Christ Community Church

As I write this, I am three days away from leading a short-term missions trip to South Africa with my wife and ten other students and young adults from our church.  The trip costs a little less than $3,000 per person, takes us away from other ministry opportunities which we could be involved in here [...]

Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. Who in his right mind would put himself out there with this slogan “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ?” That seems an invitation to become a target. Who can pass the scrutiny of people looking for perfection? While some people are [...]

A few weeks ago I preached a sermon with this title here are some of the “sermon crumbs”…  There is probably no aspect of missionary service more troubling than the Missionary call.  There is plenty of evidence in the Bible that God calls people into full-time Christian service (1Tim. 1:12; Rom. 1:1; 1Cor.1:1) but there [...]

Recess is not the joy of every grade-schooler’s heart. What you’re about to read is not one distinct memory, but the messy conglomeration of many hours in the schoolyard. It’s a tangled mix of mud, embarrassment, scrapes and tears forced to flow backward. You learn early, that tears only make life on the playground worse. [...]

Those of you who read “Out of Our Minds” expect  to see something by one of CCC’s pastors.  This time, however, I’m going to link you to something I wish I had written.  I – we – won’t normally do this; we’ll write, well, out of our own minds.  But this piece, “The Satanic Ideology [...]

“So I had a question from your sermon a couple of weeks ago” … began the Facebook message. “Yes,” I thought, “someone was listening!” The message continued, “In your sermon you mentioned praying to the Holy Spirit … I always thought you prayed to God the Father. I was just wondering if there were any [...]

If you’ve ever noticed that there are just never enough hours in the day to get everything done then you know how a preacher feels when preparing a sermon.  God’s truth, revealed in His Word, has so much today on so many subjects that there never seem to be enough minutes in a sermon to [...]

We seem to be really afraid of making any connection between the wrath of God and destruction, suffering, and tragedy. Whether it be a tsunami, an earthquake, a fatal accident, or the Iranian threat, we don’t want to even consider if God has something to do with them. We not only are in a shambles [...]

“The purpose of Christ Community Church is to make known and promote the worship of God in obedience to the Great Commission and the Great Commandments.”  This statement is a one sentence summary of Article II of the Constitution of CCC and it embodies what I think is the heart of God’s desire for the [...]

Before preaching the sermon “Don’t Misdiagnose”, I thought about all the people who work in the mental health services. What would the psychologist and the psychiatrist in the congregation think about the content of my sermon?   While I don’t know what all of them thought, one person approached me after the service and said [...]