Christ Community Sunday - Downtown Campus

Jesus says that if we ask anything in his name, he’ll do it. Does “anything” really mean “anything?” And what if the real secret to knowing Jesus’ answer has less to do with what we want and more to do with where it is found?Join us as we continue walking the Gospel of John to find our heart’s deepest and truest desires and how it shapes our everyday prayers.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49014835Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new23.01.29

The key marker for Jesus’ followers is love, but this love is not a squishy, abstract feeling. It is raw feet-washing, humiliating love. This may be one of the easiest teachings of Jesus to mentally grasp, and yet one of the hardest to genuinely live into. Join us as we continue walking the Gospel of John to discover how we serve like Jesus and why anyone would try. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49014826 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new 23.01.22

In a world when the word of country leaders and authority figures cannot always be believed let alone trusted, would you believe the word of King Jesus? His desire is that we believe His message of salvation for all people and enjoy fellowship with Him today and for all eternity. But that requires us to be good stewards of Jesus’ message and respond to it in repentance. In other words, Jesus’ message demands obedience from those who believe it. Although obedience is often costly, the hope of spending eternity with Jesus gives us the courage to follow Him no matter the cost. Would you believe Jesus’ message of salvation? Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49007528Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new23.01.15

Do you want to see Jesus? Not see as in only look from afar, but you want to meet him and to know him, and experience life in him that is full of peace, joy, purpose, and fulfillment.  Even if you are skeptical or wrestling with who Jesus is for you, there is something compelling about Jesus that you want to see and find out for yourself.But Jesus tells us that the only way for us to truly see and know him is to come to him as our crucified king, the one who died for us. So today as we go through this passage we are going to consider three ways we are to behold our crucified king. We must see how he had to die, how he wanted to die, and how we are to follow him in his death.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49004671Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new23.01.08

A common cliche today is “I’ll believe it when I see it,” but when we come with the posture of faith we say, “I believe it, so I see it.” This is because the Truth is a person to trust, not an argument to defend. Jesus is our King, and he needs no defending.  Join us as allow our hearts to begin to soften by the faith-building narrative of Christ’s final week on earth, and to truly see our King for who he is. As we do this, we’ll come to learn together that, when it comes to the crucified Christ, you have to believe him to truly Behold Your King. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49002179Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new23.01.01

It’s one thing to ponder gift ideas for people we love. It’s a totally audacious task to wonder what God wants for Christmas. Or is it?  Join us this Christmas as we look at what God wants from us and for us as we celebrate the birth of our King and Savior Jesus Christ!Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49002179Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.12.25

Everybody experiences the Christmas season a little differently. Whether you are surrounded by family or not this Christmas, pain and loneliness can knock the jingle bells right out of us.  When the greatest joys and deepest sadness coexist covered in mistletoe, how are we to anticipate King Jesus meeting us here? Join us for the comfort that comes in an overlooked Christmas song: Psalm 22. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48992863Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.12.18

It can be so easy to let the good news of Christmas and God’s rescue of us become routine, old news. But when that happens, we are forgetting all that God has done for us and the gospel’s transformative power doesn’t change us. Join us as Psalm 103 challenges us to truly remember our King’s Rescue. We will see what kind of rescue we’ve experienced, what this rescue tells us about our rescuer, and what remembering leads us to do.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48992857Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.12.11

Christmas always comes with its fair share of surprises, but advent is meant to cultivate anticipation. Throughout the history of the church, Advent has been a time to return to practices of anticipating our promised King’s return. But the question remains: what kind of king should we expect in Jesus? Join us as we explore the unchanging character of our promised King in Psalm 72 and so bolster our confidence in who it is that is coming for us. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48991411Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.12.04

The Christmas season is about God’s King, come to earth to rescue his people and redeem his creation. It’s a story that is foretold, among other places, in Israel’s prayer book: the Psalms. Woven throughout this prayer book is the story of the coming King, the Messiah, whom God has appointed over against the kings of this earth. Join us as we begin this advent season by encountering the coming King in the Psalm 2, and in responding in worship to the one who will set all things right.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977461Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.11.20

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977446 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.11.20

There are few texts in our bibles that have such a sordid history like Paul’s words to slaves and masters. How is the thoughtful Christian to understand what Paul is being led by the Spirit to write in Ephesians and how that impacts today?  Join us as we begin to clear the rubble of deconstruction and reconstruct a faith of biblical truth and communal hope. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977440Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new22.11.13

Marriage. Some people want it. Some people have baggage with it. Some want to avoid it. Others have gone through seasons of deconstruction due to the shrapnel of a broken marriage. What does Jesus make marriage about?  What if marriage isn’t just about marriage?  Join us as we continue reconstructing faith through Ephesians learning what marriage could be for all of us whether you get married or not. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4897395522.10.30

It’s the heartbeat of the age, how do we be free? Strategies for freedom abound, but real freedom seems allusive, even for many Christians.  Join us as we continue the story of the Spirit across the Biblical narrative. The Spirit is essential to our freedom, but what His freedom looks like may surprise you.  21.09.19

Chances are good the majority of people don’t think they are engaged in “dishonest” work on a daily basis, but are you so sure? What if the problem has less to do with what you consider “dishonest” or more about a robust framework of “honest” work?  Join us as we continue our journey in Ephesians of reconstructing a faith that actually blossoms into honest work, and therefore generates a more meaningful life. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4896700822.10.16

Who are you? How do you know? What does that mean for your life? These questions dominate our modern lives, and each of us seeking to answer these questions on our own is exhausting and isolating.Join us as we see that as believers, our truest identity is our new identity that we’ve received from Christ, and that identity builds others up in love. After we see why that is true, we will see three things about the true you, that it builds with words, is good at anger, and radically forgives.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4896328722.10.09

One of the top 3 arguments against the church is our persistent disunity, which is all the more alarming when we come across the myriad calls for unity in Scripture. Often mere commands without the big “why” leave people disinterested at best or frustrated at worst. Join us as we explore why unity is even possible in the church as we continue to reconstruct our faith through the little letter to the Ephesians. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4895963822.10.02

Out of all the things the apostle Paul could pray for the church, here he zeros in on their growing experiential understanding of God’s love for us in Christ. Why? Because that is the greatest need of the human heart. Join us as we continue to walk through this brilliant letter to the church in Ephesus, as the apostle Paul guides us into how we can have a deeper realization of God’s love in our own hearts.Sermon Notes: https://bible.com/events/4895579422.09.25

We don’t always get what we see or see what we get. The same is true with the church. We need to not merely look at the church with the values of our world but with the inspiration of God’s word. When we look at her in light of Scripture, she has a glorious story to tell, and we are invited to play a part. Join us as we continue our journey in reconstructing faith through the brilliant letter to the Ephesians. 22.09.18

When our imagination of what the church is rubbing against the reality of what the church is, we can experience extraordinary dissonance. This is especially true when it comes to racial and ethnic divisions throughout history within the church. But what does Jesus think about this? What have the people of Jesus missed about the work of Jesus that has distorted the church of Jesus? Join us as we continue our journey in reconstructing faith through the brilliant letter to the Ephesians. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4894850822.09.11