Sorrento Hills church of Christ

06/18/2026

Br. Cooper Chapman preaching at Weeki Wachee Christian Camp 🏕️

06/18/2026

🚫 𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓸 🚫
This verse is one of those passages that can make us uncomfortable because the words are so strong. At first glance, it seems directed at someone else, someone far from God, someone consumed by evil, but as I sat with these words, I felt a tugging inward. How often have I allowed pride, fear, control, or selfishness to distort what God was trying to do in my life? Maybe not in obvious ways, but in the quiet places of my heart where I resisted His truth because it was difficult. This verse reminds me that deception doesn’t always come from the world around me, sometimes it creeps into my own thoughts when I listen to lies instead of God’s voice. What moves me most is that God doesn’t expose darkness to shame us. He exposes it because He loves us too much to leave us there. His correction is an invitation to repentance, healing, and freedom. Even when His words are firm, His heart is always merciful. I am grateful that God lovingly reveals the areas where I need Him most. I don’t want anything in my life to twist His truth or hinder His work. I pray we thank God for loving us enough to correct us and for never giving up on us. I pray we also ask Him to search our hearts, remove every trace of deceit, pride, and distraction, and help us walk in His ways with humility and honesty, reflecting His light instead of our own agenda.
~ H.P.

06/17/2026

Join us for our evening service.

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

👁️ 𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓸 👁️
There are days when I feel unnoticed not because people don’t love me, but because life gets busy and the weight I’m carrying isn’t always visible to others. Sometimes I smile when my heart is tired. Sometimes I keep going when I really want to fall apart. As I sat with this verse, I was reminded that there is never a moment when God isn’t looking at me, not in a harsh, critical way, but with the loving eyes of a Father who cares deeply for His daughter. He sees the tears I wipe away before anyone else notices. He sees the prayers I whisper when I don’t have the strength for anything more. He sees the things that break my heart, the worries that keep me awake at night, and even the things I can’t quite put into words. But knowing He sees me changes everything for me. The same God who sees the evil in this world also sees every act of faithfulness that goes unnoticed. He sees the moments when we choose kindness, when we keep trusting Him, when we keep showing up even when it’s hard. Nothing is hidden from Him. Nothing is wasted. We can let our heart rests in this truth….we are fully seen and fully loved. God hasn’t missed a single detail of our story. He knows where we’ve been, where we are, and what we’re carrying and if His eyes are on us, then we can trust that His hand is guiding us too. I pray we thank God for seeing us, for knowing the parts of our heart that no one else understands, for reminding us that we are never out of His sight, and ask Him to help us rest in His love and trust His care over every detail of our lives knowing He’s got us in the palm of His hand.
~ H.P.

06/16/2026

Br. Dylan Johns speaking at Weeki Wachee Christian Camp 🏕️

06/15/2026

💛 𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓸 💛
If I’m honest, forgiving myself has often been harder than forgiving anyone else. Many times I’ve cried over choices I wish I could take back. I’ve replayed conversations a thousand times, wondering what I could have said differently. I’ve carried the weight of regret so long that it has begun to feel like a part of me. Even after bringing it to God, there are moments when I still hold on to the shame, almost believing I deserved to carry it. Maybe that’s because sometimes guilt feels easier than grace. Grace asks me to trust that God’s mercy is greater than my mistakes. It asks me to believe that when Jesus stretched out His arms on the cross, He already knew every failure, every weakness, every moment I would wish I could erase and He chose to love me anyway. That thought brings tears to my eyes because the truth is, God has never spoken to me the way I have spoken to myself. He has never called me a failure. He has never told me I’m not worth it. He has never told me I was beyond redemption. While I’ve been busy condemning myself, He has been calling me His daughter. While I’ve been looking at my scars, He has been looking at the work He is still doing in me. Slowly but surely I’m realizing that holding on to my shame doesn’t honor God. Trusting His forgiveness does. So I’m doing my best to lay it all down, the regret, the guilt, the endless “what ifs,” and the burden of trying to rewrite a past I cannot change. I know I cannot go back and become a different person, but by God’s grace, I don’t have to. He is still writing my story. He is still healing my heart and the same God who forgave me is teaching me how to forgive myself. I know I haven’t arrived there completely yet and some wounds still ache but I am choosing to believe that God’s grace is enough for even me. My heart may be tired from carrying things God never asked me to hold but I know He knows every regret, every mistake, every memory that still brings tears to my eyes and through it all He has never stopped loving me. I pray we thank God for loving us on our hardest days and for refusing to let our mistakes have the final word and ask Him to help us release the shame we’ve been holding so tightly and to teach us to see ourselves the way He sees us, not as broken, condemned, or unworthy, but as His beloved children, redeemed by His mercy.
~ H.P.