Christ Community Church - Olathe Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES

Christ Community Church - Olathe Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES episodes:

• 06.23.2024

  Kings: Jehu [Kings: 04]

  Jehu, King of Israel, was a man of action. He took the throne and wiped out the family of the previous evil king, Ahab. He even destroyed the worship of the false god Baal. But was Jehu's heart truly for...

  
• 06.16.2024

  Kings: Asa [Kings: 03]

  King Asa's 41-year reign in Judah offers a compelling story of leadership and faith. Watch to explore his successes in removing idolatry and leading a prosperous Judah, as well as the challenges he faced when his trust in God wavered....

  
• 06.09.2024

  Kings: Rehoboam & Jeroboam [Kings: 02]

  Rehoboam & Jeroboam: The Kings of Division This video explores the story of Rehoboam and Jeroboam, two kings of Israel whose poor leadership decisions led to the division of the kingdom. Learn valuable lessons about leadership and the consequences of...

  
• 06.02.2024

  Kings: Solomon [Kings: 01]

  King Solomon, son of David, starts his reign with incredible wisdom and accomplishments: a magnificent temple, booming trade, and fair government. But was that his true legacy?  This video explores Solomon's rise and fall, how his worship turned away from...

  
• 05.26.2024

  Romans For Everything [Romans: 12]

  Romans 8:31-39 // Jonathan Neef  Have you ever questioned what happens when life throws its punches? Does death bring an end? Can anything truly separate us from God? In this video, we unpack the liberating message of God's unwavering love...

  
• 05.19.2024

  Romans: Everything For Life [Romans: 12]

  Romans 8:28-30 // Jonathan Neef Have you ever wrestled with a passage of scripture, struggling to believe it in the midst of personal pain? Join us as we explore the deep and often misinterpreted verses of Romans 8:28-30, reflecting on...

  
• 05.12.2024

  Romans: God's Life-Giving Prayer [Romans: 11]

  Romans 8:26-27 // Nathan Miller When was the last time you were left speechless by grief, disappointment, loneliness, frustration? Maybe you paced aimlessly: I just don’t know what to say. Maybe you struggled to know how to express your feelings,...

  
• 05.05.2024

  Romans: Hopeful Groaning For More Life [Romans: 10]

  Romans 8:18-25 // Nathan Miller Our world and our lives are in labor. And it hurts. The suffering, the agony, the tears. The trauma and the drama. But our groaning will one day give birth to glory. And somehow it...

  
• 04.28.2024

  Romans: Living in God's Family [Romans: 09]

  Romans 8:12-17 // Jonathan Neef  We have left God, abused his grace and run after things and idols we thought would bring happiness and belonging. But while we were a long way off God ran after us, hugged us,...

  
• 04.21.2024

  Romans: Alive Inside [Romans: 08]

  Romans 8:5-13 // Nathan Miller There is a freedom that comes from God’s Spirit, that you just can’t get anywhere else. But we tend to define freedom as the ability to do whatever I want. To fulfill my desires, whatever...

  
• 04.14.2024

  Romans: Free for Life [Romans: 07]

  Romans 8:1-5 // Jonathan Neef I believe this is the best news you can hear. But I struggle to remember and believe that myself.  My assumption is that there are at least three types of people in this...

  
• 04.07.2024

  Romans: Fighting for Life [Romans for Life: 06]

  Romans 7:14-25 // Nathan Miller The biggest fights are the ones we have within ourselves. How does Jesus shape the fight waging within? It may not be what we thought. Join us as we continue to see how God...

  
• 03.31.2024

  Easter Sunday - Jesus Came Back to Life for Your Life

  Matthew 28 // Jonathan Neef For some the empty tomb is just a harmless story and myth, kinda like the Easter bunny. For others, it was a story of deliberate deceit used to hide the truth and deceive millions....

  
• 03.24.2024

  Romans: No, the Law Did Not Take Our Life [Romans: 05]

  Romans 7:7-13 // Nathan Miller Some of us, if we’re honest, believe: the rules can save us. If we just follow the right rules, enact the right laws, educate our kids the right ways, we’ll make the good life....

  
• 03.17.2024

  Romans: Belonging to Jesus Bears Life [Romans: 04]

  Romans 7:1-6 // Brooks Nesse We all have this desire to belong.  And it's a good desire, it is what we were made for. But what about those times when we don’t feel like we belong? Or what about...

  
• 03.10.2024

  Romans: Eternal Life [Romans: 03]

  Romans 6:15-23 // Jonathan Neef We live in a country and society founded upon the idea that life and happiness are the fruit of freedom. This is different from other countries around the world but we love our freedom....

  
• 03.03.2024

  Romans: Offer Your Life to God [Romans: 02]

  Romans 6:12-14 // Brooks Nesse One of the greatest battles of history is not “out there,” but rather, is “in here.” Herein lies a crucial insight as to why following Jesus can be so hard. There is a battle...

  
• 02.25.2024

  Romans: Rescued for New Life [Romans: 01]

  Romans 6:1-11 // Jonathan Neef We all love a good rescue story. But what happens after the rescue? Is that the end? Is there any more? Today we are in the book of Romans where the first five chapters...

  
• 02.18.2024

  But What About Hell? [But What About? 07]

  Matthew 25:31-46 // Nathan Miller Jesus Himself makes it clear. Some will go to heaven. And some will go to hell. At the very thought of that, many of us have issues. Our imaginations have been tainted, but more...

  
• 02.11.2024

  But What About Suffering? [But What About? 06]

  Psalm 13:1-6; Mark 15:33-39 // Jonathan Neef “I used to go to church and pray, and then my best friend got sick and died… How can I believe in God when that happened?” My friend told me this in...

  
• 02.04.2024

  But What About Christianity & Politics? [But What About?] 05

  Matthew 22:15-22 // Brooks Nesse Wherever you find yourself in this matter of faith and politics, whatever your political leanings, right, left, or somewhere in the middle, the question we need to thoughtfully ask is (Slide) How Should Followers of...

  
• 01.29.2024

  But what about Christian sexual ethics? (But What About...? 04)

  God cares about what we do with our bodies, including how we handle sex. Because of this Christians have a sex ethic which is often ridiculed by our culture. Culture says that sex is both absolutely everything (our identity factor)...

  
• 01.21.2024

  But What About Women? [But What About 03]

  Genesis 1:26-28; Luke 10:38-42 // Nathan Miller Regardless of your theological position, or where you land on gender responsibilities within the home and in the church. Regardless, all of us should seek to avoid the mistreatment of women. All of us...

  
• 01.14.2024

  But What About the Bible? [But What About 02]

  2 Timothy 3:12-17 // Jonathan Neef My hope this morning is to help you see that the Bible is God’s word to you. That the claims of scripture are bold and beautiful and that what God says we must...

  
• 01.12.2024

  But What About the Church? [But What About? 01]

  Matthew 16:17-19, Ephesians 3:20-21 // Nathan Miller Disagreement, hurt, frustration, and abuse. There are a lot of reasons to dismiss the church, but there may very well be more reasons to give her a second look. What if there is...

  
• 12.31.2023

  The Wise Men [Christmas Through the Eyes of Faith 5]

  Matthew 2:1-12 // Brooks Nesse It’s all too easy to skim through the Christmas narrative and miss out on key aspects of that story. The three Wise Men are some of the most misremembered and misunderstood characters of Christmas, and...

  
• 12.24.2023

  Joseph [Christmas Through the Eyes of Faith 4]

  Matthew 1:18-25 // Nathan Miller Christmas wasn’t welcome news to even the faithful…at first. Christmas in many ways disrupts our best laid plans. The question is NOT whether Christmas messes with our lives. The question IS how we show up...

  
• 12.17.2023

  Mary [Christmas Through the Eyes of Faith 3]

  Luke 1:26-45 // Jonathan Neef Why has the Christmas story lasted so long? Mary was a nobody from nowhere with nothing to offer. Her claim of being the mother of God was offensive to others and dangerous to her. Her...

  
• 12.10.2023

  Zechariah [Christmas Through the Eyes of Faith 2]

  Luke 1:5-25, 55-67 // Jonathan Neef What happens when Christmas is NOT what you thought it would be? You experience pain, loss, and sadness in ways you didn’t want or expect. Today we are going to look at how...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Ruth [Christmas Through the Eyes of Faith 1]

  Ruth 1: 1-22, Matthew 1:5 // Nathan Miller So what’s it about? It’s about a God who so loves outsiders. Who so pursues the people who don’t belong. Who has such a big heart for losers and outcasts, for sinners....

  
• 11.26.2023

  The Representative Who Can Rescue [Romans 16]

  Romans 5:18-21 // Jonathan Neef It’s not something we like to think about or talk about but the greatest certainty in life is that everybody dies. Sure, modern medicine and skin products help us live longer and look young but...

  
• 11.19.2023

  The Representative Who Wrecked It All [Romans 15]

  Romans 5:12-14 // Brooks Nesse Sin is not our bad habits that we don’t like about ourselves, it’s our master outside of Jesus and its rule is death. It's the reason I have the ability to do so much damage...

  
• 11.12.2023

  The Result of Rescue: Reconciliation [Romans 14]

  Romans 5:5-11 // Nathan Miller  At the core of each one of us, is this longing to be loved. And this unmistakable sense that maybe no one does. Or maybe ever will. To be loved we have to be known....

  
• 11.05.2023

  Result of Rescue: Hope [Romans 13]

  Romans 5:1-5 // Nikki Dieker God’s love has been poured out into our hearts. I have often found that it’s when I am suffering that I feel the love of God the most. Like palpably feel it. It’s because, in...

  
• 10.29.2023

  Rescued By Trusting the Promise [Romans 12]

  Romans 4:13-25 // Jonathan Neef If we are honest, there are many places where we feel the “weight of the world.” Things are not the way they are supposed to be and they are overwhelming, chaos is around us, anxiety...

  
• 10.22.2023

  Rescued Apart from Earning [Romans 11]

  Romans 4:1-12 // Nathan Miller You cannot have a relationship with anyone without trust. Trust is the currency of intimacy. But what does that matter to God? It matters to God because God wants a relationship with you....

  
• 10.15.2023

  Rescued through Faith [Romans 10]

  Romans 3:27-31 // Jonathan Neef When people talk about “having faith” it often revolves around do they want something bad enough? Or do they believe strongly enough that it can happen? So often the conversation revolves around their effort for...

  
• 10.08.2023

  Rescued by Grace [Romans 09]

  Romans 3:21-26 // Nathan Miller Imagine if you woke up each morning knowing -- fully knowing -- that you are safe in God’s arms. That He delights in you. That His face lights up every time you walk into the room....

  
• 10.01.2023

  We Need Rescue From Sin [Romans 08]

  Romans 3:1-20 // Jonathan Neef Paul has been writing to the church in Rome where Jews and Greeks are fighting over who is right. Both of them think they are okay but Paul spends the first two chapters saying here is...

  
• 09.24.2023

  We Need Rescue From Hypocrisy [Romans 07]

  Romans 2:17-29 // Jonathan Neef On November 21st, 1995, the DC Talk “Jesus Freak” album made this quote saying, “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge God with their lips but deny Him with...

  
• 09.17.2023

  We Need Rescue From Religion [Romans 06]

  Romans 2:1-16 // Nathan Miller How many times have you committed the same sin? How many times have you judged the same person or people? How many times have you despised God’s rich mercy? Do you ever wonder why...

  
• 09.10.2023

  We Need Rescue From Death [Romans 05]

  Romans 1:18-32 // Jonathan Neef As counterintuitive as it may seem sometimes the worst thing that can happen to us is for us to get what we want. Our desires are so strong it can be blinding but when we finally...

  
• 09.03.2023

  We Need Rescue From Idolatry [Romans 04]

  Romans 1:18-23 // Nathan Miller The gospel is God’s power to save us. What Jesus did for us. Not only are we rescued from God’s wrath. Which is amazing enough. When Jesus died, He suffered all the wrath I deserve....

  
• 08.27.2023

  Not Ashamed of the Rescue [Romans 03]

  Romans 1:16-17 // Nathan Miller What are your biggest regrets? Your biggest failures? How many times have you hurt -- deeply hurt -- the people you love most in the world? How often have you made a rule for yourself...

  
• 08.20.2023

  The Rescued Family [Romans 02]

  Romans 1:8-15 // Brooks Nesse Perhaps we come in feeling like we’ve squandered opportunity after opportunity, you come from brokenness, people have told you are not worthy enough to be received by anyone. But praise God it’s not about our...

  
• 08.13.2023

  The King Who Rescues [Romans 01]

  Romans 1:1-7 // Jonathan Neef Everyone knows that feeling of desperation. Maybe it was when you went out past where you could touch in the pool before you could swim well. Maybe it was when the doctor called about the results...

  
• 08.06.2023

  David and the Census [David 13]

  2 Samuel 24 // Jonathan Neef How would you write the ending of your story? Surely you would want to be seen in the best light possible right? Well, the ending of Samuel shows David as the chief of sinners....

  
• 07.30.2023

  David and Absalom [David 12]

   2 Samuel 14-18 // Brooks Nesse At this stage of II Samuel, we reach what seems to be a total spiritual eclipse, where darkness seems to be so prevalent that you struggle to see a world where the God...

  
• 07.23.2023

  David and His Children [David 11]

  2 Samuel 13:1-9 // Jonathan Neef Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49108761   Prayer Requests: https://ccefc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/2542/responses/new 23.07.23

  
• 07.16.2023

  David and Nathan [David 10]

  2 Samuel 12:1-25 // Nathan Miller Sin exposed can lead to grace. When we get caught. Or when we have the courage to confess. It’s a wake-up call. It’s a fire alarm going off in the middle of the night,...