Resurrection SD: Recent Episodes
Resurrection Presbyterian Church, San Diego
Pastor Rob Peaches on Numbers 5:11-28 in his summer series: Stange & Peculiar Curiosites of The Bible
Revelation 2:8-11; 3:7-13 — Even when threatened with death, the Church is called to hold tight to what is true and be a witness to a dying world.
Luke 19:28-44 — Our mixed motives and our wayward hearts cannot overpower the compassionate heart and covenant faithfulness of Jesus.
Lamentations 4 — Sin makes us stupid. Sin brings about self-destruction. Sin's consequences awaken us to our need for Jesus.
Lamentations 3 — The Lord is good to those who wait for him. Therefore we wait for him to deliver us from sin-caused suffering.
Lamentations 2 — The severity of God brings grief and wisdom to the broken through the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Lamentations 1 — God allows sin to bring about a slow reversal of fortune to wake us up to the grace and the glory of Christ.
Galatians 3:19-29 — Why the Law? The Law reveals the real problem; the Law reveals the real solution; and through that the Law reveals to us our true identity.
Luke 10:25-37 — Jesus is showing us what we are really like so that we can see how beautiful the Gospel really is, and then extend the Kingdom of God into the world.
Matthew 11:25-30 — We want to be a city of refuge to those burdened by the world, the church, and the law of God, because Christ promises a place of rest to those who come to him in their brokenness.
Acts 17:22-34; 1 Corinthians 9:19-27 — Without compromise, the Church is called to contextualize the gospoel to our culture because that's what Jesus has done for us.
1 Timothy 3:16-4:5; 1 Corinthians 13 — Our mission is to preach the truth to a world that hates it in the sacrificial beauty of love, because that's what Jesus did for us.
Matthew 28:18-20 — Our mission is to go out with all of the authority and power of Christ to bring dead people to life and then teach them to do the same.
Colossians 3:1-17 — From the starting point of salvation God renews us into the divine likeness through worship, Christian education, and community.
Hebrews 12:18-29 — Worship helps us to remember who God is, what God has done for us, and shapes us into who we really are.
John 6:35-59 — Because Jesus is, has been, and will continue to be our portion in this life and in the life to come, we look forward with great expectation as he sustains us to eternity.
Isaiah 27:2-13 — Between the two advents, God is grafting us into Christ, he is growing us through suffering, and he is gleaning for eternal life.
Isaiah 25:6-12 — In this Advent season, we are to remember that we are waiting for the end of sin, the end of death, and the end of suffering forever.
Genesis 49:8-12 — Because the Bible is internally consistent and lines up with reality, we can rejoice that the promises of God are true for us.
Genesis 5 — As we fight the long defeat, we can know that God's promises are true and that Jesus has won the victory over the world.
1 Samuel 30 — Even in our darkest hour, God's providence will see us through to a better tomorrow.
1 Samuel 28:3-25; 31 — The burden of the Law is heavy, but the burden of Christ is light, because Jesus has walked through the darkness for us.
1 Samuel 26 — God's goodness extends to his people and to the world until the time of the end.
1 Samuel 25 — In the twilight of our sin, God sends restraining grace in the form of people and in the form of promises.
1 Samuel 24 — In the daily struggle between fear and faith, it's always better to wait on the Lord, because he always comes through.
Paul Goes to the Apostles with Titus — Why would Paul need to go to the other apostles if he got his message from the Lord? Why was it important to bring Titus?
1 Samuel 23 — Even thought life's circumstances may be bleak, God is faithful to keep us safe until the end.
Paul's Defense of His Ministry — Why did Paul defend his ministry as an apostle? What can we learn about the Gospel and the Christian life from his testimony?
1 Samuel 22:6-23 — Even though the spirit of antichrist is now in the world, God is in perfect control through a quiet power to comfort and save his people.
Paul's Introductory Remarks — Why was Paul so upset with the church in Galatia? Why is this letter so unique?
1 Samuel 21 — God promises provision and protection for his people in the wilderness of this fallen world.
Introduction to Galatians — Why did Paul write a letter to the church in Galatia? How does this letter challenge the church today?
Zephaniah 3:14-20 — God rejoices in us because his love compels him to save us, so we should rejoice in him.
1 Samuel 18-19 — Whenever we are tempted to get mad aboutmp the truth, remember that God’s protection compels us into the beauty of humble submission.
1 Samuel 17 — No matter how strong you are, death is stronger, but Jesus is stronger than death, and he has set you free.
Matthew 13:44-46 — Eternal life is so good that even if it costs us everything, it would still be the best trade ever made.
1 Samuel 16 — Grace is like torment to the proud, but it is beyond beautiful to the humble as a gift of the Holy Spirit.
1 Samuel 14:47-15:35 — Eventually sin becomes so bad that God has to shut it down, and this is exactly why the world needs Jesus.
1 Peter 4:8-11 — We’re able to rejoice as God is glorified through us as we practice hospitality and learn to serve one another with the gifts he has given us. Through those things he teaches us how to one another deeply in a flawed and fallen world.
1 Samuel 14:1-23 — Pride forces us to repeat our mistakes, but repentance turns to God’s power, and faith follows into his victory.
Isaiah 58 — Whenever we try to turn worship into a hustle, God invites us to get high by going low, because that’s what Jesus did for us.
1 Samuel 10:25-11:15 — When the world crushes in on us God’s power is ever present to save sinners like us.
1 Samuel 10:17-27 — God’s mercy speaks truth into our foolishness to show us the beauty of Christ.
1 Samuel 9:1-10:16 — All the talent in the world cannot overcome a bad heart, but God can and will do amazing things through people who just trust in Jesus.
Philippians 4:4-8 — In every anxious moment of life, God wants us to rejoice in the presence of Christ and to practice the discipline of joy.
1 Samuel 8 — God will always send someone to warn us, and then he’ll give us what we want, because sometimes that’s what it takes to rest in him.
1 Samuel 7:2-17 — Real repentance goes all in as God goes all out to make us beautiful.
1 Samuel 5 — Our idols may have power to give us what we want, but God is power to give us what we need.
Hebrews 2:14-18 — The Devil has the power of death, and the fear of death enslaves us, but Christ has won victory over death!
What It Means to Follow the Real God, Why We Can't Make Images of God, and Why God Is Jealous For Us
What Discipleship Is, How Our Relationships with Others Have Changed, and Why We Follow the Ten Commandments.
Psalm 37:1-11 — Is it better to delight in the World, or is better to delight in the Lord?
1 Samuel 2:12-36 — The church may fail us, but God never will, because Jesus is our faithful high priest forever.
Why the Resurrection and Restoration of All Things Is Our Hope; Why Our Present Suffering Cannot Compare to the Glory to Come
1 Samuel 1:1-28 — God will use cultural expectations and crisis to force us into the corner with Christ, so as to bring about salvation and inexpressible joy.
What Justification By Faith Alone Is, Why It Matters, and What the New Life in Christ Looks Like
Acts 15:4-18 — If we cling to culture, we can miss the beauty of the Gospel and forget who we really are.
How the Spirit of God Creates the Church and Builds It Up Through the Gifts of Christ, Uniting Us to Christ and to Each Other, Empowering Us to Live
Exodus 35:4-36:7 — We get to make something beautiful for God by rebuilding his house to the glory of Christ.
How the Ascension of Jesus to God's Right Hand Brought about a Cosmic Change to Reality and What the Coming Judgment Means
Why We Should Believe in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus and Why the Ascension Matters for Our Salvation
How Jesus overcame the power of sin in our lives by suffering Hell in our place in the spectacle of the crucifixion
Acts 1:6-9; Daniel 7:13-14; Revelation 5:5-14 — The eternal king is now in power, liberating his people into the real world.
2 Samuel 7:8-17 — God is always the giver of promises that never fail through Jesus the good king.
Genesis 2:8-17; 3:1-7, 14-21 — In the trial of life we can go our own way, or we can trust in the wisdom of God.
How the Creator-creature is central to God's Lordship; and what it means for Jesus to be our Lord and Messiah
Hebrews 11:23-28; Numbers 12:3; Deuteronomy 34:10-12 — When we seek our own glory, sin is always waiting, so it's better to wait for the glory that comes from Christ.
How Jesus fulfills the promise of God in his life and death and will usher in the new heavens and earth.
Hebrews 11:8-12, 17-19 — God shapes us over time to become something beautiful for the glory of Christ.
Luke 10:25-37 — Guest preacher, Chris Sandoval of Servant Church, speaks on what we can learn about racism from the parable of the good samaritan.
John 21:15-25 — Jesus comforts us so that we can comfort one another as we persevere into
John 21:1-14 — When we are tempted to go it alone Jesus reminds us that he is the source of power of life.
John 20:24-30 — Out of the darkness of doubt Jesus reveals the divine mystery that God died for us.
Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 — The words of God, made beautiful, direct and protect us in the path of life.
Why We Are All Wired for Law-Obedience, How Sin and Temptation Entered the World, and How Humanity Fell in the Garden
John 20:11-18 — Jesus comes to us in our earthly sorrow with unbreakable promises of everlasting joy.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-12:8 — Live out your calling and rejoice in God now, because life is shorter than you think.
John 19:16b-30 — Jesus is our high priest and our eternal king who has paid our moral debt to God in full.
John 19:1-16 — Since neither hostility nor neutrality can dethrone Jesus, the only rational response is faith.
John 18:28-40 — Self-righteous religion makes us moral monsters and secular cynicism make us moral evaders, but Jesus speaks peace and truth.
Ecclesiastes 9:13-10:20 — In a world where wisdom is vulnerable and foolishness rules, we can always count on Christ.
John 18:13-27 — Because even our worst failures are covered by Jesus’ victory, we can always rejoice in the gift of his salvation.
John 18:1-12 — Because the power of God always protects us, we can live our lives in the service of the Gospel.
The gospel is for everyone. But people are complicated, and genuine communication across cultures and social groups can be harder than it seems. Thankfully, God shows us how to draw near to others in the same way that he has to us, through Jesus.
John 17:20-26 — We are united by the glory of God, who is living in us, who is working through us, and who is promising to bring us home.
The gospel is for everyone. But people are complicated, and genuine communication across cultures and social groups can be harder than it seems. Thankfully, God shows us how to draw near to others in the same way that he has to us, through Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 — Even though we live and die in the shadow of death, there are still so many blessings from God in the world, and the best is yet to come.
John 17:11-19 — It is because we are no longer of the world, but have been set apart in Jesus Christ, that we may go out into the world and bear witness about Jesus and serve the world sacrificially.
John 17:1-5 — Jesus prays to be glorified: 1) to bring glory to the Father, 2) because he's earned it for us, and 3) because he is the divine Son.
Ecclesiastes 8:10-17 — In a world of injustice God shows his kindness so that we can trust him to be God.
John 16:29-33 — God leads us out of a shallow faith and into a deep faith through trial, so that we might truly rest in our salvation.
John 16:25-33 — Since God continues to reveal himself to us through Jesus in the Bible, we can have intimate communion with him in prayer as we rest in his unshakable covenant love.
John 16:16-24 — That while the world takes joy in death, we take joy in eternal life now and forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ecclesiastes 8:1-9 — We should be humble under earthly power because this world is not our home.
John 16:4b-15 — Since the Spirit promises to keep pressure on the world and to guide us and bring us home, we can have confidence and compassion in our witness for Christ.
John 15:18-16:4a — Since persecution is the norm for the faithful church, let’s stop trying so hard to belong to the world and live for God instead.
Matthew 28:1-15 — The gospel makes the strong weak and the weak strong, even as it continues to spread across the face of the earth.
Matthew 21:1-17 — Jesus was nothing that we wanted, but he is everything we need to the praise of his glorious name.
Ecclesiastes 7:15-29 — Since we can't know everything about the divine plan we have to go with what God has revealed to us. We need to be dependent on God, we need to be gracious toward each other, and we need to trust that God is for us.
John 15:1-17 — In a world that is withering and dying, we are called to remain in Jesus, the only source of life and sustenance, so that we might bear the fruit of love for one another.
John 14:27-31 — In light of Jesus' shalom we are commanded to be courageous and rejoice in his obedience through the cross.
John 14:15-26 — Our love for Jesus is the evidence of his deep presence with us through this evil age.
Ecclesiastes 6:10-7:14 — We can embrace adversity because God is working all things for our good in Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 14:1-14 — We can have peaceful hearts in the midst of suffering because Jesus has beat death, he has brought light, and he has made us channels of divine life.
John 13:18-38 — The very same power that God uses to glorify himself guarantees the protection and transformation of his people.
John 13:1-17 — The humility of Jesus is the path of sanctification and joy, demonstrated for us through the cross.
Ecclesiastes 5:8-6:9 — No amount of money can heal a broken heart, in fact, it can only make it worse, because God alone has the power to heal our hearts now and forever through Jesus.
Ephesians 4:1-16 — Because we have been given unity in our diversity through the lordship of Christ, we should use our diverse gifts together to grow the Church in Christ.
Matthew 28:16-20 — The purpose of the Church is to go out, to bring in, and to grow up new believers into a holistic Christian faith, and we can do that because the power and presence of God is always with us.
Luke 1:26-38 — Because the incarnation is the beginning of God's promise of a new creation, we can have confident hope that he will complete it.
Matthew 1:1-6 — Because the promise of salvation has come to us, we can rest assured that God is for us.
Colossians 1:15-20 — Because Jesus is the intersection of God and man who has reunited heaven and earth by the blood of his cross we have power and freedom and security in God.
John 12:20-50 — We can’t fulfill the requirements of God’s holy law. Yet Christ has come in our stead to succeed where we have failed. Now we are free to abandon our own earthly kingdoms for Christ and receive the eternal life He gives.
John 12:9-19 — We are free to let go of our little earthly kingdoms because Jesus is the cornerstone of a whole new creation.
John 11:55-12:8 — Pretending to be "religious" isn't true religion, but a true devotion to Christ creates an intimate friendship with God, and a deep gratitude for salvation.
John 11:1-44 — Sometimes it feels like Jesus has abandoned us, but he hasn't. Sometimes the answer to our prayers is "not yet" because something even greater than we expected is coming.
John 10:22-42 — Jesus will never let us go, and no one can ever steal us away because His hold on us is in the power of the Father in heaven.
John 10:1-21 — In a world of bad leaders there is still one good one. A servant King who serves as the gate to heaven.
John 9:18-41 — The world will use intimidation and fear to crush your faith. But you can’t scare someone who’s seen Jesus because his eyes are fixed on another world.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 — Church is a place to be reshaped by the voice of God instead of our own. That means we need to listen first, then act in gratitude for what we hear—Jesus has bridged the gap between heaven and earth.
John 9:1-17 ― The Gospel shows us that even before we give voice to faith, in our spiritual blindness, surrounded by darkness, Jesus sees us—and He loves us. He is the light of the world, who has overcome the darkness.
John 8:48-59 ― We have to be willing to let go of the glory of this world if we want to receive the Glory of the next.
True freedom isn't freedom to sin, but freedom from sin. In our natural state we love what the Devil loves and do what the Devil does. But God has sent His Son to emancipate us from Sin so that we can love what God loves and do what God does.
Ecclesiastes 4 — The oppressed cry out and no one cares because we are at war with each other to become the oppressors. This is the way of the world. But there is a better way: the community life of the world above lived out now in the church.
When we ask, “Who is Jesus?” we have to really want to know. God (who sees the heart) is under no obligation to answer an insincere question. Do you really want to know? — Two Worlds: John 8:21-30.
John 8:12-20 ― Jesus is the Light of the World that has led us out of the wilderness of sin and darkness. He is producing life in us that is far greater than anything our sin has to offer.
John 7:53-8:11 ― The purpose of the Law is to catch us in our sin and show us our need for the grace of God. Only then can the law bring life, because only grace can elicit the devotion of love.
Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 reveals that our human weakness leaves us spiritually paralyzed and destined for death. Thankfully, God has judged His Son, Jesus Christ, according to our unrighteousness, so that we may never know a day without hope!
John 7:40-52 reveals how the Gospel shows us we are weak, powerless, and incapable of saving ourselves. This is great news; it frees us from the burden of earning our salvation and promises us a salvation that is powerful enough to bring the dead to life.
"The Ascension of Jesus means that He is, right now, pouring out a River of Spiritual Life into the world. For everyone connected to its tributaries by faith it is an unbreakable tether to the Eternal World. It is a bond stronger than death."
This week pastor Rob continues his series, The RESURRECTION and the LIFE, as preaches from John 7:25-36, in this, the nineteenth sermon in the series.
This week pastor Rob preaches from John 7:14-24, in this, the eighteenth sermon in the series, The RESURRECTION and the LIFE, a study of the Gospel of John.