Each week, a sermon from Christ Community Church becomes a sermon study in Sojourn. Open it any day to sit with the passages preached and the questions it raised.
Jesus comes to a grieving family in Bethany, weeps with them, and then calls their brother out of a tomb four days dead, declaring himself to be the resurrection and the life. The sermon holds out that promise as both a future hope and a present confidence.
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Sunday, November 1
Mark Ashton answers questions from the congregation on prayer and God's sovereignty, the age of the earth, baptism, spiritual gifts, life after death, and how to trust Jesus, answering each from scripture as he reads it.
Sunday, October 25
At Hanukkah, in front of the temple, Jesus tells the crowd plainly that he is God, points to his works as evidence, and says the reason some cannot hear him is that they are not his sheep. The passage ends with two very different responses: stones in the temple, and belief across the Jordan.
Sunday, October 18
Jesus says he is both the gate and the good shepherd, the one who knows his sheep by name and lays down his life for them, over against leaders who shut people out instead of leading them in.
Sunday, October 11
Jesus sees a man everyone else has turned into a problem, a beggar, or evidence, and he goes looking for him after the crowd throws him out. The sermon asks whether God sees us when we cannot see him clearly, and whether we will see the overlooked people already in front of us.
Sunday, October 4
A guest teacher walks through Hagar's flight into the desert and her encounter with the God who sees her, arguing that the struggles we most want to hide are a map to healing rather than a verdict against us.
Sunday, September 27
Paul describes followers of Jesus as the aroma of Christ, a fragrance that spreads the knowledge of him everywhere they go. The sermon asks whether the lives we live at home, at work, and in our neighborhoods quietly point people toward Jesus or away from him.
Sunday, September 20
Jesus tells a group of people convinced they are already free that sin has made them slaves, and that real freedom comes from belonging to the Father as sons and daughters rather than performing for acceptance.
Sunday, September 13
Doubt is not the opposite of faith and is not itself a sin; the sermon walks through believers in scripture who doubted God's power, his care, and his identity, and invites people to bring their questions to Jesus rather than let them stall their faith.
Sunday, September 6
The congregation sent in their hardest questions about sex, marriage, gender, singleness and divorce, and the sermon answers each one by pointing back to God's design for men, women and marriage, and to the difference between temptation and sin, shame and obedience.
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