New Life Burbank (PCA)

08/29/2022

As of August 14, New Life Burbank has officially dissolved and is no longer meeting as a local church. The session of NLB would like to thank all those who have given their time, effort, and love to create and sustain this church for its twenty years of life. We would encourage all those who supported our ministry to join other local churches and serve the Lord our God in those those bodies. Our website, http://newlifeburbank.org/, will continue to exist as an archive for past sermon recordings. Thank you for your understanding and love in Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For The Praise Of His Glory - We Regret To Announce That New Life Burbank, Pca Has Official Dissolved As A Local Church.After 20 Amazing Years Together

07/02/2022

It’s an easy thing for us to conceive of good and evil as equal and opposite things. Many forms of popular media talk about the necessity of “balance” between opposite. Good and evil; light and darkness; God and the devil. Opposites but essentially at a balance with each other, neither with a significant advantage. Even Christians can sometimes think in those ways, as if the devil and his demons are equals to the Lord and His Kingdom. In the passage we’ll be examining on Sunday, Matthew will teach us that this is not the case at all. The demonic kingdom is no match for the authority of the Son of God. Unclean spirits might hate the Lord Jesus and oppose Him, but they are helpless to resist Him. Jesus Christ is Lord, and the kingdom of evil and all its agents will crumble before Him, then, today, and forever.

06/27/2022

Please follow the link to hear this past Sunday's sermon on Matthew 8:23-27:
http://newlifeburbank.org/messages
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Artwork: "Christ Stilleth the Tempest", John Martin (1852)

06/24/2022

One would think that, if anyone knew who Jesus was, it would be His disciples. After all, those men were there for the whole of His ministry. They were with Jesus almost constantly, day in and day out. They knew He could do miracles with a word. But when they were faced with immediate, life-threatening danger, what did they believe about Jesus? That He could save them. But if He could save them, then what sort of man is He? The passage before us shows that Jesus is not a normal person. He is far greater than an ordinary human. He controls the winds and rain; what sort of a person can do that? He is God, and no storm can sn**ch His people from His protective hand

06/10/2022

There are things that people are just used to, even if they aren’t really all that great. When you live near an airport or by a train yard, the noise gets to you at first. But once you’ve lived there long enough, you get used to the sound. Or consider sickness and disease. We’ve lived with the threat of these things for literally our entire lives, but we rarely think about the possibility of a world without them. And yet, from the Bible’s perspective, sickness is an intruder in God’s creation. It’s not supposed to be this way, and yet it clearly is. Sickness came into this world because of sin, along with every other misery that we experience, up to and including death. But our passage will show us that Jesus Christ came into this world in order to remove the power of sickness in the world. As we see this, we will also see that Jesus has taken away sin’s power on the cross of Calvary.

06/07/2022

Please follow the link to listen to this past Sunday's sermon on Matthew 8:5-13: www.newlifeburbank.org/messages...........................
Artwork: Detail from "Christ and the Centurion", from the studio of Frans Francken II (1640-1650)

05/29/2022

What is the point of a barrier? To keep one thing away from another. Sometimes that might be good; oftentimes, it's bad. But there’s a major barrier that all people experience: a helpless separation from the Lord, our creator. It’s not a barrier that we usually see visibly, and many people act as though it hardly matters. But it is a real problem, and one that we are incapable of removing on our own. As we leave the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew describes a man who had a living, daily reminder of his separation from God, in the form of a leprous disease. How could that barrier be removed? The l***r believed, as Matthew urged his readers to believe too, that Jesus can do something about that barrier. As we will see, disease was no barrier to the love of Jesus, and neither is anything else able to stand before His power to restore men and women to the love of our Maker and Creator.

05/26/2022

Please follow this link to listen to this past Sunday's sermon: www.newlifeburbank.org/messages
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Artwork: Summer Storm (Linda Woods)

05/17/2022

Please follow this link to listen to this past Sunday's sermon on Matthew 7:21-23: www.newlifeburbank.org/messages....................................
Artwork: "Pilgrims in Sight of the Celestial City", Henry Dawson (1854)

05/13/2022

In the past two weeks, we’ve heard Jesus explain the importance of being part of the Kingdom on His terms. It’s involved entering His kingdom by the narrow gate and the hard way. It’s called for recognizing the rotten fruit of false prophets and rejecting them in favor of the true Prophet. Now, Jesus sets another difficult reality before His disciple; that not everyone who claims to be His follower is. And those who lack a genuine relationship with Him, He says, will be kept from eternal paradise with Him. Why does the Savior say this? Why does a loving God basically promise to expel people who say they know Him, when it seems He should welcome them with open arms? We need to grapple with this difficult passage because it comes from the mouth of Christ Himself. And the implications of it will shape how we see Jesus, ourselves, and all the Sermon on the Mount.

05/09/2022

Please follow the link to listen to this past Sunday's sermon: http://newlifeburbank.org/messages........................................
Artwork: "Apple Blossoms", Charles-Francois Daubigny (1873)

05/06/2022

People are pretty good at recognizing the signs of danger. If you see a blue, fuzzy spot on an apple, you know that the apple has gone rotten and it’s not safe to eat. If you live in a place where rattlesnakes are known to live, you’ll take care when you hear a rattling sound outside. We know that some things are dangerous and need to be avoided carefully. But as much attention as we pay to the signs of physical danger, Jesus says that His church needs to pay just as much attention to signs of spiritual danger. Specifically, this passage warns us of false prophets, who appear harmless but are dangerously destructive to the people of God. Our true prophet will tell us about false prophets and their fruit, and the people of God must give their attention to the word of God’s final prophet.