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Pomona Valley Church
We're a church on Zoom, based in Southern California, who want to follow Jesus into the world together.Here you'll find:-Our weekend sermons from Church on Zoom-The Backdrop: bonus episodes where Curtis dives into the Bible passage beyond the sermonAnd, if you're getting to know our church, seasons 1 and 2 walk through our vision and values for this new community.
Episodes
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Lost in Translation, Week 4: Siblings
In this sermon, Meredith looks at a time when translating with "word for word accuracy" might be a big mistake
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Lost in Translation, Week 3: Complete
Meredith considers our series with a sermon on being perfect.
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Lost in Translation, Week 2: Faithfulness of Christ
Curtis continues our series with the question of how to translate pistis christou
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Lost in Translation, Week 1: Hesed
Curtis kicks off our new series with a look at one of the central character traits of our God
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The Gospel, Week 6: Others pt. 2
In this sermon, Meredith closes out our Gospel series with another look at reconciliation with one another
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The Gospel, Week 5: Others pt. 1
In this sermon, Curtis looks at what the ministry of reconciliation might mean when it's applied to those outside the family of God
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The Gospel, Week 4: Self
In this sermon, we look at what it might mean that the Gospel means reconciliation with ourselves and who God made us to be
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The Gospel, Week 3: Creation
Curtis considers our second aspect of the Gospel: being reconciled to a creation that tells us about who God is.
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The Gospel, Week 2: God
In this sermon Meredith looks at our first aspect of the Gospel: being reconciled to a God who is like Jesus.
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The Gospel, Week 1
We start a new series looking at the ways God is at work to put the world right again
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Acts, Week 30: The End
Meredith ends our series going through the book of Acts looking at how God is faithful to the very end.
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Acts, Week 29 - Vindicated
In this sermon, Curtis asks why Luke ends the book of Acts the way he does
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Acts, Week 28: Failure
In this sermon, Meredith considers what we can learn from Paul's failure
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Acts, Week 27: Faithful
In this sermon, Meredith looks at God's faithfulness to Paul through his trials and Paul's faithfulness to Jesus through his hardship
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Acts, Week 26 - Money, Status, and Freedom
In this sermon, Curtis considers Paul's farewell words to the church in Ephesus
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Acts, Week 25 - Ephesian Artemis
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the trouble Paul runs into in Ephesus
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Acts, Week 24: Freedom and the Powers
This week, Meredith looks at the stories in Acts of Paul interacting with spirits and demons
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Acts, Week 23: Athens
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the famous story of Paul on Mars' Hill in Athens
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Acts, Week 22: A God Who Suffers
In this sermon, Meredith looks at Paul's core message to his fellow Jews: the Messiah had to suffer.
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Acts, Week 21: Politics
Curtis looks at what Luke's stories about Paul in Acts tell us about how we as Christians can engage with the political world
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Acts, Week 20: Compromise
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the....um...delicate issues that threaten to split the early church in Acts
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Acts, Week 19: Joy and Suffering
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the themes that arise in Paul's first missionary journey
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Acts, Week 18: A Church That...
In this sermon, Meredith considers the type of Church Luke shows us in Acts and the type of church we want to be today
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Acts, Week 17: Meals and Prayer
In this sermon, Curtis looks at why Luke places the long story of Peter and Cornelius right at the heart of the book of Acts and what themes emerge from it.
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Acts, Week 16: Tabitha
In the midst of major stories of conversion, Luke turns our attention to what the story is really all about
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Acts, Week 15: Hearing From God
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the story of Paul's conversion, and particularly the character of Ananias
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Acts, Week 14: What's to Stop Me?
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the remarkable story of the Ethiopian Eunuch
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Acts, Week 13: Simon and Power
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the intersection of power and life in the story of Acts
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Acts, Week 11: Imaginative Prayer Practice
A prayer practice to accompany Meredith's sermon on trusting God
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Acts, Week 12: Stephen and Saul
This week, Meredith looks at Stephen's prayer during his stoning and the ripples it had in the life of his killer
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Acts, Week 11: Trust God for What?
In this sermon, Meredith uses the story of Stephen to ask the question, "What do we mean when we say we trust God?"
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Acts, Week 10: Widows and Miracles
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the miraculous and the mundane of the early church
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Acts, Week 9: Life and Death
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the confusing, troubling story of Ananias and Sapphira
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Acts, Week 8: Healing
In this sermon, Meredith looks at what healing is all about in the opening chapters of Acts
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Acts, Week 7: Authority
In this sermon, Meredith looks at how the disciples in Acts interact with those in "authority"
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Acts, Week 6: Refreshment
In Acts 3 we have the story of a healed man, and in this sermon we consider what that story might tell us about who we are and what is available to us.
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Acts, Week 5: The Church
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the main elements of the earliest church, and what they might mean for our church today.
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Acts, Week 4: God Comes Home
Curtis considers what the events of Pentecost mean for us today
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Acts, Week 3: King Jesus
Meredith continues our Acts series looking at Pentecost and what happened after
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Acts, Week 2: The Resurrection
Curtis continues our Acts series looking at the reason the early Christians did what they did
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Acts, Week 1: Second Verse
Meredith kicks off 2026 and our new Acts series looking at the beating heart of the book and the Church
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Rhythm of Life, Week 3: Solitude and Relationship
In this sermon, Curtis looks at our rhythm of solitude and relationship
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Rhythm of Life, Week 2: Openness
Meredith continues our Rhythm of Life series, looking at how we can joyfully and sustainably be both open to God and open to the challenges of the world around…
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Rhythm of Life 2025, Week 1: Rhythm
Curtis kicks off our new series, where we are going to look at the practices and habits that can contribute to life-giving rhythms in our day-to-day.
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 9: Foot Washing
Meredith closes out our series on loving our neighbor by looking at the extent of Jesus' love for us.
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 8: The Foreigner
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the many times God's people are commanded to love the foreigner.
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 7: Good Samaritan
Curtis looks at Jesus' answer to the question: Who is my neighbor?
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 6: God's House
Curtis looks at how wide the command to love your neighbor might extend
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 5: Sacrifice
Meredith looks at the inevitable: loving your neighbor might cost something
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 4: Politics
Curtis asks if loving your neighbor has anything to do with politics
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 3: Blessing
Curtis considers the connection between the ideas of loving our neighbor and being a blessing
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 2: Enemies
Meredith looks at Jesus' command to love our enemies
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Love Your Neighbor, Week 1: Second Commandment
Curtis kicks off our new series with an exploration into how "love your neighbor" is the second greatest commandment
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Samuel, Week 22: The Gospel According to Samuel
In this final sermon of our Samuel series, Curtis looks at the message of grace threaded through it all
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Samuel, Week 20: Injustice
In this sermon, Curtis looks at David's response to the injustices he faced
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Samuel, Week 19: Characters in Crisis, pt. 2
In this sermon, Curtis looks at two more characters and their response to the moment of crisis in Israel: David and Jonathon
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Samuel, Week 18: Abigail
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the time Abigail stopped David in his murderous tracks
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Samuel, Week 17: Characters in Crisis
Curtis looks at two out of four main characters and how they react to a crisis that threatens their reality.
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Samuel, Week 16: David and Goliath
This week, Meredith looks at the famous story of little David defeating a giant.
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Samuel, Week 15: When God Breaks the Rules
Curtis looks at a cluster of times in 1 Samuel when God seemingly breaks the rules