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Francis Chan Sermons

88 Sermons

Francis Chan: Justice Conference 2012

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Main Message In this teaching we recognize that the righteous anger and deep concern we feel for injustice is not only valid but a divine calling. The message urges us to hold fast to that passion, re...

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Francis Chan: God's Priority - The Church's Purity

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of the church standing as the foundation and pillar of truth, upholding the absolutes from God's word. The church is responsible for holding up the ...

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Francis Chan: How to Avoid Arrogance

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of investing in the next generation, particularly through teaching and mentoring. The speaker highlights the potential for spiritual growth and lead...

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Francis Chan: Why People Hate Church

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of a church's actions reflecting its faith. The speaker shares personal anecdotes and scripture references to highlight how the world views the Chri...

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Francis Chan: Grace

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Main Message This message highlights the significance of living out our faith in practical ways, particularly in serving the poor and vulnerable. The speaker emphasizes that every need we bring up in ...

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Francis Chan: Humility 2007

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of humility, obedience, and submission to leadership in the church. The teaching highlights the biblical qualifications for elders and the responsib...

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Francis Chan: A New Attitude Toward People

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of transformation in our lives as believers, moving from conformity to the world's patterns to being transformed by the renewing of our minds. We ar...

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Francis Chan: Stop Talking

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living a life of selflessness, respect for God, and genuine faith. The speaker shares a powerful testimony from Cornerstone Church, highlighting ...

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Francis Chan: The Purpose of the Church

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of community and the Church's role in demonstrating God's love to those around us. We see an example of this in the church's partnership with a mini...

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Francis Chan: The Leaders of the Church

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Main Message This message is a clarion call to the church to prioritize unity, love, and community. The speaker emphasizes that this is not an optional aspect of being a Christian, but rather a fundam...

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Francis Chan: Grace and Community

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Main Message This message is a call to action, urging believers to live out their faith in tangible ways. The speaker shares personal anecdotes from past experiences, highlighting the disconnect betwe...

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Francis Chan: Who's the Cult?

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Main Message This message challenges us to re-examine our understanding of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ and to live out our faith in community with others. We are encouraged to move ...

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Francis Chan: Reflecting on God's Faithfulness

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of focusing on what's right, rather than just correcting what's wrong. The speaker shares their personal struggles with being a dad and a pastor, hi...

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Francis Chan: Holy Anguish

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Main Message This message is about being led by God's vision, rather than our own desires or fears. The speaker shares their personal struggles with building a church and the temptation to compromise ...

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Francis Chan: Gospel Conference 2009 (Part 5)

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living a life that prioritizes serving others, rather than just focusing on our own families. The speaker shares personal experiences and biblica...

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Francis Chan: Two People With One Mission

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living out our faith in community and being part of a movement that makes disciples. The speaker shares their personal experience of leaving a fa...

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Francis Chan: Gospel Training (Part 1)

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of abandoning traditional church models and embracing a more dynamic, Spirit-led approach. The speaker envisions a community where believers come to...

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Francis Chan: I'm In Love (Part 2)

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Main Message This message is all about being a community that is surrendered to God, living out our faith in tangible ways, and making an impact on the world around us. We've seen the power of prayer ...

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Francis Chan: Living Reverently

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living reverently, as exemplified by the congregation at Cornerstone. The pastor shares stories of how members of the church have been actively e...

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Francis Chan: Biblical Church - A Loving Family - ALCF

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living out our faith in authentic community, rather than just attending church services. We're encouraged to look beyond the external trappings o...

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Francis Chan: Abide in Jesus - World Mandate Texas

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Main Message This message is a call to re-examine the way we approach Christianity, particularly within the context of the American church. The speaker challenges the notion that relying on institutio...

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Francis Chan: Exponential Conference 2009

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity, trust, and boldness in church leadership. The speaker shares personal anecdotes about his own journey as a church planter and elder, highl...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, July 2015

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of building relationships with one another as members of the body of Christ. The speaker stresses that church is not just about attending a service,...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, September 2015

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Main Message This message challenges us to re-examine what it means to be the church, drawing inspiration from examples of authentic community and selfless love found in the Bible. We are reminded tha...

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Francis Chan: Taking Back What The Enemy Stole From Us — Church of God Convention 2015

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of humility, trust, and faith in leadership. It highlights the need for older leaders to pass on authority and responsibility to younger generations...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, July 2016

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What Breaks Your Heart? Francis Chan's message on what breaks God's heart is a powerful reminder that our emotions and reactions can be a reflection of our relationship with Him. The Bible teaches us...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, January 31, 2016

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of approaching scripture with humility, acknowledging that God's ways are higher than ours. The speaker encourages us to recognize our own limitatio...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, March 2016

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**Harmony with Heaven** In the grand tapestry of existence, there are two distinct songs being sung: one by the world, and another by heaven. The world sings a song of self-promotion, individual righ...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, February 2016

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Main Message This message is a call to seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. We are encouraged to set our minds on heavenly things and not be distracted by e...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, June 2016

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God's Call to Stand Strong in a World of Rejection As we read through the book of Jeremiah, it becomes clear that God is calling His people to stand strong in a world that will reject them for their ...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, August 2016

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of humility and dependence on God, even when we experience success or blessings. We are reminded that our strength and accomplishments come from God...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, October 2016

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of understanding God's character and His relationship with humanity. The speaker highlights that Romans, a book in the New Testament, is not just a ...

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2017 Church Intensive Introduction

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of building a church that reflects the biblical model, characterized by love for God and love for one another. We see in Scripture a group of people...

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Francis Chan: We Are Church - Church Together, November 2016

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of recognizing God's presence in our midst, particularly in church gatherings. The speaker encourages believers to approach their faith with a sense...

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The Church Needs to Change

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of a church that is truly devoted to God, rather than one that is driven by human desires and preferences. The speaker highlights how many churches ...

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Justin Clark: We Are Church - Church Together, March 2017

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Main Message This message emphasizes the incredible gift of God bringing humanity to Himself, not just delivering us from sin or giving us eternal life, but making us His own children, allowing us to ...

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Azuza Pacific University Chapel- the Church and Revelation

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Main Message This message is a call to wake up and take seriously the reality of God's presence in our lives. It's not just another chapel experience, but an opportunity to encounter the living God wh...

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Rethink Church | Rethink Mission Conference

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Main Message This message challenges us to rethink what the church is and what it means to follow Jesus. We're living in a world where millions of people have little to no access to the gospel, and ev...

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Francis Chan - Rethinking Church

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Main Message This message challenges us to re-examine our priorities and motivations as believers. We often assume that God is pleased with our gatherings, worship services, and church activities simp...

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Francis Chan - Are our man-made church gatherings enough for us?

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Main Message This message is a call to reevaluate the way we approach our church gatherings, recognizing that while they can be beneficial and enjoyable, they may not be enough for us. We often find c...

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Francis Chan - Jesus, the Head of the Church

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of recognizing Jesus as the Head of the Church, and how this truth should shape our actions and behavior. We are reminded that just like a physical ...

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Francis Chan - Church Together || December 15, 2019

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Main Message This message is a call to re-examine our understanding and practice of communion, also known as the Lord's Supper. The speaker shares personal struggles with this topic and invites us to ...

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The Way SF | A Ministry of Crazy Love

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of discipleship and community in following Jesus. We are reminded that true freedom and transformation come not from external programs or structures...

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Francis Chan on Until Unity

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Main Message This message reminds us that as followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to a life of unity and oneness with one another. Despite our differences, we are part of the same body of Christ, ...

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The Way SF | Junior's Story

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Main Message This message highlights the transformative power of community and discipleship in overcoming personal struggles. It emphasizes that following Jesus is not just about individual faith, but...

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Investing in the Next Generation | Francis Chan at the Send Pre-Rally

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity among believers, highlighting that it's a choice we make every day. We are called to walk in a manner worthy of our calling, with humility,...

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The Unity of Communion | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity among believers, particularly when it comes to observing the Lord's Supper. The speaker encourages listeners to move beyond individualistic...

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You Call This Chinese Food?!

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Main Message This message is a call to authenticity in our spiritual lives. We often settle for something that resembles Christianity, but it's not the genuine article. The speaker challenges us to co...

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THE SEND 2022 - Lineup

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Main Message This message emphasized the importance of unity and collective effort in advancing God's kingdom. The speaker highlighted that a new generation is being called to be saved and sent, and i...

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100 Cities Training

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Main Message This message is about the importance of obedience and unity in advancing God's kingdom. When we seek God and simply obey what He tells us, we step into His plan for our lives and the worl...

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Excitement Over the Movement of God | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity in the spirit, which leads to a deeper connection with God and others. The speaker shares personal experiences from their mission trips, hi...

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The ‘One Table’ Series (Ep. 1) | Can the Church Ever Be One Again?

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of seeking truth, unity, and humility in our faith journey. We are encouraged to ask questions, listen to others, and be open to changing our belief...

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The ‘One Table’ Series (Ep. 4) | Should We Agree to Disagree?

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Main Message This message explores the importance of unity and agreement within the church, but also acknowledges that there are times when it is necessary to draw boundaries and separate from those w...

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The Purity of the Church | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of living out God's truth, not just preaching it. We are called to be ambassadors of Christ, representing Him in every aspect of our lives. This req...

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Sharing the Oneness of God | Francis Chan & David Platt

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity among believers, highlighting that our lack of unity is hindering our ability to spread the gospel. The speakers draw from various scriptur...

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Leading Well in the Church | Francis Chan and Sean Brakey

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of seeking and submitting to God's leadership in our lives, particularly as leaders within the church. We are called to be different from the world,...

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Leading Well in the Church | Francis Chan and Sean Brakey

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of leadership in the church, highlighting that the Bible clearly teaches us to submit to spiritual leaders who have been appointed by God. We are en...

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The Mystery of Becoming One

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Main Message This message reminds us that God's ultimate desire is to bring people from all walks of life together into a unified community, with Christ as the Cornerstone. The apostles and prophets, ...

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The Goal of the Church

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Main Message This message emphasizes that the ultimate goal of the church is not to make people happy or satisfied, but rather to please God. We are called to prioritize His pleasure above all else, r...

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The Selfless Church

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Main Message This message emphasizes that being part of a church is not just about attending gatherings, but about allowing God to work in us, transforming our lives so we can serve others selflessly....

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We're Supposed To Be Different

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Main Message This message reminds us of the distinctive nature of the church, set apart from the world. We are called to be a community that values humility, unity, and peace above our own opinions an...

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The Power of Being Together

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Main Message This message reminds us that when believers gather together, a powerful dynamic is unleashed. The Bible emphasizes the importance of unity and love among God's people, not just as a feeli...

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Gather To Be Built Up

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Main Message This message reminds us that when we gather together as believers, our primary focus should be on building each other up, rather than seeking personal gratification. We are called to prio...

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Together with All the Saints

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Main Message This message is about the importance of gathering together with other believers, not just for socializing or entertainment, but to experience spiritual growth and deepening in our faith. ...

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Something is off...

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Main Message This message serves as a gentle yet firm reminder to the church that our priorities and focus should be on Christ, not on fleeting attractions or superficial excitement. We are called to ...

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Beyond Ourselves | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message challenges us to reevaluate what it means to be a church in America, encouraging us to shift our focus from being known for our Pastor or music to being a community that hung...

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Our Towers, His Temple (Ephesians Pt. 8) | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message highlights the importance of understanding God's plan for unity among believers. The passage from Ephesians 2:11-22 reveals that Christ's death on the cross was not just abou...

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Our Towers, His Temple

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of community and unity in our walk with God. We often try to go it alone, thinking we can have a personal relationship with Him without being part o...

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One Temple | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message challenges the idea of seeking personal recognition and instead encourages believers to focus on building a dwelling place for God, where Christ can dwell among His people. T...

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He Dwells with Us

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Main Message This message emphasizes that God's plan is not for us to isolate ourselves in personal worship experiences, but rather to have a deep and meaningful relationship with Him that extends int...

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One Temple

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity among believers, highlighting that God desires for His people to be one. The teaching encourages us to put aside our individual pursuits an...

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One United Body

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity among believers in achieving effective evangelism. We often focus on individual efforts, but true fruitfulness comes when a unified body of...

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The Key to Unity (Ephesians Pt. 13) | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of unity within the body of Christ, highlighting the significance of living in harmony with fellow believers. The teaching draws from Ephesians, emp...

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His Church, His Way (Ephesians Pt. 14) | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of surrendering to God's authority and embracing His commands as a community of believers. We are reminded that we were created to build God's kingd...

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Unity Without Compromise | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message challenges us to navigate the complexities of unity within the church, where we are called to separate ourselves from worldly thinking and actions while also attaching oursel...

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Gifted for the Body (Ephesians Pt. 15) | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message is a powerful reminder of the unity and interconnectedness of God's people, both individually and corporately. It emphasizes the importance of humility, gentleness, patience,...

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This Breaks God's Heart

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Main Message This message is a call to examine our hearts and actions as followers of Christ, recognizing that division within the church is not only a human issue, but also a spiritual one. The Fathe...

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An Unshakable Church (Ephesians Pt. 16) | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message highlights the importance of becoming the church that God has called us to be, as described in Ephesians 4. The passage emphasizes that God wants us to become unified in the ...

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A Pure Temple | Francis Chan

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of creating a space where God's presence can dwell among us. The speaker draws from both the Old and New Testaments to highlight the significance of...

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Show Us Your Glory

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Main Message This message reminds us that when we gather as a church, something special happens. When we assemble with one heart and one Spirit, we are not just coming together for our own agendas or ...

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The Church Will Always Stand

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Main Message This message reminds us that despite the challenges we face, God's church will always stand. We are not alone in our struggles, and there is a greater power within us that enables us to o...

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How Do You Pick a Church?

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Main Message This message emphasizes the importance of loving one another as Christ loved the church in the context of choosing a church community. We often prioritize external factors such as preachi...

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This Is What We’re Made For | Francis Chan

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Main Message We are created to gather, to laugh, to share, and to grow together in the same way that Jesus gathered His disciples. When we reconnect with those we once knew, we taste the joy of commun...

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Killing the “Moses Mentality” | Francis Chan

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Main Message This teaching invites us to abandon the “Moses Mentality” that places leaders as the sole bridge to God, and to embrace a church where every believer climbs the mountaintop on their own. ...

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Don’t Settle for the Status Quo | Francis Chan

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Main Message In this teaching we are invited to confront the comfort of the status quo and to let the gospel shape every facet of our lives. The church, like the early Corinthian community, was often ...

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The Kind of Church the World Can’t Explain

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Main Message This teaching invites us to imagine a church that no one can explain—one that radiates such authentic love and unity that outsiders are left in awe. It is not merely a place of worship, b...

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Passing the Baton to the Next Generation

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Main Message In this teaching we are invited to look beyond the instinctive resistance that often greets change and instead recognize the divine movement within the younger generation. We are called t...

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A Race for the Bottom | Francis Chan

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Main Message This teaching reminds us that the church is not a venue for personal acclaim or comfort, but a living, breathing community that reflects God’s manifold wisdom to the world and to the heav...

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