Community Christian Church - GA

Through three parables, Jesus illustrates God’s relentless commitment to reclaiming His lost children. Each story emphasizes an "all-out pursuit," culminating in a father who continues to seek and love his sons despite facing deep personal rejection. Ultimately, these narratives reveal a God who refuses to give up on those who have wandered away.

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When Jesus went through Samaria, and revealed Himself as the Messiah to the Samaritan woman, He was extending His ministry beyond the borders of Israel. He extended it to their enemies, and their lost family members (the lost tribes of Israel). In this encounter, Jesus is revealing that His desire is for His people to look beyond those who are “like” them and who they “like”. We must bring Jesus e...

God has deep compassion on those who are harassed, helpless, and confused. He longs to shepherd them to green pastures of rest and plenty. He longs to give them life. But Jesus says that the Lord of the Harvest needs workers who will go into the field, looking for who might be ready to receive the invitation of Jesus.

Just like the first disciples dropped everything to follow Jesus, we are called to make Him the absolute center of our lives. This means paying close attention to the people around us and asking God to help us see how He is already at work in their situations. By keeping our eyes and ears open, we can step up as "fishers of men" and invite others to experience how leaning into God can completely c...

Instead of trying to figure out who to blame for suffering, Jesus teaches us to see pain as an opportunity for God to bring healing and restoration right now. He challenges the idea that faith is just about waiting for heaven, showing us that God actually wants to fix the brokenness of this world through us today. If we focus only on religious rules while ignoring the needs of real people, we are...

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While we often pit religion against relationship, Jesus demonstrated that true intimacy with God requires learning His language through the Law rather than defining love on our own terms. By identifying the commands to love God and neighbor as the "heaviest" obligations, Jesus fulfilled the Law and dismantled the modern, self-centered gospel of "being true to yourself." True life is found not in s...

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Jesus rejected the corrupt temple system of His day to show that God’s presence is no longer confined to a building that excludes the poor and the outsider. Instead, He established His own body as the true temple and later poured His Spirit out on His followers, making us the living place where God dwells on earth. This means we cannot fully experience God in isolation; we need to be united with a...

Although we often look to God for comfort, the disciples were actually terrified by Jesus’ miracles because they revealed a power that could not be tamed or controlled. We tend to want a God who simply fixes our problems, but true faith invites us to let go of our own agenda and submit to His plan to change us. By trading our desire for control for a holy reverence, we discover that fearing the Lo...

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By circumventing the established religious hierarchy, Jesus challenged the prevailing belief that God’s presence and forgiveness were confined exclusively to the rituals of the Jerusalem Temple. When He forgave a paralyzed man's sins before healing him, He assumed an authority reserved for the Temple system, shocking religious leaders who viewed this unauthorized act as blasphemous. He further dis...

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In His hometown of Nazareth, Jesus announced Himself as the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy, declaring a time of divine favor, freedom, and forgiveness. However, the crowd's initial amazement quickly turned to violence when Jesus suggested that God's blessing would extend beyond Israel to their enemies, challenging their desire for an exclusive national restoration. This reaction highlights the h...

Life frequently defies our expectations through circumstances we cannot control, teaching us that we also cannot manipulate God through transactional religion. Jesus’ miracle at Cana illustrates His unexpected goodness, as He transformed water meant for ritual purification into the finest wine, symbolizing the shift from legalistic cleansing to the abundant joy of God's Kingdom. Unlike the first s...

While we often start the new year striving for control over our circumstances, we inevitably discover that life is unpredictable and cannot be fully managed by human effort. This realization invites us to abandon the anxiety of control and instead pursue an interactive life joined to God. Jesus subverted expectations by arriving not as a military conqueror, but as the Lamb of God who was baptized...

It’s easy to get lost in the brokenness of the world around us. The chaos, the anxiety, the feeling that things are just... stuck. But what if the "life of the age to come" is breaking out right under our noses? 🌍 In this New Year message, we look at Paul’s famous prayer in Ephesians. It’s a reminder that God isn’t just a distant idea—He is active, alive, and moving in your actual, everyday life.

The shepherds were "amazed" by the miracle of Christ's birth, but Mary chose a deeper path: she treasured and pondered these things. In a world defined by instant, emotional reactions—what the sermon calls "amazement"—we are often left empty when the feeling fades. Learn the ancient, transformative practice of pondering to stop reacting to circumstances and start allowing God to generate lasting g...

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This Third Sunday of Advent is all about Joy! We love the childlike wonder of Christmas, but as adults, we tend to put our faith—and God—into a neat, small box only to be opened in emergencies or on Sundays. This week, we tear open that box and look at the magnificent, surprising reality of God's active presence. Diving into the story of Mary and Elizabeth, we see God disrupting everyone's plans a...

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God often shows up in ways that interrupt our plans and call us into a life we never expected. In Luke’s Christmas story, we see two very different responses to God’s surprising work: Zechariah reaches for certainty and control, while Mary responds with humble surrender. Their stories reveal that the fullness of life with God isn’t found in understanding everything, but in trusting Him even when w...

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Join us this Advent season as we dive deep into the profound opening of John’s Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word." This is more than a simple Christmas story; it’s the astonishing truth that Jesus is the eternal Word—the Logic, the Life, and the Light behind all creation. The miracle of Christmas is that this infinite God became flesh and dwelt among us, not just so we could understand a theo...