South Valley Community Church

Family traditions are funny—road trip seating assignments, family game nights, pre-dinner table rituals. As children, we may have gone to a friends house and wondered “why doesn’t my friend’s dad sing a song before passing the mashed potatoes”? Sometimes the tradition was honored, sometimes ridiculed, and other times simply loathed. Matthew 6:5-18: 5 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come

Isaac Serrano speaks on Colossians 1:15-23 at all campuses in the second week of this series. Poetry has always been an effective medium for communicating and remembering essential truths. This passage, emphasizing the supremacy of Christ, is one of the earliest Christian poems written, and it provides a wisdom for the ages that both the Colossians and we should heed.

Isaac Serrano speaking at the Gilroy Campus on Luke 10:1-37 during the twelfth week of this series. Jesus, the lamb of God, prepares His followers to be ambassadors on a dangerous mission.