TCBC Sunday Sermons

The Message of Renewal Text: Acts 14:1-18 1. Its goal 2. Its ‘m.o.’ 3. Its content Reflection Question: How does the message of renewal encourage your prayers and interactions with loved ones, neighbors, and others?

What Renewal Reveals Text: Acts 10:9-48 1. God’s hand 2. God’s heart 3. Our response Reflection Question: How does God’s hand and heart in renewal affirm you or challenge you in how you engage with others in your life?

Acts 9:1-31 Snowflakes in Submission Saul's Conversion illustrates how Jesus is renewing each of his unique people. 1. Who Saul was 2. What Jesus did 3. Who Saul became Reflection Question: How is Christ using your unique, being-renewed self as you submit to him?

Text: Acts 8:26-40 1. The natural & supernatural about it 2. The 3-D change from it 3. The good that drives it Reflection Where is Jesus challenging you as you long for renewal for family, friends, and neighbors?

Text: Acts 8:4-25 1. What you must say ‘yes’ to 2. What you must say ‘no’ to 3. The Spirit’s role Reflection Question: What is Jesus calling you to say yes to and/or turn from in obedience to the Spirit?

Text: Acts 7:51-8:4 1. Is opposition to renewal merely cultural?  2. How renewal works across cultures 3. What gets revealed by opposition Reflection Question: Will you pray for renewal in your own heart and across the many cultures within the campus and the C-U community?

Global and Gifted Text: Acts 6:1-7 Thesis: As his globally diverse followers practice God’s grace with the Spirit’s gifts, Jesus is renewing the world. 1. Jesus calls people of all kinds 2. Jesus reconciles people of all kinds 3. Jesus empowers self-sacrificial service of all kinds Reflection Question: What is Christ calling me to do in his mission of global reconciliation?

The fear of the Lord and gospel renewal Acts 5:1-16 1. What Ananias & Sapphira opposed 2. What they lacked that you need 3. The mission of Jesus through the church Reflection Question: Will you cultivate the fear of the Lord in your heart and long for renewal in C-U?

Text: Acts 4:32-37 Title: The Gospel and Generosity  A renewed view of money & community  What you’re renewed from and how The example of generosity   Reflection: Will you allow God to renew your view of money and community and use what you have to generously support his church and kingdom?

Responding to What We Have in Jesus 1. What we have in Jesus 2. How we respond to it 2a. Draw Near 2b. Hold fast 2c. Consider one another Reflection Question: Knowing what we have in Jesus, will you respond by drawing near, holding fast, and pursing relationships in the church?

The Resurrected Life 1. The life the resurrected Christ gives 2. Why he’s able to give it 3. What he gives you 4. How you experience it Reflection Question: Are you experiencing the resurrected life that Jesus Christ gives?

1. Jesus is the better high priest 2. Why other priests are inferior 3. The better covenant he offers Reflection Question: What points of gratitude do you possess because of God’s covenant promises through Jesus Christ?

Thesis: Our situation demands no less than Jesus. 1. Jesus is our king for justice and peace. 2. Jesus is our priest for the greatest and the least. 3. Jesus is our sacrifice for cleansing that won’t cease. Reflection Question: What aspect of your life do you need to yield to Jesus as your king and priest?

Further Up and Further In 1. Enter God’s rest 2. Revere God’s Word 3. Draw near to Jesus Reflection Question: Will you practice both reverence for God and confidence before Christ during this Lenten season?

It’s Not How We Start, It’s If We Finish 1. Consider 2. Don’t harden 3. Watch out 4. Reach out/ Speak up Reflection Question: What areas of your heart do you need to watch out for, and how and whom can you regularly encourage?

Christ Overcomes Our Futility Thesis: Only the Incarnate Christ can transform the futile human life he fully understands. 1. Our situation is futile. 2. Christ transforms our futile situation. 3. Christ replaces futility with glory. Reflection Question: How is Christ transforming the futility in my life? How could he if I yielded to him?

A High View of Jesus 1. Revelation 2. Relation 3. Reconciliation 4. Reign Reflection Question: How does this high view of Jesus invite you to know more about his person and work?

What Jesus reveals through sorrow 1. What you need to see 2. The extent of his mercy 3. Why tragedy won’t end as a tragedy Reflection Question: What is Jesus revealing to you as you ponder his mercy and hope for sorrows?

What you need to know, not what you want to know 1. Not ‘Why?’, but ‘Who?' 2. Not your understanding, but God’s 3. What suffering doesn’t mean, but what it does Reflection Question: In your suffering, will you remind yourself that God is shepherding you, even when you don’t understand?

Get Smart How can we pursue wisdom in our suffering? 1. We humans are awesomely smart. 2. We humans are not wise. 3. God alone is wise. Reflection Question: What is God’s wisdom teaching you about your limits and what to do with them?

Where Is Hope in Sorrow? 1. Sorrow from partial truths 2. Sorrow and loneliness 3. Hope in the Redeemer Reflection Question: Will you persistently trust the Redeemer as you endure sorrows?

The Sorrow of Unjust Suffering 1. The experience of unjust suffering 2. The core injustice 3. Trusting God’s providence in unjust suffering Reflection Question: Will you guard against cynicism in unjust suffering and trust in God’s hidden will instead?

The Process of Lament 1. Lament 2. Remember 3. Trust Reflection Question: This week, will you practice lamenting personal and corporate sin while you remember and trust who Jesus is?

Bring Jesus your sin and its sorrow 1. What’s love got to do with it? 2. What’s justice got to do with it? 3. How to lament your sin and its sorrow. Reflection Question: How can you incorporate confession and repentance in your walk with Jesus this year?

He came from Ramah 1. The pain 2. The prophetic voice 3. The promise Reflection Question: Will you voice your and others’ pain to the Messiah and hope in him?