Raw, vulnerable teaching from Bakersfield's REZ CHURCH, where we live out Identity > Growth > Community > Impact. Whether you're skeptical, exploring faith, or wanting to grow deeper, find practical hope that meets you where you are. We tackle real issues with biblical truth in your carpools, cubicles, and cul-de-sacs. Every episode points to Jesus and leaves you more encouraged than when you started.
Disrupted: AI Will Never Tell You You're Wrong - November 1, 2026
The most patient thing in your life right now might be on your phone. It's awake at two in the morning. It never gets tired of you, never brings up what you did last year, and it has never once told you that you're wrong.
That's the whole appeal. The top reported use of AI isn't code or homework. It's therapy and companionship. One in three teens who use an AI companion say they've gone to it instead of a real person about something serious. One study puts Gen Z at 49 hours a week on their phones, more than a full-time job.
But you don't get closer to someone by being agreed with. You get closer through the argument and the apology after it, through someone who shows up in the hospital room and stays. That part can't be handed off to an app, and it was never supposed to be easy.
This week: swap your phone for a face. Put it down and sit with one person for an hour. You don't have to believe anything to try it.
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(0:00) Lego Batman doesn't do relationships
(2:08) Why we feel so disconnected
(3:40) Romans 12:1-2 and 12:9-10
(4:57) The Industrial Revolution's hidden cost
(8:42) Demis Hassabis: 10 times bigger
(11:49) Big idea: we can't outsource love
(17:26) Why do you swallow so loud?
(19:17) Why it matters that Jesus is God
(20:29) Has social media made us better?
(22:38) Your feed isn't the same as mine
(25:20) Carey Nieuwhof on AI and therapy
(26:48) Teens and their AI companions
(29:15) What are you clinging to?
(31:28) Why we still do relationships
(38:16) Application: choose the harder path
(41:27) Swap your phone for a face
(42:43) If you don't believe any of this
(43:59) The repair God didn't outsource
25 Oct 2026
Your Ordinary Is the Extraordinary Part - October 25, 2026
There's someone you've watched handle a situation you know would have flattened you. Stayed steady when people were saying things about them that weren't true. Held their ground in a room where you'd have gone quiet. And you walked away thinking there's something in them that isn't in you. That's the wrong read, and it's costing you more than you think. The man in this message was handing out food to widows a few weeks earlier. Nobody would have picked him for what happened next, and the part that made it work was never his to begin with.
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(0:34) A fifteen year old walking to church
(0:43) The snowstorm
(1:07) A dozen people and no pastor
(1:30) A thin man stood up
(1:55) Ten minutes of his best
(2:09) He ran out of steam
(2:19) Young man, you look very miserable
(3:03) Who that teenager turned out to be
(3:39) Nobody knows who led him to Jesus
(3:56) Saved at 15, pastoring at 17
(4:38) You think you have to be someone special
(5:15) Because that's all he's got
(5:43) What Paul told the Corinthians
(6:31) Jesus makes ordinary people extraordinary
(7:24) Acts 6:8-15
(9:41) Full of faith and the Holy Spirit
(10:13) He was handing out food to widows
(10:45) Not glamorous. Absolutely necessary.
(11:35) The same word Jesus used about himself
(12:22) The guys who dug all Saturday morning
(13:01) How Jesus rewards faithful servants
(13:32) The power was never his
(14:28) The morning the lights didn't come on
(15:11) Somebody stole the box
(16:01) He was doing what the apostles did
(17:07) Stephen wasn't one of the twelve
(17:40) The new pastor at Grace Community
(18:47) He's legally blind
(19:09) He memorizes every sermon
(19:23) God can use anyone any way he chooses
(20:28) They kept losing the argument
(20:51) Not because he was smart
(21:25) What Jesus said would happen
(21:59) You are never alone when you speak up
(22:28) From frustration to wanting him dead
(23:28) They slander him
(24:08) Who else got slandered
(24:57) Restuffing a shredded feather pillow
(25:32) What happens if you just take it
(26:02) Whose opinion actually matters
(26:55) A nasty guy with no heart
(27:21) How Russell Moore answered
(27:38) Dragged in front of the Supreme Court
(29:14) Does he look afraid to you
(29:41) Someone else glowed like that
(31:15) I wish I was fearless
(31:22) We're not a different kind of Christian
(31:45) What will people think when I mess up
(32:34) Will they still trust me
(33:44) The hands
(34:22) Why you can't see him
(35:26) Where do you need this
(37:18) No little places, no little people
(37:44) If you're not a Christian
(39:33) The prayer
18 Oct 2026
Messy People Sharing the Hope of Jesus in a Broken World - October 18, 2026
Most people keep their distance from church for a reason that has nothing to do with God. It's the sense that everyone inside has it figured out and you'd be walking in several steps behind, with things about your life you'd rather not explain. That's a fair read of a lot of churches. It isn't the one you'd find here. This is a church saying out loud, on the record, that it's full of people who haven't arrived and aren't pretending to. Within a ten-minute drive of this building there are 144,000 people, and fewer than one in five walks into any church at all. Here's what this one is actually for.
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(0:14) Three and a half weeks of the flu
(0:40) I took a Viagra
(1:27) Change one word and it changes everything
(1:48) Words create worlds
(2:03) The words you already remember
(2:33) Abraham Heschel
(2:52) What always comes before an atrocity
(3:31) It works the other direction too
(4:30) Why we're changing the mission statement
(4:58) Matthew 28:16-20
(5:52) What's unique about doing this here
(6:26) I grew up in church in the 80s and 90s
(6:49) Churches that expected you cleaned up first
(7:11) Why I ran from God
(7:35) What that made this church become
(8:01) Philippians 3:12
(8:28) The goal Paul is chasing
(8:42) The same verb he used for persecuting the church
(9:12) Messy people sharing the hope of Jesus in a broken world
(9:32) Why messy people
(9:45) Who Paul was before
(10:23) I am the worst of them
(10:39) What a wretched man I am
(11:10) Why Paul kept saying it
(11:22) The slippery slope
(12:04) Jesus was accused of the same thing
(12:22) By church people
(12:40) Trust in churches at an all-time low
(13:03) The Pharisee and the tax collector
(14:15) Where every messy person starts
(14:35) I'm still a mess
(15:21) The more he changes me, the more I see
(15:54) What the hope of Jesus actually is
(16:03) What we're not selling
(16:23) Only one thing saves a soul
(17:46) How could we not share
(17:59) Penn Jillette and the man with the Bible
(18:49) How much do you have to hate somebody
(19:16) Words, work, and wallets
(19:33) 1 Peter 3:15-16
(20:14) The shirts in the lobby
(20:52) The gospel story project
(21:27) Not just words
(22:43) In a broken world
(23:17) We're meant to shine in it, not leave it
(23:42) The ten minute window
(24:25) We just have to stop hiding
(24:49) The MOVE scorecard
(26:02) I'm not asking you to commit yet
(27:00) How God changed my heart
(27:11) Something more dangerous than committing
(27:55) The prayer
(28:51) Thrive next April
(30:41) If you're not a Christian at all
(31:20) One beggar showing another where to find bread
(31:52) I hated everything about Christianity
(32:13) The real reason
(32:36) I was the problem
(33:06) Who can save me from myself
(33:47) The prayer
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