Reality LA Audio Podcast: Bible Teaching

Pastor Jeremy Treat explores what it means to give our ultimate allegiance to Christ over any political party. Through Jesus’ response to a political question in Luke 20:19-26, he invites us to seek God’s kingdom above all else, embracing faith over politics, unity over division, and Jesus over any party.

What does the parable of the wicked tenants teach us about the reality of sin and the character of God? Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 20:9-18.

In a society focused on external appearance, emotional wellness, physical fitness, and relational wholeness, we tend to overlook a thriving soul. Pastor Jeremy Treat pauses our Good News for All series to share a teaching from Psalm 143.

Stewardship is about more than our money or possessions. It's about investing our entire lives in the kingdom of God. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 19:11-27.

An encounter with Jesus really does change everything. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 19:1-10 about just such an encounter.

How can we ensure what we do matters? That our lives goes beyond the living of them? In other words—how do we inherit eternal life? Pastor Nathan Potter continues our Good News for all series with a sermon from Luke 18:18-30.

Persisting in prayer is key to persevering in prayer. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 18:1-8.

God is moving. Today. Toward you. With compassion. Pastor Jeremy continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 15:11-32 on the parable of the prodigal sons.

Secular inclusivity pretends to accept and celebrate all lifestyles, but is actually rather exclusive to people who don’t align with their agenda. Biblical inclusivity acknowledges the demands of following Jesus, yet genuinely invites all to trust him and join the community of the church. Pastor Jeremy resumes our Good News for All series with a sermon on inclusivity from Luke 14:12-24.

A contrite heart is not just satisfied with forgiveness, but longs for the joy of a restored fellowship with God. Guest preacher Afshin Ziafat continues our summer series through the Psalms with a sermon from Psalm 51.

The gospel means we can be afflicted but still prevail, be afflicted but still joyful and hopeful, and be afflicted yet at peace. Guest preacher Vermon Pierre continues our series through the Psalms with a sermon exploring Psalm 129.

The gospel truths found in Psalm 103 invite us to bask in the glory and the goodness of our God, provide an antidote to our spiritual amnesia, and can soften our calloused hearts. Pastor Goodwin Deng continues our summer Psalm series with his first sermon for our church family.

The God on your side will stop at nothing to defend, protect, establish, and save. Pastor Kevin Weiner continues our summer series through Psalms with a sermon from Psalm 124.

God is a God of rescue. Guest preacher Christian Simas from Reality Stockton launches our summer Psalms series with a sermon from Psalm 40.

We don’t need to live in anxiety that comes from focusing on the wrong things. Let’s focus on Christ—and seeking his kingdom—and experience peace. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News For All series with a sermon from Luke 12:22-31.

How do we guard against covetousness? Pastor Nathan Potter continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 12:13-21 comparing the covetous heart to the generous heart and learning what it means to be rich toward God.

How do we pray? Why do we pray? Pastor Nathan Potter continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 11:1-13 looking at the “Lord’s Prayer.”

The pace of our exterior lives is merely a reflection of our hurried souls…but Jesus offers a different way of life! Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 10:38-42.

The parable of the good Samaritan is one of the most famous stories in the world, but also perhaps one of the most misunderstood. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Good News for All series with a sermon from Luke 10:25-37.

Scripture depicts the church as a family whose table is open to anyone; who are sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and spiritual fathers and mothers to one another, and whose household code is the Word of God. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through Luke with a sermon from Luke 8:19-21.

Have ears to hear. Listen and live by God’s word. We must let it all the way in to our hearts. Pastor Nathan Potter continues our series through Luke with a sermon from 8:1-15 on the parable of the soils.

What does Jesus mean by “enemy,” what does the command to love our enemies not mean, what does it look like to follow it, and what will motivate us to persist in it? Pastor Philip Chew continues our series through Luke with a sermon from Luke 6:27-36.

Luke parallels physical sickness and sin because the call to repentance is a call to healing if we will receive it and follow him. Pastor Nathan Potter continues our series through Luke with a sermon from Luke 5:12-32.

Who is Jesus? What is his mission? What does it mean for us? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through Luke with a sermon from Luke 4:16-30.

What do we do when we experience real temptation? And what if it can be an opportunity to actually grow as followers of Jesus? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through Luke with a sermon from Luke 4:1-13.

While all of Scripture is ultimately the story of Jesus, the most direct and thorough narrative of his life is found in the gospel of Luke. Pastor Jeremy Treat launches our new series through the book of Luke with a sermon from Luke 1:1-4.

“Jesus Is Lord” is a political statement. How do we follow him faithfully in our current political environment? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Isaiah 11:1-9.

What does it mean to follow God with our physical being? Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Genesis 2:5-7 about our bodies.

How do we become a community that appreciates art, reflects God’s creativity, and pursues beauty? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Exodus 31:1-5.

Science is in no way incompatible with Christianity. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Psalm 104.

The gospel doesn’t mean our mental health challenges simply go away, but it does mean we need to learn to see them (like all of life!) through the lens of discipleship. Pastor Jeremy Treat resumes our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Psalm 42.

Jesus gave all for you. You can trust him with all of you. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches an Easter sermon from Romans 8:31-34.

Jesus is the remedy for a sick world! Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a Good Friday message on the cross as a source of healing.

We look to Jesus Christ’s generous, self-giving, committed love to learn how to relate to family, friends, and neighbors. Pastor Nathan Potter continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Exodus 34:5-9.

As disciples of Jesus, what should we do with our sexual desires? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon on sexuality from Song of Solomon 4:1-5:1.

Play is the in-breaking of the future kingdom where Christ reigns over all and decay, disease, and death are no more. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Zechariah 8:1-8.

Because Jesus is our rest, we can operate every minute of every day out of a place of Sabbath rest in him. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Exodus 20:8-11.

What is God’s design for work? How does following Jesus shape the way that we work? Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Genesis 1:26-31, 2:15-19.

How can we loosen our grip on money and open our hands to receive of God’s grace and give toward God’s purposes? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Proverbs 3:9-10 about money.

To live for God’s kingdom for the glory of God’s name and to follow Jesus as a focused, present, content, peaceful, rested, and known person…we can’t use tech passively but redemptively, acknowledging its temptations and leveraging it for God’s purposes. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Genesis 11:1-9 about technology.

When Jesus wanted to explain the meaning of his death to his disciples, he didn’t give them a lecture—he gave them a meal. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Isaiah 25:6-9 on the meaning of meals.

All of life, all for Jesus. Pastor Jeremy Treat begins our Everyday Discipleship series with a sermon from Deuteronomy 6:4-9.

Who are we as a church, where have we been, where are we going, and what's my part? Pastor Jeremy Treat shares where we sense God leading us in 2024 and preaches a sermon from Luke 5:1-11.

The image of God is the foundation for a whole-life ethic that sees the inherent dignity and equal value of all people. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Genesis 1:26-28.

Spending time anywhere in the word of God will always, always brings us back to the gospel. Pastor Nathan Potter begins 2024 with a sermon from 2 Timothy 3:14-17 about what it means to be a people of the Word.

Pastor Nathan Potter concludes our year in sermons with a sermon from Matthew 5:21-26 delving into mercy, bitterness, and reconciliation.

The Christmas story is more just a cute narrative to make us feel better for a season; it answers the deepest questions of life. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches an Advent sermon from Matthew 2:1-12.

If presents, parties, and even family can't give us complete, lasting joy, then where does Advent invite us to look for deeper joy? Pastor Philip Chew preaches an Advent sermon from Psalm 63.

Jesus came to bring peace in a world of chaos. And through faith in him, we can live as people of future peace today. Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald preaches an Advent sermon from Isaiah 54.

Christmas brings us the hope that God sees us and makes haste to help us, a hope we can be confident in because he has appeared among us as an infant, meeting vulnerability with vulnerability and weakness with weakness. Into our wilderness, Christ has come. Pastor Nathan Potter preaches an Advent sermon from Hosea 2:14-15.

Jeremy concludes our series through the book of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 12, which looks forward to the end-time resurrection—the eternal deliverance when God will deliver his people from evil, wickedness, and ultimately death.

Through Daniel’s story, we see that even when it feels like the world is falling apart, you can stand firm because God is your foundation. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through the book of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 11.

Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through the book of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 10, in which Daniel gives us a glimpse of what’s happening in the spiritual realm.

God always answers prayer and Jesus is the ultimate answer to prayer. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through the book of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 9.

God is turning brokenness into beauty, making his power perfect through weakness, and every setback will be used for his glory. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our look at the apocalyptic ("revealing") second half of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 8.

The hope created by Daniel’s apocalypse is one that knows it's not futile to be faithful to God and work for the shalom of our city because, one day, everything Jesus gets we will get, and there will finally be shalom over all the earth! Pastor Philip Chew preaches a sermon from Daniel 7 transitioning us from the narrative first half of the book to the second, visionary half.

What does it look like to trust God in difficult situations? Can we trust God? What do we do when our faith comes into tension with society? How can our faith endure over time? Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Daniel 6 answering these questions and giving us a vision of faithfulness to God, even in the hardest circumstances.

God warns us because he loves us, not from a place of cruelty but of care, not to drive us away but to draw us near. God's warning is also his invitation: return to me. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Daniel 5 delving into a biblical understanding of exaltation versus humility.

God revealed to Nebuchadnezzar that God was the one with true power, and this was good news because God used his power to show mercy. Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald preaches a sermon from Daniel 4 about God's merciful, sacrificial answer to our selfish tendency to build our own little kingdoms.

God doesn’t merely deliver us from the fire. God’s way of deliverance is to enter into the fire with us and bring us through the fire. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our Citizens in Exile series with a sermon from Daniel 3.

God is the revealer of mysteries, which means we don’t have to go through life wondering "What is God like?", "What is the purpose of life?", "Who am I?", or "Where is this all headed?" Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Daniel 2.

Design success as faithfulness to God. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Daniel 1:8-21 about resolving to be different, discerning when to resist, depending on God’s grace, and trusting God for the results.

Learn how to be faithful to God's kingdom even in a city like Babylon or Los Angeles. Pastor Jeremy Treat begins our new series through the book of Daniel with a sermon from Daniel 1:1-7 about remembering the story from Eden to Exile, finding our place in God's story, and committing to being faithful to God in exile.

Moving to the life-changing rhythms of divine reciprocity. Guest preacher Darryl Williamson concludes our summer series in the Psalms with a sermon from Psalm 81 about receiving and responding to the music of God's grace in our lives.

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Guest preacher Sam Allberry shares a sermon from Psalm 23 to help us rest in the psalm's amazing claims that God is a God who satisfies, restores, accompanies, and befriends us.

Guest preacher Crawford Loritts shares a sermon from Psalm 55 digging into a godly process, perspective, and power with which we can to face pressure in our lives.

Guest preacher Christian Simas from Reality Stockton preaches a sermon from Psalm 96.

Let’s not settle for shallow Christianity. Let’s pursue a deep faith that’s authentic, sacrificial, and intimate. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Hosea 10:12-13.

The grace of who God is and what he's done for us gets the final word. Pastor Jeremy Treat concludes our series through 2 Corinthians with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 13:1-14.

God's costly love for us isn’t simply our example to follow—it’s what saves us and empowers us to show costly love to one another. Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 on the power of costly love.

Just like our weaknesses, the grace and power of God to perfect his strength in our weakness is there every day. The only question is, will we rely on it? Pastor Nathan Potter preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 on our weakness as a home for God's power.

When should we boast? About what should we boast? In whom should we boast? Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 about what it means to boast in our weakness.

There is always the temptation to believe in another Jesus, a different gospel, a different Spirit what's presented in Scripture. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 11:1-15 exposing three secular and three religious pseudo gospels prevalent in our culture today.

The church does not need brilliant personalities, but faithful servants of Jesus. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 10:7-18 exploring what authority is, where it comes from, what it's for, what it's not for, and preventing its abuse.

Following Jesus doesn't mean adding a "Christian" veneer to the way we're already living—it means learning to live out the image of a messiah who accomplished our salvation in the most unusual and subversive way you could ever imagine. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 exploring the power of God's generosity and the powerful joy made possible when we participate in it.

Have you ever considered that your generosity toward other people—maybe even toward people that you feel divided against—might be a tool God wants to use to unite you together as one? Pastor Jonathan Fitzgerald preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 9:6-15, exploring the power of God's generosity and the powerful joy made possible when we participate in it.

Guest preacher John Rinehart from Gospel Patrons teaches on integrity and giving from 2 Corinthians 8:16-9:5, asking the question, what does it look like to use our financial blessing to further the Kingdom of God?

Why do we give? Pastor Jeremy preaches from 2 Corinthians 8:8-15 on generosity being motivated not by guilt, obligation, or mere obedience, but by the gospel.

A declaration of God's grace not only transforms our hearts, but also the way we think about money. Pastor Jeremy Treat begins a four-part biblical generosity miniseries within our 2 Corinthians series with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 8:1-7.

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Joy is not found in our circumstances, but in God who is with us regardless of our circumstances. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues nurseries through 2 Corinthians with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 7:2-16.

What does it mean to be a resilient disciple? How do we endure opposition and withstand hardship? Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through the book of 2 Corinthians with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 6:3-13.

In Christ, you are a new creation. In Christ, God is reconciling the world to himself. In Christ, we have a ministry of reconciliation. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through the book of 2 Corinthians with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2.

Because Jesus lives, we can experience lives full of peace, joy, and hope. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches an Easter sermon from Luke 24:1-12.

What motivates us? Pastor Jeremy preaches a sermon from 2 Corinthians 5:11-15 presenting the greatest motivation—to live for God—which lasts not only through our entire lives, but for all eternity.

God is calling you and me to be courageous in the cause of global mission, but how do we not lose heart? Guest preacher David Platt continues our series through 2 Corinthians with a teaching from 2 Corinthians 5:1-10.

Pastor Jeremy preaches from 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, showing us that suffering is not an obstacle to God's purposes, but rather an instrument for God's purposes.

Why is following Jesus so hard? Pastor Mike preaches from 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 about the cost of following Jesus.

How does the gospel of the glory of Christ show us a different way to live? A different way to do ministry? Pastor Jeremy preaches from 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 on how our ministry is impacted when we are characterized by grace.

Embracing weakness does not lead to passive resignment but rather to glorious transformation. Pastor Jeremy continues our 2 Corinthians teaching series with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 3:1-18.

Pastor Jeremy preaches from 2 Corinthians 2:12-17, showing us that this seemingly contradictory idea—embracing weakness is a way of experiencing God’s strength—is not only deeply true but also transformative to our lives.

How do you respond when someone wrongs you? How do you move forward when you wrong someone else? Pastor Jonathan preaches on sin and repentance from 2 Corinthians 2:5-11.

What do we do when life doesn’t go as expected? Pastor Jeremy preaches a sermon on God’s sovereignty from 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4.

Our ability to rely on God is connected to our willingness to let him comfort us in our pain. Pastor Jeremy Treat continues our series through 2 Corinthians with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 1:3-11.

The gospel is good news for weak people and the church is a place for broken people. Pastor Jeremy Treat launches our 2 Corinthians series with a sermon from 2 Corinthians 1:1-2.

Looking at who we are as a church, why we’re in LA, where God led us in 2022, and where we sense his leading as we look forward to 2023, Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches a sermon from Matthew 13:18-23.

Pastor Nathan preaches from Matthew 6:9-13, exhorting us to be a people of prayer. In this passage, the Lord's Prayer informs both our posture of prayer and our daily practices to draw near to God.

Rather than starting 2023 thinking about what we can accomplish and how we can transform our own lives, what if we started by focusing on what God has done for us, and how he wants to work through us to bless others? Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches the first sermon of the new year with a sermon from Genesis 12:1-3.