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Sermons from Verdugo Community Church, 4300 Verdugo Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Services are 10:15 AM on Sunday. A Free Methodist congregation.
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Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
In her sermon, “Living Mary’s Song,” pastor Gail reminds us of the response by Mary to being told she would become the mother of Jesus, found in Luke 1. While questioning the Angel Gabriel about how this would be, she accepts the path that God has chosen, even though it is outside the customs and expectations of her society. Her cousin Elizabeth, herself pregnant with John the Baptist, affirms Mary’s choice when they meet. Mary is moved by the Spirit to praise God for his choosing her and for his actions to raise up the lowly and bring justice to the world. When God calls us to do something, we need to remember Mary’s willingness to trust and follow God’s lead.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. She opens our worship with a responsive call to worship and Mike Minasyan calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 89. Albert Ramseyer centers us in prayer. Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan, and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “Living Mary’s Song,” pastor Gail reminds us of the response by Mary to being told she would become the mother of Jesus, found in Luke 1. While questioning the Angel Gabriel about how this would be, she accepts the path that God has chosen, even though it is outside the customs and expectations of her society. Her cousin Elizabeth, herself pregnant with John the Baptist, affirms Mary’s choice when they meet. Mary is moved by the Spirit to praise God for his choosing her and for his actions to raise up the lowly and bring justice to the world. When God calls us to do something, we need to remember Mary’s willingness to trust and follow God’s lead.
Pastor Gail then then leads us in the sacrament of communion, and you are invited to participate as well.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
In his sermon, “The Transformed Life,” Joe Alvarez co-pastor of the Avenue Church in Riverside, and a Relationship Builder for Empowering Lives International, looks to the teaching of Paul in Ephesians 4 on why and how Christians should behave. Pastor Joe contrasts the competitive and selfish values of society, values we are exposed to and encouraged to use with others, including fellow Christians. Instead we should constantly affirm the love and peace we are given through Jesus, and demonstrate the behavior that is Kingdom-based. This applies to every Christian, and Joe cites examples from his own life and from the work by Empowering Lives International.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Joe Alvarez and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family and leads a responsive call to worship. Dale Reynolds follows with a reading from Psalm 34. Justin Baker centers us in prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan, and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In his sermon, “The Transformed Life,” Joe Alvarez co-pastor of the Avenue Church in Riverside, and a Relationship Builder for Empowering Lives International, looks to the teaching of Paul in Ephesians 4 on why and how Christians should behave. Pastor Joe contrasts the competitive and selfish values of society, values we are exposed to and encouraged to use with others, including fellow Christians. Instead we should constantly affirm the love and peace we are given through Jesus, and demonstrate the behavior that is Kingdom-based. This applies to every Christian, and Joe cites examples from his own life and from the work by Empowering Lives International.
Pastor Gail then leads us in a service to send Dale Reynolds off with thanks and our blessings to his new residence in Encinitus.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Joe Alvarez and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
In her sermon Pastor Gail continues the Easter story with the Luke 24 account of Jesus seeking out the larger group of his disciples on Easter evening. He affirms that he is truly alive (not a ghost) and that they are to continue to have a living relationship with him. Jesus again reminds them of the Scriptural prophesies about the Messiah and assures them that the story is not ending, only beginning. Jesus came to give them – and us – a new and abundant life in the here and now. “Our Witness is love” if we live in relationship with Jesus and spread the Good News of his love by reaching out to others and inviting them to experience the Living Lord’s presence and his salvation.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds leads a responsive call to worship followed by a reading from Psalm 16. Kim Cox then centers us in prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon Pastor Gail continues the Easter story with the Luke 24 account of Jesus seeking out the larger group of his disciples on Easter evening. He affirms that he is truly alive (not a ghost) and that they are to continue to have a living relationship with him. Jesus again reminds them of the Scriptural prophesies about the Messiah and assures them that the story is not ending, only beginning. Jesus came to give them – and us – a new and abundant life in the here and now. “Our Witness is love” if we live in relationship with Jesus and spread the Good News of his love by reaching out to others and inviting them to experience the Living Lord’s presence and his salvation.
Pastor Gail then leads us in the sacrament of communion and you are invited to participate as well.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
In her sermon, “The Cross Is Our Door,” Pastor Gail continues the Easter story with the Luke 24 account of the encounter two followers have with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus. Although they are heartened by the women’s news that Jesus is alive, they are still dismayed by the crucifixion. Jesus reminds them of the Scriptural prophesies about the Messiah. In the first meal after the resurrection, Jesus reveals himself to the two in the breaking of the bread, who then hurry to return to the other disciples with the news of their own encounter with the risen Lord. This message further affirms the Easter message that Jesus is alive! The cross is our doorway to live a resurrected life of joy and power on earth being guided by the presences of our Living Lord.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
We open our service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. We are called to worship with a responsive reading from Psalms 96 and 97 led by Dale Reynolds and Andrew Mumm. Andrew then continues with the opening prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Michael Minasyan, and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “The Cross Is Our Door,” Pastor Gail continues the Easter story with the Luke 24 account of the encounter two followers have with Jesus on the Road to Emmaus. Although they are heartened by the women’s news that Jesus is alive, they are still dismayed by the crucifixion. Jesus reminds them of the Scriptural prophesies about the Messiah. In the first meal after the resurrection, Jesus reveals himself to the two in the breaking of the bread, who then hurry to return to the other disciples with the news of their own encounter with the risen Lord. This message further affirms the Easter message that Jesus is alive! The cross is our doorway to live a resurrected life of joy and power on earth being guided by the presences of our Living Lord.
Pastor Gail then leads us in the sacrament of communion and you are invited to participate as well.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Worship Service copyright 2023 by Verdugo Community Church and Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
In her sermon, “Rolling Stones and Resurrected Hearts,” Pastor Gail leads us through the story as told in John 20. Everyone is given a stone to hold until later. In this account it was Mary Magdalene is the first to come to Jesus’s tomb, not even sure of how she would roll away the boulder covering the entrance. To her surprise she finds the stone rolled away, but to her sorrow the tomb is empty. She asks Peter and another disciple to return with her but they then leave her to mourn alone. It is she who then first encounters the risen Jesus, and she becomes the first to share the news of the resurrection. Each of us have things that block our heart from accepting God’s love. Pastor Gail invites us to come forward with our stones, symbolizing those things and to lay them at the foot of the cross, and then take a flower in recognition of our new life of hope in Jesus and our resurrected hearts open to his love.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
We open our Easter Service with song. Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. We are called to worship with a reading from Psalm 33 by Dale Reynolds. Luisa Fernandez gives the opening prayer. Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, Michael Minasyan, Ed Manacop, and Isaiah Tejada lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the praises and concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “Rolling Stones and Resurrected Hearts,” Pastor Gail leads us through the story as told in John 20. Everyone is given a stone to hold until later. In this account it was Mary Magdalene is the first to come to Jesus’s tomb, not even sure of how she would roll away the boulder covering the entrance. To her surprise she finds the stone rolled away, but to her sorrow the tomb is empty. She asks Peter and another disciple to return with her but they then leave her to mourn alone. It is she who then first encounters the risen Jesus, and she becomes the first to share the news of the resurrection. Each of us have things that block our heart from accepting God’s love. Pastor Gail invites us to come forward with our stones, symbolizing those things and to lay them at the foot of the cross, and then take a flower in recognition of our new life of hope in Jesus and our resurrected hearts open to his love.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
Prayers of the People has been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual prayer requests. All CCLI songs are performed under Verdugo Community Church’s license with CCLI.
Verdugo Community Church is a Free Methodist congregation serving the Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, and Glendale areas in Los Angeles. It is located at 4300 Verdugo Road, Los Angeles, CA 90065. Our email address is verdugofmc@gmail.com. Contact Pastor Gail at (323) 500-3343.
Verdugo is online at www.facebook.com/verdugochurch and www.verdugochurch.org.
Worship Service copyright 2023 by Verdugo Community Church and Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.