Pomona Valley Church

This week, Meredith looks at how Jesus shows us what it means both to be reconciled to God and to be God's ambassadors in the ministry of reconciliation.

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Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for practices of celebration and mourning that might help you build your Rhythm of Life.

Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for practices of knowing God and knowing the world that might help you build your Rhythm of Life.

Curtis and Meredith share a few practices of engagement and rest that might help you build your Rhythm of Life. 

This week, Curtis looks at what Genesis tells us humanity was made to do and be: God's partners in the work of helping all creation to flourish.

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This week, Meredith considers how the Bible tells us that we ought to celebrate, and also that we ought to mourn. How do we do both, and what practices might allow us to engage with that reality?

Meredith and Curtis jump on the pod with some ideas of practices we might try to be more intentional about listening to God in solitude or engaging in and developing meaningful relationships. 

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This week, we asked whether following God is all about relationships, or about meeting with God in solitude. Curtis looked at creation, and the stories of Elijah and David, to say that most of us nee…

Meredith delivers a sermon about how following Jesus means connecting to, getting-to-know, and learning more about both God and the world. 

Meredith leads us through a practice that helps us stay connected to Jesus, so that we can be both fully in the world and fully separate.

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Curtis starts our 2020 series on Rhythm of Life talking about how following Jesus means being both fully a part of the world and fully separate at the same time…

In this special year-end episode of the Launch Pod we look back at 2019, what has happened, where we've been, and what we're looking forward to in 2020. 

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This week, Meredith looked at John the Baptist's role in the Christmas story, and how the practice of repentance is crucial preparatory work for us to join Jesus in peacemaking.

This week, Curtis began our look at the Christmas story, considering what it might mean to make room for Jesus by welcoming the stranger, both near and far. 

Meredith then led us through an exercise t…

In this week's sermon, Meredith talks about what it means to celebrate a meal each week "in memory of Jesus". Unfortunately podcasting technology doesn't allow us to let you share in the bread, wine,…

In this episode of The Backdrop, Curtis looks at some of the cultural context in which the story of Jesus eating at the Pharisee's house takes place. Topics include Honor and Shame, the Patronage sys…

This week, Curtis looks at the story from Luke 7 when a woman anoints Jesus' feet while he eats at the house of Simon the Pharisee. Why is she so foolishly generous, and what might that mean for us?

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In this episode of The Backdrop, Meredith talks more about discernment, the social "map" that is a meal, and why eating with Cornelius was such a problem for Peter.

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In this episode, Meredith leads us through the discernment experience that Lesley facilitated on Sunday.

Note: This is one of those experiences that was highly interactive in person in a way that it u…

Meredith takes us through the story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10-11, and asks what it means to discern what God is up to, and how we might join in.