How do I have spiritual conversations?
Evangelism is a really unpopular word these days. In this Message, Mark Ashton explains how evangelism shouldn’t be about high-pressure conversations, but relationship building.
May 23, 2021•38 min
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Should Christians Tithe?
Is tithing just an Old Testament law? In this Message, Mark Ashton explains how instructions for tithing can be complicated, but we need to evaluate our heart.
May 16, 2021•39 min
Mother's Day
Celebrate Mother’s Day with us and three sermonettes featuring Mark Ashton, Allison Dykhouse & Dawn Gentry.
May 09, 2021•34 min
Finding Rest
Have you been looking for rest, freedom, and restoration? In this Message, Mark Ashton leads us to finding Jesus, who is our jubilee.
May 02, 2021•39 min
How to Become Friends with God
Have you ever questioned what it means to be a friend of God? In this Message, Myron Pierce explains how every aspect of the tabernacle pointed to a greater form of friendship & intimacy with God.
Apr 11, 2021•37 min
The Day of Atonement
In Leviticus on the Day of Atonement the people of Israel placed their sin on a goat and sent it out into the wilderness. In this message, Mark Ashton explains how Jesus took on everyone's sin and served as the ultimate and final scapegoat.
Mar 28, 2021
Free From Religion
Sometimes we can put a great amount of pressure on ourselves to be religious or to be “good enough” for God’s love. In this Message, Mark Ashton explains how Jesus offered a one time sacrifice that makes us a new creation, filled with the Holy Spirit.
Mar 21, 2021•44 min
Instructions for Disease
God gave Israel a very basic, easy to understand guide in how to identify and handle infectious skin disease. In this Message, Jed Logue helps understand what it would’ve meant to be labeled “unclean” in Ancient Near Eastern cultures and how Jesus continues today to fearlessly set his people apart and make us clean.
Mar 14, 2021•29 min
Are women treated unfairly in the Old Testament?
Are the guidelines set for childbirth in Leviticus something we should follow in today’s culture? In this Message, Mark Ashton and Dawn Gentry teach us why, from a cultural perspective, women were subjected to so many strange rules in the Old Testament.
Mar 07, 2021•43 min
Can I Eat That?
In Leviticus there’s a litany of unclean foods, but which of those foods apply to us? In this Message, Mark Ashton reveals the connection between the Old and New Testament and why we should worry more about what comes out of our mouths than what goes in.
Feb 28, 2021•36 min
Where is Jesus in Leviticus
For most people, Leviticus is like Biblical quicksand. It is where lovers of scripture go to get lost. In this Message, Mark Ashton reminds us that even though Leviticus was written a millennia before Jesus, it’s about Jesus.
Feb 21, 2021•45 min
How to Give Cheerfully
We’ve all heard that giving is better then receiving, but what does generosity look like when we serve Jesus? In this Message, Mark Ashton reveals how financial generosity exposes the true intentions of our heart.
Feb 14, 2021•40 min
How to Find Financial Freedom
In world that revolves around money, it may be easy to find yourself drowning in debt or struggling to make ends meet. In this Message, Mark Ashton explains how following Jesus leads to financial freedom.
Jan 31, 2021•42 min
How to Pray
Sometimes it can be difficult to connect to God through prayer. In this Message, Dan McClannan explains how praying to God is as simple as talking to God, which will lead to a deeper spiritual life and intimacy with him.
Jan 24, 2021•47 min
What is the Gospel?
Have you ever questioned what exactly the Gospel is? In this Message, Mark Ashton breaks down four aspects of Jesus’ power that will change your perspective of the gospel.
Jan 17, 2021•41 min
Holy Spirit
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
Jan 10, 2021•38 min
Biblical Justice
Most people hear justice and think of… courtrooms, a judge in a black robe and making a case for innocence and guilt. But the Biblical word for justice refers to ‘making wrong things right.’ It is recognizing the places in our culture where people are marginalized and setting things straight.
Jan 03, 2021•37 min
New Covenant Justice
New covenant justice invites us to do something.
Dec 27, 2020•34 min
An Unexpected Christmas
Regardless of how you normally celebrate Christmas, this year is probably going to look different. That’s why we invite you to experience An Unexpected Christmas with Christ Community Church–an at-home, enhanced digital Christmas experience.
Dec 24, 2020•55 min
Mary
Now often we make the mistake of seeing the Christmas story starting in Luke 2 with the travel to Bethlehem, but the amazing thing is that God did not invade this world in the form of a baby, but in the form of a fetus, a zygote, a single cell within a teenage girl. The incarnation actually happened about 9 months before the birth in Bethlehem… in the little town of Nazareth.
Dec 20, 2020•50 min
Elizabeth
Luke often pairs male and female characters together, giving a symmetrical view of many stories. Opening the book with Elizabeth and Zechariah, Mary and Joseph and Anna and Simeon. Then there are parables – the men in the fields and the women kneading bread. The shepherd leaving going after the lost sheep then the woman sweeping her house for the lost coin. Men and women as traveling disciples in acts 8, men and women in the upper room in Acts 1, Ananias and Sappira, Priscilla and Aquilla. But t...
Dec 13, 2020•40 min
God Sees You
You can’t blame her. How could you? After all she never asked to be put into the situation she found herself in. Young, pregnant from another woman’s husband, abused by that same woman, and ignored by the father of the baby she was carrying.
Nov 29, 2020•40 min
Eden Restored
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."
Nov 22, 2020•45 min
New Heaven & New Earth
Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Nov 15, 2020•38 min
The Lake of Fire
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.
Nov 08, 2020•39 min
The Millennium
It is real. It is coming in the future. It is described dozens of places in the Bible.
Nov 01, 2020•38 min
Jesus Wins – Armageddon
The second coming of Jesus
Oct 25, 2020•44 min
The Fall of Babylon
Revelation chapters 17 and 18, and the Fall of Babylon, an event that happens during the 2nd half of the tribulation.
Oct 18, 2020•32 min
Two Beasts and the 666
The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.
Oct 11, 2020•38 min
Woman and the Dragon
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.
Oct 04, 2020•25 min
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