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Have you ever felt torn between what you want and what you think God wants for you? Maybe you’re confident about what you think God says about sexuality and gender, or perhaps you’re grappling with reshaping your beliefs because of someone you care about. Some people are solid on their beliefs but struggle to show love, while others are all about love but seem to switch beliefs often. But there’s a third way to navigate this. Join us today as we conclude one of our most reflective series Wonderfully Made. Together, let’s learn from the Bible and Jesus how we personify God to the world and bring healing to a broken culture by embracing grace and truth at the same time.

One way we experience division within ourselves might be when our biological sex and our gender don’t seem to align. For some, this can be a deeply painful experience called gender dysphoria; for others, it may be just a nagging sense inside of you that something is off. Today, we have a special guest, Son Byrd, who will share his personal journey navigating gender dysphoria. We will tackle gender stereotypes, the definition of gender, and restoration.  Join us as we continue our journey through our Wonderfully Made series. Let’s unpack together how God wants us to show his intentions for the diversity and harmony of the creation He designed. ✅ Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49231016 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

What do you long for most in life? Some desire better friends, romance, and love, while others desire power, success, or money. Maybe you crave sexual fulfillment or physical pleasure.  Have you ever wondered where those desires come from? Is it wrong to have them? ------------------- ABOUT OUR CURRENT SERIES: “Wonderfully Made” Cultural changes around topics of gender and sexuality have left many confused, often unsatisfied with who they are, and uncertain about how to respond with clarity and compassion to a conversation that has become increasingly polarizing. Join us as we journey in unity with other Bay Area churches in a teaching series called Wonderfully Made. Together, we’ll explore how God’s incredible design for our bodies reveals the beauty and value of every person.

Who or what has shaped your view of sex? Whether we like it or not, we’ve all been shaped by influences that have distorted our view of sexuality in some way. What is God saying to you in light of this bigger picture of sexuality? Sexuality is an integral part of our bodies and our lives that creates intimacy with Him. Join us today as we delve deep into God’s word how sex is a gateway to a divine mystery. Together, let’s unpack the ways of understanding God’s creation in a way that was designed for us to flourish. ✅ Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49231014 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Over the last few years, we have seen significant cultural shifts around the topics of gender, sexuality, and the body. These changes have left many of us feeling insecure or confused about how to respond with the unconditional love of Jesus, but also with faithfulness to God's Word. Our desire for this series is to build bridges, not walls. We want every person in the Bay Area to know their incredible worth, understand the beauty of their design, and step into their identity as a human being that was wonderfully made by a loving Creator. Join us as we unite in our teaching series Wonderfully Made. As each of us is uniquely made, let’s together indulge in this series to bring clarity and beauty into a conversation that has often been creating distances instead of love among us. ✅ Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49231013 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Do you feel like you have everything and nothing at the same time? Or do you feel like what you have is never enough? We often find ourselves working hard but producing little, gaining much but feeling empty, or consuming more yet being less satisfied. God set the people free, so that they could bring hope and freedom to others, but they got comfortable and forgot the reason they came back to the land. The calling to rebuild the Temple was a calling to extend God’s presence and blessing to the nations. We are blessed to bless, but often we take the blessings and run. Join us today, as we conclude our series BLESSABLE. Let’s together understand how our motives and ambitions can be turned into real lasting blessings and how we could in turn be a blessing to our family, friends, and our community. ✅ Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49222847 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

We all know our time here is limited, but have you ever wondered if death marks the end of everything? Or perhaps there's something beyond? And if there is, does it overshadow every other concern we have? Regardless of our beliefs or current state of mind, the curiosity about life after death is universal. Sometimes we forget that there's a historical figure who supposedly conquered death, suggesting that we might be able to do the same. But where's the evidence? This Easter Sunday, join us for a special message from Pastor Filipe. Together, let's delve into the possibility of overcoming death, which might otherwise seem inevitable. ✅ Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49222848 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Do you feel like you have everything and nothing at the same time? Or do you feel like what you have is never enough? We often find ourselves working hard but producing little, gaining much but feeling empty, or consuming more yet being less satisfied. God set the people free, so that they could bring hope and freedom to others, but they got comfortable and forgot the reason they came back to the land. The calling to rebuild the Temple was a calling to extend God’s presence and blessing to the nations. We are blessed to bless, but often we take the blessings and run. Join us today, as we conclude our series BLESSABLE. Let’s together understand how our motives and ambitions can be turned into real lasting blessings and how we could in turn be a blessing to our family, friends, and our community. ✅ Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49222847 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Our circumstances do not limit God’s blessings. Even during tough times, we have His favor. However, we often forget this when faced with hardships. We may think it’s okay to compromise on our values under the pressures we face today. Are your choices leading you to the life you want? God’s desire is for us always to make choices that will bring blessings into our lives. He values our character more than our possessions or actions. God delights in blessing people who are pure in heart and who are a blessing to others. But how can we develop that lasting blessable character? Join us today as we continue our series Blessable. Let’s explore what the Bible teaches us about living a life of freedom, where we have nothing to hide, nothing to feel insufficient, but only have joy and contentment.  Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49222845 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Have you been too busy and stopped to think about what it means to be blessed by God? Is a blessed life always prosperous? Do you have questions on why some people have certain blessings while others don't? This message is for you! Let's embark on a journey of discovering the true meaning of blessing through our new series Blessable. Let's learn how to be a blessing to our family, friends, and people around us, and in turn, experience the true joy of being blessed.  Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49206763 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

What comes to your mind when you hear God saying you are made for greater things than just running a healthy or wealthy life on Earth? Do you feel like God is using you for His work, or do you feel blessed that He has chosen you to do so? Whatever you feel, above and above all, God cares more than you about what you are already holding in your personal life. Doing the work doesn’t mean we are doing something for Him. Then what does it mean? How can we understand why and what God’s intentions are for our lives? And how is it going to be when we keep our lives in His hands? Join us as we continue our series Blessable. Together, let's explore why God's intentions for us are always the best and how we can better understand His ever-blessable intentions for our lives.  Check in to let support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49222843 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Have you ever forgotten something that you promised to your child, family, or friend? Or have you ever taken on more than you could handle for a group project as a student? Breaking promises happens to many of us at some point. Yes, words are powerful. As God’s children, why is it important to keep the promises? What would happen if we became unbreakable with our promises and words? How would being a promise-keeper impact our marriages, friendships, and relationship with God? Join us as we conclude our series “Not easily broken”. Together, let's explore what the Bible teaches us about why and how we can become people who are not easily broken by being committed to our words.  Check in to let  support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49206762 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

What first comes to mind when you see a person in need on the street? Do you have compassion for them or do you look the other way? Jesus loved the marginalized, gave attention to the neglected, and showed love to all humans. We are called to continue this mission to see all people with equal value and worth. What can we learn from the Bible about ourselves and those around us? What did Jesus teach about radical love for the least, the lost, and the lonely? How does loving the underprivileged and the lost impact us, our families, our community, and the world? Join us today as we continue our series "Not Easily Broken". Together, let’s learn how, as a church, we are not easily broken by lifting up the broken. Check in to let  support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49206761 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Everybody wants their hard work to be fruitful. We don’t want our efforts to end with us but we want them to impact and endure in a way that they are never wasted. But how to create an enduring impact with the work we do? How can we become a blessing to the next generation and the generations to come? How can we make sure that what God has done in and through us is passed down to our kids and their kids? Join us today as we continue our series “Not Easily Broken”. Together, let’s learn what the Bible talks about making a difference that lasts for generations to come.  Check in to let  support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49206760 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675 https://echo.church/online Or in-person at any of our Bay Area campuses: https://echo.church/locations

Most people today are quick to give up on relationships, back out of agreements, and run from discomfort, but what if the very commitments we avoid are the keys to a life of increased impact and stronger relationships? With all our imperfections, God created us to accomplish beautiful things TOGETHER. But how do we understand the right relations? How do we recognize the enemy whose only goal is to break us apart and break us as individuals? How do we get enough power to trample evil and why do we have to make a difference for good for our family, friends, and community? Join us today as we kick off a powerful series “Not Easily Broken”. Together, let’s learn what Jesus says about the Church being not a building but people working together to witness miracles and see transformations that endure.  Check in to let  support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49206759 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

We know what it feels like to fall short of expectations or have work be frustrating. And we have also seen the joy in bringing order out of chaos at our workplace or in our daily life. Where are we getting these feelings from? That is because we were created to work and to manage and to create. But is it always practical to say “Work is Worship?” What does God say about Work and Worship? How can we produce fruit with any work we take up? How do we understand when and how the enemy is trying to misguide us otherwise? How do we manage our work so that the output has all the goodness? Join us today as we wrap up our series filled with grit, “Present.” Together, let us understand what it really means to produce right and good fruit through our work where God placed us.  Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49194203 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Isn’t it alarming that loneliness is rising even though there seem to be people all around? Today, building and cultivating connections takes intentionality. God created us to flourish in partnership with one another. The enemy tries to isolate us from others, knowing we are weaker when we are alone and divided. Jesus modeled the power of community by inviting others to do life, work, and pray with him, even though he could have done this all alone. How do we recognize the enemy? How can we beat the feelings of loneliness and isolation? How do we build life-giving friendships? Join us today as we continue our series filled with the power to flourish “PRESENT.” Together, let us understand how we can grow with the strength of community.  Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49194204 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675 ------------------- YOU ARE WELCOME HERE Join us for LIVE services every Sunday: https://echo.church/online Or in-person at any of our Bay Area campuses: https://echo.church/locations

Identity is a popular topic that is prevalent in today’s world. The question “Who are you?” can stir up anxiety. Parents, coaches, influencers, personality tests, and countless voices around us convince us who we should be. It seems like everyone is searching for someone to tell them who they are. But trying to be anyone other than who God created you to be is exhausting. How can we understand the route to freedom, healing, and wholeness? How do we recognize who and what the enemy is in our lives that tries to steal away our true joy and peace? Join us today as we continue our series filled with core strength  “Present”. We’ll learn true joy and identity flourishes when we understand the essence of God’s word. ✅ Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin 📝 Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49194202 ✋ Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes 💌 If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. 🙏🏽Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

Have you ever struggled to understand why and how to spend time with God in prayer? We might approach prayer out of obligation, a sense of guilt, or neglect praying altogether. You might feel shame for your past and believe that you aren’t worthy of having a loving relationship with God. But our Creator wants to build an intimate relationship with you! He wants this relationship to be real, so he gives us the choice to choose Him. So, no matter what you are walking through, know that He wants you to come to Him in your brokenness. Join us today as we kick off our new series “Present”. Let’s learn how to build a relationship with God through prayer and flourish in our lives. Because a relationship with the creator of the Universe could change it all for you.  Check in to let us support you in your journey. If you’re new here, you’ll receive a free digital gift card! https://echo.church/checkin Follow along with the message notes → https://bible.com/events/49194201 Decided to follow Jesus? We’d love to guide you in the next steps! →  https://echo.church/yes If this message encourages you, share it with a friend, and like and subscribe so you don’t miss our latest videos. Need Prayer? → TEXT our prayer line: (408) 716-1675

🌟 Join Us for Echo.Church At Home! 🌟 🗣️ Pastor Filipe on Healthy Rhythms in 2024: Discover how to establish healthy rhythms for a fulfilling year. Pastor Filipe explores Jesus’ life as a guide and shares insights on intentional living. Learn practical steps for a purpose-driven life. 📝 Download the Healthy Rhythms Worksheet: https://www.echo.church/wp-content/up... 📖 God’s Wisdom for Healthy Living: Explore how God provides a blueprint for healthy rhythms, helping you navigate life’s challenges with grace and purpose. 🎵 Acoustic Worship by Echo Worship: Get ready with heartfelt worship before the message. Let the music set the tone for reflection and connection. 🙌 Celebrate 2023’s Achievements: After the message, join us for a quick celebration, looking back at all God accomplished through Echo.Church in 2023.