TCBC Sunday Sermons

The Life of Being Spiritual Text: 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 1. The cross and the Spirit 2. Wisdom in the Spirit 3. Christ’s mind by the Spirit Reflection Question: How does having the mind of Christ allow you to be spiritual?

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 1. What you must consider 2. What it results in 3. What you receive Reflection: Where are you tempted to find your identity and self-worth, and how does considering your calling help you shift towards life in the Spirit?

1 Corinthians 1:17-25 1. What it’s contrasted to 2. What it subverts 3. How it fulfills Reflection: Will you ask God to help you center your life, values, and imagination on the cross of Jesus Christ?

To Rest in God’s Strength Text: Psalm 147:1–20 Thesis: Because Almighty God cares for the helpless, we can rest in his strength. 1. God’s power is boundless. 2. God exercises his power to provide for us. 3. God especially provides for the lowly. 4. So God’s power grants us rest. Reflection Question: How is God leading you to celebrate his rest more fully?

God's justice transcends frail human standards. 1. We long to live under ideal justice 2. We cannot deliver ideal justice 3. God reveals ideal justice 4. God enacts ideal justice Reflection Question: How is God calling you to practice worshipfully his rule of generous justice?

To Tell the Story of our King Text: Psalm 145:1-21 Thesis: God our king provides abundantly for all. 1. What this Psalm says about God’s abundant provision as our king. 2. How God’s mighty deeds demonstrate his abundant provision as our king. 3. How God’s greatest mighty deed fulfills his abundant provision as our king. Reflection Question: How can you celebrate God our king’s abundant provision?

Renewal & Suffering Text: Acts 14:19-28 1. The example of suffering 2. The way of suffering 3. Shepherds for sufferers 4. Your new identity through suffering Reflection Question: How does the prominence of suffering in renewal bring near the heart of Jesus as you endure suffering?

The Message of Renewal Text: Acts 14:1-18 1. Its goal 2. Its ‘m.o.’ 3. Its content Reflection Question: How does the message of renewal encourage your prayers and interactions with loved ones, neighbors, and others?

What Renewal Reveals Text: Acts 10:9-48 1. God’s hand 2. God’s heart 3. Our response Reflection Question: How does God’s hand and heart in renewal affirm you or challenge you in how you engage with others in your life?

Acts 9:1-31 Snowflakes in Submission Saul's Conversion illustrates how Jesus is renewing each of his unique people. 1. Who Saul was 2. What Jesus did 3. Who Saul became Reflection Question: How is Christ using your unique, being-renewed self as you submit to him?

Text: Acts 8:26-40 1. The natural & supernatural about it 2. The 3-D change from it 3. The good that drives it Reflection Where is Jesus challenging you as you long for renewal for family, friends, and neighbors?

Text: Acts 8:4-25 1. What you must say ‘yes’ to 2. What you must say ‘no’ to 3. The Spirit’s role Reflection Question: What is Jesus calling you to say yes to and/or turn from in obedience to the Spirit?

Text: Acts 7:51-8:4 1. Is opposition to renewal merely cultural?  2. How renewal works across cultures 3. What gets revealed by opposition Reflection Question: Will you pray for renewal in your own heart and across the many cultures within the campus and the C-U community?

Global and Gifted Text: Acts 6:1-7 Thesis: As his globally diverse followers practice God’s grace with the Spirit’s gifts, Jesus is renewing the world. 1. Jesus calls people of all kinds 2. Jesus reconciles people of all kinds 3. Jesus empowers self-sacrificial service of all kinds Reflection Question: What is Christ calling me to do in his mission of global reconciliation?

The fear of the Lord and gospel renewal Acts 5:1-16 1. What Ananias & Sapphira opposed 2. What they lacked that you need 3. The mission of Jesus through the church Reflection Question: Will you cultivate the fear of the Lord in your heart and long for renewal in C-U?

Responding to What We Have in Jesus 1. What we have in Jesus 2. How we respond to it 2a. Draw Near 2b. Hold fast 2c. Consider one another Reflection Question: Knowing what we have in Jesus, will you respond by drawing near, holding fast, and pursing relationships in the church?

The Resurrected Life 1. The life the resurrected Christ gives 2. Why he’s able to give it 3. What he gives you 4. How you experience it Reflection Question: Are you experiencing the resurrected life that Jesus Christ gives?

1. Jesus is the better high priest 2. Why other priests are inferior 3. The better covenant he offers Reflection Question: What points of gratitude do you possess because of God’s covenant promises through Jesus Christ?

Thesis: Our situation demands no less than Jesus. 1. Jesus is our king for justice and peace. 2. Jesus is our priest for the greatest and the least. 3. Jesus is our sacrifice for cleansing that won’t cease. Reflection Question: What aspect of your life do you need to yield to Jesus as your king and priest?

Further Up and Further In 1. Enter God’s rest 2. Revere God’s Word 3. Draw near to Jesus Reflection Question: Will you practice both reverence for God and confidence before Christ during this Lenten season?

It’s Not How We Start, It’s If We Finish 1. Consider 2. Don’t harden 3. Watch out 4. Reach out/ Speak up Reflection Question: What areas of your heart do you need to watch out for, and how and whom can you regularly encourage?

Christ Overcomes Our Futility Thesis: Only the Incarnate Christ can transform the futile human life he fully understands. 1. Our situation is futile. 2. Christ transforms our futile situation. 3. Christ replaces futility with glory. Reflection Question: How is Christ transforming the futility in my life? How could he if I yielded to him?

A High View of Jesus 1. Revelation 2. Relation 3. Reconciliation 4. Reign Reflection Question: How does this high view of Jesus invite you to know more about his person and work?

What Jesus reveals through sorrow 1. What you need to see 2. The extent of his mercy 3. Why tragedy won’t end as a tragedy Reflection Question: What is Jesus revealing to you as you ponder his mercy and hope for sorrows?

What you need to know, not what you want to know 1. Not ‘Why?’, but ‘Who?' 2. Not your understanding, but God’s 3. What suffering doesn’t mean, but what it does Reflection Question: In your suffering, will you remind yourself that God is shepherding you, even when you don’t understand?

Get Smart How can we pursue wisdom in our suffering? 1. We humans are awesomely smart. 2. We humans are not wise. 3. God alone is wise. Reflection Question: What is God’s wisdom teaching you about your limits and what to do with them?

Where Is Hope in Sorrow? 1. Sorrow from partial truths 2. Sorrow and loneliness 3. Hope in the Redeemer Reflection Question: Will you persistently trust the Redeemer as you endure sorrows?

The Sorrow of Unjust Suffering 1. The experience of unjust suffering 2. The core injustice 3. Trusting God’s providence in unjust suffering Reflection Question: Will you guard against cynicism in unjust suffering and trust in God’s hidden will instead?

The Process of Lament 1. Lament 2. Remember 3. Trust Reflection Question: This week, will you practice lamenting personal and corporate sin while you remember and trust who Jesus is?

Bring Jesus your sin and its sorrow 1. What’s love got to do with it? 2. What’s justice got to do with it? 3. How to lament your sin and its sorrow. Reflection Question: How can you incorporate confession and repentance in your walk with Jesus this year?

He came from Ramah 1. The pain 2. The prophetic voice 3. The promise Reflection Question: Will you voice your and others’ pain to the Messiah and hope in him?

He came out of Egypt 1. The Son substitute 2. The Faithful Son for the unfaithful 3. The Father’s love in Advent Reflection Question: Do you receive the love of the Father in the Advent of the Son?

He’s from Bethlehem 1. Yahweh is the Sovereign over history 2. Messiah is the pivot of history 3. Messiah is the Shepherd you need Reflection Question: What about the story of Advent draws you closer to Jesus the Messiah?

He Came from God the Father 1. Jesus came from the God who is Father to his people. 2. Jesus came to a world hostile to the God who is Father to his people. 3. Jesus came for a people who are helplessly weak. Reflection Question: How can you experience and put into practice the confidence Jesus’ coming grants us?

The Spirit’s Mission and Yours 1. Jesus leaves to send the Spirit 2. The Spirit through you 3. The Spirit in you Reflection Question: How is the Holy Spirit prompting you to grow in knowledge and mission?

Living for Christ, by the Spirit 1. What to expect when you live for Jesus 2. Why you should expect it 3. How do you not hate back? 4. How do you not cave in?

Jesus invites us to settle into constant communion with the Triune God. 1. The Triune God lives eternally in close communion. 2. In Jesus the Triune God invites us to settle into that communion. 3. In that communion we settle into security. 4. In that communion we settle into our purpose. 5. In that communion we settle into a life of love. Reflection Question: What is the Lord reminding me of to help me settle into communion with him?

1. What it means to be a Christian 2. Why you need the Holy Spirit 3. Jesus’ desire 4. The Spirit’s fulfillment Reflection Question: How can you live as one who depends day by day on the Helper, the Holy Spirit?

1. What do we mean if we say someone is "glorified"? 2. How does the cross glorify the Son and the Father? 3. How does our loving one another glorify the Son and the Father? Reflection Question: As a humble disciple of Jesus, who am I called  to love as Jesus loved?

Text: John 7:14-24 Seek the Father’s Glory Not Yours 1. Jesus sought the Father’s glory 2. What we seek 3. What you need to see and do Reflection Question: Do you see in Jesus Christ, the mercy of the Father reaching out to you?

John 6:35-51 1. Jesus sustains 2. The Father gives 3. The Christian believes Reflection Question: How does knowing that the Father has secured his people in Christ inform your worship and renew hope and peace?

Text: John 5:1-29 1. Marvel at Jesus not at superstition 2. Marvel at Jesus not at legalism 3. Why his life and judgment make him marvelous Reflection Question: How can you marvel at Jesus Christ, whose voice raises the dead and whose judgment is to come?

Thesis: Existing eternally in perfect love, the Triune God invites us into his self-giving love, giving us authentic life. 1. The Triune God loves the world. 2. The Triune God gives the one and only Son. 3. The Triune God gives authentic life. Reflection Question: How is God inviting you to yeild and recieve his love?

Text: John 1:29-34 1. The mission of the Son 2. The inseparability of Son & Spirit 3. The Spirit in you Reflection Question: How can knowing that Christ endows believers with the Spirit deepen your sense of relationship with God?

Speaker: Bryan Scott Series: The Trinity Scripture: John 1:9-18 1. Light of the Son 2. Glory of the Son 3. Heart of the Father Reflection Question: How does the delight of the Father to reveal himself through the Son inform your knowledge of God?

Text: John 1:1-5 Series: The Trinity 1. Trinity as doctrine 2. Trinity as longing 3. Trinity as hope Reflection Question: How does the hope of the Trinity provoke you to pursue your deepest longings in the Father, Son, and Spirit?

Text: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 The Spirit & the Word in You 1. The Spirit & Scripture 2. The remaking of you 3. What you become Reflection Question: How can you appreciate and/or allow the work of the Spirit & Scripture in your life?

Life in the Spirit Text: Ephesians 5:18-21 1. The Spirit’s life in you 2. Your life in the Spirit 3. The signs of life Reflection Question: How can you pursue being filled with the Holy Spirit and allow Him to influence your life?