Hi Friends, What do you do with your questions and doubts about the Christian faith? Expressing doubts or asking questions can often be viewed as taboo, but is that really how God wants us to view them? What if our doubts or questions are the very means God wants to... Read more
In the past three weeks we’ve had 4 shootings and 1 stabbing in our neighborhood. This highly unusual for our area of the city. The police are telling me that the escalation of violence is most likely due to a war between rival drug gangs. Personally, this really... Read more
As a church we are going through the New City Catechism (http://newcitycatechism.com). The goal of doing this is to help us grow in our understanding of God’s word and how it applies to our life, so that our joy in God would be increased to His glory. Here’s what we... Read more
Hi Friends, This Sunday we are kicking off the series that our pastors in training and pastoral interns are going to be doing called “Values”. We’ll get back into our regular series “Luke: Jesus Unfiltured” the following week. I’m... Read more
At Christ Church we believe the Bible is God’s revealed word and seek to intentionally build our lives into its truth. We model this every single week through our Sunday Service liturgy. Call to Worship directs us to God’s word Singing is how we prepare our hearts to... Read more
Every Sunday we give people the opportunity to text in questions that they have about the sermon, because we value the process of discovery. Here’s a question from this past Sunday: Last week we talked about how the gospels never contradicts themselves. However, we... Read more
This Sunday we started going through the New City Catechism (http://newcitycatechism.com). The goal of doing this is to help us grow in our understanding of God’s word and how it applies to our life, so that our joy in God would be increased to His glory.... Read more
There are a lot of people who come to Christ Church with a lot of questions about Jesus, the Bible and Christianity. Something we say every Sunday in a bunch of different ways is, “This is a safe place to explore your questions and doubts.” This past week I was... Read more
Hi Friends, What do you think gets Jesus’ attention? What is it that makes him be amazed? This Sunday we are going to be studying the only time in scripture where it says that Jesus marveled at someone and I think God has an important word for each one of us.... Read more
Hi Friends, We have recently rolled out a variety of tools at our Sunday Service. All of these can be found at our information table. The goal is for these simple tools to help you engage in the great mission God has given us to make, mature and multiply disciples of... Read more
Hi Friends, This Sunday in my sermon I raised the question, “How can we know that the gospels contain what Jesus actually said?” To answer this question, I introduced the subject of textual criticism. I gave a very rough thumbnail sketch. If your interest was... Read more
Hi Friends, Megan Crowell recently sent Angie and I a bunch of recommendations for kid’s music. We’ve been listening to them with our kids and they’ve been a huge hit. Our favorite is definitely Shai Linne’s album “Jesus Kids” that puts the Catechism to hip hop... Read more
Hi Friends, This past Sunday I preached on Luke 6:43-45 and how our behavior comes from what we are treasuring in our hearts. I went over a tool developed by Christian Counseling and Education Foundation called the “3 Trees” Change happens changing what... Read more
Hi Friends, I want to start getting our service preview out earlier, so that you can have more time to know what to pray for and to think about who you can invite. Also, I’ve had a few people ask about the pre-service prayer meeting. Anyone is welcome! The... Read more
Hi Friends, The great philosopher, Charlie Brown, once said, “I love humanity, it’s people I don’t like”. How often that can be true. God created us to enjoy a richness of relationships, but how often those relationships can get messy. This... Read more
