In this episode, Pastor Brian walks through James 5:1–6 and reveals God’s response to injustice. James speaks with prophetic urgency against those who hoard wealth and exploit others, but this message is ultimately for those who have been wronged.

If you have ever been overlooked, cheated, or hurt, this is a reminder that God sees and God hears. The Lord of Hosts has not missed a single cry.

Full sermon notes can be downloaded here -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1btRUz5unWJYOdFd2ztbOrUn0LzIiP-XF/view?usp=share_link

She thought He was the gardener. She was more right than she knew.

In this Easter Sunday message from John 20:1–18, Pastor Brian Overturf traces one of the most overlooked details in the resurrection account — Mary Magdalene mistaking the risen Christ for the gardener — and shows why that moment is not a mistake at all. He IS the gardener. The second Adam, come back to tend what was broken in the first garden.

To understand Easter, you have to go back to Genesis 3. Because John 20 is not the beginning of this story. It is the conclusion of one that started thousands of years before the first Easter morning. The Bible opens in a garden. It closes in a garden. And in the middle, in another garden, the price is paid to bring us back to God.

This message walks through three movements: the garden where we lost everything, the garden where He took our place, and the garden where it is all restored. Along the way we look at John's gospel as a deliberate retelling of Genesis, the cast of characters assembled in both the garden of Genesis 3 and the garden of Gethsemane, the staggering significance of the Feast of Firstfruits and the timing of the resurrection, and the moment Jesus speaks one word, a name, that shatters grief and changes everything.

He called her name. He is calling yours.

THE245 Eschatology runs Sundays, April through June at Arvin Assembly. Register now at ⁠www.arvinassembly.com/eschatology⁠

Does it feel like the world is spinning out of control? Does God know what's happening — and does He have a plan? The answer is yes, and He wants you to know it.

In this episode, Pastor Brian gives a full preview of THE245 Eschatology, a new course launching this April through the Arvin Assembly School of the Bible. Eschatology is the study of last things — and roughly one in four Bible verses touches on prophecy. This isn't speculation or sensationalism. It's Scripture, and a lot of it has already come true.

Pastor Brian walks through the big events on the prophetic timeline: the Rapture, the Tribulation, the campaign of Armageddon, the Millennium, and the new heaven and new earth. Along the way he covers three major schools of thought on how prophecy unfolds — Amillennialism, Postmillennialism, and Premillennialism — and makes the case for why the Assemblies of God holds the premillennial position.

This class is accessible, relevant, and designed for regular people who love God's Word. If you can read your Bible, you can do this.

In the Crowd, Missing the King

Arvin Assembly of God | Arvin, California | March 29, 2026

Preached by Pastor Brian Overturf

Palm Sunday is the one Sunday of the year when the crowd is already excited before the sermon begins. But the original crowd on the first Palm Sunday was excited too, and they missed Him completely.

In this message from Luke 19:28 through 44, Pastor Brian traces three movements through the text: the deliberate, prophetically-loaded royal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem; the crowd's enthusiastic but dangerously misguided celebration; and the moment the parade stops because Jesus is weeping.

The palm branches were not a generic welcome. They were a military symbol rooted in the Maccabean revolt, and the crowd was waving them at Jesus because they wanted a general, not a Savior. They had received His miracles and rejected His mission. They shouted "Hosanna" meaning save us now, but had already decided what salvation was supposed to look like.

And Jesus wept. Not with them. Over them.

Surrender is not a moment. It is a lifestyle. And James 4:11–17 shows us exactly what that looks like when it gets up in the morning and goes to work.

In this message we walk through three arenas where wholehearted living either shows up or it doesn't. The words we speak about people. The plans we make about our future. And the things we already know but are not yet doing.

Because a life fully surrendered to God sounds different, plans differently, and steps boldly into obedience. Not out of obligation but out of a heart that has finally stopped fighting God for the throne.

Where do the conflicts in your life actually come from? James 4 pulls back the curtain and shows us something uncomfortable. The wars around us start with the war within us. Driven by unchecked desires, we fight for what we could have prayed for and drift from God without ever feeling it happen.

But James doesn't leave us there. In the middle of one of the most convicting passages in the New Testament, he opens a door. Behind it is a grace that is greater than the drift, deeper than the failure, and stronger than every desire that has pulled us away from God.

This message walks through four invitations from James 4:1–10. See the Struggle Within. Sense the Spiritual Drift. Stand in the Sufficient Grace. Surrender to the Sovereign Lord.

Wholeness is waiting. And it's waiting on the other side of one word. Surrender.

In this message from James 3:13–18, Pastor Brian explores the contrast between two kinds of wisdom — wisdom from above and wisdom from below — and the fruit each produces. James teaches that true wisdom cannot be measured by words or claims, but by the visible fruit in our lives: peace or conflict, mercy or ambition, sincerity or hypocrisy.

This sermon walks carefully through the marks of heavenly wisdom — purity, peace, gentleness, humility, mercy, good works, sincerity, and impartiality — and shows how a life shaped by God’s wisdom produces a harvest of righteousness. False wisdom produces disorder and strife, but wisdom from above produces peace and wholeness.

This message calls listeners to examine their own lives in the mirror of Scripture and ask a searching question: What is your wisdom actually producing? Because the fruit reveals the root — and we cannot serve two sources of wisdom.

A pastoral and practical exposition of James that challenges believers to pursue true wisdom and become peacemakers who cultivate righteousness in their homes, relationships, and churches.

There are two kinds of wisdom. One from heaven, one from earth. One produces peace and wholeness. The other produces disorder and chaos. In this message from James 3:13-16, Pastor Brian Overturf shows us how to identify which wisdom is ruling our hearts by examining the fruit it's producing in our lives. If your relationships are marked by conflict instead of peace, if your heart is divided instead of whole, James traces it back to a wisdom problem. The good news? God gives wisdom generously to all who ask. But first, we have to be honest about the root.