TCBC Sunday Sermons

The Creator’s Response to Sin Text: Genesis 3:8-24 1. Sin’s Severity 2. Judgment 3. Redemption Reflection Question: How does the Creator’s response to sin reveal Christ’s heart for you in your sin and brokenness?

Sin and the Fall of Humanity Text: Genesis 3:1-7 1. Deception 2. Coveting 3. Covering Reflection Question: Where are you stirred to stop covering your sin and shame and receive Christ’s covering through repentance and faith?

The Creator of Marriage Text: Genesis 2:18-25 1. What humans are 2. What man and woman are 3. What marriage is 4. The union you need Reflection Question: How does the Creator challenge or affirm your view of men, women, marriage, and Jesus’ relationship with His church?

Longing for Work-Life Balance Text: Genesis 2:4-22 1. Why you long for it 2. Why it’s so hard to get 3. How you get it Reflection Question: How does worshipping the Creator and Redeemer in all things reframe your longing for work-life balance?

The Invitation to God’s Rest Text: Genesis 2:1-3 Thesis: The Creator invites us to join him in his rest. 1. God created our world for us to receive his goodness. 2. God completed our world with his rest. 3. God remains at work in our world to invite us to join him in his rest Reflection Question: How is the Creator inviting you to experience his rest?

Created in God’s Image Text: Genesis 1:26-31 1. What you’ve received in creation 2. The temptation to reject it  3. How you’re remedied Reflection Question: How does the work of the Spirit who transforms you into the image of Christ encourage you to root your identity in him?

The World Created by God is… Text: Genesis 1:14-25 1. For us, but… 2. Unity & Diversity 3. Good Reflection Question: As you experience God’s creation, will you worship the Creator and Redeemer?

The Wonderful Creator Text: Genesis 1:1-13 The Creator is… 1. Distinct 2. Greater 3. Perfect Reflection Question: Will you worship the One who created light in the cosmos and shined his light in your heart?

The Life of Being Spiritual Text: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 1. The cross and the Spirit 2. Wisdom in the Spirit 3. Christ’s mind by the Spirit Reflection Question: How does having the mind of Christ allow you to be spiritual?

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 1. What you must consider 2. What it results in 3. What you receive Reflection: Where are you tempted to find your identity and self-worth, and how does considering your calling help you shift towards life in the Spirit?

1 Corinthians 1:17-25 1. What it’s contrasted to 2. What it subverts 3. How it fulfills Reflection: Will you ask God to help you center your life, values, and imagination on the cross of Jesus Christ?

To Rest in God’s Strength Text: Psalm 147:1–20 Thesis: Because Almighty God cares for the helpless, we can rest in his strength. 1. God’s power is boundless. 2. God exercises his power to provide for us. 3. God especially provides for the lowly. 4. So God’s power grants us rest. Reflection Question: How is God leading you to celebrate his rest more fully?

God's justice transcends frail human standards. 1. We long to live under ideal justice 2. We cannot deliver ideal justice 3. God reveals ideal justice 4. God enacts ideal justice Reflection Question: How is God calling you to practice worshipfully his rule of generous justice?

To Tell the Story of our King Text: Psalm 145:1-21 Thesis: God our king provides abundantly for all. 1. What this Psalm says about God’s abundant provision as our king. 2. How God’s mighty deeds demonstrate his abundant provision as our king. 3. How God’s greatest mighty deed fulfills his abundant provision as our king. Reflection Question: How can you celebrate God our king’s abundant provision?

Renewal & Suffering Text: Acts 14:19-28 1. The example of suffering 2. The way of suffering 3. Shepherds for sufferers 4. Your new identity through suffering Reflection Question: How does the prominence of suffering in renewal bring near the heart of Jesus as you endure suffering?

The Message of Renewal Text: Acts 14:1-18 1. Its goal 2. Its ‘m.o.’ 3. Its content Reflection Question: How does the message of renewal encourage your prayers and interactions with loved ones, neighbors, and others?

What Renewal Reveals Text: Acts 10:9-48 1. God’s hand 2. God’s heart 3. Our response Reflection Question: How does God’s hand and heart in renewal affirm you or challenge you in how you engage with others in your life?

Acts 9:1-31 Snowflakes in Submission Saul's Conversion illustrates how Jesus is renewing each of his unique people. 1. Who Saul was 2. What Jesus did 3. Who Saul became Reflection Question: How is Christ using your unique, being-renewed self as you submit to him?

Text: Acts 8:26-40 1. The natural & supernatural about it 2. The 3-D change from it 3. The good that drives it Reflection Where is Jesus challenging you as you long for renewal for family, friends, and neighbors?

Text: Acts 8:4-25 1. What you must say ‘yes’ to 2. What you must say ‘no’ to 3. The Spirit’s role Reflection Question: What is Jesus calling you to say yes to and/or turn from in obedience to the Spirit?

Text: Acts 7:51-8:4 1. Is opposition to renewal merely cultural?  2. How renewal works across cultures 3. What gets revealed by opposition Reflection Question: Will you pray for renewal in your own heart and across the many cultures within the campus and the C-U community?

Global and Gifted Text: Acts 6:1-7 Thesis: As his globally diverse followers practice God’s grace with the Spirit’s gifts, Jesus is renewing the world. 1. Jesus calls people of all kinds 2. Jesus reconciles people of all kinds 3. Jesus empowers self-sacrificial service of all kinds Reflection Question: What is Christ calling me to do in his mission of global reconciliation?

The fear of the Lord and gospel renewal Acts 5:1-16 1. What Ananias & Sapphira opposed 2. What they lacked that you need 3. The mission of Jesus through the church Reflection Question: Will you cultivate the fear of the Lord in your heart and long for renewal in C-U?

Text: Acts 4:32-37 Title: The Gospel and Generosity  A renewed view of money & community  What you’re renewed from and how The example of generosity   Reflection: Will you allow God to renew your view of money and community and use what you have to generously support his church and kingdom?

Responding to What We Have in Jesus 1. What we have in Jesus 2. How we respond to it 2a. Draw Near 2b. Hold fast 2c. Consider one another Reflection Question: Knowing what we have in Jesus, will you respond by drawing near, holding fast, and pursing relationships in the church?