Hearing God in The Bible
We want to hear from God regularly through the Bible, and we’ve compiled a few helpful resources for doing so. Click below to find out more!
- by Tim Chambers
Passover and Exodus
Tim tells the story of how the nation of Israel came to be in Egypt, how they became oppressed and enslaved there, and how God delivered them. ...
Abraham’s Greatest Test
God told Abraham to kill his son. Although the story has a happy ending, it leaves us with disturbing questions and concerns. We consider whether ...
Hagar’s Story
Hagar was an Egyptian servant woman. She was not particularly heroic or virtuous. She was not a major player in God's big plan ...
Prayers for a New Year
We see how Solomon’s payer at the dedication of the temple can motivate and shape our prayers today. ...
God’s Word in Community
Tim begins this talk by reminding us of our mission as a church: to love and obey Jesus, to help others love and obey Jesus, and to build and ...
Loving the Old Testament
Tim and Lynn make the case that the Old Testament Scriptures are both valuable and delightful. David, Ezekiel, and others who read and relied on ...
The Parable of the Pharisee & the Tax Collector
Jesus tells a story about two men who pray very different prayers and surprises his audience when he reveals which prayer pleased God. This short ...
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Josh helps us look at the well-known parable of the Good Samaritan in a new light by drawing our attention to the audience, context, and ...
Parables of Small Beginnings
Gabe helps us see how two short parables about small beginnings encourage us to entrust small things to God. Like a seed that grows into a large ...
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Chris guides us through what many consider to be the most difficult and confusing of Jesus' parables. At the end our journey, ...
The Parable of the Generous Landowner
Jesus tells a parable about workers in the vineyard of a generous landowner. He says the point is that "the first will be ...
The Parable of the Great Banquet
In this parable, a great invitaion is issued to a royal feast, but the guests' responses are surprising. Jeremiah helps us undertsand the ...
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Whether the story of Lazarus and the rich man is a parable or an event that actually happened, it asks us some difficult questions about where we ...
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Jesus tells three parables in a row about lost things: a lost sheep, a lost coin, and a lost son. Jaron helps us see how they’re connected ...
What to Expect This Sunday
Meeting Times: 9am & 11am
Children
We want to help kids love and obey Jesus. We offer nurseries and classes for infants through middle-schoolers during both meetings. If this is your first time visiting Christ's Church, ask the greeters at the door about our check-in procedures, and they'll point you in the right direction.
Worship
Worship is a priority for us. Our Sunday gatherings are worship meetings from start to finish. We allow extended time for seeking God, for singing and declaring his praises. When we transition to the time of teaching, we maintain the same attitude of expecting to hear from God and experience his presence.
Welcome to Christ’s Church of Joplin
Thanks for checking us out. If you haven't been to one of our Sunday meetings, you are invited to come some Sunday morning at 9:00 or 11:00 AM. Have a cup of coffee, meet some people, and see what happens. Each meeting is about 90 minutes long. During each of these meetings there are nurseries and programs for kids.
We hope these Sunday gatherings reflect our enthusiasm for Jesus and his cause and our commitment to building communities where lives are radically transformed by grace. We hope you will feel both welcomed and challenged. We hope you will experience these things on Sunday because this is the kind of community we aspire to be every day of the week.
If you are looking for more detail about what we believe and what we are doing, you should be able to find some good clues here on the website. If you like what you see, come join us. We are looking for broken people who need healing, lonely people who need a family, and disenchanted people who need a glorious challenge.