Our interfaith and intercultural singing group, formed in partnership with Della Lamb Community Services, resumes weekly rehearsals starting Thurs., June 7 at 6:00 p.m. at the Kansas City University Alumni Center. Singers of any skill level are invited to join this group. Please email Corey Meyer if you wish to join.
As 2018 comes to a close, we invite you to consider making a year-end gift to the church. You may email Finance Director Rachel Clement or call 816.381.9256 for more information, or to set up a credit card payment or arrange for a stock transfer. Please note that the church offices will be open Read More...
There will be on service only on Sun., Dec. 30, at 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Rev. Tyler Heston will be preaching.
As we begin a new calendar year we will look at how Jesus began his life changing mission.
One of the little boys in our church’s preschool raised his hand and volunteered to be a donkey in the annual preschool Christmas pageant. Then a few days later one of his friends told him it was “stupid” to be an animal. So he went home and told his mother he was Read More...
John 3: 16-19 A 13 year old’s Christmas Morning Checklist: Open stockings. Eat cinnamon rolls. Call paramedics. Wait, what?! Paramedics aren’t on the list. There’s supposed to be church and a big meal and playing with presents, right? Well, that long-ago Christmas morning in our house there were paramedics. Then a call Read More...
Mark 1:1-3 The Christmas tree has been trying to tell me something. It’s the perfect Currier & Ives tree. So pretty you can almost hear the baby angels singing O Holy Night. But moments after we think the tree is secure in the stand, the cat innocently sashays underneath and you can guess what Read More...
Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 Scholars call it intertextuality, placing one thing next to another. One of the classic examples is how the prodigal son parable in Luke’s Gospel could be echoing the Jacob story in Genesis. Lots of reverberations there when you set those two next to each other. Whenever I read these Read More...
Luke 1:46-49 We are just a few days from the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus and I can’t help but think am I ready? Questions and thoughts keep bubbling through my mind…. Have I taken time to think through all the ways I can make the day special for my Read More...
It's been a wonderful and joyous Advent season at Country Club Christian Church! [envira-gallery id="7739"]
Rev. Mike Graves, Scholar in Residence and Minister of Spiritual Formation When I was in seminary, there were days I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that what was being presented was a piece of trivia that would never come in handy, not in my daily life as a follower of Read More...
I had heard about “pop up” restaurants and “pop up” retail shops but until last Sunday I had never heard a “Pick up” choir. One of our elders invited Dr. Paul Tucker to designate a Sunday where anyone who wanted to could sing in the choir on one Sunday. All you had to do was show up at 10:00 a.m. that day to rehearse the anthem for the 11:00 a.m. service.
As we prepare for the church year, it’s my practice to think about Christmas during the previous July. For 2018, I wanted to find a piece of music with great spirit to it (something that would cause Rev. Joe Walker to spontaneously whistle in the hallway after church), but with a text Read More...
John 1:1-5 The Bible helps us understand Jesus better with references to light. For example, He illuminates the darkness, His glory glows, and His love radiates in us and through us. In the physical world, we are drawn to sources of light like basking in the sun, watching a candle burn, or Read More...
Micah 5:2 Hope is a part of being human, and hope takes many forms. We hope that traffic isn’t bad on our way to work, or we hope for our favorite sporting team to win their next game. All December, children hope for their favorite toy to be wrapped underneath the tree Read More...
