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What if the biggest factor in your spiritual growth isn’t just your habits… but your people?In this message from Hebrews 10, we see that God never intended for you to follow Jesus alone. You are being shaped—right now—by the relationships around you. The question is: are they helping you drift… or helping you grow?We explore what it means to “consider one another” and how real, gospel-centered community requires both encouragement and provocation. Not just support—but truth. Not just comfort—but calling.Because Christ has secured your access to God, He now uses His people to sustain your faith.Step into the kind of community that keeps you.👉 Learn more about Village: https://sacvillage.org 👉 Give to support what God is doing: https://sacvillage.org/give

In this message, we explore God’s design for life together through confession, forgiveness, and healing. Because of what Christ has done, we don’t have to hide, pretend, or keep score. Instead, we can live in a rhythm of grace; confessing humbly, forgiving freely, and experiencing real healing in community.This is how the gospel transforms not just our hearts… but our relationships.Join us as we learn what it looks like to live in The Grace Cycle.🔗 Learn more about Village Church: https://sacvillage.org 🙏 Give to support what God is doing at Village: https://sacvillage.org/give

The gospel doesn’t just reconcile us to God—it reshapes how we relate to one another.In the New Testament, the phrase “one another” appears nearly sixty times. These commands describe the kind of community the gospel is meant to create: a people who actively love, serve, encourage, forgive, and carry one another’s burdens.In this first message of the One Anothering series, we explore Jesus’ command to love one another and Paul’s call to serve one another through love. We also look at the wisdom of Galatians 6, which teaches us how to carry one another’s burdens without falling into unhealthy patterns like co-dependency and triangulation.The church is meant to be a place where love is practiced, burdens are shared, and people grow toward maturity in Christ together.John 13:34–35 | Galatians 5:13–15 | Galatians 6:1–5Listen now and be encouraged to step more deeply into the life of gospel community.Watch or learn more: https://villagechurchsac.comSupport the mission of Village: https://villagechurchsac.com/give

Our culture tells us that the fully human life is a self-sovereign life; where you define your truth, determine your purpose, and answer to no one but yourself. But the story of Scripture tells a different story.From the beginning, humanity has chased the throne. Yet in Jesus we see what true humanity actually looks like. Though He possessed all authority, Jesus did not grasp for power, He humbled Himself, took the form of a servant, and gave His life for others.In this final message of the True & Better series, we look at Philippians 2 and Mark 10 to see how Jesus reveals the true pattern of the human life: not autonomy, but humble obedience and self-giving love. The goal of the Christian life is becoming like Christ.Learn more about Village: https://sacvillage.orgSupport the ministry of Village: https://sacvillage.org/give

In this message, we explore what Scripture means when it calls believers “strangers,” “exiles,” and “citizens of heaven.” What if much of our anxiety, frustration, and spiritual drift comes from forgetting who we really are?The consumer identity says life is about maximizing comfort, curating experiences, and protecting preferences. The gospel says something different: this world is not your home; it is your assignment.Through 1 Peter 2 and Philippians 3, we’ll see how identity determines attachment, how desire becomes a battlefield, how citizenship shapes conduct, and how resurrection hope loosens our grip on this age.Consumers cling. Pilgrims walk.And King Jesus is not up for re-election.Learn more about Village: 👉 https://sacvillage.orgTo support the mission: 👉 https://sacvillage.org/give

In a culture shaped by Moral Therapeutic Deism, it’s easy to believe God mainly wants us to be nice and feel good. But the Bible reveals something far greater — and far more unsettling: God is holy.In this message, Nick Rozema explores why God’s holiness is our biggest problem, why heaven is about more Christ (not just more comfort), and why good people don’t go to heaven; justified people do. True holiness isn’t moral effort; it’s deep delight in God.Will we shrink God to fit our lives? Or be transformed by seeing Him as He truly is?Listen now.🌐 Website: https://www.sacvillage.org💛 Give: https://www.sacvillage.org/give

We are more connected than ever; and yet loneliness is epidemic. Our culture tells us to find ourselves in isolation or define ourselves against the crowd. But Scripture offers something better: identity formed in Christ, among His people.In this message, we explore how God shapes us not in private spirituality, but through shared life, gospel-shaped dialogue, and faithful presence in the church. From Acts 2 to Ephesians 4 and Hebrews 10, we see that salvation is personal—but never private. You were not saved into independence. You were saved into a body.If identity is formed alone, no one can challenge you. If identity is imposed by the group, no one can truly know you. But if identity is formed in Christ, among His people, transformation becomes possible without losing yourself.Listen in and discover why community isn’t optional to spiritual growth—it’s the context where maturity happens.Learn more about Village Church: https://sacvillage.orgTo support the ministry of Village Church, give here: https://sacvillage.org/give

Our culture tells us that who we really are lives deep inside our feelings and desires; and that the body is something to manage, ignore, or overcome. Scripture tells a very different story.In this message, we explore the Bible’s vision of the human person as an integrated, embodied being; created by God, corrupted by sin, redeemed by Christ, and destined for bodily resurrection. From Genesis to the resurrection of Jesus, Scripture insists that what we do with our bodies matters because our bodies belong to the Lord.This sermon unpacks why sin and obedience are always embodied, why worship is more than emotional sincerity, and why Christian freedom is found not in self-ownership but in belonging to God. Ultimately, it calls us to a true and better vision of identity—whole, not divided; embodied, not disembodied; offered to the glory of God.🔗 Learn more about Village: HERE💛 Support the mission of Village: HERE

Covenant, Not Consent God Governs Reality, Not Individual “Truth”We live in a world where freedom is defined by choice and truth is treated as something we authorize from the inside out. If I didn’t choose it, it can’t bind me. If it doesn’t align with me, it can’t claim me.But Scripture tells a very different story.Webside: https://www.sacvillage.org

Who has the right to define your life?In a culture that celebrates self-definition and autonomy, Scripture tells a very different story. In this message, we confront the modern assumption that identity is something we create and instead recover the biblical truth that we are created, not constructed.From Genesis to the cross, the Bible exposes self-constructed identity not as freedom, but as rebellion against the Creator’s rightful authority. What begins as self-rule always ends in fracture; instability, conflict, and exhaustion; because the self was never meant to sit on the throne.This sermon traces the destructive fruit of self-made identity and lands with the gospel’s clear answer: Jesus Christ is the perfect revelation of God, the rightful Lord of every life, and the only source of true wholeness. Redemption does not begin with self-discovery, but with repentance; laying down self-rule and surrendering to Christ.The question before us is not simply who you are, but whose you are.Learn more about Village at https://www.sacvillage.org Support the ministry and mission of Village at https://www.sacvillage.org/give

If our identity in Christ is secure, why does growth still feel slow—and why do old struggles remain?In this message, we explore how spiritual formation works not as self-improvement, but as learning to live from the identity we’ve already received through union with Christ. From Romans 6 and Ephesians 4, we see that struggle doesn’t mean grace has failed—it means formation is underway. God is faithfully shaping our lives to match what is already true of us in Christ, right in the middle of ordinary life.You are not working toward an identity. You are being formed by one.Learn more: www.sacvillage.orgSupport the ministry: www.sacvillage.org/giving

In this opening message of the True & Better: A Gospel Identity series, we step back and ask a deeper question: What does God say about who we are?Anchored in Genesis 1–3 and Philippians 3, this sermon explores the biblical story of identity; received in creation, fractured by sin, and restored in Christ. We’ll see why identity cannot bear the weight of performance, success, or self-definition, and why the gospel offers something far better: an identity not achieved, but received through union with Jesus.Website: https://www.sacvillage.orgConsider supporting Village: https://www.sacvillage.org/give

As a new year begins, many of us quietly assume that everything depends on us; our effort, discipline, endurance, and productivity. Rest feels risky. Sabbath can feel impossible.But the Bible tells a different story.In this message, we return to the opening pages of Scripture to see that God rested not because He was tired, but because the work was finished. From creation, through Israel’s wilderness journey, and ultimately in the finished work of Christ, Scripture reveals that Sabbath is not about laziness or legalism, it’s about trust.We’ll explore why we resist rest, how our identity gets tied to productivity, and how Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath, offers a rest we could never earn. When Jesus declares, “It is finished,” He frees us from striving and invites us into a rhythm of grace-shaped trust.Sabbath, then, becomes more than a day off...it becomes a lived confession of the gospel.👉 Learn more about Village and find additional resources at: https://sacvillage.org🙏 If you’d like to partner with what God is doing through Village, you can give here: https://sacvillage.org/give

The final Sunday of the year invites reflection: what’s changed, what hasn’t, what we hoped would be different by now, and what we’re still waiting on.In this message from 2 Peter 3, we look beyond the first Advent, when Christ came in humility, to the last Advent, when Christ will return in glory. Peter speaks to believers living in the in-between; between promise fulfilled and promise still coming; addressing doubt, delay, and the question so many still ask: “Where is the promise of His coming?”What looks like delay is not failure, but mercy. God’s patience is salvation, inviting repentance, holiness, and hope as we wait for the day when God finishes what He started and brings about new heavens and a new earth where righteousness dwells.This sermon calls us to live faithfully in the present because our future is secure—to wait, not with anxiety, but with hope.Website: https://www.sacvillage.orgGive: https://www.sacvillage.org/give

We live in a world driven by effort, performance, and self-improvement. Try harder. Do better. Be more disciplined. But what if the heart of Christianity isn’t about what we do at all?In Romans 8:1–4, the apostle Paul tells the Christmas story in a surprising way—not as a celebration of human potential, but as an announcement of divine intervention. When the law could not save us, when effort failed, when guilt and inner conflict exposed our limits, God did it.In this Advent message, we explore:Why the law can diagnose sin but cannot cure itWhat God accomplished by sending His Son as a sin offeringHow there is now no condemnation for those in ChristWhy obedience flows from acceptance, not toward itThis is not better advice. It’s good news.Not humanity reaching up to God—but God coming down to us.Website: https://sacvillage.orgGive: https://sacvillage.org/giveIf you’re weary, discouraged, or exhausted from trying to be “good enough,” hear the hope of Advent according to Paul: Your salvation rests not in what you can do for God—but in what God has already done for you.