C&C Youth Weekly Sermons

MP: Being a Christian means you believe and you live like Jesus changes everything about you! An enflamed heart always follows an informed mind. When we meet Jesus our thinking changes instantly and forever, and so do our lives! Believe like Jesus changes everything about you. Live like Jesus changes everything about you.

Our own summer pastoral intern, Jadon, started a 3 part series through some of the letters to the churches in Revelation. Despite all their wonderful teaching and good deed, Ephesus had lost their first love! This text calls us to Remember, Repent, and Respond so that we would never lose our love for Jesus.

Other Christians are SO important! Paul shows us just how important they are, and how to be a meaningful Christian in other people's lives as he talks about Timothy and Epaphroditus. We also sent our seniors off tonight, may you each surround yourself with deep Christian relationships!

We are called to live like citizens of heaven . That life is characterized by certain attitudes and actions, has various results, and must be motivated and fueled by the cross.

Sorry we missed the first minute of this recording--it's that: Christians are free to pray anywhere, anytime, about anything. And we started by thinking about 1. Why is it important? First--we're CHOSEN to pray! That's where this picks up...

Elder and youth leader Curt Sawyer shares personally and biblically about the life changing power and importance of Prayer and the Word in the life of every Christian.

How do we know what real repentance is? If we keep going back to the same sin, have we really ever repented? Here are 6 key ingredients to real repentance (from Thomas Watson's Doctrine of Repentance ) that lead us to be repenting sinners .

MP: I can rejoice in any trial, because Jesus is magnified 2 real (tried, tested, real-life) reasons I can rejoice in my trials… 1. My Life Enlarges Jesus 2. My Death Enlarges Jesus

Christians should get fired up about partnering together to advance the gospel! --Paul sure was fired up about it. If we are, we say things like... I'm Thankful For You (1-8) I'm Praying For You (9-11) I Know God is Working (12-18)

We must have a biblical definition of Evangelism to know how to do evangelism. That's where we're starting

Why is Rahab in the hall of faith in Hebrews 11? How can we learn from this woman who hid some spies and survived the destruction of Jericho?

Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli...far more important than them was God's sovereignty to use their faithfulness to the gospel of salvation by grace ALONE, through faith ALONE, in Christ ALONE, according to Scripture ALONE, to the glory of God ALONE.

Answering 3 questions... What is baptism according to the Bible? Should I be baptized? What should I do now?

Where did the papacy come from? What happened from 500-1500AD that led up to the Protestant Reformation. Oooooh, some interesting stuff.

We're diving deeper into how to live the Proverbs...especially with the gospel guiding us, not mere moral-betterment.

Constantine, monasticism, and a bunch of councils!

Some gospel reminders and practical help to dissect the proverbs in chapters 10-20, for guided small group time afterwards.

We have much to learn from the practice of Christians and their churches in the 2nd-4th centuries. I pray you benefit from this study!

We are called out of darkness for a purpose... to glorify God, to gather, to grow, AND to GO. God's perfect plan is that local churches would be the MEANS and the ENDS (pretty much) to spreading the gospel to lost people everywhere.

How does God's character help us with our anxiety?

A flyover of Proverbs 9... MP: Fear the Lord and live 1. Wisdom Calls, Will You Live (1-6) 2. Folly Calls, Will You Die (13-18) Do you fear the Lord? (7-12)

We got from the Apostles through the 1st century church. We highlighted the doctrinal formula/emphasis of the apostles teaching from Acts 2, and how the church fathers picked up on that (One, Holy, Universal, Apostolic church) We covered some early threats to the faith (Montanus, Marcion, Gnosticism) and how these heresies caused the church to be even more clear and strong on the deity of Christ a...

Hate history? Good, that'll change ;) 6 Reasons We Should Study Church History

Who is prayer for? Why do we say stuff? Why do we pray together? Beware lots of words. How can we help our praying?

How do my answers to life's big questions impact my everyday life? I hope to convince you that your answer to identity questions have a profoundly practical application to every day of your life.