Damascus Road Community Church

Weakness. No one wants to be accused of it. No one wants to be in a position of weakness. Every culture honors its winners and sidelines its losers, exalts the strong and despises the weak. But not God. He despises our pride, not our weakness. He brings down the mighty from their high places and lifts up the humble. His specialty is turning those who are seen as weak into His most powerful servant...

We continue our series this weekend by looking at one of the most unlikely heroes mentioned in Hebrews 11… Rahab, the pagan prostitute. The author of Hebrews turns the spotlight on the great twist and grand wonder of God working in the life of someone who radically trusts in Him. We will learn what happens when a person without hope (and without much of anything else) hears the message of God and...

This week we will continue our Hebrews 11 series, looking at the second half of Moses’ life, which is referenced in verses 28 and 29. These verses commemorate God’s great saving acts of Passover and the parting of the Red Sea, in order to lead his people from slavery to freedom. Hebrews looks back to both the Passover and Christ’s transformation of that original freedom festival into the Lord’s Su...

Abraham Lincoln experienced many defeats and terrible losses in his life before becoming our most beloved President. He understood repeated failure and suffering up close. In light of that he said: “How we handle success is a greater challenge to our character than how we handle defeat or failure.” Indeed. God dedicates a whole chapter to the deadliness of success to a life in Deuteronomy 8—the di...

First a note to all our men: this Saturday morning, February 11 at 8:30-9:45 am, please join me at our DRCC Men’s Breakfast. We want to talk together as men about the combination of being authentic in our journey, sane in our schedule, and used by God… and how all three can converge. Shake off the post-Super Bowl blues and come think about some things that really matter. At our weekend services we...

As you walk through the Gallery of Tapestries in the Vatican, on the left wall you see these glorious tapestries depicting the life of Christ woven five hundred years ago by some of the finest weavers in the world. They still fill you with awe. In Hebrews 11, we get to walk through just such an awe-inspiring Gallery of Tapestries and each week we pause to look at one spectacular sketch after anoth...

The first person God commends by name in Hebrews 11 is a guy named Abel. God says that thousands of years later Abel “still speaks, even though he is dead.” Clearly, God means that Abel left a legacy which continues to impact every generation since his short life in a powerfully positive way. Now here’s the applicable truth in this for all of us: in some sphere of influence we all leave a legacy,...

“Can I trust God?” Perhaps that seems like a simple question to answer when life is smooth and we generally believe God is loving and good. But for every one of us, truly living a consistent “yes” to that question it is the challenge of a lifetime. God exposes layer after layer of our self-controlling, fearful clinging, my-way-is-better-than-God’s-way choices. But our real choice is whether or not...

This weekend we launch our winter series. It is a careful study of the people (a surprising cast of characters) in Hebrews 11, whom God commends for their bold trust in Him. I will not say this will be a transformational series, because how much it transforms you—is up to you. I will say that the two questions that form the base of this series are right at the heart of our side of the “God-us” rel...

The story of John, the youngest disciple of the original gang of 12 who followed Jesus, is a transformation story. Not sudden change like Saul who became the apostle Paul after his dramatic encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, but a lifetime of gradual change. Through association with Jesus, the disciple John went from being a “son of thunder” to a wise old gentleman who consta...