Refuge Church Ojai Valley

Chances are there are things you do that you wish you didn’t. Things that come up in your life that almost daily you wish would go away or you could stop feeling controlled by. The Bible calls these things strongholds and gives us a way to know freedom from them. Join us this week as we discover the power available to us to demolish strongholds. #strongholds #recovery #sermons #healing #healingjourney

No matter who we are and where we come from it's likely we have made vows in our lives to try and gain control in our lives or insulate us from pain. Often, its those vows that keep us from fully giving our lives to God. When Jesus comes he exposes our vows and shows us how only he can heal our pain and only he can save us from our need to control.  

We live in a world where we wait to be used by God because we are terrified we don't have all the answers. If we are being honest we don't see a world where God wants anything to do with us in the first place. Today we will take a look at how God takes our mess and turns into our message. Our sermon today comes from our guest speaker, Conor Le Blanc from Real Life Church in Valencia. #sermons #hope #redemption #churchplanting 

It all started with the Lie. When Adam and Eve bought into Satan’s lie it started a cycle to our world and our lives where deceit assults us and invites us day after day. Thankfully, God did not watch this without acting. From that first lie, He put a plan into motion that would eventually expose and conquer all lies. This week we look closely at his invitation to each one of us to join him in fighting, exposing, and conquering lies. #healing #sermons #doyouwantobehealed #lies #conqueringlies

This week, we launched a brand new series called "God of the Cross". There isn’t a person who has ever lived who hasn’t been wounded or hurt. Wounds are are a reality in our world, but they aren’t something we talk about in church much. Why? This week we will talk about our reluctance to name our wounds and will look at Jesus and see how he exposes, addresses, and heals our wounds. #healing #sermons 

Jesus ends his teaching about prayer dealing with tempation and evil. Everyone is tempted and everyone knows there is evil in this world. Jesus agrees with this and in his prayer gives us a way to trust God in our fight against these two powerful enemies. #sermons #ojai

Within the church walls we talk a lot about God’s forgiveness, but we don’t often talk about what that means for our true identity. When Jesus invites us to pray for our daily bread and then immediately follows it with a prayer asking for forgivness he gives us not only the truth that our God forgives but an invitation to live into a completely new identity as a forgiven child of God. #sermons 

When we get to this part of the Lord’s prayer it seems pretty simple. Right? But is it just about food? Is there something besides physical food that we need daily and it's something that only God can provide? This week we dig deep into Jesus inviting all of us to pray “Give us today our daily bread". #prayer #sermons #church #sermonpodcast #ojai 

When Jesus teaches us to pray he also teaches us that God’s mission is active and working right now. When we follow Jesus we don’t just kill time on earth and wait for heaven, we join God in his Mission to bring His Kingdom here right now! #sermon #ojai #ojaivalley #church #churchpodcast #mission

It can be easy to slide right by the first two words that Jesus teaches us to pray with and not give it much thought, but that would be a mistake.  When Jesus says “Our Father,” he is inviting us into a revolutionary way to approach God and to see ourselves. In this message we dive deep into Jesus’ prayer instructions specifcally ask why would he tell us to begin with the words, “Our Father.” #prayer #sermon