Love God • Love One Another

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.

More Than a Conqueror - Who You Are and Whose You Are 11/03/2024

More Than a Conqueror - Who You Are and Whose You Are God wants to lead us to a place of wholeness and peace. This requires the awareness that we are never outside the bounds of God'a presence, love, and grace. Because of who we are and whose we are, Jesus suffered, died, and rose again to bring us to himself. #conqueror #loved #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/33761882

A New Creation - Who You Are and Whose You Are 10/27/2024

A New Creation - Who You Are and Whose You Are Today is Reformation Day! While teaching about the Bible's book of Romans, Luther realized that the righteousness of God was not "God is right, and you're not" so God has to punish you; rather, God wants to give you righteousness, to make you right with God as a gift. We are little Christs, filled with the presence of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. This presence of Christ in us makes us righteous, allowing us to live out God's love for our neighbors. #spirit #gift #reformation #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/33628882

Redeemed and Forgiven - Who You Are and Whose You Are 10/13/2024

Redeemed and Forgiven - Who You Are and Whose You Are We are so loved and in God's sight we are worth redeeming from the brokenness and the darkness that so often permeates our circumstances, lives, and world. #WhoYouAre #WhoseYouAre #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/33435472

God Gave 10/06/2024

God Gave Welcome! Join us in creating a joyful inclusive space where we can uplift one another at the really big table over wine and bread. Thank you for being part of our community. #GodGave #SoLoved #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/33344647

A Labor of Love 09/01/2024

A Labor of Love We hear a lot of talk about love but sometimes we don't see so much of it. Talk is cheap! If we want the people we love to know that we love them then we need to start doing something about it. We need to demonstrate our love by our labor, not our talk. When we love someone, we meet their needs. #LaborOfLove #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/32850137

Destination or Journey - Travel Light 08/25/2024

Destination or Journey - Travel Light We no longer face any pressure to be, at least, nominally Christian. Today, a buffet of options and trending social media ideas purport to present what it means to be Christian. In our time, like in the days of the Colossian church, Apostle Paul addresses the idea of: 1) influence of well-intentions people with a legalistic perspective, and 2) gnosticism (finding salvation and escape from the material world by acquiring secret knowledge). Christian life is a journey not a destination...continue to walk with Jesus. #OnTheJourney #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/32729047

Food for the Journey - Travel Light 08/18/2024

Food for the Journey - Travel Light Bread and hunger are two things everyone knows about. If you are hungry today for something more: unconditional love, forgiveness, or grace...Jesus is ready for you. Bread may be ordinary and hunger commonplace, but there is nothing more extraordinary about the radical love of Christ. It is truly food for the journey #BreadOfLife #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/32625647

Supplies and Baggage - Travel Light 08/11/2024

Supplies and Baggage - Travel Light When we are tested, we will need certain supplies to help us grow in our trust in God's plan and his leadership. Before Jesus began his ministry, he was led out to the wilderness to be tested. The way he responded set the tone for the way he would walk the path ahead for us. #supplies #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/32528822

Mapping Out the Journey - Travel Light 08/03/2024

Mapping Out the Journey - Travel Light In our fast-paced world and materialistic world, it is easy to get weighed down by possessions, obligations, and distractions. In our difficult seasons, it is important and powerful to be reminded of the promises of God. In the simplicity and humility of traveling light, we rediscover God's richness and abundant grace. #mapping #journey #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/32421162

Can We Find God? - Searching for God 06/30/2024

Can We Find God? - Searching for God Matthew 7 says, "Seek and you will find." This seems too simple. Is it possible you can't find God if you don't know what to look for? God's presence is not the "absent" condition. God is always present and at work in the world. The question is...do we anticipate and recognize God's presence. #waiting #resonance #relationships #FindGod #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31945057

Does God Love Everyone? - Searching for God 06/15/2024

Does God Love Everyone? - Searching for God Does God's love have limits? Does God love me? Thankfully, we cannot cross a line that changes these answers. It is not our worth, but God's grace, that determines our lovability. God created everyone. We are built for a relationship with our creator. What God creates, God loves...and what God loves, he loves forever. #GodIsLove #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31755081

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen - Searching for God 06/09/2024

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen - Searching for God Seemingly, bad things can happen to anyone. Yet, God is still good! God cares about his world and did not make us to be puppets—we have autonomy! What could go wrong? Self-centeredness and sin is often our choice. We have messed things up badly and the world is less good than God created it to be. However, our God is ever-present...God promises to restore us when hurt, damaged, or lost. God can use our sufferings to give us perseverance, character, and hope for the future. As a receiver or giver of restorative love we can be active in God's plan to make the world right and closer to what God intended. #DespiteMistakes #GodLoves #JesusSaves #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31665662

How Do We Know God is Good? - Searching For God 06/02/2024

How Do We Know God is Good? - Searching For God God's love is extraordinary! Equality is not based on merit or effort—it is based on generosity and mercy for all. In this framework, the first will be last and the last will be first. Everyone has unearned grace and hope! God is good all the time and all the time God is good. #Undeserved #GoodGod #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31565732

Love in a Time of Crisis 05/26/2024

Love in a Time of Crisis Life has moments of joy and heartbreak. It is often easier to manage when all is well; however, when things go awry, where can you turn? and what are some practical suggestions for loving in a time of crisis? Learn how to acknowledge the tough season, reflect on being loved by God, and gain the perspective that makes it possible to extend that love to others. #LoveInCrisis #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31466877

The Way It Is - The Gospel Rocks 05/05/2024

The Way It Is - The Gospel Rocks As Christ followers, we are called to live differently than those around us, to resist the forces in our culture that are opposed to God and Jesus Christ, to resist "the way it is". We are called not just to believe in God, but to follow Jesus' teachings. To love and care for others, and live out the baptismal promises. To be "all in" for Jesus and live by God's values. #livedifferently #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31127408

The Living Years - The Gospel Rocks 04/28/2024

The Living Years - The Gospel Rocks Live without regrets. Say it loud and say it clear...say it in the living years. Take proactive steps to nurture your relationship with God and others. Live fully in the moment by extending the love God has given us to share. #LiveOutloud #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/31016083

We Can Work It Out - Gospel Rocks 04/14/2024

We Can Work It Out - Gospel Rocks Is the church (at large) a sinking ship? Will the church as we know it survive for 20 more years? It may not endure as we know it, but it WILL thrive according to God's plan. Form this perspective we can be assured that God will work it out. Our job is to embrace the newness.#LoveOthers #GodsWay #WeCanWorkItOut #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/30811968

Follow Jesus Not Rules - Follow Me 03/17/2024

Follow Jesus Not Rules - Follow Me Jesus doesn't ask for a resumes or qualifications to follow him, he simply asks for a willingness to follow: to trust, to learn, to love, to be transformed. It is sometimes messy, sometimes imperfect, but it is real. Following Jesus is being open to the unexpected, the uncomfortable, and the challenging. It is about sitting at God's table of grace and inviting others to share the amazing unconditional love and grace that has already been shared with us by God. #Welcome #TheTable #FollowJesus #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/30405398

Count the Cost - Follow Me 03/10/2024

Count the Cost - Follow Me Grace is free, but it is not cheap. The type of grace we receive from God was very costly and its precious value must be understood to be appreciated. Jesus gave his life for us. Count the cost and act accordingly. We show our gratitude as we strive to live obediently (as best we can) following Jesus and sharing grace with others. #FollowMe #CountTheCost #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/30304998

Seeking the Good - Follow Me 02/18/2024

Seeking the Good - Follow Me What kind of a follower are you? Online, first impressions make a big difference. This is the same reason Jesus was so popular when he came to the world. Jesus had many raving followers and, in the end, overwhelming critics. The people of the world didn't understand why Jesus came. They wanted something/someone more self-serving. Head the call to follow the truth, not vainglory popularity. #FollowTruth #SeekTheGood #AsGodSeesIt #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/30001383

Level the Playing Field 02/11/2024

Level the Playing Field Like a Super Bowl team thrives on cooperation and coordination, we flourish when we work together as followers of Christ to live with compassion and mercy for others...and work together to create a truly just world for all people both near and far. #SuperBowl #Cooperation #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29890298

Remembering Who We Are and Whose We Are - Rest of the Year 02/04/2024

Remembering Who We Are and Whose We Are - Rest of the Year Are you a great worrier? Worry prevents us from experiencing God—who is actively working in the present to help us. Worry sucks the vitality, energy, and joy required to live lives of loving service and compassionate action toward others. Lean in to the radical grace of God. This will shift our focus away from ourselves so that we can boldly and courageously seek how to meet head-on the needs of others. #thrive #abundance #nothalflife #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29788338

What God Has Promised - Rest of the Year 01/28/2024

What God Has Promised - Rest of the Year Why did the people of Israel spend forty years in the dessert before "entering the rest" of the promised land? They were afraid to go in! Do we refuse to enter into the rest that God promised? We must recognize that grace and rest don't depend on our effort. Stop, wait, and pay attention...to see what God to doing. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. #WaitForIt #StopAndRest #DayOff #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29679228

Letting My Soul Catch Up with My Body - Rest of the Year 01/21/2024

Letting My Soul Catch Up with My Body - Rest of the Year Most people can appreciate and respect the commandment "Do not murder." Another commandment a few before it, though, is likewise important but much tougher to keep. "Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy." God demonstrated rest after the work of creation and God knows his creations...including us. We need intentional and regular rest (spiritual and physical) or we fall short of our potential. Let your soul catch up with your body. #restinpeace #whileliving #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29579358

Easy and Light - Rest of the Year 01/14/2024

Easy and Light - Rest of the Year Knowledge and grit are not all it takes to make things go better. A focus on what God asks us to do is a promised path to peace and satisfaction. Living God's values relieves us from the burden of busyness, expectations, regulations, and rigor...religious or otherwise. Take the yoke of Jesus for a uplifting change. #EasyLight #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29475653

Light of Christ 01/07/2024

Light of Christ After the Christmas hoopla, it can be easy let Epiphany slip by. Just as the foreign magi searched out baby Jesus, we, too are all on a quest for something far greater than ourself. They discovered, as we learn, everyone is welcome in the presence of the Lord. We are one family! In truth, we are all just walking each other home. On that journey, go beyond the expected to shine the light of love and grace. #LoveGod #LoveOneAnother #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29371043

Prepare the Way - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child 12/17/2023

Prepare the Way - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child Today we hear a new angle on the advent story—which begins in the desert. Historically, a place of struggle and uncertainty (then and now), the desert near Israel and the area of the Jordan River was ground-zero for God's greatest news for mankind. Prepare the way! That means: scrub the steps, be compassionate, show radical hospitality, embody the love of God with courage and holiness. Prepare the way! Jesus Christ is about to rumble through. #preparetheway #newchapter #humblerumble #advent #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29114088

Coming on the Clouds - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child 12/10/2023

Coming on the Clouds - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child Be ready, be alert...is not a fear-based faith. Jesus is the light of the world and God's transformative presence can be found in the waiting and expectancy within our current situation. Advent is a time to stay focused and be active in our love for God and others. #Attentive #BringLove #SpillTheLight #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/29004078

Celebrating Ministry Together - Hope 4 Kids 12/03/2023

Celebrating Ministry Together - Hope 4 Kids Glory to God and thanks to Messiah for our ministry together! "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-15) No matter what our age, background, history or whatever God's best days for us are ahead. The best is yet to come! Celebrating 50 years of providing dignity, health, joy & love through Hope 4 Kids International #Hope4Kids #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/28903593

Christ the King Sunday - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child 11/25/2023

Christ the King Sunday - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child Who is your shepherd? Who tends to you when you are weak, lost, or in trouble? Ancient kings were in charge of their people this way. However, many kings wandered from this calling and brought judgement and calamity on themselves and their people. Connecting the old and new testament, Jesus is the "Lord our Righteous Savior." His arrival and reign is a mission of love and care for God's people. Christ the King is our shepherd! #ChristtheKing #messiahyl /episode/index/show/messiahyl/id/28788738

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