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  • 12 Prophets: Joel - Where is God? (Rev. Josh Kim) 9/17/2023
    Joel 2:12 – 17 NLT
    12 That is why the Lord says,
    “Turn to me now, while there is time.
    Give me your hearts.
    Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
    13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,
    but tear your hearts instead.”
    Return to the Lord your God,
    for he is merciful and compassionate,
    slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
    He is eager to relent and not punish.
    14 Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve,
    sending you a blessing instead of this curse.
    Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine
    to the Lord your God as before.
    15 Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem!
    Announce a time of fasting;
    call the people together
    for a solemn meeting.
    16 Gather all the people—
    the elders, the children, and even the babies.
    Call the bridegroom from his quarters
    and the bride from her private room.
    17 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence,
    stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar.
    Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord!
    Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery.
    Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say,
    ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’”
    37 min
  • 12 Prophets: Hosea - Sin & Sinner (Rev. Josh Kim) 9/10/2023
    Hosea 14:1 – 7 NLT
    Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for your sins have brought you down.
    2 Bring your confessions, and return to the Lord.
    Say to him,
    “Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us,
    so that we may offer you our praises.
    3 Assyria cannot save us,
    nor can our warhorses.
    Never again will we say to the idols we have made,
    ‘You are our gods.’
    No, in you alone
    do the orphans find mercy.”
    4 The Lord says,
    “Then I will heal you of your faithlessness;
    my love will know no bounds,
    for my anger will be gone forever.
    5 I will be to Israel
    like a refreshing dew from heaven.
    Israel will blossom like the lily;
    it will send roots deep into the soil
    like the cedars in Lebanon.
    6 Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees,
    as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
    7 My people will again live under my shade.
    They will flourish like grain and blossom like grapevines.
    They will be as fragrant as the wines of Lebanon.
    30 min
  • 12 Prophets: The Prodigal (Rev. Josh Kim) 9/3/2023
    Hosea 1:1-11
    1 The Lord gave this message to Hosea son of Beeri during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
    2 When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.”
    3 So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son. 4 And the Lord said, “Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu’s dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel. In fact, I will bring an end to Israel’s independence. 5 I will break its military power in the Jezreel Valley.”
    6 Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea, “Name your daughter Lo-ruhamah—‘Not loved’—for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them. 7 But I will show love to the people of Judah. I will free them from their enemies—not with weapons and armies or horses and charioteers, but by my power as the Lord their God.”
    8 After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she again became pregnant and gave birth to a second son. 9 And the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people’—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.
    10 “Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’ 11 Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel—when God will again plant his people in his land.
    30 min
  • Actin’ Brand New (Rev. Charles McKnight) 8/27/2023
    Galatians 2:11-16 ESV
    11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
    15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
    28 min
  • Summer of Parables: The Night Watch (Rev. Josh Kim) 8/6/2023
    Matthew 25:1 – 13 NLT
    “Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 The five who were foolish didn’t take enough olive oil for their lamps, 4 but the other five were wise enough to take along extra oil. 5 When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
    6 “At midnight they were roused by the shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is coming! Come out and meet him!’
    7 “All the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps. 8 Then the five foolish ones asked the others, ‘Please give us some of your oil because our lamps are going out.’
    9 “But the others replied, ‘We don’t have enough for all of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.’
    10 “But while they were gone to buy oil, the bridegroom came. Then those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was locked. 11 Later, when the other five bridesmaids returned, they stood outside, calling, ‘Lord! Lord! Open the door for us!’
    12 “But he called back, ‘Believe me, I don’t know you!’
    13 “So you, too, must keep watch! For you do not know the day or hour of my return.
    30 min
  • Summer of Parables: Wedding To Remember (Rev. Josh Kim) 7/30/2023
    Matthew 22:1 – 14 NLT
    Jesus also told them other parables. He said, 2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son. 3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!
    4 “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’ 5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
    7 “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town. 8 And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor. 9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’ 10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
    11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding. 12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply. 13 Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
    14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
    27 min
  • Summer of Parables: Kingdom Economy (Rev. Josh Kim) 7/23/2023
    Matthew 13:44 – 50 NLT
    44 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.
    45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. 46 When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it!
    47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a fishing net that was thrown into the water and caught fish of every kind. 48 When the net was full, they dragged it up onto the shore, sat down, and sorted the good fish into crates, but threw the bad ones away. 49 That is the way it will be at the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked people from the righteous, 50 throwing the wicked into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
    39 min

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Christ Central Church seeks to be a racially diverse church community. We strive to be a church that is Biblically authentic and true in its worship of God. We desire to communicate and grow spiritually from the message of the Gospel as it is read, preached, shared and taught faithfully, clearly and relevantly. We long to be a community filled with loving and encouraging relationships. We seek to spread the good news in word, thought and deed as a community of individuals and families that are faithful to serve, trust, share, grow and spread the redeeming love of Jesus everywhere, in everything and with all people.