Central Community Church

In a World of Confusion and Consternation, the King of Kings gives us a prescription for how to face the future Kingdom style.

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

What kind of legacy do you want to leave? The book of Acts gives a giant vision of what Jesus is still doing in this world, through his church by the Holy Spirit. We are called as Christians to continue on with the work that the early church started...

The story of Jonah shows us just how great God’s love, grace, and mercy is toward every person, city, and nation.

How should we respond when someone messes up and sins? How does God respond when we sin? Zechariah calls us to trust in God’s mercy, speak the truth, and celebrate his grace as we extend that grace to one another.

The Israelite nation has lost relationship with God; they have broken the covenant. The sacrificial system has stopped changing hearts. Micah speaks to the coming consequence that will befall the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. He also introduces the...

The little 2500-year-old obscure Minor Prophet book Haggai describes our age better than almost anywhere else in the whole Bible. God calls out His people for pursuing comfort and wealth over putting God first. As a bit of an anomaly for Old Testament...

Have you ever felt like you were just going through the motions of life? Have you found the cultural norms of entitled and self-centered tendencies rubbing off on you and leaving you deeply unsatisfied? The fifth and final practice found in resilient...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

What is does mean to have our faith inform our work and sense of calling in life? Does our work matter to God and how can it be leveraged for his kingdom purposes? This week we learn about what it means to be vocational disciples.

There is an epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and mistrust in Digital Babylon where more and more time is spent on screens, rarely interacting in meaningful ways with real human beings. The church is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive...

We receive a lot of messages throughout our day, from text messages to emails, to the videos we watch, to the news articles we read. But how do we as Christians learn to discern what we should pay attention to and what we should ignore? We are...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

In a culture where non-Christians are avoiding Christianity, and young Christians are abandoning church, it is important to cultivate practices that form disciples of Jesus into people who can not only survive – but thrive. The first such practice is...

A significant recent study revealed that only 9% of young Canadians who grew up in the church would be what we would call Resilient Disciples. So what can we learn from the faith of these disciples that helps us be and make resilient disciples in a...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

Jesus said, “Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called “Sons of God”. How can we fight the good fight of Christian Peacemaking? It is easy to steer into the pitfalls of combativeness or passivity. But Jesus calls us to a better way, a...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

In the middle of the storms of life it’s easy to begin to question who God is and His care for us in our lives. Our text today tells us that in the midst of the storm we can either get lost in the waves or look to Jesus. Storms don’t lead to our...