Legend Community Church

One More Thing (Week 1)

What did Jesus pray about in the final moments before His arrest?

Before the cross, before the betrayal, before Gethsemane, Jesus pauses to pray.

In this opening message of our John 17 series, we begin exploring what is often called Jesus' High Priestly Prayer—the longest recorded prayer of Jesus in Scripture. As Jesus prepares to lay down His life, He reveals what matters most.

Justin explores one of the most misunderstood words in the Bible: glory. Rather than power, fame, or victory, biblical glory carries the idea of weight, significance, and the tangible presence of God. From creation, to the tabernacle, to the temple, to Jesus Himself, Scripture traces God's glory moving toward humanity—and then makes the astonishing claim that this same glory is given to Christ's followers.

What would it look like if Christians became people whose lives carried that kind of weight? What if the church wasn't known for winning arguments, but for embodying the presence of Jesus wherever it went?

This message launches a six-week journey through John 17, inviting us to discover Jesus' deepest desires for Himself, His disciples, and for the Church today.

The Stories That Define Us

What stories are shaping the way you see the world?

We’re all being trained by something—politics, social media, consumerism, fear, success, nationalism, anxiety. The question isn’t whether we live by stories. The question is: which stories are shaping us?

As we close our series on the parables of Jesus, we look at a story meant to trap Jesus—and his response to people who knew the Scriptures but had forgotten the power of God.

The parables invite us into a world stranger, wider, and more beautiful than the one fear and scarcity tell us is possible. They retrain our imagination for the Kingdom of God: a story of resurrection instead of death, abundance instead of scarcity, hope instead of anxiety, and a God whose mercy is wider and whose power is greater than we dared to believe.

What kingdom is training you—and what story are you telling with your life?

 

Parables of Jesus: The Persistent Widow and the Unjust Judge

What do we do when the world is not the way it’s supposed to be?

We all recognize injustice when we see it. We want wrongs made right, the innocent vindicated, and someone held responsible. But what happens when our systems fail? What happens when nothing can undo the harm that has already been done?

In this week’s message from our Parables of Jesus series, Eric looks at the story of the persistent widow and the unjust judge—and at Jesus’ strange instruction for living in an unjust world: pray, and do not lose heart.

Not because prayer is a substitute for pursuing justice. Not because suffering doesn’t matter. But because the God we cry out to is not a distant, indifferent judge.

The heart of Christianity is that our suffering is not forever—and it is not suffered alone. Jesus has entered into injustice, suffering, and even death itself. And when the world hurts us, we are invited to come to God like children running to a parent: trusting that we are heard, that God is present, and that injustice will not have the final word.

🎧 Parables of Jesus: The Persistent Widow and the Unjust Judge

Parables of Jesus (Week 4)

The parables of Jesus aren't tidy little stories with easy answers. In this message, Justin explores how Jesus used surprising and sometimes unsettling stories to provoke questions, challenge assumptions, and invite his listeners into a deeper understanding of God's kingdom and the transforming way of Jesus.

Parables of Jesus (Week 3)

In this week's message, Jason revisits the parable of the Good Samaritan and discovers that Jesus is less interested in defining who our neighbors are than in teaching us how to become neighbors ourselves. In a world shaped by labels and division, Jesus calls us to embody God's love through compassion, mercy, and tangible acts of care

Parables of Jesus (Week 2)

Parables of Jesus (Week 1)

Empowered (Week 5)

Lectio Divina - Acts 2

This morning, we continue our weekly Lectio Divina prayers, centered around the Holy Spirit and Sunday's Day of Pentecost, and how it calls us and guides us and leads us to where and who God wants us! This 10 minute prayer will hopefully be a reset point in your day and week and give you a chance to reconnect with God!

Empowered (Week 4)