King's Cross Church OC: Recent Episodes
King's Cross Church OC
Bible teachings from King's Cross Church, a new church in South Orange County. We gather Sundays at 10am in Rancho Santa Margarita.
The church is central to the purposes of God in the world. Because of this, we should see the beauty of the church and the joy of loving her membership, living out her mission, and confessing her message.
Pastor Chris walks us through a masterclass in prayer in Ephesians 1. We should pray for our spiritual growth, knowing that the power of God is at work in those gospel-shaped prayers.
Pastor Chris brings us into the New Year with a sermon on the historic church's biblical priorities.
Pastor Chris works through 1 Timothy 3:1–7 on why the calling and character of pastors/elders.
Pastor Chris walks through the most challenging and misunderstood passage in 1 Timothy, unpacking gender roles in the a healthy local church.
Brian Seitz preaches through 1 Timothy 2:1–7 on prayer and the heart of God for the global church.
Double Feature! Pastor Chris continues our "Blueprints" series through 1 Timothy with a Reformation Sunday message through 1 Timothy 1:18–20.
God can change anybody. There is nobody beyond the reach of God’s patient mercy and saving grace.
Why do we need the letter we know as 1 Timothy? We need the great book of 1 Timothy because of the authority it holds, the church it envisions, and the hope of the gospel saturating every page.
We all have desires and wants, but there is a difference between rightly ordered desires and disordered desires. Mark Dodd unpacks Psalm 73 on the deadly desires we often hold and the everyday hope we have in knowing and loving the God who truly satisfies.
Guest preacher, Pastor David Hughes, walks us through Psalm 119:137–160 on the significance of the statement, "God's word is true," and how it shapes our thoughts and lives.
Pastor Chris preaches through one of the most hotly debated chapters of the Bible. But when we dig into each verse, there are some non-negotiable and timeless truths of our faith that will breathe hope into these restless times.
Mark Dodd walks us through Revelation 19:1–10. With Babylon defeated, the marriage of the Lamb has come. The people of God are a pure bride clothed in bright and pure righteousness.
Pastor Chris unpacks one of the wildest chapters in the Book of Revelation. We are each living for one of two cities: the city of God or the city of man. One leads to a life better than you could ever dream, and the other leads to a destruction worse than you could ever dread.
We jump back into our teaching series through Revelation. Pastor Chris unpacks chapters 15 and 16 on the Song of Moses and the Bowls of Wrath.
We take a break from our normal teaching series for a sermon on what to do with the big "Why?!" questions of despair and agony, through passages in book of Job.
Revelation 14:6–20. A sobering sermon on the reality of hell, how it strangely brings comfort, and what we should do in response.
With the dragon and his beasts raging against the church throughout the ages, what hope do we have? Pastor Chris walks us through John's vision in Revelation 14:1–5 for the answer.
Pastor Chris works through one of the most mysterious and controversial passages in the book of Revelation. There are real spiritual forces that want to destroy your body by death or your soul by leading you away from Jesus in the everyday stuff of life. But for those in Christ, these forces will never succeed.
Why do Christians suffer persecution? In Revelation 12, we see the present age of the church from a different perspective. The apostle John describes something he hasn't clearly addressed yet — the dark spiritual forces working behind the scenes seeking to inflict suffering on the church and thwart her mission.
Pastor Chris unpacks Revelation 11:15–19 on the end of the world and the better world to come.
Oscar walks us through Revelation 11:1–14 on the symbolic "two witnesses" and what they have to do with witnesses today.
Guest Preacher Josh Sayles walks us through Acts 13 and the doctrine of the providence of God.
We're back in the fascinating book of Revelation! In this sermon, we look at Revelation 10, where John receives a vision of eating a scroll. We discover the significance of this strange scene and how does it relate to the mission of the church today.
Pastor Chris unpacks our primary mission as a church by going through John 17 and one of the more famous prayers of Jesus Christ.
Continuing our three-part Vision 2022 series, Pastor Chris turns to Hebrews 10:19–25 on authentic Christian community (why we need it, what it looks like, and how it's possible).
Launching our Vision 2022 series, Pastor Chris walks through Romans 11:33–12:2 and what it means to worship in light of the gospel.
Pastor Chris begins our 2021 Advent series with a message on Hope—why we all long for it and how to truly find it.
It's Reformation Sunday, and for this week's teaching, Pastor Chris walks us through Revelation 7 where we find the answer to the question "Who can stand before the Lord on judgment day?"
Following Christ often comes with persecution. Christ himself warned of this. At times, this persecution leads to martyrdom. What do we make of this? Why does God allow this? And what hope do martyrs and persecuted Christians have? In this week's teaching, we look at Revelation 6:9–17 and find answers to these unsettling questions.
Ch 6 is famously one of the most mesmerizing and fascinating passages of Scripture in the whole Bible. As one commentator points out, “It is at this point that most preachers stop preaching Revelation” because “Here the work of interpretation gets much more difficult. What do all the symbols and images mean?” Revelation 6 begins with the "breaking of the seals." In this week's teaching we look at the first four seals and the "four horsemen of the apocalypse."
In this week's teaching, Pastor Chris walks us through Revelation 3:14–22, where Jesus calls out a church for having a lukewarm faith that makes him sick. It's not all harsh! The text ends with a loving invitation of grace. The good news is that the One who created them is the very One who can make them new again.
In this week's teaching, Pastor Chris unpacks the only letter that receives no correction and only praise—a small but faithful congregation in the original "Philadelphia."
In this week's teaching, Pastor Chris walks us through Revelation 3:1–6 where Jesus addresses a church that looks vibrant on the outside but is spiritually dead on the inside.
Pastor Chris Poblete walks us through the longest of Revelation's seven letters, where Jesus confronts a church on the pervasive sin of idolatry.
Pastor Chris is back to continue our series in Revelation. This week, he begins a portion of Revelation called the "letters to the seven churches," where Jesus directly addresses seven different churches. We look at Revelation 2:1–7 on a church that has many commendable attributes but have fallen from their "first love."
Brian Seitz explains the meaning and purpose of a category of ancient prayer songs called the "Psalms of Ascent," then walks us through the first psalm in that category—Psalm 120.
Pastor Josh Sayles from Village Church walks us through the beginning of the Bible's longest chapter and psalm.
Pastor Chris revisits parts of the previous week's passage which is foundational to our understanding of Christ's victory (and ours) in the book of Revelation. A Jesus who is truly worth worshiping is one who is truly Lord and Savior—one who both confronts us and comforts us.
In this passage, Jesus appears in a vision to the apostle John. In this vision, Christ is unveiled as our present priest, an unshakeable king, and the fearsome judge who will one day right every wrong done to His creation and His people.
Pastor Chris continues our teaching series by looking at the foundation and center of the entire book. The foundation is the Triune God of the Scriptures and the center is the good news of Jesus Christ, His victory, and the victory of His church.
Pastor Chris launches our new teaching series into the last book of the canon of Scripture: Revelation. To begin our journey through this mysterious and often misunderstood book, we establish what the book is about and how it should and should not be read. Understood rightly, the book offers a practical hope in the already won victory of Christ and His church.
Pastor Chris walks us through 1 Peter 4:7–11, where the apostle gives a timely reminder on how living in these "last times" changes the way we pray and love one another.