http://www.kaleochurch.com Kaleo is a San Diego church that desires to learn about, live out and share the Gospel. Kaleo's mission is to faithfully preach, teach and evangelize in San Diego. We invite you to use our online resources to learn and grow in your faith. If you are in the San Diego area, we invite you to join us in worship and the preaching of God's word at our Sunday service or attend one of our classes, pre-marriage counseling or small groups which are hosted throughout the city. en Kaleo is a San Diego church that desires to learn about, live out and share the Gospel. Kaleo's mission is to faithfully preach, teach and evangelize in San Diego. We invite you to use our online resources to learn and grow in your faith. If you are ... Kaleo San Diego Church no Kaleo Sermon Feed info@kaleochurch.com ℗ & © 2009 Kaleo San Diego Church 720 We are children of God, no longer orphans in this world without Him. We are also His ambassadors in this world as His sent people. Jesus draws us to Himself so that we can have and live by the love of the Father, then Jesus sends us into the world as His missional people. In fact, when you read Jesus’ words in John chapter 20, you begin to see what He had in mind... http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/feeding-and-tending-jesus-flock http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090628feedingandtendingjesusflockfairchild.mp3 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:23:30 UTC David Fairchild Topical ordained,god,nature,rule,king,redemptive,history,fail,grace,promise,mission,image-bearers,ambassador,son 82:17 Are you tired, burdened, anxious, angry, or depressed? If you need to be restored, then this message is for you. It is the story about the steadfast love of God which alone is able to restore his people and give them hope in the midst of this difficult and trying world. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-restoring-power-of-gods-steadfast-love http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090621cain.mp3 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:52:26 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,steadfast,love,burdened,father's_day,anxious,restored,celebrating,worshiping 68:57 Was it worth it? Were the radical sacrifices made by God's people throughout Scripture worth it? When we glimpse the glory of God, we see that all of our suffering, as great as it might be, is not worthy to be compared to the beauty of the glory of God revealed in the face of our Savior Jesus Christ. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/a-god-worth-waiting-for http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090614agodworthwaitingforcain.mp3 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:32:40 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,worth,village,city,jerusalem,sacrifice,guard,god,glory,anna,temple,simeon,presence 72:16 What we believe about God is best demonstrated in the midst of trials. In fact, how we respond to trials reveals to the world what we believe about God. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/how-do-we-respond-to-trials-and-what-does-that-say-about-what-we-believe-about-god http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090607howdowerespondtotrialsandwhatdoesthatsayaboutwhatwebelieveaboutourgodcain.mp3 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:55:36 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah dilema,just,jesus,fufilling,blessing,covenant,abrahamic,mosaic,geometry,proof,worship,covenant,god,who,believe,suffering,trials,given,nehemiah,amnesia 70:42 Today, we, like the Israelites, often lose sight of God and are not mindful of the wonders he has performed for his people through the sacrifice of his only Son, Jesus. However, God has not changed. He is from everlasting to everlasting and he is the God of the nevertheless. Whatever sin, whatever failure, however awful, his grace is greater. He is the God who sent his only Son to die so that he could save sinners, and now he calls us all to look upon him and find forgiveness for our sins. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-god-of-the-nevertheless http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090531thegodoftheneverthelesscain.mp3 Sun, 31 May 2009 18:45:11 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,grace,sinners,isrealites,arrogant,desert,stone,pillar,covenant,slaves 60:52 The reason we struggle so mightily with joy and celebration is because we have forgotten. We have forgotten what God is like. We have forgotten how good He is. We have forgotten how merciful He is. We have forgotten how He’s rescued us. We have forgotten that He is a God of great joy. We have forgotten that He loves to be with us. We have forgotten that we are grafted into this family: we are children of Abraham because we believe in Christ and we are to pick up His same heart of celebration and rejoicing. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/partying-that-provokes http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090524partyingthatprovokesfairchild.mp3 Sun, 24 May 2009 22:33:35 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah grace,sacrifice,salvation,redeemed,joy,levites,scriptures,read,word,ezra,celebration,rejoicing,festivals,booths,nehemiah 77:11 As we study Nehemiah 8 we will take time to consider what it is about God that is able to move his people, the Israelites, from weeping to rejoicing and feasting. It is our goal that the God they saw would be the God you would see as you ponder Him in His word and that you too, would find yourself overwhelmed with joy and moved to celebrate our great God. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/from-tears-to-rejoicing-responding-to-the-word-of-god http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090517fromtearstorejoicing-respondingtothewordofgodcain.mp3 Sun, 17 May 2009 07:38:19 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,weeping,joy,grace,celebrate,rejoicing,respond,consider,weaping,feasting 62:20 The Law no longer condemns us and it no longer curses us. Instead the law has become the way we learn what it looks like to be fully human. It is now nothing to fear, but something we learn of so that we might follow Jesus in response to His grace. The Spirit now shows you how Jesus lived up to the law instead of condemning you and convicting you in all the ways you’ve failed to live up. When you fail, you’re failing to live like who you truly are in Jesus. You’re already seen by the Father as keeping the law, there’s no need to use it to get His favor. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/giving-and-grace http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090510givingandgracefairchild.mp3 Sun, 10 May 2009 17:38:13 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah saved,burden,law,free,leaders,exemplary,city,new_community,generosity,offering,tithe,giving,500_years,oak,oxford,nehemiah 73:01 God has always intended that His people would so love Him, so trust Him, and so respond to His grace that they would show Him off to each other and this world. They’re to be a display people, a people that tell the world what He’s like by living in such a way that provokes questions and curiosity about the God they love and are loved by. This is what the book of Nehemiah is about. This is the real mission of Nehemiah. This is the real work of God. He wants to revive and restore what has been destroyed by doubt, fear, hopelessness, apathy, and injustice so that the world would know He’s a God who rebuilds what Adam and Eve and you and I have torn down. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/participation-and-progress http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090503participationandprogressfairchild.mp3 Sun, 03 May 2009 00:35:46 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,legacy,generations,sons,hot,woman,man,daughter,son,marry,city,community,cutt_off,alone,safety,genealogy,casting_lots,unverified 82:41 In Nehemiah, the nobles of Jerusalem chose to cling to the comfort and safety of their political alliances and missed the glory of God which stood so clearly in their midst. They feared the glory of God because they knew that to see it would cause them to fall greatly in their own esteem. However, by missing out on the glory of God, the nobles foolishly traded their own eternal joy for what seemed to be an economically wise relationship at the time. Today, we too have the opportunity to see the glory of God and experience the amazing joy that comes as we fall in our own esteem and yet realize that the God of the universe is for us. He is our advocate, our savior, our refuge, our creator, and our friend; and beholding his glory can fill our lives with joy, truth, meaning, and purpose. We must be vigilant not to make the same mistake as the nobles of Jerusalem and trade his glory for lesser things. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/missing-the-glory-of-god-in-our-midst http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090426missingthegloryofgodinourmidstcain.mp3 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:28:58 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,big,small,52_days,half,joy,for_us,wing,tall,refuge,glory,lesser_things,nobles,tobias,job,jews,awesome,wall 71:06 How do we deal with others who deceive us, mistreat us, threaten us, and misunderstand us? By saying today, Father forgive them, they don’t understand what they’re doing. Help me to love them as you have loved me. Help me to not cling to my life and need their approval. Help me to love and fear only you. Thank you for freeing me from the need to control my life and to need approval from others. Let me live out of that truth as you restore me so that others can see how good you are. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/triumph-and-treachery http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090419triumphandtreacheryfairchild.mp3 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:01:25 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,52_days,letter,distraction,focus,deception,reputation,fear,safety,threaten,mistreat,lies,reports,tobiah,sanballat,curses,forgiveness 76:10 Your suffering is not in vain. Your heartbreak is not in vain. Your loss is not in vain. Your struggle is not in vain. Your past is not in vain. This day is not in vain. Your future is not in vain. God’s grace towards you is not in vain! Jesus swallowed our failure, shame, guilt, death, sin, and hell. Jesus became a man and lived our life and died our death to pay our penalty so that God could give us grace and welcome us in to His loving arms and say, “This is my boy, this is my girl, whom I love!” Happy Resurrection Sunday Kaleo. Let’s worship our King! http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/resurrection-sunday Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:21:12 UTC David Fairchild Topical resurrection,easter,died,shame,that's_my_boy,paul,james,john,peter,faith,hope,sin,suffering,cross,hold_fast,vain What mix of character traits we’ve seen so far in Nehemiah; humility, compassion, a love for God’s glory, the ability to inspire others, a great strategist, a man who prays intensely and waits up on the Lord, yet is a man of action, he’s hard-working, committed to God’s mission, a risk-taker, someone who pursues justice for the poor, hospitable, and generous in ways that make us take notice. But what Nehemiah wants most is not for people to remember or applaud him. Instead, he comes to God in prayer and asks God to remember him. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/remember-me http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090405remembermefairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:42:45 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,remember_me,fear,delight,compassion,generousity,consistency,humility,thief,cross,kingdom 63:33 So much time is spent discussing our guilt for doing the things we knew we weren’t supposed to do. But little time is spent with our hearts broken over what He’s called us to do and be for Him. We’ve failed to do what God does and love what God loves. This has caused a great debt that has to be satisfied. If God owns everything, then you’re indebted to Him and Him alone. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/greed-and-grace http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090329greedandgracefairchild.mp3 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:50:49 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,villian,justice,comfort,security,pleasure,helplessness,starving,debt,greed,idolatry,ezekiel,restitution,repentance 96:15 Though the community may provide personal blessings and more, the Christian community is intended to reflect a new way of being human to this world. We are to be an alternate city within San Diego, where we are demonstrating what a truly human society looks like. We are more than a support group for individuals; rather we as individuals are to gather together into a community and put on display what a society looks like when it is transformed by the Gospel. Simply, we are a counter-culture. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/building-and-battling http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090322buildingandbattlingfairchild.mp3 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:52:09 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,sword,trowel,fight,beauty_of_god,building,battling,defending,pacesetter 64:50 This message is a call for all of us to give our lives to loving God with all our hearts and proclaim his beauty to our neighbors. It is a call that when heeded leads inevitably to weariness, discouragement and suffering. In the midst of our inevitable suffering comes the subtle temptation of Satan to return to a more comfortable life. This message is a call to fight that temptation with a vision of the glory of God that is more beautiful than the empty comforts of this world. It is a call to set our eyes upon our savior who gave up the comforts of heaven and earth to be rejected, suffer, and die for us. As we do this we will find that suffering on mission is far more satisfying then the comforts of this world. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-suffering-of-the-mission-and-the-call-to-perseverance http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090315thesufferingofthemissionandthecalltoperseverancecain.mp3 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:20:50 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah nehemiah,suffering,satisfying,comforts,lie,come_home,quit,memo,fight,wall,discouragement 69:56 Nehemiah’s prayer against his enemies not only raises a number of questions, but even threatens to offend many of our notions about the grace and justice of God. By taking a closer look both at Nehemiah’s prayer and at our own preconceptions about the character of God, we will seek to understand how this prayer ought to affect our lives today. At the end of this message I hope that we will have a greater appreciation both for God’s perfect justice and for his amazing grace. And I hope that our awareness of these two things will drive us out to call a world under God’s just wrath to flee to the cross where his grace can be found. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-grace-and-justice-of-our-god http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090308thegraceandjusticeofourgodcain.mp3 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:10:27 UTC Tim Cain Nehemiah wrath,charachter,mocking,enemies,against,prayer,nehemiah,justice,grace,offend 62:06 That God would, through Nehemiah, record their names for us to read some 2,500 years later is amazing. How many of you believe that when you stick around and stack chairs, God is going remember your work for the next two and a half millennium? He takes average Joes and Janes and lifts up their work and says, “I know the work you’ve done and I will remember it for eternity.” So many of us think that our contribution is simply too small to matter. But this is the opposite of what God is showing us by preserving this list. He’s saying, “It may not matter to anyone else, but it matters to Me!” You might be quietly working behind the scenes without any recognition, but the only eyes of the universe that matter are upon you and He won’t forget. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-work-of-the-mission http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090301theworkofmissionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:35:39 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah work,matters,build,dung_gate,holy,unity,different_work,same_mission,diversity,living_stone,everyone 81:37 Have you become accustomed to the brokenness in your life and the lives around you? Have you guarded your heart by keeping your distance? Have you protected yourself by having such meager expectations for God? Have you said things like, “If you don’t expect anything, you won’t be disappointed?” Can you see how hopeless and devastating it is to expect so little of such a large God. He is a big God. We need to come to Him with all our needs, especially big ones! http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/risk-of-the-mission http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090222theriskofmissionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:35:17 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah glory,weeps,risk,trust,comfort,mission,rest,opposition,ruins,gates,ourselves,disappointment,expect,lie,enemy,critics 81:29 What can we learn about our mission through this great work of Nehemiah? How can we put some meat on the bones of missional calling? How should God’s people now respond if they’ve been broken over the needs of our city? God loves to use the simple, common, humble people who He chooses to raise up and use in incredible ways. God is calling us to no less that what we see in Nehemiah’s life and example. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/mission-of-the-king http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090215missionofthekingfairchild.mp3 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:42:50 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah nehemiah,god's_people,patient,feel,tender_warriors,submit,speak,pray,humble,courageous,plan,serve 90:33 The true story of the world begins in a garden and ends in a city. Eden is an amazing and beautiful place that God planted for the first humans to enjoy and cultivate. God’s desire was that we would build a culture and city of justice, love, compassion, mercy, truth, righteousness and most importantly, deep fellowship with Him as we live out our designed purpose of making His name great in this world. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/weeping-for-our-city http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090208weepingforourcityfairchild.mp3 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:17:50 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah eden,city,redemption,broken_walls,temple,hope,serve,church,love,heaven,randy_alcorn,hating_sin 78:19 We all feel homesick. We have a place where we can put our stuff, but it's not home. We're a group of people who miss the same place. Eden echoes in each of our memories. Except this place isn't imaginary; it's real. And we're not going to get it back by trying to create a new home for ourselves. That is what all of humanity has attempted to do. We've all tried to create a place where we can say, "This place is right and good and is finally home." Oh, we might feel that for a short period of time, but our souls cry out for Eden. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/nehemiah-an-introduction http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090201nehemiah-anintroductionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:03:15 UTC David Fairchild Nehemiah joy,promise,faithful,israel,sin,rebellion,eden,light_to_the_city,redemption,home,creation,nehemiah 38:53 The Bible shows us that even a great man like David the King is fundamentally flawed and capable of the deepest sin. Not only that, but each of us are sinners in need of a Savior. This is why we need repentance. It’s the first step to understanding anything about God’s grace or His healing power in our lives. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/from-repentance-to-rejoicing http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090125fromrepentancetorejoicingfairchild.mp3 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:04:02 UTC David Fairchild Topical david,king,power,bathsheba,rejoyce,nathan,mighty_men,uriah,hittite,repentance 68:25 The Scriptures teach us that we are all in bondage, we are all enslaved. Jesus came to release us from a much deeper bondage than slavery. This is why Jesus came! Because so many people missed this, they can’t understand why Jesus had to die. They can’t understand what all these facts about Jesus meant. They don’t see themselves in need of spiritual redemption from the bondage of their sin. What about you, do you see you need the kind of redemption that Jesus was bringing? Or are you still hoping that Jesus will bring you redemption from your circumstances? Are you still looking for your vision of redemption? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-stranger-on-the-road http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090118thestrangerontheroadfairchild.mp3 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:25:13 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus blind,freeing,redemption,charles_templeton,painting,five_years_later,church,caravaggio,redemption 61:28 “When I was ten I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - C.S. Lewis To be so self-absorbed, so fearful of the opinions of others, so defined by what others think, is a sure way to miss the real Jesus. To be like a child, to be willing to look foolish for Jesus is a crushing blow to your pride, and it is a necessary step to meet the real Jesus. Have you gotten over the fear of looking childish? It’s one of the ways you know you’re growing up. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transforming-grace http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090111transforminggracefairchild.mp3 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:29:07 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus foolish,childish,hypocritical,religious,pride,crowd,hyprocrite,greedy,family,ridicule,god,powerful,money,hated,zacchaeus,tax_collector 67:32 What are the four truths that shape our lives because behind every sin and negative emotion is a lie that we believe. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/4-truths-that-shape-our-life http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20090104goodmanson.mp3 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:19:02 UTC Drew Goodmanson Topical 27:36 Scrooge was shown his future – he was to die alone and sad, and fearful, but here Isaiah gives us a glimpse of true comfort: because Jesus triumphed over the grave, our future as a broken community is to rise on eagle’s wings!Isn’t it comforting that history ends with this picture – a picture of one of the most tender things one person can do for another, which is to gently touch their cheek and dry their tears? You have to be in intimate relationship with someone to do that don’t you? And you see what we’re shown in Scripture at the end of Revelation is that Jesus Himself will come to you, and with the very hands that were pierced with wounds of love for you, will brush away your final tears, which are precious to him, and will store them away in his bottle with all the rest that you cry right now. Then, you will know joy, and it will be a greater joy than Scrooge even knew on Christmas morning. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/christmas-comfort http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081228christmascomforttrout.mp3 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:10:50 UTC Stephen Trout Topical weak,struggling,confess,bondage,future,guilt,comfort,isaiah,sad,sin,anxious,christmas 40:50 John 15:11: “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” Hebrews 12:1-2: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” John 17:13: “But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.” We can fight for joy as we trust in Jesus and His gospel. We fight because Jesus fought for us. We have joy because Jesus is filled with joy for His Father. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/advent-joy-2008 http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081221adventjoyfairchild.mp3 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:42:28 UTC David Fairchild Topical joy,idol,idolatry,joy,church_discipline,jesus_birth,advent,happy,security,witness,fickle,rejoice,consumerism,community 74:54 In the gospel we learn that we love God because God first loved us (1 John 4:19). In the gospel we hear of the truly loving One who came for us. We hear of the promise of God that tells us that all our hatred, all our despising of God and His goodness was swallowed up in Jesus’ death and was victoriously defeated in Jesus’ resurrection. Have you forgotten the gospel of grace where God’s love is shown most clearly. Jesus is calling us to remember the very basis for our love, the content of our love, the very person of our love, Jesus. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/advent-love-2008 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:59:11 UTC David Fairchild Topical love,lampstand,command,jesus,die,gospel,poetry,art,fickle,divine,grand,everything,hurt,salvation,eternal,emotion,distorted,grotesque,heart What we need with God is shalom. We need peace with Him. We need our hearts to raise the white flag and surrender. We need the war between us to end. And that is exactly what Jesus was sent here to accomplish for us. He came as the ultimate olive branch. He came as the dove of God. He came as the very Prince of Peace. Since this is the case, what we see today is that it isn’t so much a need for God to prove His love to you more than He has by sending the gift of His Son, but our learning of and understanding what He’s done for us brings us this peace. In other words, the more you realize that God’s favor rests upon you (v. 14), the more you’ll experience peace. The favor of the only eyes in the universe that matter is calling you to great joy at this good news. God desires that we would join the angels in crying out to God, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace.” And we could finish this by saying, “because God’s favor rests on us—on me!” http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/advent-peace-2008 http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081207adventpeacefairchild.mp3 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:59:38 UTC David Fairchild Topical peace,good_will,war,dove,rest,believe,resist,shalom,reconcile,hostility,soverignty,garden,broken 81:00 How you live now is an outworking of hope. Your hope is shown in your life. It’s that simple. The biblical concept of hope is difficult to grasp because the word translated from the Greek isn’t served all that well by our modern or popular usage of the word hope. The Greek word is used some 88 times in the New Testament and is always translated as “hope.” The problem is that the English word gives the impression of wishing rather than a kind of certainty without site. In other words, when asked whether or not this or that thing is going to happen, you may say “I hope it does,” meaning that you are wishing it does. It has uncertainty mixed in. But the Biblical definition of hope is a life-shaping certainty about something that hasn’t happened yet, but you know it will. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/advent-hope-2008 http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081130adventhopefairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:00:02 UTC David Fairchild Topical outlook,circumstance,relationship,dispair,idol,comfort,obama,hope 67:08 Most Christians, if we’re honest, might have to confess that the prevailing story that our lives and reality are defined by is not the story of the Kingdom. But this story is comprehensive in scope and it calls for our whole life, our own individual stories, to find their fulfillment and meaning only in its story. Our identity, our purpose, our sense of value, our meaning, our security, our idea of comfort and pleasure are all to be absorbed into this great story that is the true story of the world and our lives. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/feast-for-the-humble http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081123feastforthehumblefairchild.mp3 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:09:11 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus feast,jesus,humble,blind,dirty,lame,weird,prostitue,self-righteous,dispair,joy,church,banquet,history,humble,outcast 64:15 In life, circumstances are always changing. Our circumstances are always changing. Our perceptions of our circumstances are always changing. So unless we have the eternal perspective that comes from God's word, we will be like sifting sand...we will be like a boat on wind-blown waves that's being tossed around. The reality is is that our life is in God's hands. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/acts-27 http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081116acts27cook.mp3 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:43:04 UTC Gene Cook Topical peace,will,details,plans,circumstances,paul,control,holy_spirit,asia,pray,soverign,hope,tackle 56:34 A church that lives out of the gospel will be odd and not easily put into a box. Because we’re called to live with an ‘inside-out’ Gospel, we’ll pray and desire to see people coming to Christ and experiencing conversion and grace renewal as they understand the gospel more and more. This makes us seem like a church that is an evangelical church. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/inside-out-kingdom http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081109insideoutkingdomfairchild.mp3 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:16:47 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus jesus,grace,outsider,judge,religion,laws,outwardly,woah_to_you,hypocrites,rules,angry,clean,kingdom,inside_out 66:58 Jesus teaches all of us that it isn’t the big events that are going to really change who we are. The big events don’t make us, they simply reveal what the daily habit of our hearts really are like. Big events don’t give us time to contemplate; whatever is in our hearts comes out. It’s all of the little things. It’s the mundane and monotonous duties of life, the daily routine that God is most concerned with transforming. To desire real, lasting change is to commit to a lifetime of daily change in all the little ways. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/at-his-feet http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081102athisfeetfairchild.mp3 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:11:23 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus rebuke,serve,control,affection,heart,weep,bow_down,feet,mary,martha 64:33 Eating is an activity all of us do. It is a basic human practice. Yet when Jesus came, He transformed the ordinary meal into an encounter with Him. He sets Himself in the midst of these meals and invites all to come and taste the grace of God. Jesus demonstrates to the world His mission through welcoming sinners at the table with Him. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/revolutionary-feast http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081026revolutionaryfeastfairchild.mp3 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:27:54 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus jacked,deed,miracle,enemies,kingdom,teaching,revolutionary,word,bread,loaves,fish,feast,eating 71:33 If we think of multi-ethnicity as embracing any or all ethnicities, then the opposite is not mono-ethnicity but racism, which would be excluding any or all cultures but your own. If that’s true, then asking if multi-ethnicity is a gospel issue is a valid question because that seems to be true for a part of the Old Testament does it not? Does the Bible talk about racism? Does it contain any answers to the problems of race and class? How can we apply them today? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-gospel-in-a-multi-ethnic-city http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081019thegospelinamulit-ethniccitykim.mp3 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:56:47 UTC Eugene Kim Topical border,communities,leprousy,heart,sin,commandments,korean,multi-ethnic,racism 75:01 How do our hearts respond when a prostitute kisses the body of Jesus? Do we celebrate because we can identify with her tears of repentance and joy? Or do we cringe at the thought of it? Our response to this kind of scandalous grace means everything. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/scandalous-grace http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081012scandalousgracefairchild.mp3 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:25:35 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus scandalous,grace,prostitute,host,tears,hair,glory,party,kisses,embrace,sinner,debt,birthday,shalom 70:58 God defines freedom as no longer being under the condemnation of the law but under the Spirit of His Grace. We are freed from sin and pardoned from His Justice and therefore able to live as we were created to live, in union with Him and in community with one another. (Romans 8:1-5). We are not only freed from something we are freed to something! http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/freedom http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20081005freedommoller.mp3 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:58:03 UTC Tom Moller Topical freedom,ezekiel,bondage,slave,community,resurrection,attained,gospel 57:33 Eating is one of humanity’s most basic practices, something everyone does, and Jesus transforms these occasions into an encounter with Him. In sharing food and drink with His friends, Jesus was inviting them to share in the grace of God. His mission was revealed in His eating meals with sinners. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/converted-into-a-party http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080928convertedintoapartyfairchild.mp3 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:31:10 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus forgiven,grace,fragile,feast,tax_collector,sinners,meal,party 72:49 The beginning of human history had this story to tell and pass to every generation. The world was good, and now it’s broken, but one day things will be remade and refashioned. One day, what is wrong will be made right. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-kingdom-of-god-is-a-party http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080921thekingdomofgodisapartyfairchild.mp3 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:54:56 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus kingdom,party,king,wedding,feast,banquet,garments 62:27 Since a manager is supposed to use his owner’s stuff as the owner would use it, He has to know his master intimately doesn’t he? This means that we need to know God intimately to be able to use His stuff the way He would. It requires closeness to Him and a desire to know His will. We have to know God’s purposes, priorities, and passions. We have to speak to God in prayer and listen to God in His word and through others in community. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/lord-of-your-stuff http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080914lordofyourstufffairchild.mp3 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:50:27 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus immediate_action,god,land,owner,money,stewardship,lord,manager 68:03 There are two parables we’re going to discuss, one of them about two sons and the other about vineyard managers working for a master in another country. Both of these stories have a similar theme and work to draw us to very bad news for very good people. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/bad-news-to-good-people http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080907badnewstogoodpeoplefairchild.mp3 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:51:18 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus control,own,master,slavery,enjoy,son,tenant,vineyard,grace 61:10 I hope that we’re challenged by His love for us to love one another. In the same way, God calls us to forgive one another as we’ve been forgiven by Him. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/forgiven-to-forgive http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080831forgiventoforgivefairchild.mp3 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:56:28 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus jesus,god,forgiveness 74:20 Here we are this morning, hearing from Jesus, learning from His words and being called to consider what it means to follow Him as His disciple. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-cost-of-discipleship http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080824thecostofdiscipleshipfairchild.mp3 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:50:11 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus disciple,cost,father,mother,wife,children,jesus,gospel 50:16 http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/trusting-god-when-the-journey-is-too-much http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080817cain.mp3 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:59:26 UTC Tim Cain Topical 53:37 http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/hope-in-the-face-of-suffering-and-death http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080810cain.mp3 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:00:22 UTC Tim Cain Topical 55:27 Who was the true worker in the field? Who was the true merchant looking for a pearl? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/kingdom-priorities http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080803kingdomprioritiesfairchild.mp3 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:16:07 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus jesus,heaven,kingdom,field,pearl 67:55 We are NOT getting what we deserve from God—death and rejection, but we are instead getting a “full days wage” in love and acceptance, forgiveness...eternal life! http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/getting-what-you-dont-deserve http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080727gettingwhatyoudontdeservefairchild.mp3 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:31:36 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus grace,narrative,parable,workers,field,jesus,vineyard 67:13 Jesus teaches us about the kingdom of heaven, about the work of Satan, about His patience and our future hope as well as the world’s future judgment. All of this is in this simple story. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/wheat-and-weeds-among-us http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080720wheatandweedsamongusfairchild.mp3 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:35:08 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus weeds,wheat,tares,gospel,satan,kingdom,heaven,jesus 61:07 The terminology of the bride of Christ, the methods Jesus uses to cleanse his bride, the goal of the love of Jesus for his bride, and the importance of unity in that goal. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-bride-of-christ-gods-love-for-the-church http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080713thebrideofchristcook.mp3 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:54:13 UTC Gene Cook Topical gospel,christ,bride,church 49:39 This pattern of message and mercy go hand and hand in the New Testament as a way of showing to the world the truth of the gospel. Gospel mercy becomes a non-verbal way of showing the gospel message is true. In Jesus’ mind the two go hand in hand and should never be separated, even if in our minds they are not joined. If the gospel message is true, that God has had great mercy upon us, then gospel mercy to others should become a natural response. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/loving-the-unlovely http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080706lovingtheunlovelyfairchild.mp3 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:55:35 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus gospel,mercy,rulers,lawyer,good_samaritan,neighbor 65:05 Call to Kaleo: Identity as a people that trust in the promises of God. We have the advantage of looking back. Yet, like Israel, we fall away to see the created not the creator. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/entering-the-promises http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080629enteringthepromisesgoodmanson.mp3 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:27:55 UTC Drew Goodmanson Topical promises,trust,god,rahab,joshua,gospel 49:09 Jesus is calling us to have soft and turned over soil. He desires soft hearts to plant His word in. He desires that we turn from our busyness and distractions that keep us from hearing. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-soil-of-our-hearts http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080622thesoilofourheartsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:27:15 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus jesus,path,birds,weeds,rocks,gospel,parable,seed,sower 78:05 We’re all starved for someone outside of us who is greater than us to say we’re wanted, we’re accepted, and we’re right in their eyes. This is a universal need. How do we deal with our need to feel justified? How do we deal with our universal need to be made right, to be counted as right? This is what the parable is all about. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/righteousness http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080615righteousnessfairchild.mp3 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:38:49 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus pharisee,righteousness,righteousness,gospel,jesus 71:47 God finds His joy, not in the destruction of the wicked, but in the recovery of sinners. We often miss the truth that our God is a God of tremendous and infinite joy. It may even be hard for us to see Him in this way. But you need to know that God experiences unending and infinite joy every moment. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/dying-to-get-in http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080608dyingtogetinfairchild.mp3 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:50:33 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus elder,older,brother,parable,gospel,prodigal 55:52 http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/tim-cain-sermon http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080601cain.mp3 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:48:21 UTC Tim Cain Topical 62:19 The kiss of the Father’s approval is the experience of His loving grace towards us. It is more than just a fact about Him, it is a heart moved to melting gratitude as we sense His pleasure and joy over us. That’s what we’re hoping to find out from this week. How do we get the kiss of the Father? How do we experience His grace so that it is a reality to us and not just a nice concept or heart-warming parable? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-youngest-son-dying-to-get-out http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080525theyoungestsondyingtogetoutfairchild.mp3 Sun, 25 May 2008 02:51:29 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus prodigal,kiss,father,gospel,son,youngest 80:44 Other portions of God’s word give us profound theology. Some move us to a thankful response to God’s goodness. But the parables pierce our hearts to ask whether any real change has taken place, or if Jesus’ gospel has made any real difference in our daily lives. And we would expect nothing less since these words are spoken to us from Jesus’ own lips. Jesus’ words have a way of waking our hearts from the deadness of religious concepts into the pulsing life of His living reality. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-searching-and-celebrating-god http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080518thesearchingandcelebratinggodfairchild.mp3 Sun, 18 May 2008 03:05:29 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus coin,parable,coins,ten,gospel,jesus 75:01 We all have a sense of being spiritually unclean and defiled. This is a universal problem. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/our-self-righteous-heritage http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080513ourselfrighteousheritagefairchild.mp3 Sun, 11 May 2008 03:10:18 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus gospel,food,unclean,mark_7 68:31 Most of the stories have been beautiful pictures of His pursuing grace towards those who are broken down and hopeless. Jesus has shown an incredible capacity for love towards the unclean and marginalized. He breaks all the stupid-man rules by going right to the center of lost and welcoming them in. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/all-you-need-is-need http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080504allyouneedisneedfairchild.mp3 Sun, 04 May 2008 03:10:40 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus kingdom,root,trunk,leaves,camel,needle 76:18 http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/sermon-04272008 http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080427kim.mp3 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:10:58 UTC Eugene Kim Encountering Jesus 75:34 The Transfiguration of Jesus is an incredibly important event in the history of Jesus. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, the transfiguration is the authoritative answer to the question, “Who is this man? Who is this that commands the wind and waves and they obey Him? Who is this that even forgives sins?” These are the kinds of questions asked in the first three Gospels and are answered at the transfiguration. After the transfiguration, the hinge of the first three Gospels is swung and Jesus begins His move towards Jerusalem to eventually face betrayal, false trials, and His death as a criminal on a Roman cross. It is the climax of the first portion of the Gospels. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-transfiguration http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080420thetransfigurationfairchild.mp3 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:11:19 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus transfiguration,cross,climax,gospel,jesus 67:44 Today, we are going to look at parts of Genesis chapter 11 and 12. In these chapters we see two stories that are opposites, one of Babel and the other of Abraham. Yet it is these two competing stories that we see thread throughout the Bible and that we live in today. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/which-story-are-you-in http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080413whichstoryareyouingoodmanson.mp3 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:29:20 UTC Drew Goodmanson Topical gospel,secularism,individualism,humanism,rationalism,noah,abraham,babel 44:01 What we see in the chapter we’re in this morning is a basic outline of what it means to be called by Christ as His disciple. This pattern runs through each Gospel and it runs through the New Testament. If Jesus is who He says He is, what does it mean to be called by Him and live that out? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-call-of-christ http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080406thecallofchristfairchild.mp3 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:11:40 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus disciple,christ,gospel,identity 70:30 We have been talking about this idea of being a “City within a City” and living our lives in such a way as to show our neighbors, friends, co-workers God’s love, what God is like and what it would look like for them to follow Jesus and live their lives in God’s ways here in this culture. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/celebration-according-to-the-gospel http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080330kalinowski.mp3 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:39:28 UTC Caesar Kalinowski Topical community,soma,kalinowski,caesar,tacoma 90:37 Jesus’ resurrection is the cornerstone of what we believe because it proves that Jesus’ sacrifice was acceptable to God, that He really is God’s Son, that we have been forgiven of all our sins, and that we have a future hope that is greater than anything we could have imagined. The power of the resurrection can only become a reality in our lives if we believe it’s true. It’s not just a good idea or a nice celebration, it is everything, but only if it’s true! http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-truth-and-proof-of-the-resurrection http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080323thetruthandproofoftheresurrectionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:18:00 UTC David Fairchild Topical truth,proof,jesus,resurrection 57:42 Our main problem as Christians is our natural tendency to forget the news and go back to religion to make us feel secure. We continuously slip back into old ways of relating to God and others. This is why Luther said that the default mode of the human heart is to base your standing with God on how well you're performing. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-vs-religion http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080314jesusvsreligionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:30:55 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus religion,jesus,gospel 73:06 We’re learning that if we think we’re full without Him we’re actually starving. If we think we can see without Him we’re actually blind. If we think we are quenched without Him we’re actually thirsty. If we’ think we’re alive without Him we’re actually dead. And this week we’ll come to see that if we think we have peace without Him we’re actually condemned. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/naked-grace-dressed-works http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080309nakedgracedressedworksfairchild.mp3 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:09:38 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus pharisees,john,gospel,jesus,adulterous_woman 69:13 We live in a time and culture that is very interesting. Many philosophers and cultural experts are telling us how spiritually thirsty we are, perhaps more thirsty than what we've seen in the lasts several decades. There is a spiritual longing, a need that is beyond the material. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-gods-well-of-grace http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080302jesusgodswellofgracefairchild.mp3 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:03:08 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus gospel,conversation,living_water,women_at_the_well 69:13 Over the last several weeks we’ve been looking in the Gospels and, in some ways, building a biography of Jesus. Our hopes have been to encounter Him as we eavesdrop into conversations He had with various people: people that are proud, broken, marginalized, some without power or resources and others with all the respect and honor you could ask for. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/open-eyes-closed-hearts http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080224openeyesclosedheartsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:17:31 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus spiritual_blindness,judgement,self-righteousness 67:00 Kaleo Church has at the very core of its being a radical vision for our city: Gospel Transformation. We want to see our city saturated with the love of Jesus Christ, because we strongly contend that it is only through and by the grace of God that: http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-x-factor-musings-on-contextualizing-the-gospel-in-a-postmodern-society http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080217thexfactormusingsoncontextualizingthegospelthomas.mp3 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:55:11 UTC Brian Thomas Topical gospel_transformation,postmodern,culture,contextualization,stewardship,syncretism 58:50 Repentance is not a decision of the will to do right instead of wrong. It’s an internal shift in our perceived source of life. Ultimately repentance is a humble broken return to God, there’s a catch. We are utterly unable to do it. Repentance is not something we can decide to do and then do it, it’s something God works in us. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/king-saul--gospel-repentance http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080210kingsaulandgospelrepentancegoodmanson.mp3 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:29:34 UTC Drew Goodmanson Topical repentance 48:26 As we've been looking at Jesus in this series, we've been blessed to see what a life characterized by love looks like. John Lennon said, "all you need is love," right? But what does that mean, and what does a life completely driven by love really look like? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-emotionally-healthy-jesus--you http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080203theemotionallyhealthyjesusandyoutrout.mp3 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:44:11 UTC Stephen Trout Encountering Jesus compassion,love 41:47 We’re looking at the life of Jesus and in doing so building a biography, painting a portrait of Him so that our hearts can see Him more clearly. When we see Jesus face to face, we begin to be rebuilt, reconstructed, and reshaped as we come to know more about our God and ourselves and the effects of God’s grace as we begin to change. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/eyes-full-of-someone-else http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080127eyesfullofsomeoneelsefairchildmp3.mp3 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:55:05 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus compassion 69:58 We've begun a new series called "Encountering Jesus." What we're aiming for in this series is a face-to-face encounter with the most important figure in human history. We want to move beyond mere intellectual assent to truths about Jesus into a personal encounter with Jesus. We are asking God to open our hearts to see him clearly as week after week we're coming to the rich colors of God's Word and asking Him to paint the very image of Christ upon the canvas of our hearts. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/experiencing-jesus-salvation http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080120experiencingjesussalvationfairchild.mp3 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:14:38 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus encountering_jesus,salvation,transfromation,relationship 67:54 We're beginning a new series of messages called, "Encountering Jesus." The purpose of this series is fairly self-explanatory. We want to encounter Jesus as we come to see Him through various portraits as we listen in on His conversations. We want to hear from Him as we let His parables penetrate our hearts with questions and claims that move us to think about Him in new ways. Lastly, we want to be with Him as we sit in on His parties and meals with sinners throughout the New Testament. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/trusting-jesus http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080113trustingjesusfairchild.mp3 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:41:50 UTC David Fairchild Encountering Jesus centurion,faith 72:40 Last week we ended the year in the book of Genesis, coincidentally we’re going to begin this year in the book of Revelation. Revelation is a hard book to understand. John Calvin when he wrote the first commentary on the bible, purposely excluded Revelation saying, “the knowledge contained therein is too lofty for me to attain.” We’re only going to look at three verses but to understand them we have to go through the entire bible twice... http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-garden-in-the-city http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20080106kim.mp3 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:53:10 UTC Eugene Kim Topical city_of_god,city_of_man 82:52 http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/who-am-i http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071230cain.mp3 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:41:32 UTC Tim Cain Topical 49:26 The purpose of Jesus coming into our world is simple, reconciliation. During this season, we have no problem singing sons about Jesus and even claiming He's our Savior, He's our peace. But we usually don't go beyond humming the tune to ask what it is that we're actually singing. Do we know what we're singing when we sing that Christ is our Savior? Savior from what? Or that He is our peace? Peace from what conflict? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-our-savior http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071223jesusoursaviorfairchild.mp3 Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:54:22 UTC David Fairchild Topical dawkins,richard,dylan,bob,atheism,atheists,reconciliation,jesus 63:46 A couple of weeks ago we began a study of the life of Jesus. We're building a biography as we examine Him at a time of year when the Church has traditionally taken a few weeks to look straight at Jesus and consider who He is. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-gods-son http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071216jesusgodssonfairchild.mp3 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:03:05 UTC David Fairchild Topical jesus,christmas 67:05 King Jesus not only identifies with us, he goes to battle for us, in our stead, and the cry of victory is, "IT IS FINISHED!" http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-our-victorious-king http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071209thomas.mp3 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:21:04 UTC Brian Thomas Topical king,kingdom,king_returns,worldview 43:18 This evening we are going to be looking at what an ungodly woman in Proverbs looks like. This is the kind of woman you don't want to be. Join us again next week as we look at what a godly woman in Proverbs looks like. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/common-struggles-of-women http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071202commonstrugglesofwomenfairchild.mp3 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:17:10 UTC David Fairchild SDSU ungodly,godly_woman,proverbs 75:58 The two most universal and well-known celebrations in the church have been Christmas and Easter. For hundreds of years it has been a tradition for the church to take these two times of the year and look straight at Jesus. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/jesus-is-our-true-story http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071202jesusisourtruestoryfairchild.mp3 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:40:23 UTC David Fairchild Topical lee_stobel,true_story,christmas,easter,cleopas 69:56 Some of you ladies may discount what I am about to teach today because you are single and don’t understand how this applies to you. Let me just say that you may be single because you have not applied what we are about to teach today. It may be a cause and effect. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/biblical-wives-112507-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070114biblicalwivesfairchild.mp3 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:47:49 UTC David Fairchild SDSU 79:52 Often our heart's affection is easily directed away from the Giver of good gifts to the gifts themselves. We make romance, money, health, work, and other gifts into an ultimate passion which displaces, or at least diminishes our affection for the Giver. So we seek Him in what feels like vain cries to deaf ears, not because we want Him, rather we want what He can give us. God has become our sugar-daddy and we try to hustle Him and use Him as currency to purchase our idols. We know only He can give it to us, so we beg Him like junkies trying to get a fix so that we can scurry off into a dark corner, away from His sight, to worship the real treasure of our hearts. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/spiritual-blindness http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071125spiritualblindnessfairchild.mp3 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:10:23 UTC David Fairchild Acts mysticism,magic,unbelief,spiritual_blindness,bar-jesus,paulus,elymas,paul,saul,barnabas,acts 70:21 As you begin to study the Word of God to learn and grow, you come to realize that there are plenty of terms in the Bible which our modern English words simply fall short in doing justice to the meaning, or it has morphed into something which has a very different meaning than it did in Scripture. One of the words that I've come to appreciate in a far deeper way than ever before is the word "heart" in the Bible. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/hungering-for-him http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071118hungeringforhimfairchild.mp3 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:45:05 UTC David Fairchild Acts heart,fasting,hunger,consumerism 63:45 Everything that we discuss today is highly controversial and, for some, this may be extremely offensive. Since the Bible says the Gospel is offensive, since Jesus offended many, and since the apostles and prophets were at times offensive, I have comfort that I am in good company. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/biblical-femininity-110707-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071118biblicalfemininityfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:48:32 UTC David Fairchild SDSU 71:27 Every week that we've been in the book of Acts, we've been asking the same question in a variety of ways, "What was going on in the midst of the early Church that made them so attractive to the world?" We've been asking this question so that as we read the book of Acts, we don't simply relegate it to a distant but pleasant historical read. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-leaders http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071111transformissionalleadersfairchild.mp3 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:55:01 UTC David Fairchild Acts shepherding,sheep,gospel_leaders,early_church,acts 70:57 As we examine the following scripture that deals directly with common sins of men it is important that we look at these in light of the Gospel. There is a temptation to read this and think, "I will work to change myself to become these things." But as we understand the Gospel, that we are saved by grace alone, we must we must also come to believe that it is the same Gospel of grace that teaches us to say no to sin. For example, if we struggle with lust, trying to fight the sin is already a losing battle. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/common-struggles-of-men Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:54:15 UTC David Fairchild Topical pride,seduction,lust,sexual_sin,common_struggles_men We’re told in this story in John 13:12-17: “When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, ‘Do you understand what I have done to you? It is in this setting of death’s sobriety and last words that Jesus speaks to His disciples, His friends. It is in this setting of scandalous humility that Christ speaks to us through His words about His dying commands and wishes for those who have been loved by Him. ...that you love one another: just as I have loved you. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/one-anothering http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071104one-anotheringfairchild.mp3 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 02:06:55 UTC David Fairchild Topical love_one_another,eros,passion,phileo,companionship,agape,true_love 68:18 Why theology matters - As we celebrate Reformation Sunday we are reminded of the great courage and sacrifice of the men and women that God used during the 16th century as they fought for nothing less than the recovery of the Bible. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/big-words-for-a-big-god-why-theology-matters http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071028bigwordsforabiggodthomas.mp3 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:52:37 UTC Brian Thomas Topical reformation_sunday,theology_matters,omniscient,omnipresent,omnipotent,blaise_pascal,indifference 34:51 The Church is a continuation of Israel, as seen in three forms: the people of God, the body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit, with Christ as the Head of the Church and the one who accomplished our purpose as the Church on our behalf. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/ancient-church-present-cross http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071024ancientchurchpresentcrosspeterson.mp3 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:41:23 UTC Nate Peterson Topical ancient_church,present_cross 52:34 The Church is a continuation of Israel, as seen in three forms: the people of God, the body of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit, with Christ as the Head of the Church and the one who accomplished our purpose as the Church on our behalf. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/ancient-church-present-cross-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071024ancientchurchpresentcrosspetersonsdsu.mp3 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:02:57 UTC Nate Peterson SDSU ancient_church,present_cross 62:49 It’s like non-Christian men have an empty tool belt to be the kind of husband God calls them to be, so they try to jimmy-rig the relationship to mimic a godly marriage. Christian men have a tool belt full of the right kind of tools to do the job, but have no idea how to use them. They have become useless, and because they have adopted such a feministic view of their own role, they forgot they even have these tools and have become nothing but a tool themselves. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/biblical-husbands-2-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071014biblicalhusbands2fairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:36:29 UTC David Fairchild SDSU husband,husbands,biblical,feminism,tool_belt,godly_marriage 73:48 Suffering, glory, and mission are inseparably tied together as the Gospel key to the entire Bible. This is what Christ taught us in Luke 24 on the Road to Emmaus. Jesus is showing them the point of the entire OT history, the point of His coming into this world. He's showing them the centerpiece of the Bible. It's the Gospel! This means we can no longer read the Bible in the same way. Since history is about His suffering and glory it means every page is about the Gospel. This also clarifies our primary activity in this world, to spread the glory of the Gospel in the face of Christ to the world as His witness bearers who are empowered by the Spirit. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/our-desperate-need-for-glory http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071014ourdesperateneedforgloryfairchild.mp3 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:20:40 UTC David Fairchild Acts suffering,witness,christ,gospel 77:28 Up to this point we have seen the incredible advancement and expansion of the Gospel as it breaks new ground in new ways. The Spirit promised by Jesus to the Church in Acts 1 has empowered the Church to be witnesses of Jesus starting in Jerusalem and moving into Judea, Samaria, and now we see this incredible news of what Christ has done spreading all the way to the Gentiles now in Antioch. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/this-beautiful-facade http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071007thisbeautifulfacadefairchild.mp3 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:25:13 UTC David Fairchild Acts relationship,missional,agabus,early_church,transformed,gospel,acts 73:41 Systematic feminization in culture and in the church has lead to a decline of understanding what it looks like to be a Biblical man. Find out what true Biblical manhood is and how it links back to Christ and the gospel. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/being-a-man-old-school-men-of-god-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20071007beingamanfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:23:06 UTC David Fairchild SDSU biblical_manhood,men,feminization,systematic,feminazi 89:36 Last week we looked at the incredible story of the welcoming of Cornelius and his household into the family of God. The continued advancement of the Gospel at this time was unheard of. The culture was fragmented and separated by numerous factors working to split up and segregate various groups. Historians tell us that until Christianity, religion always divided people. Religions were always geared towards a particular region, race, or socio-economic class. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/send-and-receive http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070930sendandreceivefairchild.mp3 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:02:30 UTC David Fairchild Acts tolerance,missional,cornelius,early_church,epistle_to_diognetus,gospel,acts 64:17 This morning we’re looking at our community, and in particular the need and importance of cultivating spiritual friendships within our community, because I am convinced that our growth as Christians is often hindered because we are attempting to go it alone. And because of our lack of real spiritual friendship, our witness to a watching world is diminished because they do not see the kind of love and support that only the family of God can truly possess in Christ. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/you-me-and-wii-spiritual-formation-through-spiritual-friendship Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:11:30 UTC Brian Thomas Topical spiritual_friendship,fellowship,community,st._augustine We've been looking at the story of Paul's conversion and early ministry, how an enemy of God who was spiritually an orphan was welcomed in to become a child of the Father. Luke, however, abruptly shifts from Paul's life to Peter's life and the two miracles mentioned at the end of chapter 9. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-conversion-part-ii http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070923thepowerofconversionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:05:28 UTC David Fairchild Acts conversion,cornelius,phillip,missional,saul,early_church,transformed,gospel,acts,speaking_in_tongues 83:33 If there is one specific area that many Christians have blindly and willingly accepted secular practices, it would be in the area of dating. Pastors have dropped the teaching of biblical courtship and the church has instead adopted recreational dating which has had a horrendous influence on churches, families and society in whole. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-dating-game-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070923thedatinggamefairchildgoodmansonsdsu.mp3 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:28:01 UTC David Fairchild SDSU christian_dating,courtship,biblical_husbands 89:00 We are back in the great historical narrative of Acts. One of the great joys of this book is its seemingly inconsequential detail from Luke the historian, yet in these details are found treasures if we’re willing to dig a bit for them. We’ve been on a quest to determine what it was that so captured the hearts and minds of the early Christians that it created such an explosive spread of the Gospel in such a hostile environment. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-relationships http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070916transformissionalrelationshipsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:37:27 UTC David Fairchild Acts acts,gospel,transformed,early_church,saul,missional,ananias,relationship 62:29 Contrary to Sexual Romantics, the Gospel teaches us that love and sex are more than just personal and individual blessings. They are designed to build and strengthen a community. God created sexuality to build community and not just to personally satisfy you. Sex is more than just for pleasure (as a man might assume) and more than just for fulfillment (which a woman might assume). Both fall short of teaching us what sex is designed for, which is the building of an alternate community. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/sex-and-the-gospel-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070916sexandthegospelfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:20:13 UTC David Fairchild SDSU 63:21 Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at this great topic of calling, what it is, what it means, and how it works out in our lives. Our hope is that we would come away from these messages recognizing that our call to God is primary to all other secondary callings we may sense or experience in our lives. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-gifts-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070909transformissionalgiftsfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:24:50 UTC David Fairchild SDSU calling,call,called,spiritual_gifts,prophetic_gifts,priestly_gifts,kingly_gifts,service,talents 70:00 Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at this great topic of calling, what it is, what it means, and how it works out in our lives. Our hope is that we would come away from these messages recognizing that our call to God is primary to all other secondary callings we may sense or experience in our lives. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-gifts http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070909transformissionalgiftsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:23:47 UTC David Fairchild Topical calling,call,called,spiritual_gifts,prophetic_gifts,priestly_gifts,kingly_gifts,service,talents 71:29 Christians should regard hospitality to strangers as an expression of the gospel. This sermon examines how and why we should show hospitality to others. It is a call to our community to open our lives and make room for people different than us. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/gospel-hospitality-making-room http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070902gospelhospitality-makingroomgoodmanson.mp3 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:25:28 UTC Drew Goodmanson Topical gospel,acts,community,hospitality,generosity,relationships 42:41 Last week we talked about our need for purpose and meaning as creatures, and without purpose, meaning and value we easily slip into boredom and apathy. One causes us to feel indifferent to things around us, another causes us to feel indifferent to ourselves or someone else, but both leave us with a desire for desires. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-calling-part-ii-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070902transformissionalcallingpart2fairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:55:27 UTC David Fairchild Topical calvin_seerveld,os_guinness,luther,augustine,conversion,apatheism,calling,call,called,boredom,apathy 62:43 The last couple of weeks we’ve looked at Paul’s radical conversion, his calling by Christ to give His life away. We’ve attempted to see what true conversion looks like and what true conversion believes. We are going to take a couple of weeks and teach on the subject of calling. It is perhaps the most distorted and misunderstood doctrine in the Church today and we need to recapture the idea of calling. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-calling-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070826transformissionalcallingfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:04:08 UTC David Fairchild Topical calling,call,called,boredom,apathy,apatheism,conversion,dostoyevsky,soren_kierkegaard,luther,diet_of_worms 64:55 Last week we talked about our need for purpose and meaning as creatures, and without purpose, meaning and value we easily slip into boredom and apathy. One causes us to feel indifferent to things around us, another causes us to feel indifferent to ourselves or someone else, but both leave us with a desire for desires. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-calling-part-ii http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070826transformissionalcallingpart2fairchild.mp3 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:28:56 UTC David Fairchild Topical calvin_seerveld,os_guinness,luther,augustine,conversion,apatheism,calling,call,called,boredom,apathy 70:30 The last couple of weeks we’ve looked at Paul’s radical conversion, his calling by Christ to give His life away. We’ve attempted to see what true conversion looks like and what true conversion believes. We are going to take a couple of weeks and teach on the subject of calling. It is perhaps the most distorted and misunderstood doctrine in the Church today and we need to recapture the idea of calling. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-calling http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070819transformissionalcallingfairchild.mp3 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:08:16 UTC David Fairchild Topical calling,call,called,boredom,apathy,apatheism,conversion,dostoyevsky,soren_kierkegaard,luther,diet_of_worms 73:15 Last week we looked at what true conversion is. This week we’re looking at what true conversion believes. What is the motivating factor behind those who have been called? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/kingdom-calling-suffering http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070812kingdomcallingsufferingfairchild.mp3 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:56:51 UTC David Fairchild Acts rick_hoyt,renewal,missional,early_church,transformed,calling,kingdom,suffering,gospel,acts 52:42 This week we’re looking at a core truth that is integrally connected to every other message we’ve taught. We’re taking a 35,000-foot fly-over on the text and looking at the nature of conversion. Next week we’ll get into the specifics of Paul’s life and what changed, and the week following we’ll look at the idea of The Call. This is part one of three. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-conversion http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070805transformissonalconversionfairchild.mp3 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:50:59 UTC David Fairchild Acts saul,paul,conversion,damascus 76:34 How the Gospel relates to counseling. How Jesus uses “the surprise of grace” to overwhelm our hearts in his love, and further to actually help us become better lovers and counselors of one another in the church. God loves to use our brokenness and weakness to shine his grace into each other’s lives. ...to continue in the same vein and hopefully get more specific as to how we are called to counsel one another in the family of Christ. For Scripture calls us to teach and admonish and encourage each other with the Gospel. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-surprise-of-grace-in-counseling http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070729thesurpriseofgraceincounselingtrout.mp3 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:45:27 UTC Stephen Trout Topical counseling,kaleo_counseling_center,gospel,gospel-centered 40:39 We’re going to look at God’s purpose for wealth and giving (and why we always fall short) and how only if you get the Gospel can you be set free for generosity that heals the world and glorifies God. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-generosity http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070722transformissionalgenerositykim.mp3 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:32:37 UTC Eugene Kim Topical money,offering,tithe,giving 76:55 Last week we looked at the result of God-ordained persecution. We’re told that all “who were scattered went about preaching the word” wherever they went (v. 4). This is incredible because at this point it wasn’t only the apostles; it was those who were scattered. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/a-tale-of-two-gospels-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070715ataleoftwogospelsfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:32:32 UTC David Fairchild SDSU acts,gospel,transformed,early_church,samaritans,missional,phillip_the_evangelist,sorcerer,eunuch 65:11 Last week we looked at the result of God-ordained persecution. We’re told that all “who were scattered went about preaching the word” wherever they went (v. 4). This is incredible because at this point it wasn’t only the apostles; it was those who were scattered. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/a-tale-of-two-gospels http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070715ataleoftwogospelsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:39:55 UTC David Fairchild Acts acts,gospel,transformed,early_church,samaritans,missional,phillip_the_evangelist,sorcerer,eunuch 68:49 We’ve been asking how it could be that a group of small, marginalized, powerless people like the early Church, could sweep through the most powerful empire in the world in a few decades and turn the world upside-down, or right-side-up, depending on how you look at it. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/scattered-for-joy http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070708scatteredforjoyfairchild.mp3 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:55:17 UTC David Fairchild Acts acts,gospel,transformed,early_church,saul,missional,phillip 69:24 We’ve been asking how it could be that a group of small, marginalized, powerless people like the early Church, could sweep through the most powerful empire in the world in a few decades and turn the world upside-down, or right-side-up, depending on how you look at it. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/scattered-for-joy-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070708scatteredforjoyfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:26:22 UTC David Fairchild SDSU acts,gospel,transformed,early_church,saul,missional,phillip 78:43 Christ Jesus… existed in the form of God http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/the-deity-of-jesus-and-the-gospel http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070701deityofjesusandthegospelneynaber.mp3 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:04:56 UTC Chris Neynaber Topical 69:47 What’s the Bible all about? The Bible is the Gospel on mission to the world. We have to live for something, and something will control us. What will we do then? There is only one Master, however, who can forgive (none of the rest ever will), and who will last (none of the rest ever can). Neither failure on our part nor the circumstances of life can separate us from Him. Thus only in service to Him will we find freedom. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/gospel-worldview http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070624gospelworldviewfairchild.mp3 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:14:55 UTC David Fairchild Acts 68:20 What’s the Bible all about? The Bible is the Gospel on mission to the world. We have to live for something, and something will control us. What will we do then? There is only one Master, however, who can forgive (none of the rest ever will), and who will last (none of the rest ever can). Neither failure on our part nor the circumstances of life can separate us from Him. Thus only in service to Him will we find freedom. http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/gospel-worldview-sdsu http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070624gospelworldviewfairchildsdsu.mp3 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:04:58 UTC David Fairchild SDSU 70:25 What we’ve been looking at in the book of Acts is the phenomenon of the spread of the Church 2000 years ago. It is intriguing to us because it shows us how the Church came to be and the events that took place during these early days. But it also holds up a mirror to us to see if the Church today resembles the Church of this day. If the same Gospel is being preached, the same Holy Spirit is dwelling in the Church, why don’t we see the explosive growth which was the hallmark of these first years? http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/transformissional-priests http://www.kaleochurch.com/media/20070617transformissionalpriestsfairchild.mp3 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:57:51 UTC David Fairchild Acts When you visit Christian bookstores long enough, evangelism starts looking like fad diets. There’s the South Beach Diet, Atkins diet, the all-soup diet, the all-juice diet. Similarly, fads in evangelism ask the same three questions. Usually a pastor gets noticed for fantastic church growth, and other pastors begin to ask, “What did they do to get so big?” Then they start to ask, “Why does our church need it?” Then they ask, “How can I get it to work at my church? What books should I buy, what program or conferences should I join?” http://www.kaleochurch.com/sermon/gospel-incarnation