Christ Community Church - Leawood Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES

Discipleship with Jesus involves a high cost that was not lost on first-century followers and it must not be lost on us as twenty-first-century followers. What is the cost of following Jesus? Is it worth everything we may be afraid of losing? Wherever we are in our spiritual journey, these are questions the Gospel writer John helps us thoughtfully and carefully consider. We must not miss that as apprentices of Jesus, we are called to take up our cross and follow him. Apprenticeship with Jesus involves losing one’s life, not keeping it. We are to love God first and foremost. That love for God must be so strong that other loves in our life, including love for self and others, are quite small in comparison. It is out of our love for him that we sacrifice our lifestyle for him and the advancement of his good news kingdom mission in the world.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49004672Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new23.01.08

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49002180Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new23.01.01

As we explore Psalm 22 together, it is my heart’s desire that we will see its profound connection to Christmas in our lives. Few texts give us a more compelling glimpse into the meaning of the Bethlehem manger than Psalm 22. This advent season may have you feeling very alone. Feeling alone is one of the most painful experiences of our lives. Loneliness can diminish our sense of worth, harms our bodies, robs our joy, an smothers our soul. The good news is that we have a promised king who will never, ever leave us. He gets our pain, goes to the cross for us, and gives us hope.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48992864Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new  22.12.18

The season of Advent is a season for asking questions like: is anyone coming to save me? Is the promised king we long for coming and can he save us from ourselves? Save us from this broken world? In Psalm 103, David wants to remind us of God’s great love and compassion in sending his son, who took on our frame, became dust, took on the form of a servant, was tempted and without sin, took our place, and died on a cross. Jesus shouts to us this Christmas season. Jesus is how high and wide and deep the love of God can go. None of us can look at a baby born in a manger and doubt if we are beyond rescue. Absolutely not! Part of this season, the reason we do this every year, is to remember God’s rescue.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48992858Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new22.12.11

We all need a king who is truly for us. Not just when we are strong or good, but when we are weak and anything but good. Not just when we know where we are going, but when we have lost our way. We need a king who is truly there for us, who will not abandon us, even when we ignore him, doubt him, blame him or turn our backs on him. The good news is that we have a kind like that! A king that knows our human vulnerability, sees us as precious, and is with us now and forever.Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48991413Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new22.12.04

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977463 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new22.11.27

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48977448 Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new22.11.20

The bible has often been called the “good book” for it indeed is that. It is the masterpiece of masterpieces.  But the good book can be misused for deceptive aims, abusive purposes and nefarious ends.  The bible can be wrongly taught to say what it does not say, to support deceptive plausibilities that perpetuate anything, but truth, goodness and beauty in the world, but rather legitimize abuse, domination, evil, and suffering. Our hearts break at this, but it is a sober reminder for us of the importance of teaching what the Holy Scripture actually teaches, of teaching the whole counsel of God and embracing the moral clarity it brings to our broken world.We are not our own. We belong to Jesus. We learn from Jesus as yoked apprentices who understand and steward power radically different from the world. re–what a glorious place we live, love and work before an Audience of One.Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/newSermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4897744122.11.13

For most of us, we just have to learn to dance. Occasionally, that means stepping on each other’s toes. The marriages that do this best, sacrificing and submitting, loving and respecting, they don’t even know they’re doing it. They aren’t focused on the steps. They are focused on their partner. Your marriage is not about you and that is the best news in the world. Because the truly best things in life are not about us. They are about Jesus. The greatest story of all time. God as our husband. And even when we run from him, hide from him, hurt him, betray him…He never stops pursuing us. Sacrificing for us. Cherishing us. Loving us. Never ever ever. You in this room are God’s beloved.Sermon Notes:  https://www.bible.com/events/48977429Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2509/responses/new

Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/4897395622.10.30