We are a church in San Antonio, Texas that aims to create relevant environments that foster an intimate connection with God, meaningful relationships with others, and humble service to the world around us. Each Sunday approximately 500 people attend our weekend gatherings filled with contemporary music and engaging messages. As part of these gatherings, ACC also offers an environment geared exclusively for our youngest attenders known as Kidstuff. Kidstuff is geared to offer children a fun a ...
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ARCC exists to be a church that glorifies God by making disciples whose identity and joy are found and rooted in the gospel of Jesus. This is the sermon audio from our weekly services.
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n our digital age, especially for our communication and information, we have never had a greater need to lean into the implications of the incarnation of Jesus…that is Jesus, as God, coming to be present in the flesh. The greatest purpose and meaning for this life begins and ends with our relationship to God and just under that would be our relatio…
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DNA Questions - Mark 10:17-31 Discover: What are the assumptions that this young guys is making by asking Jesus such a question? What do we learn about "eternal life" from this story? What do we learn about Jesus from this story? Nurture: What things in your life do you use to protect the "one thing" that Jesus would point at in your life? What dis…
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DNA Questions: Luke 9:23-27 Discover: Who is Jesus talking to in this text? Why does He feel the need to address this? What is the Kingdom that "some" will see? Nurture: What do you think Jesus would ask you to deny? What sacrifices would Jesus ask you to make? What direction would Jesus take you? Act: How would your week look different if you live…
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DNA Questions - Matthew 4:18 - 5:12 Discover: What is the significance of the fact that Jesus would call guys who were fishermen? What is the correlation between "the gospel of the kingdom" and Jesus healing every disease? Who is Jesus calling "blessed" in the famous Beatitudes? Nurture Are you following Jesus? How would you know? How have you expe…
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DNA Questions - (Genesis 35:1-15) Discover: What is the actual "blessing" that God gives to Jacob? How did his people fall into so much idolatry while in Shechem? What is the significance of God's call for them to "be fruitful and multiply"? Nurture: What are the "foreign gods" in our culture that seem to lure you the most? How would you know? Is t…
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DNA Questions (Genesis 34) Discover: What does this story teach us about the nature of sin? What would it look like for Jacob to step in and speak a better word? In what ways does Christianity impact culture and in what was has culture impacted Christianity? Nurture: How has anger impacted your life? How does the gospel/scripture help us to underst…
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DNA Questions: Genesis 33 Discover: -What stands out to you the most in this part of the story? Why? -What does this section teach us about the way God works? -What does Jacob mean when he tells Esau that seeing his face was like seeing the face of God? Nurture: -How does this story of reconciliation resonate with you? Are there relationships in yo…
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DNA Questions (Genesis 32:22-32) Discover: -What is the significance of Jacob being "left alone"? -What is the significance of the wrestling taking place "until the breaking of the day"? -Why did Jacob need a name change and why would that have been such a blessing? Nurture: -Do you have any regular times of solitude where you are seeking the face …
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DNA Questions (Genesis 32:9-21) Discover: -What does it mean for Jacob that He identifies with God as the God "of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac"? -Why is it important that Jacob quotes God in his prayer to God? -What other factors of Jacob's prayer point to Jacob being honest with himself and God? -Considering verses 13-21: Is Jacob …
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DNA Questions (Genesis 32:1-8) Discover: -What was God's purpose for allowing Jacob to see the angels on his way back home? -Would it have been possible for the messengers sent by Jacob to have alleviated his fear and distress? What "messengers" in your life increase fear and distress rather than help point to the Father? What kind of "messenger" a…
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Deacons: Holding to the Faith (1 Timothy 3:12-13)
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DNA Questions (1 Timothy 3:12-13) Discover: What does it truly mean to be the husband of one wife? What does it look like to manage one's household well? What does it look like to have a "deacon" culture in the church? Nurture: Given Jesus' words in Matthew 5:27-30 what would it look like to fight the good fight of being a committed husband to your…
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Deacons: Holding to the Faith (1 Timothy 3:10-11)
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DNA Questions: 1 Timothy 3:10-11 Discover: What does it mean to "slander"? What does it mean to be "sober-minded"? What does it mean to be "faithful in all things"? Nurture: Why is it so tempting to slander someone? Why is it difficult to put a stop to it when it's going on around you? What gospel promise can we hold to in order to fight this tempt…
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Deacons: Holding to the Faith (1 Timothy 3:8-9)
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Discover: (1 Timothy 1:12-20; 3:8-9) How does Paul, in his letter to Timothy help us to understand what it looks like / sounds like to be "dignified"? Which prohibition do you struggle with most from verse 8 of chapter 3? Being double tongued? Addiction? Greed for gain? Nurture: Why do you run to those things to cover your indignity? What is happen…
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Discussion Questions: Why is it so hard to consider others as more significant than ourselves? Sermon Outline - Deacons What does it look like to "outdo one another in showing honor"? What would it look like for you to "steward" the grace of God in your life for the good of the body of Christ?Av Michael McCracken
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In your experience, why does God seem "silent" or "inactive" in your life? Do you often cry out for Him? How does the cross and resurrection of Jesus ultimately answer the Psalmist? Do you believe that you were once an enemy of God? Why or why not? Do you believe that you are His "treasured one"? Why or why not?…
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Discussion Questions: If God is sovereign over all of those in positions of power, how does that impact the way we think about the leaders in our day? (John 19:11; Daniel 2:21) How is justice (or a lack thereof) interconnected with fatherlessness? How is the Church to respond? If the earth was shaken, what would grieve your heart? How can we intent…
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Discussion Questions: What is the gospel? What is your favorite portrayal of the gospel in scripture? What is the "obedience of faith"? How does it play out in your life? (Romans 1:5; 14:23; 16:26) What is real, biblical freedom? Do you have it? How would you know? (Galatians 5:1)Av Michael McCracken
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You welcomed me into the roar of the waterfalls and out where the waves could crush me. The One who walks on waves has taken us far fromBethlehem and away from the safety of our sheep into deep waters. In the sea and through the great waters we learn how to cray aloud to God AND how to meet Him there.…
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Do we know God? His people are supposed to know Him. Perhaps the difficulty we have reading and studying a text with little to know personal application points to the great barrier of a heart that knows God.Av Michael McCracken
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This Psalm alludes to the fact that there is a connection between gratitude and the nearness of God. The Psalmist presents 5 eternal realities of God for which we should be ultimately grateful. The barrier can be, however, that we sometimes place ourselves in the position of “god” and see ourselves as fulfilling these things. Therefore, we realize …
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Faith sounds like making our ultimate appeal to God. In this Psalm Asaph leads the congregation in a liturgy of returning to the Lord and hoping once again in His faithful promises.Av Michael McCracken
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Jacob - A True Coming to Age Story
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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Jacob - A True Coming to Age Story
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Obeying God’s instruction (Genesis 31:3), Jacob leaves Paddan-aram and heads home to Canaan and his father, Isaac. Needless to say this trip, like all of life, has some serious bumps in the road; Jacob’s deception, Rachael’s theft and Laban’s angry attempt at manipulation. Through it all the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob proves Himself faithful t…
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Jacob - A True Coming of Age Story
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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Jacob - A True Coming Of Age Story
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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Jacob - A True Coming Of Age Story
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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The Kingdom of God is the work of God’s sovereign grace. Over and again we see that God works in the lives of fallen people. As we have noted so far, the story of Jacob and his family is anything but neat and tidy. However, we cannot forget that the Living God is going to bring salvation to the world through this family. God overruled all the famil…
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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“He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” There is so much hope for us in that verse from Philippians 1:6. If we are being honest with ourselves it is likely that we often feel like an incomplete project at best. It is such good news for our soul to consider no only that God mercifully saved us, but t…
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There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of…
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There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of…
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There is a truth given to us by Jesus that we need to believe. It’s actually to our advantage that Christ would go to the Father SO that the Spirit could be sent to us. The hope in this series would be that we would come to believe this as ardently as Jesus, Himself AND that we would long to know and enjoy all that we have in the Person and work of…
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“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.” Jesus, who is our prince of peace showed us what it looks like to be someone who makes peace. However, Jesus is THE Prince of Peace because He is only One who could ever make peace for us with God!
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May we linger often over the truth that God became flesh and dwelt among us. May we live truly believing that He draws near to those who call upon Him in truth and with broken and contrite hearts.Av Michael McCracken
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Scripture makes it plain that we have terrible taste in seeking counsel for this life. There is no question that we desperately need a wonderful counselor, but how would we know if we had come into contact and enjoyment the child given unto us?Av Michael McCracken
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