GARDEN CHURCH Podcast

In Romans 12:1-2, Paul urges the church to offer their lives as living sacrifices to God, which is pleasing to God. However, in order to live a life pleasing to God, it needs to be filled with God and dedicated to God. This can only happen when the Holy Spirit invades our lives, our everyday and normal lives. Our guest, Alan Scott, guides us in our third value "being empowered by the Holy Spirit," and shows us how God can break out of the holy and extraordinary and break into the plain and mundane.

As we continue in our Value Series, Garden Church, Pastor Darren walks us through our second value - A Life Rooted in the Scriptures. The Bible has been ignored, abused, misread, and misused by people outside and within the Church. We want to create a culture that values the Scriptures and properly handles them, while also having our lives firmly rooted in its teachings.

With the launch of house churches, Pastor Darren led us into the start of a new sermon series, Garden Church: Essentials for Kingdom Life. This series' intention is to go over our values as a church, and how these values are what we believe every Christian should embody at Garden Church. The first value is, a life shared with loving family. The church is a family founded on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus that thrives together. Followers of Jesus are not meant to live in isolation, for life, reprove, and growth cannot happen in solidarity.

As Pastor Darren closes our vision series, Bring Life. He discusses what he wants Garden Church to be known for, Power + Love. We believe that in order to be a church who makes a lasting impact on the city, that church needs to be marked by unconditional love, and God's unmistakable power. This is the way that the early church operated, and this is the way that we want to bring life into Long Beach.

"Here as in Heaven." For more information visit : garden.church

"Here as in Heaven." For more information visit : garden.church

We experience warfare on two fronts. The first comes from the flesh, or our sinful nature. The second comes from legalism and making our faith influenced by culture. Pastor Darren helps us discern these two realities that oppose our Discipleship to Jesus, and helps us navigate past these two strongholds. Join us as we finish our Battle Ready series in the book of Galatians.

God has authority over everything, everywhere, and everyone. This includes that which we call, the demonic. However, we as followers of Jesus have also been given authority from God, thus giving us the power against the demonic. Pastor Darren walks us through the story of the man possessed by 'Legion', and then teaches us how we can learn to live lives worthy of opposition.

The ministry of Jesus can be summarized to the forgiveness of sins, the healing of the sick, and the deliverance of evil spirits. While for most followers of Jesus focus on the precious two aspects of Jesus' ministry, Pastor Darren helped us see how important it is to develop a Spiritual Warfare Worldview. Listen and learn how wherever we go, we are to continue Jesus' ministry today.

The Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment have all been necessary periods for our culture to transform, mature, and adapt; but is it the same for our faith? During the most recent centuries our culture, within the church and outside of the church, seem to be more focused on the physically tangible and have forgotten about the spiritual world that we cannot see. Pastor Darren helped us kick off our new four week series, Battle Ready: preparing for spiritual warfare, in order to help reshape and reform our worldview of the universe around us.