In the final week of our January vision series, Pastor Joe Coffey discusses the call to partner with Jesus to seek and save the lost. By looking at Philippians 1:27-30, as followers of Jesus, we are reminded that others will observe how we live, that we're on a mission from God to make disciples, and that we should not let fear stop us from that mission.
In the third week of our January vision series, Pastor Zach Weihrauch talks about the importance of living in a community. By looking at Colossians 3:12-17, we can see that biblical community is the experience of God through relationships with other people.
In the second week of our January vision series, Pastor Joe Coffey speaks about the brokenness in the church and how to heal it. Join us as we look at Philippians 2 to see where our brokenness comes from, what our wholeness looks like, and how we become whole.
Pastor Joe Coffey kicks off our January vision series by addressing the what, the why, and the how behind our goals at CCC. Our hope this year, as always, is that we can help you know Jesus more, love Jesus more, and serve Jesus more.
Life has its ups and downs, and the Christian life is not meant to be lived alone. Listen in as Pastor Mike Holwerda speaks about the importance of caring for each other to fulfill what Jesus has called us to do and see we are better together.
Pastor Jim Colledge wraps up our advent series "Hope Surprising" with the story of Bathsheeba out of 2 Samuel. Through her story, we can learn about the kings we have, the kings we want, and the king we need.
Pastor Zach continues our advent message series by looking at another woman from Jesus' genealogy, Ruth. Out of her surprising story in Ruth 4:13-17, we can find something necessary, something hidden, and something wonderful.
Pastor Joe continues our advent series in Joshua 6 with the story of Rahab. By unpacking her surprising story, we can see how deliverance is always undeserved, unexpected, and dependent on trust.
Pastor Zach Weihrauch kicks off the first week of our Advent message series "Hope Surprising." Throughout December, we will take a look at the stories of four surprising women in the genealogy of Jesus. This week, we look at the difficult story of Tamar in Genesis 38 and how it reminds us of the advent of our world, the advent of our story, and the advent of our future. *Warning: The passage we are looking at this week includes mature themes and descriptions of assault.*
This week Pastor Joe Coffey gives the last message in our series on the book of Romans called "10 Sentences to Change Your Life." We focus on Romans 12:2 where Paul gives us something not to do that's easy to do, something to do that's hard to do, and the way to do it.
Pastor Joe Coffey continues our message series in the book of Romans by focusing on Romans 10:14 and reminding us of a few essential truths about the gospel. Everyone starts in the same place, everyone needs to hear the same message, and everyone needs someone to tell them.
Join us as Pastor Zach Weihrauch continues our message series in Romans by focusing on Romans 10:9 and covering the questions why become a Christian, what does it mean to become a Christian, and how do you know if you are ready to become a Christian?
We all desire a just and balanced world. But everyone knows there are times when apologies need to be made, forgiveness needs to be granted, and order and goodness need to be restored. But forgiveness always costs something. And Paul shows us that God paid that price for us by giving up his one and only Son. Today as we delve into Romans 8:32, Pastor Joe will encourage us to look for the logic, the promise, and the pattern within the passage. When we look at it logically as Paul does, it challen...
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” We are in week six of our “10 Sentences to Change your Life” Series. Today, Pastor Zach takes us through Romans 6:23 and focuses our eyes on three aspects of truth: the truth about death, the truth about us, and the truth about God. As Christians, we know that death was never the original plan for us. And we reflect on the truth of who we are (sinners) and who God is (Savior), we can better understand ...
We have officially reached the halfway point of our time in Romans. This week, we are taking a break from our “10 Sentences To Change Your Life” series for a standalone message on Genesis 15 where we see a significant encounter between God and Abram. Pastor Joe will help us fix our gaze on three main points: the doubts, the covenant, and the anchor. As we see in Genesis 15, even faithful believers like Abraham experienced doubt. But when we come face to face with doubt, and our faith starts to f...
How do you know if someone loves you? Do they show you through their actions? Do they tell you in the words they say? Do they love you even when you’re at your worst? This week, Pastor Joe takes us through Romans 5:8 and shows us what God does for us, when he does it, and how he proves it. God shows his love to us and extends that love even when we are at our most unloveable. While we were still sinners, he died for us. And he proves it to us through the life, death, and resurrection of his son....
As we dig into Romans 4:5 today, Pastor Zach shows us a beautiful truth: “God is in the habit of welcoming and embracing the ungodly.” So how can the ungodly be justified? Every religion will have a different answer, and they all center on solutions that involve our own energy and work. But Christianity is the only one who states that Jesus, not our efforts, is the true answer. The world will try and shout out directions for the path to justification, but the Word shows us that Jesus is the true...
Pastor Joe is back for Week 3 of our message series, “10 Sentences To Change Your Life.” Today, we focus on the words of Romans 3:23: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” In a world where we are constantly seeking to justify ourselves and separate into categories of“ us” versus “them,” Paul shows us that we all belong in the same group: sinners. Jesus came and saw the mess we made and offered to clean it up. Through life-changing grace, we can live both in humility and secur...
"God will repay each person according to what they have done.” When you read this verse, what do you feel? Does it make you think back over your mistakes in an effort to evaluate yourself and your holiness ranking? Does it make you feel defeated and fearful? Or do you feel pretty confident in how your works would measure up? As Pastor Zach tells us, the words of Romans 2:6 do not sound like good news. But as he leads us through this passage, he is going to help us see who we really are, what tha...
Today to start our new message series, 10 Sentences To Change Your Life, Pastor Zach takes us through Romans 1:16. As a whole, our time as Christians may feel more marked by missed opportunities to talk about Jesus rather than moments we seized the opportunities before us. But, in the Scripture today, Pastor Zach shows us that Paul gives us a reason to be honest, a reason to be encouraged, and a reason to be courageous. Sharing our faith can feel uncomfortable. We may be afraid of offending some...
What comes to mind when you hear the word “growth” as it concerns the Christian life? Maybe you think of knowledge and how much someone knows about God, the Bible or theology. Maybe you think of it more in terms of what a person does and how their behavior has been changed during their Christian walk. But as Pastor Zach shows us in 1 Peter 2, neither of these descriptions are at the foundation of Christian growth. While we often think of growth as knowing and doing, Peter encourages us to look a...
“If we can trust that Jesus saw us as worth dying for, we can trust he is worth living for.” These beautiful words were brought to us by Pastor Ken Prabucki as he discussed Acts 2:42-47 and the concept of community. In his three points, we learned about the kind of community we want, the kind of community we get, and the kind of community we can have. Our hearts desperately want to be welcomed as we are and part of something bigger. The communities we find ourselves in often don’t allow for our ...
Pastor Mike shows us how to reflect on the requests Jesus teaches us to make in the Lords Prayer: daily bread, daily forgiveness, and daily help against temptation. And in these requests, we can stop and marvel at the Truths we find: God is faithful to sustain us every single day, he teaches us the power of giving and receiving forgiveness, and he is with us in our daily battles against temptation. In this prayer journey, Christ greets us with his compassion and kindness. He walks with us as Tea...
In this message, Pastor Zach uses Matthew 6:10 to help us reflect on what it truly means to pray “your kingdom come, your will be done.” It is easy to acknowledge the need for a regime change in the world, but we are slower to admit the need for a new King in our hearts and minds. In prayer, we can go to God with our despair and our discouragement over the broken kingdom of the earth. But we also must acknowledge the state of our own hearts and our desperate need to surrender to our Savior. If l...
Too often, we think of prayer as a discipline or a duty, but it is so much more than that. Jesus came so that we would know, without a doubt, that our God is willing and able to help us and that his glory and our good are linked. As Pastor Zach so beautifully puts it, “As a Christian, you never look at the circumstances of your life to know if God is willing and able to help you. You always look to the fixed point of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Don’t look to circumstances. Look t...
Pastor Jim Colledge walks us through Matthew 6:5-8 and the practical tips that Jesus gives us regarding prayer. Through Pastor Jim’s message, we learn a little more about the wrong way to pray, the right way to pray, and how Jesus helps us make the transition. The wrong way to pray involves performing and pretending. The right way to pray is about authentically pursuing God. And, through Jesus, we can learn how the right kind of prayers help us approach our heavenly Father with confidence and se...
This week, Pastor Zach finishes our One Story One Hero message series by teaching about Jonah and the fish.
This week, Pastor Zach shared about the story of Daniel in the lion's den. He answered three questions: What is faith? Why does faith matter? How does faith grow? Tune in as we continue in our message series, One Story One Hero!
In this message, Pastor Zach Weihrauch teaches on the story of Naaman and addresses the questions: Why do we look for God? Why can't we find him? How do we know he wants to be found?
Tune in as Pastor Zach shares about the classic Bible story, David and Goliath. In this message, we learn about the importance of remembering you're not the only character in your story.
