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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 Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in thIs Good Friday service. Each part of the Good Friday story is examined with a reading from the Scripture, followed by songs led by Kim Cox. Dale Reynolds begins with a reading from Isaiah 52 and 53, prophesying how Jesus would be the “suffering servant” who faces death and humiliation on our behalf. Other readings from Hebrews explain what this means for our salvation. Ed Manacop begins our readings in Luke regarding the end of Holy Week. When we get to the Last Supper, Pastor Gail invites us to step into the story by leading us in communion, and you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.
Michelle Hensley, Jessica Jimenez, Hugh Linstrom, and Luisa Fernandez read what happened then through Peter’s betrayal, the trial, crucifixion with two thieves, one who will see paradise that day, and then Jesus’s burial. Pastor Gail concludes by reminding us that “Sunday is a’ comin”, and invites us to leave our sins and suffering at the Cross.
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.
Worship Service copyright 2023 by Verdugo Community Church and Sermon copyright 2023 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
In her sermon “Part 2 – Living Water Brings Living Faith,” Pastor Gail shows us examples where God and Jesus met individuals to help them and to reveal themselves, such as the woman at the well in John 4 and the healing of the man born blind in John 9. God meets us in these “God appointments” today as well. Reaffirming the church tradition of individuals witnessing what God has done in their lives to each other, she invites us to share times when we have had God appointments.
Verdugo makes its Sunday sermons available to you on Facebook and posts audio copies of the service and sermon at https://verdugochurch.podbean.com.
The sharing of experiences with God have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual participants.
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 Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
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 and prayer from Psalm 40 led by Dale Reynolds and Mike Minasyan. Jessica Jimenez and Mike Minasyan lead us in our praise singing. Albert Ramseyer takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon “Part 2 – Living Water Brings Living Faith,” Pastor Gail shows us examples where God and Jesus met individuals to help them and to reveal themselves, such as the woman at the well in John 4 and the healing of the man born blind in John 9. God meets us in these “God appointments” today as well. Reaffirming the church tradition of individuals witnessing what God has done in their lives to each other, she invites us to share times when we have had God appointments.
Pastor Gail then leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.
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 and the sharing of experiences with God have been edited to respect the privacy and confidentiality of individual participants. 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 Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
In her sermon “Living Water Brings Living Faith” Pastor Gail uses the interactions of Jesus and a Samaritan woman at the well in Matthew 4 to illustrate how any person can meet Jesus where they are. We must put aside the unsubstantiated criticisms of this women added by others after the Gospel was written and read what actually happened in this, the longest conversation with Jesus in the Bible. Jesus breaks with his society’s norms regarding who he can talk with and shows her that he knows who she really is and what her circumstances are. In response to her questions, he reveals to her that he is the promised Messiah. She in turn carries this Good News to her fellow villagers, who also meet Jesus and come away with faith in him as the savior of the world.
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 Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 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 reading from Ezekiel 37 by Dale Reynolds, who then leads us in the opening prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez and Mike Minasyan lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon “Living Water Brings Living Faith” Pastor Gail uses the interactions of Jesus and a Samaritan woman at the well in Matthew 4 to illustrate how any person can meet Jesus where they are. We must put aside the unsubstantiated criticisms of this women added by others after the Gospel was written and read what actually happened in this, the longest conversation with Jesus in the Bible. Jesus breaks with his society’s norms regarding who he can talk with and shows her that he knows who she really is and what her circumstances are. In response to her questions, he reveals to her that he is the promised Messiah. She in turn carries this Good News to her fellow villagers, who also meet Jesus and come away with faith in him as the savior of the world.
Pastor Gail then leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.
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.
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
In her sermon “The Way of Discipleship” Pastor Gail challenges us to answer the question of what “discipleship” means. In Matthew 7 and John 13 Jesus emphasizes that it’s both what we do and why we do it that counts. Calling Jesus “Lord” and doing good deeds only to make ourselves look good or become richer is not what God wants from us. We must follow the example of Jesus, acting out of our love for him and others.
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 Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 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 Deuteronomy 30 and Psalm 119 led by Dale Reynolds and Kim Cox. Luisa Fernandez leads us in the opening prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon “The Way of Discipleship” Pastor Gail challenges us to answer the question of what “discipleship” means. In Matthew 7 and John 13 Jesus emphasizes that it’s both what we do and why we do it that counts. Calling Jesus “Lord” and doing good deeds only to make ourselves look good or become richer is not what God wants from us. We must follow the example of Jesus, acting out of our love for him and others.
Pastor Gail then leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.
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 Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
In her sermon “The Temptation and Triumph of Jesus,” Pastor Gail looks at the temptations of Christ from Matthew 4, where Jesus uses and follows Scripture to rebuke Satan, in contrast to the story of the Fall. Each temptation would result in immediate good – food after a 40 day fast, spectacular fame as Jesus starts his ministry, and justice and freedom for all those oppressed in the kingdoms of this world. But the price was to abandon God’s plan for Jesus’s ministry and eventual triumph and our salvation. As humans we too often want to bypass God and do good by our own strength and abilities. Jesus showed us that we must obey God and wait for his timing and help to accomplish God’s plan for our lives.
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 Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Psalm 91 and Jessica Jimenez leads us in the opening prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, Mike Minasyan and Ed Manacop lead us in our praise singing. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon “The Temptation and Triumph of Jesus,” Pastor Gail looks at the temptations of Christ from Matthew 4, where Jesus uses and follows Scripture to rebuke Satan, in contrast to the story of the Fall. Each temptation would result in immediate good – food after a 40 day fast, spectacular fame as Jesus starts his ministry, and justice and freedom for all those oppressed in the kingdoms of this world. But the price was to abandon God’s plan for Jesus’s ministry and eventual triumph and our salvation. As humans we too often want to bypass God and do good by our own strength and abilities. Jesus showed us that we must obey God and wait for his timing and help to accomplish God’s plan for our lives.
Pastor Gail then leads us in Communion, so you are invited to have bread or crackers and a beverage ready to participate in this sacrament.
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 Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
In her sermon “Thrice Upon the Mountain,” Pastor Gail looks at the Transfiguration story from Matthew 17 by recalling the prior mountaintop experiences of the two prophets who met Jesus there, Moses and Elijah. There God met them directly, but they then had to come down from the mountain to complete the work God gave them. In the Transfiguration, the disciples were given an affirmation of the divinity of Jesus, but they each had to return to the real world: Jesus to complete his ministry, suffer death, and then experience resurrection, and the disciples to carry the Good News throughout the known world. We may wish for the mountaintop experiences, but must remember that this is not the end of our journey with God.
Verdugo is again meeting in person but 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.