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John 15:1-17 // Caleb Jenkins Whenever we face challenges or suffering in our lives, we wonder “Is there someone who will be there for me in this?” In our passage, Jesus’ disciples are facing the same question in their last night with Jesus before he is arrested. Jesus responds with a call to greater intimacy through the image of him as the true vine and their true friend. Join us as we continue w...

One of the most important questions to ask is not just “what is God” or “who is God?” but “Where is God?” Interestingly enough, Jesus makes it clear that to answer that question we must also ask “Where am I?” Join us as we continue walking through the Gospel of John to explore where God longs to live most.  Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49018548 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurc...

Jesus says that if we ask anything in his name, he’ll do it. Does “anything” really mean “anything?” And what if the real secret to knowing Jesus’ answer has less to do with what we want and more to do with where it is found? Join us as we continue walking the Gospel of John to find our heart’s deepest and truest desires and how it shapes our everyday prayers. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/e...

The key marker for Jesus’ followers is love, but this love is not a squishy, abstract feeling. It is raw feet-washing, humiliating love. This may be one of the easiest teachings of Jesus to mentally grasp, and yet one of the hardest to genuinely live into.  Join us as we continue walking the Gospel of John to discover how we serve like Jesus and why anyone would try.  Sermon Notes: https://www.bib...

In a world when the word of country leaders and authority figures cannot always be believed let alone trusted, would you believe the word of King Jesus? His desire is that we believe His message of salvation for all people and enjoy fellowship with Him today and for all eternity. But that requires us to be good stewards of Jesus’ message and respond to it in repentance. In other words, Jesus’ mess...

Do you want to see Jesus? Not see as in only look from afar, but you want to meet him and to know him, and experience life in him that is full of peace, joy, purpose, and fulfillment.  Even if you are skeptical or wrestling with who Jesus is for you, there is something compelling about Jesus that you want to see and find out for yourself. But Jesus tells us that the only way for us to truly see an...

A common cliche today is “I’ll believe it when I see it,” but when we come with the posture of faith we say, “I believe it, so I see it.” This is because the Truth is a person to trust, not an argument to defend. Jesus is our King, and he needs no defending.    Join us as allow our hearts to begin to soften by the faith-building narrative of Christ’s final week on earth, and to truly see our King...

It’s one thing to ponder gift ideas for people we love. It’s a totally audacious task to wonder what God wants for Christmas. Or is it?    Join us this Christmas as we look at what God wants from us and for us as we celebrate the birth of our King and Savior Jesus Christ! Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49002179 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new...

Everybody experiences the Christmas season a little differently. Whether you are surrounded by family or not this Christmas, pain and loneliness can knock the jingle bells right out of us.    When the greatest joys and deepest sadness coexist covered in mistletoe, how are we to anticipate King Jesus meeting us here? Join us for the comfort that comes in an overlooked Christmas song: Psalm 22.   Se...

It can be so easy to let the good news of Christmas and God’s rescue of us become routine, old news. But when that happens, we are forgetting all that God has done for us and the gospel’s transformative power doesn’t change us.   Join us as Psalm 103 challenges us to truly remember our King’s Rescue. We will see what kind of rescue we’ve experienced, what this rescue tells us about our rescuer, an...

Christmas always comes with its fair share of surprises, but advent is meant to cultivate anticipation. Throughout the history of the church, Advent has been a time to return to practices of anticipating our promised King’s return. But the question remains: what kind of king should we expect in Jesus?   Join us as we explore the unchanging character of our promised King in Psalm 72 and so bolster...

The Christmas season is about God’s King, come to earth to rescue his people and redeem his creation. It’s a story that is foretold, among other places, in Israel’s prayer book: the Psalms. Woven throughout this prayer book is the story of the coming King, the Messiah, whom God has appointed over against the kings of this earth. Join us as we begin this advent season by encountering the coming Kin...

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977446 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2553/responses/new 22.11.20

There are few texts in our bibles that have such a sordid history like Paul’s words to slaves and masters. How is the thoughtful Christian to understand what Paul is being led by the Spirit to write in Ephesians and how that impacts today?    Join us as we begin to clear the rubble of deconstruction and reconstruct a faith of biblical truth and communal hope.  Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/e...

Marriage. Some people want it. Some people have baggage with it. Some want to avoid it. Others have gone through seasons of deconstruction due to the shrapnel of a broken marriage. What does Jesus make marriage about?    What if marriage isn’t just about marriage?    Join us as we continue reconstructing faith through Ephesians learning what marriage could be for all of us whether you get married...

It’s the heartbeat of the age, how do we be free? Strategies for freedom abound, but real freedom seems allusive, even for many Christians.    Join us as we continue the story of the Spirit across the Biblical narrative. The Spirit is essential to our freedom, but what His freedom looks like may surprise you.    21.09.19

Chances are good the majority of people don’t think they are engaged in “dishonest” work on a daily basis, but are you so sure? What if the problem has less to do with what you consider “dishonest” or more about a robust framework of “honest” work?    Join us as we continue our journey in Ephesians of reconstructing a faith that actually blossoms into honest work, and therefore generates a more me...

Who are you? How do you know? What does that mean for your life? These questions dominate our modern lives, and each of us seeking to answer these questions on our own is exhausting and isolating. Join us as we see that as believers, our truest identity is our new identity that we’ve received from Christ, and that identity builds others up in love. After we see why that is true, we will see three...

One of the top 3 arguments against the church is our persistent disunity, which is all the more alarming when we come across the myriad calls for unity in Scripture. Often mere commands without the big “why” leave people disinterested at best or frustrated at worst.  Join us as we explore why unity is even possible in the church as we continue to reconstruct our faith through the little letter to...

Out of all the things the apostle Paul could pray for the church, here he zeros in on their growing experiential understanding of God’s love for us in Christ. Why? Because that is the greatest need of the human heart.  Join us as we continue to walk through this brilliant letter to the church in Ephesus, as the apostle Paul guides us into how we can have a deeper realization of God’s love in our o...

We don’t always get what we see or see what we get. The same is true with the church. We need to not merely look at the church with the values of our world but with the inspiration of God’s word. When we look at her in light of Scripture, she has a glorious story to tell, and we are invited to play a part.  Join us as we continue our journey in reconstructing faith through the brilliant letter to...

When our imagination of what the church is rubbing against the reality of what the church is, we can experience extraordinary dissonance. This is especially true when it comes to racial and ethnic divisions throughout history within the church.  But what does Jesus think about this? What have the people of Jesus missed about the work of Jesus that has distorted the church of Jesus? Join us as we c...

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/ 48944853 22.09.04

What is the one resource we need the most and yet often drop when we feel shaky in our faith? Prayer. Maybe you’ve tried and failed to keep rhythms of prayer. Maybe you don’t know where to start.  What if the problem we have with prayer has less to do with prayer in the first place? Join us as we continue the journey of reconstructing a faith in the brilliant letter to the church in Ephesus! Sermo...

“I am in a season of deconstruction.” It is likely that you have either read, heard, or said these words in recent months. The deconstructing of faith is a popular practice these days. But what is it exactly? For some, it is an opportunity to live their authentic life free of all moral and religious authority. For others, it is a sincere attempt to determine if their faith has been formed by the w...