Christ Community Church - Olathe Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES
625 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis podcast features the Sunday morning messages from Christ Community Church's Olathe Campus.
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For this Reason [Reconstructing Faith 02]
August 28, 2022 16:05 - 43 minutes - 18.6 MBAs we consider the cultural movement of “deconstructing” faith and turn to Ephesians with some hope that it might give us insight into how we can “reconstruct” faith, I wonder if deconstruction itself is not the problem, but instead, it is the quality of the thing we are deconstructing that has lead to disappointing outcomes. I wonder if, too often, we who have faith quickly plateau in our knowledge of God. I wonder if we have not sufficiently experienced the power of God in our liv...
In Christ [Reconstructing Faith 01]
August 21, 2022 16:10 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBThe deconstructing of faith is a popular practice these days. But what is it exactly? For some, it is an opportunity to live their authentic life free of all moral and religious authority. For others, it is a sincere attempt to determine if their faith has been formed by the words of Christ or by cultural ideologies. Regardless of the motivation, it is clear that we are in serious need of Reconstructing Faith. But in order to do that we need a solid foundation upon which we can reco...
Resurrection [Signs of Life 10]
August 14, 2022 16:14 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBDeath is something we despise not because it marks the end, but because it was never meant to be here at all from the beginning. Death was never meant to be part of God’s good world. Death is a pain that feels like no other. Because it’s a pain that not only produces hurt, it produces hate. We hate death. We hate what death does. We hate what death takes. We hate that death exists. And that’s because we know deep down that death ought not to be. We tend to say that death is a part o...
Shepherd [Signs of Life 09]
August 07, 2022 15:28 - 31 minutes - 14 MBOur 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...
Sight [Signs of Life 08]
August 02, 2022 12:10 - 31 minutes - 13.7 MBThere'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. He’s the one who responds in faith and worship. And others will get there. Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48926477 22.07.31
Eternal [Signs of Life 07]
July 24, 2022 15:09 - 31 minutes - 14.8 MBIs it possible that you have walked away from Jesus, not because you have tried him and want nothing to do with him, but because somewhere along the line you developed a view of Jesus that is contrary to the Jesus of the gospels? My fear as a pastor is not that someone would reject Jesus. But that they would reject Jesus for the wrong reasons. Is it possible that the Jesus you, or someone you love, has walked away from is nothing more than a caricature of the real Jesus? Look agai...
Freedom [Signs of Life 06]
July 17, 2022 16:02 - 54 minutes - 23.5 MBJesus points to the one true path that will take us to the freedom our hearts long for. It is not a path of religious legalism, it is the path of discipleship with Jesus. When we embrace Jesus and become his “abiding” disciple then we will know the truth and when we know the truth we will be set free to experience the true freedom our hearts long for. In our culture when we refer to knowing we often think of having lots of information in our brain we can comprehend and spit out whe...
Light [Signs of Life 05]
July 10, 2022 14:57 - 32 minutes - 14.2 MBHe’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 w...
Water [Signs of Life 04]
July 03, 2022 16:02 - 24 minutes - 10.6 MBOne of the greatest indicators of whether or not you’ve drunk deeply of Jesus -- that you truly believe in Him -- is right here. Would the people around you look at you -- your attitudes, your words, your actions, the way you spend your time and money. The people closest to you. And the people who disagree with you. Or see the world very differently than you. Your coworkers and classmates. Would they look at you and say: There is a river of life! I hope it splashes me! Through His...
Words [Signs of Life 03]
June 26, 2022 15:31 - 36 minutes - 17.6 MBWill we go with Jesus even when he challenges our sensibilities and our sin? Will we go with Jesus even when we are tempted to walk away? Will we go with Jesus even if it means enduring costs? Will we go with Jesus when others won’t? The only way that we can answer in the affirmative is if Jesus is the Holy One of God who has the words of eternal life. I realize that it may be hard for some of us right now to continue following Jesus. But when we know and believe the power and lo...
Sea [Signs of Life 02]
June 19, 2022 16:45 - 29 minutes - 12.9 MBCould it be that the Son of God also longed for those places where He could hear the Father whispering to Him: I am with you. I struggle to hear God's voice. But I regularly hear it most in 2 places. From His Word. And from His people. And if you feel like you’re drowning in the chaos. You are not alone. And you need it, too. His Word. And His people. Imagine the chaos. Maybe it’s a relationship. Maybe it’s your cubicle. The next doctor's visit. Do you see it? Do you feel the sto...
Bread [Signs of Life 01]
June 12, 2022 15:04 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBJesus gives the crowd the sign of bread as a way to place himself in the grand story of God’s plan of redemption. Jesus is the awaited Messiah and fulfillment of everything promised, previewed, and pointed to in the Old Testament. The reassuring words of Jesus lovingly invite us to come to him to be satisfied. For Jesus has not only come to be the redeemer of our sin and the restorer of fallen creation. He has come to be our joy! And he has done so not just by bringing us what sat...
Fear God [Life Up in Smoke 07]
June 05, 2022 15:38 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBJesus our Messiah, the one whom Isaiah declared as delighting in the fear of the Lord, has come to deliver us from all fears by delivering us from our sin. The fear of God frees us from all fears. And the only way we can properly fear God is by giving the fullness of our lives to Jesus, body, mind, and spirit. For when we do his life of perfection is credited to us and frees us from all fear of condemnation and judgment. Friends, there is much to fear in this life filled with smok...
Remember Your Creator [Life Up in Smoke 06]
May 29, 2022 15:33 - 31 minutes - 13.7 MBSermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48896338 22.05.29
Justice Up In Smoke [Life Up In Smoke 05]
May 22, 2022 16:41 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBWe all want justice but without the judge. We all want wrongs to be righted but without surrendering to righteousness. And what we end up getting is an endless cycle of violence, oppression, and unforgiveness. And it leads only to the clamoring for power in order to defeat our enemies. In a world where real meaningful justice work is stalled out and hijacked by polarizing conversations about justice, and where cancel culture is the justice tool of choice across the spectrum, we ne...
Wealth Up In Smoke [Life Up In Smoke 04]
May 15, 2022 16:28 - 30 minutes - 13.2 MBThe Bible teaches that God made a world of abundance. That if we look at the Garden, you and I were created for a world without lack, where we had everything we needed and more. And even though our world is now broken, and our attachments are now broken, we can still enjoy God’s gift with gratitude. This is the theme of these final verses. Eat, drink, and be merry. Enjoy your work. And enjoy His gifts. Instead of gratitude we think: I worked hard for that stuff! I earned it. I’m e...
Work Up In Smoke [Life Up In Smoke 03]
May 08, 2022 15:29 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBWe know that our labor is not in vain because there is life beyond the sun. Because God has called a people unto himself from all peoples of the earth to establish the work of their hands no matter where they are or what they do. When our perspective and time horizon changes regarding our work, we are able to see that God is at work in and through our work. We are able to see that our work is not incidental, but rather it is integral to God’s work of restoring all things. How do...
Pleasure Up In Smoke [Life Up In Smoke 02]
May 01, 2022 15:28 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBLike all things created by God, our desires for pleasure possess the capabilities to lead us to the goodness of God AND to the evils of death, decay, and destruction. What the Holy Spirit is whispering to us through the words of Qoheleth is that pleasure can destroy us if it doesn’t direct us to our creator God and our redeeming king! But in order to hear this and see the goodness and wisdom within these words, we need to respond and take proper action. Pleasure can destroy us if i...
Life Up In Smoke [01]
April 24, 2022 15:29 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBIf we are to hear the wisdom behind the woes in the book of Ecclesiastes, we need to understand the structure, nature, and purpose of the book. The reason why this is a deeply hopeful book is because it is one act in the entire play of God’s story of redemption and salvation. This is the power and beauty of reading the bible with the full story in mind. If life under the sun is all there is then all we have is smoke. But there is a subtle whisper of hope in Ecclesiastes which turns...
Easter Service 2022
April 17, 2022 14:35 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MBThe resurrection of Jesus is the proof of purchase for our sins. It proves that what Christ did on the cross actually accomplished our forgiveness. But it also illustrates the new kind of life that Jesus’ followers now live. A life that brings about healing, hope, and wholeness to our broken world. This is what we remember and celebrate! This is our hope! It is the hope that our sin and shame does not have to define us because it was put to death with Jesus. It is the hope that dea...
Three Witnesses [Word Made Flesh 15]
April 10, 2022 15:33 - 39 minutes - 17.5 MBThe irony of this trial is that Jesus has already said, He’s the judge. Not us. Even with all our efforts to put Jesus on trial. The real trial is you and me. And we are so guilty. Look at the evidence. Call in the witnesses. Every thought you’ve ever had, every word you’ve ever spoken, every broken desire you’ve ever felt. How long do you really think it’s going to take this Judge? The only One who is truly innocent. Was found guilty for you. He stood in your place. So that if yo...
God’s Authority [Word Made Flesh 14]
April 03, 2022 15:34 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBThe reason we take the words of Jesus seriously and ask the question “Who does Jesus say that he is?” is because we believe he holds the power of life and death. For there is no other power or authority that we know who has faced death, entered death, and defeated death than the Lord Jesus. As we gather this day, to submit the fullness of our lives to the fullness of who Jesus says he is, my invitation to you is to consider his claims, listen to his word, and enter the life he off...
Do You Want to Be Healed? [Word Made Flesh 13]
March 27, 2022 15:57 - 33 minutes - 15.7 MBJesus came to this man at the pool of Bethesda and offered him the opportunity to be made whole. Don’t settle for comfort when wholeness is what we want. Don’t settle for a clear conscience when forgiveness is what we need. And don’t settle for what Jesus offers when Jesus is what our hearts long for. This man claimed that he wanted to be healed, made whole. But he wasn’t willing to receive everything that being made whole entailed. Namely repenting and following Jesus. This man...
The Official's Son [Word Made Flesh 12]
March 20, 2022 16:58 - 35 minutes - 15.4 MBYou’ve taken your unfulfilled longings -- your grief and your desire. Whatever it is. And you’ve brought them to Jesus. You’ve asked Him to intervene. And whether or not He’s answered you in the way you wanted Him to. You’ve met Him. Now here we are. Every one of us. Somewhere between meeting Jesus. And the fulfillment of all of His promises to us. Every Christian is on that path. Between saying yes to Jesus. And our long way home. And you don’t know if your marriage will ever be...
The Samaritan Woman at the Well [Word Made Flesh 11]
March 13, 2022 15:19 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBJust like the Samaritan woman, you may feel overwhelmed by the weight of your sin. And just like her, while you might think that Jesus is holding your past over you he is tenderly saying that even this will not keep him from holding you. He is saying “I know everything you have ever done. I have seen you at your worst. And I am not leaving.” Why did Jesus have to pass through Samaria? Because his beloved was on the other side. Jesus went to Samaria so that this woman would meet hi...
John the Baptist [Word Made Flesh 10]
March 06, 2022 16:34 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBThe only true and lasting way to wage war against the sins of comparing and complaining is to delight in and declare the truth of Jesus. The road sign on the path of repentance is not a Stop Sign but a U-Turn. It is not simply about ceasing from sin, but also seeking a better joy. I believe that so much of our despair, discontent, and disdain in life stems from a failure to delight in and declare the beauties of the better joys of Jesus. This is why the habits of encountering Jesu...
For God So Loved the World [Word Made Flesh 09]
February 27, 2022 16:35 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MBWe know the world is often a tragic and ugly place, but sometimes it’s hard for us to see because we don't know what to do with it and we don’t want to face it—in fact, we try to ignore or cover it up—but the world is often a dark place. A place that has so much potential for light and truth and goodness and beauty and life and joy—the world as it ought to be—but it has come to be characterized by darkness and lies and all sorts of evil and ugliness, death and tragedy. This is the w...
Nicodemus [Word Made Flesh 08]
February 20, 2022 16:40 - 34 minutes - 16 MBWe all know and feel the dissonance in our bodies and souls between who we are and who we long to be. And that’s because we know and feel the need to be born again of water and Spirit. And we know and feel that we must be born again because we must be born again. With a wide-open heart, pledge your full allegiance to King Jesus above all else and surrender to his good, true, and beautiful reign over your life. With wide open hands pursue your vocation, relationships, time, and reso...
The Temple [Word Made Flesh 07]
February 13, 2022 16:26 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MBWhen we see Jesus, who is meek and mild, entering the temple as Jesus mean and wild, we must see him acting as such because of his unstoppable love for you and for me. For the zeal he has for you and for me and for all to know, see, behold, delight, and enter the holy presence of his father now and forever is what moves him to be so lovingly angry. There is so much that keeps us from coming to God. Our sins that destroy us, our religiosity that deludes us, our greed that spoils us...
Water Into Wine [Word Made Flesh 06]
February 06, 2022 17:08 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MBWhen the wine runs out we must turn to the one who brings the very best joy and the very best life. Instead of desperately scraping our fingers at the bottom of the wine barrel for more, we need to turn and see that the very best has arrived in Jesus. When we see that the very best joy and life has arrived in Jesus, then it is only natural and right and good for us to listen to the timeless words of his mother, “Do whatever he tells you!” Not from a place of religious obligation b...
The First Disciples [Word Made Flesh 05]
January 30, 2022 17:30 - 34 minutes - 15 MBSo whether we are a skeptic with objections, or a Christian trying to respond to someone with objections, often the best thing we can do is take these words to heart: come and see. We need to enter in first, and then invite others to enter in, to see how Jesus makes sense of it all. This is who we encounter when we meet Jesus for ourselves. The Lord of all of heaven and earth, come to dwell among us. The Son of Man, lifted up high on a cross. Risen and ascended to heaven and ruling...
The Lamb of God [Word Made Flesh 04]
January 23, 2022 16:45 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBFriends, you may not be asking the question “where is the lamb” in those words. But all of us are asking it in some way. “Where can I find hope? Where can I find meaning? Where can I find change? Where can I find rescue?” Without knowing it we are all asking “Where is the lamb” because we all know that we are not who we ought to be. That the world is not the way it ought to be. Is there anyone or anything that can be done to remedy our wounds, our shame, our guilt, and our pain? ...
The True Light [Word Made Flesh 03]
January 16, 2022 16:59 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBSermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48825729 22.01.16
The Word Became Flesh [Word Made Flesh 02]
January 09, 2022 16:53 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBWhen we behold and believe the fullness of the Word made flesh we come to find a way of living as his followers in this world. For in it we find the power to emulate the sympathetic and compassionate nature of God who drew near to social outcasts and sinners. Who came not simply declaring the good news of the kingdom but displaying it through his compassion and care for the needs of others. What this means is that the embodied nature of Christ as the incarnate word of God communic...
The Word Was God [Word Made Flesh 01]
January 02, 2022 17:48 - 33 minutes - 14.9 MBIf you are a follower of Jesus, my prayer is that you would more fully, faithfully, and fruitfully believe and behold Jesus as the Word of God. Be open to Jesus as the Word who speaks into every part of your life. If you are not a follower of Jesus yet, be open to the Word of God. Be open with your questions and doubts. But also be open to doubting your doubts and questioning your questions and the possibility that Jesus is the Word of God who has come to bring you out of darkness ...
Jehovah Raah: The Lord Our Shepherd [He Shall Be Called 05]
December 26, 2021 17:31 - 34 minutes - 15.1 MBThis abundant life that Jesus speaks of is the Psalm 23 kind of life. Feasting joy, free from danger. We can have a taste of this now, and will one day have it in full if we have Jesus as our Shepherd. This does not mean that we will never go through dark valleys or have Psalm 22-like experiences. But Psalm 23 shows us that on the other side of the valley of the shadow of death there is abundant life. Dark valleys will come. But right in the middle of our darkest valleys, our Shep...
Immanuel: The God With Us [He Shall Be Called 04]
December 19, 2021 18:15 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBThe promise of the name Immanuel is validated and confirmed in the power of the name Jesus! The reason we know God is with us and that we are never alone is because he has come to us. So close in fact that he became our very nature in order to identify with us, suffer alongside us, and be the atoning sacrifice for us. Immanuel puts to death our fear of loneliness because in Christ God has come to be with us. He has drawn near. But Immanuel also puts to death our fear of shame bec...
El Roi: The God Who Sees [He Shall Be Called 03]
December 12, 2021 16:18 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MBThe powerful story of Christmas is that Jesus, who is the God who sees, has come into our world looking for us. And he sees us looking around looking for him. And he declares to us “There you are…I have been looking for you…I have come to see you…to be with you…to love you…to redeem you!” But he finds us turning our gaze away from him. He finds us distracted and looking past him as though he isn’t the one we are looking for. e. And he cries out all the more “I am here! I have com...
Jehovah Sabaoth: The Lord of Hosts [He Shall Be Called 02]
December 05, 2021 16:29 - 32 minutes - 15 MBAs the Lord of Hosts, God is working in our world and fighting for us by bringing order to the chaos in us and around us. He actively guards, protects, and fights for his good creation. He does so by sending a son. Friends, we all have battles, challenges, and threats in our lives. But we must never lose sight of the truth that we also have a God who is our Lord of Hosts who fights for us, stands for us, defends us, and protects us. As we look upon our nativity sets and reflect on...
El Elyon: The God Most High [He Shall Be Called 01]
November 28, 2021 16:22 - 31 minutes - 13.7 MBSermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48801496 21.11.28
Our Timeless Mission
November 21, 2021 17:07 - 34 minutes - 15 MBIf you are a follower of Jesus, you are here today because somebody in your life was obedient to Jesus’ command to make disciples. What a gift that is. Church, may we offer that same gift to others. We do not merely exist for ourselves and for those inside these walls. We exist for the complete and holistic flourishing of our neighbors and for those who do not know Jesus yet. This is who Jesus has called us to be and what he has called us to do. It is his unchanging mission for o...
Faith & Money [Real Faith 06]
November 07, 2021 17:03 - 39 minutes - 17.8 MBWe give generously because we have generously been given so much from God. When we receive and rejoice in the depth of God’s grace toward us in richly blessing us with his son whom he sent to die for our sins, our response of giving generously is not one of obligation but adoration. It is a delight and joy to give and live generously because we are responding to the joy and generosity of our loving Father. There are no two ways about it. James is very clear. If God doesn’t manage o...
Fatih & Money [Real Faith 06]
November 07, 2021 17:03 - 17.8 MBWe give generously because we have generously been given so much from God. When we receive and rejoice in the depth of God’s grace toward us in richly blessing us with his son whom he sent to die for our sins, our response of giving generously is not one of obligation but adoration. It is a delight and joy to give and live generously because we are responding to the joy and generosity of our loving Father. There are no two ways about it. James is very clear. If God doesn’t manage o...
Faith & Plans [Real Faith 06]
October 31, 2021 15:20 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBBoastful arrogance has no air to breathe in a room filled with gratitude toward God. The less grateful we are to God, even for the small things, the more blind we will be to his goodness and presence, and more boastful and arrogant we can become. Real faith is prepared for what we can’t control...which is a lot of stuff. But are we a people who cling to Jesus tighter than our own plans? Or are we deceived by the illusion and delusion of our own control? The reason we can be ok not...
Faith & Desires [Real Faith 05]
October 24, 2021 15:24 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBLament is a way of getting what we want in line with what God wants. Because lament adopts God’s view of a broken situation so that it can begin to be made whole. It begins to develop within us a distaste for certain things so that we will turn away from them. It begins to reshape our wants and develop a taste within us for what God wants. I don’t know exactly what it is you need to turn from. It’s probably not all the same for all of us. But as we humble ourselves and turn to God,...
Faith & Words [Real Faith 04]
October 17, 2021 16:04 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBLearning to listen and thinking before we speak can help train our tongues, but it cannot save our souls. These practices only address symptoms and surface level issues. They will not and indeed cannot remedy the source from which our words set things on hellish fire. Real faith changes how we speak. Real faith shapes and forms our words. Only because real faith comes from the one who is the word of God. Our only hope of being rescued from the fires of hell within us and that awai...
Faith & Works [Real Faith 03]
October 10, 2021 15:24 - 35 minutes - 15.8 MBGod’s radical grace toward us is what compels us to respond to him with a real faith that really works. Our works are not what move God toward us. Our works are not what convince God to accept us. Our works are not what persuade God to forgive us. God doesn’t need our works in order to rescue us from sin and death, because the work of Christ on the cross for us was fully sufficient for that. But that doesn’t mean God isn’t interested in our works. Who will be served, forgiven,...
Faith & Favorites [Real Faith 02]
October 03, 2021 16:03 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBRemember: mercy triumphed over judgment in your life. If you are a Jesus follower; if you are here because you believe God himself came to earth to live, die, and rise again because of you, then mercy triumphed over judgment in your life. If that is true, where does your mercy need to triumph over judgment for someone else? Who do you not want to serve. Not want to forgive. Not want to acknowledge. Not want to love. Because it’s hard. Or uncomfortable. Or inconvenient. I’m not tal...
Real Faith [Real Faith 01]
September 26, 2021 15:24 - 33 minutes - 14.6 MBAs you look back on the hard seasons of your life you know that you wouldn’t relive them. But you also know you wouldn’t exchange them. Because you know that God has formed you and forged you into the person of real faith that you are today as a result of it. Some of us here are smack dab in the middle of a trial. While I don’t know what you are going through or how God is specifically using your trials to refine you, I do know this. If our God who is the giver of all good gifts an...