Reality Santa Barbara (audio)

We are called to loosen our grip on earthly riches and take hold of God and His promises. This allows His transforming power in our lives overflow in generosity to others.

God calls us into the silence of the wilderness to clear our hearts from our own noise.

The wilderness, is often the best place to make room in our hearts for God, by fasting and turning to him. We can trust that he will show up, even when we encounter resistance, because he is faithful.

Lent is for training the habits to catch up with the heart through the spiritual disciplines.

Lent is a journey that prepares us for a deep work of God that can only happen in the wilderness

How do you learn to hear God’s voice? Pastor Lazo explains in the last sermon of Rhythms.

When Jesus rose from the dead, it changed everything, including how God’s people meet. Listen as pastor Lazo explains the beauty and power of the Sunday morning gathering, and the story it tells.

Deep spiritual relationships are evasive, but possible. Christ came to bring us alive, then bring us together.

We can experience God in our workplace when we see his purpose and calling for us.

Reframing Rest by Reality Santa Barbara

The most important rhythm is personal interaction with God

How do we integrate our faith with the rest our life, especially when life is full and chaotic? We need heavenly rhythms.

We are the Body of Christ and God has given us Spiritual Gifts that we are to steward well and serve each other, to build up the Church in faith and glorify God.

Being “rich towards God” includes growing in generosity.

Life can be so disappointing that we move into fix-it mode, and lose sight of what’s right in front of us, and is all that we need: God’s presence

The King of Kings is born out of poverty and tragedy, a mere "shoot from a stump” (11:1; see 6:13) whose greatness is immense, but can now be seen through only through the eyes of faith.

We have all suffered loss and pain, some of us still have unanswered questions. But the ugliest circumstances in our life do not have to be the closing chapter to it Jesus Christ came to restore.

The arrival of the One Who saves us from our sins.

The distractions of this life threaten to derail us from the fullness of following Jesus. But fully committing to Jesus is the best thing you can ever do.

In this interaction between Jesus and his disciples, we see a deeply engrained tendency for people to close themselves off to other people, and to find their primary source of identity and power in their tribe