Christ Church - Sumner

We continue our advent series and rediscover how the Messiah's birth and presence gives us the immeasurable gift of joy.

We continue our Emmanuel Advent series with a special lesson on the peace that Christ's birth brings. In today's world it seems that peace is very absent. We regularly hear on the news about the latest injustice, the latest polarization of "groups," and the latest promise from political and community leaders of how to remedy these ills. While the world promises that peace can be...

Rediscover the awe and wonder of a God who does the impossible through His presence that is always with us.

We explore the Great Commission, what it means for the totality of our Journey with Christ, and how believers live it out faithfully today. Join us as we examine the fitting close to Mark's gospel and Our Journey with Christ.

Pastor Joshua Strader provides an important lesson on receiving the sacrifice of Christ based on Mark 15.

Pastor Josha Strader explains that true greatness is not about power, but about serving others.

How does the Bible instruct us when we face spiritual opposition? And how can we do that confidently?

Pastor Joshua Strader tells us how keeping healthy perspectives on success keeps us in touch with God's sense of control and empowerment over our journeys of faith. While God desires us to experience miraculous changes (both in our lives and in serving others), He desires for those miracles to continue to keep us grounded in His power over our own.

Pastor Joshua Strader cuts through the distorted messages of contemporary culture to rediscover what Jesus meant when he said, "Take up your cross and follow me."

Pastor Joshua Strader discusses Mark 7, where Jesus' address to Pharisees called out their inconsistencies of heart and serves as a great litmus test of our inner motivations of faith habits today. 

Pastor Joshua Strader talks about an often overlooked method that Jesus used to mature his first followers- sending them out.   While many churches today adopt the "come and grow" format for spiritual development, it seems that Jesus had the opposite strategy. Missions and evangelism are some of the most transforming (and coincidentally forgotten) ways of growing in personal and communal...

We discuss Mark 4 to learn how Jesus instructed his first followers to begin growing in Him. We'll discuss the importance of transformational learning and the scriptures as a foundation for our growth.

We discuss the meaning of baptism and why it is such an imperative step for our decision to follow Jesus and participate in His saving mission to the world. 

We take time to respond to the events of the past few weeks through a special Service of Prayer and Seeking. We take some time to pray for the Kirk family, our nation's young adults, our divisions as a country, and our response as God's followers. We also take time to seek God's Word for spiritual guidance and perspective on how to respond to the hard situations of recent events and th...

From Jesus' first appointment of His twelve apostles, we discuss God's heart in connecting His followers to Him and one another and why it is still imperative for believers today to intentionally seek the right kind of community in their journeys with Christ.

In this episode, we take a look at the calling of Levi. We focus on Mark 2 as we look at how Jesus' unique way of calling the imperfect signals the kind of journey ahead for those who respond to the invitation to follow.

Join us as we take a closer look at the Gospel of Mark to see what the journey of discipleship looks like through the eyes of Jesus' first 12 followers. Through their own journey with Christ, we will see what it means to walk with Christ through life-long faith and mission today.

We conclude our study on Sabbath by reviewing what we've learned and gaining Biblical insights into how to  apply these concepts in transforming ways. As the apostle James reminds us, we should be doers of the Word and not hearers only! 

Pastor Joshua Strader  discusses how God intended Sabbath to be a day of communion with Him. Believers have been united around common practices that transform Sabbath from an ordinary day to an extraordinary opportunity to commune with our Creator. Join in as we rediscover the power of worship and connection to God as our deepest connection to true rest and renewal.

We take a deeper look at one of the often overlook dimensions of Sabbath's many blessings--the gift of community. Many of the scriptures from the Old and New Testaments share about how God's people have used the Sabbath as an occasion to build spiritual friendship and community.  During a day and age when people have never felt more disconnected, Sabbath invites us to break from the hurrie...

Pastor Joshua Strader takes a fresh look at how the scriptures and practices of other Christians around the world give us new insight and excitement to explore the joy in establishing a Sabbath routine.

Pastor Joshua Strader explores how Sabbath helps us place work in its proper place within our lives. He'll show how weekly times of  rest from work  actually help us to protect our priorities, better understand why God calls us to work, and enriches our work in the other six days by creating unique space in our lives for other activities that ground us in Christ. 

Pastor Joshua Strader begins a new sermon series that explores six dimensions of what it truly means to rest and find renewal in God through the gift of Sabbath. 

Pastor Joshua Strader concludes our series, "The Seven Seals of Revelation" by taking a deep look at Revelation 9 to learn how the knowledge of God's judgement tomorrow, motivates our faith and and mission today.

Pastor Joshua Strader teaches on the final seal-- The Seven Trumpets .  As all of heaven pauses, God begins his final preparations on the earth before the return of the Lamb.   Tune in as we learn about the Seven Trumpets of Revelation, what they have to do with God's ultimate plan of redemption for the earth, and how we as God's followers can be watching and preparing for these events in...