C4 Young Adults

In Jesus' final moments in Acts 1 he ascends into heaven and leaves all of his disciples with a challenge: to live as a faithful witnesses because of His plan, His power, and the promise of Jesus' return.

 In John 4 we see the disciples' tendency to stick together, to care more about the temporal than the eternal, and to fix their eyes on the wrong place. Come and be reminded of Jesus' care for the one as we seek to obey His command to go and make disciples.

The key to discipleship is self-denial because as disciples, Jesus expects us to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Jesus. However, just like Peter, many of us choose self-preservation over self-denial—yet Jesus offers us restoration and invites us to practice self-denial as we follow Him.

The heartbeat of the Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus. Because He lives, it changes everything. Come discover the power of the resurrection as we look at eight life-changing implications for us. 

We just celebrated Easter. How do we know the resurrection to be true? Come consider the 4 facts that lead us to Jesus' resurrection from the dead as the most likely explanation of these facts.

Out of love for us, Jesus enters Jerusalem on Passover and goes to the altar as our Passover Lamb, accomplishing a way for us to be made righteous, purchasing our exchange, and atoning for our sins before a holy God. 

What is the climax of passion week? It's Jesus' crucifixion! What does it all mean? Come learn how the images of the tunic, the skull, and the criminals all contribute to our understanding of Jesus' crucifixion. In short, it's a call to believe in all that Jesus accomplished on the cross.  

Everyone can resonate with failure, especially failure in the Christian life. In this text we see the failure and shame of the disciples in their abandonment contrasted with the enduring faithfulness of Christ, and how in the end God exchanges our shame for His glory. 

Jesus prays to the Father before His death, a powerful prayer for Himself and His disciples that displays His authority as God. Pull up a front row seat to hear Jesus' prayer for you—a prayer for safety, joy, holiness, and unity—and be encouraged that God always answers His own prayers.

The Spirit often seems second place to the Father and Jesus, but it is to our advantage to have the Spirit over Jesus. Why? Come learn how the Spirit is a greater comfort, better teacher, and better coach and God worthy of our attention.

As a Christian, how does one find comfort in the face of persecution, evil, and suffering? What comforts us in the discouraging moments of life? Come see the road map to Christian comfort that Jesus lays out for His disciples—and how ultimately comfort is found in the object of our faith.

How do we find true greatness in the kingdom of God? John 13 reveals God's countercultural expectations for how we enter the kingdom and how we find true greatness in the kingdom.

There is no person in history more significant than Jesus Christ, and no event in history more significant than Passion Week. Come and see how the triumphal entry prods us to recognize that God is always directing our eyes to Christ, and challenges us to believe that Christ is the solution to every problem in life, not just our spiritual problem.

Jesus is lenient where we are forcefully and forcefully where we are lenient. There are two ways to approach life. What way will you worship? What way will you follow?

At C4, our foundation is Jesus and our purpose is his glory. How do we put that into practice? It's by pursuing the two eternal things, God's Word and people. Learn the practical skills of rightly handling God's word and drawing out his people for his glory and the furtherance of the gospel!

This vision series is intended to help us understand who we are as C4 and as young adults. As we consider the big purpose of life, come discover what the Scriptures teach is the purpose of life, and how to make choices that reflect that ultimate purpose.

Life is chaotic, uncertain, and confusing—but our God is not. He is a God or order and certainty, the promise-keeper whose words are true. When our lives become unstable, we should hold fast to the witness of God's promises and fix our gaze on the hope Jesus' promised return.

The incarnation is perhaps the greatest of realities. God came as a human to save us, rescue us, and be with us! Learn how his arrival disrupts the comfortable and comforts the disrupted. 

Advent is a season of waiting as we anticipate the advent (arrival) of Jesus. In the lifelong reality of waiting, there is beauty and struggle, and God gives us glimpses of His presence to encourage us in the waiting, just as he did in the Old Testament.

We are surrounded by invisible realities. The realities of heaven, hell, angels, and demons and the after life. But do their presence change the way we live? Jesus thought they should. Come explore Luke 12 with us and see how our lives are to be shaped by eternity.

Our story has a villain, and that villain has made war with God and his people. As enlisted men and women on the front lines, enter the situation room to hear key briefings on our enemy, so that we might stand our ground in this battle as we await our conquering King.

 God is at work in all the realms he has created, in heaven and on earth, and angels are at the heart of the story of God. Come examine the nature and purpose of the angelic realm, and be encouraged by how the spiritual realm is at work all around us. A Q&A follows the message.

Our God is a God of purpose, but often we struggle to understand the purposes of God, especially the purpose of hell. Tonight see that hell exists to exalt the justice of God, echo the glory of God, and exalt the love of God. A Q&A follows the message. 

 Jesus gives us a preview of coming invisible realities, including both heaven and hell. Jesus' first NT sermon was on hell, and He spends more time on hell than heaven. Tonight we look at Jesus' teaching on this imminent judgment for all unbelievers, and examine the nature of hell, which is a real, painful, and eternal place. A Q&A follows the message. 

so what will our experience of heaven be like? Does grandpa pray for me from heaven? Will heaven be boring? What will we do there? Find the answers to these questions and more as we learn what heaven will be like. 

We all want to go to heaven? But what is heaven like? Where is it? Who will be there? Why does it exist? Come find out exciting truths about the best place on earth!

The judgment seat of Christ is the final exam for the Christian, where God doles out generous rewards to those who faithfully built their life on the foundation of Christ. Come learn about the judgment seat of Christ and eternal rewards, and be encouraged to live faithfully today to earn eternal rewards tomorrow. A Q&A follows the message. 

 At the root of the Christian life lies belief in invisible realities and unseen realms. Yet the spiritual world is more real than the temporal world that we inhabit, and as believers we ought to have the utmost interest in heavenly things. Join us as we begin this journey and examine what happens to us when we die and end with a Q&A.

The Christian life is full of storms. Failing to understand this causes some Christians to question God's love for them. Luckily for us, the disciples faced a literal storm to help us understand and face the storms in our lives. In Mark 4:35-41, we learn about the power and presence of Jesus through a great storm, a great calm, and great fear. 

When it comes to salvation, what is my role? What is God's? Come explore Romans 9-11 and see the wonder of God's sovereignty and our own call to action. It will lead you to worship and praise!

When Jesus came he turned every expectation upside down. Come learn the freedom, joy, and salvation that is found in Jesus' upside down kingdom!

Materialism and entitlement have led many of us down a path of discontentment. In this key text, Paul reminds Timothy that the greatest acquisition in this life is godliness with contentment, and exhorts Timothy (and us) to avoid the dangers of the love of money and to pursue contentment in what Christ has given us. 

David has great plans to build a temple for God, but God tells him no. His dilemma is true for us as well: we all make plans, and God at torpedoes those plans. Let's learn together how to respond when God calls us to give up our plans to enter into His greater plan. 

John Dryden said "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." Therefore, the goal is to intentionally make habits that form us into Christ's image. Join us as we consider the 9 habits of the intentional Christian life.

Singleness is a hot topic in Christian culture, and a season that many Christians understandably struggle with. But Paul teaches us that every Christian has a God-glorifying purpose, and the path of biblical singleness is a gift that must not be wasted because it affords a better opportunity than marriage to cultivate undivided devotion to God. Join us as we examine Paul's call to value present undivided devotion to God in singleness as a greater desire than present marital union.

We often find ourselves waiting for something in life. Yet seasons of waiting can often leave us frustrated or disappointed. How, then, can we learn to wait well? As we look at Psalm 37 and other places in Scripture, we see the fact of waiting, the dangers of waiting, and hope in waiting. 

Our morning and evenings are full of habits, intentional and unintentional. Is the Lord part of your evening rhythm? Come learn from Psalm 4 the ancient evening practices of communing with the Lord.

 The problems of life can lead us to lament. David lets his lament lead him to the throne, where he is reminded that salvation belongs to our God.

There is only one King and it's King Jesus. Psalm 2 reminds us of the foolishness of crowning ourselves king, the expected posture of honor and reverence to King Jesus, and the expectation that all people submit their lives to the true King of Kings.

The very first Psalm confronts us with the fact that every human being is on one of two paths: the path of the righteous resulting in life, or the path of the unrighteous resulting in destruction. The path of the righteous is marked by wise living, and so we see what a wise person is to avoid, what a wise person is to do, and what a wise person is. Scripture: Psalms 1

Paul expects every believer to trust the gospel of Jesus Christ, live the gospel, and share the gospel. Together we demystify evangelism by explaining the basics of the gospel presentation so that every believer can be confident to explain the saving truth of Jesus. A Q&A session with Adam and Joel is at the end of this episode.

Perhaps the most terrifying words one could hear are "Depart from me I never knew you." We may profess to follow Jesus, but how do we know if our faith is genuine? Paul lays out the marks of true religion in his closing words to the Galatian church. Be reminded what true faith looks like!