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At Denver Community Church, we explore and participate in the life of Jesus, so that we can be a healing presence in our world. Download the latest teachings here.
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Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Baptism – one of the sacraments of the Church – has long been a tradition and way for us to acknowledge God at work in our lives and our commitment to modeling our lives after Jesus. It is a public expression of our commitment to Jesus and our desire to be identified with him and his death, burial and resurrection. Baptism is a symbolic experience of a change of mind and a change of direction (repentance) and commitment to a new way of life (belief and faith).
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
Thursday Aug 08, 2019
The most common phrase in the Sermon on the Mount, “You have heard it said ... but I tell you …” (Matt 5.21-48). In these verses, Jesus talks about murder, oaths, adultery, divorce, retaliation and love for our enemies. This was a new teaching in his day that was provacative, and we will ask, “What can it teach us today?”
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
The most common phrase in the Sermon on the Mount, “You have heard it said ... but I tell you …” (Matt 5.21-48). In these verses, Jesus talks about murder, oaths, adultery, divorce, retaliation and love for our enemies. This was a new teaching in his day that was provacative, and we will ask, “What can it teach us today?”
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
The most common phrase in the Sermon on the Mount, “You have heard it said ... but I tell you …” (Matt 5.21-48). In these verses, Jesus talks about murder, oaths, adultery, divorce, retaliation and love for our enemies. This was a new teaching in his day that was provacative, and we will ask, “What can it teach us today?”
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
The most common phrase in the Sermon on the Mount, “You have heard it said ... but I tell you …” (Matt 5.21-48). In these verses, Jesus talks about murder, oaths, adultery, divorce, retaliation and love for our enemies. This was a new teaching in his day that was provacative, and we will ask, “What can it teach us today?”
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
We don’t really need teachers. At least that’s what John tells this community because we possess an inner witness. And growth and maturity are the process of learning to trust that inner voice. We needn’t be alarmed by this kind of thinking, this is exactly what Jesus promised his followers. He said that the Spirit will come and “he will guide you into all the truth.” It is this same Spirit that pays witness and corroborates the matter with our spirits (See Romans 8.16).
Perhaps what we need to learn it to listen, because this voice is already within us. If we do that, then we must learn to trust. For if we do that, we will be led and guided toward what is true. And to think, all of this is already within each of us!
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Jesus, in John’s Gospel, prays for those who will believe in him because of the message of his disciples. John records his words, saying, “… that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” There’s that language that John frequently uses, “in me” and “in you” and “in Christ” and “in God.” Of course, we can be so familiar with a term or phrase that we may not even know what it means or think to ask what it means at all.
And sometimes it proves difficult to consider and define what it actually means. So what if, in this case, we learn by doing? What if we better understand ways we can rest in Christ and in God – develop a deep relationship – so that we can understand something at a deeper level, maybe a place beyond words?
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Those to whom John writes are those who already know the truth. This is not then, his correcting them, rather it is his encouragement to remain strong and rooted. And what is this truth he speaks of? And where did they come upon this truth? The truth is that Jesus was the Word made flesh – that he is the Christ.
As for where they got it, well that came from an anointing. This conjures images of a king who was anointed with oil when he was ready to take the throne. It is this word that is used of John’s audience: chrisma. They’ve been given something, and in receiving it, they become something new, something holy, something sacred. And this is the gift that enables them to know.
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
When talking about antichrists it would make sense to mention the “last hour.” These two things have often gone together when Christians talk about the end of the world. John is the only one to use the term antichrist, and he is not speaking about someone at the end of the world who has yet to come. He speaks about those who were a part of his community of faith, but had left, moved on. Much has been made about the division that existed here.
Some assume it was all doctrine, others opine that perhaps the Gnostics infiltrated the church and worked from the inside. However, there is something noteworthy about what we know from what John writes: whoever theywere they were destroying unity within the Church. “This sin is as bad as, if not worse than, the actual doctrinal error, because … they disregarded the cardinal and foundational command of Jesus to ‘love each other.’”