ComChurch Teaching and Discussion Audio

Romans 12 urges us to pursue a transformative life with God in what we do and how we live the details of our lives. The invitation is to offer our hours and days and bodies and lives as living sacrif…

We wrap our series on spiritual disciplines with two reminders: We must clear new paths for lasting rhythms of spiritual disciplines in our lives, and disciplines will not satisfy us. They are a gift…

We were created to do life together. Christians ought to have the best friendships with another, especially in the local church. Hebrews 10 gives us three different ways in which we can practice Spir…

In the parable of the sower, Jesus warns that for some people, “as time passes, the daily anxieties, the pursuit of wealth, and life’s addicting delights outpace the growth of the message in their he…

Dallas Willard says submission is the highest level of fellowship because it involves humility, complete honesty and transparency, and confession and restitution. Yet many of us resist the concept co…

If you follow Jesus, the Bible is essential to you knowing who you are and why you exist. The whole Bible. As God’s people, we must root ourselves regularly in the Scriptures, which remind us of who …

Of all the gifts that Jesus offers to humankind, perhaps the one most needed by the present generation is the gift of Sabbath rest. Sabbath has always been a defining characteristic of God’s people. …

Confession is our acknowledgement that we’re ever-dependent on grace. We cannot be above ongoing, intentional acknowledgements of our weaknesses, faults, and sins and still be a part of the movement …

Prayer is a language that must be learned.  We need to be taught by the saints who have gone before us how to pray in a way that forms and transforms us. When we look to them, and to Jesus himself, w…

We are meant both to pray fervently for the things of God’s Kingdom here and now and believe that God is building a Kingdom that isn’t always going to fit our grid of what should happen — even maybe …

Jesus leaves us with little doubt that real life as one of His involves total surrender. Yet we often settle for a one- or two-dimensional faith and then wonder why we feel distant from God or strugg…

We exist to know God, but how much of our life is truly aimed at that end? The Scriptures and our lived experience remind us over and over that ultimately what matters in life is not how smart we are…

In John 17, Jesus prays for the unity of the church, tying our connection to him and one another to the heart of his mission. This is a crucial reminder that all of our thinking, praying, and working…

In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul writes in detail about the nature and purpose of spiritual gifts in the Church, describing a community of deeply interconnected people who value one another as essential mem…

There is an ease with which the Scriptures talk about maturity, and the lack of it, that we generally don’t possess. That’s understandable, but is it worth what it costs us? The intention of Jesus fo…

In Revelation 5, the veil between our day to day reality and God’s Kingdom reality is lifted, and we get to see the the real events of Easter weekend unfolding and echoing in the heavens. The picture…

What makes you most passionate? Sports?  Movies? Social Issues?  The Lord has modeled for us what it means to live with passion in the areas of sacrifice, suffering, and speech.  He also calls us to …

The characteristic spirit of the Church community is cross-shaped love and unearned grace among its members. Paul says it this way: “You must bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint agai…

Our confession of Jesus as Messiah and Lord places us within the community of people who are abiding in God, which means they are actively loving as Jesus loves. And John reminds us how Jesus loves: …

The theological basis for biblical community begins with the community of the Triune God who is love. In building a theology of community, we consider five biblical concepts as guides: Community is G…