Christ Community Sunday - Downtown Campus

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

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4894485322.09.04

What is the one resource we need the most and yet often drop when we feel shaky in our faith? Prayer. Maybe you’ve tried and failed to keep rhythms of prayer. Maybe you don’t know where to start. What if the problem we have with prayer has less to do with prayer in the first place? Join us as we continue the journey of reconstructing a faith in the brilliant letter to the church in Ephesus!Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4894117522.08.28

“I am in a season of deconstruction.” It is likely that you have either read, heard, or said these words in recent months. The deconstructing of faith is a popular practice these days. But what is it exactly? For some, it is an opportunity to live their authentic life free of all moral and religious authority. For others, it is a sincere attempt to determine if their faith has been formed by the words of Christ or by cultural ideologies. Regardless of the motivation, it is clear that we are in serious need of Reconstructing Faith. But in order to do that we need a solid foundation upon which we can reconstruct our faith. This is precisely what we plan to do together as we explore the foundations of the Christian faith through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Whether you have been following Jesus for years or you’re ready to call it quits, we want to begin reconstructing our faith together. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4893758722.08.21

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4893025122.08.14

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4893025122.08.07

Sight is an interesting part of life. You can go your whole life in a fuzzy world and then someone hands you glasses, and suddenly, the world opens up to you! The same is true of not just what we see the world but how we see the world.  Join us as we continue to walk through John’s Gospel account of Jesus and uncover how Jesus confronts blindness in a radical way. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4892647422.07.31

Our world is full of strategies to avoid thinking about death and extended protections from feeling the effects of death, but only Jesus promises a way to avoid death…and has proven it works.   Join us as we continue to learn from John’s personal testimony about Jesus and so find a life that’s not only worth living but can never die.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4892302522.07.24

Freedom is more than a buzzword in our world; it’s an identity. We all want to be free, but what does that even mean? How will we know we are free and not just moved from one form of slavery to another?  The early followers of Jesus also weren’t clear on what it meant to be free, and so John invites us to look over their shoulders and learn as Jesus invites us to what freedom really looks like. Join us! Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4892008122.07.17

Today, Jesus claims to be the Light of the World. In doing so, He tells us the reality that He is your Light, invites us to follow Him, and promises that we will never walk in darkness because we have the Light of Life. But how can that be true? Join us to find out.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4891615222.07.10

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4891389822.07.03

Have you ever been disappointed with Jesus? What He said, did or didn’t say or do? Then you’re not alone. Following Jesus is paradoxically one of the easiest and hard things to do in life. What do we do when we are thinking about walking away from Jesus? Join us as we continue to walk through the brilliant Gospel of John learning who Jesus is and why He’s worth it. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4890962422.06.26

What is God doing when chaos hits? Why didn’t He stop my life from getting this crazy? Is there anything good that can come out of this? While God isn’t the author of evil, He never wastes anything in our lives, and He wants to join us in every aspect of our lives.  This summer we’re walking with someone who followed Jesus and saw how He constantly was showing up in places you’d least expect. Join us as we journey through John’s Gospel account of Jesus and find comfort in the midst of so much chaos. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4890674122.06.19

Where are you headed? We all want to know we’re on our way to something real, genuinely good, and beautiful. But how do you know if that’s where you’ll end up? With so many options pointing in a myriad of directions, Jesus goes above and beyond to give us signs of life.  This summer we’re walking with someone who followed the signs and found life in Jesus. Join us as we journey through John’s Gospel account of Jesus and find a deep satisfaction for today. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4890340922.06.12

After walking through and hearing Qoheleth - the critic of wisdom speaking throughout most of the book - the author of Ecclesiastes gives us his summation. What are we to take away from a life that feels so confusing and unpredictable? What do we do when we can’t control our life?  Join us as we finish out this brilliant book of wisdom often hidden away from our devotional reading. It’s time to hear the end of the matter…Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4889982322.06.05

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4889633122.05.29