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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 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
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Sunday Sep 28, 2014
Missing the forest for the trees - it's an axiom that exists for a reason. It might be that we treat the Big Story that way. John's Gospel holds a text that's a wonderful, reorienting reminder of what it's really all about. Nothing has changed or 2000 years!
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: John 20:30 - 31
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Cicero of Rome called crucifixion "the cruelest and foulest of punishments." Jewish historian Josephus said it was the "most wretched of deaths." Yet one commentator notes the Apostle John "describes the horror that was crucifixion in a single word." Do we comprehend the terror, the glory, and the implications of the cross of Jesus? Here's the apex and climax of the Big Story.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: John 19:17 - 37
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
Sunday Sep 14, 2014
It's been exciting to move closer and closer to the core crisis event of The Big Story, God's rescue and ransom mission for His rebel world. This morning we dive deeper in to the nature of Jesus' earthly mission, and find ome very practical applications for living as His followers.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: John 1:14
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
Sunday Sep 07, 2014
It's been exciting to move closer and closer to the core crisis event of The Big Story, God's rescue and ransom mission for His rebel world. This morning we dive deeper in to the nature of Jesus' earthly mission, and find ome very practical applications for living as His followers.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Mark 1:24 - 32
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Sunday Aug 31, 2014
Some of Jesus' most abiding truths in His unexpected Kingdom-teaching were given in the form of parables. We learn this morning that His purposes went far beyond mere instruction for people who lived 2,000 years ago. There are abiding, applicable-for-us insights in His approach that we need to consider this morning.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Matthew 13:10 - 17
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
Sunday Aug 24, 2014
As we work through God's Big Story, we're heading into the very core and heart of His plan to redeem and rescue our rebel world. The life of Jesus, His death, and then His resurrection, are all grounded in history and make the good news truly good. This morning, we think about what His Kingdom really looks like: in its cosmic design and in daily, real-life practice.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Matthew 5:3 - 16
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
Sunday Aug 17, 2014
So far in The Big Story, we've seen God's consistent plan for a people living distinctive lives before a watching world. In this New Covenant age, we are His unique people: the Church. This morning we take a break between the Testaments and remind ourselves of our calling to represent heaven on earth.
Speaker: Michael Boys
Series: The Big Story
Scripture: Philippians 3:17 - 21
Sunday Aug 10, 2014
Sunday Aug 10, 2014
The theme that stands above all themes of the Bible is simply this..."the Glory of God through Jesus Christ." So where do we see that in Scripture and why does it matter?
Speaker: Seth Thornton
Series: The Big Story