ComChurch Teaching and Discussion Audio

The last part of our series on our identity and created purpose as members of the Church explores community, which is not just God’s idea; it’s God’s nature. God in his very essence is a community of…

However imperfectly, we all hunger to know the God who created us. We face a number of challenges to a deeper relationship with Him, not least of which is the guilt of not already knowing Him as well…

The Church faces some hard realities as traditional forms of Christianity and the Church’s stature in society are in obvious decline. But God’s love for and presence in the world remain, and we are s…

What does it mean to be a “missional” church? What does missional living look like?

The mission of the Church is to build on the foundation God has laid in Jesus for the future reconciliation God will finish through Jesus. Three lasting ways we build for the now and coming Kingdom o…

Our mission as the Church is to join God’s mission. God is reconciling of all things on heaven and earth through Jesus, birthing the new creation. What is that new creation and how do we join him in …

What is God’s mission in the world and how does the Church join him in it? Jesus articulated both an immediate and an eternal mission, making it clear that his saving presence was for our earthly res…

While in Prison, Paul wrote a letter to his friend Philemon, urging him to receive back his runaway slave Onesimus as a brother – as he would receive Paul himself. Though this story of three men and …

When life is hard – and it is often hard – worship can become a challenge. How do I rejoice or glory in a God who seems absent or disinterested in my plight? Paul says we carry around the death of Je…

As we continue to explore what it means to follow Jesus, Paul gives us a broader perspective on worship: what it looks like to worship God with our entire life and why it makes sense that we worship,…

As we follow Jesus, we must engage our emotions in our worship of God.

Our final sermon from The Sermon on the Mount explores Jesus’ words and warnings about hearing and heeding his words.

Fear of #fakenews is everywhere. This fear that people will be duped into believing and acting on false information is nothing new. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches his followers that not ev…

Judge not: perhaps the two most popular words Jesus ever uttered. But did he mean to prohibit everything we categorize as judging others? What do we do with his instructions for humbly removing the s…

Though he is truly God, Jesus also experienced the full scope of what it means to be human. His entering into our reality is essential to his redeeming all of our pain and brokenness from the inside …

Jesus knows we desperately try to accumulate material wealth to feel secure, then worry even more about keeping our stuff. He outlines 3 reasons we can live free of worry in God’s Kingdom that will c…

The day of Pentecost celebrates the sending of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church.  But who is the Holy Spirit, and how does the Holy Spirit really impact daily living?

Discipleship is always a process of teaching transcendent principles through specific behaviors.

If we will let it, praying the prayer Jesus taught us frees us of chaos, fear, worry, and the tyranny of our circumstances. It leads us out of the frenetic, out of control, disordered life where thin…

In the middle of his teaching about not confusing faithful religion with religious show, Jesus teaches his disciples to pray. We’ve become so familiar with The Lord’s Prayer that many of us rarely in…