Max Cornell

Pastor Max explores the relationship between the Kingdom of God and America, examining how Kingdom values have influenced our nation while reminding us that no earthly nation is the Kingdom of God. This message encourages us to celebrate what is good, recognize where our culture falls short, and continue seeking a greater expression of God’s will and values in our nation. Click here to download th...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 9), by exploring how the outpouring of the Holy Spirit marks the beginning of a new era in God’s Kingdom. This message reveals how the Spirit empowers believers to become one family under Christ, breaks down barriers, and transforms us to reflect God’s love and extend His Kingdom to the world. Download the notes here: https:...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 8), by exploring how Jesus redefined what it means to rule and to be truly human. This message reveals how Christ’s servant-hearted leadership transforms our understanding of power, authority, and influence, calling us to reflect His Kingdom by serving others with humility, grace, and love. Click here to download the notes:...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 7), by exploring what the Kingdom of God truly is and how it grows in the world today. This message examines the influence of God’s reign in our lives, our communities, and the nations, encouraging us to live with “clear-eyed optimism” as we faithfully participate in His Kingdom while awaiting its ultimate fulfillment. Click...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 6), by exploring how God’s future Kingdom has already begun breaking into the present through Jesus. This message unpacks the biblical concept of the Kingdom as both “now” and “not yet,” showing how believers can experience the life of God’s coming age today while still looking forward to its ultimate fulfillment when Christ...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 5), by exploring how the Kingdom is both present and future. This message unpacks how believers can experience the life of God’s coming age right now through Christ and how the Kingdom continues to break into the world through the work of the Holy Spirit, prayer, fellowship, and the proclamation of the Gospel. Click here to...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God” (Part 4), by exploring what it means that the Kingdom is both “now” and “not yet.” This message unpacks how Jesus became the rightful ruler through His death and resurrection, how the cross was both judgment and victory, and how believers can experience the life of God’s coming Kingdom even now through Christ. Click here to downlo...

Pastor Max continues his series, “Understanding the Kingdom of God,” by exploring how Jesus fulfilled Israel’s hopes for the Messiah and inaugurated God’s Kingdom through His death and resurrection. This message unpacks what it means that Jesus is King right now, why the world is still broken, and how His Kingdom advances not through violence or coercion, but through humility, love, and transforma...

In Understanding the Kingdom of God (Part 2), Pastor Max continues his series by exploring the story that shaped first-century Jewish expectations surrounding the Messiah and the Kingdom of God. This message reveals how Jesus fulfills the long story of Israel, inaugurates God’s Kingdom through His death and resurrection, and reigns as King even now. Click here to download the notes: https://charis...

In Understanding the Kingdom of God (Part 1), Pastor Max begins exploring the bigger picture of the Gospel. This message lays the foundation for seeing Jesus not only as Savior, but as King—revealing God’s Kingdom as the central thread throughout Scripture.

Join us for a powerful series from Special Guest Rev. Joanne Moody as she teaches on healing, faith, and the impartation of God’s power. These sessions from our School of Healing & Impartation are designed to build your faith, stir expectation, and help you receive all that God has for you. Be encouraged, strengthened, and transformed. Check out more information on Joanne Moody's Ministry here: ag...

Join us for a powerful series from Special Guest Rev. Joanne Moody as she teaches on healing, faith, and the impartation of God’s power. These sessions from our School of Healing & Impartation are designed to build your faith, stir expectation, and help you receive all that God has for you. Be encouraged, strengthened, and transformed. Check out more information on Joanne Moody's Ministry here: ht...

Join us for a powerful series from Special Guest Rev. Joanne Moody as she teaches on healing, faith, and the impartation of God’s power. These sessions from our School of Healing & Impartation are designed to build your faith, stir expectation, and help you receive all that God has for you. Be encouraged, strengthened, and transformed. Check out more information on Joanne Moody's Ministry here: ht...

In Building Faith for Healing (Part 2), Pastor Max continues exploring how faith grows in a real and practical way. This message builds on the foundation that faith isn’t striving or comparison, but a steady trust in God that develops over time as we hear His Word and respond to His voice.

In Building Faith for Healing (Part 1), Pastor Max explores how faith grows—not through striving or comparison, but through hearing God’s Word, responding to His voice, and learning to trust Him over time. True faith leads to transformation, not performance. Click here to download the notes: https://chariskc.org/sermons/building-faith-for-healing-part-1/

In Resurrection and the Kingdom, Pastor Max unpacks how Jesus’ resurrection means God’s Kingdom has already begun. This message invites us to live as people of the future—free from sin, striving, and performance—and to embrace the ongoing work of transformation happening in us now. Click here to download the notes: https://chariskc.org/sermons/resurrection-and-the-kingdom/

Special Guest, Marcus Wick shares at our evening service. For more information about his ministry, check out his website here: marcuswickministries.com/

Special Guest, Marcus Wick shares at our morning service. For more information about his ministry, check out his website here: https://marcuswickministries.com/

In Part 8 of Join the Rebellion, Pastor Max explores the question, “Am I enough?” This message invites us to release the need to prove our worth and rest in the truth that we are here because God wanted us. As we trust His care, we’re freed to grow, learn, and live from a place of acceptance rather than striving.

This week, hear encouraging testimonies before celebrating water baptisms!

In Part 7 of Join the Rebellion, Pastor Max confronts the “spirit of heaviness”—the discouragement that follows disappointment and failed expectations. Through Isaiah’s prophecy and Jesus’ fulfillment of it, this message calls us to rediscover the bigger vision of the Gospel and the steady, hopeful work of God’s kingdom. Click here to download the notes: https://chariskc.org/sermons/join-the-rebel...

In Part 6 of Join the Rebellion, Pastor Max explores what it means to “put on the new humanity” Jesus is creating. This message reminds us that we are no longer defined by insecurity or striving, but by what God has already spoken over us. Through Scripture and Jesus’ testing in the wilderness, we learn how to anchor our identity, hold onto it under pressure, and live with the confidence that we b...

Pastor Max shares an exciting church update, highlighting God's goodness and faithfulness!

Special guest, Jerry Garcia, shares at our Sunday morning service. For more information on his ministry go here: https://www.jerrygarciaministries.org/.

Special guest, Jerry Garcia, shares at our Saturday evening service. For more information on his ministry go here: https://www.jerrygarciaministries.org/.