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BLOG | Three Resources for Connecting with Jesus Daily
At Christ Community, we want to be a local church that helps you connect Sunday to Monday — a church that helps you follow Jesus more faithfully where you live, work, ...
POD 003 | Gender Identity and Sexuality Issues with Dr. Julia Sadusky
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Julia Sadusky to talk about gender identity and gender dysphoria and how the local church can be a place of hope. As followers of...
BLOG | Who Will Lift Up Your Arms?
Lately, I have been unable to stop considering Galatians 6:2.... It starts off, “Bear one another’s burdens.”
BLOG | How to Rediscover Lost Values with MLK
One of my personal traditions is to listen to my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr speech each year on MLK weekend.
BLOG | Remembering to Remember
With the beginning of a new year we often pause from the hustle and bustle of busy schedules to reflect on the speedy passage of time. As the years pile on, we increas...
BLOG | Behold Your King (Who Died): Putting on God’s Corrective Lenses
In many ways, true discipleship might be measured by how willing we are to acknowledge our spiritual short-sightedness and receive from Jesus a clearer vision of God, ...
BLOG | “Hey! Unto you a child is born!”
The message of the Angel of the Lord from Luke 2 should be SHOUTED from the rooftops.
BLOG | O Come, O Come Emmanuel
It is difficult to comprehend the long anticipation for the coming of the Messiah experienced by the people of Israel. In our twenty-first century instant gratificatio...
POD 002 | Implausibility of faith in our culture. Male, female, gender, and marriage.
Is our faith plausible? When it comes to biblical teaching on male, female, gender is our faith plausible? Since 1859, Genesis 1:1 in the biblical text has become incr...
BLOG | Why I Can't Stand Christmas Music but Love This Carol
When I get past my personal music tastes and really pay attention to the lyrics of many traditional Christmas carols, I find them to have a deeply rich theology.
BLOG | The Song that Saved COVID Christmas Eve
Regardless of generation or circumstance, we all feel the weariness of the world — a world longing for the One who says “Come to me all who are weary and I will give r...
POD 001 | Stan Archie and Tom Nelson
We hope to challenge you in thinking deeply about what it means to follow Jesus in all of life. For today’s challenge we are talking about hope in a divided world; th...
BLOG | Joy to the World, Advent is Come!
The hope for the coming of this promised king goes back to the Old Testament, where it is foretold, among other places, in the Psalms.
BLOG | Equipped: How Role Playing Games Prepared Me for the Reality of Spiritual Warfare
I grew up in a normal home (albeit broken, like all of us), but was never equipped with anything beyond a naturalistic, or maybe vaguely dualistic, view of the world. ...
BLOG | The Heavens Declare
When the ancients considered the heavens, they were often afraid. It’s hard to blame them. The size and scope of it all, the blackness of the night sky, and the endles...
BLOG | A Loving and Biblical Approach to Gender Identity
As we wrestle with hard questions in our broken world, let’s not lose sight of praising God for how he created humans, men and women both, in his image to reflect his ...
BLOG | How to Pray More with Less
There is nothing quite as paradoxically familiar and foreign as talking with God.
BLOG | Two Tools to Fight the Darkness
The world is a dark place. I could prove it by asking you to open your news app of choice and scroll a few headlines, but I don’t even have to do that. We know that th...
BLOG | Thinking Slowly Together About Gender
Our local church is a place that invites challenging conversations and makes room for long, thoughtful engagement. To borrow a phrase from a recent book, we are invite...
BLOG | The Unhurried and Unstoppable Mission Of God
For over two decades we have been committed in our church mission and organizational culture to narrow the Sunday to Monday gap so perilously prevalent in the American...
BLOG | Horror and Sinai
Who is this God whom even the quarks and the photons obey?
BLOG | We the Fallen People Includes You and Me
If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you are frustrated and perplexed by the political partisanship that only seems to increase with each passing election cycle.
BLOG | One New Family?
One of the most beautiful things about “the mystery of Christ” referred to in Ephesians, is that because of the gospel we are given a whole new family. God is our Fath...
BLOG | What Would It Look Like If We Treated Others the Way God Treats Us?
For many, Ruth is an obscure Old Testament story that only gets attention during a Read the Bible in a Year plan, its brevity a relief as one plods through Leviticus, ...
BLOG | Why Community
Community groups, small groups, life groups, cell groups, gospel communities, no matter what you call it, if you have been to a church, you have likely been pitched th...
BLOG | His Body, My Choice
I have a choice on how I will use this body while I have it. Will I spend my energy cursing it for all the ways it breaks or doesn’t fit my standard of appearance/size...
BLOG | Is Reconciliation Possible? A Lesson from Africa
Desmond Tutu was the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and he died at the age of 90.
