26 West Church: Audio Podcast

Romans: Real Love: Don’t Just Pretend

Romans 12v9

When you hear the word “love” what comes to mind? In this first teaching of the series, Jose talks about three things that build a foundation for biblical love.

Taugh By Jose Zayas

Keep yourselves in the love of God

Jude 20-23

What should we expect for the coming year? While we can’t predict events, as Jesus followers we can be sure of our future.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: The Gift of Mercy

Romans 12v5-8

Every person is needed. Every gift is valuable. In our broken world, we need those motivated to help the sick and suffering.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: The Gift of Leading

Romans 12v6-8

What makes for a great leader? Interestingly, Paul places this gift in between “giving” and “mercy.” What does that tell us about leading as disciples to Jesus?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: The Gift of Giving

Romans 12v6-8

Generosity is an invitation to experience God’s character, provision, and mission to rescue HIs world.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: The Gifts of Teaching and Encouragement.

Romans 12v6-8

To live like Jesus we need constant adjustments. Teachers make truth clear and understandable. Encouragers move us from truth to action. 

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: The Gift of Serving

Romans 12v6-8

Serving doesn’t seem spectacular. But it’s a sign of the Spirit’s presence and needed for any community to thrive. 

Taught By Jose Zayas

A love that last a lifetime

Ephesians 5:21-33

The Apostle Paul said that those who marry will experience "trouble" in this life.while he was right, it's how we handle those troubles that's important. Phil and Diane share three biblicle truths that, when lived out, have caused their love to "last a lifetime"

Taught By Phil and Diane Comer

Romans: Room for More: Prophecy

Romans 12v6; 1 Corinthians 14

What is prophecy? Why is it so important? And how can we make room for prophecy in our lives?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: Holy Spirit, we want more

Romans 12v6-8

The Holy Spirit sets us free to follow Jesus. He enables us to recognize God’s presence. And He empowers us to continue Jesus’ work in this world. Holy Spirit, we want more of You in our world.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: Serving in the Kingdom of God.

Romans 12v3-5

Do you believe you can be used in the Kingdom of God? In this short passage in Romans, Paul answers the question. However, there are some conditions to serving in the Kingdom. Tune in and find out what they are.

Taught By Jim Williams

Romans: Room For More: The will of God

Romans 12v2

How do we discern the will of God? It starts with a change of mind. 

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: Motivated by Mercy

Romans 12v1

God’s goal for us is life-long transformation. We never arrive. There’s always room for more. What’s going to motivate us to choose the way of Jesus over our own desires?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans: Room For More: Vision Sunday

Romans 12v1-2

There’s room for more of what Jesus wants to do in, through, and beyond us to help people experience life in Him.

Taught By Jose Zayas

 

By Faith: Consider Jesus

Hebrews 12v1-3

Seasons of blessing and pain are part of the normal rhythm of following Jesus. 

What will help us stay encouraged when times get tough?

 

Taught By Joze Zayas

By Faith: Many Others

Hebrews 11v32-40

You don’t have to be a “big name” to live as a person of faith. Faithful people look to forward to God's future. Faithful people grow through suffering.

Taught By Jose Zayas

By Faith: Jericho

Hebrews 11

While Israel obediently followed God's plan to conquer Jericho, Rahab's faith leads her to take action that saves her and her family.

Taught By Steve and Vicki Marshaman

By Faith: Israel

Hebrews 11v27-29

God often calls us to do things that seem impossible in our own strength. Moses and the people of Israel remind us that faith in God's power can change our situation.

Taught By Jose Zayas

By Faith: Moses

Hebrews 11v23-26

Fear. We’re afraid of spiders, snakes, heights, and  more.  Fear of failure. Living alone. Rejection. What difference does faith make?

Taught By Jose Zayas

By Faith: Joseph

Hebrews 11v22

Faith leads to faithfulness. Joseph reminds us how following Jesus changes the way we see our family, school, workplace and life’s challenges.

Taught By Jose Zayas

By Faith: Jacob

Hebrews 11v20-21

The lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob remind us that faith is a process and is never perfect. They ended well and so can we.

Taught by Jose Zayas

By Faith: Isaac

Hebrews 11v17-20

Christian, embrace God's promises! Your faith impacts those around you.

Taught by Kenny Stone

By Faith: Abraham

Hebrews 11v8-19

How could Abraham continue to put his faith in God? Could it be as simple as that he believed that above all else, he was a friend of God?

Taught by Nate Kupish

By Faith: Noah

Hebrews 11:7

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his people, and walked faithfully with God. His faith was so certain that when God spoke, he listened and acted.

Taught by Brian Hogan

By Faith: Enoch

Hebrews 11v5-6

Enoch had a reputation as a man who pleased God. By faith he believed in God and earnestly followed him.

Taught by Steve Marshman

By Faith: Abel

Hebrews 11v4

Abel is the first person listed as an example of grounded and growing faith. He reminds us how little things can make a big difference, and that attitude is as important as action.

Taught by Jose Zayas

By Faith: What is faith?

Hebrews 11v1-3

A good start doesn't guarantee a strong end. This summer we'll look at Hebrews 11 to see what it takes to build a faith that lasts a lifetime. We start by defining what faith is and isn't. 

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: The Right Response

Romans 11v22-36

What do you do when the future looks blurry, when you’re not sure how things are going to work out? As Paul thinks about the future of Israel and the people of God, he jumps into a song. That’s right - a song. No matter what we’re facing, worship is the right response.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: Grace and the Big Picture

Romans 11v1-21

Sometimes God is hard to understand. On one hand it looks like He's rejected His people (Israel) with the beginning of the Church. But more is at work than what we can see. If we don't keep the big picture in view, we might miss out on God's grace.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: Rediscovering our Sent-ness

Romans 10v14-21

God chooses to use people like you and me as part of His rescue plan. What can we do? And where do we begin?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: Clear, Near, and Now

Romans 10v5-13

Paul reads the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) in light of Jesus. What does Deuteronomy 30 have to say about the Good News?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: Responding to God

Romans 9v30-33, 10v1-4

God is calling all of humanity to Himself. How will the Jews and Gentiles respond and what can we learn from their response?

Taught By Kenny Stone

Romans Part 4: Why we can trust God in tough times

Romans 9v14-29

We can turn to a God who is just, good, merciful, compassionate, sovereign and patient.

Taught By Jim Williams

Romans Part 4: Will God Be Faithful To You?

Romans 9v6-13

"Jacob I loved; Esau I hated." What in the world does that mean? And what does it say about God and His Promises?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 4: Love and Lament

Romans 9v1-5

Paul turns for rejoicing in all God’s done for us (Romans 8) to a lament. Why the change? We feel the most deeply about the people we love. What does it look like for us to live compelled by love?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: If God Is For You

Romans 8v31-39

What if you had everything you need at the precise time you need it every time? What kind of difference would that make? Paul finishes this section on the hope of the Gospel with a call to believe what is true: God is for you.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: How God works all things for our good.

Romans 8v29-30

Romans 8v28 promises that God works in all things for the good of those who love him. The question is, "how?" Thankfully Paul gives five important words to describe God's great rescue plan: foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: He is alive

Romans 8v28

The Scriptures are filled with promises. Romans 8v28 happens to be one of the most talked about and yet misunderstood. In light of the Resurrection, what does it mean that “in all things God works for the good?”

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: Children of God

Romans 8v14-27

What does it mean to be adopted into God’s family? Discover the benefits and responsibilities of living as children of God.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: No condemnation

Romans 8v1-13

In Jesus, remember what God has done and will do for us. Expose yourself constantly to His unimaginable love. This exposure stimulates a wave of gratitude that leads to Godly living today.

Taught By Kenny Stone

Romans Part 3: Question 3: What about God’s law?

Romans 7v7-25

How do we read and apply God’s law in light of Jesus?  Paul retells the story of Adam and Israel, reminding us what the law was given for and what it will never be able to do.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: Question 2: Who do you serve?

Romans 6v15-7v6

We have choices to make every day. Now that Jesus is our new Master, Paul teaches us to serve Jesus in the new way of the Spirit.

Taught By Steve Marshman

Romans Part 3: Question 1: What’s the right response to God’s grace?

Romans 6v1-14

What's the motivation to resist temptation? Paul pulls on baptism as the metaphor for the dramatic change that’s taken place. We have been changed. The old life is gone. We are now united to Jesus.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: A New Way to Be Human

Romans 5v12-21

There's more than one way to live. Adam represents the path of sin that leads to death. But Jesus lives and shows the better way. 

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: The Best is Yet to Come

Romans 5v6-11

Another Christian cliche, an optimist’s lens, or the grounded hope for every Jesus follower? Romans 5 unlocks the secret to living with hope. The source might surprise you.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 3: Why Justification matters

Romans 5v1-5

Following Jesus doesn't promise a pain-free life. Consider three realities in our justification and why human suffering is never wasted.

Taught By Kenny Stone

Romans Part 2: Faith like Abraham

Romans 4v9-25

Faith is one of those words that means lots of different things to different people. What does faith look like in the Scriptures? How do we know we have it?

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 2: Bragging Rights

Romans 3v27-4v8

Paul has reminded us of the good things that come through faith in Jesus. How should we respond? Paul asks four questions to consider as we live out our faith in our divided world.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 2: Atonement

Romans 3v25-6 & Leviticus 16

The high priest. Two goats. Sacrifice. Wilderness. What are these pictures pointing to? In Romans 3, Paul pulls on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus as the backdrop to describe the heart of the Gospel in the ministry of Jesus.

Taught By Jose Zayas

Romans Part 2: Redemption

Romans 3v24-25; Exodus 6v1-8

Have you ever seen a “photomosaic?”  It’s picture made up of smaller photos. If you only look at the smaller photos you can miss the big picture. If you focus only on the big picture, you can miss the beauty in the details. Paul uses four graphic words  to try and explain the big thing God has done for us in Jesus: Righteousness, Justification, Redemption, and Atonement. What do they mean? How do they fit?

Taught By Jose Zayas