Christ Community Church - Shawnee Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES

I believe we live in a time of great skepticism and growing mistrust and yet skepticism of truth claims and the challenge of discerning what is true and what is not- is not restricted to our modern time. Through John’s witness, we see that from the opening verses of the bible through the very end, the story of God we encounter is one who greatly loves this broken material world. Let’s remember that in the original creation, God declared the material world good! That includes the stuff of this world, our bodies of flesh and blood.  And even after humankind rebelled against God with broken lives and a broken world being the tragic result, God refused to give up on his world and has chosen to redeem and restore it. In Jesus God came to rescue and redeem our world. The very act of Jesus assuming human flesh, the Word sanctified and hallowed our material bodies and our material world. Jesus is history's greatest miracle and Jesus is our greatest hope.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4882573522.01.16

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Our Shepherd gives us eternal life, so we will never perish. And no one can snatch them out of His hand. Or the Father’s hand. Because it’s the same hand.And I pray that you would feel it right now if you’re one of His sheep. May you feel Him holding you. If you feel alone. If you feel lost, if you feel angry, if you feel disappointed or depressed. Do you see His hand encompassing you?If you feel afraid. Or maybe you feel like your faith is just so weak. Or your pile of mess-ups is just so big. And you imagine Jesus doing this -- wiping his hands of you. Not this Shepherd. Not our God. Nothing can snatch away His sheep.Sermon Notes:  https://www.bible.com/events/4893393322.08.14

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He’s not just claiming to be light generically. He’s claiming to be your Light. The One who defines your reality. The true, the good, the beautiful. Who drives you to repentance and change. And asks you to trust and obey. Bring that light into your office, your family, your neighborhood, those hard decisions, those dark places of anxiety. He wants to show you the way. For without Him our lives are like the earth without the sun. A wasteland drifting aimlessly through space.And when we do walk in the light. Just sit in this promise for a minute. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. In the Greek it is saying NEVER. NEVER EVER. No way ever!Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4892008822.07.17

Freedom is more than a buzzword in our world; it’s an identity. We all want to be free, but what does that even mean? How will we know we are free and not just moved from one form of slavery to another?  The early followers of Jesus also weren’t clear on what it meant to be free, and so John invites us to look over their shoulders and learn as Jesus invites us to what freedom really looks like. Join us! Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4892303022.07.24

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There's a blindness that's worse than not seeing. There's a blindness that does more than make life hard, it makes finding life impossible. It's a blindness that won't find help, or love, or grace.Everyone in this passage is blind except for Jesus. And there’s only one other person who knows it. He’s the one who gets healed, the one who responds in faith and worship. This story began with Jesus seeing the blind man. And when the man born blind sees Jesus seeing him, he worships. The good news is that Jesus sees us too. May he open our eyes too, and may we likewise respond with faithful, humble obedience and worship.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4893026222.08.07