Community Christian Church Podcast

Jesus is the answer to your need for hope. He is the resurrection and the life! Have you ever struggled when you felt like Jesus didn’t show up through the hard stuff? These feelings are normal! As hard as it is to accept. Sometimes there’s just more going on than we can fully comprehend.   After you watch the talk for week 3 of our series I AM let us know your thoughts below! ____ Co-Founding Pas...

He is the Good Shepherd and the Gate! 🐑 It doesn’t matter how many times you fall. It doesn’t matter how often you return right to the same old spot you’ve gotten stuck in before. Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He will lovingly and carefully pull you out. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."  John 10:11 He is Good, and he is always with you! After you wa...

🍞🐑✝️➡️🌿💡 Jesus is our deepest hunger! He is the BREAD of life 🍞 Our new series “I AM” is focused on the “I AM” statements in the Gospel of John, which is the fourth book in the New Testament written by one of Jesus’ closest friends and followers. Our purpose for this series is to better understand Jesus’ IDENTITY and who he is. Through Jesus, we CAN experience life to the full.  ____ COMMUNIT...

What is your shadow side? 👤 We were all made unique and in the image of God! That’s why generosity is in our DNA 😌 But, there is a shadow side that that we may not be aware of. A shadow side is the aspect of your personality you often can’t see or perhaps don’t want to acknowledge. It’s usually the reverse of one of your strengths. Together, let’s discover our shadow sides and learn to grow beyo...

As someone made in HIS image, you ARE wired for generosity 🙌 🎉 To some degree, you can’t help being generous because generosity is in your DNA! However, there are some nuances about our genetic wiring that we will continue to uncover. Together as a community, let’s discover more about our strengths in generosity! After you watch the talk, let us know your thoughts below! How has God wired you to...

YOU are wired for generosity! To some degree, we can’t help being generous because generosity is in our DNA. Yet, there are some nuances about our genetic wiring that we can uncover! In your life today, how can you be more generous? After you watch the talk let us how you express generosity! ____ Teaching Pastor Tammy Melchien continues our series: Genetically Generous Want to watch the whole serv...

You are genetically wired to be generous! When we see generosity, we instinctively know it’s beautiful. It moves something deep down inside of us. And why? Because we’re wired to be generous! It’s part of who we are. It’s in our DNA! Of course, in our broken world, we all have had experiences and made choices that short-circuited our generosity wiring. We all struggle with selfishness. But when we...

This week you are going to be challenged to see things from a different perspective. We live in a performance-based world, and often our actions lead others to see us as “good” or “bad.” But The Kingdom of Heaven does not work like that. In Part 2 of our Kingdom Perspectives series, you’ll hear the story of the Rich Young Ruler and how to enter the Kingdom of God from different cultural perspectiv...

How do we help form good character in our children? Likely all of us have kids in our lives that we care about. But even if you don’t have kids that you’re in close proximity with right now…We all want the children in our community to develop the kind of character that will lead them to make a positive contribution to society as they grow up. So, let’s talk about how we can form good character in...

We have a strong desire for deep meaningful relationships! And, so do our kids. We don’t want the kids in our lives to experience the loneliness that has so plagued this generation. Instead, we want our kids to have deep, meaningful, and life-giving friendships – the kind God created us to experience. After you watch the talk, let us know your thoughts. How can you pursue a meaningful relationship...

Even in despair, there is hope 🕊️ Likely all of us have a kid or student in our life that we care about, whether we are a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, teacher, small group leader, neighbor, coach, etc. Just because that kid or student is loved and cared for doesn’t mean he or she won’t face mental health struggles. How do we help these kids and students face these battles? In Jesus, we find...

Our kids are struggling, and chances are you don’t need a bunch of stats to tell you that. The issues facing this generation of kids seem to be increasingly complex and confusing for children. One of the most significant challenges kids we love face today is mental health. But not just our kids are impacted. Everyone is affected by these mental health challenges. Our kids need us. They need us, as...

Did you know that children need MORE than just their parents? Your kids NEED other adults: teachers, coaches, youth leaders at church, family friends, and extended family. These positive role models reinforce Christian values and do things parents sometimes can’t do. But at COMMUNITY, we want to grow as parents and mentors together. This series is a NEED for everyone. How can we as a community inv...

Sometimes it feels like our purpose is a particular pursuit that’s “out there” somewhere. But what if our purpose is right in front of us, and we just need to have the eyes to see it, the ears to hear it, and the heart to capture it?  In this final week of our series “Why Church?”, we need to understand that Jesus has a purpose for us AND his church. After you watch the talk, let us know your thou...

In this moment in the history of the world, the community of people God has created to be present with is the church. He chooses to work in us and through us in a powerful way as a community. And what we are meant to experience together in this community is a foretaste of what is coming.  For you see, a time is coming when God will be present with us in a new and even greater way! God created the...

At COMMUNITY, we are passionately committed to the church. We believe that Jesus is the hope of the world, and he chooses to bring that hope to the world through the church. But, we still want to wrestle honestly with this question, “Why Church?” and the best place to start is to try to understand why God created the church. When God created people, God made us to bear God’s image and put us in ch...

Did you know The Church has existed for over 2000 years? CRAZY 🤯 But have you ever thought about… Why? 🤔 Join us as we go back to the birth of this community; this 2000-year-old institution, when Jesus gave us a name. Let’s challenge ourselves to live into our name. To be what Jesus hoped we would be when he first called us, “Church.” ____ Lead Pastor Dave Ferguson begins our new series: Why Chu...

The resurrection of Jesus means that we have PEACE with God!!! He is risen! And now we get to share his peace with each other and take his peace out to the world. He didn’t just want you to receive his peace, he also wanted you to pass on his peace to others. He wants you to be a PEACE ambassador! After you watch the talk, let us know your thoughts below! How can you spread PEACE to the world? ___...

“Blessed are the peacemakers…” Matthew 5:9 Those are Jesus’ own words. And he longs to lead us in his way of making peace. That’s right! Jesus longs to bring you True Peace and lead you in his way of peacemaking! Imagine this… What if every person and community lived in peace with God and each other? We would experience the relational and societal flourishing Jesus longs to bring! So for today, Pa...

This week you will be challenged to see things from a different perspective. Everyone has their own perspective - It’s only natural. Each person is shaped by their own culture, experiences, and traditions, and sometimes that creates a challenge. You may not be able to see the complete picture or gain the fullest understanding if you are relying on your own experience. But what if you looked into t...

As it had been said every week: A disciple is someone who hears from God and does what he says. Throughout this series, as we’ve learned about the Kingdom of God, we have dug into one of Jesus’ most important teachings, the Sermon on the Mount. So, this week as we wrap up our series YOU+, let’s listen to the words of Jesus and accept his challenge together! ____ COMMUNITY Pastor Ted Coniaris conti...

Just think about the last conflict you had with someone in your life. When butting heads or arguing with someone, it’s easy to think “I know”. But what if, instead of assuming you know better, you lead with a curious posture? Instead of being suspicious of that person, you gave them the opportunity to explain their perspective. How could that change the way we connect with each other? After you wa...

Imagine a life without worry when it comes to wealth and possessions. Imagine a life where you feel peace, contentment, and freedom. Everyone worries in their own way. But is there a way we don’t have to do it alone? The truth is Jesus wants to help us. In Mathew 6:33 Jesus says, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” -Matthew 6:33 Th...

We’re 7-weeks into our YOU+ series! The whole intention behind this YOU+ series is to help us grow in the ways of God’s kingdom… to help us become disciples who hear from God and do what he says. YOU+ is an invitation to step into the “life and life to the full” (John 10:10). This week, as we continue to learn from The Sermon on the Mount, in what ways do you desire approval in your life? The trut...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been diving into the Sermon on the Mount to learn from Jesus and we’ve been calling this the “YOU+ life”. It is life lived in God’s Kingdom, and we enter into it by being Jesus’ disciples, people who hear from God and do what he says. So what better way to learn from Jesus than to look at one of his most famous sermons! One thing to think about for this week, is what...