Extended Cut

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Extended Cut is a podcast that dives deeper into the sermon and Scripture. When time in the pulpit isn’t enough to explore every detail, this podcast continues the conversation—unpacking the Bible verses, context, and insights that didn’t fit on Sunday. Please visit our Spotify for more episodes

  1. 4d ago

    The Pleasure Experiment by Pastor Andre Choi

    This sermon on Ecclesiastes 2 argues that pleasure itself isn't broken—our method of pursuing it is. Solomon's experiment of total self-indulgence proved that earthly pleasures, though genuinely enjoyable, are ultimately "vanity"—they never last and never fully satisfy. The root problem is that God has placed eternity in our hearts, so finite pleasures will always leave us empty. The solution isn't abstinence but a shift from indulging (taking) to enjoying (receiving)—recognizing pleasure as a gift from God rather than something to grasp. When we see God as the source of all good things, pleasure becomes a signpost toward Him rather than a substitute for Him, and the cycle of craving and emptiness is replaced by delight and worship.

    29 min

  2. Jun 12

    Calling by Pastor Dave Park

    The exposed nerve in Romans 12:1-2 is not indecision about a job; it is the quiet terror that God has hidden your real life somewhere "out there" and is mildly disappointed in how slowly you are finding it. Paul refuses to feed that terror with a technique. He has just spent eleven chapters standing inside a mystery he cannot explain and glorying in it rather than panicking, and now his "therefore" lands on you: in view of mercy you can neither earn nor defeat, offer your body as a living sacrifice, dedicated again this morning and again tomorrow. The discernment he promises is not the power to see your future but the renewed capacity to know God's heart and your next faithful step. The anxiety underneath your calling question is the serpent's old trade made new, wanting His mind instead of His face, the map instead of the Mapmaker. The resolution is not "relax, it'll work out," it is that the Father who tore the temple curtain open to get you near is the same Father who already knows the tomorrow you are clawing at, and the only thing being asked of you is to stop reaching for the map and reach for Him today.

    46 min

  3. Jun 8

    Searching Faithfully by Pastor Sam An

    Ruth and Boaz show that when we live for God, we bear the following fruits. We are fully alive in both work and play, we are emotionally expressive and physically self controlled in love, and we value both generosity and privacy.

    38 min

  4. May 28

    Emptying for Glory by Pastor Dave Park

    From 1 Timothy 5:1-8 and Paul's instruction concerning widows, we learn that the latter half of life, both empty nesting and old age, is not merely a domestic or physical adjustment but a profound new chapter of discipleship marked by emptying. While the world treats this season as loss to be resisted, Scripture frames it as kenosis, the very pattern Jesus modeled in Philippians 2 of receiving, humbling, and being glorified. Older saints are called to receive the emptying rather than reject it, humbly placing their hope in God rather than themselves, and resisting the twin temptations of self-indulgence and bitterness that leave a soul "dead even while she lives." Instead, this season is meant to be one of filling, with grace, gratitude, and worship, leading to a godly pouring out through intercession, testimony, and spiritual mothering and fathering of the next generation. Younger saints, in turn, are charged not to assault or overlook older members but to walk alongside them with purity and compassion, as fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters. The passage finds its fullest picture on the Road to Emmaus, where the risen Jesus draws near to two emptied, disappointed disciples, walks at their pace, opens the Scriptures to reveal that emptying is the road to glory, fills their hearts at the breaking of bread, and sends them running back to pour out their testimony: the picture of every saint's second-half journey with Christ.

    49 min

  5. May 21

    Rivalry Surrendered by Pastor Sam An

    Rachel only begins to experience rivalry in chapter 30 because she gets starved of the attention and affection she has long taken for granted. Rachel competes by playing dirty because she's so desperate to regain her status. But as she goes from assuming she's better to becoming bitter and even monstrous, until she finally learns to pray as one who knows she needs grace. Because her understanding of living as a child of God is incomplete, the sibling rivalry continues and is only resolved through the work of Jesus. Jesus calls all who consider themselves nicer and more righteous than others to repent and builds a church that can welcome all, including the black sheep in all our families.

    47 min

  6. May 14

    The Heart of Parent by Pastor Sam An

    Drawing on the story of Leah, Pastor Sam described two life strategies that lead to poisoning the people we love. Self Erasing actions come from a heart that idolizes acceptance. Self-Sacrificing actions come from a heart that idolizes appeasement. When we see these actions fail us, we can recognize what God wants from us. God wants us to be so satisfied in His love that we live with Self-Forgetting action - a heart that no longer keeps score or tries to manipulate others.

    47 min

  7. May 6

    Revolutionary Marriage by Pastor Dave Park

    1 Peter 3 sits inside a letter written to believers scattered across the Roman empire, people pushed to the margins for following Jesus. To them, the apostle announces that they belong to a revolution, a new humanity built on the living stone of the risen Christ, where the rejected have become a chosen race and a royal priesthood. Marriage is part of that revolution. To wives, the text assigns a new mission, which is not to maneuver husbands into giving them what they want but to win them to Christ; and a new method, which is not the power of luxury and force celebrated by the New Roman Woman, but the imperishable power of a gentle and quiet spirit hidden in God. To husbands, the text overturns the patriarchal expectation of rule and commands instead a costly understanding of their wives, honoring them as coheirs of the grace of life. Anchoring it all is the cross of Christ, where the Creator submitted to His creation, understood His enemies deeply, and gave honor to those who deserved shame, so that homes shaped by this revolution might bring many sons and daughters to glory.

    40 min

  8. Apr 22

    Vision Series: Embrace Personally, Sacrificially, & Missionally by Pastor Andre Choi

    John 13:33-35 teaches us 3 things about embrace: (1)The personal embrace of Christ, (2)The sacrificial embrace of Christ, and (3)The missional embrace of Christ. As we see how Jesus loved his own, we are given a model and a pattern for how we are to love our own. The call to love one another is the distinguishing mark of the new community of Christ and it is designed to testify to the world who Christ is. Messages like this can be hard to digest because hurt and pain oftentimes come with community. However, Jesus provides for us a wonderful model of love in the midst of pain and hurt and how that pain and hurt bring for transformation.

    56 min
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Extended Cut is a podcast that dives deeper into the sermon and Scripture. When time in the pulpit isn’t enough to explore every detail, this podcast continues the conversation—unpacking the Bible verses, context, and insights that didn’t fit on Sunday. Please visit our Spotify for more episodes

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