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The next several Sundays of Christmas Advent, Pastor will focus his sermons on prophecies of the Messiah. This Sunday, he is preaching on Micah 5, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”

In the afternoon message, Pastor Martin continues to work his way through the chapter of 1 Corinthians 13.

This mornings message comes from Colossians 2:12–13, where Paul calls the believers to remember the great spiritual reality signified in their baptism. Even as baptism declares that we have put saving faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, it also portrays the great work of Christ in us. Paul wants us to remember our baptism, especially for the significance of that work, such that we live in light of it.

This Sunday, we’re back in John 6. Verses 38 through 40 are the ground of what Jesus taught in v 37. We have in these verses the unfolding of Christ’s wonderful promise, "Whoever comes to me I will never cast out." In Christ our salvation is secure, for it rests not on us, but on him and his grace. Jesus himself will accomplish our salvation. Jesus will bring us all the way through to the resurrection on the last day.

This Sunday, we continue to hear the words of Jesus in the “Bread of Life Discourse.” This Sunday, verses 36 & 37 are before us. The title of the sermon is “John’s Golden Chain,” because these verses (and especially 37) in John bear such a striking similarity to the ideas in Romans 8:29–30, the verses in Paul known by saints “The Golden Chain.”

This Sunday, we are back in John 6 and the “Bread of Life” discourse. This week, in our text Jesus calls himself “the true bread from heaven,” the “bread of God,” and “the bread of life.” The metaphor not only points back to the feeding of the five thousand, but to God’s provision of manna to Israel in the wilderness. The promise is glorious. Those who come to Jesus and believe him never hunger and never thirst.

This Sunday is our “Reformation Sunday.” Each year, Pastor Martin takes a Sunday around the 31st of October—the day Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg—to focus on the doctrines of church history. This year, his focus is on the Reformation doctrine of Grace Alone. Our text this morning comes from Ephesians 2.

In the afternoon service, Pastor Martin examines how Holy Love bears all things in verse 7 of chapter 13.

In the afternoon service, Pastor Martin continues his series through 1 Corinthians. Todays message comes from chapter 13.

Former pastor of CBC, Mike Allen preaches the Word from Ephesians 4 in the afternoon service.