Sexual brokenness manifests itself in both the digital and physical world, leading many down the path to death. Using Proverbs 5, we build a battle plan for the believer to fight sexual sin and run to Jesus. A Q&A follows the message.
Sin sends us in a downward spiral. The digital world can accelerate that decline and suck us into selfishness, sensuality, and immorality. Be equipped with tools and the gospel to fight this downward spiral and find freedom in the Lord.
In many ways, marriage can seem like the ultimate goal and can become an idol at times. Join us to look at the seriousness of God's call to marital faithfulness and love, and to reset biblical expectations for marriage so that all our future marriages might be posters for the gospel. A Q&A follows the message.
In Jesus' final moments in Acts 1 he ascends into heaven and leaves all of his disciples with a challenge: to live as a faithful witnesses because of His plan, His power, and the promise of Jesus’ return.
In John 4 we see the disciples' tendency to stick together, to care more about the temporal than the eternal, and to fix their eyes on the wrong place. Come and be reminded of Jesus' care for the one as we seek to obey His command to go and make disciples.
The key to discipleship is self-denial because as disciples, Jesus expects us to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Jesus. However, just like Peter, many of us choose self-preservation over self-denial—yet Jesus offers us restoration and invites us to practice self-denial as we follow Him.
The heartbeat of the Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus. Because He lives, it changes everything. Come discover the power of the resurrection as we look at eight life-changing implications for us.
We just celebrated Easter. How do we know the resurrection to be true? Come consider the 4 facts that lead us to Jesus' resurrection from the dead as the most likely explanation of these facts.
Out of love for us, Jesus enters Jerusalem on Passover and goes to the altar as our Passover Lamb, accomplishing a way for us to be made righteous, purchasing our exchange, and atoning for our sins before a holy God.
What is the climax of passion week? It's Jesus' crucifixion! What does it all mean? Come learn how the images of the tunic, the skull, and the criminals all contribute to our understanding of Jesus' crucifixion. In short, it's a call to believe in all that Jesus accomplished on the cross.
Everyone can resonate with failure, especially failure in the Christian life. In this text we see the failure and shame of the disciples in their abandonment contrasted with the enduring faithfulness of Christ, and how in the end God exchanges our shame for His glory.
Jesus prays to the Father before His death, a powerful prayer for Himself and His disciples that displays His authority as God. Pull up a front row seat to hear Jesus' prayer for you—a prayer for safety, joy, holiness, and unity—and be encouraged that God always answers His own prayers.
The Spirit often seems second place to the Father and Jesus, but it is to our advantage to have the Spirit over Jesus. Why? Come learn how the Spirit is a greater comfort, better teacher, and better coach and God worthy of our attention.
As a Christian, how does one find encouragement in the face of persecution, evil, and suffering? What comforts us in the discouraging moments of life? Come see the road map to Christian encouragement that Jesus lays out for His disciples—and how ultimately true comfort and encouragement is found in the object of our faith.
How do we find true greatness in the kingdom of God? John 13 reveals God's countercultural expectations for how we enter the kingdom and how we find true greatness in the kingdom.
There is no person in history more significant than Jesus Christ, and no event in history more significant than Passion Week. Come and see how the triumphal entry prods us to recognize that God is always directing our eyes to Christ, and challenges us to believe that Christ is the solution to every problem in life, not just our spiritual problem.
Jesus is lenient where we are forcefully and forcefully where we are lenient. There are two ways to approach life. What way will you worship? What way will you follow?
At C4, our foundation is Jesus and our purpose is his glory. How do we put that into practice? It's by pursuing the two eternal things, God's Word and people. Learn the practical skills of rightly handling God's word and drawing out his people for his glory and the furtherance of the gospel!
This vision series is intended to help us understand who we are as C4 and as young adults. As we consider the big purpose of life, come discover what the Scriptures teach is the purpose of life, and how to make choices that reflect that ultimate purpose.
Life is chaotic, uncertain, and confusing—but our God is not. He is a God or order and certainty, the promise-keeper whose words are true. When our lives become unstable, we should hold fast to the witness of God's promises and fix our gaze on the hope Jesus' promised return.
The incarnation is perhaps the greatest of realities. God came as a human to save us, rescue us, and be with us! Learn how his arrival disrupts the comfortable and comforts the disrupted.
Advent is a season of waiting as we anticipate the advent (arrival) of Jesus. In the lifelong reality of waiting, there is beauty and struggle, and God gives us glimpses of His presence to encourage us in the waiting, just as he did in the Old Testament.
We are surrounded by invisible realities. The realities of heaven, hell, angels, and demons and the after life. But do their presence change the way we live? Jesus thought they should. Come explore Luke 12 with us and see how our lives are to be shaped by eternity.
Our story has a villain, and that villain has made war with God and his people. As enlisted men and women on the front lines, enter the situation room to hear key briefings on our enemy, so that we might stand our ground in this battle as we await our conquering King.
God is at work in all the realms he has created, in heaven and on earth, and angels are at the heart of the story of God. Come examine the nature and purpose of the angelic realm, and be encouraged by how the spiritual realm is at work all around us. A Q&A follows the message.
Our God is a God of purpose, but often we struggle to understand the purposes of God, especially the purpose of hell. Tonight see that hell exists to exalt the justice of God, echo the glory of God, and exalt the love of God. A Q&A follows the message.
Jesus gives us a preview of coming invisible realities, including both heaven and hell. Jesus' first NT sermon was on hell, and He spends more time on hell than heaven. Tonight we look at Jesus' teaching on this imminent judgment for all unbelievers, and examine the nature of hell, which is a real, painful, and eternal place. A Q&A follows the message.
so what will our experience of heaven be like? Does grandpa pray for me from heaven? Will heaven be boring? What will we do there? Find the answers to these questions and more as we learn what heaven will be like.
We all want to go to heaven? But what is heaven like? Where is it? Who will be there? Why does it exist? Come find out exciting truths about the best place on earth!
