Celebrate Community Church

Celebrate Community Church

Welcome to the audio podcast of Celebrate Community Church lead by Pastor Noah Rollins. We hope that these podcasts encourage you throughout your week. To learn more about Celebrate Community Church visit www.celebrate.church

  1. 5d ago

    Feeling Lonely? // September 27th // Noah Rollins

    What would it look like if the people around us actually knew us — not the polished, Sunday-morning version of us, but the real us, carrying real burdens and wrestling with real struggles? Acts 2:42-47 paints a picture of the early church that is both convicting and compelling. These believers did not stumble into deep community by accident. The scripture tells us they devoted themselves — to teaching, to fellowship, to breaking bread, to prayer. Devotion costs something. It is not convenient, and it does not happen on its own. The central spiritual lesson here is both simple and challenging: we cannot follow Jesus closely while keeping his people at a distance. God never designed the Christian life to be lived in isolation. The same passage that celebrates thousands coming to faith in a single day also describes believers opening their homes, sharing meals, meeting each other's needs, and knowing one another deeply enough to recognize what those needs even were. That is the model — a large gathering and intimate relationships working together, not as alternatives to each other but as complements. The question the passage presses us to ask is not whether community is important, but whether we are actually pursuing it with the same intentionality the early church did. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Meet Jesus. Find Community. Live Out Your God - Given Purpose.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

  2. Sep 21

    What Matters to God // September 20th // Noah Rollins

    What does it truly mean to come home? In Luke 15, we encounter one of the most powerful stories Jesus ever told -- a story about a son who takes his inheritance, runs toward what he thinks is freedom, and ends up empty, broken, and feeding pigs in a distant country. But here is the remarkable twist: while the son is still far off, the father sees him and runs. Not walks. Runs. In a culture where no dignified man would ever do such a thing, the father throws dignity aside and sprints toward his lost child. This image shatters every assumption we might have about how God responds to our failures. The story forces us to confront a deep spiritual truth -- sin always promises what it cannot deliver. It lures us with the idea that life would be better if we were in control, if we built something apart from God. But the distant country always runs out. The famine always comes. And when it does, we are left hungry for something the world simply cannot provide. The turning point in the story is a single phrase: "when he came to his senses." Repentance is not just regret -- it is a decisive turn away from what has been destroying us and a movement back toward the Father. And what we discover is that we do not need to clean ourselves up before we come home. The Father is already running toward us. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Meet Jesus. Find Community. Live Out Your God - Given Purpose.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

  3. Aug 31

    One Generation to the Next // August 30th // Noah Rollins

    What do we do with everything God has shown us? That is the question at the heart of this powerful message drawn from Psalm 145, the final Psalm of David in the entire book. David was a man who had seen it all -- tremendous victories and crushing failures, mountain-top moments and dark valleys -- and yet through every season, he arrived at the same conclusion: God is worthy of our praise. What makes this Psalm so striking is that David does not wait for the right circumstances or the right emotions before deciding to worship. He pre-decides. He declares that no matter what comes, no matter what he feels, his life will be oriented toward glorifying God. That kind of intentional, unwavering devotion is the model held up before us, and it challenges us to ask whether we have made the same decision for our own lives. The message also draws on the pattern seen throughout scripture of God's people forgetting what he has done -- just as the Israelites, fresh from witnessing the parting of the Red Sea, found themselves longing to return to slavery in Egypt. Their present circumstances drowned out their memories of God's faithfulness. We are called to resist that same drift by actively marking, remembering, and meditating on what God has done in our lives, so that his works remain louder than our circumstances. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Our vision is for people to MEET JESUS so they can go out and BE JESUS.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

  4. Aug 24

    Lived, not Learned // August 23rd // Jordan Arce

    What if the most profound things we could ever know about God cannot be found in a book alone, but only through the lived experience of walking with him? That is the heart of what we explore through Psalm 139, where David does not simply recite theological facts about God but pours out the overflow of a life spent in God's presence. David walks us through three staggering truths he has personally encountered: that God is all-knowing, that God is everywhere, and that God is all-powerful. These are not abstract doctrines to him. They are the fingerprints of a God who has seen him at his worst, followed him into his darkest places, and still chosen to love him without reservation. The central tension David names is one we all feel deeply: the fear of being fully known. We spend so much of our lives carefully managing what others see of us, editing our struggles and hiding our shame, because we believe that if people truly knew us, love would be withheld. But David's experience shatters that fear. He has discovered a God who knows every thought before it is formed, every word before it is spoken, and every failure before it unfolds, and whose love does not flinch. This is the invitation extended to each of us: not merely to learn about a God who loves us, but to actually live inside that love and let it reshape how we see ourselves and how we move through the world. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Our vision is for people to MEET JESUS so they can go out and BE JESUS.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

  5. Aug 18

    Don't Forget What God Has Done // August 16th // Noah Rollins

    What if the greatest threat to our faith is not doubt, persecution, or temptation, but simply forgetting? Psalm 103 pulls us into one of the most honest and searching conversations in all of Scripture, as David speaks directly to his own soul, commanding it to remember and to praise. We explore the deeply human tendency toward spiritual forgetfulness, the way yesterday's miracle quietly becomes today's entitlement, and how the things we once prayed for become the very things we now complain about. The central truth is both simple and urgent: do not forget what God has done. When we remember His faithfulness, gratitude grows, and gratitude is what keeps our relationship with God from becoming cold, casual, or transactional. This is not just a devotional idea but a practical discipline, one that reshapes how we pray, how we worship, and how we face the uncertain seasons of life. The message invites us to ask ourselves honestly whether we have allowed one unanswered prayer to speak louder than years of proven faithfulness, and whether we are living as though God's goodness is something still waiting for us in the future rather than something already surrounding us right now. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Our vision is for people to MEET JESUS so they can go out and BE JESUS.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

  6. Aug 10

    God is Our Refuge // August 9th // John Semchenko

    What does it look like to find solid ground when everything around us feels unstable? Psalm 46 offers us something remarkable: not a replay of what went wrong, but what we might call an eternal pre-play, a forward-looking declaration of what is ultimately true and real. In a world saturated with misinformation, fear-driven headlines, and digital illusions, this ancient psalm cuts through the noise and brings us back to the most foundational reality of all: God is. Not just that God exists in some abstract sense, but that he is our refuge, our strength, and our ever-present help in times of trouble. The psalm moves through three powerful movements: the promise of God's protection, the power of God over every earthly and supernatural force, and the presence of God among his people. Together, these truths form something like a divine warranty, not a promise that life will be trouble-free, but a promise that when trouble comes, we are covered. The call at the heart of this psalm is both simple and profound: reject fear, remember God's power, and remain in his presence. When we do, we discover that being still is not passive resignation but an act of bold, confident trust in the one who holds all things together. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@CelebrateChurchCelebrate Church is led by Pastor Noah Rollins. Our vision is for people to MEET JESUS so they can go out and BE JESUS.Stay Connected!Visit us at 1000 South Sycamore Avenue in Sioux Falls, SD.Website: https://www.celebrate.church/Celebrate Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateSF/Celebrate Church Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celebrate.church

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Welcome to the audio podcast of Celebrate Community Church lead by Pastor Noah Rollins. We hope that these podcasts encourage you throughout your week. To learn more about Celebrate Community Church visit www.celebrate.church