The vision of Central Christian Church is to be the hospitable hands of Jesus Christ for our neighbors near and far. The mission of Central Christian Church is to invite our neighbors to a life of faith in Jesus Christ and into our congregation for the shared pursuit of Christian Spirituality. Click here for a Quick Tour of our church.

Worship With Us On Sunday!
In the Sanctuary starting at 11:00 a.m. every Sunday. Coffee Fellowship afterward. Click here for a map.

"All or Nothing - The Surge" Sunday Message, June 21st
Third of five messages from 2 Corinthians to incentivize for the long haul in an immediate gratification culture. This week, we find inspiration to validate the good news even when times seem hard.  The apostle Paul prods us to “commend” ourselves for the sake of the gospel. The “surge” philosophy was long ago emphasized as an important piece of Christ’s mission before employed by armed forces in modern nation building.

You can find the media to listen to in the sidebar at the right.

The Highland Park 4th of July Parade for 2009 Coming Up!

For the fourth year, Central Christian Church will be participating in the 4th of July Parade for the Town of Highland Park. We will have at least two trailers full of float riders that can included friends, family, neighbors and our friends of Central Dog Park (plus their dogs). As in past years, we will also be serving a tail-gate breakfast to all of the people who crew the other floats that line up very early in the morning along Euclid Avenue to get a good position in the parade. This is a lot of fun and a chance to help our neighbors in this wonderful celebration. Watch this space for additional details.

To see our videos (512 kbps Windows Media) from past parades:

• Click here for the 2008 parade.
• Click here for the 2007 parade.
• Click here for the 2006 parade.

To see our photos from the 2008 parade, click here. Turn on the slide show option or click through the images individually.

You are invited to join us to ride on the float or volunteer to serve breakfast with us!

Episode 13  of the Westside Cafe - "Perfect Love, Interview with Director of Free Burma Rangers"
Central Christian Church has been a long-time supporter of the Free Burma Rangers and their incredible humanitarian and medical relief efforts in Burma. We have released Episode 13 of the Westside Cafe Podcast with a special interview with the founder and Director of the Free Burma Rangers.

We often talk about the Bible being "the living Word" and here, just as we are finishing Daniel 2 in our study of the Book of Daniel, a living example of how oppressed people under brutal political rulers respond with love and compassion walks into our church and sits down to talk. You don't want to miss this special episode!

Click here for details.
Click here to go to the Westside Cafe.

Our Podcasts Have RSS Feeds
Both of our podcats (our Sermon podcast and the Westside Cafe podcast) now have RSS feeds that will allow you to keep up with new episodes as they are added to our media catalog. A direct feed from us will help you keep up with our new episodes as the are released if you don't use iTunes or another podcast syndicator. The icons are linked to our XML feeds for each of our podcasts and for each of the file types we support. By clicking on the icon associated with each of our XML files, you will see the entire contents of our media catalog in your web browser and you will be able to subscribe to the feed so your computer will automatically download new episodes as thy are released.

Look for the RSS icons at the bottom of the sidebar on the right.

Outdoor Worship Scheduled April 12th through November 29th
Who could have guessed a suggestion by our neighbors would have been so much fun and meaningful?  The concept was introduced like this, “Hey, why don’t we have a simple worship service in the Dog Park on Sunday morning? People can bring their dogs, dress down, drink coffee, and be blessed with friends, fellowship, prayer and thoughtful message.” And that’s all it took.

Click here for details.

Central's Conversational Communities
Central Christian Church offers a series of blogs to engender a community of conversation around questions of God, Jesus Christ, the Christian church and being people and communities of faith. As Proverbs 27:17 says “Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another.” The purpose of this conversational community is that all who participate will be sharpened.

The first of our conversational communities are "Living In Tents," the blog of our Senior Pastor, Rev. Norman Stolpe, "Theological Tavern" by our Associate Pasto, Rev. Todd Boddy, "Living Large" by our Minister At Large, Rev. John Cunyus, and the Twitter mini-blog of Bill Anderton, President, Board of Directors.

Click here for details.

Reception and Book-Signing After Worship - Sunday, March 15, 2009
The release of Ebby Halliday Acers’ biography by Michael Poss and her 98th birthday have combined into a wonderful occasion for celebration. We celebrated this birthday milestone with our good friend at the same time we celebrate her immeasurable contribution to the Dallas community and to Central Christian Church.

In our 11 am service, we read a special proclamation from the City of Dallas and had a wonderful reception honoring our friend.

Click herefor the photo gallery of the day and the audio of the reading of the proclamation. 

CENTRAL MEDIA PANEL
Check out our featured media below. In this panel we will highlight either our special or most currrent media that is available on this site. For additional media, please go to the "Media" menu in the primary navigation above. 

SUNDAY'S SCRIPTURE & SERMON
"All or Nothing - The Surge"
June 21, 2009
Series: The Long and Short of It
Part 3 of 5

Click on the "Start" arrow on the Flash player below to hear the most recent Sunday service. Or, for all of our recent Sunday sermons, click here for our 2009 Media Catalog and links to sermons from earlier years.