Celebration Church

Five sermons from five different young adults. These are trained and passionate preachers in the making and they have a word for you! So buckle up!

Colton Ernst picks up 1 John 5 as we continue our 1-2-3 series. Our foundational concept for this series is a reminder; that walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. And one of the ways that He leads us in is in loving other believers. See, the way we love other believers should be our strongest witness to the world. The apostle John's letter here is a reminder that we are to love one another; i...

Pastor Weston Clark continues our 1-2-3 series, this week we look at 1 John 4. Again, starting off with our foundational concept for this series, that walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. Submitting to His guidance always helps us in loving each other well and growing into what He has called us to be. And we'll see today in 1 John 4, that love in grace and truth, is love that leads to change...

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This week we journey on into 1 John 3, remembering our foundational concept for this series: walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. Its a reminder to us that the goal is to be led by Him into what He has called us to do. As we walk with Him, John points out in this chapter that part of the way we need to be led is in how we love each other in this family of the Body of Christ. God wants us to...

We take a look at 1 John 2, today in our 1-2-3 series; where we study the later epistles of the apostle John and where we look at what they mean for the foundation of our Christian walk. Our core concept we want to remember is that walking with Jesus means letting Him lead. Part of knowing God better and trusting Him more is letting Him guide our lives. One of the biggest areas that we have to let...

Kicking off a brand new series where we are going through the later epistles of the apostle John. Even though we are starting in 1 John, our leading verse comes out of 3 John: 3 John 1:4 "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." And with it, we are establishing this thought throughout the series, that walking with Jesus means letting Jesus lead. What God has d...

We wrap up our Filling Empty series today, remembering our foundational concept one more time: when feeling empty, know that God is the only one who truly fills us. Remembering that God is the one who truly fills helps us to have futures that are filled by Him. We can trust all of our days to the God of yesterday, today, and forever! Pastor Brandon enlightens us to see the couple of ways we often...

As we celebrate Mother's Day in this series, we look at how often some of our first glimpses of grace happen in our homes because of our moms. Our foundational concept going through this series is a reminder; when feeling empty, we have to remember that God is the only One who truly fills us. God has always valued generational families, and His plans have always been generational. We can look the...

As we continue through our series, we remember what the foundational concept of it is; that when we are feeling empty, we have to remember that God is the only one who truly fills us. He fills us with purposes and gift to serve according to His great purpose. We are designed to be an active part of His creation. For He created us and designed us; He knitted us together in our mother's womb and set...

In this series our foundational thought is that when we are filling empty, we have to remember that God is the only one who can truly fill us. This doesn't stop the temptation to try and be filled by the world though. Last week we talked about our minds, this week we are talking about our eyes. What we fill our eyes with matters. “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your who...

This week we look at how a God-filled mind brings a God-filled life! We have to understand our foundational concept for this series, when we are feeling empty then we need to understand that God is the only one who can truly fill us. A God-filled mind begins with understanding that setting our minds on the truth is essential. Truth brings us freedom. And thinking on what is true sets us up to live...

Knowing that God is the one that fills us when we feel empty is the core idea we have to hold onto as we continue into the second part of our "Filling Empty" series. So often our hearts can get to a place where they feel empty, feeling like they have been poured out or maybe just not poured into. The truth is that God wants to pour into you, but you first have to be open to Him and the truth He wa...

We are starting a new series today on Easter Sunday, "Filling Empty"! Centered around the idea that when we feel empty, God is the one who fills that empty. With a launching scripture of Matthew 5:6, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Too often we make our own "get filled" plan that centers around us working harder or doing better to relieve that...

We finish our Rebrand series today, looking into the life of Simon; more commonly known as Peter. Understanding that God wants us to have our identity in Him is a key foundational element to this series and to understanding the life of Simon Peter. Meeting Jesus will change you. From the first meeting Simon had with Jesus, Simon was changed; Jesus said that his name will be "Cephas (which, when tr...

Looking at the Life of Saul, and his miraculous conversion, we again see how God wants us to find our identity in Him. Through the life and writings of Paul we see that the calling on our lives is to do the will of God. Before Saul became Paul, he persecuted the early Church. He had orders to imprison early believers or stone them in order to prevent the spreading of the gospel. However, Jesus met...

God wants us to find our identity in Him, and one of the most prominent things that we let name us instead is pain. Pain will try to change who you are but God's healing redeems your true identity. As in the case of today's story, Naomi. Naomi, from the book of Ruth, had determined to let her pain change her identity; she wanted to identify with it and make it the first thing people knew about her...

In this series about name changes, one big change is when Jerusalem gets conquered by Babylon and selected hebrews are forced to learn Babylonian ways and language. Today we look at the story of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; whose names were changed to Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. We start with the ultimate truth that God wants us to find our identity in Him, and in the...

This week in our "Rebrand" series we take a look at the life of Gideon. We see in his story that to be who God says we are, we have to take God at His word and do what He says to do. In the life of Gideon, his haters named him Jerub-Baal, or "Let Baal content with him", because of how he tore down an altar to Baal. The truth is that your haters will try to do the same, and name you. When that happ...

This week we look at the life of a popular man in the Bible, whose actual name might be the least known about him. You can hear the name Barnabas and most people would know who is being referred to, but that isn't his actual name. In fact it is a nickname, given to him by other disciples early in Acts. Joseph, known as Barnabas, helps us to see that God wants our identity to be found in Him. Throu...

Continuing in our Rebrand series, we look at the name of Solomon and how David wanted his son to have the thing which he desperately wanted but couldn't get. God wants our identity to be in Him, and not in the pain of this life; which can easily try and give us our name. We have to embrace who God says we are. Solomon's life and name is marked by David's pain. Pain will try to name us, but God wil...

We begin a new series where the focus is on how we need to let God name us, because God wants us to have our identity in Him. We will see that letting God name us actually leads to our good. Diving into one of the most prominent stories of a name change, Jacob, we will see how it is a danger to let our past define our future. The truth is that our true identity is found in Him. - Key Verses // Gen...

We wrap up our Bigger Picture series today, understanding that God has a bigger life for us in Christ. Every aspect of our lives shifts from being messed-up to made right by trusting in God. And we see that God uses us to impact more than us, beginning with our future generations; like God did with Abraham. The bigger picture is for generations to come! Through the lives of Abraham and Sarah, we s...

God is bigger than our battles, and knowing that He has a bigger life for us in Christ gives us confidence that He also understands and guides us through the battles we face. In fact, while most of the world rejoices after a victory, we can rejoice because we have been promised the victory. Pastor Brandon guides us through a story in 2 Chronicles where King Jehoshaphat is having to prepare for a l...

As we continue to look at the Bigger Picture of how God has a bigger life for us in Christ, this week we look at how our choices matter to the bigger picture. The bigger picture is lived by choosing God's way over our own way. Choose God's way, even in the "Ive done this a million times", or the "I've never done this before" issues of life; or even in the "this doesn't make any sense" issues of li...