33minHappy Mother’s Day! This may be a phrase of joy, happiness, sadness, or regret depending on your life’s circumstances. We are all in life together and we are here for each other. God serves as our pacesetter for love. We share the responsibility to receive and pass along the baton. Who’s life do I influence? And what do I want for them? May I be one to give authenticity, grace, love, and faith.
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How Easter Changes Our Church - He Is Risen
08/05/2017 Duración: 23minHow does Easter change our church? Easter reminds us that the church is meant to look forward, into the future, with the hope and promise of new life. Sometimes people in the church wonder: who will lead when I am gone? Where is the next generation? This week at Messiah, we know the answer, as we celebrate 23 students completing Confirmation. Today— through their Faith Statements—our confirmation students will help preach the message, and remind us how Easter, and the hope our students bring, can change Messiah.