Revolution Resistance

This Sunday, Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we often misunderstand Jesus by trying to shape Him into the Savior we want, but He calls us to follow Him as He truly is, through suffering, surrender, and trust. We learn that when we deny ourselves and follow Jesus as the Lamb now, we trust Him to return as the Lion later and make all things right.

This Sunday founding Pastor Rick Duncan teaches that we often demand signs from God while ignoring the many ways He already shows His faithfulness, and this hardens our hearts instead of growing our trust. We learn to remember His past compassion, resist doubt, and trust and obey Him without waiting for more proof.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we often place people into categories that create fear and division, but Jesus shows us that no one is excluded from His grace and invites us to respond with humble faith. He calls us to reject fear, see people as individuals, and live as ambassadors of Jesus by loving others and sharing the gospel.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we can look spiritually faithful on the outside while our hearts remain far from God, and he warns that religious habits can hide sin, pride, bitterness, greed, and unbelief. He calls us to let God search our hearts, repent sincerely, and trust Jesus to forgive us and make us new from the inside out.

Pastor Dale Piscura reflects on grief in the church and teaches that believers mourn with hope because Jesus is present, prays for His people, and promises eternal life. He urges the church to guard against hard hearts, stay close to Jesus in life’s storms, and respond with prayer, faith, repentance, and love for others.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti invites us into Mark 6 by showing us the Shepherd-heart of Jesus, who meets our exhaustion with compassion and rest. He reminds us that when we feel like we don’t have enough, Jesus asks what we do have, then multiplies it and sends us out to share His provision.

Lead Pastor Joe Valenti teaches that we move from comfort to costly obedience by trusting God’s power and provision when Jesus sends us out dependent on Him rather than on our readiness. He also shows us faith in God’s purpose and providence, because obedience is measured by faithfulness, not outcomes, and God is never absent or out of control even when we cannot see what He is doing.

Founding Pastor Rick Duncan calls us to examine how we respond when Jesus challenges our expectations, confronts our comfort, and asks us to surrender what we would rather control. We see that when resistance rises, we either take offense or take a knee, and we are invited to trust Him fully so that He marvels at our belief rather than our unbelief.

This week Elder Kyle Gustafson walks us through Mark 5 and invites us to slow down and trust Jesus when urgency, interruption, and delay press in on our lives. We see that Jesus is not weakened by waiting, that His presence restores the overlooked and overcomes death itself, and that we are called to keep believing even when His timing does not make sense to us.

This week Lead Pastor Joe Valenti shows us how Jesus intentionally forms us through Mark 5 by leading us into uncomfortable places, toward difficult people, and into risky obedience that forces us to rely on His power instead of our comfort or competence. We remember that Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth, so we go tell what He has done in our lives, trusting Him to meet us in hard places and use us for His mission.