Damascus Road Community Church

We are on a six-week journey as a church to love God more faithfully, follow God more trustfully, and listen to God more mindfully. Each week, we are looking at different characters from the Bible and learning how they coped with a difficult phase in their lives and came out strong. This weekend, we will look at a particularly dark season in David’s life. Yet, he was able to come out of this long...

I’m looking forward to being online with you this weekend. Last week, we launched our new series Standing Strong, which is all about letting faith, not fear, be our default reaction when it comes to uncertain times. This week, we’ll be looking at the Apostle Peter’s life and what we can learn from him that can help us continue to Stand Strong in uncertain times. I am looking forward to interacting...

A virus creating havoc in our world, layoffs at work, slowdown in the economy, panic among people. Sudden and drastic change is everywhere and uncertainty, it seems, has taken a lease next door and set up shop. But what if faith, not fear, was our default reaction to the uncertainties in life? Envision a day when you could trust more and fear less. What would that look like? Join us this weekend a...

As a church, our hearts and prayers are with people facing the impact of Covid-19. I proposed to our elders and trustees and have received full support from our leaders to designate a tithe of our giving from the Easter week to go toward Covid-19 Relief. We will be partnering with several local initiatives and also with our hardest hit partner churches overseas. Together, we can be a community of...

For the last several weeks, we’ve been following Jesus as He makes His way towards Jerusalem. This coming Sunday, Palm Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem. The King has arrived! There’s reason to celebrate! There’s reason to hope. But as we’ll come to see, we’ll go from celebration to weeping. For Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem is leading to his betrayal, arrest, and dea...

I'm so excited for our time together this weekend online, and I'm looking forward to seeing what God does in us and through us.  This week, I'll have the privilege of being our guide through the gospel of Luke. We're looking at Luke 17:1-10. It’s all about faith. I’m praying God gives us the courage to do what He’s calling each of us to do, as we continue to take our next right step.

The question before the church is, how are we, as disciples of Christ, to live in these times?

Theologians almost universally agree that the parable of the shrewd manager in Luke 16 is the most difficult and complicated teaching of Jesus and one of the hardest to interpret. While there are many ways to interpret this parable, we will look at how this teaching of Jesus can shake us out of complacency, instruct us on who God is and who we are in Him, remind us how we only have a small window...

The Joy of finding lost things! I am so excited for this week’s message based on the Gospel of Luke Chapter 15. In this chapter, the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin prepare us for the parable of the prodigal son and his brother. The lostness of the younger prodigal son is no accident. It is willful. He sins his way out of the house. But this story is about more than the son who left a...

This weekend, we will attend a dinner party with Jesus at the home of a prominent Pharisee. But inviting Jesus into your home (or your life) can be risky, as the people assembled soon find out. Things start off tense, then get progressively edgy. Jesus refuses to follow social norms or even engage in polite, but superficial conversations. His words and conduct leave the people at the dinner party...

I feel a deep sense of urgency regarding this weekend’s message. Every day, we are presented with two ways to live. How we make that choice impacts the narrative arc of our life’s story. Jesus says a lot of deep and profound things in Luke chapters 12 and 13. Toward the end of His discourse, he says something that a lot of us who have grown up in church have probably heard more than once. He says,...

Isn’t it annoying when you discover that your phone has only 5 percent battery left? Ever feel like you’re walking around on near empty battery? You know God is there and He has a purpose for your life, but most times it just doesn’t feel like it. You start to wonder; Is there purpose in the everyday mundane rhythms of my life? Be encouraged! There is fuel for your soul! Watch as our Executive Pas...

Do you feel like you have a lot of questions about Jesus – who he is and what his call on your life really means? Do you ever think you need to get all your questions answered or have a better understanding of the Bible and God before you can fully surrender and get in the game? This week we look at how Jesus’s followers were full of confusion and questions and misconceptions about Jesus, God, and...

Many of us have experienced disappointment, loss, loneliness, and missed expectations; these are all an unfortunate fact of life on this side of eternity. As a result, we often try to protect ourselves and our emotions by lowering our expectations, guarding our hope, and dreaming smaller to avoid being hurt and let down. We all learn to establish “realistic expectations” … but what happens when we...

We continue our pilgrimage through Luke and stop at the town which served as a base for much of Jesus’ ministry – Capernaum. In an event that will mark a turning point for Jesus’ ministry, we see His reach extending to those outside the Jewish people. In a particularly fascinating exchange, Jesus praises the faith of a man who has much to teach us. Read up on Luke 7 (it only takes 7 minutes) and j...

Many people think God is distant, disengaged, and detached from us. This raises an interesting question: Just how approachable is Jesus? We will look at that question as we continue to walk with Jesus through chapters 5 & 6 of Luke this week. As Jesus makes His way through the towns of Galilee, He teaches, preaches, heals the sick and brings hope and healing to the discouraged and the despaired. W...

Happy New Year! It is that time of the year when hundreds of millions of us around the world will be making resolutions for the new year (and many will break them by the end of January). What if I told you there is one particular resolution you can make that can have a cascading effect on all other aspects of your life? This weekend, we will dwell in Luke 4 and hear Jesus clarify His mission (and...

We know very little about John other than he baptized so many and so often the name stuck - John the Baptist. What do you do so often that it becomes part of your name? Although we know very little about John, the gospels only tell us about three days in his life… the day he baptized Jesus; the day he doubted, and the day he lost his head… in Heaven’s economy he and his mission were so important a...

Caesar is not Lord! Join us as we journey through the story of Jesus' birth during a time when Caesar thought he was and had it all. Who is Lord? Who is the real King?

Here we go! We are off on our Adventures in Luke (take 9 minutes and read Luke chapter 1 this week). We will focus in on Luke 1:26-38 this weekend. Mary was a young, poor teenager from an obscure Jewish village called Nazareth when the angel Gabriel surprises her. Gabriel informs Mary that she has been chosen by God to be the mother of a son. And that this Son was not any ordinary son. He would be...

The Gospel of Luke gives us one of the fullest accounts of the life of Christ. Luke insists that the coming of Jesus is good news for everyone and so we find stories involving women, children, Gentiles, the poor, the sick, the helpless, and the outcasts. And in the new community that Jesus started, anyone could come in, no one was perfect, but when they met Jesus, extraordinary things start to hap...

These three words start off one of the most famous and recognizable passages in the Bible. This week we are going to try to put on the ancient lenses of faith and see what this creation narrative would have looked like to the original audience. That is going to take us on a journey from the beginning of time, through the temple of God, and to a vantage point where we might see a different perspect...

Deep inside every person is a God-instilled missional impulse to make a difference in our world. A dream to see the spread of joy, love and peace. To see hope overtake despair and light overcome darkness. The celebrating of people from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. Leaving a lasting legacy of a world changed for the better. We can make it happen, together, in community. Join us this w...

In continuation of our conversation from this weekend, please consider: Setting aside 15 minutes and reading or listening to the book of Colossians Choosing one weekend over the next month to come early to church We have looked at how Paul makes it crystal clear to the tiny, little church in the not-so-important town of Colossae that the mission of the community of God is to proclaim Christ and to...

We are starting a new sermon series titled 20/20. We will try and get a glimpse of what God might have for us moving forward. What if the future vision of Christ for us is to continue to form and sustain a culture in our church where people bring people to meet Jesus, where every follower of Jesus is on a pathway of growth, and disciples making disciples become the norm? Where people embody the ch...