Weekly Messages - Community Church of Greensburg | Batesville

When things in life don’t go as we expect, people sometimes respond with statements like, “just believe” or “just have faith” or “just trust.” While those sound nice, they’re also a little vague and unhelpful. Believe what? Have faith in what? Trust what? How do any of those solve the current situation? It’s almost like we’re told to have faith in faith, and if we do that, we can move mountains. B...

Don't judge. We’ve all heard, and we’ve all been on the receiving end of an unfair judgment. Ironically, most of us have also been on the judging end. You would think having been judged we’d be slow to judge, but that’s not usually the case. Are we supposed to “judge not?” Or is it possible Jesus’ instructions on judging were intended to communicate something different?

Money can be a complex issue.  If you ask people what the Bible or God says about money, the most common response is: Money is the root of all evil.  Have you heard that phrase before too? This week we look at what the Bible really says about money and discover together that money itself really isn’t the issue.  Believe it or not, it’s actually you and me.

Phillippians 4:13 is one of the most beloved verses in all of scripture. But what if we’ve twisted into meaning something God never intended. It turns out God wants us to know what it means to be content in all situations, regardless of our circumstances.

The Resurrection of Jesus is an account that many of us have heard since childhood. Whether because it's so familiar or because it's so fantastical, it's easy to find ourselves at a place of doubt - wondering if it really happened. If you've ever questioned or ever doubted, that puts you at the same place as Jesus' first century followers - who had their own questions and doubts. The thing they di...

Nearly 2000 years ago a man walked the earth whose life changed the entire trajectory of world history. Strangely enough, rather than leveraging politics and governmental institutions as most try to do, Jesus of Nazareth rallied his followers together to proclaim His message to the world. Against incredible odds, that message is still being proclaimed in the world today by fearless men and women o...

Why are you here... really? That's an important question that many of us don't take or make time to answer, and yet it's a question whose answer has the power to drive everything about us. Missing the answer to that question could lead you into a pitfall, and finding the answer could lead you to an amazing life!

Life is hard, and we’re all looking for help on how to live it as best we can. But where do we turn for help? How do we know whom to trust? How do we evaluate if someone is leading us the right way?

As an individualistic culture, we Americans don’t like to be told what to do or what to think, and we especially don’t want anyone to tell us what to believe or how to live out our faith. Our personal faith isn’t just personal; it’s private. But what if having a private faith isn’t what God intended for us? What if a private faith can actually hurt us in the long run?

Anybody who has experienced food poisoning knows just how awful the experience can be. Perhaps the worst part is that we've been duped by something that looked edible. Apparently not all food is good for us. The same can be said about our religious beliefs. Not all beliefs are good for us. In fact, some are poisonous.

Lots of things in life are dangerous. Whether you’re touching a hot stove, texting and driving, or doing something else that’s risky, a timely warning can save you and those you love from a lot of pain. 2000 years ago, Jesus warned his followers to beware of six significant dangers to their faith journey. Though these pitfalls can appear harmless at first, they have the potential of robbing us of...

Happy couples know they have a choice. A choice that, in some ways, makes no sense and in other ways, feels like a reaction. In reality, regardless of the relationship, things go better when we learn to choose the most generous explanation for one another's behavior and believe it.

We all have hopes, dreams, and desires that we bring into our relationships. When we put those onto someone else, they become unfair expectations in that person’s life. So what are we to do with them? Ignore that they exist? Keep ourselves busy? Find someone else? Or maybe happy couples can learn that the healthiest way to handle our own hopes, dreams, and desires is it throw things.

We all have an image of what a perfect relationship would look like. We dream about how much money we’ll make, where we’ll travel, or what our family will look like. But have you ever considered how our dreams tend to focus on finding a certain someone who will be perfect for us rather than dreaming about being perfect for someone? What if the answer to happiness isn’t getting everything we want b...

Although every marriage comes, by default, with a crate full of expectations, happy couples know that they owe each other everything but deserve nothing in return. Happy couples take their cues from the life of Jesus and embrace a "you before me" lifestyle.

In our world of self-help, we look everywhere for easy answers to complicated problems. How do we overcome the part of ourselves we know deep down should be different? Unfortunately, there aren’t a few easy steps to take to become “the me I want to be.” The good news, however, is that there is a path forward that, when we embrace it, yields long-term results.

One of the challenges of living in one place for a long time is we begin to develop patterns and ways of thinking and looking at the world that we don’t even realize we have. In fact, it’s usually only when we move to a new place with a new culture that we begin to understand how different things were back home. So how do shift our thinking away from our old ways to embrace the new ways?

Nobody says, “out with the new, and in with the old.” Generally, we tend to think new is better. The truth is, most of us live differently than that. Unless the old is worn out or unusable, our tendency is to revert back to what we’re familiar with. The reason habits are so hard to break is that their familiar and comfortable. So how do we break free and embrace the new that God has in store for u...

There’s something enjoyable about getting new things at the holidays. Whether it’s gifts we receive or things we buy, new things , but when we don’t clean out the old things to make room for the new things, the result is clutter. It’s true in life, and it’s true in our relationship with God. In order to become the new creation God invites us to be, we have to do something with the old part ourselv...

At Christmas every year, much of the world pauses to celebrate the birth of a Jewish carpenter who was born to the King. But have you ever wondered what the world would be like if Jesus had never come? Perhaps this birth is more significant that we realize.

Every king has a kingdom, and every kingdom has its own way of operating. With the birth of Jesus as king came the advent of a new way of looking at the world and a new way of living in the world. This new way would be the defining characteristic of Christians 2000 years ago, and it’s still the defining characteristic of all who call Jesus their King.

One of the plights of humanity is control. We try to control everything from other people to climate change to politics. In the process of trying to control, we usually discover how little control we actually have. That was the story of man who was party of the Christmas Story. In the end, he learned some valuable lessons from which we may all benefit.

Since the beginning of time, people have been fighting to be king. As one power fought another, it was the Roman Empire that eventually ended up on top of the ancient world - wielding its strength to bring about peace through submission. It was into this Empire that an unexpected new king was born - a king who ruled in ways that others only scoffed at. And yet, 2000 years later, King Jesus invites...

One of the most challenging parts of life is waiting. From lines in the grocery store to traffic on the highway, waiting seems like one of life's greatest challenges. But what if it's possible to wait well? What if God is actually doing something during our waiting?

When talking about faith with those who have doubts about Christianity, it’s easy to get sidelined by arguments that aren’t central to what Christians actually believe. So what if there was a way to redirect conversations to what actually is central? In today’s message we learn how to do that.