JCC: Sermons and Teachings

JCC Elder, Jim Barton, focuses on Proverbs 3:5, exploring what it truly means to trust in the Lord with all your heart and not lean on your own understanding.

Pastor Danny teaches from Proverbs 4:23-27 where God provides four essential instructions for living well.

Pastor Ryan examines the wisdom in Proverbs 16 and how understanding God's will involves first aligning with His revealed directives: loving Him, loving others, and maintaining a pure heart.

On Mother's Day, Pastor Danny defines the eight key attributes in a godly woman with noble character as described in Proverbs 31.

Pastor Gary continues our study in Proverbs by looking at the cost of pride and how God specifically warns against pride throughout scripture.

The Book of Proverbs offers timeless wisdom for living a life that honors God. While many of us rely on motivational quotes or family sayings to guide us, Proverbs provides divine wisdom that goes far beyond simple inspiration.

Pastor Danny finishes the book of Titus by looking at Paul's final instructions which include things to avoid, things to caution, and things we should be doing.

Pastor Ryan teaches on good works described in Titus 3:1-8. Living a life of good works as a Christian involves three key spiritual movements: outward relations, inward revolution, and upward adoration.

Pastor Ryan preaches on Titus 2:1-10 where we discover how true discipleship transforms lives across generations through the power of the Holy Spirit.

This sermon focuses on Titus 1:5-9, examining the biblical requirements and roles of church elders. Pastor Ryan explains how Paul instructed Titus to appoint elders in every town, emphasizing that elders must lead well at home, live with honor, and hold firmly to sound doctrine. The sermon clarifies that while elders are held to high standards, they aren't expected to be perfect, but rather exemplary in their faith and conduct.

Missions Week Dinner 2025. Jesus told his disciples to build churches in Jerusalem, then Judea and Samaria, and finally to the ends of the earth. And that's what they did! Sean Cooper of Global Serve International teaches us that the book of Acts shows how the Apostles did this in all three areas, and instructs us how healthy missions work around the world. They proclaimed, planted, and pastored! Who among us will “go” and how do we keep a thriving culture of “goers” here at JCC?

Missions Sunday 2025. The New Testament records the final words of Jesus to the first believers in five different passages. Sean Cooper of Global Serve International walks us through those five, the final one being Acts 1:8, our theme verse for Missions Week 2025. What does it mean to witness here where we live? And what does it mean to make disciples of all nations? How do we “send” well those who want to “go” from JCC?

Pastor Danny explains where JCC is headed though our core values: equipping, engaging, and expanding.

Pastor Danny defines who JCC is by explaining the mission statement, "Challenging people to know, love, serve God, our families, our community, our world" and also defining JCC's core values, "equipping, engaging, expanding".

This sermon marks a significant transition in the life of JCC as Danny Long is commissioned as the new senior pastor. Pastor Danny shares his personal journey, his commitments to the church, and his vision for the future.

Pastor Gary shares 10 truths he has learned in life. Understanding and embracing these fundamental truths can transform our approach to life, relationships, and spiritual growth. (Part 2)

Growing in love requires understanding that true love originates from God and flows through believers via the Holy Spirit. Through fellowship, service, and discipleship, we can actively grow in love within our church community, creating meaningful relationships that strengthen our faith journey.

Through Paul's message in 1 Corinthians 15, Pastor Byron shows how the gospel creates and sustains the church through eight key aspects. Additionally, he also shares a four step method to remembering and sharing the gospel.

Through the contrasting lives of Solomon and Paul, we discover profound truths about contentment. Despite having unlimited wealth, power, and wisdom, Solomon's pursuit of worldly pleasures left him empty and dissatisfied. Paul, however, found lasting contentment despite facing imprisonment, beatings, and constant hardship. His secret lay in anchoring his satisfaction not in circumstances but in his relationship with Christ. This profound difference reveals that true contentment comes not from having everything, but from having the right foundation.

This Christmas, reflect on the profound humility of Jesus' birth. Born in a manger and raised in the humble town of Nazareth, Jesus' life was marked by simplicity and sacrifice. His mission to serve and save humanity culminated in the ultimate act of humility—His death on the cross.

Pastor Byron teaches on another unique location where the Christmas story took place: the nations. When wise men from the East came to worship the newborn king of Israel, God reminded everyone of his love for the whole world and his plan to redeem all people through the Messiah Jesus Christ.

Pastor Ryan opens up our Christmas series on the places of Christmas with a focus on Jerusalem and the temple, where an angel spoke to Zechariah about his miraculous child who would make the way for the long-awaited Savior of the world. Is there room in your heart for Jesus? Luke 1:5-25, 67-68, 76-79

Jesse Nuñez points out how God's provision frees us to live with our eyes fixed on eternal things rather than earthly worries.

Pastor Gary describes the concepts of reaping and sowing in Scripture, as it applies to how we use the money God gives us as well as how we live holy lives by the Spirit instead of for our sinful nature. Are you living life for a harvest in heaven or a weed patch on earth? Galatians 6:5-10

Pastor Gary wraps up our fruit of the Spirit study with self-control, explaining how the crucifixion of self is the path to a life of freedom.

Pastor Ryan delves into an underappreciated fruit of the Spirit—gentleness. When we know both the tenderness and toughness of God, it allows the Spirit to change us into gentle men and women.

Pastor Danny centers our hearts and minds on the faithfulness of God and how God Himself helps us to be faithful to Him and to those He has put into our lives.

Pastor Gary describes how the next two fruit of the Spirit reflect the characteristics of God—kindness and goodness.

Pastor Gary explains why peace is so hard to come by in our world today—we are a people at war with our Maker. But the cross of Christ is how God offered an olive branch to mankind. Receive his offer of forgiveness and peace today, while there is still time.

Pastor Danny plucks the second fruit of the Spirit by describing how having the “joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart” doesn't always feel like we think it might. How can we have a joy-filled life, regardless of life's circumstances?

Pastor Gary introduces the fruit of the Spirit as an important, necessary, and God-produced part of a Christian's life and shows us how sacrificial love is the primary fruit of God.

Pastor Ryan takes us through signs of spiritual deadness which can only be overcome by the path to spiritual life won by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Christians are told to “walk in the Spirit.” But what does that mean? What exactly does the Holy Spirit do? Pastor Gary gives 11 ways that the Holy Spirit transforms our lives.

Pastor Danny details the four ways to use our Christian freedom when we are walking by the Spirit of the Living God.

Pastor Gary explains Paul's illustration of the free child of promise and the enslaved child of human efforts from the life of Abraham as a way to teach the Galatians about the freedom they can have through faith.