The Backpack

Trail Mix is a segment featuring a variety of bite-sized content designed to energize and help you in your walk with Jesus. In this episode, D.J. and CCC Community Involvement Director Katie Gaither sit down with special guest Madeline Presley. Madeline's late father, Dr. Mike Presley, wrote and gave a presentation reflecting on the death of Jesus from the perspective of a medical doctor. Madeline, herself a pre-med student at Centre College, is carrying on her dad's work, and sits down with us to share this reflection on both how and why Jesus died.

Madeline's PowerPoint presentation can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j7hB1hwM3e9BZOZxDgRfWbCj9HWjQlfz/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=117924295937085656695&rtpof=true&sd=true

Each week at Christ Community Church, we feature stories of what God's doing in the lives of the people who make up our church family - the story of how they came to faith in Jesus, the story of how God's currently growing them in grace, or even the story of how they're taking their faith outside and meeting needs in our community. The Stories From the Trail segment shares those stories with you. This week, we hear from CCC member Dave Sullivan about his recent trip to Honduras to check in with Sparrow Mission, the generational discipleship taking place there, and the opportunity for us to continue to partner with them to help in those efforts.

The Canteen features weekly sermons from the preaching ministry of Christ Community Church. As we continue our study of the Gospel of Luke this week, CCC member Alan Witham looks at Jesus' calling of the twelve apostles, and asks us to consider what we can learn about our own calling as a result. Our text for this message is Luke 6:12-16. This sermon was originally preached at CCC on 3/19/23.

Trail Mix is a segment featuring a variety of bite-sized content designed to energize and help you in your walk with Jesus. In the Sharing Jesus miniseries, Pastor Blake sits down with D.J. to explore how we can become more faithful and effective in sharing our faith by looking at Paul's example from 1 Thessalonians 2. In our final entry, we look at how living holy, set apart lives is the crucial but oft-forgotten foundation that ties our efforts at sharing Jesus together.

Each week at Christ Community Church, we feature stories of what God's doing in the lives of the people who make up our church family - the story of how they came to faith in Jesus, the story of how God's currently growing them in grace, or even the story of how they're taking their faith outside and meeting needs in our community. The Stories From the Trail segment shares those stories with you. This week, we hear from Community Kids director Krysta Howell as she talks to four kids who just finished the first installment of Equip 28, a new discipleship initiative for 4th and 5th graders.

The Canteen features weekly sermons from the preaching ministry of Christ Community Church. As we continue our study of the Gospel of Luke this week, Pastor Blake looks at the way Jesus interacted with the expectations of religious leaders over the matter of sabbath rest, and where the true source of our rest comes from. Our text for this message is Luke 5:33-6:11 This sermon was originally preached at CCC on 3/12/23.

Trail Mix is a segment featuring a variety of bite-sized content designed to energize and help you in your walk with Jesus. In the Sharing Jesus miniseries, Pastor Blake sits down with D.J. to explore how we can become more faithful and effective in sharing our faith by looking at Paul's example from 1 Thessalonians 2. In our third entry, we look at the way Paul shared his life with Thessalonians he sought to reach, and what it will look like for us to do the same.

Each week at Christ Community Church, we feature stories of what God's doing in the lives of the people who make up our church family - the story of how they came to faith in Jesus, the story of how God's currently growing them in grace, or even the story of how they're taking their faith outside and meeting needs in our community. The Stories From the Trail segment shares those stories with you. This week, we hear from four (well, three plus one in spirit) CCC members who recently completed a yearlong discipleship group together as they reflect on how Jesus grew them as they followed him together.

The Canteen features weekly sermons from the preaching ministry of Christ Community Church. As we continue our study of the Gospel of Luke this week, Pastor Blake leads us in looking at the life-changing transformative power that Jesus demonstrated to those he ministered to, and how he continues to demonstrate that power in our lives today. Our text for this message is Luke 5:12-32. This sermon was originally preached at CCC on 3/5/23.

Trail Mix is a segment featuring a variety of bite-sized content designed to energize and help you in your walk with Jesus. In the Sharing Jesus miniseries, Pastor Blake sits down with D.J. to explore how we can become more faithful and effective in sharing our faith by looking at Paul's example from 1 Thessalonians 2. In our second entry, we look at the gentleness that Paul demonstrated to the Thessalonians, the power it gave to his books words, and the ways for us to follow in that pattern.