Denver Community Church

October 30, 2022: Good News for Postmodern Humanity - Brian McLaren

Join us as we welcome guest speaker Brian McLaren, author of “Do I Stay Christian”, as we walk through a passage in Acts where we find Jesus’ apostles ushering in a different economy, a different politic, and a dangerously subversive picture of God’s Kingdom versus the culture of the day.

October 23, 2022: Living the Future in the Present - Michael Hidalgo

This week we look at the invitation as followers of Christ to live into a future where we may not know what is coming, but we know who is coming.

October 16, 2022: When You Can’t Go Back - Michael Hidalgo

Sometimes the past looks glorious from the present. This is especially the case when the present isn’t so great. We see this in the lives of the people of Israel after being freed from their captivity in Egypt. They live in inhospitable conditions, totally and completely dependent on daily food provisions, drinking water from the rock, with an eye on an unknown place and an unknown future. Who wouldn’t look back and want to go there, no matter how bad that may have been. But what happens when you can’t go back?

October 9, 2022: The World Is Always Ending - Jonathan Merritt

Jesus tells his disciples that the Temple system, the center of Jewish Religious life, will come to an end. Like all things made by human hands it will not last forever; there will be an ending. This is a truth woven into the fabric of life. But as we will learn together, endings are what gives birth to new life, to new beginnings. 

October 2, 2022: Good, Rotten, Foolish and Wise - Michael Hidalgo

As Jesus finishes His 'Sermon on the Plain', he concludes by calling to attention not so much what we believe, but how we live. In a world where many of us have placed such emphasis on faith vs. works, Jesus asks us to examine if how we live might actually be the greatest indication of what we truly believe.

September 25, 2022: Splinters In The Lumber Yard - Michael Hidalgo

This week we consider what Jesus has to say about Judgment in Luke 6.  Often, we consider “blind guides” and those who judge with the “plank in their own eye” lousy religious types. But what if there is more here? What if this passage is not about bashing those who judge or refuse to forgive or remove their plank from their eye? What if, instead, this is an invitation for us to become those who are generous in the way we see others, because we have learned to be honest about how we see ourselves? What if by removing the planks we are able to compassionately and generously “see” others have sight and live free and generous lives?

September 18, 2022: The One About Obedience - Michael Hidalgo

This week we welcome back lead pastor Michael Hidalgo from a 4 month sabbatical, and he shares with us a perspective on obedience that may be a shift from how we’ve always thought about it as we read from Matthew 26:36-46. 

September 11, 2022: Behold What Love Can Do - Cari Jenkins

This week we hear Jesus teach his followers to love their enemies. Guest teacher Cari Jenkins asks, "how can we love like God if there is any part of creation that we do not love?"

September 4, 2022: The Messy Middle - Dave Neuhausel

This week, as we read in Luke about the words Jesus uses as he calls those who would follow Him, he paints a picture of blessing for those on the margins, and a warning to those living in comfort. This leaves us to wonder, what about those of us who land somewhere in the middle?

August 28, 2022: Finding Delight - Amanda Lum

In Luke chapter 6, we find a group of Pharisees following Jesus and his disciples and angrily accusing them of not keeping Sabbath. But what if Sabbath was about more than militant rest? What if there's an invitation, not into greater rule keeping, but into deep delight?