First Christian Church El Reno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our new worship series "The Gospel According to Dolly Parton" with his sermon "The Good News of Difference". "We are still so cruel so often to people who are different, who are dreamers and who dress a little strange to our taste. We just can not figure out that we are created different, and our diversity isn't a burden but a gift f...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our new worship series "The Gospel According to Dolly Parton" with his sermon "The Good News of Solidarity". "We get to decide what tomorrow looks like, who is gonna get added in, and who's gonna get left out. We get to decide who we're not going to abandon to hunger and to want. We're going to pick who belongs to our familie...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our new worship series "The Gospel According to Dolly Parton" with his Homily "The Good News of Healing". Scripture: Genesis 30: 1-2, 14-16 Click here to donate:  https://firstchristianchurchelreno.breezechms.com/give/online?fbclid=IwAR1Q0e1P0gTVsFbxCpyip0mQIAk_qjTNo3I2f0ohdYa0YcQGWFOuC12ZcTI

Senior Pastor Colton Lott begins our new worship series "The Gospel According to Dolly Parton" with his sermon "The Good News of Second Chances". "She [Dolly Parton] is somebody that has transcended the divisions of our time so that we can hear what she has to say outside of our normal conversations of right versus left, up versus down, right versus wrong, red versus blue,...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott delivers his powerful sermon, "Changed for Good" on Easter Sunday! "What does make Easter Sunday the hardest to believe, it's not that Jesus rose from the dead, not really, it's that the body of Christ lived on. That in the wake of a horror of a violent death they knew and proclaimed that Christ is living once, and generation in and generation out p...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our worship series "Gifts of the Dark Wood" with his sermon "The Gift of Temptation". "Saying no especially to good ideas is the hardest part. But it's important because sometimes we as a church or you as an individual follower of Jesus have to say no so that we can say yes to what God was actually calling us towards, to the path whe...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our worship series "Gifts of the Dark Wood" with his sermon "The Gift of Getting Lost". "My friends as you figure out your way through the dark wood moments of life and you find yourself getting a little lost, my best word of wisdom is don't worry. Wait, cause God is going to come creeping by in a beat up pickup truck, and if you don...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our worship series "Gifts of the Dark Wood" with his sermon "The Gift of Being Thunderstruck". "I say this to remind you that you've been called too, and I do believe that. Just like the strange case of orchid bees where the bees and the flowers become interdependent and in their little dance all of this beauty is born. Because each species of orchid bee re...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our worship series "Gifts of the Dark Wood" with his sermon "The Gift of Emptiness". "Despite his isolation in the crucifixion we have the hope that comes with the God who keeps God promises that the son will rise on the third day that Jesus's emptiness and feelings of abandonment still betray his faith and the God who hears his cry. In emptiness God works....

Guest speaker Travis Wilson continues our new series Gifts of the Dark Wood with his sermon "The Gift of Uncertainty". Scripture: Corinthians 13:11-12 Contemporary Reading from "Gifts of the Dark Wood" by Eric Elnes Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott wraps up our series with his sermon "Imagine a World with More #Resurrection". "It's hard to talk about suffering, especially as a preacher because I don't want to do two errors which is to valorize it or diminish it. Sometimes our suffering doesn't have a meaning, the book of Job is helpful in teaching us that. So it's hard, even when sometimes we ascribe meaning af...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our series with his sermon "Imagine a World with More #Beauty". "When we engage with the Bible, with the teachings of God, with the Teachings of God that come to us through the trees and the wind, then we learn and are molded and shaped about how to love creation and to be stewards of it, not just consumers. When we are molded and shaped by the teachings of...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our series with his sermon "Imagine a World with More #Justice". "If individuals don't choose right ways of living suffering ensues. Isaiahs clear that both are needed, that a world with more justice involves the complete shift of society where the straps of the yokes of injustice are not just undone, the yokes aren't just taken off, but they're broken so t...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues  our new series with his powerful sermon "Imagine a World with More #Hope". "Sometimes I hear that church should be the most inspirational or joyful or uplifting time of the week, but I just don't believe that. I do believe Sunday worship should be the most honest time of the week. And if we do our honesty right then it becomes hopeful because it dares to s...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues  our new series with his homily "Imagine a World with More #Community". Scripture: Acts 2:43-47 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

We are joined by Carol Nichols who begins our new series with her devotion "Imagine a World with More #Compassion". Scripture: Matthew 25:31-44 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott preaches his sermon "Epiphany and Epiphanies" on Epiphany Sunday.  "What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of gold and had riches to spare like kings? What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of frankincense and saw each other as children's of God, little bearers of the holy one? What if we had an epiphany and enjoyed the gift of myrrh and remembered...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his homily "Interrupted by a Good News". "My friends the Christmas miracle is not only that God has come, but that God has come in the midst of all this to these. The miracle is not just that God showed up, but also that God showed up in a little struggling family unsure of how they'd make ends meet. God sho...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott wraps up our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by a Child". "We celebrate Christmas each year not because Jesus needs a birthday party, hate to break it to ya, but because we need to remember how to sing this song. Especially when we can scarcely believe that God would interrupt our lives and our world with something as good as sal...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by a Sign". "Sometimes God literally shows up as a child who teaches right from wrong, rescues us from our sins, and will surely return again. And sometimes God shows up in kind church secretaries who assure me, and you, and all that we do belong here and that we do belong to God and...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our Advent series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his sermon "Interrupted by the Spirit with Peace". "...digging into the hard work of forgiveness, to do as Howard Thurman said in, 'restoring a lost harmony', so that our Christmas gift to ourselves is peace between us and someone else. Yes, just as people throughout the centuries have found themselves we fo...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott begins our worship series "Christmas Journey Interrupted" with his homily "Interrupted on the Mountain with Hope". "Isaiah, the Christmas story, the US Coastguard all tell of times when God interrupts the world as is is to surprise us with hope, a mountain of goodness that catches us off guard. Perhaps you need this surprising God to show up so that you can survive, so th...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott preaches this Reign of Christ Sunday with his sermon "Endings and Beginnings". "Like Zechariah we await this coming of a mighty savior who will finally save us from the hands of our enemies of homeless and want, of violence, of addiction, of subordination, of tyranny, of hurt, and fear. We still await that day that he sang about. When the promise comes true and we serve G...

Today we are joined by guest speaker Rev. Dr. Lisa Barnett as she preaches her sermon "Community Service".  Scripture: Luke 6:20-31 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott closes our worship series "In the Fullness of Time" with his sermon "Living and Dying". "The wisdom of the heart leads us to the hope which God has called us too. The hope of a God who is over all things...far above all rule and authority and power and dominion. Above every name that is named. The hope of a God who is over all diagnoses, a God who is over all injustices,...