Exploring Isaiah 25, Logan addresses the realities of waiting on God in a current culture driven by instant gratification. He encourages believers to navigate seasons of waiting by praising God’s past faithfulness, trusting in His promise of ultimate salvation, and clinging to Him as our only true hope.

God warns his people Judah of the problem of false trusts, and pride–seeking glory on their own, and reminds them of his promises to them.

Dean explores the character of God through the lens of Isaiah 9, illustrating how He brings healing to unexpected places and operates on a sovereign timeline to ensure our redemption. He emphasizes God’s passionate zeal and unwavering dedication to restoring His people through the promised Messiah, offering profound hope even in seasons of darkness and anguish.

This week Johnny introduces a new sermon series on Isaiah. Focusing on Isaiah 6, the message challenges us to behold the full holiness and majesty of our God. Seeing God’s incredible greatness helps us see our own flaws clearly and stops us from constantly comparing ourselves to the people around us. This shift in perspective changes how we see everything, moving us from trying to prove ourselves to living a life of total trust and purpose.

We all look for safety in strength, from little kids building forts to hide behind to adults building their life on something. But when the God of the universe came to his people to fulfill his promise of salvation, restoration, and peace, he did not come as a warrior king but as a baby born to a teenage peasant girl–small and powerless.

In Isaiah 61 we see how God is still working through His Spirit to heal the brokenhearted and fulfill His Kingdom on earth. The message highlights that believers are not merely observers of this divine narrative but are active participants recruited to rebuild and restore their communities. He also shows how God intertwines individual lives across generations to continue this story of redemption in the present day.

All humans have a desire for home, a longing to be in the place and with the people that feels like “home,” especially for the holidays. But this innate desire is part of a longing for a home we are truly made for. In Isaiah 35, God promises Israel to bring them back home to Zion, to restore them to himself and their home. But no city, no country, no home could meet the glory of the promises God gives. We, like them, still await God’s advent (arrival) to bring is to himself and the home we are truly made for.

Isaiah 11 reveals how God provides the hero humanity needs through Jesus Christ,  the Messiah—the true King—who emerges as an unexpected “chute from the stump of Jesse,” capable of bringing life from what seems dead and hopeless.  Discover how this hero is endowed with the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, and might, ready to judge with righteousness and restore creation.

Isaiah 2 challenges us to walk with the Lord with both hope and humility.  Hope that God will lead us through the darkness even if we can’t see where we are going, and humility to surrender our pride and truly follow where He is leading us.

As the next step in our series on CCV’s vision and values, this week Dean takes a look at what it takes to be an extended family. As a church, Jesus wants us to recognize how big the family God is putting together really is. There will be people in the family you find shocking, people who you wouldn’t invite to God’s house. But the gospel is for every heart. Everyone needs saving, everyone needs their soul to be lifted by Jesus. Churches are meant to be places where people of all backgrounds can come together and be formed into one family.

What is our hope as Christians? Matt Hemsley walks through the historical perspective and understanding of a Jewish audience hearing Jesus’s words, “Thy Kingdom Come”. Our present hope in Jesus as King, His kingdom here on earth and His return to be King over all.

Unfortunately the first few minutes of Matt Hemsley’s sermon on Isaiah 55 failed to record.

CCV@Home Livestream video link:

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