Centennial Covenant Church

October 18, 2020 Jon Hardin I saw my neighbor cleaning up his yard earlier this week. He had mown the grass, blown his driveway and sidewalks clean, and was just finishing raking when I drove by and waved hello. This yard looked immaculate! AND THEN, later that afternoon, we had a ferocious windstorm. The next morning his yard looked as if he had never picked up a rake. Life is like that--unexpect...

October 11, 2020 Karl Helvig Do you have a Sunday morning routine? Many of us have routines for all sorts of things. Morning routines, school routines, work routines. They can be really beneficial. However, a good routine can also become a rut where we get stuck. As we continue studying Acts, we will hear in this episode about the way God often leads us way outside our routines in order to carry o...

October 4, 2020 Karl Helvig Is your heart right with God? That’s a huge question! This Sunday we’re going to read Acts 8:4-25, and that question is at the center of the story. My hope is that each of us will leave our gathering Sunday with the ability to answer that question with a resounding, “Yes!”

September 27, 2020 Rebecka Sutton Acts 6:8-15 and 7:54-60

September 20, 2020 Karl Helvig Here’s the thing about conflict. It’s ubiquitous ; everyone experiences it. And, the experience is never fun. The question we must ask ourselves is, “How will I respond when I experience conflict?” In Acts 6:1-11 we read about a conflict that arose in the church in Jerusalem. The cause was an injustice; people were being overlooked because of their ethnicity. If you’...

September 13, 2020 Karl Helvig What is the contents of your heart? I know that might feel like an abstract question. It will become much more concrete when we read the story of Ananias and Sapphira together on Sunday. We find it in Acts 5:1-11. It is a strange and unsettling story but comes with a critical reminder and challenge for all of us.

September 6, 2020 Karl Helvig Everyone knows the power of a good story. We have seen them, heard them, and experienced them. Stories are powerful. Have you ever stopped to consider the power of your own story? That is precisely what we are exploring together this Sunday. We will see the power of one man's story found in Acts 3:1-4:22. Then we will ask, what is the power of my story?

August 30, 2020 Karl Helvig We are in our second week of studying the book of Acts. The series is called ONE. Here is the hope for this series. CCC is creating new forms of community, worship, and service as a church. As we do that, we want to learn from the Jesus followers in Acts who were doing the same thing two millennia ago. Regardless of the time, we are all part of the ONE CHURCH.

August 23, 2020 Karl Helvig What motivates you to come to church? Many desires or motivations influence our decisions, including our decision to gather for worship. What are yours? If you have a minute, would you sit with that question and get below the surface of the "right answer?" Why do you choose to come to worship? This question is the starting point for our new sermon series, One: a study o...

August 16, 2020 Karl Helvig “People handle disappointment more readily than uncertainty.” I’m not sure where I heard that statement, but it was recent and it stuck in my mind. Our lives are always filled with uncertainty and we long for clarity. All the more so now. Yet, sometimes certainty is impossible, even clarity seems murky. What do we do in the midst of great uncertainty? Jesus told his dis...

The title for my sermon this Sunday is, Steal, Kill, and Destroy. How’s that for a teaser! No, the title is not meant to describe my experience during sabbatical - though, I will be sharing reflections and learnings from these past six weeks. Rather, it comes from the first half of John 10:10. As you may know, that verse is where we drew our current sermon series theme, Abundant Life. We are conti...

August 2, 2020 Dr. Fran Blomberg "You say you want a revolution, well you know, we all want to change the world..." We sang it in 1968 and we're still saying it in 2020. How can we sustain interest and effect the transformation our world so desperately needs? There is an intriguing answer in the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet in John 13.

A child running through soft grass barefoot, the sun beating down on her, joy displayed on her face, a bouquet of vibrant balloons in her hand. What if I told you that Jesus came so that we could experience more of this in our souls? Join us this week as we explore the concept of Freedom in Christ from Galatians 5.

July 19, 2020 Jon Hardin Have you ever been asked to develop a mission statement? Maybe it was an exercise in which you were asked to develop a personal mission statement, or maybe it was something your work team was asked to create. A mission statement attempts to clarify a central purpose that will help align goals and activities. Here's some good news for every believer: You don't have to try t...

Sabbath. A word I’m sure most everyone is familiar with as you learned the Ten Commandments. This week, as we continue our series on Abundant Life, we will be exploring the question: What is Sabbath and what did God mean when he said we are to keep it holy? When we make undistracted rest a priority we discover the life of abundance God desires for each one of us.

July 5, 2020 Dr. Craig Blomberg Using the very small letter of 3 John, we will look at the important role that hospitality plays in living the abundant life.

June 28, 2020 Rebecka Sutton In John 14, Jesus promises to send "another advocate" to help his disciples navigate the inevitable difficulties they would face as his witnesses. Jesus gives his followers the gift of the Holy Spirit. In order to enjoy the abundant life offered to us by Jesus, we need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to navigate the difficulties of living out our faith in these difficu...

June 21, 2020 Pastor Karl Helvig Abundant Life. This theme comes from John 10:10 where Jesus says, “I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” I will introduce the series this Sunday For the following six Sundays, our guest preachers will be exploring different aspects of what it means to life in the abundant life Jesus came to give us.

May 17, 2020 Pastor Karl Helvig An introduction to this brief 5-part series on what it means to "Be the Body" of Christ, looking primarily at Paul's letters to the Corinthians.

May 24, 2020 Pastor Nicki Nickerson We are going to continue our sermon series on what it means to Be the Body. This week are going to look at 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 and what it means to persevere. As we have persevered through these few months, what are you doing/have you been doing on an individual level to ensure your emotional and spiritual health? We are the body when we are individually healt...

May 31, 2020 Rebecka Sutton Rebecka Sutton will be continuing our sermon series, Be The Body . She is talking about the power of resurrection life in the midst of a broken world filled with death. Here is what Rebecka shares: We are called to be the "body of Christ". The church of Corinth struggled to understand their identity in Christ. In his letters, Paul instructs them on what it means to be a...

June 7, 2020 Jon Hardin What does it mean to be the body of Christ? It means a lot of things, including that we proclaim Christ and his resurrection, we persevere through difficulty, and we contextualize God’s love to our world. This Sunday, Jon Hardin will be preaching. He’s talking about generosity and its place in our shared life as Christ’s body. God intends us to be generous in order to care...

June 14, 2020 Pastor Karl Helvig This is a phrase widely used and deeply important in the Evangelical Covenant Church. It captures the vision of scripture for the actions every follower of Christ needs to be taking against racism. Racial righteousness has been a deep commitment of the ECC for decades and its significance is only highlighted by the changes and increased awareness sweeping our count...