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Christ Community Church (C3 Houston) is an evangelical church grounded in both reformed and baptistic understandings of The Gospel and its implications. We are committed to a ministry philosophy of expositional preaching, authentic community, and missional outreach. Missed a Sunday together? Listen here.
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Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Sunday Dec 07, 2014
Faith is one of those Sunday School words: terms we Christ-followers throw around, mistakenly assuming others (and ourselves?) know precisely what we mean. God infused His Big Story with the necessity of faith from "first to last" (Romans 1:17). What does that mean for each of us? And what does that look like day-to-day?
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Hebrews 11:1 - 12:3
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
Sunday Nov 30, 2014
When relationships with one another take a turn for the worst, what's your response? Do you tend to put up your defenses or run the other way? When you are the friend stuck in the middle, how do you handle the sticky situation? What does the Scripture say about situations like these? What gospel truths can we bring to bear on these real life situations?
Speaker: Seth Thornton
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Philemon 1:1 - 25
Sunday Nov 23, 2014
Sunday Nov 23, 2014
In considering The Big Story, when we hear "God's People", we usually think of Israel. But now God is working in and through His new people, known as The Church. Familiar terms - what does all this mean for daily living?
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Colossians 1:24 - 29
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
Sunday Nov 16, 2014
God's rescue plan - His redeeming of His rebel world - is cosmic and timeless, rooted in the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace. This makes a difference for the believer, each and every day.
Speaker: John Piper
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Ephesians 1:3 - 14
Sunday Nov 09, 2014
Sunday Nov 09, 2014
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. No pain, no gain. Our culture acklowedges the constructive value of suffering in theory. But when nice theories are assaulted by ugly facts, we easily lose sight of trouble's worth. 2 Corinthians, Paul's most personal letter, details suffering's contribution to sanctification. How does the Gospel transform trouble?
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
Sunday Nov 02, 2014
As we noted last week (Rom. 12), for those of us who have been changed through The Big Story, there remains, nevertheless, a temptation towards conformity with this world's systems. Nowhere is this more pressing than in the realm of sexual ethics, especially today. How does God's Word instruct us to think about sex? There are answers.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:1 - 6:20
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
Sunday Oct 26, 2014
...now what? God's rescue plan has been executed; we've seen why things are as bad as they are; indeed, the reason we were as bad off as we were, apart from His Gospel (Romans 1). But still, how does it all work day-by-day? Where is the practical application to daily life? What difference does this all make on Monday morning?
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Romans 12:1 - 3
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
Sunday Oct 19, 2014
The Bible, God's record of The Big Story, details the origin of sin and curse in His world, the "Fall." Have you ever thought about how so much disaster and despair came out of what seems like a trivial offense? After all, just a piece of fruit! What's up with that? It matters, implicit in decisions we've already made this morning!
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Romans 1:18 - 32
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Sunday Oct 12, 2014
Our world in Houston, Texas is a different place than it was a few years ago in more ways than one. There once was some degree of "common ground" about the nature of truth and presuppositions most people had about God, the Bible, Jesus, man, etc... Today "common ground" is frustratingly harder to find in our conversations. How do we engage the task (mission) of sharing Jesus with a Post-Christian world?
Speaker: Seth Thornton
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Acts 17:16 - 34
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Sunday Oct 05, 2014
Missional living. Being on mission. Incarnational evangelism. Lifestyle evangelism. Sometimes it seems like we come up with more changing jargon than we know what to do with. But the root of all these related concepts is an effort to understand and engage the yet-unfinished part of God's Big Story: spreading His good news.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Acts 1:6 -11