Sorrento Hills church of Christ

09/12/2026

Tomorrow is the Lord’s day! 🧡 Where will you be worshipping? 🤔 We sure would love to have you join us; you will be very warmly welcomed 🫶🏻

09/12/2026

Yesss! 🗣️📖😅

09/12/2026

👄 𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓸 👄
I think sometimes we forget how much courage it takes for someone to trust us. When somebody sits across from us and tells us whats really going on inside themselves, aren’t just giving us information. They are giving us a piece of their heart, the very part of themselves they’re most ashamed of, the things they’ve cried over in secret, the things they’ve begged God to forgive, and the wounds they’ve spent years trying to heal. When someone trusts us with things like that, we have a choice. We can protect it or we can betray it. Maybe we tell ourself, “I’m just telling one person,” maybe we say, “I just need somebody to talk to,” but what if that story isn’t ours to talk about? What if the thing someone told us through tears becomes something we’re casually talking about with someone else? What if the person who finally felt safe with us finds out that the place they thought was safe wasn’t?
That kind of betrayal can change the way someone trusts people for a long time. To be honest, this verse makes me look at myself. Am I a safe person? Can someone tell me their worst mistake and know I won’t use it against them later? Can someone tell me about their pain and trust that I won’t turn around and make their pain a conversation? Can I be hurt by someone and still refuse to expose them because that’s where this gets real. It’s easy to keep someone’s confidence when we love them. The test is when we’re angry. When we’re hurt. When we feel betrayed. When we have every opportunity to tell someone what they did to us and we choose not to. Sometimes obedience to God looks like opening our mouths and sometimes it looks like closing it. We don’t have to tell the whole story to prove we’re innocent. We don’t have to expose someone to justify ourself. We don’t have to make someone else look bad so people will understand why we’re hurting. God saw it. God knows it. God was there. So maybe today we need to ask God to forgive us for the things we’ve said that weren’t ours to say. Maybe we need to ask Him to help us become the kind of person who can be trusted with someone’s tears. Because one day, somebody may sit in front of us completely broken and say, “I’ve never told anyone this before,” and when they do, I hope they never regret telling us. I pray we ask God to make us trustworthy, guard our mouths when we’re angry, guard our words when we’re hurt, remind us that someone’s weakness is not ours to expose, and when someone hands us their story, help us hold it with the same care we would want someone to hold ours. Lord, make us the kind of person who can be trusted with what someone whispers through tears and who loves them enough to carry their story to You instead of carrying it to anyone else.
~ H.P.

09/12/2026

09/11/2026

Clothes, food, and other miscellaneous items currently in our Blessing Box 🤍 It is located on the side of our building and available for giving or taking, 24/7.

09/11/2026

This year, Polishing the Pulpit welcomed attendees from 42 states (plus Washington, D.C.) and 15 countries across 6 continents. What a blessing to see Christians from around the world come together to be Renewed, Refreshed, and Recharged.

We hope to see even more states and countries represented next year!

Make plans now to join us in Branson, Missouri (July 14–19, 2027) and/or Sevierville, Tennessee (August 20–26, 2027).

Learn more at polishingthepulpit.com.

09/11/2026

We will always remember 🙏

09/11/2026

🔥 𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓸 🔥
I think this is something we all struggle with at times, getting angry. I know I do. There have been times when someone says something hurtful, treats me unfairly, misunderstands me, or pushes a button I didn’t even realize I had and my first reaction is to get angry. Sometimes I react before I even really think about what I’m saying. Then afterwards, I sit back and think, “Was that really how God wanted me to respond?” The truth is, sometimes my anger gets the best of me. Sometimes I hold onto things longer than I should. I replay conversations in my head. I think about what I should have said or what I wish I would have said and the more I think about it, the more angry I become. That’s what really stands out to me in this verse, “anger lodges in the heart”. Anger doesn’t always just come and go. Sometimes we allow it to stay. I know for me, when I hold onto anger, it doesn’t make me feel better. It steals my peace. It affects the way I treat people. It puts something between me and God and that’s something I’m still learning. God isn’t asking me to pretend that things don’t hurt. He’s not asking me to act like I don’t get angry. He’s asking me what I’m going to do with that anger. James 1:19 says, “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” That’s hard for me sometimes. Especially when I feel like I’m right and when I feel like I have a good reason to be angry but I’ve had to realize that being right doesn’t give me permission to respond the wrong way. Sometimes I have to stop and say, God, I’m angry, I’m hurt, and honestly, I don’t want to let this go right now. But I don’t want this anger to change my heart because I don’t want to be someone who’s always angry. I don’t want to carry bitterness around. I don’t want something somebody did to me to change the person God is trying to make me. So I’m learning to pause, I’m learning to pray before I react, I’m learning that sometimes I need to be quiet instead of saying exactly what’s on my mind, and I’m learning that forgiveness isn’t always about saying what happened was okay. Sometimes forgiveness is simply saying, “I’m not going to carry this anymore. I’m giving it to God.” I’m still a work in progress when it comes to anger but I’m thankful that God doesn’t give up on me when I get it wrong. He keeps working on my heart and that’s my prayer, not that I’ll never get angry, but that when anger comes, I won’t let it take control of me. God knows my heart. He knows how quickly I can become angry and how hard it can be for me to let things go. If you’re like me and struggle with anger, I pray we ask God to soften our hearts, change our reactions, help us forgive, and help us become more like Him, even in the moments when it’s hardest. Lord, I don’t want anger to live in me. I only want You and for You to have control.
~ H.P.

09/11/2026

Wednesday night devo by Br. Cooper Chapman 🗣️
“Be Prepared” 📖