26 West Church: Audio Podcast

Church is ____: Part 3 - God’s Field

Matthew 9v35-10v8

Jesus gives us our mission, message, and motivation to continue His work in His world.

Taught by Jose Zayas

Church is ____: Part 2 - God’s Family

Various Scriptures

Following Jesus brings us into God’s global and local family.  Everyone is gifted. Everyone matters.  Everyone shares.

Taught by Jose Zayas

Church is ____: Part 1 - God’s House

Matthew 16v15-18; Matthew 18v15-27; Ephesians 2v11-22

After a year of closed buildings and online gatherings, many are wondering if connection with church really matters. So, what is the church anyway? 

Taught by Jose Zayas

Hope 2021: Hope for the Rescue of Others

Genesis 37-50

Joseph’s life is a model for how God takes our challenges and success and weaves them for the good of others.

Taught by Jose Zayas

Hope 2021: Hope For Our Future

Matthew 26, 27 and John 21

Everyone fails. It’s what we do with our failure that dictates our future.

Taught by Jose Zayas

Hope 2021: Hope For Our Restoration

Psalm 126

How do we make our way through loss to receive from God?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Hope 2021: Hope For A Heavy Heart

Luke 13v31-35

What does it look like to step into a new year with genuine, grounded, Jesus-centered hope in the middle of the chaos all around?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Living Generously: God Has All We Need

Luke 12v13-21

What is generosity? And why is it so important in our discipleship to Jesus?

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: All Or Nothing

Matthew 7v13-27

Jesus ends his teaching with a startling contrast: you are either all in (to following him) or not following at all.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Never, Ever, Ever Give Up

Matthew 7v7-11

In the middle of all life’s trouble, Jesus invites us to ask, seek, and knock.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Navigating Our Cancel Culture

Matthew 7v1-6

How do we work through our real differences and preferences? Jesus show us where to start and what to avoid.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Seek First His Kingdom

Matthew 6v19-34

Jesus invites us to seek first Him and His kingdom rather than a worldly vision for life that can bring with it unnecessary worry.

Taught By Ryan Doucet

Seek First His Kingdom

Matthew 6v16-18

Taught By Jake Sartain

Spiritual Conflict: Part 2

What do the Scriptures show us about evil powers, demons, and the real unseen spiritual conflicts?

Taught By Gerry Breshears

Spiritual Conflict: Part 1

What do the Scriptures show us about evil powers, demons, and the real unseen spiritual conflicts?

Taught By Gerry Breshears

Teach Us To Pray

Matthew 6v5-15

Prayer is our invitation into our Father’s world.

Taught By Jose Zayas

A Rewarded Life

Matthew 6v1-4

Jesus calls his followers to practice generosity.

Taught By Bryan Fowler

Limitless Love

Matthew 5v38-48

 

What does Jesus really mean by “turn the other cheek” and “go the extra mile?”

 

Taught By Jose Zayas

Telling The Truth

Matthew 5v33-37

 

Healthy relationships require trust. And trust is built on truth-telling.

 

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Divorce And Remarriage (Part 2)

Matthew 5v31-32

Practical questions on how to live out God’s vision for marriage.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Divorce And Remarriage (Part 1)

Matthew 5v31-32

What is God’s plan for marriage? And what are we supposed to do when things get hard?

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Sexual Desire

Matthew 5v27-30

Sex is a gift. Sex is good. Yet Jesus warns us about misguided desire.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: A Heart For The Father

John 17

God, our Father, is for us and with us. What He longs for in return is that we would live for Him.

Taught By Jose Zayas

 

The Way Of Jesus: Restoring Broken Relationships

Matthew 5v21-26

What do we do after we forgive someone? Jesus provides the pathway and the power to reconcile; to move from hurt to wholeness in our relationships.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Forgiven To Forgive

Matthew 5v21-26

Jesus gives the alternative to murder and anger; forgiveness and reconciliation. What do the Scriptures teach us about forgiveness?

taught By jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Relationships Matter

Matthew 5v21-24

Jesus reminds us that the law against murder and danger of anger is broken relationships. Under God’s good rule we ought to take the initiative to make things right.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Keeping The Commandments

Matthew 5v17-20

What do we do with all of the ancient laws in the Old Testament? We learn to read all of the Bible in light of Jesus.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Embracing The Bible

Matthew 5v17-20

It’s really hard (if not impossible) to follow Jesus well apart from the Bible. What influence is the Bible having on the way you think and live?

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Salt + Light

Matthew 5v13-16

What difference does following Jesus actually make? Jesus announces a surprising new reality with the metaphors of salt and light.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: The Blessed Life (part 2)

Matthew 5v3-12

Jose Zayas continues the conversation on Jesus’ nine blessings that set the tone for what we ought to think about God and His thoughts toward us.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: The Blessed Life

Matthew 5v3-12

Jesus invites people to follow Him. Announces the good news of God’s good rule. And then what? Jesus’ surprising opening words set the tone for what we ought to think about God and His thoughts toward us.

Taught By Jose Zayas

The Way Of Jesus: Kings And Kingdoms

Matthew 5v1-2

In this first teaching in the series, we look at the shape of Matthew’s Gospel and the main message of Jesus.

Taught By Jose Zayas

We Will Rise: Easter With Luis Palau

We Will Rise: Suffering And Resurrection

Mark 14v32-36

Jesus’ death and resurrection guarantees our life and resurrection. But this doesn’t mean a pain free life. Steve and Vicki Marshman offer a helpful perspective on how we can navigate through suffering in light of God’s promise of eternal life.

Taught By Steve and Vicki Marshman

We Will Rise: People Of The Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15

Jesus’ death and resurrection means our resurrection. We can now see everything (good and bad) with a new set of new lenses. We are resurrection people. We don’t just live for the here and now. We live with something (Someone) bigger in view.

Taught By Jose Zayas

We Will Rise: Jesus is Life

John 11v1-27

The world seems to be spinning out of the control. How should we respond? We learn from Lazarus’ encounter with Jesus that death is not the end. We will rise because Jesus is the resurrection and life.

Steady Through The Storm

Matthew 8v23-27

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has brought most of the world to a halt. What do we learn from Jesus about how to remain steady through any challenge, trial, or unexpected turn?

Taught by Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Invited

Ephesians 6v18-24

Paul ends his letter with an important reminder that we are invited to bring everything and everyone to God through prayer.

Taught by Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Empowered

Ephesians 6v10-17

Life can feel like an ongoing battle.  Paul reminds us that we have the  “armor of God.”  What is the armor and why is it so important?

Taught by Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Servants

Ephesians 6v1-9

Following Jesus ought to show up in the way we serve people in our home and the community.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Filled

Ephesians 5v15-21

We have the Holy Spirit yet are “commanded” to be filled with the Spirit again and again. What does that mean?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Light

Ephesians 5v3-14

Paul reminds Jesus followers that they don’t just “have the light” or “live near the light,” but that they “are light.” What does that mean? And how does that impact how we see our temptations and failures?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Loved

Ephesians 5v21-32

How should God’s love for us transform how we treat one another, especially in marriage?

Taught by Phil and Diane Comer

Ephesians: We Are Fully Forgiven

Ephesians 4v25-5v2

God is full of mercy and grace, forgiving us again and again because of Jesus. So, now what? Paul shows us five specific things that ought to mark out how we live and treat others in light of God’s full forgiveness.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are New People

Ephesians 4v17-24

Jesus has made us “new.” But what does that mean practically?  And how can we take steps to live this new life?

Taught by Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are Gifted Differently

Ephesians 4v7-16

We are one in Jesus. That’s true. But we’re not clones; we’re not the same. God has uniquely graced every Jesus follower with ways to build up one another in love.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: We Are One In Jesus

Ephesians 4v1-6

We’re going to look at one thing that is true of every Jesus follower each week, for the next ten weeks. To “live worthy of the calling we have received” means we remember who are are and learn to live out of our new identity in Jesus. Today we remember that we are one.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Ephesians: Walking Worthy

Ephesians 4v1

We’re about to turn the page on a new year and new decade. Ephesians 4v1 turns the conversation from what God has done to how we are called to respond. Will we walk worthy of God’s calling on our lives?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Let Us Adore Him: Part 5: The Beginning And End

Matthew 1v1, 28v18-20

To know what any author is trying to tell us we look at the beginning and end; the first and last chapters. Christmas is about more than Jesus’ arrival. Read the end and we see the full picture of what Jesus' birth and life are all about.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Let Us Adore Him: Part 4: This Was To Fulfill

Matthew 2v13-23

Jesus escapes to Egypt and eventually settles in Nazareth. Why the geography? It’s not random. Something is happening uniquely in Jesus that prepares Him to save the world.

Taught By Jose Zayas