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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 Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family on this Third Sunday in Advent. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Isaiah 35, and we light the third Advent Candle signifying Joy and sing a carol. Luis Fernandez opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, Derrick Adams and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “Why I Celebrate Christmas,” Pastor Adjua Adams from Light and Life West in Long Beach, reminds us that the manner and importance of Jesus’ birth was prophesied centuries earlier in Isaiah, and its fulfillment set out in Matthew 1. This fulfillment at Bethlehem brings all people hope and salvation.
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 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.
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.
Sermon copyright 2022 by Adjua Adams and Verdugo Community Church.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
In her sermon, “The Kingdom of Heaven Has Come to Us,” Pastor Gail explores the ways the Bible describes what the coming of the Christ means, and in particular the role that John the Baptist played in preparing the way for Jesus. John challenged people to truly repent and seek God, while also announcing that a greater one was coming who would baptize with the Holy Spirit. Jesus was that one, and he gives us life and hope to live in the Kingdom of God both here and in eternity. With the coming of Jesus the Kingdom of God has truly come to us.
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 2022 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family on this Second Sunday in Advent. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Isaiah 11, and we light the second Advent Candle signifying Peace and sing a carol. Albert Ramseyer opens us with prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “The Kingdom of Heaven Has Come to Us,” Pastor Gail explores the ways the Bible describes what the coming of the Christ means, and in particular the role that John the Baptist played in preparing the way for Jesus. John challenged people to truly repent and seek God, while also announcing that a greater one was coming who would baptize with the Holy Spirit. Jesus was that one, and he gives us life and hope to live in the Kingdom of God both here and in eternity. With the coming of Jesus the Kingdom of God has truly come to us.
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 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.
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.
Sermon copyright 2022 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
In her sermon, “My Story, His Glory, The Witness,” Pastor Adjua Adams, from Light and Life West, Long Beach, shares how she was able to turn from a harsh and sinful life to one of joy and hope through the love and grace of God, thanks to the ceaseless prayers and love of others for her. We all can similarly do the same for the salvation of others.
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 2022 by Adjua Adams and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Pastor Gail Linstrom welcomes all to worship and to participate in the life of our church family on this First Sunday in Advent. Dale Reynolds calls us to worship with a reading from Isaiah 9 and 12, and we light the first Advent Candle signifying hope and sing a carol. Jessica Fernandez opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Derrick Adams, Jessica Jimenez, and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In her sermon, “My Story, His Glory, The Witness,” Pastor Adjua Adams, from Light and Life West, Long Beach, shares how she was able to turn from a harsh and sinful life to one of joy and hope through the love and grace of God, thanks to the ceaseless prayers and love of others for her. We all can similarly do the same for the salvation of 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 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.
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.
Sermon copyright 2022 by Adjua Adams and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
In his sermon, “Christ Jesus, King of All: From Divinity through Humanity to Victorious Divine Savior and King Eternal,” Pastor Lavon Gentry, from Cucamonga Christian Fellowship, looks at the reasons why Jesus followed the path he did, and why that makes him our Savior and King. Christ was with God at Creation, but human sin intervened and left human kind in darkness. Christ voluntarily gave up divinity to be the bridge between humanity and God, was subjected to the same temptations and sorrows we experience, and was obedient to death, even death on a cross, so that humanity might be saved. By these actions he reconciled all things to himself. Reason alone will not get us to where we can understand this mystery: we need to accept in on faith.
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 2022 by Lavon Gentry and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
We begin our service in song. 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 46, and Luisa Fernandez opens us with prayer. Nick Baltazar, Jessica Jimenez, and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Albert Ramseyer takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
In his sermon, “Christ Jesus, King of All: From Divinity through Humanity to Victorious Divine Savior and King Eternal,” Pastor Lavon Gentry, from Cucamonga Christian Fellowship, looks at the reasons why Jesus followed the path he did, and why that makes him our Savior and King. Christ was with God at Creation, but human sin intervened and left human kind in darkness. Christ voluntarily gave up divinity to be the bridge between humanity and God, was subjected to the same temptations and sorrows we experience, and was obedient to death, even death on a cross, so that humanity might be saved. By these actions he reconciled all things to himself. Reason alone will not get us to where we can understand this mystery: we need to accept in on faith.
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 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.
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.
Sermon copyright 2022 by Lavon Gentry and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Pastor Gail in her sermon “God’s Presence Brings Peace and Joy” looks at the reality of the loss and grief we all experience, losses that are highlighted by the coming holidays. She calls us to remember the promises of God that he will be with us and his plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future. Jesus entered the world as one of us, experiencing our joys and pain and sorrows. Yet his life, death, and resurrection confirmed these promises of God. We need to seek the presence of God through the Holy Spirit in our lives, and have faith that God will be there with us in the dark days and nights.
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 2022 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
We begin our service in song. 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 40, and Jessica Jimenez opens us with prayer. Kim Cox, Jessica Jimenez, and Mike Minasyan lead us in praise and worship music. Greg Hart takes up the concerns of the church and our world in the Prayers of the People.
Pastor Gail in her sermon “God’s Presence Brings Peace and Joy” looks at the reality of the loss and grief we all experience, losses that are highlighted by the coming holidays. She calls us to remember the promises of God that he will be with us and his plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future. Jesus entered the world as one of us, experiencing our joys and pain and sorrows. Yet his life, death, and resurrection confirmed these promises of God. We need to seek the presence of God through the Holy Spirit in our lives, and have faith that God will be there with us in the dark days and nights.
After the sermon, all are offered the opportunity to go forward and light Candles of Memory and Hope to remember those we have lost and those things we wish to strive toward.
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 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.
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.
Sermon copyright 2022 by Gail Whitcome Linstrom and Verdugo Community Church.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Pastor Moises Bejarano of Sunrise Church in Rialto looks to John 4 for his sermon. He notes that Jesus did not use the usual route from Judea to Galilee, but instead knew he had to go through Samaria to meet the woman at the well and bring salvation to her and her village, just as he had to go to the Cross to provide salvation for all. When after that Jesus meets a government official whose son is dying, Jesus looks beyond the crowd’s desire for spectacular signs to the man’s simple faith and heals his son with a word. The Samaritan woman, her fellow villagers, and the government official were marginalized and rejected by the society Jesus lived in. Nevertheless he showed them mercy and rewarded their faith. God calls us to take roads we would not choose, to meet people and situations we would avoid, to do his will here on earth. We, too, should look beyond our social divisions and extend God’s grace and mercy to all.
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 2022 by Moises Bejarano and Verdugo Community Church.