Downtown Community Church

Luke Brueggemeyer walks us through another one of DCC's core values, Better Not Bigger. Through using examples from the fast food world and the story of Jesus, we see how living out this value can shape the lives of our communities toward Christ. Send us a textSupport the show

Hear one of our group leaders, Jay Finlayson, share how God equipped him and his household to take care of the deep physical and spiritual needs of one of Tallahassee's homeless population members.Send us a textSupport the show

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Our HOPE Director, Monica Sanchez, shares with us a story of trust between a HOPE Scholar and her newly assigned Mentor.Send us a textSupport the show

Do we really believe Jesus when he said it would be better that he leave Earth and send his Spirit? For most of us, it feels like the Spirit is not a mainstay in our lives. If ever, we really only experience the Spirit in worship or through the conviction of sin. While these expressions of the Spirit are nothing short of miraculous, if they are all we ever get, then who the Spirit is to us seems to be vastly different from who the Spirit was to the New Testament church. As Jesus commissioned his disciples in Matthew 28, He told them to make disciples, to teach them all that He commanded, and that He would always be with them. From there, as we look at His ascension in Acts 1, He sends the disciples out by telling them to wait for the promised Holy Spirit. Augustine says of this moment, “You ascended before our eyes, and we turned back grieving, only to find you in our hearts.”  It is clear by Jesus’ words that his presence would be with them as they accomplish his mission. We see throughout the New Testament,

Hear Sofia Fernandez dive into Paul's letter to the Romans, unearthing the reasons why we as Christians so quickly fall into judgement, and what we can do to combat it.Send us a textSupport the show

Luke Brueggemeyer shares with us a story from church history, explaining to us the necessity of tapping into the lives of saints that have lived before us. Listen to the radical life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and one story in particular that shows how resilient community was a weapon against the evil forces of Nazism.Send us a textSupport the show

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Our fearless leader, Ben Kaempfer, breaks down one of the nine core values that shape how we operate as a church: Spiritual Information + Practical Application.Send us a textSupport the show

Our Executive Pastor, William Colle, shares what the Lord has been teaching him since the recent death of his Grandfather through reflecting on a life best defined as a "long obedience in the same direction."Send us a textSupport the show

What would you have to do for Jesus to call you Satan? When Jesus rebuked Peter in this way, Peter was doing what he genuinely thought was right. In Matthew 16, after a series of miracles and ministry, Jesus asks the disciples who they say he is. When Peter confesses that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God (v. 16), Jesus blesses him and says that on that rock He will build His church. There is no more important question for us to answer than, “Who do you say Jesus is?” Peter finally gets this one right, only to soon become overzealous and get reprimanded by Jesus. As Jesus is telling them how he must die and resurrect, Peter rebukes Jesus and says that he should never die! In Peter’s mind, Jesus being the true Son of God is completely incompatible with him becoming a suffering servant who would die. While this seems very reasonable for Peter, Jesus says to him “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” We face this prob

Hear Luke Brueggemeyer, our Young Professional Discipleship Director, explain how the constant distractions of our daily lives conspire against us having a deeper relationship with our Father. Yet through practicing silent prayer, we fight back against the strongholds of constant noise and stimulation, and reclaim the action of simply "being" with God.Send us a textSupport the show

Kaitlyn Dressel, long-time DCC attender and art teacher at Maclay High School, tells the story of how a call to faith from five years ago led her to take the Gospel message to her workplace through starting FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) at her school.Send us a textSupport the show

The longer you are a Christian, the easier it is for your external spirituality to exceed your inward fidelity to God. Most of us have experienced a brand of Christianity in people that displayed the externalities of holiness in a way that made us feel judged instead of loved. This sort of approach to Christianity causes us to modify our behavior in order to appear to be  more “Christian.” But Jesus constantly called the Pharisees out for this sort of behavior. In Matthew 15, Jesus confronts the Pharisees for using their written traditions selfishly to break commandments. We see this sort of selfish half-obedience in ourselves when it comes to prayer. Prayer is set apart for God, but if God answered “yes” to every single prayer you prayed last week, how many people outside of you and your family would be positively affected? In this way, we try to leverage the spiritual practice of prayer for personal gain. Jesus turns his attention to the human heart, calling out those who perform lip service to him while th

Jenna Gurklis, our College Woman Discipleship Director, connects our origin story in Eden with John's first letter in the New Testament, and observes us how our sin patterns have remained relatively constant throughout time. But there is a solution, and it comes in humbly trusting in the Way of Jesus over the ways of the world.Send us a textSupport the show

Hear our Worship Leader, Sofia Fernandez, share a story of a local family desperately in need of mattresses, and how our church family (both locally and nationally) became the hands and feet of Christ through generously giving up what they had in order to love their community well.Send us a textSupport the show

Most of us have experienced the moments where we felt very called to something, but as time went on and the situation got difficult, we began to wonder if we were ever called to do this thing in the first place. This may have been expressed in your life through being initially excited about a small group only to find 6 months later that you feel overbooked, overly busy, and drained. Maybe you started volunteering somewhere and the weariness of the work has caused you to no longer feel “called” to it. The story of Jesus walking on water speaks clearly to us as we discern how to proceed into the calling of God on our lives when things get hard and we lose all sense of sureness we used to have. After a long day of ministering to thousands alongside Jesus, the disciples find themselves in the middle of the storm. As a figure is walking towards them, they decide that it is either a ghost or Jesus. Peter shouts, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” Jesus simply replies, “Come,” (v. 28-29).

Dylan Nielander, our College Men's Discipleship Director, reflects on how our culture of consumption is dictating our formation. Based on the "liturgies" we partake in every day, are we becoming people more or less like Christ?Send us a textSupport the show

Hear from our Pastoral Project Manager, Ally Frith, on how her friend's boldness in prayer opened up multiple avenues to further her intimacy with God.Send us a textSupport the show

Were the disciples faithful followers, or fallible failures? The answer may shock you.. We can have a visceral reaction to want to protect the character of the 12 disciples. However, a true reading of the Gospels reveals that these men failed constantly on their way to becoming faithful followers of Jesus. In the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, the disciples are shown to be initially very practical. When Jesus told them to feed the people, they were perplexed. They were perplexed because they knew the level of their supply was not nearly enough to fill the need.  Put another way, there wasn’t enough in their cup to fill everyone else’s cup.Andrew offered 5 small loaves and 2 small fish that were available.  This created the dynamic for a very teachable moment for the disciples to experience.  Simply stated, you are not responsible for filling everyone’s cup (or basket) only for pouring out what’s in yours.Jesus then tells the disciples to have the multitude of people sit down in groups of 50. They h