Christ Community Church - Brookside Campus - SUNDAY MESSAGES

Romans 8:28-30 // Taylor Fair

We’ve been in this series Romans: For Life, where we’ve learned from the Apostle Paul, Rabbi Paul, that we aren’t just saved from eternal evil but we are saved for something else: we are saved for eternal glory and for God’s good Spirit-filled work in our lives. Paul’s confidence is rooted in who he understands God to be. Paul is rooting his confidence not just in the happening of this, but in the God who is in sovereign control of all the happenings of the universe. When we embrace faith in Jesus we are God’s children. And we are co-heirs with Christ. Meaning we have the same inheritance as Jesus.

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24. 05.19

Romans 8:26-27 // Brooks Nesse

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, or maybe you even struggled to know what exactly it was you were feeling! Maybe you didn’t know what to pray, or how to pray, or even feel like you could pray. What are we supposed to do when we no longer have words?

Paul’s answer might surprise you. Because it’s less about what we do and more about what God does. What God is already doing. Even when all we can do is groan, God reminds us that: We never groan alone.

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24.05.12

Romans 8:18-25 // Bill Gorman

When we are in the midst of suffering, it can seem difficult to imagine the Christian life is worth it. How can we have hope and what does hope look like for the follower of Jesus in this world as we wait on Christ’s return?

Join us as we continue to explore God's robust rescue for a life with him as we walk through Romans.

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24.05.05

Romans 8:12-17 // Bill Gorman

At the core of every human being is the desire to belong to someone, somewhere. God invites us to find an unshakable belonging with him, but how can we actually feel like we belong? The answer is the Holy Spirit, but that answer is bigger than we often think.

Join us as we continue to explore God's robust rescue for a life with him as we walk through Romans.

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24.04.28

Romans 8: 5-13 // Taylor Fair

In order for something to truly die, it has to be cut off from its source of life. Which means we have to learn how to make room for the Spirit to access the deepest roots of our fleshly desires. We have to learn how to create space to be aware of where the Spirit is trying to access so we can keep up with him and let him in. And it’s going to take time, right? Change takes time. It takes time to kill this stuff that is deeply ingrained in us. And the Enemy is working to keep us living according to the flesh, so we have some resistance. What we have to do is discern where the Spirit is trying to work on us and rely on His presence and power in our daily, ordinary lives. The best practice for creating space for the Spirit to reach the roots of your heart is prayer. Remember, He lives in you. He speaks to you. So take time this week in prayer to ask him for guidance, to help you see what needs to be killed and where the source of life needs to be cut off.

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24. 04. 21

Romans 8:1-5 // Taylor Fair

Planet Fitness has an interesting tagline: “Welcome to the judgement free zone.” Where else can we find that? It’s rare, isn’t it? Much more common is constant criticism. Rampant negativity. Harsh condemnation. We see and experience this, both from others, and from ourselves. The truth is, some of us are our worst critics.

And yet, in Romans 8:1, the Apostle Paul writes, “There is now NOW condemnation…” Incredible! How is this possible? Engage this passage with us to find out…

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24.04.14

Romans 7:14-25 // Bill Gorman

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 has rescued us not only from death but for Life in the book of Romans.

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07.04.24

Romans 7:7-13 // Bill Gorman

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. And listen: this is true of religious people and nonreligious people. Republicans and democrats. We all try to legislate morality.

Others of us love freedom, and we think our freedom can save us. We don’t want any rules. The good life is found in doing whatever I want, whenever I want. And we end up like driftwood. Religious people and nonreligious people.

The right rules can’t save us, but neither can the right amount of doing whatever we want. Both those paths lead to death.

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24.03.24

Romans 6:15-23 // Nydiaris Hernández-Santos

Life is full of paradoxes that make our life either run or crash, depending on how you look at it. Humans are full of contradictions and God knows it! He has chosen many paradoxes to reveal who he is and to show us what it looks like to follow him. Would you join us as we study one of the biblical paradoxes? Dive deep with us into the paradox of grace

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24.17.03

Romans 7:1-6 // Tim Miller

Belonging to Jesus Bears Life.

Join us as we continue to see in the book of Romans what it means to belong to Jesus, and how we can actually live this out.

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24.03.10