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Weekend messages from Sozo Church in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit sozo.co or follow along on social media at @SozoChurchSF.
The more familiar we are with God’s providential will and the more surrendered we are to his moral will, the easier it will be to discover God’s personal will for our lives.
Today, Pastor Brian Cromer from Queen City Church shares with us about taking delight in the Lord.
How do you know if the voice you're hearing is actually from God? Find out this week as Pastor Jason teaches how to discern the voice of God in your life.
Today Pastor Jason kicks off our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting with some thoughts on Seeking God.
Pastor Jason Laird kicks off our collection on seeking God with a message on the importance of seeking Him first.
This week we're starting a new collection entitled "The Blessed Life" where we'll talk about how God wants us to be generous in every part of our lives.
One of the biggest epidemics people are struggling with today is loneliness. The cultural paradox is that because of modern technology we live in a world that is more connected than ever but more disconnected than ever. We live in lonely world but this isn’t God’s plan for our lives. It is NOT GOOD for us to be alone. “Join us this week as Ps Jason addresses the question, “How do we stop believing the lies of loneliness?”
Join us this week as we celebrate our two year anniversary as a church and a message from Pastor Dino Rizzo.
Join us this week as pastor Jason shares what it looks like when a church goes “ALL IN” on what Jesus has called His followers to do.
In the book of 1 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul encourages the followers of Jesus in a local church that they should “eagerly desire the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of prophecy.” But why? Why did Paul think it was so important for this group of people to pursue the gifts, especially the gift of prophecy, and what does that mean for us today? Who can prophecy? Is it reserved for an elite group of spiritual giants? Whats the purpose, and if we should pursue this gift, how should we go about it? Join us this week as we demystify the gift of the Holy Spirit and gain an understanding of what role it plays in a follower of Jesus’ life.
Join us this week as guest speaker Ps Preston Morrison of Gateway Church shares a message about what it means to follow God in radical obedience in building His Kingdom.
The Holy Spirit is one of those topics that can often times be confusing or controversial, mainly because the Holy Spirit has often times been either avoided or abused depending on the churches or circles that Christians have found themselves in. There are a lot of different positions and thoughts out there, but what does that Bible say concerning the topic and what role does the Spirit play in our spiritual journey towards a deeper reality of the presence and activity of God in our lives?
If you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, around church, or maybe even new to your spiritual journey, the chances are that you have heard someone say that reading the Bible is important for the Christian Life. But why? Why are the scriptures important? What is their purpose in the life of a follower of Jesus? And what if you’ve tried to read the scriptures but you just find yourself feeling lost or confused about what your reading? Or maybe you don’t even know where to start. Join us this week as Ps Jason talks about the role of scriptures in our spiritual pursuit to Know God.
Join us this week for part 2 of our series "Ancient Paths" as we take a look at some of the tried and true paths to a better relationship with Jesus.
How’s your prayer life? Maybe at one time in your life you had a prayer life but now it’s sort of grown stale. Maybe you would like to pray more but you can't seem to find any margin in your schedule. Maybe when you pray you are majorly distracted. Maybe when you pray you don’t know what to pray or even how to pray. Maybe it's just this season of life and you feel pulled in every direction and you don't feel like you have any time to even push pause to do something like pray when it seems like it is not actually producing any real results. Maybe you find yourself with no desire to pray. Maybe it just seems like a divine duty or some spiritual chore. Maybe you have the desire but you just need someone to teach you how to get started. Well the good news is that the Bible has a lot to say about prayer and it’s something that may not be has hard to do as you think. Join us this week as we learn a simple path to prayer.
Join us this week as Ps Jason unpacks the story of the Good Samaritan and explains what it means to truly love our neighbor.
This week we hear from five different communicators for five minutes each on the topic of "By Faith" in an exciting format we call 5x5.
Join us this week as Ps Jason teaches from the the famous passage “The Parable of the Sower”. This passage gives us some incredible insight about what happens when God SPEAKS INTO A SPACE… it reveals to us how people respond and relate to God’s word when He speaks. As we will see, some people resist it, some reject it, and some receive it. And to those who respond to God’s word in faith and obedience they will experience a beautiful Life… or to put it in Jesus terms, the harvest of their life will be greater than anything they can imagine.
Have you ever found yourself in a season where you questioned why things weren’t working out the way you had hoped or even prayed for? Has it ever been so challenging with life’s circumstances where you begin to wrestle with some real hard faith questions? Some would call this a “crisis of faith” where many people struggle to get through but in this message Ps Josh Turner shares three practical principles that can help you when you find yourself in a crisis of faith. Join us this week and be encouraged that no matter what you are facing or will ever face, you can make it!
We all want to leave a legacy, but how do we live a life that outlives us? We all have great potential that may never be reached unless we understand our purpose, position, and presence. Join us this week as Nate Fox uses the life of Paul the apostle to understand how we live a life of legacy.
Meals are sacred things to the life of Jesus and the Christian faith. Join us this week for a message from Andy Walters as we discuss how a meal with Jesus can bring a different perspective to what’s on our plate.
Every challenge comes with a choice. We can either respond in faith or retreat in fear. Join us this week as Guest Pastor, Josh Andersen from Seasons Church talks about keeping the faith during uncertain times.
God has given each of us the opportunity to make a difference with the what He has entrusted to our lives and the question we must wrestle with is, “What will we do with what we have been given?” Will we spend it all on ourselves? Will we use it all to find personal pleasure and satisfaction? Will we underestimate its value and completely waste the opportunity? The Bible teaches that we have all been given a great responsibility to leverage all that we have to make an eternal difference in the lives of people, and when we live our lives with eternity in mind it causes us to faithfully steward all that we have been given. Join us this week as Ps Jason concludes our collection “What’s Next?” addressing the topic of making a difference with our lives.”
Have you ever wondered, what’s your purpose in life? Have you ever struggled to figure out what your life’s calling is all about? My guess is that every one of us would answer those questions with a “YES!” At some point in every one of our lives we will ask these questions because deep down inside of us we all have been given a God-given purpose and we are invited to search out this great mystery as part of our spiritual journeys. The good news is that God’s Word has a lot to say about discovering your life’s calling and purpose. Join us this week as Nate Fox unpacks a few principles that will help us understand God’s purpose for our lives.
Life can sometimes be hard. Circumstances can sometimes seem like they are stacked against us and the challenge is to keep the right attitude and spirit. It’s in these unpleasant situations and seasons that our joy is often times put to the test. But the scriptures teach us that there is a joy that’s rooted in something so solid that no matter what we face, we can maintain our joy. Join us this week as guest speaker, Ps. Chad Rodriguez, of Liberty Church SF teaches a phenomenal message on the secret of everything, JOY!
Have you ever had something in your life that you knew if you could remove that one thing that everything would get better? Ever struggle with an area that you felt like you just couldn’t gain control of and even felt like giving up? We’ve all been there with the desire to find freedom and yet feeling like it’s out of reach. Join us this week as Ps Jason talks about how we can find freedom from the things that often hold us back from God’s best for our lives.
We are all on a spiritual journey but the truth is it can often times be a challenge to know exactly where you are at, where you are going and what your next step is to get there. We believe that God has laid out a clear path for humanity through His Word and that if we can identify where we are and where He wants to take us we can live a fulfilled life. This week Ps Jason begins a collection of sermons laying out what your next step is on your spiritual journey. This week we discussed why baptism is the next step for a believer once they’ve decided to follow Jesus.
There are many things that shape the Christian faith but most of those things are pale in comparison to the two distinct days known as “Good Friday & Resurrection Sunday.” Good Friday is the day that Jesus offered his life as a sacrifice for all of humanity. As Christians it’s relatively easy to appreciate what Jesus did on Friday because without it we have no hope to have a relationship with God. But what about Sunday? What makes Sunday so important? We know why Jesus had to die, but why did he have to be resurrected? Why did he need to triumph over death in such a powerful way and what are the implications of that resurrection for humanity? Why should the Resurrection be important to you and I? Join us as Ps Jason shares from God’s Word about why the Resurrection is necessary for the Christian Faith and how it applies to our lives in real and practical ways.
Guest Pastor Josh Craft from Elevate Life Church in Frisco, TX talks about the importance of being a true reflection of Christ in our everyday lives.
In Jesus’ final meal before He would go to the cross, He shares it with his closest friends and at the center of the meal He teaches one of the most powerful messages He ever taught, that following Him means following His example as a servant. Join us this week as Ps Jason teaches one of the core convictions of Sozo Church, which is that as a follower of Jesus, serving is our calling.
Grace. It’s something we say before a meal as a reminder of all we have to be thankful for. But grace is more than a prayer, it’s a necessity for us to be who God desires us to be. It’s a fresh start, a new beginning and a new way to be human. Luke 7 is a meal with a message of grace. Warning, this is a provocative story… one of the most scandalous stories of grace we have chronicled in the ministry of Jesus. It’s the story of “The Woman with the Alabaster jar.” Join us this week as Ps Jason shares from Luke 7 regarding the grace of God as a beautiful reminder of how Heaven postures itself toward an imperfect humanity.
Have you ever needed a miracle before? Ever felt like you were face to face with a problem that felt utterly hopeless to overcome? This week Ps Jason talks about “the making of a miracle” as he shares the first message in a collection of talks around the meals people shared with Jesus. This week he sets up the entire collection by unfolding the idea that Jesus’ shared meals were more than meals, they were messages. These meals with Jesus were a window into His message of grace, community, service, sacrifice, the supernatural and the kingdom. These meals are more than metaphors… they are more than just symbols, they carry life transforming truths if we catch them. If you need a miracle than you are sure to enjoy this weeks message.
Sometimes in church it’s easy to kick around theoretical concepts of what integrating faith and work should look like. So we decided to interview a few people in order to get a boots on the ground perspective. Join us as Ps Jason interviews a group of friends about what being a Christian practically looks like in the workplace in the post-christian context of San Francisco.
How do we have public faith that is integrated with our work which bears witness to who Jesus is and the difference he has made in our lives without being weird, brash, awkward or off-putting? Join us this week as Ps Jason talks about how we cannot separate work & witness and that scripture calls us to leverage our vocation as a voice for the gospel.
Have you ever wondered if your work truly matters? Is it really making a difference and is God even concerned with this part of your life? Of course God cares about church, prayer, bible study and all those other “spiritual” things but what about the 9-5? Since work makes up such a large part of our lives it’s probably a great idea that we find out the answer to these questions. Join us this week as Ps Jason unpacks what God has to say about work that truly matters to God.
One of the essentials for us to be who God created us, called us, and desires us to be is to surround ourselves with life giving friendships. We must refuse to live life alone, because life was designed to be lived in community. This week Pastor Jason teaches us what the Bible says about the type of friend we should be and the type of friends we should have in our corner.
Every relationship goes through ups and downs, but the relationships that pass the test of time have often learned how to handle healthy conflict. This week, pastor Jason Laird teaches us what the Bible says about growing through conflict instead of just resolving it.
Pastors Jason and Jennifer Laird answer questions submitted by our church on how to have a Godly, Christ-centered marriage.
We all have a tendency to showcase our best and hide our worst, not just in life but in our relationship with Jesus too. In this message, Pastor Dan Terry unpacks that tension and how we can overcome this to build God's plan for an authentic community.
In our modern and fast-paced world, it's now more important than ever that we take a day off to refresh our soul and let god speak to us in our rest.
Today Pastor Jason Laird shares with us about the importance of hearing from God daily.
Ps. Jason Laird teaches about how important it us for us as Christians to read the Bible for ourselves and learn to feed ourselves spiritually.
We start off 2019 with a message from Ps. Jason Laird on the importance of pressing pause on all of the noise in our lives to pray and focus on God's voice.
Christmas is the story of HOPE being birthed in the middle of a very dark season of humanity. The Good News being heralded was this, HOPE IS HERE!
Pastor Jason reminds us to live with a heavenly and eternal perspective in our daily lives.
Guest Pastor, Marcus Brecheen, from Gateway Church shares with us the importance of going deeper in our relationship with Jesus Christ.
Pastor Jason Laird shares how God wants to work in our lives above and beyond what we could imagine.
Pastor Gabi Ferrara challenges us with the importance of being a contributor to the local church.
Pastor Jason shares with us on how to strip off the layers of our false self and fully be who God has created us to be.
Pastor Christian Huang teaches us what the Bible says about staying planted where God has us.
Today we'll be discussing the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and how we can apply Sunday's talk to our lives this week.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what The Bible says about the importance of serving our city.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what The Bible says about the importance of serving our city.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what The Bible says about the importance of serving our city.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about faith and how it applies to our life.
Pastor Jen Laird shares with us what the Bible says about prayer and how it applies to our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about faith and how it applies to our life.
Pastor Nate Fox shares with us what the Bible says about faith and how it applies to our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about faith and how it applies to our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about finding freedom for our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about finding freedom for our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about discovering God's will for our life.
Pastor Josh Turner shares with us what the Bible says about discovering God's will for our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about discovering God's plan for our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about discovering God's will for our life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us how the resurrection of Jesus can make our ruins come to life.
Pastor Jason Laird shares with us what the Bible says about dealing with our disappointment.
Pastor Jason Laird shares what the Bible teaches us about judging others and examining our lives.
Pastor Jason Laird continues our Love Songs collection of talks with a message about healthy conflict within our relationships.
Nate Fox shares the next talk in our Love Songs collection, about the natural seasons of every relationship.
Pastor Jason Laird begins our Love Songs collection with a talk about what the Bible teaches us about attraction.
Pastor Jason Laird continues our Uphill Habits collection of talks, teaching us about the habit of reading our bible daily.
Pastor Josh Ferrara continues our Uphill Habits collection of talks, teaching us about The Habits of Healthy Relationships.
Pastor Jason Laird begins our Uphill Habits collection, talking about The Habit of Putting God First in every area of our lives.