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The Garden is a church for skeptics and saints.
It's a church where your bartender could get baptized, where broken marriages are restored, and the last person you'd see in church might be lit on fire by the hope of the Gospel.
The Garden is a church that's not bashful about truth but enthusiastic about rich theology so that Christians young and old might be fully equipped.
We long to see the whole West Valley renewed by the power and beauty of Jesus.
It's a church where your bartender could get baptized, where broken marriages are restored, and the last person you'd see in church might be lit on fire by the hope of the Gospel.
The Garden is a church that's not bashful about truth but enthusiastic about rich theology so that Christians young and old might be fully equipped.
We long to see the whole West Valley renewed by the power and beauty of Jesus.
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Have you ever wondered if God is really at work… or if life should look bigger than this? Christmas isn’t a Hallmark moment, it’s a hostile takeover. The Gospel invades real history, real empires, and real pain, not with power plays, but with a baby in a manger. Luke 2 exposes a clash of kingdoms: Caesar’s loud empire versus Jesus’ quiet reign. While the proud miss Him, the humble see Him. This King doesn’t crush His enemies, He’s crushed for them. If your life feels small, over...
Have you grown jaded to the things of God? Cynical, tired, settled for less than wonder? 😮💨 In Acts 3, Peter and John walk into an ordinary prayer hour, and God explodes it with an extraordinary miracle. A nameless, lifelong beggar asks for spare change, but Jesus gives him something money could never buy, new life. This message confronts our tendency to settle for lesser things and invites us back into awe, faith, and expectation. Jesus doesn’t just support us in our brokenness, He heals u...
Revival doesn’t just start “out there”, it starts in here. In this message, Pastor Skyler unpacks how God moves through people who have first been moved by Him. In a culture marked by crushing loneliness, distraction, and isolation, Acts 2 gives us a living picture of a Spirit-filled community where: People surrender to the WordLive with unquenchable worshipPractice generous careBecome a compelling witness to the worldWe’ll see that revival isn’t just crowds and big moments, it’s the slow, de...
Pentecost wasn’t a quiet spiritual moment—it was a violent, wind-shaking, flame-dropping invasion of God’s power. The same Spirit who emboldened trembling disciples in an upper room now emboldens us. In this message, we walk through the SIGN, the SUNDAY, the SERMON, the MIRACLE, the MURDER, the MONARCHY, and the MESSIAH—and why everything changes if Jesus really is who Peter says He is. From the rushing wind to tongues of fire to a sermon that cut 3,000 people to the heart, Acts 2 reminds us ...
⏳ THE BATTLE PLAN FOR THE WAITING ROOM (Acts 1:12–26) We hate waiting. We love speed, hustle, and instant results. But in Acts 1, the disciples show us that uncertainty is not evidence of God’s absence—it’s His training ground. While they waited, they didn’t drift, doomscroll, or tap out. They prayed and obeyed, read and applied, relied and testified. 🙏📖 This message unpacks how Christian waiting is active, not passive. God often works gradually before He moves suddenly—shaping your character...
You don’t go into a battle without a battle plan. In Acts 1, Jesus gives His followers one. From a hillside in Judea, the risen King lays out His strategy for changing the world: 1️⃣ The Mission — not optional. 2️⃣ The Power — not from us. 3️⃣ The Focus — not on distractions. The Church doesn’t move by marketing, strategy, or personality—it moves by the power of the Holy Spirit. And when ordinary people trust that power, revival spreads like wildfire. 💥 His mission isn’t optional. His Spirit ...
No one is too broken for God to use. 💥 In this deeply convicting message, guest speaker Mark Clark walks through Ephesians 1:1–2, showing how the Apostle Paul—once a murderer and enemy of the Church—was transformed by grace to become one of its greatest leaders. Mark shares his own story of growing up in a non-Christian home, battling Tourette’s syndrome, and being called to plant a church in one of the most secular cities in the world. Through humor, personal stories, and gospel truth, he re...
Some healing can’t happen until you bow. 🕊️ Naaman had everything, status, power, wealth, but beneath the armor was rot. Leprosy on the outside, pride on the inside. When God told him to dip in a muddy river, he almost walked away from the miracle that could change him forever. 💧 In this message, you’ll see that pride is the enemy of power and that true healing starts in the heart, not the skin. The same God who restored Naaman still restores broken people today, if they’ll surrender. ✨ You ...
You can’t say Jesus is Lord if your wallet still calls the shots. 💥 Legend has it that Crusaders were baptized with their sword arm out of the water, surrendered, but not that surrendered. Today, many believers do the same with their bank accounts. But Jesus doesn’t want part of you, He wants all of you. This message isn’t about guilt; it’s about growth. God calls His people to test Him in generosity (Malachi 3), not to take from us, but to bless us beyond measure. 💧 When we tithe, we declare...
Utopia has a shadow. 🚨 Revelation 17 rips the mask off our “sci-fi normal”—a glittering, seductive system (Babylon) riding real power, discipling hearts through thrills, lust, and lies. From algorithms to ideologies, the world isn’t neutral; it’s spiritual formation. Yet the Lamb still conquers. ⚔️✝️ This message equips you to spot the counterfeit, resist digital Babylon, and walk the counter-cultural way of Jesus in an AI age. 👂 Lean in, test everything, and choose the King over the current...
After a short break, Skeptics & Saints is back! 🙌 In this powerful episode, Nolan sits down with longtime friend Skyler Elmer, who just joined The Garden Church as a Teaching Pastor. Skyler shares his incredible story — from being an atheist who mocked Christians, to finding faith, to becoming a pastor and teacher of God’s Word. Together, Nolan and Skyler reflect on their early days of basement Bible studies, hard lessons from ministry, and the importance of humility, prayer, and quick ob...
What if the end of the world is actually the beginning of the real one? 🌅 Revelation 21 explodes with hope: a new creation, a holy people, God with us, and bodies made whole. The darkness we groan under isn’t the final word—Jesus is. When heaven fills your horizon, ordinary life turns radical: courage over comfort, love over survival, worship over worry. 🕊️✨ Lean in, lift your eyes, and live now for the world that’s coming. Listen and let eternity rewire your Monday. 🎧 🌎 Learn More: www.t...
The real virus isn’t biological, it’s spiritual. In 1976, atheist Richard Dawkins called religion a “virus of the mind.” But decades later, the real epidemic isn’t faith, it’s the belief that truth doesn’t exist at all. This “mind virus” is dismantling reason, redefining morality, and infecting everything from education to identity. Romans 1 saw it coming. Humanity made a terrible trade, exchanging the glory of God for self-worship, and in doing so, we lost our minds. But there’s still...
The end of the world isn’t coming, it’s already here. Jesus said the Kingdom of God isn’t just future, it’s breaking in right now. That means the wheat and tares are already growing side by side, faith is tested under fire, and what looks small and weak today will one day shake nations. The darker the world gets, the brighter the Kingdom burns. This week’s message will challenge casual Christianity and call us to resilient, rooted faith, even when trials hit. Because when the church is pres...
Culture is obsessed with end-times fiction — zombies, collapse, survival bunkers — because people sense something is wrong. Paul says it plainly: apart from Christ we are spiritually dead, animated by sin and steered by a hostile power. But the gospel crashes in like resurrection light: “But God…” — He makes the dead alive, seats us with Christ, and gifts us for a mission. This sermon unmasks the real apocalypse (sin), exposes the fake cure of comfort and conformity, and points you to the onl...
Apocalypse Now: Zombies, AI, and the Anti-Christ There’s a spiritual hunger rising in our nation. The assassination of Charlie Kirk has only intensified the moment, and people everywhere are asking the biggest questions: Is there a spiritual war? Why are we this divided? What happens after death? That’s why we started The Garden Church—a truth-driven, Bible-preaching, gospel-centered church for a culture starving for substance. We believe our culture is hungry for a truth claim worth building...
This week the entire culture has been shaken by the assassination of a young conservative Christian. People everywhere are grappling with the brevity of life and the darkness of our cultural moment. How was someone so alive one moment, and gone the next? How are we this divided as a nation? Some feel devastated by the loss of what felt like a friend and hero, and others are dancing on his grave? What is truth? How have we become so divided? And where do we go from here? Nolan walk...
You feel it, the ache that life has to be about more than bills, burnout, and busyness. You were made for a mission. 💥 The good news? Even though you’re outmatched, you’re not out-gunned. Jesus has conquered death, given you His Spirit, and called you into His rescue mission to turn the world upside down. 🌍⚡ This isn’t about your ambition, it’s about His mission. Your gifts, your story, your weaknesses, they all become weapons in His hands. The question isn’t are you qualified? The qu...
The empty tomb left Mary weeping, Peter puzzled, and John believing. Confusion reigned, but clarity came when Jesus spoke Mary’s name, showed His scars, and commissioned His disciples. In a world filled with doubt, noise, and endless “truths,” the resurrection cuts through the fog with power, peace, and purpose. 🙌✝️ Jesus doesn’t just invite us to cling to comfort; He sends us out on mission with the Spirit. In your doubt, in your fear, in your searching—He is alive, He is strong, and He is ...
Ever run back to the “old nets” when life gets unclear? The epilogue of John crashes onto a Galilean shoreline with failure, a miracle catch, and a charcoal fire. Jesus—alive, personal, and in total command—feeds worn-out disciples, restores a shattered Peter, and re-commissions them to shepherd His people. 🍞🐟 This isn’t nostalgia; it’s new creation, where obedience brings abundance, shame meets grace, and love becomes a calling. ⚓ Come hungry. Leave sent. Do you love Him? Then feed His sheep...
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