First Christian Church El Reno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our worship series "In the Fullness of Time" with his sermon "Breaking and Healing". "The reality about the fullness of time is that sometimes we are broken by this world and the ways in which as Habakkuk says, 'justice is perverted.' Which always sounds like an abstract claim. It sounds high and lofty until its your family member whose denied treatment because...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our new worship series "In the Fullness of Time" with his sermon "Working and Resting". "...and in the sweetness of that time when we do it, when we observe a Sabbath, we are able to stop, pluck, taste, see that God is good. We might always know what the special time means, but it just might be that in that special time of Sabbath we can find the God who is alwa...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott begins our new worship series "In the Fullness of Time" with his sermon "Learning and Growing".  "In the Fullness of Time in which we live we inevitably change. We are formed, we learn, we grow. It seems to me then that the trick is figuring out how we are formed and changed by God and towards God. Easy idea, frighteningly difficult. As we consider carefully this mon...

Associate Minister Tara Dew is joined by our Intersections Participants Phyllis Dickerson, Janie Ivey, Callie Nitzel, and Chris Watson to continue our worship series with their sermon "Faith and Economics". Revelation 3:14-20 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Guest speaker Eric Gray, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Disciples Foundation, joins us this World Communion Sunday to continue our worship series with his sermon "Faithful Living and Giving". Luke 17:5-10 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our "From Bread and Cup to Faith and Giving" worship series with his sermon "Abiding in the Community of Jesus". "Who rescued whom? Was it us or God? Was it me or you? No one can tell anymore, for we abide in the community of Jesus. And even the best diviner, soothsayer, no matter who's magnifying glass you have can peel apart that mixture, no one knows anymore...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our "From Bread and Cup to Faith and Giving" worship series with his sermon "A Community of Provision". "We are going to be a church that continues to allow all of God's children to flourish. We are still going to be church where the kid who doesn't doesn't fit has a place to belong. We are going to be the church where young and old join together sharing their w...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott continues our "From Bread and Cup to Faith and Giving" worship series with his sermon "A Community in the Wilderness". "It's a wilderness friends and I don't know how to fix it. I don't know if we can fix it. The best I know that we can do is to follow what Jesus said and give them something to eat. So let's participate in the most radical miracle of all. Believing in the...

Senior Pastor Colton Lott begins our "From Bread and Cup to Faith and Giving" worship series with his sermon "In Community with Jesus". "We are transformed into lives marked by faithfulness and generosity. Because as is the case, we can look like the gift. We can begin to look like bodies and bread that are faithful unto death. We can begin to look like blood and a cup that is generous without end...

Today, Senior Pastor Colton Lott wraps up our Back to Basics worship series with his sermon "Faith Made Real".  "And individually these practices are important. Keep them and you'll be a better person. Individually brown sugar, flour, and salt are important. But as I've studied this text I believe that in our list of things to do there may be a reason that all these different disciplines are...

Today's sermon is led by our summer intern Bradleigh Baker! "...In fact, it's a joyful proclamation. Not something to fear but something to look forward to. Something to strive for in a way with awe and maybe even impatience. A new kind of certainty not only of the consequences for actions, but for the future of creation itself."  Hebrews 12:18-29 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.c...

"We were graciously welcomed into God's family, and we are grafted onto this path that is long and old. And because we belong to this great family tree we have been given these spectacles to perceive movement of God in many times and many places, and so we have these eyes of faith. As part of that lineage, what to we do? ...We look to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our Faith. Our branch on th...

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

"'Because He Lives ' sings to us this reality more real than any other. Sings to us the truest true, that life is worth living just because Jesus lives. And so maybe 51 years later in our time of social upheaval, threats of war, betrayals of national trust and personal trust, of assassinations and war, of drugs and opioids and despair. Maybe this song that we sing will remind us of God's limitless...

"The greatest surprise of all that God shows up, and doesn't show up just where we think God would be but would show up in the most unlikely of places in the most unlikely of times with what only seems to be impossible news." Genesis 18:1-15 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Deuteronomy 30:9-14 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Psalm 30 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Acts 9:1-20 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Acts 6:1-7 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Acts 1:12-17, 21-26 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Acts 2:1-21 "We certainly still have points where we need to keep journeying as the Church and we continue to do that Jesus work of deep inclusion so that each us, all of us, hear the good news that we belong to God." Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno

Revelation 22: 12-14, 16-17, 20-21 "I hope we will join him [John] not simply in patiently waiting, but through active yearning doing our best to pull Heaven down into Earth with our actions and by our love...so we can do things like reduce death by suicide for our soldiers. So that we can be an active hope and make sure that our children are not the objects of slaughter. So that we can be an acti...

Scripture: Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 "...studies have shown us that the most effective way to end homelessness is to provide housing, and provide it without any strings attached. Then surround people with supportive services that they can access when they are ready. A person doesn't have to earn their way into housing by being clean and sober or by being enrolled in any programs or committed to an...

Scripture: Revelation 21:1-6 "...It's important to find ways to remember what really matters. You will find so many ways to distract yourself because there are many a shiny thing out there and they will not satisfy. You will be pressed to love and to worship things that will end. Try to find ways to live in and with the God who will never end who is always beginning something new." Click here to d...

Scripture: Revelation 7:9-17 Click here to donate: https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/fccelreno