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The Good Samaritan – Parables of Jesus Week 9

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 22, 2025, by Pastor Markel Croston. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) and the radical love and compassion Jesus calls us to display to others.

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The Bags of Gold – Parables of Jesus Week 8

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 15, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Bags of Gold (Matthew 25), where we are reminded that Jesus entrusts each of us unique gifts, abilities and talents and calls us to use those for His Kingdom.

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The Workers in the Vineyard – Parables of Jesus Week 7

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 8, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard(Matthew 20), where Jesus calls us live with a posture of gratitude versus envy.

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The Unmerciful Servant – Parables of Jesus Week 6

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on June 1, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Matthew 18), where Jesus calls us to cultivate a heart of forgiveness.

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The Wedding Feast – Parables of Jesus Week 5

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 25, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week, we reflected on the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Luke 14), where Jesus invites us to consider how we see ourselves and others and whether there's room at our tables.

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Prodigal Sons – Parables of Jesus Week 4

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 18, 2025, by Pastor Oscar Navarro. This week, we explored the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). Both sons faced barriers to God’s love – one trapped by shame over his past, the other by pride in his righteousness. Jesus reveals that God's love and mercy are not earned but freely given, a gift to be received.

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Prayer and Justice – Parables of Jesus Week 3

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 11, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we looked at the Parable of the Persistent Widow from Luke 18. We recognize that there is injustice in this world and Jesus calls us to remain faithful and to put our trust in Him because He is a good and just God.

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Which Soil? – Parables of Jesus Week 2

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on May 4, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. This week we looked at the Parable of the Sower, where Jesus calls us to examine the condition of our hearts and our openness to receiving His Word.

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Seeing and Hearing – Parables of Jesus Week 1

Sunday message from Community Church Playa given on April 27, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. We are starting a new series looking at the Parables of Jesus. This week, we seek to understand why Jesus spoke in Parables and examine if our hearts are truly open to see and to hear.

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Easter Sunday

Easter message from Community Church Playa given on April 20, 2025, by Pastor Amen Bains. The invitation of Easter is to step into the new life Jesus calls us to, but so often, we can find ourselves stuck in the old. We examine Peter's life and see this same pull on his life. Thankfully for Peter and us, Jesus doesn't let us stay stuck, but will also pursue us.

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The Tale of Two – Sermon on the Mount Week 7

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on April 6, 2025, by Pastor Markel Croston. In the final week of our series, we look at the reality that there are two pathways we can choose to walk in our lives and two foundations we can build on. Jesus invites us to walk the narrow road and build our foundation on the only thing that cannot be shaken.

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Our Values Revealed– Sermon on the Mount Week 6

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 16, 2025, by Jared McKenna, delves into the fourth week of our series. In this message we look at how Jesus calls us to move from hearts of retaliation against those who may have wronged us towards love and mercy.

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Obedience or Performance? – Sermon on the Mount Week 5

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 16, 2025, by Jared McKenna, delves into the fourth week of our series. In this message we look at how Jesus calls us to move from hearts of retaliation against those who may have wronged us towards love and mercy.

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Against the Norms – Sermon on the Mount Week 4

This week’s sermon from Community Church Playa, delivered on March 16, 2025, by Jared McKenna, delves into the fourth week of our series. In this message we look at how Jesus calls us to move from hearts of retaliation against those who may have wronged us towards love and mercy.

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Prove It!

We realize that, as Christians, our actions speak louder than words. Loving Jesus starts with a daily commitment to look more like Him by putting on his righteousness.

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Who Are You? - Jesus Rescues

In this message, we look at the reality that Jesus steps out of Eden to come to this earth to save us and rescue us back into Eden to live forever with Him.

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Who Are You? - Jesus Responds

This message teaches us that God isn’t apathetic or simply sympathetic to what we are walking through, but His heart becomes overwhelmed with compassion, which flows into Him responding to our immediate and eternal needs.

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