C3 Nairobi

C3 Nairobi

At C3 Nairobi, we believe that Nairobi is our city, and as part of His global church, we stand united with every church in our community. Our mission—"Our city, His church, my call"—reminds us that each of us is individually called to serve, while together we work to transform our city. Guided by our tagline, "Love God, Love People," we embrace our unique role in impacting Nairobi with Christ's love and hope. Welcome to C3 Nairobi!

  1. 19 APR

    Hearing God's Voice | C3 Nairobi

    Most people are not waiting for God to speak. They are waiting to hear something that confirms what they have already decided. The Hebrew word for "hear" is shema, and it does not separate hearing from obeying. They are the same motion. Biblical hearing is not acoustic or passive. It is a whole-life response: understand, believe, act, move. Philip demonstrated this when he left a thriving revival in Samaria to stand on a desert road, with no explanation given. He heard. He moved. And on that road he found one man who would carry the gospel into Africa. God rarely gives the full picture. He gives the next step. And the next step is only available to the person who obeyed the last one. But hearing gets complicated because three voices are speaking into your life at any given moment: the enemy, your own desires, and God. The most dangerous of the three is not the enemy. It is you. Your own ambition can generate an internal voice that sounds exactly like conviction, that feels exactly like God. Discernment is not the ability to tell right from wrong. It is the ability to tell right from nearly right. And it is not a gift that arrives fully formed. It is a capacity built over time, by reason of use, by years of bringing decisions before God and tracking what happens. In this episode: Why hearing God is obedience, not passive receptionHow to identify the three voices speaking into your life, and why your own voice is the most dangerousWhat discernment actually is, and how confirmation bias quietly distorts itHow community is not optional for the hearing life, and what to do when two sincere believers claim opposite words from the same GodHow to cultivate a hearing life, and why seasons of silence are not abandonmentHe is not silent. The question is whether you have become the kind of person who, when you hear, moves. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    1hr 3min

  2. 11 APR

    When God Speaks | C3 Nairobi

    You are not waiting for God to say something. You are waiting for him to say something you agree with. That is the real problem. Most of us have been told that hearing God is a rare, mystical experience reserved for a select few with a special spiritual connection. The result is that ordinary believers outsource their entire relationship with God to someone else's voice, and then wonder why they feel so far from him. This message takes that idea apart and rebuilds something far more grounded and far more personal. The sermon starts not with the channels but with the architecture. God is Trinitarian. The Father initiates. The Son is the Word made flesh, a message so complete that everything before it was partial and pointing. The Holy Spirit takes that word and makes it living and active in you, specifically. This is not mysticism. It is covenant. And a covenant, by definition, requires communication. The primary channel is Scripture, and this sermon does not let you off the hook about it. God has already spoken extensively across the whole of human experience, through melancholic prophets, a king writing songs in a cave, a wise man in existential crisis. All of it is one story. All of it points to one person. And most of us have the instructions sitting unopened while we wonder why life is not assembling correctly. In this episode: Why God speaks through covenant, not because he is warm or communicative by natureThe Trinitarian architecture of how God communicates, and what each person of the Trinity doesWhy Scripture is the primary channel, and what that actually demands of youThe role of wisdom: when a new prophetic word is not what you needDreams, the still small voice, other people, and inner conviction as real, tested, and biblical channelsThe door is being knocked on. The question is whether you are listening. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    42 min

  3. 5 APR

    The Cross & the Comeback | C3 Nairobi

    She came to that garden with burial spices and nothing left to believe for. Head down. Red-eyed. Ready to anoint a corpse. She left running, carrying the greatest announcement in human history. That is the resurrection. Not a symbol. Not a sentiment. A fact, witnessed by hundreds, recorded by eyewitnesses, verified by an empty tomb that not even the Romans could explain away. This Easter message traces the story of Mary Magdalene in the garden and finds in it something that speaks directly to anyone living in what Pastor Kevin calls a Saturday season. Saturday is the day between the death and the resurrection. It is when the diagnosis did not change, when the marriage did not recover, when the prodigal has not come home, when heaven feels silent. The disciples went to sleep on Saturday night with no hope and no promise. But we are reading this story from the other side. We know Sunday is already scheduled. From mistaken identity to one word that ended the longest weekend of Mary's life, from the triumphal procession of ancient Rome to the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now living permanently in your body, this sermon builds to a declaration that is not theoretical. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. And you are not waiting to be empowered. You already are. In this episode: Why Mary could not recognise Jesus and what that reveals about how we miss God moving in our livesThe difference between Saturday grief and Sunday hope, and how to hold both at onceWhat Romans 8:11 actually means when it says the resurrection Spirit lives in youWhy the encounter always leads to a mission, and what yours already isHow to stop fighting for a victory that has already been wonThe parade has started. Take your place in it. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    1hr 4min

  4. 29 MAR

    Engaging the Word | C3 Nairobi

    Have you ever read the Bible, closed it, and walked away completely unchanged? You read the words. You nodded along. Maybe you even highlighted something. But by Tuesday, nothing was different. If that is honest for you, you are not alone. And it is exactly what this message addresses. This sermon makes a bold claim that cuts to the heart of how most people approach Scripture: we do not interpret Scripture through our experience. We interpret our experience through Scripture. That one shift, from the inside out rather than the outside in, changes everything about how the Bible functions in your life. From understanding why genre matters when reading the Bible, to knowing the difference between a word-for-word translation and a paraphrase, to the moment pain quietly starts rewriting your theology, this message is a practical and honest guide to engaging Scripture well, not just more. The Bereans did not just hear the Word. They searched it. Daily. And that habit built something in them that no amount of emotion or tradition could shake. In this episode: Why the Bible is a library, not a manual, and why misreading its genres creates wounded believersThe three types of Bible translations, what each one is good for, and which to use for serious studyHow experience and tradition quietly creep above Scripture without you noticingWhy pain that goes unanswered does not get to rewrite who God isThe SOAP method: a simple, practical way to move from reading the Word to doing itDon't just know the Word. Don't just feel the Word. Do the Word. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    1hr 1min

  5. 22 MAR

    The Book That Would Not Die | C3 Nairobi

    No book in human history has been more banned, burned, translated, and distributed than the Bible. Empires tried to silence it. Kings outlawed it. Men were executed for putting it into the hands of ordinary people. And yet here it is. Still speaking. Still transforming. Still relevant. This message traces the remarkable journey of how the Bible survived to reach your hands, from the Septuagint opening Scripture beyond one ethnic group, to William Tyndale being executed for his translation, to Gutenberg's printing press putting thousands of copies into circulation. People bled and died for what we now download in seconds. But the harder question this sermon asks is not whether the Bible survived history. It is whether it is alive in you. Because the real crisis today is not access. We have more Bibles, more translations, and more Bible apps than any generation before us. The crisis is appetite. We collect the book but resist the encounter it offers. In this episode: The pattern that repeats every time the Word is rediscovered: neglect, rediscovery, conviction, transformationWhat King Josiah, Ezra, and Martin Luther all have in commonThe difference between reading the Bible out of duty and being drawn to it out of delightWhy Scripture is not a textbook, not a rulebook, but a love letter from someone who pursues youThe question is not, is the Bible alive? The question is, is it alive in you? www.c3churchnairobi.com

    1hr 1min

  6. 15 MAR

    Christian Philosophy | C3 Church Nairobi

    Two people receive the same news. Someone they love is gone. One is devastated beyond recovery. The other grieves, and then chooses to say, they have gone before me, I will see them again. Same loss. Completely different response. The difference is not strength or weakness. It is philosophy. Your philosophy is the filter through which you process everything, loss, opportunity, money, relationships, the future. And whether you built it deliberately or absorbed it from your family, your culture, or your social media feed, it is quietly shaping every result you see in your life right now. This message makes a bold and well-reasoned case: the most powerful philosophy available to any human being is the Christian philosophy, grounded in the Word of God. Not sentiment. Evidence. Communities and families who anchor their lives to a codified, deeply held belief system consistently outperform those who do not. And God has handed believers the most complete and life-giving framework of all. The problem is that most Christians are running on a mixed signal, part Scripture, part upbringing, part culture, part whatever the algorithm decided to show them this morning. And that mixture is costing more than most people realise. In this episode: Why your philosophy is already determining your results, whether you know it or notWhat Indian, Jewish, and Muslim communities reveal about the power of a codified belief systemHow Satan's only real weapon has always been attacking the way you thinkHow to meditate on the Word in a way that actually rewires your philosophy from the inside outYou have the real thing. The question is whether you are living by it. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    38 min

  7. 8 MAR

    The Word | C3 Church Nairobi

    Most people know they should read the Bible. Very few have stopped to ask why. And that distinction matters more than you think. Because if you do not know the purpose of a thing, you will misuse it, abuse it, or eventually abandon it altogether. This message cuts straight to the root. The Bible is not a rulebook to master, a history text to study, or a self-help manual to mine for tips. It is the living Word of a living God, and when you read it, the Author shows up. The goal of reading Scripture is not information. It is relationship. And the moment that shifts in your heart, everything about how you engage with the Word changes. In this episode: Why the Israelites heard the same Word and got no benefit from itThe difference between knowing God's acts and knowing God's waysWhy lovers always outwork workers when it comes to the WordHow to stop reading the Bible as a spectator and start reading it as a participantWhat it means that the Word is written to your heart, not your headThis is for the person who reads consistently but feels nothing. For the person who stopped reading because it felt like a duty. And for the person hungry to go deeper than they have ever gone. The Word became flesh. And it still does, in you. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    59 min

  8. 1 MAR

    Healthy Growth | C3 Church Nairobi

    Growth is not the question. Growth is inevitable. Everything alive grows. The real question is whether you are growing healthy. A child can grow tall and still be weak. Big and still be unstable. Fast and still have no roots. The same is true spiritually. You can accumulate years in the faith and still be malnourished, still crack under pressure, still collapse when things get hard. In this message, we dig into what healthy growth actually requires, and why discipleship is not a church programme but God's design for how human beings mature in Christ. From the biology of breast milk to the early church in Acts, from the Parable of the Sower to the crisis of deconstruction, this sermon draws a straight line: God provides the nutrients. Your job is to breathe in. In this episode: Why growth without the right inputs produces deformation, spiritually and physicallyThe breast milk principle and what it reveals about stage-appropriate discipleshipWhy discipleship beats deconstruction every single timeThe mystery of Philippians 2:12-13 and what it means that growth is 100% God and 100% youHow to move from spiritual infancy to maturity without earning itThis one is for the person who has been in the faith for years and still feels stuck. It is for the new believer who does not know where to start. It is for the seasoned Christian who needs to remember why pouring into others is not optional. Show up. Open up. Breathe in. www.c3churchnairobi.com

    1hr 16min
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At C3 Nairobi, we believe that Nairobi is our city, and as part of His global church, we stand united with every church in our community. Our mission—"Our city, His church, my call"—reminds us that each of us is individually called to serve, while together we work to transform our city. Guided by our tagline, "Love God, Love People," we embrace our unique role in impacting Nairobi with Christ's love and hope. Welcome to C3 Nairobi!

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  • Creator
    C3 Nairobi
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    95
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © C3 Nairobi
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