Capital Church Messages

You do it for strangers. Strangers certainly do it for you. Family, friends, acquaintances, at restaurants, online, in traffic, at the park – everyone is doing it everywhere. What is this widespread activity permeating every area of life?  Serving . Whether it’s holding the door for others, waiting tables, letting someone merge so they don’t miss their exit, or allowing another family to use...

It’s the holiday season. Your schedule is jammed. You’re busy with shopping for food to make and take to parties. Then there’s the stress of actually going to the party. You’re buying thinking about what presents to get for whom. Then there’s the stress of coordinating schedules to actually give them the presents. Oh, and this is in addition to your regular job and regular extra items in your sche...

You’ve seen them. You’ve made the observation. You’ve made the jokes. Medication commercials that highlight their ability to address one problem spend a comedic amount of time warning of the laundry list of problems they may cause. The Bible takes a similar approach to the topic of money. There are benefits – but beware of the possible side effects and dangers! This week in our series,  Becom...

If your car breaks down you have to take it to your mechanic. If your computer isn’t working properly you have to reach out to your IT department. If your coworker’s negligence is undermining the project you have to go to your boss. When this happens our first thought is I gotta take this broken car to my mechanic, I gotta reach out to IT about this malfunction, I gotta go to my boss with this pro...

When you sit down to watch the movie you’ve been excited to see, you’re not going to watch it while at a parade for many reasons – for one thing, you won’t be able to hear the dialogue. If you need to have an important, vulnerable conversation with a friend, you’re not going to suggest the discussion take place at a mall two days before Christmas for many reasons – for one thing, with all the clam...

If a seed could talk, fear might cause it to scream as it’s thrown into a field. You can hear it objecting to being buried in the dirt. You can imagine it crying out for help as the rain pounds down upon it. And if all that isn’t enough, the pain it must feel as its skin cracks and gives way to some unknown force breaking it apart from within. But we know what the seed must learn the hard way: all...

Maybe it’s your favorite professor in college who has asked you to be her TA. Perhaps it’s a graphic designer you follow on Instagram who is gladly giving you feedback on your work. It could be a mom in your community, a coach you play under, a business owner in your entrepreneur’s cohort, or anyone else you look up to who is investing in your life. There’s no doubt you respect and admire them. Yo...

When you’re training for a job, you’re usually paired with a leader who knows the job inside and out. The process may involve reading some manuals and watching training videos, but the most valuable part of the training process is being with the leader in charge of your training, learning what they do so you can eventually do it yourself. There’s one nonnegotiable in the training...

If you’re trying to cut down on sugar but you have a hard time turning down chocolate cake, you need a good friend to watch out for you at birthday parties. If you desire to be a peacemaker, but find it hard to keep your cool in political discussions, you may need to recuse yourself from these conversations for a while. If you struggle to control yourself physically in romantic relationships, you...

Bricks. Glass. Wood. Concrete. Mortar. Drywall. Carpet. Metal. These things couldn’t be more different. But something incredible and beautiful is created when they’re unified: a house. This week in our series The Life and Lyrics of David, we explore a psalm that celebrates the beauty of God’s people living in unity. Then, we allow the Bible to tell us how unity is possible.

If you’re trying to get on the freeway and you see a sign that says WRONG WAY, you’ve got to turn back immediately. If your labs come back saying your blood pressure is too high, you have to make changes to your daily habits right away. If your bank notifies you that you’ve overdrafted on your account, you’ve got to reconfigure your budget, pronto! WRONG WAY signs, labs, and overdraft alerts are a...

If you want to run a marathon, you probably read a bunch of articles where others share their story of becoming long-distance runners. Chances are, you start filling more of your free time with videos and podcasts about running marathons. Eventually, if feels natural to join a running group. Then, one day, you roll out of bed, eat a good breakfast, do your stretching routine, find yourself at a st...

What do babbling brooks and paintings have in common? When we stop and sit with them we find something strange: they talk to us. Brooks babble, and their babbling soothes our souls. Paintings speak to us and move our souls. This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we find other things that are surprisingly talkative. And if we’re open to it, we’ll find someone who is surprisingly tal...

If you’ve got the flu, chickenpox, or COVID, you stay home. You keep to yourself for as long as necessary. The last thing you’d ever want to do is spread what you have. But what if you’ve got overwhelming joy? Or an unexplainable peace? What if love comes pouring out of you every time you open your mouth? We don’t want you to stay home. We don’t want you to keep what...

Sure, you can wrap your headlight in duct tape to keep it in place. You can absolutely use a few metal coat hangers to keep your muffler from falling off your car. No one’s going to pull you over for replacing your rear passenger-side window with cardboard and a trash bag. But does that make it right? When your car is broken, there’s a right way to fix it and a wrong way to fix it. When your heart...

They pass you the ball, you take the shot at the buzzer, and the ball bounces off the rim. The boss gives you the project, you develop and pitch the idea, and the client rejects the campaign. Family looks to you for guidance, you make the best suggestion based on market trends, but they lose everything. The disgrace of failing when others put their trust in you can feel impossible to come back fro...

They pass you the ball, you take the shot at the buzzer, and the ball bounces off the rim. The boss gives you the project, you develop and pitch the idea, and the client rejects the campaign. Family looks to you for guidance, you make the best suggestion based on market trends, but they lose everything. The disgrace of failing when others put their trust in you can feel impossible to come back fro...

If a restaurant offers to comp your meal for no apparent reason, you’re going to let them, right? If the airline offers to upgrade you to first class just because they have an extra seat, you’re going to take it, right? If your boss says to take tomorrow off to be with your family, you’re going to take advantage of the opportunity, right? In each of these cases, you’re bein...

If you want to go into space, you have to go in a rocket. If you want to explore the depths of the ocean, you have to go in a submarine. There are places in life that, if we want to go, there is a specific way to get there. This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we examine a difficult story from David’s life that reveals the lengths to which God will go to be with us, and what is require...

Looking at old photos can unleash a tidal wave of details of what were, until that moment, forgotten memories. We remember why were in that location, who all went with us and who we met when we were there, the smells that surrounded us, the emotions inside of us, and so many other details that our hearts become overwhelmed in the cognitive flood. When the photo captures a good memory, it sparks a...

If your child complains that the neighbor’s bought their kid a car, you can remind them, “You’re only nine years old.” If your employee criticizes you because you still haven’t launched their idea into the market place, you might tell them, “We just secured funding for the business.” If your roommate calls you a tyrant because you keep telling them to turn...

If your child complains that the neighbor’s bought their kid a car, you can remind them, “You’re only nine years old.” If your employee criticizes you because you still haven’t launched their idea into the market place, you might tell them, “We just secured funding for the business.” If your roommate calls you a tyrant because you keep telling them to turn...

If you fail a test, you could chalk it up to the teacher not liking you. If your cake doesn’t turn out like the one in the recipe book, you could surmise the chef who wrote the recipe book has it out for you. If you get cut from the team because you keep dropping the ball, you could conclude the coach has it out for you. Or, instead of taking your failure personally, you could take your personal d...

Research shows women and men both consider symmetrical faces beautiful and attractive. They prefer romantic partners with symmetrical faces, and they’re more inclined to develop personal and professional friendships with those with symmetrical faces as well. So, most people prefer to engage with those who have symmetrical bodies. Yet, there is one thing we all desire, even need, to be embodied in...

Your co-worker lashes out. Your friend stops responding to texts. Your dentist couldn’t be less gentle. Your parent couldn’t be more critical. All of these hurt. But we have to choose: will our response come out of a heart filled with hurt or a heart filled with compassion, grace, a slowness to anger, and most of all, love? This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we examine David responding to...