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Part 7 | Follow Me Around

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/10/06

What does it mean to be called by God? In contemporary culture, “calling” has come to mean something like a mix of “passion and skillset and purpose,” but in the Bible, the calling God gives is something very different. Continuing our series in the Book of Genesis, For Glory and For Good, Pastor Caleb looks at the story of Abram to show that God’s calling isn’t based on deep passion or natural skill or even a clear sense of identity, all as we might expect. In truth, it often costs those very things

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00:49:31

Partner Sunday | How to Persevere

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/10/02

Four Sundays a year, we invite a friend and ministry partner to discuss one of The Garden's four core values, which are really values for every believer and community in Christ. This weekend, we had the blessing of hearing from Jonathan Kagimu of African Renewal Ministries, who shared a word on our value of Perseverance, based on Isaiah 40. As Jonathan encourages, when the burdens of life become overwhelming, we can look up to find the greatness, goodness, and power of our God. He is never far,

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00:58:35

Part 6 | House of Cards

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/09/24

Pastor Caleb continues For Glory and For Good with a look at one of the most infamous episodes in the Book of Genesis. In constructing a high tower at the center of their city, the people of Babel seem to be doing everything right – enjoying unity in their communication, labor, and culture. But the foundation beneath them proves far more brittle than appearances suggest. As God stoops down to see and address their work, he finds prideful hearts headed toward destruction. His choice to disperse them

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00:52:39

Part 5 | High and Dry

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/09/15

Our series For Glory and For Good moves to another key figure in the book of Genesis. When it becomes clear humanity is irreparably corrupted by its sinful pursuits, bringing the earth it was made to tend down with it, God is moved by grief to set things right. What is stained will be washed, in a great and terrible Flood, but where God looks down and sees what was good now evil, He also finds a glimmer of hope in a man named Noah. As Pastor Caleb shares, what makes the story of the Ark so important

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00:38:28

Part 4 | All I Need

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/09/08

Pastoral Resident Nate Gonzales continues For Glory and for Good with a consideration of work and rest – and more deeply, purpose and fulfillment. After Adam and Eve’s sinful decision, humanity would be burdened with work that could now crush body and spirit, and the horror of this consequence would be evident for them immediately after life outside the garden. The picture is clear. Left to ourselves, apart from God’s intervention, how could anyone possibly detangle the struggle for fruitful work

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00:56:15

Part 3 | Let Down

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/09/02

Our series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, continues with the first instance of sin in history and its awful fallout. Adam and Eve are tempted to leave God’s created order, and in reaching for something outside of His abundant provision and clear warning, they discover the unbearable weight of shame. But here, too, we see the first instance of grace, as God covers them and preserves the blessing of humanity, even through the pain sin has brought onto it. Adam and Eve forgot, as

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00:59:10

Part 2 | Where I End and You Begin

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/08/24

Pastor Caleb continues our series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, with a question asked in the account of creation that has remained central to humanity since Adam drew his first breath: Will we accept that the Creator God is also the Lord God? Every truth in Genesis hinges on our answer to this question, and no amount of reducing the book to a single layer of meaning – as historical account, as biological information, as metaphysical commentary, as poetic expression – will be

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00:49:48

Part 1 | Everything In Its Right Place

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/08/17

We kick off a new series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, with a look at the beginning of the world. As Pastor Caleb shows, though much has been made of interpreting the scientific and historical details of this creation account, Genesis is primarily a work of theological declaration. This God is different from all others, both in Israel's day and ours. Sovereign, eternal, and fundamentally relational, the God of Genesis moves to fill every void with His glory, every darkness

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00:45:22

Part 8 | The Family Tree

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/08/10

Pastor Caleb closes our discipleship series, Walking Home, with a look at community. As we see the first church established in the book of Acts, we find in the Gospel's proclamation and its reception among an emerging community a truth that is easily obscured in our contemporary, individualist context: You can't seek the face of God without finding the body of Christ. Atonement and adoption are parts of God's same redemptive movement to us, which means the joyful life He has for us is

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00:27:54

Part 7 | The Ground and the Growth

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/08/03

Our good friend Amanda Gallegos joins us for our Walking Home series with a look at what happens when we live our lives by the rhythm of communion. Jesus' promise to his disciples in John 15 points to abiding with him as a blessed choice we get to make, one that frees us from the burden of growth and opens us to the joy of groundedness.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠John 15:1-7⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (ESV)⁠⁠⁠If you would like to join us through this eight-week series as we work through a parallel discipleship course

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00:41:06

Part 6 | Hungering, Healing, Helping

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/07/26

As our series Walking Home continues, we move from the subject of pain to the subject of healing. Taking a look at Luke 9, Pastor Caleb considers what it means for disciples to know hunger as they're called to feed the hungry. In our lives of following Jesus, are we meant to serve others only when we're ready? Or can we minister even while we're mending? We see in the calling, equipping, and sending that Jesus gives to his disciples interconnected acts of obedience and interwoven means

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00:41:17

Part 5 | In the Bleeding and the Blessing

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/07/20

Pastor Caleb continues our series Walking Home with a look at the prayer life of a disciple. Throughout Scripture we see the people of God come to Him with boldness and honesty through the practice of lament. More than a doubtful complaint levied at God's character, prayers of lament represent pleas from the faithful for God to be who He has promised to be. These prayers represent a critical component in the development of our faith. They guide us through sorrows that all humanity experiences by

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00:47:24

Part 4 | Perfect Makes Practice

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/07/13

Our series on discipleship, Walking Home, continues with a look at what it means to practice our faith. Pastor Caleb turns to the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. What is a Christian? Many of us define faith by what is done, but if we start with activity before identity, we will miss growing into what we're called to be. The love of God, as Paul shows, is the ground of our being. It gives us purpose, guides all our activity, and must always be our greatest

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Part 3 | Transforming Love

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/07/06

Pastoral Resident Nate Garza continues our series on discipleship, Walking Home, considering the topic of transformation. What does it mean to be made new? When the Spirit works in us, what is evidence of change? Looking at Paul's words in his letter to Titus, we discover the power of a heart regenerated to love like Christ and a mind renewed to think like Christ.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Titus 3:1-8⁠⁠⁠ (NRSV)⁠⁠⁠If you would like to join us through this eight-week series as we work through a parallel

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00:55:21

Part 2 | Caught and Released

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/06/28

Continuing our series on discipleship, Walking Home, Pastor Caleb looks at the other side of following Jesus. Looking at Luke chapter five, we see in Jesus' call to Peter and to Levi – two very different men who see the Lord and take him at his word – that to "come and see" we must "leave everything." The sick and the sinful find in Jesus hope for today and for tomorrow. With his life in us, we can embark on a transformative journey, where old selves, prior hopes, and former

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00:58:15

Part 1 | What Do You See?

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/06/21

We begin a new series on discipleship, Walking Home, with a look at Jesus' invitation to follow after him, given to his disciples in the Gospel of John: "Come and see." His call helps us to set aside many contemporary misconceptions of following him, and we see in his words that a life of faith rests on a foundation of relationship, that no amount of activity or experience could compensate for distance from God. Pastor Caleb looks at this passage and four keys to healthy

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00:33:55

Part 6 | One Peace at a Time

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/06/08

Our series through Jesus’ Beatitudes continues with a look at God’s promise to the peacemakers. Pastoral Resident Nate Garza shares the meaning of Jesus’ statement by walking us through the Old Testament story of Jacob and Esau. As we see in their separation and eventual reconciliation, the peace of God that comes to us is meant to flow through us as well. Being a peacemaker requires spiritual preparation, willingness to rise to a moment of establishment, and a commitment to hold space for ongoing

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00:48:58

Part 5 | Seeing Is Believing

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/05/25

Continuing our series through the beatitudes, Kingdom Come, Pastor Caleb takes a look at two interrelated promises from Jesus. He tells his disciples that the merciful will find mercy and that the pure in heart will see God. Walking through the biblical witness, we find that God sees us long before we can see Him, and from His compassion flows mercy that clears the eyes of our heart to begin to witness the glory of His work in us and around us. Far from a one-time experience, we find that in faith

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00:43:30

Part 4 | Hunger Struck

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/05/17

In part four of our series Kingdom Come, Pastor Caleb looks at Jesus' fourth beatitude, where he tells his disciples that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled. The context of Jesus' words involves a physical hunger, with many in his audience suffering from Roman oppression and the corruption of religious leadership, but the yearning Jesus is speaking to goes far deeper than a growling stomach. The promise of being filled is for those who are starving for God's

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00:38:37

Part 3 | Meek First

The Garden | San Antonio ·

2026/05/11

Continuing Kingdom Come, our series through the beatitudes of Jesus, our pastoral resident Nate Garza looks at the kind of meekness God blesses and what it means for followers of Jesus to rely on the strength of the Lord at work – in us and in the world he calls us to.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Psalm 37:1-11⁠⁠⁠ (NIV)⁠⁠⁠For more resources and ways to connect with us, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thegardensa.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ today.

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