For Your Heart Today As we enter Thanksgiving week, many of us prepare to gather around tables filled with food, gratitude, and tradition. Yet for followers of Jesus, this season is more than a celebration — it is an invitation to step into truth, lament, justice, and hope. Today’s message calls us to love the stranger, confront the myths we’ve inherited, and see Thanksgiving through a gospel len...

For Your Heart Today As we move toward the holiday season—when families, friendships, and expectations collide—Jesus invites us into a deeper, quieter work of the heart. He invites us to consider the “strangers we know”—the parents, siblings, partners, friends, and even church family who feel distant, wounded, or complicated. The parable of the prodigal son is not just about the one who wandered ...

Quick Glance: For Your Heart TodayLoving our neighbor is not only about caring for those we know well. Jesus teaches that love also reaches toward the stranger—the one who feels unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or different. Like Peter, we carry history, influences, and experiences that shape how we see others. And sometimes, those experiences can lead us to hold others at a distance. But God meets us i...

QUICK GLANCE: FOR YOUR HEART TODAY Following Christ means refusing to turn a blind eye to oppression. Acts 16 shows us Paul and Silas being exploited, beaten, and imprisoned because systems of power valued profit over people. Yet, instead of walking away quietly when freed, they demanded accountability — not for themselves alone, but for the sake of the community. This is our call as disciples: To...

Quick Glance: For Your Heart Today This year’s anniversary celebration was a moment of deep reflection and renewed praise as South Bay Community Church marked forty years of God’s faithfulness. Ephesians 3:20–21 framed the day—a powerful reminder that God’s power is immeasurable, His faithfulness unending, and His glory everlasting. From generation to generation, God’s hand has guided this churc...