Community Christian Church

Portraits of a Revolution - Christ the Victor 27.03.2023 46:36 ↓

"He cancelled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross." - Colossians 2:14-15

Portraits of a Revolution - The Great Judgement 20.03.2023 50:30 ↓

God will not tolerate the alienation and disorder that sin brings. The declaration in the final courtroom, ‘Not guilty!’ is ours only because Jesus has suffered in our place for the sins we have committed. We are found not guilty because we receive Christ’s righteousness and are thereby reconciled to God.

Portraits of a Revolution - Ransom/Redemption 13.03.2023 46:28 ↓

When we consider how great the weight of sin really is we begin to see how dire the human circumstance actually is. Only then do we begin to see the need for an extraordinary intervention to rescue us from sin. Because our sin is so great, redemption is not cheap.

Portraits of a Revolution - Blood Sacrifice 13.03.2023 45:04 ↓

Christ’s blood is a metaphor that stands primarily for the suffering love of God. It suggests that there is no sorrow God has not known, no grief he has not borne, no price he was unwilling to pay, in order to reconcile the world to himself in Christ . . . it is a love that has endured the bitterest realities of suffering and death in order that its purposes might prevail . . . the motif of Christ...

Portraits of a Revolution - Passover/Exodus 27.02.2023 53:09 ↓

Jesus has brought us from bondage into freedom, from sin into righteousness, and from death into life.