Capital City Christian Church | Podcast

After blowing their minds by telling the disciples that as Messiah he had to suffer and die, and that following him might make their lives much harder, he confirms that he really is their Messiah by giving them a peek at who he really is. And God the Father shows us, and tells us to listen, and follow him. We probe the historical evidences that it really happened.

Jesus asks the biggest question anyone will have to answer - who do you think he is? And then he redefines what it means to be the Messiah of God, and what it means to follow him.

40 years before it happened, Jesus predicts with great detail the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple. If he could speak with authority about the future, he deserves to be followed.

They thought he might be the Messiah, but they thought he was doing it wrong. Jesus tells these parables to teach them: God’s Kingdom is not what you think it is; but it’s going to win; and you need to do whatever it takes to be part of it.

Jesus was no used car salesman. He challenged us to stay faithful no matter how hard Jesus following will inevitably get. His claims to our allegiance were unbounded.

Jesus claimed absolute authority over everything in heaven and on Earth. In his teaching, he claimed to supersede Moses, to have the right to countermand the law. If he was wrong, he would be a raving lunatic or a maniacal liar. If he was right…what do you say he is?

Jesus had incredible power, which he used with maddening restraint. But he didn’t come to fix all of our problems…but he did give us a glimpse of what is coming.

Satan and his demons are incredibly powerful; Jesus infinitely more so. It’s not just demon “possession,” sometimes it’s “under the influence.” All of us allow him to slip in, and unless stopped, he will enslave us. And there is only one powerful enough to stop him.

Storms are incredibly powerful; Jesus infinitely more so. Four big ideas: there is a good kind of fear; fear does not exclude love; God will not keep us out of all the storms; but you can trust him in the storms.

Jesus’ power was unmatched, the power of God. But sometimes we obsess over the wrong things. He didn’t come to fix broken bodies, he came to fix broken souls.

So much information exists to prove that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person. But was he truly the Messiah, son of God? We’re going to look at the stories written about Jesus and some of the people who lived right alongside him and see if we can figure it out.

The classic Christmas story we’ve all heard is pleasant; God born as a baby on a silent night in the little town of Bethlehem. But that’s not all there is to the story. The true Christmas story has more to it than just what we can see.

The Book of John is unique in its telling of the birth story of Jesus. While Matthew and Luke wrote about Jesus’ birth on earth - John stepped back and described how Jesus, the one who is forever, stepped from infinite space into our little world. The very one who created the universe being born as a vulnerable baby.

We're in our second week of Advent and the Christmas series, "The One Who Is." We're looking at the peace that Jesus brought when he came to earth and the miraculous birth story in Luke.

The advent, the arrival, of Jesus is something that people have looked forward to and waited for with hopeful expectation for so very long. We join millions of christians today as we look at Jesus: the One who is long expected.

As Jesus followers, we should be living a life of thankfulness and gratitude. Watch the final message in our series walking through Colossians where we explore what it looks like to live Kingdom style.

Following Jesus should affect every aspect of our lives. Over our lifetimes, one of the biggest parts of our lives is work. We may be employees or bosses, students or teachers and we’ll likely be both at different times. So what does that relationship look like if we live like Jesus?

Any parent’s primary job is to connect their kids with Jesus. Teaching honor and obedience is a critical part of that job. Nor are they to do those things that push their kids away from Jesus.

The apostle Paul tells wives to “submit to their husbands,” and husband to “love their wives.” In reality, he is telling husbands and wives to live out the fundamental ways Jesus followers do all their relationships.

As citizens of God’s kingdom, there are things we put off (vices), and things we put on (virtues). Paul gives us a peek at what God-honoring relationships look like.

When we become Jesus followers, we immediately become citizens of God’s Kingdom, which makes us resident aliens here. Put off the old, and start living out what you are and will be. Remember who you really are, and what you really stand for.

The author of Colossians, Paul, is acting as a concerned father by making the Jesus followers at Colossae aware of counterfeit religious traps that they may drift toward. He challenges the church to continue growing in the midst of an enemy trying to pull them away.

It’s not enough to just accept Jesus as Lord - we must stay faithful. We’re all prone to wander, and there are spiritual forces behind the scenes pulling us away from God. We want to keep Christ at the center.

The Gospel, the good news of Jesus, is such a mystery! Jesus, somehow God and Man, was willing to die for us, and then to live “in” us - he’s our “hope of Glory.” The only thing crazier than this story would be the refusal to embrace him if it really is true.

Jesus needs to be first in our lives because Colossians 1:15-23 is going to show that Jesus is supreme in everything and sufficient for everything that you need in life.