Denver Community Church

April 24, 2022: Begin At The Ending - Bekah Stewart

As we read this week about John the Baptist, who called those being baptized towards repentance, we examine what repentance really invites us into. Simply put, to repent is to turn away from the old, and towards something new. But how often in our modern culture do we really allow things to end in order to let something new begin.

April 17, 2022: Easter Sunday - Michael Hidalgo

On this Easter Sunday, a closer look at the gospel accounts of Christ's resurrection show a picture of a group of people who could not actually believe what was right in front of them. And even when they did recognize the resurrected Jesus, it seemed that the world around them stayed much the same. How might we recognize and expect resurrection in our own lives, though the brokenness and pain of the world around us remains?

April 10, 2022: Mending the Divides –Dave Neuhausel

We explore the  beatitude found in Matthew 5:9 – “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” and will continue to think about mending divides within to be “everyday peacemakers” in our world. That we would be what we want to see in the world.

April 3, 2022: Clean on the Inside - Michael Hidalgo

As we read the beatitude, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God", we are left to ask: what is a pure heart? In a world that celebrates and elevates performance and visibility, could Jesus be inviting us into the silence of our own hearts?

March 27, 2022: The Long View - Dave Meserve

This week we welcome guest teacher Dave Meserve as we read through the beatitude, "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."

March 20, 2022: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome - Amanda Lum

This week we read the beatitude "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled". A hunger for righteousness, or justice, is something that many of us feel in a world rife with injustice, so much so that it can be overwhelming and cause us to shut down and shut out. Is there a way we can welcome all the pain and injustice in our world and allow it to work our hearts so that we might see justice in our communities?

March 13, 2022: A Divine Connection - Michael Hidalgo

The meek are not those who are pushovers, but those who are willing to do and pursue what is right regardless of what it costs them - and in the time of the prophets and in Jesus' day what it cost them was land. In the midst of this time, Jesus offers a blessing, "Blessed are those who do not practice domination and violence in order to seize what was never theirs in the first place, for you will inherit what God has long wanted to give you."

March 6, 2022: The Comfort of Solidarity - Jonathan Merritt

As we continue our Lent series in the beatitudes, special guest and friend of DCC Jonathan Merritt reads with us, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted". Is there a difference between grief and mourning, and what does mourning require of us?

February 27, 2022: Teenage Jesus - Nick Elio

In the second chapter of Luke, we get the only Gospel account of Jesus as a boy, where his mother and father spend 3 days searching for him after the feast of Passover. What can we learn from the way that Jesus behaves in this passage, and what does that invite us into as followers, and some of us as parents?

February 20, 2022: What Are You Waiting For - Michael Hidalgo

As we continue reading in Luke, we find two elders who rejoice after their decades of waiting is answered in the form of a baby. How is it that there was a time when we could wait decades with hope and intention, but today our patience is limited to somewhere around 3 seconds? And how might rediscovering the value of waiting open us to a whole new way of living?