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Christ Church

Christ Church

By: Christ-centered hope-filled burden-lifting messages — from the Bible for God’s glory & our joy.
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 Jesus said, ”Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Christ Church is a local gathering of Jesus’ Church in Nashville, TN who are committed to taking Jesus at his word, and loving him with our whole hearts, souls, and might.All rights reserved Spirituality
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  • Psalm 142, “Turn, Name, Trust”

    Psalm 142, “Turn, Name, Trust”
    Nov 24 2025

    Psalm 142 shows us how to pray when life feels like a cave—dark, lonely, and overwhelming. David models biblical lament: turning to God honestly in prayer, naming the real pain we carry, and deliberately choosing to trust God’s character and promises even when our emotions say otherwise. Lament is God’s gift for weary people; it moves us from despair toward confidence that the Lord will deal bountifully with us. As Christ entered the deepest cave on the cross and rose again, we can trust Him with our sorrows, knowing He cares and has the power to redeem every grief.
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    44 mins
  • Matthew 5:1–12, "The Values of the Kingdom"

    Matthew 5:1–12, "The Values of the Kingdom"
    Nov 11 2025
    The Sermon on the Mount opens with a paradox: the truly “blessed” are not the powerful, the wealthy, or the self-sufficient, but the poor in spirit, the grieving, the meek, and the hungry. In the Beatitudes, Jesus unveils the values of His upside-down kingdom—a kingdom for those who bring nothing and yet inherit everything. The poor in spirit are those who know they contribute nothing to God but receive His all-sufficient grace; the meek are those who surrender control and gain the earth; the hungry are those who long not for comfort or status but for God Himself. In Christ, the King embodies these inverted values—He became poor so we might become rich in Him, mourned so we might be comforted, and was crushed so we could be called blessed. Freed from self-reliance and the tyranny of our resources, we live as citizens of this new kingdom, hungering for righteousness and finding our satisfaction in the King who satisfies every lack.
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    33 mins
  • Exodus 7–14, "The Dragon Slayer"

    Exodus 7–14, "The Dragon Slayer"
    Nov 4 2025

    This sermon traces the Exodus plagues as a cosmic “dragon-slaying” narrative: Pharaoh is portrayed as a chaos-dragon like the mythic Leviathan, humiliated when Aaron’s staff-dragon swallows his magicians’ staffs and finally vanquished when he is swallowed by the sea. The pattern prefigures Christ’s greater victory—Jesus, the true Dragon Slayer, humiliates the devil through his ministry, disarms him at the cross, and empties death’s power at the resurrection. Yet the dragon still writhes until the second coming, when Satan and death will be cast into the lake of fire and all chaos erased. Believers, living between cross and consummation, are called to expose evil, walk humbly, and persevere in rugged hope until the triumph and feast of King Jesus, the Dragon Slayer. (Note: we apologize for microphone glitches which occur throughout this episode.)
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    42 mins
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