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Kindred Church, 8324 Allison Avenue, La Mesa, CA (2026)

10/18/2026

The Story God Is Telling - When The Story Breaks

If God is good, why is the world so broken? Why do relationships fall apart? Why do we struggle with fear, shame, and regret? And when we make mistakes, does God turn away from us?

These are questions people have wrestled with for thousands of years. And the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 offers a surprising perspective.

In Week 2 of The Story God Is Telling — And Your Place in It, we explore how doubt, broken trust, and our desire for control have shaped the world we live in. But we also discover something remarkable about God's response.

When humanity hides, God comes looking.

Through the story of the Garden of Eden, we discover that sin has real consequences, but it doesn't change God's character. Even in our brokenness, God's love, compassion, and desire for relationship remain.

Whether you've followed Jesus for years, are rediscovering your faith, or have questions about God and the Bible, this message is an invitation to see the story of humanity—and your own story—in a different light.

Because brokenness doesn't get the last word. Love does.

Join us at Kindred Church in La Mesa, California, as we explore Genesis 3, the fall of humanity, the origins of sin and shame, and the hope of God's continuing love.

💬 We'd love to hear from you: What's something you've learned about trust through a difficult experience?

If this message encourages you, share it with someone who needs to be reminded that their story isn't over.

10/11/2026

THE STORY GOD IS TELLING — YOU WERE ALWAYS ENOUGH TO MATTER

What if everything you've believed about your worth begins with the wrong story?

Before humanity experienced failure, shame, brokenness, or the pressure to prove ourselves, God looked at creation and called it very good.

And that changes everything.

In Genesis 1–2, we discover something remarkable about the story of creation. The Bible doesn't simply tell us how the world began. It introduces us to the heart of the God who created it.

A God who creates out of love.
A God who delights in humanity.
A God who gives us identity, purpose, belonging, and rest.

In “The Author Who Begins With Love,” the first message in our new sermon series, The Story God Is Telling — And Your Place in It, we explore what Genesis reveals about God's character, what it means to be created in God's image, and why our lives have value long before we've accomplished anything.

We'll also discover the biblical meaning of shalom, why Sabbath rest is part of God's original design, and how loving God and loving people connects to the very beginning of the Bible.

Here's the truth we want you to remember:

Your worth isn't determined by your accomplishments, your failures, your productivity, or anyone else's approval.

You were created with purpose. You were made for relationship. And you have a place in God's story.

Whether you've followed Jesus for decades, are exploring Christianity, or have struggled with what you've been taught about God, this message offers a fresh way to understand the Bible and your place within it.

▶️ Watch the message and discover how God's story begins—with love.

💬 Let's talk: What gives you a glimpse of the way life was always meant to be?

❤️ If this message encourages you, share it with someone who needs to be reminded that their life matters.

About Kindred Church

We're a church community in La Mesa, California, serving the greater San Diego area. Our vision is to be a community where presence is sacred, love is patient, and weary hearts find rest and renewal in Jesus.

Scripture: Genesis 1–2; Genesis 1:26–31
Sermon: The Author Who Begins With Love
Series: The Story God Is Telling — And Your Place in It
Church: Kindred Church | La Mesa, San Diego, California

10/04/2026

SEEN

Have you ever felt invisible—even to the people closest to you?

We live in a world where being seen is measured in views, likes, and followers. But being noticed isn't the same thing as being known. We can be surrounded by people and still wonder if anyone really sees what we're carrying.

In Genesis 16, Hagar finds herself pregnant, mistreated, alone in the wilderness, and unsure what comes next. Then something remarkable happens: God finds her. And Hagar gives God a name—El Roi, “the God who sees me.”

That same truth still matters today.

God sees more than the version of ourselves we show everyone else. God sees the fear, questions, struggles, disappointments, and parts of our story we'd rather keep hidden—and God doesn't walk away.

And when we begin to understand what it means to be truly seen and known by God, it changes the way we see the people around us. Jesus continually noticed the people others overlooked, dismissed, or reduced to labels. Following Jesus means learning to do the same.

You are not invisible. You are known. You are seen.

And this week, ask yourself one question:

Who in my life needs to know that someone sees them?

Send the text. Make the call. Invite them to lunch. Ask how they're doing—and stay long enough to hear the real answer.

▶️ Watch SEEN and share it with someone who needs this reminder today.

Kindred Church | La Mesa, San Diego
A community where presence is sacred, love is patient, and weary hearts find rest and renewal in Jesus.

09/27/2026

More Than Enough - Open Hands

What if generosity has less to do with how much we have—and more to do with what we do with what’s already in our hands?

It’s easy to tell ourselves we’ll be more generous when we have more. More money. More time. More energy. More margin. But somehow, “more” never quite arrives.

In the final message of our More Than Enough series, we look at Jesus’ encounter with the widow in Mark 12:41–44and discover that generosity isn’t simply about giving more. It’s about learning to trust God enough to loosen our grip on what we have—and becoming more available to love.

Because generosity can look like far more than money. It can be our time, attention, abilities, experience, resources, or simply making room at our table for someone who needs to know they belong.

Scarcity asks, “What do I need to protect?”
Trust asks, “How can I use what I’ve been given to show my love for God and my love for people?”

If you’ve ever worried that you don’t have enough to make a difference, this message is for you. You may already have more to give than you realize.

How can you generously bless someone this week?

Open Hands | More Than Enough — Week 3 | Kindred Church

09/20/2026

More Than Enough — Trusting God With Tomorrow So We Can Be Present Today

What if worrying about tomorrow is causing us to miss the life God has given us today?

We spend so much of our lives thinking about what comes next—what needs to get done, what might go wrong, and whether everything is going to be okay. But Jesus offers us another way to live:

If we can trust God with tomorrow, we are free to be present today.

In “Here,” Week 2 of our More Than Enough sermon series, we explore Luke 10:38–42 and the story of Mary and Martha to discover what Jesus teaches us about worry, trusting God, spiritual distraction, and being fully present.

Martha wasn't doing something wrong. She was serving. Preparing. Taking care of things that genuinely mattered. But those good things were consuming so much of her attention that she was missing the person right in front of her.

We can do the same.

We can be physically present with the people we love while mentally living somewhere else. We can spend today replaying yesterday or worrying about tomorrow. We can become so consumed with responsibilities, work, family, church, anxiety, and planning for the future that we miss what God is doing right now.

And that's why Christian presence is about more than simply slowing down or “living in the moment.”

Jesus shows us that presence is one of the ways we love.

Love listens.
Love notices.
Love makes room.
Love has enough space to stop.

Again and again, Jesus was present with the people others overlooked. And following Jesus means learning to offer that same kind of presence to God and to the people around us.

Trusting God doesn't mean we stop caring about tomorrow. It means we don't have to live there.

God is here today.
The people we love are here.
The people who need to be seen are here.

And this moment is more than enough.

💬 Where in your life do you wish you were more present—and what makes being fully present difficult for you?

We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. If this message encouraged or challenged you, share it with a friend who could use the reminder, and subscribe/follow Kindred for more honest conversations about Jesus, faith, and everyday life.

MORE THAN ENOUGH — HERE
📖 Scripture: Luke 10:38–42; Matthew 6:34
🎙️ Kindred Church | La Mesa, California | San Diego

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09/13/2026

More Than Enough - A God Who Provides

How much is enough? And why does “enough” have a strange habit of never feeling like enough?

Enough money. Enough time. Enough security. Enough certainty about tomorrow.

When we’re afraid there won’t be enough, our world can slowly begin to shrink around whatever we’re afraid of losing. And before long, worry about tomorrow starts consuming the life we’ve been given today.

In Week 1 of our new series, More Than Enough, we look at Jesus’ words in Matthew 6 and discover that Jesus doesn’t shame us for worrying or promise that nothing difficult will happen. Instead, Jesus invites us to look at something deeper: Who do we believe God is when we can’t control what happens next? Because trusting God is easy when we can already see how everything is going to work out. Trust becomes much more real when we can’t.

If you’ve been carrying worry about money, family, health, work, the future—or simply wondering whether there will be enough—this message is for you.

▶️ Watch The God Who Provides, Week 1 of More Than Enough.

Then join the conversation: What’s one thing about the future you find yourself worrying about the most?

Leave a comment below. And if you know someone who has been carrying a lot of tomorrow lately, share this message with them.

At Kindred, our hope is to be a community where presence is sacred, love is patient, and weary hearts find rest and renewal in Jesus.

09/06/2026

Unsettled: What to Do When Your Emotions Take Over

Have you ever made a decision while you were angry, hurt, afraid, or overwhelmed… only to look back later and wonder, “What was I thinking?” The difficult thing about strong emotions is that they don’t always make us feel confused. Sometimes they make us feel absolutely certain. Certain we’re right. Certain we know what someone meant. Certain we’re seeing the situation clearly. But what if we’re not?

There’s a saying that compares our emotions to boiling water: when the water is unsettled, we can’t see a clear reflection. And sometimes the same thing happens inside of us.

In this message, “Unsettled,” we’ll explore what Scripture teaches us about anger, fear, emotional decision-making, and learning to recognize when our perspective has become distorted. We’ll look at the wisdom of James and Proverbs, and at Elijah’s story in 1 Kings 19, where we discover something incredibly encouraging: God doesn’t stand at a distance waiting for us to get ourselves together. God meets us in the middle of our unsettledness.

If you’re carrying anger, fear, hurt, stress, uncertainty, or simply struggling to see a situation clearly, this message is for you.

Watch Unsettled and consider this question: Where in your life might you need to let the water settle?

If this message encourages you, share it with someone who might need it, leave a comment with what stood out to you, and follow Kindred Church for more messages about following Jesus in the middle of real life.

Scripture: James 1:19–20 • Proverbs 3:5–7 • 1 Kings 19

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08/30/2026

Love God & Love People - Love Becomes Our Witness

What if the clearest sign that Jesus is changing your life isn’t what you know—but who you’re becoming? We’re all being shaped by something. Our habits. Our relationships. What gets our attention. What we pursue. Even the small choices we make every day. But Jesus invites us into something deeper than simply believing the right things or trying harder to behave better. He invites us to remain in Him—and as we do, His Spirit begins changing us from the inside out.

Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness, Faithfulness. Gentleness. Compassion. Grace.

And here’s the beautiful part: what God grows in us was never meant to end with us. The people around us should begin experiencing something of Jesus through the people we’re becoming.

So here’s the question: Am I becoming more like Jesus?

Watch this final message in our Love God & Love People series as we explore spiritual formation, the Fruit of the Spirit, what Jesus meant when He said “Remain in me,” and how a life with Jesus slowly transforms who we are.

What’s one thing you hope God is growing in you right now? Share it in the comments.

If this message encourages you, like it and share it with someone who might need it.
Save it and come back to the question: Who am I becoming?

08/23/2026

Love God & Love People - Where does your love stop?

Where does your love stop? It's easy to love people we enjoy being around. People who understand us. People who think like us. People who make life easier. But what about the people we'd rather avoid? The people who frustrate us. The people we disagree with. The people who have hurt us. The people whose lives or beliefs we simply don't understand.

In Week 3 of Love God & Love People, we turn to the surprising story of Jonah—a man who knew exactly how merciful God was and desperately wanted that mercy to stop before it reached his enemies. Because Jonah wasn't simply running away from God. He was running away from a people he didn't want God to forgive. And his story forces us to confront an uncomfortable possibility: Maybe the greatest obstacle to loving difficult people isn't how difficult they are. Maybe it's forgetting how much grace we've received ourselves.

Throughout Scripture, people draw lines—and God keeps crossing them. Jesus moved toward outsiders, sinners, enemies, and people everyone else had pushed aside. And the gospel reminds us that when we were outside the circle, Jesus crossed the line for us. So what happens when God's grace begins changing the way we see the people around us? And who might Jesus be inviting us to see differently?

Watch to the end, because Jonah's story ultimately leaves us with a question that may reveal far more about our own hearts than we expect.

Join the conversation: Who has helped you learn what it means to love someone who is different from you?

If this message encourages or challenges you, like the video, leave a comment, and share it with someone who could use this message. Follow or subscribe to Kindred for more practical teaching about following Jesus in everyday life.

Scripture: Jonah 1–4 • Romans 5:8
Series: Love God & Love People — Week 3

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08/16/2026

Love - Making God our Center

What has the strongest pull on your heart? Most of us would say that God matters to us. But if we looked honestly at what receives most of our time, attention, energy, thoughts, and emotions… would our lives tell the same story?

In Week Two of Love God & Love People, we look at one of Jesus' most familiar teachings—“Seek first the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33)—and discover that Jesus wasn't simply telling us to rearrange our priorities. He was inviting us to reconsider what sits at the center of our lives. Because whatever captures our hearts eventually shapes the way we see everything else.

In this message, we'll explore why Jesus connects our treasure, vision, loyalty, and worry, how competing priorities quietly become competing masters, and what it actually means to seek God's Kingdom first in the middle of work, family, relationships, responsibilities, and everyday life.

The question isn't simply, “Do I love God?”

It's deeper: What has the strongest pull on my heart?

Success?
Comfort?
Security?
Approval?
Control?
Or Jesus?

Jesus isn't asking us to squeeze God into an already crowded life. He's inviting us to build our lives around an entirely different center.

Watch to the end as we discover why putting Christ at the center doesn't mean abandoning everything else—it may be the very thing that finally helps everything else find its proper place.

Join the conversation: What is one thing that most easily competes for the center of your life?

If this message speaks to you, like the video, leave a comment, and share it with someone who may need this reminder. And follow/subscribe to Kindred for more messages about following Jesus in everyday life.

Scripture: Matthew 6:19–34
Series: Love God & Love People — Week Two

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