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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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Four Themes: Bread
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the theme of Bread as it shows up through Scripture
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Four Themes: Fire
In this sermon, Curtis pulls together the many different aspects of the symbol of fire in the Bible
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Four Themes: Water
Meredith preaches the first of our four week series looking at common themes that show up throughout the Bible. What is the Bible signifying when water shows…
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Sabbath, Week 3: Trust
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the ways that Sabbath allows us to embody trust.
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Sabbath, Week 2: Creativity
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the connections between sabbath and creativity
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 25: Sabbath
In this final week of our Exodus series, Meredith simultaneously launches our look at the several ways that Bible talks about Sabbath. What makes Sabbath holy?…
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 24: In God's Own Words
In this sermon, Meredith concludes our series in Exodus looking at God's own words of self description.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 23: The God We Want
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the story of the Golden Calf, seeing two contrasting reasons for following God.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 22: Tabernacle
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the importance of place, using the chapters of Exodus devoted to the building of the Tabernacle.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 21: The Law
These are Curtis' framing remarks about the Law chapter of Exodus, before the interactive discussion that made up our September live gathering
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 20: Life in the Wilderness
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the lie that is exposed by the story of God providing manna, water, and quail in the wilderness
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 19: Walk Into the Dark
In this sermon, Meredith asks what we do when Yahweh splits the sea
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 18: New Creation
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the story of God splitting the sea, and how it helps us read all of the Exodus better.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 17: Passover
In this sermon, from our live gathering, Meredith looks at the story of Passover, and what it tells us about identity.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 16: God of the Hebrews
In this sermon, Curtis looks at where Yahweh is found in the Exodus narrative, and how that contrasts with the places the rest of the gods are found.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 15: Lamenting What Has To Be
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the parts of the Exodus plagues we might lament.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 14: Failed gods
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the plague stories and what they reveal to us about the lowercase gods.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 13: Trust not Obedience
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the main purpose of the plagues: that all people would come to know and trust Yahweh
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 12: Knowing God
In this sermon from our live gathering, Curtis looks at what Exodus 6 tells us about what it means to know God
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Who is This Yahweh, Week 11: Hope and Despair
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the obstacles to trust the Israelites face, and what it tells us about hope today.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 10: Hard Heart
In this sermon, Curtis looks at why God might have hardened Pharaoh's heart, before moving into a response that asks what we can do with troubling stories and…
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 9: Who to Trust?
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the contest that begins in chapter 5 between Pharaoh and Yahweh, and how it informs our understanding of the idols in our day.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 8: God's Name
In this sermon, Meredith dives deep on the name God gives to Moses, Yahweh.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 7: Listening
In this sermon and response practice, Curtis looks at Moses' interaction with God in the burning bush story. How can we be open to the voice of God in our own…
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 6: Oppression Everywhere
In this sermon, Meredith looks at what we can take from Moses finding oppression everywhere he looks in the opening chapter of Exodus.
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Who is This Yahweh? Week 5: Identity
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the Israelite; no, Hebrew; no, Egyptian; no Midianite, that is Moses, and what he has to do with our identity.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 4: Women
In this sermon, Meredith looks at the way the women in the story of Moses birth point us to God.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 3: Literature
Curtis looks at some of the literary features that show up in Exodus 2, and how those enhance our understanding of the story.
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 2: Shiphrah and Puah
In this Sermon, Meredith looks at the creative resistance of two women in the opening chapter of Exodus
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Who Is This Yahweh? Week 1: Intro to Exodus
In this first sermon of our new series going through the foundational book of Exodus, Curtis looks at the way God describes themself: A God who sees, hears…
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Week 8 - Easter
In this Easter sermon, Meredith looks at what it means to live in hope in the waiting time.
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Week 7 - Follow Jesus (Palm Sunday)
In this sermon that was originally part of our live, in-person/zoom hybrid Palm Sunday service, Curtis looks at what we might have in common with Judas.
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2023 Refresh, Week 6: Relationship
In this sermon, Meredith looks at one facet of our value of relationship.
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2023 Refresh, Week 5: Sacrifice
In this sermon, Curtis looks at our core value of sacrifice.
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2023 Refresh, Week 4: Openness
In this sermon, Meredith looks at our core value of openness.
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2023 Refresh, Week 3: Are We Evangelical?
In this sermon, from our latest live gathering, Meredith asks if changes to the word Evangelical affect whether we would use it to describe how we follow Jesus…
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2023 Refresh, Week 2: Good News
In this sermon, Curtis looks at what exactly is meant by "the Gospel"
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2023 Refresh, Week 1: Gathering
In this sermon, Meredith takes a look at what we hope is true when we gather together for worship
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Joyful and Sustainable, Week 6: Good News, Great Joy, All People
In this final sermon of our Joyful and Sustainable series, Meredith looks at the news the angels brought to the shepherds.
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Joyful and Sustainable, Week 5: Consumerism
In this week's sermon, Curtis looks at the ways we use our money, and one way that relates to joyful and sustainable life
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Joyful And Sustainable, Week 4 - Deifying Family
In this sermon, Meredith looks at how treating family as everything can get in the way of joyful and sustainable living.
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Joyful and Sustainable, Week 3: Syncretism
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the way our vision of God can get clouded, and why that prevents us living joyfully and sustainably.
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Joyful and Sustainable, Week 2: Finances
This week, Meredith looks at the ways financial anxiety can drag us from the joyful, sustainable life Jesus invites us into
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Joyful and Sustainable, Week 1 - Frenzy
This is the first sermon of a new series looking at the ways our world pushes back on the good news that Jesus yoke is easy and his burden is light. This week…
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Promises Kept, Week 22 - Glory
In this final sermon from our journey through Romans, Meredith reflects on the Glory of God.
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The Backdrop: Romans 15:14-16:27
In this final Backdrop episode for Romans, we look at Paul's travel plans, his many, many greetings, and women in ministry
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Promises Kept, Week 21: All Together Now
In this sermon, Curtis looks at the long list of names in Romans 16
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Promises Kept, Week 20: Failure
In this sermon, Meredith looks at what Paul's "failure" tells us about faithfully following Jesus.
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The Backdrop: Romans 13:8-15:13
In this episode of the Backdrop we look at what Paul has to say about eating meat, celebrating holidays, loving one another, and more.
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Promises Kept, Week 19: Meat
In this sermon, Curtis looks at what Paul has to say about meat and holidays
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Promises Kept, Week 18: Love
In this week's sermon Meredith looks at Paul's words to the Romans about loving one another.
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Promises Kept, Week 16: Beautiful Ordinary
In this sermon, Meredith looks at what Paul's words in Romans 12 tell us about our ordinary lives.
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The Backdrop: Romans 12:1-13:7
In this episode, we turn practical, looking at what Paul has to say about the way the church relates to those inside and outside its community.
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Promises Kept, Week 17: Submit and Resist
In this sermon, Curtis looks at a thematic tension highlighted by Romans 13
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The Backdrop: Romans 11:1-36
The third section of Romans comes to it's dramatic Backdrop conclusion!
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Promises Kept, Week 15: Glory to God
In this sermon, we close out the third section of Romans with awe at the wisdom and glory of God.
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Promises Kept, Week 14: Olive Trees
In this week's sermon, Meredith looks at what Paul has to say about olive trees.
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The Backdrop: Romans 9:30-10:21
In this episode of the Backdrop, we look at what Paul is saying about Jesus and Torah.
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Promises Kept, Week 13: Fulfilling Torah
This week, Curtis looks at Romans 10, and what Paul is getting at when he says that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law.
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Promises Kept, Week 12: Remnant and Return
In this sermon, Meredith looks at how Paul's words in Romans 9 help the Church make sense of Christian Nationalism