Christ Community Church (formerly ECC)

How do we find divine guidance for our lives? It seems that the Proverbs give us a way forward. Let’s think about what divine guidance means.

Christ Community Church (formerly ECC)

Pastor Bob Whitaker explores what the wisdom literature has to saw about wealth and poverty.

Pastor Bob speaks on the folly of pride and the wisdom of humility.

Christ Community Church (formerly ECC)

"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord...an honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips." Obviously, God values honesty and integrity.

Friends and neighbors can be life-giving, troubling, annoying, and necessary for a full and happy life. Scripture has some words of wisdom on this, so let's study it together.

Work does not equal life. Americans take the fewest vacation days of countries in the developed world. But, the opposite of work is also dangerous. What does Proverbs have to teach us about holding work in a proper light?

For the Christian, the ultimate authority is God. The practical question is, "How should we follow God when we have authority or live under it?"

Here is a message from Proverbs: "Choose your words carefully and don't use too many of them."

The advice of Proverbs 4 is straightforward. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get it! Pursue it! Spend everything you have to find it! It is life to you.

The amount of raw knowledge that is available to us is amazing. The amount of wisdom in our society is paltry. That's why Proverbs is so important.

How can we truly become what our middle name suggests: Evangelical COMMUNITY Church? Come and let's think about it.

Receiving, Equipping, Sending. This has been true of ECC since the beginning. We receive folks in fellowship, equip them for service, and send them out. Let's keep it up!

What is the DNA of our church, and how does it connect us to the grander, larger Church of Jesus Christ?

Sharing can involve gain but also sometimes sacrifice. Do we gain or sacrifice, or both, when we share the gospel?

What do we do when we feel we're not getting the answers to what we're looking for?

In this message we look at Jesus' call to give. Two separate and very different stories are recorded in Mark 12 and both deserve some serious reflection. What does it mean to give "to God the things that are God's"? If everything truly belongs to him as the creator of all things, how do we give it to him and meet our worldly obligations? What does "giving to God" look like? We'll explore these que...

We seem designed to depend upon one another, and we certainly depend on our God. But trusting another is risky; how do we know who we can trust? How do we know we can trust God?

Jesus gave the church a model prayer to teach us how to pray. The Lord's Prayer isn't just six petitions we should repeat vainly, but instead teaches us something about the proper perspectives or postures in prayer. This Sunday we'll consider how we, individually and corporately, can faithfully respond to Jesus' call to pray.

The action verb for this week is LOVE. According to Jesus we must even love our enemies. Is this a realistic command? If so, how can we do it?

According to Jesus, we are the light of the world. We are instructed to live in such a way that our lives point to God.

In the gospel stories, most of the encounters with Jesus include a call to action. This week, the focus is one word: Follow!

We want to life the life that Scripture calls us to life, but it's hard. Is simply putting your head down and trying harder the answer?

Our high school and middle school students lead us in worship and covered all aspects of the service today.