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Why do we do what we do? Why do we sacrifice and lay down our lives? It's because there is a glory that we are aching for in this life. Until we get His glory in the right place we will never be satisfied. There is no glory big enough outside of the glory of God that will fill our soul. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on losing our life for God's glory. Anything that doesn't have God at the center of it will be destroyed—the only way you destroy your old life is by self-sacrifice and picking up your cross daily. Let's let His wondrous glory fill our vision as we live for something greater!

At our special Allin Team Night, we had the honor of hearing from Pastor Louie Giglio from Passion City Church share a powerful message on Psalm 23 and the table God has prepared for us. We all have power, through the Holy Spirit to sit down at the table with the Shepherd. We have the power to tell the enemy, 'You can prowl around but you cannot sit down at this table.'

When we disown our old life completely, we then find the freedom and fulfillment we have been looking for. Jesus wanted to put to death our old nature and old desires — He offers us true freedom from within when we decide to pick up our cross! This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey launched our new series THE CROSS IS HERE with a powerful message on picking up our cross and following Jesus. Nothing will meet the desires of your heart like Jesus. The cross is here, and not just here for you but for New York City.

How are we meant to get access to the wisdom that created all things? Jesus is our access to the throne of God where true wisdom lives. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on Jesus as the wisdom of God. He is our access and our wisdom. True wisdom comes from above and has a heavenly perspective of our challenges, but this wisdom also became a man, able to sympathize and understand our problems. Jesus carries the true wisdom that God wants us to live with daily.

This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on wisdom and the fear of man. The fear of man is when we care too much about what people think of us and put people in the place of where God should be in our lives. Pastor Josh shared five key points on how we can overcome the fear of man: know who is for you, let trust overcome fear, recognize fear is a spirit not an emotion, know what God has given and not given you and care more about what God thinks than what man thinks. Even if we don't always believe in God, He believes in us. His love is not based on our performance; His love is always for us.

When we filter what we say through the love of God, it transforms our language so that our words bring life. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on wisdom in our words, challenging us to bring healing and life to people. Three key points to wise words are: control our impulses and speak wisely, conquer our bitterness and speak kindly, correct our attitude and speak positively. Let's let God into our heart this week so that His life would flow through our words!

What if the answer is not more wealth but more wisdom? God's wisdom is not trying to control you but to protect and bless you. This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached on wisdom in wealth and 3 keys to living wisely through our finances. Our treasure is where our hearts so, so our money flows in the direction of what we value. As God has been generous with us, we are freed to be generous as well!

God is with us in the hustle. We were created to work by God, and He wants us to thrive in the work we do. This past Sunday, Pastor Emmanuel Hastings preached on wisdom in the hustle. When we seek God's wisdom in our work, we find His unique purpose for us. We are carriers of His name in our workplace, so we can go into work without holding back. Let's be workers who are diligent and honest as we are secure in our identity in Him we are able to see the bigger picture everyday.

Acquiring wisdom and practicing discipline will help us achieve what we want in life and fulfill the purpose God has for us. This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message on wisdom in our decision making. Every day we are met with decisions that bring direction to our lives, either moving us closer or further away from the God's design for our lives.

We are all in different kinds of relationships—our days and lives are filled with relating to others. Our lives rise and fall on the health of our relationships and our ability to relate with wisdom. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey walked through 10 practical keys to bringing wisdom to our relationships. Let's carry this message with us and live out the wisdom placed in our hearts for others!

Wisdom is two goals in one—knowing and doing. If we only know and don't act, we lack wisdom. If we act without knowing, we lack wisdom. In the of knowing God's ways and doing it God's way, we find true wisdom. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message in our WISDOM series—listen for 8 keys to living a wisely instead of foolishly as you start 2018!

Wisdom is one of the highest attributes of a Kingdom person. As leaders, seeking wisdom in all areas of our life and leadership is key for our influence and fruitfulness. As we kick off 2018, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached at our ALLIN Team Night service to leaders and team on 15 points of wisdom in leadership. We encourage you to dive into these points and scriptures from Proverbs to grow in your leadership!

By faith, we don't let our disappointment lower our expectations of God—instead God's grace meets us in our barren places and deals with past disappointments so that we can dream with Him for the future! This Dream Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached out of Isaiah 54 and encouraged us to prepare a space for God to fill. Does your dream in 2018 include other people? Is it big enough to include others in His love?

God is not for the religious, He is for everyone. He came for relationship. He's a secure God that came to us as a human to show us what relationship looks like, to let a fallen earth carry His glorious grace. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on the truth of grace. The birth of grace was for us all, all we have to do is let Him into our hearts.

What to expect when you're spiritually expecting: Expect that there's going to be a process. That you're going to need God to say don't be afraid. But also expect that when it's God it will bring change, holiness, Kingdom into everything. This past Sunday, guest speaker Mia Fieldes, grammy-nominated songwriter, preached a powerful message on intimacy with God and the process of giving birth to a God dream. Nothing that God grows comes into the world without having to breathe through it with Him, lean into Him, trust Him through it.

There's a reason we have grace. Grace is not merely a cover up for sin but the empowerment to be welcomed into the most perfect relationship that we could ever be welcomed into. God's grace has brought us in so that you may have access to His glory. This past Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on the reason for grace. His grace gives us access into the glory we were made for.

When God spoke, He created light—light because He wanted to reveal Himself to us, to show the world and all creation what kind of God we serve. To come under God's word is to take our lives from chaos to cosmos, from dark to light. This past Sunday, guest Pastor Robert Madu kicked off our GENESIS series this Advent season by encouraging us to trust God no matter what the season or circumstance. In His word is power to create something out of nothing, and all we have to do is trust in it!

When we know our divine origin and destiny, we are free to serve others from the security of who we are in Christ. This Sunday, Pastor Filmore unpacked the story of Jesus washing the disciples feet from John 13, revealing that Jesus' humility and servant nature is available to us when we keep our eyes on Him. We were meant for love, designed not to tread on people's feet in competition but to wash their feet in humility. Only after we encounter the radical, self-giving love of Christ can our hearts come alive to pioneer in humility so that we can truly consider others greater than ourselves.

We were created to draw close to our Creator and to carry a language of thanksgiving as we enter His courts! This Sunday, Pastor Emmanuel spoke on the story of the 10 lepers Jesus healed, and how only one returned with loud thanksgiving to fall at the feet of the one who worked His miracle. We are challenged to be people who reflect the fullness of the divine love we carry by being loud in our thanksgiving, not only loud in our requests or complaint. In gratitude, we are enabled to live out our revelation of His love for us for those around, for NYC and beyond!

We are trying to create spaces for life to happen, for people to be found. For the broken to mended. We are creating space for God to move. This past Sunday, guest Pastor Dan Lian preached a message out of Mark 5 sharing on the spaces we create for God to move in. God wants to shine His light, show His love, a love that never gives up through us.

Each of us are a living stone, making a house for the presence of God wherever we go. We are a city on a hill, a light on a stand and as we join together we will shine with His radiant light in us. As Vision Builders, our heart is to impact New York City and beyond with the love of Christ as we step out and give. This past Sunday was VISION SUNDAY here at C3 and Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on being a light through generosity. Let's pioneer together into new territory as we give to His vision.

It takes sacrifice and worship to make Jesus the center of our lives — and when we do the fragrance of our worship leaves an eternal legacy for those around us. This Sunday Pastor Josh preached a message on the anointing of Jesus and how generosity flows from the revelation of His great gift to us. He reminded us that it is not until we see how extravagantly generous God is towards us that we are able to pour out that same generosity to those around us. Moreover, Pastor Josh challenges us to behold the Son of God before we count the cost of living a life marked by extravagant generosity.

God wants to bless us with the knowledge of who He is. We learn who He is by putting Him first, by trusting Him above this world. If we truly want to unlock the best of God for our lives, we have to give Him our best first. This past Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on generosity and the power of giving God our best and our first. We will never know how much He loves us until we trust Him first.

Love blazes a way. Love pioneers for the sake of others. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey launched our new series PIONEER which looks at the book of Hebrews and points to our ultimate Pioneer, Jesus Christ! He made a way for us — who will you pioneer and make a way for?

No matter what you are walking through, who you are in God has never changed. Like the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son, God is always chasing after us — His heart is for us to know who we are in Him. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message in our HEIRS series on our identity in Christ as His sons and daughters. Our identity is secure in Him because we are His inheritance.

Do you know that you are an heir of God? We are heirs according to His promise not because of our own behavior. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on our HEIRS series while also kicking off our 4th location in Downtown Brooklyn. You are royalty, you are heirs, you are an inheritor of all things simply by what Jesus has done. Unless we get our vision clear on who Jesus is we won't get our vision clear on others.

This Sunday, special guest speaker, Pastor Kevin Loo kicked off our HEIRS series, showing us how we can live in the freedom that God has given us as sons and daughters. Knowing our position as heirs, by knowing God as Our Father first, we're able to stop striving for what God says is already ours. It's not always easy, but when we create that space to allow God to speak to us, we encounter Jesus, coming deeper into the knowledge of our inheritance in the Kingdom.

This Sunday, we celebrated our 4th Anniversary, and as we look forward to our fifth year as a church, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message from Ezra 9 on how God's revival leads to rising! When we repent, turning back to God and surrendering our hearts anew to Him, we are filled with the true refreshment and energy of His Spirit so that we can be part of His restoration of our city and beyond. Our vision is Jesus Christ. Our mission is people. Our cause is love.

This week in our HELP series, Pastor Josh showed how Ezra's heart to rebuild the temple wasn't an accident but rather the hand of God on his life. Like a father putting his hand on his child, the hand of God brings us courage and keeps our praise connected to His unchanging character, not our own performance. No matter what discouragement we face, in Christ we know the hand of God is on our lives—He is with us and for us!

This past Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes brought a message in our HELP series out of the book of Ezra on the promise of God. Although we may not be able to see the fulfillment of God's promise to us at the moment, we can rest in the fact that He will fulfill it, giving us all the more reason to praise in the process. When we as believers come around a united purpose to share God's love with this city and the world, we can be confident in knowing that it's His consistency and perfection that is going to build the kingdom. Let's start by using our praise as a witness even when the walls aren't built, because our foundation is in Christ!

We serve the God who stirs our hearts and calls us home. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached out of Ezra on the return of the exiles and the rebuilding of the temple. Our God is actively at work to free us; His grace declares an end to exile and brings us home to rebuild the ruins of our lives. When we're stirred, the result is always a unified vision of worship through obedience — God reveals what He wants to rebuild in your life when we say "yes" to Him!

Worry is misaligned care, misused imagination. This Tuesday, Pastor Josh Kelsey gave a powerful message out of the Sermon on the Mount, calling us to cast our worries on God so that our imagination can be filled with faith for the Kingdom calling on our lives! We were created to care, but never to carry our worries and cares on our own — Christ's heart is that we would be set free from worry as we turn to Him.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message out of Acts 16, where Paul and Silas were thrown into prison after casting out an evil spirit and setting a young girl free. Although innocent, with every reason to complain, in their darkest hour Paul and Silas sang hymns and praised God from their jail cell. This shows us that praise isn't about our circumstance, but about Jesus' position in our lives. We too can be encouraged to praise even in the toughest of situations. Our freedom and our praise has the opportunity to set others free!

The transformation from Saul to Paul is a story for each of us. This week Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message out of Acts 9, where Saul encountered Jesus on the road the Damascus and Ananias encountered Saul to reveal his calling. How incredible that God works through other people to reveal our own calling! Many times we can doubt God's plan for our lives or feel shaken by prayers that seemed to go unanswered, but this story examples just how suddenly God can work when we keep trusting in Him. Jesus comes into our lives, changing our desires and mission in life, and bringing glory to His name — all so that we can share that hope with others.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message out of Acts 4 of opposition and boldness. Things of this world compete for our worship, but when we're found in Christ we can confront our trials with a supernatural boldness and continue to endure hardships knowing that our identity rests in Him alone. We have the been given the authority to speak out in Jesus' name freedom and healing over others' lives just as Peter and John did. As we continue to endure through trials and opposition, we rest in knowing that they're producing the character and hope of Christ in us.

Each of us has the opportunity to live with great expectation and anticipation—Jesus has made each of us a new creation! This Sunday Pastor Josh preached a message out Peter and John's encounter with the lame man by the temple gates. Through Peter and John's faith in the power of Christ within them, they were able to give the lame man more than he was asking for—they not only gave him physical strength and healing but they gave him access to Jesus. By putting our own faith in action, we can now reach out to others and give them the same access of Christ inside us.

Jesus enters into our pain. He connects with us in our sorrow and brings comfort in our hearts when we need relief. This Sunday Pastor Emmanuel Hastings encouraged us out of John 11 as we looked at Jesus raising Lazarus back to life. Christ came to bring resurrection and life, and He is working through our situation — not just for our own lives but for those around us to reveal His glory in His time.

Jesus always initiates and then He illuminates in our lives so that we can see Him. He wants to save and restore us as we look to Him. This Sunday, Pastor Filmore Bouldes preached a message on John 9 on how we are all blind without Jesus. When we see Jesus we see ourselves, we find our true identity and our vision is restored.

There is no escaping sin in this life, but Jesus has taken on our guilty verdict so we may live free in this life and for eternity. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh preached a message on Jesus's encounter with the adulterous women in John 8. Through this story we are able to experience His unchanging love for this woman and all of humanity, ultimately displaying the sacrifice He was soon to make on the cross. Whether we find ourselves relating more to the woman caught in sin or the self-righteous Pharisees, God's love is poured out on all of us, as we have all fallen short of His glory.

This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on John 5 of the story of the man that was lame for 38 years. In our own times of helplessness, when the world cannot give us enough strength, Jesus encounters for healing and to reveal who He is. We're able to receive His strength, by nothing of our own efforts, but by everything Jesus did on the cross. He calls us into freedom, even with our scars, so we can can tell of His healing power to others.

Leaders rebuild walls to protect that which is valuable to God and to His church. This ALLIN Team Night, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on leadership from the book of Nehemiah. Our city will always be a burden to us if we don't have a burden for it, we need to know the need in order to have a vision. Let's stay focused on what we are called to do in order to reach this city.

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on the first encounter Jesus had after the Sermon on the Mount. In one touch, Jesus reached out to a leper that approached him in humility for healing and cleansed him. As we look to the leper as the sin in our own lives, we learn how to approach Jesus with the same humility and boldness. We are called to come to Him as we are.

What are you doing to see Jesus? This Sunday Pastor Josh preached a message on the story of Jesus' encounter with Zacchaeus, a despised chief tax collector. Jesus constantly tests the heart of men and women showing them that He came for the sole purpose of salvation for everyone. Although Zacchaeus was short in stature, it was this disadvantage that caused him to see Jesus differently. He reminds us that we're never too far away for God to see us and call us by name.

God comes to us — He meets us and comes directly to our hearts to bring freedom. We have access to His living water as an endless source of overflow. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on our source of life in Jesus. If we don't go to Jesus as our well of living water, we will run other people in our life dry. It's the positioning of our heart that determines where we find our thirst and fulfillment.

When grace touches your heart it doesn't matter what judgement comes your way. Grace always triumphs. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message of freedom that is found through Christ's radical grace. God wants to set us free so that we can bring freedom through others. We are forgiven so that we can forgive.

Are your eyes on your freedom? As you place your faith, trust and worship in God, His spirit gets on you. This ALLIN Team Night, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached a message on proclaiming freedom in our lives. We carry a different spirit than that of the world, and our freedom in Him brings freedom to those around us.

The good news of salvation is that it's not only to you, but through you. Everything Jesus has, He is generous with and has given to us. This Sunday, guest Pastor Justin Reimer from Vivid Church preached a message on waiting on the Holy Spirit and living out Christ's mission in our lives.

Do you see the potential in the waiting on God in your life? We learn the most in the waiting. God wants us to wait in our place of greatest fear as that will be where His glory is revealed most. This Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on the power of waiting on God from Acts 1 when the disciples waited for the Holy Spirit. As we wait on God we become witnesses to His glory.

Whenever we are in unbelief we are missing out on a blessing God has for us. This past Sunday, Pastor Josh Kelsey preached on Jesus' encounter with Thomas in John 21 and the power of believing in Christ. Jesus met Thomas in His unbelief because He remains faithful even if we become faithless. No matter what we demand of God, He invites us to touch the place where His grace met us, to reach out and encounter true freedom in Him. Blessed are those who believe!

You've been made worthy as you receive Jesus Christ. At our Spring Daughters Gathering, Pastor Georgie Kelsey preached on the dignity and strength Christ clothes us with. Each of us can wear the worthiness of Christ which is filled with hope because God has a plan to reveal His glory in us.