Central Community Church

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

There is an incredible blessing attached to this Beatitude: You shall see God! There’s just one problem: Our hearts aren’t particularly pure. So the important questions we must wrestle with are these: Do I have a pure heart? and if not, How can I get...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

As followers of Jesus, the mercy we are to extend to others flows out of the mercy that God has extended to us.

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

“At the end of the day” there’s nothing that matters more than relationship. The good life according to Jesus means that our relationships – first with Him, and then with others, are right. This truly is the #blessed life.

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

Blessed are the assertive, strong, cut-throat, cheaters, famous, powerful, and workaholics, for they shall inherit the earth is the way the world seems to work. Yet Jesus says that it’s the meek who shall inherit the earth. What does that mean? How...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

Mourning and blessing seem to be total opposites and yet Jesus declares that the one who mourns over their sin is truly blessed. As we mourn over our sin, we find the comfort of what Jesus has done so much more gracious.

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

The Sermon on the Mount is widely considered the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest person who ever lived. The sermon begins with eight beatitudes that describe the good life according to Jesus. The first is about the poverty of spirit...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

We are reminded of what God has done, is doing, and will do so that no matter what you’re facing, you can have joy this Easter.

Have you ever wondered why the world seems so messed up? And what God is doing about it? This Good Friday message explores the love of God and his solution for a messed up world.

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

Written in a context and state of great upheaval, utter chaos, conflict, distress and war, the psalmist both describes and experiences God in some pretty remarkable ways … ways that result in peace, still and calm … ways that you and I can also...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.

It can be easy to fall into the trap of allowing our circumstances to control how we think and feel. However, the book of Habakkuk reminds us that we can rejoice no matter what is going on. God is always at work, our salvation is secure and he will...

A weekly ministry update + encouragement from our Lead Pastor, Matt Shantz.