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2 Samuel 24 // Ben Beasley The question isn’t if we’ll fall. It’s when. Some can ignore it for a while, but eventually, we come to terms with our own proclivities, areas of brokenness, and destructive behaviors. If we’re honest with ourselves, everyone has moments and sometimes seasons when we’ve intentionally made destructive decisions toward ourselves, toward others, and God. Where do you fall,...

2 Samuel 16: 5-12 // Ben Beasley I understand that there are people here who have lived more life than me. Who have experienced much more than me. I’m well aware of that fact. But in my years, I’ve lived enough life simply to say this. Losses change us. They make us different. We don’t come out the other end the same. If we are honest, the wounds are often there, lying underneath the surface. Loss...

Hebrews 11: 1-3, 6 //  Tom Nelson When you hear the word faith, what first comes to mind? What may come to mind is a kind of wishful thinking, an irrational blind leap, or a last resort option when all other options have vanished. But what is faith as the Holy Scriptures reveal it? And why is it the key that unlocks the flourishing life God intends for us? Properly understood, faith is the currenc...

2 Samuel 12: 1-7a // Brent Nelsen What is God going to do about David’s evil? That’s what Second Samuel 12 is about. David is the king of Israel. He’s a very powerful man. And God is telling Nathan to go confront him about his sin. We need Nathans in our society and we need Nathans in our lives who can confront us when we need confronting. David has a choice, as we all do when we’re confronted wit...

2 Samuel 11:1-27 // Ben Beasley Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49098927   Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new 23.07.07

2 Samuel 9: 1-7 // Tom Nelson Early in David’s story, he is described as a man after God’s own heart. Having a heart for God means loving as God loves. David respectfully, honorably and it would seem warmly, calls Mephibosheth by name. The writer of Samuel wants to emphasize that here. David’s loving action of speaking Mephibosheth’s name is an encouraging reminder for each of us that one of the w...

2 Samuel 7: 1-17 // Andrew Jones God isn’t like the other gods, the false gods of the surrounding nations. You know, for them, after all the victory David has experienced. The riches, the land, the power, the great name, he would owe God something. Building this temple would be payback. The least he could do for the God who has so richly blessed him. That would have been the logic of the ancient w...

2 Samuel 6: 1-15 // Tom Nelson Where is lasting joy found? It is not found in managing God, lasting joy is found in the presence of God. Without God, there is no lasting joy. C.S. Lewis thought a lot about joy. One of his interesting insights I think he had about joy was the importance of proximity when it comes to experiencing joy. “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you wan...

1 Samuel 24: 1-7 // Tom Nelson For God’s covenant people throughout history, waiting was synonymous with knowing God and being known by God, of going deeper with God, but now waiting is more often than not, viewed as if we’ve missed what God has for us or that God must be ignoring us and our desires. I think it is fair to say, waiting on God is one of life’s greatest challenges. Sermon Notes: http...

1 Samuel 7: 1-11 // Tom Nelson The David and Goliath story is more than an underdog story, more than a big giant who is slain, rather it is a story about eyes that truly see. A story not so much about special courage as it is about spiritual insight. Not so much about an underdog who wins, but a shepherd boy who sees differently. Faith sees differently! Faith sight is different from eyesight. Thro...

After millennia of promising a king would come, he finally appears, and it’s almost completely overlooked by the world. In the shadow of a massive empire, comes the king over all, and he came for us.   Join us this Christmas Eve as we take time to notice and celebrate the birth of the promised king! Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new 22.12.24

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48999988 Prayer Request: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new 22.12.25

1 Samuel 18-20 / Caleb Jenkins Today, as we explore the story of David and Jonathan in 1 Samuel, I want to convince you that there are three myths in our culture about friendship that prevent us from experiencing friendship the way it’s meant to be, and more than that, keep us being the kind of friend that we as humans need. We’ll see, especially as we consider the kind of friend that Jonathan is,...

1 Samuel 16:1-13 // Tom Nelson Eyes can be tricky things. They play tricks on us. We believe what we see with our eyes more than almost anything else, but as humans, we have trouble seeing. Our seeing can mislead us, even deceive us. What we see often depends on who we listen to. Our human eyesight does not equate with spiritual insight. What do we do when what we see is in conflict with what we h...

1 Samuel 2: 1-10 // Brent Nelsen I know this is Mother’s Day, and Mother’s Day can be hard for some people. Many of you understand the pain that Hannah feels about being unable to have children. You may be struggling with infertility now. Or you struggled with it at some point in the past. Or maybe you are single but you have always wanted a family. You understand Hannah’s pain in a way that I can...

Acts 1: 1-11 // Tom Nelson We often hear things like being on the right side of history…but that can be a very tenuous and perilous assertion to make. As followers of Jesus, we know history is on the march according to a sovereign God’s plan and purpose. More important than being on the right side of history whatever that may be or not be, is that we know where we are in redemptive history. We now...

John 21: 1-19 // Tom Nelson I don’t know specifically where your brokenness or struggles lie, nor do I know what mistakes you have made or what your most regretful failures have been or currently are. But I am confident that if you are like me in my mistakes and failures, a crying question of my heart is what is God’s response? For those who are followers of Jesus, or who are considering following...

John 20:24-31 // Andrew Jones There comes a moment, in all of our stories, that to truly follow Jesus and believe in him requires more than intellectual assent to his existence. It is more than searching for him. It actually means understanding we are found by Him. He’s the one looking for us, not the other way around. Perhaps the most powerful doubts we ever experience are in moments of pain, los...

John 20:19-23 // Tom Nelson As Jesus appears to his disciples, he greets them with one word that emotionally changes everything.  It was the Hebrew word, shalom which is translated here in English as peace. Shalom is much more than an absence of conflict like we mostly use the word peace today.  Shalom embodies the presence, power, and proximity of the kingdom life Jesus was inaugurating in the wo...

John 20: 1-11 // Andrew Jones What is Easter to you? If you have been a Christian for a while, maybe you would say it’s about Jesus’ victory over death. If you haven't grown up in church, maybe it is a family day about dyeing eggs and hunting for candy. But what about John? He was a disciple of Jesus and was present for the first Easter. That first Easter was one of tragedy, loss, heartache, and p...

John 19: 28-42 // Andrew Jones Jesus lived a completely human life, but not just any human life. He lived a poor and oppressed life. He suffered rejection, ridicule and hatred. His best friends abandoned him. He was lied about, beaten and spat on until his death. He died a human death, but not just any human death. He died the most heinous and evil deaths any human could ever die. Jesus died that...

John 18:28-19:6 // Tom Nelson The game of chess reminds me of the Monday worlds we inhabit.  The places we live, work and play are a lot like an extended chess game with many players all with differing abilities and degrees of personal, social, and institutional power. And in life, it doesn’t take long to realize not one of us is completely in control. Not one of us is all knowledgeable, nor are w...

John 18: 1-18 // Brent Nelsen We live in a culture that says that when you get hit, you hit back twice as hard. And I think Christians are just as susceptible to this kind of mentality as anyone else and are all too often participants in it. But that’s not Jesus. Jesus says, when you get hit, you turn the other cheek. And here he practices what he preached. Jesus could have eviscerated this guy. B...

John 17 // Andrew Jones Jesus prays to his father: it’s time to reveal my beauty. Because Jesus knows that only his beauty can really change us. His beauty has been the purpose of his gospel from the very beginning. What we could never understand until Jesus, is the beauty of the God-man sacrificing himself for the same humanity that killed him in the first place. The image of sacrificial love, of...

John 16: 16-24 // Tom Nelson As Jesus prepares his disciples for his absence in the Gospel of John, he does not answer when he will return. Jesus does, however, focus on what following him will mean in his absence. Following Jesus will mean waiting. Waiting is hard for all of us. Maybe you are waiting for something right now in your life, the healing of a physical or emotional illness, a broken re...