Community Christian Church
Community Christian Church desires to be a church centred on Jesus. We want to introduce people to the adventure that a life with Christ can bring, and then challenge and encourage them to live a life of significance. Our identity is rooted in Jesus, and we desire to reflect His life and love through our worship, teaching, and service.
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Episodes
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Deuteronomy and the New Testament ground the hope of humanity in the very same thing: God’s grace. We are invited to know God through his grace.
In Jesus, we are invited into the story of God’s redemptive work. We are invited to worship God as the promise-keeping, saving God. We are invited to experience the new life God desires through the Law of Christ written on our hearts and empowered by the Spirit. And into relational covenant with God through Jesus’ sacrifice. We are invited to know God through his grace and mercy towards us in Christ.
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
We are invited to know God through His covenant. God’s covenant is rooted in His unchanging, unfailing, and perfect love. It’s not a question of whether God will keep His part of the covenant, but whether we will keep ours. God desires to be our God and for us to be His people.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
We know and remember through the body, not just our brains.
Chapters 12-26 invite us to know how we should live in the light of God’s revealed character and past faithfulness. One of the primary ways we know and learn things is through our bodies. The instructions of 12-26 are meant to be lived, to become habits—ways of life. This would give the people of Israel a lens for understanding the world they were not even aware they were wearing.
We are no longer under the burden of the law; In other words, Jesus has freed us from the necessity of the ceremonies and sacrifices as a way to keep the covenant. We are now free, but we are free to live under the grace of Christ and to live for him instead of sin.
We must continually remember what we have been saved from and what we have been saved into. Remembering what we were saved from reminds us of God’s incredible grace and motivates us to be just and graceful people. As we remember we more and more come to the knowledge of God and our place in his Kingdom. As dearly loved children, rescued by his grace and called to life with him. A life to the full—full of the joy of his presence where we enjoy him forevermore.
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
You and I were created to worship; therefore, It is never a matter of if we will worship, rather it is always a matter of what we will worship. Worshipping God rightly is important; worship is a way to give God his deserved glory, but more than that, it is also the place we encounter God and are invited to know him more deeply.
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
One of the primary purposes of Scripture, A.J. Culp says, is “to produce a ‘world’ for the faithful to 'live in.'” Scripture is not simply a mine of information nor is it merely a thought for the day. Rather, it is the foundational story that one builds their life upon and imagines themselves in.
Chapters 1-4 of Deuteronomy are a deliberate travelogue that brings us to key events in Israels history from the Exodus until the present sermon. In particular it brings us to key moments of decision that demonstrate God’s character and also the character of Israel.
We remember in order to see ourselves in the story: Deuteronomy is our story too and finds its greatest fulfilment in Christ. In it we see God’s faithfulness to us and our welcome into God’s covenant people. We remember God’s New Covenant through the incarnation, death, and resurrection, of Jesus and our entrance into that covenant as we identify with Christ in baptism. We see our failure to trust God’s faithfulness and love and yet we remember God’s continued faithfulness. Finally, we see How Christ bids us to come and die to our own selfish ways and to come and find life in him. To live with him now and someday in the land he has promised.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Mark has been showing us that his statement in 1:1 is not hyperbole, but fact. Jesus may be like Moses and Elijah, but he is far greater than either of them. Only God has the power to order and tame the chaos. As the Spirit hovered over the waters and brought order out of chaos so too does Jesus.