Celebration Community Church Podcast

This week's episodes finishes the conversation with the Klima's and Hilbert's about their community group and how to get involved with a group yourself.

Today, Nathan is joined by two couples responsible for fostering a group for young adults at C3. They talk about how their group has transformed, and some of the reasons they continue to plan for the group to meet. Part 2 will be uploaded next week.

Today, Nathan discusses a couple of tools for better communication in a variety of contexts. One of the great things about communication is that it is a group of skills that can be learned in order to enrich our lives and to increase the feelings of connection between the folks and spaces we value most. While difficult to learn new skills, when we start where we are and gradually shift into utilizing more adaptive strategies, we learn new ways of being in the world, as the Kingdom of God within us transforms who we are and how we live. I pray that this is useful for you in developing ways to foster the relationships you care most about. For scheduling counseling at C3, please follow this link. For a list of local counselors to Hays, please follow this link. If listening elsewhere, the American Psychological Association has a great tool for finding therapists. Check it out here.

Today, Pastors Brant and Derek and Nathan discuss the upcoming 2023 Life Group Discipleship Community. This upcoming year, our church is attempting to "grow smaller" by investing in each other's lives to foster growth together.

Derek and Nathan summarize the Sticks and Stones Series and talk about how we practically live out the imperatives discussed in the series. The 2023 Discipleship Initiative is discussed shortly, with the promise that Pastor Brant will be on soon to flesh out more of the details.

Today, Nathan is joined by Natalie and Jordan Klima as they discuss how to become better stewards of money, and how to be conscious of where money is going in order to connect with God and others.

We welcome back Matt Dreiling to the podcast to discuss his sermon on the topic "Christians Believe a Fairy Tale". Skip to 5:55 if you want to listen to the main portion of the episode without all the nerdy Star Trek and Star Wars discussion, and dad jokes.

For this season of the podcast, we've decided to take an approach supplementing what is heard on the weekends and add some practical steps forward for those seeking this. For videos, bible references, resources and show notes, please use the following link! SHOW NOTES

Pastor Brant sits down with Matt Dreiling, Jessica Albin, and Annie Erbert of Celebration Community Church to discuss the "Value Them Both" Amendment to the Kansas Constitution. Read the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution here: http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hcr5003_00_0000.pdf

A huge thank you to Natalie Klima for being on this episode! After Pastor Brant's message on the Bible, I thought it might be pertinent to have this episode come out-- not necessarily covering the same material, but a personal anecdote about how the Scriptures might inform how we live and grow. I hope you find this meaningful!

Thank you a ton to Matthias Carter for tackling this episode with me! Today, we discuss Salvation: what is it, who is the active agent in salvation, can we lose our salvation? It is our hope that this is a springboard into investigation, conversation, and discovery for you! C3's Statement of Faith: www.c3hays.com/about

A light topic to listen to today! In all honesty, we struggled with publishing this episode. We don't claim to have a full understanding of how all this works, but we discuss who humans are, who they were intended to be, and some of the disconnect between those two things. While contentious, this conversation is important to come to a faithful approach to living on Earth. Statement of Faith on website: https://celebratejesus.org/about/

In this second episode on the Trinity, Nathan and Derek talk about a couple heresies that still make their way into our midst today. Episode one is a good pre-cursor to this episode; if you haven't listened to it, we encourage you to do so as a reference point. Enjoy!

One of the most misunderstood components of our faith is really an important one to attempt to get right-- How do we explain who God is? For almost 2000 years, believers have struggled to explain God's Triune Nature. Nathan and Derek also struggle with the ways to explain God, but introduce the three components of the Godhead in this first episode on the Holy Trinity.

Many people have experienced baptism, whether as a child or an adolescent. Derek and Nathan talk about why we practice a believer's baptism at C3, and also are a bit vain in the intro. I'm certain you'll forgive us.... hopefully. Enjoy! Questions, comments, concerns, complaints? Let us know here: https://forms.gle/jjbsNqMpfezbwbKN8

The Lord's Supper, The Eucharist, Communion-- Many different names for the way we remember God's sacrifice. How do we support the way we practice communion at C3? Derek and Nathan talk a little music, a little bible, and a little practice this week.

Welcome back to the C3 Podcast-- Derek and Nathan will be going through the church's Statement of Faith this season, found here: https://celebratejesus.org/about/ We're excited to have you along! Questions, comments, concerns, gossip? Let us know here: https://forms.gle/VH483M48GDUvAFUv5

This week, Nathan reflects a bit after Annika's interview on what surrender may look like on our lives. As it is Holy Week, we took a passage from the narrative leading up to Jesus's betrayal (Matthew 26:6-16) and examined how that narrative may help us to frame in how we should behave in relation to what God calls us to do. We hope you enjoy this episode!

This week, we were fortunate enough to have Annika Carter, the Assistant of Encounter and co-host of the Encounter YA Podcast to discuss her story and what ministry looks like in her current setting. We hope that her story is an encouragement to you! Thank you, as always, for listening. To support Annika, visit the following link: https://www.dealinghopeinc.org/donate (select CARTER Fund).

Nathan is back for another TL;DL. Today, he reviews some of the aforementioned Missions that C3 supports financially, and also how we might remember the practicality of a life on mission. Thanks for listening!

As believers, we are instructed to live on Mission for God, thought it may not be stated explicitly like that in the Scriptures. Today, Nathan and Derek talk about what Missions looks like at C3, from both an abstract conceptual lens and from a practical lens. We also talk about Derek's aphantasia and Nathan's trouble with lyrics. Enjoy!

Today, Nathan talks about a portion of Pat's Interview where he mentioned, "It's about how His (His being Jesus) Story interacts with your story." How does the story of Jesus impact us? Thanks for listening!

Today we have Patrick Turley, the newest addition to the C3 Staff on the podcast. Patrick is a prolific drummer as well as a fantastic youth minister, and we dive into his story as a touring musician, the journey from musician to youth ministry, and his vision moving forward. Nathan also scares Derek with a harshly worded intro question. We hope you enjoy!

This week, Nathan talks about testimonies. Yours are important; share them with friends, family, and others as an encouragement! God may just use your story to aid another in need. Thank you, as always, for listening.

We're doing a couple episodes that are a bit different. One of the most powerful things we have are stories-- through the Scriptures, we learn the story of God, and we learn that we are a part of that unfolding story. Kael Bloom is on our podcast this week telling his; his journey from the grand metropolis of Oakley to Colorado Springs, to Wichita, and of course with time in Hays in between. We talk worship leading, being a pastor's kid, and overcoming grief.

Today, Nathan speaks quickly about discipleship and evangelism. If the biblical mandate is that we are to make disciples and bring good news, how might we go about doing that? Thank you for listening! If you'd like to leave us some feedback, do so here: https://forms.gle/qcemk45eG22oTj8N8

This week we're joined by author, speaker, pastor, podcast host, dad, and otherwise cool guy Garrett Kahrs. Garrett tells us how he came to faith, then some practical ways to engage discipleship and evangelism wherever you may fall in your faith journey. Garrett's books can be found here: https://www.garrettkahrs.com/books As always, we'd love to hear how you think we're doing! Let us know here: https://forms.gle/Lk1Ketpo2jQsfeux6

This week, Derek reviews last week's conversation on the Bible. He walks us through the 3 questions to help frame a better reading of the Bible whenever we open it: 1. What does this passage reveal about God? 2. How does this passage fit into the unfolding story of God? 3. How might this passage affect me or my life? We would love feedback on how we're doing! Let us know here.

This week, Derek and Nathan talk about the Bible. Because of its many authors and foreign contexts, the Bible can be very inaccessible and hard to understand, so we need a good introduction to how we approach the Scriptures. I won't call it good, but Nathan has put together a Bible Foundations class that this episode loosely follows. The functional questions that the class (and this episode) attempt to answer are: "What is the Bible?" and "What do we do with it?" Thank you for listening to the episode! Let us know your thoughts here or by leaving a review on your preferred platform.

This week we have another episode recapping one of our longer interviews. Nathan talks about the idea that God is accessible through prayer-- that he's far more gracious than we think he is. We look at two short passages of Scripture to remember how God has chosen to interact with humanity, and that he's still doing so today. Also, we have a short clip of next week's episode, so be sure to tune in! Scriptures used: Genesis 16 1 Timothy 2:1-6

We're looking ahead to the church-wide challenge for 2021 today. Pastor Brant joins Nathan and Derek to discuss what prayer is, what keeps people from feeling like they can be successful when they pray, and: Why prayer was the next spiritual discipline to focus on Acrostic poems (if you like 'em, you're in good company with my mother) WWJD(no bracelets included) We'd love to hear some feedback on what you think about the show! Please consider rating the podcast on your preferred outlet or by filling out this Google Form.

Pastor Derek talks us through the worship episode that was published last week. Specifically, Derek imagines the life of a Christian as a follower rather than a fan; Kyle Idleman wrote a book concerning this very matter that the church previously utilized for a sermon series. He also discusses the Pharisaical practice of Jesus' time, and how rituals (if done without heart) take us away from the call of Jesus. Thank you for listening to the C3 Podcast! If you have feedback, questions, or other comments, we'd love to hear from you! Shoot us a message here: https://forms.gle/aKGyb7LrXur2wojw8

This week, Nathan and Derek discuss the reality that worship is a normative reality of human experience. Basically for real humans who don't talk like that, it's something we do… a lot. The question ceases to be whether or not we worship, but what the things we worship are. We look at the biblical narrative to determine where worship is seen in the scriptures, and how they have changed over time. Other topics include, but are not limited to: Nathan's first “speaking in tongues” experience (?) Worshipping the Dallas Cowboys (ick, I know) Cletus and Harry; heroes or heretics? The surprising place that Nathan is (actually) from Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development Referenced in the show are these Scriptures/Visuals: Worship Concentric Circles Genesis 1:28-30; 3:6-13, 22 Isaiah 1 Matthew 15:8-9 1 Timothy 2:5 Colossians 3:16-17 2 Corintians 5:17 Matthew 5:1-12 Acts 2:42-47 John 3:30

Longer Episodes are published bi-weekly; in the meantime, here's a short recap and a closer look at an aspect of our discussion on church membership last week. TL;DL stands for "Too Long; Didn't Listen", but we know you wanted to hear the melodious sound of at least one voice this week, right? ..... right?

This week, the head honcho talks about membership: his experience with church growing up, why he chose C3 as a “church home”, how we might reframe the word “membership” to be more functional and meaningful for today's church, and a preview of what 2021 will look like for C3. In this episode, we also discuss: Football in the silliest terms Brant can think of Brant's strange sleeping habits Nathan's unfortunate concert-going record The church roof blowing off We talk about these Scriptures during the episode: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 You can find our church by visiting c3hays.com, and can find more information on Mission Statement and our church's beliefs by clicking on the "About Tab."

Thank you for listening to the Celebration Community Church (C3) Podcast! In this episode, we discuss our church Mission Statement-- what does it mean? How is it practical to the life of a church member? You can find our church by visiting c3hays.com, and can find more information on Mission Statement and our church's beliefs by clicking on the "About Tab."