Central Community Church | Sermon Audio

1 Corinthians 1:18-1:25 | When we say that one of our values (and we put it first on the list intentionally) is to be centred on the gospel what we mean by that is the Good News of Jesus Christ ? His finished work on the cross of atoning for our sin and offering us the free gift of grace ? informs absolutely everything else in our lives and world.

Matthew 4:18-4:22 | Central's mission is Jesus Christ's mission. It has to be. We ? as His followers ? have to be about what Jesus is about. And He calls every one of His followers to be disciple-making disciples of Jesus.

Revelation 5:8-5:10

Matthew 6:13-6:13 | Jesus teaches his disciples to pray for deliverance from evil because we rescue ourselves. His prayer reminds us that sin is far more damaging than we normally think, but also that God's grace is far greater than we can imagine. Once we understand his grace, we need to remind ourselves day by day of what he has accomplished for us.

Matthew 6:13-6:13 | The 6th petition in the Lord's Prayer is ?"Lead us not into Temptation". Jesus reminds those who follow him too their spiritual weakness and proneness to sin. This prayer is a call to become alert and watchful in our prayers to guard us from temptation. As we pray this, we seek our Heavenly Father for spiritual protection from the enemy of our souls.

Matthew 6:12-6:12 | The command to forgive others goes to the very heart of the Gospel because our own forgiveness depends on it. Embracing this most difficult part of the Lord's prayer is the key to true peace with God and others, making it also one of the most rewarding & freeing things one can do. This message explores one of the most profound teachings regarding forgiveness, and gives practica...

Matthew 6:12-6:12 | The great truth that is spoken by Jesus in this short verse is that God is approachable and will respond mercifully towards each one of us. As we come before God, humbly imploring him to forgive us, it does not matter what we have done or how big our debt is... God is wiling to blot out our transgressions. He is wiling to pay the price for the debt that each one of us owes, in...

Matthew 6:11-6:11 | To pray ?"give us this day our daily bread" is to recognize that God actually cares about the minute details of our lives, is the One whom we depend upon for everything, and that we are to pray for enough.

Matthew 6:10-6:10 | We pray for God's will to be done, but do we know what that means? God's will is that his glory would radiate out from this world because of what Jesus Christ has done. We as Christians have the awesome privilege of joining in with that work, so that God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:10-6:10 | To pray ?"Your Kingdom come" is to pray ?"my kingdom go", ?"Make your Kingdom visible in the world through the Church", and ?"Come, Lord Jesus!".

Matthew 6:9-6:9

Matthew 6:9-6:9 | That Jesus invites and enables us to call God, "Father" reveals His goodness and grace. That He is our "Father in Heaven" reveals His greatness and glory.

Mark 2:23-2:28 | This passage takes a closer look at Sabbath rest - an often misunderstood and lacking habit in our spiritual routines. But if we are to truly have relationship with Jesus, we must understand and engage Sabbath rest because Jesus declared himself the lord of it.

Matthew 11:28-11:30 | Jesus makes two phenomenal invitations to tired people in this text. The first is to come and trust Him for salvation and the second is to take up the way of Jesus by being yoked to Him.

Colossians 3:22-3:24 | Applying our Christian faith to all of life is a crucial part of our discipleship to Jesus. And since we spend so much of our time at our jobs, connecting our faith to our work is critically important. The Bible tells us that whatever it is we do, we should work hard at it for Jesus and for His glory.

Genesis 1:26-1:28 | The biblical creation account stands in contrast to the rest. It begins with God working ? hands in the dust and dirt ? fashioning humanity and the whole world. God works, made us in His image to work, and sent Jesus to do the greatest work of all so that our ruling here and now would be training for reigning in the age to come.

John 16:25-16:33 | How do you get through the pains and struggles of this world and sin? You have to look to the love of the father, the peace of the son and the hope of the cross! When we do, we will never lose heart in the power of the gospel and how it impacts our lives.

John 16:16-16:24 | The Bible urges us to live a joy-filled life. It calls us to some serious joy. But how is that possible with such reason for sorrow surrounding us? What does Jesus mean when He says that our sorrow will turn to joy and how do we ensure that we experience it?

John 16:1-16:15 | What could be better than having Jesus on earth right now? Jesus tells us that having the Holy Spirit is better! The Holy Spirit is given to the church in order to bring us through suffering, help us in evangelism and lead us into the truth.

John 15:18-15:27 | Though followers of Jesus will experience opposition in the world, Jesus has promised that the Holy Spirit? the Spirit of Truth? will bear witness along with us. But, contrary to how we often view it, we are secondary participants in the primary work of witnessing that the Holy Spirit is already doing. That is a freeing and empowering truth!

John 15:9-15:17 | The primary evidence that Christ is in us, and that we are in Christ, and the first fruit that He wants us to grow, is love. As God the Father loved His Son, Jesus, so Jesus loves His disciples - which becomes the foundation for our love for one another. First & foremost, God wants us to love Him, and then to love others.

John 15:1-15:8 | The Christian life apart from Jesus is no life at all. In the last of the great 'I am' sayings found in John's Gospel, ?"I am the true Vine," Jesus spells out for his disciples three significant principles for a fruitful life: Union with Jesus is the basis for fruitfulness, the Father is continually pruning believers with the goal of making them more fruitful, the call of the...

John 14:4-14:31 | This Easter we dwell on what Jesus did for us in salvation, does in us in sanctification, and does through us in sending us to astonishingly do even greater works than Jesus as His Church in the world.

Luke 23:34-23:46 | As Jesus hung on the cross He uttered seven statements that are absolutely live-changing for us.

John 13:36-14:3 | Deep within the hearts of every human, there is a longing for 'home'. There is a constant restlessness when the heart does not feel at home. Jesus makes it clear that our home, where we belong, is with him.