Capital Church Messages

Be honest: what part of your character needs a little work? Be honest: do you have people in your life that know you will listen when they help point out what you need to work on? Be honest: are you grateful for their feedback or annoyed, even angered by it? The honest truth is, none of us are perfect. We are all a work in progress. One of the greatest gifts God gives us are people who come along...

Spiders. Heights. Peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. What do all of these have in common? Enough people are afraid of each of these that there is a clinical phobia for each. You may have no problem smashing a spider while standing on a ladder and chewing a bite of peanut butter sandwich. But what are you most afraid of? For most of us, our greatest fear, the fear that hides behind a...

May you trust that when you seek God with all your heart, when you meditate on His law, may you come to know the heart of God and live in the truth that life is better and sweeter under His law.

Have you ever volunteered to run to the grocery store to pick up a few last minute items? Have you had the experience of receiving a text on your way there that asks you to add one more item to the list? And then another text while you’re in the checkout lane asking you to add just one more item to the list? This week, we come to a thought from the Apostle Paul that, at first, might seem lik...

May you allow the peace of Jesus to manage your mind and manage your mouth. So that rather than simply saying your piece, your words might bring peace to the people and problems around you.

Who drops a piece of paper on a clean freak’s desk? Why would a highly productive person put “sit on couch” in their calendar? When is it a good idea to show up at someone’s apartment unannounced when they’ve specifically told you they need to focus to meet a deadline? A boss who knows words of affirmation mean the world to her hardworking employee. Because this husba...

When you buy a car, you want the salesperson to over-charged you, right? When you order your favorite meal at a restaurant, you’re hoping they bring you an extremely small portion, right? Every time you open your music streaming app, you think to yourself, “I sure wish they’d only give me access to a couple dozen songs, instead of 100 million,” don’t you? Of course not! We want the most marked off...

The longer we sit in traffic the happier we become. The longer it takes the server to bring our food, the more our souls are filled with joy. And the longer we wait to be seen by the doctor the less anxious we feel. Said no one to any of these things ever! As disciples of Jesus, we’re not called to delight in or celebrate situations like these. But we are called to endure them without losing...

Have you ever been working on an important project when all of a sudden your computer freezes up? What about that frustrating thing your phone does where you try to open an app, but it immediately closes and refuses to be used? How about sitting on your couch engrossed in a climactic scene of a movie when, out of nowhere, the screen is taken over by a message telling you to check your internet con...

Every day, 100,000 new songs are added to Spotify, 59,961,600 posts hit Instagram, 492,480,000 Tweets are sent, and 293,760,000,000 emails arrive in inboxes around the world. With so much information hurled at as, the only way to be heard is by being louder than all the rest. Or is it? What if there’s another way to break through the noise? What if there’s a better way to communicate?...

When you think of great leaders, what primary character quality comes to mind? When you think of a couple with a thriving marriage, what attribute do you imagine permeates their marriage? When you think of the friend you trust most with your struggles, what makes them so easy to confide in? Could it be that the answer to each of these seemingly disparate questions is humility? This weekend, we com...

Did you know: disciples of Jesus are never told they should be nice to people. In fact, you won’t find the word ‘nice’ anywhere in the Bible. But you will find the word and the call to show ‘kindness’ to others throughout all of Scripture. Join us as we explore the robust, whole-life-encompassing biblical definition of ‘kindness’ and how this attribute of...

Do you remember the last time a friend told you they didn’t get the job they were so sure was theirs? What about that lunch where your coworker opened up about the pain of being served divorce papers? Or when a child expressed the sadness of no one ever asking them to play at recess? Did you respond by telling them to just brush it off? Did you offer advice? Did you tell them how you would h...

It’s a beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. So, of course, as you walk out the door you pick up an umbrella. Wait…what!?!?! This must be a mistake, right? Not if the umbrella was intentionally picked for a specific purpose. Sometimes we can feel like an umbrella on a perfect day – out of place at best or worthless at worst. But, when we trust that the one who has picked us know...

A coffee farmer in Honduras. A professor in South Korea. A coal miner in West Virginia. At first glance, these three people seem to have nothing in common. But, if they have made Jesus the single most defining element of their identity, the reality is, they have more in common with each other than with those they work beside who aren’t apprentices of Jesus. Join us this weekend to discover Jesus’...

"I'm almost there." "It was on sale." "No, those jeans don't accentuate the wrong things in the wrong ways." Why do we often respond to honest questions with dishonest answers? When we do, what narrative do we play in our minds to justify the way we "stretch the truth?" This weekend, we'll look at what the Bible has to say about honesty, why we may be inclined toward dishonesty, and exactly what's...

"Watch your mouth!" We only hear this phrase after a slip of the tongue. But what if we could keep hurtful and shameful words from slipping across our tongue and out of our mouth in the first place? Join us this weekend to learn how Scripture teaches us to do just that.

Great news: God gave us free will. Bad News: God gave us free will. Sin over promises and always under-delivers. Yet it has a way of sinking in and enticing us away from God and away from the abundant life he promises. As we get pulled from God, we find that God will even at times give us over to exactly what we are looking for, even if it's not really what we want. If we just took a moment to hol...

On the first Easter morning, Mary Magdalene showed up at the empty tomb in the dark. We, too, are often in the dark about God’s plans. None of the disciples considered Jesus’s resurrection as a possibility after his death, even though Jesus had told them directly that he would, in fact, rise again on the third day. Just like the disciples, if your mind is made up about what God should do, you migh...

In Colossians 3:8, we’re called to rid ourselves of anger and rage. Anger itself is not a sin—it can be a helpful emotion to catalyze change, bring accountability, and keep us from harm. However, anger as a tool is challenging to get right. Your raging and ranting may seem effective, but the relational collateral damage may be irreparable. When you feel the root of anger take hold, take the bible'...

In a single breath in Colossians 3:5, the Apostle Paul goes right from talking about sex to talking about money. This taboo topic is important to address, because, like sex, money has the power to become an idol. Jesus calls us to put our greed to death, so he can bring our generosity to life. What the bible reveals about money is so much more than about our relationship with money—it’s about how...

Colossians 3 continues with a call to put to death sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Paul makes a big deal out of sexual sin—but not just to shame people into a chaste way of life, but because he knows sex is powerful. Few things have more power over humanity as sex, which is why we better know how to use it properly. There’s no such thing as casual sex.

The opening verses of Colossians 3 give us hope. We have hope not only because our past has been swallowed up by Jesus’s death and because we are hidden and secure in his life in the present. But we have hope in the future. Without hope, all you can see is what has happened to you; with hope, you can see what God is doing in you. Hope doesn’t stop life from happening, and since we know the end of...

The logic in Colossians 3:3 is clear: if you want to live a new life in Christ, you need to die to your old life. Becoming a disciple of Jesus will cost you! It requires that you deny yourself and put your desires as secondary—every moment of every day, in every aspect of your career, your family, your relationships, and your whole life. But this directive to die to yourself is not intended to det...

Many of us consider our thoughts and feelings as something that happen to us, as if we have no control over our thoughts. But that’s not true! You have control over your thoughts—and your thoughts have power. Colossians 3:2 directs you to “Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.” Before your thoughts dominate you with fear, anxiety, worry, dread, shame, or insecurity, take stock of w...