Karrie Garcia teaches the tory about the Woman at the Well where Jesus first reveals his Kingship. The question for us is, do we make ourselves available enough to hear and see Him when we least expect it. Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! in...
Mar 13, 2018•57 min
Bonnie Lewis, our guest speaker from Austin, TX, addresses the topic of peacemaking amid conflicts. She provides a unique perspective on the parable of the talents in Mathew 25:14-30. Dictionaries define peace as the absence of conflict, yet we learn from these verses that there is more --- the reward of entering the joy of the Lord. Bonnie, when struggling to find peace in the birth of her stillborn child, eventually realized that one’s perception of God affects the ability to gain reconciliati...
Mar 06, 2018•47 min
Ronny Roa joins us to teach from the Book of Nehemiah Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/live VOX Community began from the discussions on...
Mar 06, 2018•38 min
Dear VOX Community, As of February 13th, 2018 our President and Team Leader, Mike Erre, has submitted his resignation from Vox Community. We have graciously accepted that resignation for a number of reasons. This past week, we have been in constant prayer and discussion with our Teaching Team, as the decision did not come in the form of an executable plan, but an inevitable result of escalating tension within the leadership team. This past Sunday, we brought this new to the community. Please lis...
Feb 21, 2018•44 min
Mike offers his thoughts and direction regarding David Robles' news and transition from vocational ministry work. Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: ww...
Feb 11, 2018•7 min
Welcome to our first VOX Community LIVE Podcast, where we enter into the spaces in our public sphere to discuss issues rather dismissed by the church. As Valentine's Day approaches, Tim offers some techniques on communicating better in the context of relationship. Also joining us on this episode is Eddie Park, Pastor of HUG Church, a new church in Fullerton, CA that shares many of the same values as us, namely, the Church should be the safest place to talk about anything. Special thanks to FLDWR...
Feb 09, 2018•1 hr
Karrie Garcia teaches about the significance of holding to what is hurtful in our lives vs building alters on God's moments of goodness in our lives. Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LI...
Feb 09, 2018•49 min
This week, Mike laid the foundation for his next few teachings by outlining what it means to be a peacemaker. To begin, God created this world to be in a state of perfect peace, or Shalom. Cornelius Plantinga defines Shalom as the "webbing together of God, humans, and all creation in justice, fulfillment, and delight." God also created humans as His image bearers, which means that we are called to reflect His love and purpose. During this time, there was perfect order and all things existed toge...
Feb 09, 2018•43 min
Enjoy this update from Mike Erre regarding ongoing leadership and exploring an Ohio VOX Community. Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/liv...
Feb 07, 2018•12 min
Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/live VOX Community is a church expression of the VOX Podcast with Mike Erre that began in the late spr...
Jan 21, 2018•44 min
Today Karrie shared a fresh perspective on the story of Abraham by teaching about the value of journeys instead of focusing on destinations. She shared how she learned that the destination is not all it is cracked up to be, and that the real transformation is what happens on the journey itself. God called Abraham to leave everything behind to go to a foreign land. Abraham made plenty of mistakes, and even made a pit stop along the way, but is known for being a man of faith. God was with Abraham ...
Jan 10, 2018•50 min
Merry Christmas Everyone! Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/live VOX Community is a church expression of the VOX Podcast with Mike Erre ...
Jan 06, 2018•45 min
Karrie looks at Matthew, Chapter 2, and teaches about the magi - the wise men - some of the most well-known and misunderstood biblical figures. Each of the gospels tells the story of Jesus’ birth, but Matthew paints a different picture: he takes us to the underbelly of the Far East and the political and cultural undercurrents of the time. The magi weren’t wise men as we see them today. The audience for whom the text was written understood the magi were modern-day idolaters, astrologers, fortune ...
Jan 06, 2018•46 min
In light of all the pain and suffering in the world, it’s easy to wonder why God doesn’t stop it or intervene. What’s the point? Why is it happening? Does He know, and—if so—does He care? Tim responds to these questions by exploring the problem of evil, God’s attitude toward it, why He doesn’t “fix” it, and how we should respond in the midst of it. He starts by answering this question: Why did God create human beings (and not robots)? He wanted us to choose: to love Him, to have a relationship, ...
Dec 14, 2017•51 min
With Christmas around the corner, Mike explains to us the reason that Jesus came to earth and the role of the church today. In Genesis 3:8, when Adam and Even fell to Satan’s temptation, God’s first response was to look for the two. Since then, God has always pursued his people to dwell among them. In Exodus 25, he told Israel to build a sanctuary for him to dwell. Israel’s job was to live differently as a nation with which God dwelled. In the New Testament, God sends Jesus as a perfect represen...
Dec 14, 2017•1 hr 20 min
This week, Tim Muehlhoff shared his views of the importance of self-talk. Self-talk is a key factor in our mental health, and by connection, our relationship with God. From a purely worldly perspective, three factors help shape our self talk/esteem: (1) our appearance, (2) our success, and (3) our perceived importance. The Bible recognizes that all humans have a delicate self-perception; Psalm 73 is a raw expression of the writer Asaph's self-esteem. In that Psalm, Asaph expresses his disappoint...
Dec 14, 2017•46 min
This week, Karrie talks about resistance, desperation, and the freedom God offers when we finally surrender by asking us to ask ourselves two questions: What is God asking me to do? What am I holding onto? She studies the responses of three Biblical characters who responded to God’s invitation in different ways: Pharaoh, the rich young ruler, and the paralyzed man whose friends ripped through a roof so he could meet Jesus. When each man was invited to step into something more—to partner with God...
Dec 14, 2017•46 min
Karrie Garcia preaches on the apostle Paul’s strength in the midst of his hardship as illustrated in Philippians Chapter 4. Paul wrote this letter to the church of Philippi while imprisoned in Rome. We all know what incredible pain Paul had to endure for the sake of Jesus Christ. Having lived through labors, beatings, sleeplessness, and hunger, Paul writes that he has “learned” to be content in whatever situation (v. 11). Then in verse 13, he writes the frequently-quoted verse, “I can do all thi...
Nov 20, 2017•49 min
Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/live VOX Community is a church expression of the VOX Podcast with Mike Erre that began in the late spr...
Nov 20, 2017•56 min
Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from home or on your mobile device LIVE on Sundays at 9am on Facebook: www.voxoc.com/live VOX Community is a church expression of the VOX Podcast with Mike Erre that began in the late spr...
Nov 03, 2017•54 min
This week, Tim Muehlhoff shares from his expertise in communication theory, which he teaches at Biola University. Tim encourages us to practice what he coins as the core of effective communication: to value cognitive complexity and model perspective taking. Perspective taking involves assuming and maintaining another's point of view (POV). This doesn't necessarily require us to agree with or condone the other's POV, but rather just to see issues through the other's eyes. Cognitive complexity inv...
Nov 03, 2017•44 min
Ronny Roa continues his teaching from last week on Luke 14. Jesus explains to the Pharisees what God’s kingdom is truly like through a parable. The Pharisees were the religious elites who thought they knew everything about God’s kingdom and they were already part of it based on their social status and their own righteousness. In verse 1, one man delights in this, exclaiming, “What a blessing it will be to attend a banquet in the Kingdom of God!” Then Jesus tells a parable about a man who sent ou...
Oct 19, 2017•52 min
This week we hear from Ronny Roa and Luke 14. We observe the bigger themes Jesus was teaching about the posture Jewish culture took at the time when eating with neighbors and locals. Would love to see your comments and thoughts below! Learn more about VOX Community: www.voxoc.com Like VOX Community on Facebook: www.facebook.com/voxcommunity Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/voxcommunity Follow VOX Community on Instagram: www.instagram.com/voxcommunity Say Something! info@voxoc.com Watch from...
Oct 13, 2017•49 min
Today Karrie talks about the transformational power of God over sin. Sin tells us three lies: This won't hurt me. I need it to be fulfilled. I can control this behavior. But these lies play themselves out every time. It begs the question: Is God really good if he allows us to be tempted? Is transformation possible today or do we have to wait for Jesus to return? If we are called and consumed by the Holy Spirit, we can be transformed today. We serve a God who loves us so much, if we invite him, h...
Oct 08, 2017•50 min
How do we to respond when great Bible promises just don’t seem to work? Tim Meulhoff specifically cites a passage that often falls into this category -- Philippians 4:4-7. These verses suggest the lessening of anxiousness when one prays for ‘everything’ with ‘thanksgiving’. Anxiousness, however, often remains. Tim proposes that we are not fully praying the way prescribed by the apostle Paul in this passage. Perhaps, we too often pray casually and quickly when we should also have times of more se...
Sep 25, 2017•54 min
Mike joins us from Ohio and teaches on Peter’s story of his first conversion in Luke 5:1-11. Peter, a professional fisherman, had been out all night fishing with his fellow fishermen and didn’t catch anything. They had cleaned their nets and were finished for the day. Jesus was also at the shore and spoke to a crowd in one of the fishermen’s boats. After he was done, Jesus came to Peter and told him to go out to the sea and put down the net. When he had done so, he caught such a large catch that...
Sep 20, 2017•32 min
This week, Karrie went through the story in Acts of Cornelius, a ranking Roman soldier of some stature. Through visions, God called both Cornelius and Simon Peter to meet together, which led to Cornelius' conversion to follow Jesus. While this conversion was significant, Karrie pointed out that Peter had perhaps a more meaningful conversion. As context, the Romans had brutally tortured and murdered Peter's best friend and savior—Jesus—not long before. And if anyone could’ve felt justified to hat...
Sep 07, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Tim Muehlhoff explores the question of what the purpose of the church is. The answer could be found in 2 Corinthians 5:20: “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” In this world, tainted by human sin, our job is to engage in the ministry of reconciliation so that God’s rule may be restored. This is an important responsibility that is given to every single Christian, not just the ones in significant pos...
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 6 min
"Reaping and Sowing" is the title of this message brought by Ronny Roa, member of the newly formed VOX teaching team. Referencing Galatians 6: 6-10, Ronny contrasts and compares living in legalism to living in freedom through the Holy Spirit. The legalistic life tends to be rooted in self, often in hopes of earning blessings and approval, whereas the spirit-filled life is immersed in the unconditional approval and love of Jesus, resulting in freedom, sacrifice, and generosity. Ronny, however, ex...
Aug 28, 2017•43 min
This week marks the the Sunday after the Alt-Right/neo-nazi/Nationalists protest in Charlotteville, VA where a car was driven into anti-protesters, killing one woman and injuring many others. Mike joins us on Skype to share his thoughts on the matter and answers some questions submitted. Ronny Roa teaches on Galatians and helps to expand the conversation around what it means to carry each others load contrary to burdens, and what that looks like in the command to love our neighbor. Would love to...
Aug 16, 2017•48 min
