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To Love is to Risk

A neuro surgeon gave a brief testimony about compassion this week before Pastor Jamie gave the sermon Part One: Loving Our Neighbors in the series, Building a Community of that Loves the World.  He talked about how God was encouraging him to pray with his patients.  He explained how he was worried about being misunderstood. [...]

Dallas Willard on Aspects of Discipleship

At Bethel Seminary San Diego’s Recent Spiritual Renewal Conference, Dallas Willard touched on three main aspects of discipleship.

Learning to do as Jesus did and taught.
Learning to handle the ordinary events of daily life within the principles and power of God’s rule.
Learning to act in God’s power.

I want to try and expand these ideas, and unfortunately [...]

Leaving Room for God to Work

When someone hurts us, we have a few options.

Hurt back now and/or later.
Choose to not hurt back and remain vulnerable.

This is so hard because we want to take justice into our own hands.  Being hurt often feels like empowerment to deal what we have been dealt, and then some.  We end up seeking a fleeting [...]

A Community that Loves God

A Community that Loves God - A Message from Mark 12:28-31
Sermon by Jamie Wilson @ Coast Vineyard on October 5th, 2008
Jamie’s sermon was focused on Mark 12:30, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength,” and challenged us to [...]

Let Me In!

Sermon @ Coast Vineyard by Michelle Wilson on September 21st, 2008
Let Me In! Learning to Cry Out to God When We Need Help — A message from Revelation 3:14-22
Laodicea was famous for its wealth (banks with great capital and the ability to lend and be generously charitable with neighboring cities.)  When the city was completely [...]