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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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Good News: Hope
This week we continued our series looking at the different ways the Bible talks about Jesus as Good News, asking the question "could this still be good news…
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Good News: Hope Experience
This week, Curtis brings a three-part practice that helps us physically experience the reality of God's hope.
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Good News: Peace Bringers Experience
In this episode, Meredith leads us through an exercise of listening to God for how we can be peace bringers this week.
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Good News: Peace Bringers
This week we continued our series looking at the different ways the Bible talks about Jesus as Good News, asking the question "could this still be good news…
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Good News: Peace Experience
In this episode, Curtis leads a practice designed to help us experience the peace of Christ in the midst of anxiety.
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Good News: Peace
This week we continued our series looking at the different ways the Bible talks about Jesus as Good News, asking the question "could this still be good news…
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Good News: Family
This week we started a new series looking at the different ways the Bible talks about Jesus as Good News, asking the question "could this still be good news…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Reconciliation Practices
In this episode, Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for practices that help us experience our identity as reconciled with God, and a few ideas for how we…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Do Justice, Be Holy Practices
In this episode, Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for communal practices that help us Do Justice and Be Holy. Connect with us at pomonavalleychurch [dot]…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Do Justice, Be Holy
This week, Curtis considers the Bible's interconnected and in-tension commands to Do Justice and Be Holy, and why doing both within a community of Faith…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Reconciliation
This week, Meredith looks at how Jesus shows us what it means both to be reconciled to God and to be God's ambassadors in the ministry of reconciliation…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Celebration and Mourning Practices
Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for practices of celebration and mourning that might help you build your Rhythm of Life.
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Finding Our Rhythm: Engagement and Rest Practices
Curtis and Meredith share a few practices of engagement and rest that might help you build your Rhythm of Life.
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Finding Our Rhythm: Openness Practices
Curtis and Meredith share a few ideas for practices of knowing God and knowing the world that might help you build your Rhythm of Life.
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Finding our Rhythm: Engagement and Rest
This week, Curtis looks at what Genesis tells us humanity was made to do and be: God's partners in the work of helping all creation to flourish. Connect with…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Celebration and Mourning
This week, Meredith considers how the Bible tells us that we ought to celebrate, and also that we ought to mourn. How do we do both, and what practices might…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Solitude and Relationship Practice
Meredith and Curtis jump on the pod with some ideas of practices we might try to be more intentional about listening to God in solitude or engaging in and…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Solitude and Relationship
This week, we asked whether following God is all about relationships, or about meeting with God in solitude. Curtis looked at creation, and the stories of…
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Finding Our Rhythm: Openness
Meredith delivers a sermon about how following Jesus means connecting to, getting-to-know, and learning more about both God and the world.
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Finding Our Rhythm: Breath Prayer
Meredith leads us through a practice that helps us stay connected to Jesus, so that we can be both fully in the world and fully separate.
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Introduction - Finding Our Rhythm: Un-Balanced
Sorry we didn't get this out last week! Curtis starts our 2020 series on Rhythm of Life talking about how following Jesus means being both fully a part of the…
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2019 Year in Review
In this special year-end episode of the Launch Pod we look back at 2019, what has happened, where we've been, and what we're looking forward to in 2020. Thanks…
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Prepare Him Room - Peacemaking -Christmas 2019
This week, Meredith looked at John the Baptist's role in the Christmas story, and how the practice of repentance is crucial preparatory work for us to join…
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Prepare Him Room - Hospitality -Christmas 2019
This week, Curtis began our look at the Christmas story, considering what it might mean to make room for Jesus by welcoming the stranger, both near and far…
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In Memory of Our Jesus - Sermon 11/17/19
In this week's sermon, Meredith talks about what it means to celebrate a meal each week "in memory of Jesus". Unfortunately podcasting technology doesn't allow…
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The Backdrop - 11/10/19
In this episode of The Backdrop, Curtis looks at some of the cultural context in which the story of Jesus eating at the Pharisee's house takes place. Topics…
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Foolish Generosity - Sermon 11/10/19
This week, Curtis looks at the story from Luke 7 when a woman anoints Jesus' feet while he eats at the house of Simon the Pharisee. Why is she so foolishly…
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The Backdrop - 11/3/19
In this episode of The Backdrop, Meredith talks more about discernment, the social "map" that is a meal, and why eating with Cornelius was such a problem for…
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Peter, Cornelius, and Discernment - Experience 11/3/19
In this episode, Meredith leads us through the discernment experience that Lesley facilitated on Sunday. Note: This is one of those experiences that was highly…
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Peter, Cornelius, and Discernment - Sermon 11/3/19
Meredith takes us through the story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10-11, and asks what it means to discern what God is up to, and how we might join in.
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The Backdrop - 10/27/19
On this episode of The Backdrop, Meredith gets into the story of Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman, including who she was, and how it's ok if we don't…
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Woman at the Well - Sermon - 10/27/19
This week, Meredith preached on John 4, the story of Jesus' interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. She invited us to come and see that we are known…
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The Backdrop - 10/20/19
In this episode of The Backdrop, Curtis goes on tangents about condemnation, spiritual practices, and the Kingdom of God. Resources mentioned this episode…
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Shaped By The Spirit - Experience 10/20/19
Meredith leads us through an experience that is one great way to open ourselves up to being shaped by the Spirit. This Lectio Divina was originally led by…
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Shaped By The Spirit - Sermon 10/20/19
This week Curtis preaches a sermon on John 3, where Jesus encourages us to open ourselves up to God's Spirit, so that we can be shaped, both as individuals and…
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The Backdrop - 10/13/19
In this episode of the Backdrop, Curtis talks about when exactly Jesus cleared out the temple, whether we follow culture, more about ancient temple building…
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Justice in God's House - Experience 10/13/19
Meredith walks through a framework for how we might join Jesus in engagement with the injustice we find in the world around us.
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Justice in God's House - Sermon 10/13/19
In this week's sermon, Curtis looks at the story of Jesus clearing out the temple courts in John 2, asking what it might have to do with our commitment as a…
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The Backdrop - 10/06/19
Meredith talks about things big and small that inform our understanding of John 2. Resources mentioned in this podcast include: John: A Commentary by Marianne…
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Defiant Abundance - Sermon 10/6/2019
This week, Meredith unpacks the story of Jesus' sign at the wedding in John 2, and how it invites us to revolt against a culture of scarcity by trusting in…
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The Backdrop - 09/29/19
On this week's Backdrop Pod, Curtis takes a look at ten allusions that John makes in 1:35-51, and how understanding them helps flesh out our understanding of…
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Witness - Sermon 9/29/2019
As we continue to look at the opening chapters of the book of John, Curtis considers the calling of the first disciples in 1:35-51. John wants us to 'witness'…
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Witness - Experience 9/29/2019
Meredith leads us in a time of reflection (which Lesley led for us on Sunday) designed to help us answer the question, 'what exactly would it mean for ME to…
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The Backdrop - 09/22/19
In this episode of the Backdrop, Meredith unpacks two segments of John 1:9-18 -- logos made flesh and its implications for salvation & what we might learn and…
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Proximity Changes Everything - 9/22/19 Experience
Curtis introduces a practice to help us see our neighbors--literal and otherwise. It can equip us to follow Jesus into the world by getting proximate to the…
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Proximity Changes Everything - 9/22/19 Sermon
In Week 2 of our exploration of the opening chapters of John, Meredith considers what it means that God has drawn close to us in Jesus. John 1:10-18.
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The Backdrop - 09/15/19
In this supplemental pod, Curtis gives some of the background context for John 1:1-9. Topics include the ancient understanding of creation, the culture of…
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Come And See - 09/15/19 Sermon
In the first sermon from our Fall series "Come and See", we take a look at how John introduces Jesus in John 1:1-9, and what it might have to do with us as we…
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Come and See - 09/15/19 Experience
Meredith walks us through a practice that can help equip us to truly see Jesus as we go about our daily routines.
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Who We Are, In Short + Our Fall Launch!
We give some updates about what is coming Fall 2019 for Pomona Valley Church. We also give a brief refresher/introduction of who we are and what we're all…
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S2 Ep 10 - Youths!
We continue our mini-series (S2 Ep 8-10) looking at some of what we hope will make Pomona Valley Church unique. In this episode we talk about Kids and Youth…
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S2 Ep 9 - What We Do When We Gather
We continue our mini-series (S2, Ep 8-10) diving into some of what we think will make Pomona Valley Church unique. In this episode, we talk about why we plan…
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S2 Ep8 - Are We Evangelical?
The Launch Pod returns, this time from California! We are starting a new series of episodes addressing some of the common questions we get about Pomona Valley…
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S2 Ep7 - Moving Day!
We give a brief update on our big move and what is coming up in July for Pomona Valley Church. This is our last episode for a few weeks as we settle in. Thanks…
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S2 Ep 6 - Kinship
We talk about kinship, a concept that helps us understand what it means to neighbor well and do justice, two things we want to equip people to do well at…
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S2 Ep5 - Belonging
In this episode talk about our hope of being a community that takes seriously one of the greatest needs of our culture. What are the small, consistent…
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S2 Ep4 - Life with God
In this episode we give an update on our move to Claremont, and more importantly an update on the Champions League. Our main topic is about equipping people to…
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S2 Ep3 - Messy Togetherness
In this episode of the Launch Pod, we talk about why the mess and discomfort of community, the "messy togetherness" of church is a feature, not a bug. In other…
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S2 Ep2 - Running Toward the World
This episode we talk about the consistent outward focus of the Bible. God's people are called to move toward the world, bringing reconciliation with them. Also…
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S2 Ep1 - And We're Back!
We're back with season 2 of The Launch Pod for Pomona Valley Church! We had so much fun, we just couldn't stay away. In this episode we give some updates on…