Capital City Biker Church

09/12/2026

Where Can You Find Love?

“All the believers continued together in close fellowship.” Acts 2:44 (GNT)

When you’re going through a tough time, there’s no one who can care for you like a loving church family.

It’s been that way since the beginning of the church. In the early years of Christianity, followers of Jesus faced a lot of persecution from the Roman Empire. Many of them were even killed. So they banded together and really took care of each other. They loved and supported each other.

There’s a biblical word for that support network. It’s called fellowship. Fellowship means we are as committed to each other as we are to Jesus.

The Bible says this in Acts 2:42: “All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer” (NLT). Another translation says, “They were like family to each other” (CEV).

Over and over again the church is called a family. It’s not a business; it’s not an organization; it’s not a social club. The church is a family. In fact, the Bible tells us to treat older men in the church as spiritual fathers and older women as spiritual mothers, and to treat your peers as brothers and sisters. In fact, in some Christian traditions, church members still call each other “brother” and “sister.”

What do you do with family? You accept them and stick up for them, even if they’re a little weird. You help them when they’re in trouble. You provide for them when they can’t provide for themselves. You show physical affection to each other, offering a hug or pat on the back when someone needs it.

And this kind of fellowship often happens in each other’s homes. Acts 2:46 says, “They . . . met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity” (NLT).

The early church grew quickly because of this loving support. Even when non-Christians didn’t understand Christians’ beliefs, they had to acknowledge that they loved each other really well.

In fact, nobody in the Roman Empire loved people like the Christians did. Acts 2:44 says, “All the believers continued together in close fellowship” (GNT).

Love attracts. When Christians genuinely love each other, you can’t keep people away. Are you offering that kind of loving fellowship in your church?

09/12/2026

09/11/2026

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09/11/2026

The Church Offers Truth That Transforms

“The truth will set you free.” John 8:32 (NIV)

Real Christianity offers life-changing truth. In other words, it offers truth that transforms.

What God’s church offers is so much better than pop psychology or self-help or inspirational thoughts. The church offers the gospel, the truth of God’s Word.

Jesus said, “The truth will set you free” (John 8:32 NIV). Until you know the truth (about yourself, about God, and about life and death), you’re enslaved. You’re enslaved to culture, to other people’s expectations, to peer pressure, and more. But the truth sets you free.

The church offers God’s truth, something you can’t find anywhere else. No other group of people has the truth that your past can be forgiven, you can have a purpose for living, and you can look forward to a home in heaven. No other message changes lives like the Good News.

In the very first Christian sermon, on the day the church was born, Peter said: “Listen carefully to what I say. . . . This is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: . . . ‘I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on earth below. . . . And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Acts 2:14, 16, 19, 21 NIV).

Peter then goes on to share the gospel with the crowd, summing it up in eight main points in Acts 2:

Jesus is God! His miracles prove it. (vs. 22)

Jesus died on the cross. (vs. 23)

God raised Jesus back to life. (vs. 24-32)

This truth gives us gladness, joy, and hope! (vs. 26)

God has sent his Spirit from heaven. (vs. 33-35)

We must repent and be baptized. (vs. 36-38)

We will be given the Holy Spirit. (vs. 38-39)

We must live differently from the world. (vs. 40)

No wonder we call it “the Good News.” It’s all good news!

Real Christianity offers life-changing truth. Accept it today, and you’ll never be the same!

09/10/2026

No One Sits on the Sidelines
Rick Warren

“I will pour out my Spirit on all people.” Acts 2:17 (NIV)

On the day the church was born, the day of Pentecost, God worked a miracle. He gave Jesus’ followers the ability to speak in different languages so that the people around them could hear the gospel in their own language.

People said, “We all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!” (Acts 2:11 NLT).

Through this miracle, God showed that the Good News is for everybody!

Today, we don’t need that same miracle because the church speaks virtually every language in the world, with believers serving in nearly every nation. I could take you to places with no schools, no big stores, and no government offices, but one thing you’d find is a church.

God probably won’t give you the supernatural ability to suddenly speak another language. But he has already given you unique gifts that allow you to reach people in other ways.

For example, if you’re a young parent, you might speak “parent of preschoolers.” Through conversations about diapers and bottles and play groups, God might give you a chance to share the Good News.

Or maybe you speak “CEO” or “truck driving” or “retirement” or “knitting” or “soccer.” Everyone has their own unique set of cultural “languages” they speak. And God can use your languages to reach a unique group of people.

In the early church, no one sat on the sidelines; everyone was a contributor. Peter quoted this prophecy to a group of early seekers and believers: “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy” (Acts 2:17-18 NIV)

God’s plan for his church today, too, is for everyone to be involved in proclaiming his message.

You’re never too young or too old to be used by God. No matter who you are, where you’re from, or where life has taken you, you have gifts, abilities, and talents that God has put in you and wants to use to share his Good News.

09/09/2026

Prayer Connects You to God’s Power
Rick Warren

“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” Acts 1:8 (NIV)

Real Christians don’t just talk about God; they experience God. And they’re able to do that through the power of the Holy Spirit.

That’s what makes the church different from every organization. Corporations don’t have the Holy Spirit. Governments don’t have the Holy Spirit. Humanitarian organizations don’t have the Holy Spirit. God has promised the Holy Spirit to his church.

At the birth of the church, Jesus told his followers, “Don't leave Jerusalem yet. Wait here for the Father to give you the Holy Spirit, just as I told you he has promised to do” (Acts 1:4 CEV). And later on in the same chapter he says, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8 NIV).

Jesus gave his followers instructions, but he didn’t expect them to carry them out on his own. It’s like he was saying, “The Holy Spirit is going to give you the power you need to do what I want you to do.”

Just after Jesus made this promise, he was taken up into heaven. And for the next 10 days, his followers waited and prayed. Then, on the day of Pentecost, God gave them the Holy Spirit.

There’s a direct connection in your life, too, between prayer and the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Much prayer, much power. Little prayer, little power. No prayer, no power.

If you don’t ever pray, I guarantee you that you’re not seeing God’s power at work in your life. And you don’t have the energy to get everything done that God wants you to get done.

A while back, I went to the kitchen one morning to make a protein shake. I was pushing all the buttons on the blender and could not get it to work. Then I realized it wasn’t plugged in.

Your life is the same way. You may be a Christian. You may be on your way to heaven. But if you’re not plugged in to the Holy Spirit’s power, you don’t have any energy to do what God has made you to do.

So, today, start plugging into God’s Spirit through prayer. You can pray about anything. The Bible says we’re to come to God as little children. Little children are bold with their parents; they just blurt out whatever is on their heart. In the same way, your heavenly Father wants you to talk to him about anything and everything.

The more you pray, the more you’ll find yourself connected to the power of God’s Holy Spirit and energized to do all he has made you to do.

09/08/2026

Serve God by Serving Others
Rick Warren

“God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings.” 1 Peter 4:10 (TLB)

Before you were born, God decided in advance what contribution he wanted you to make with your life. Ephesians 2:10 says, “God has made us what we are. He has created us in Christ Jesus to live lives filled with good works that he has prepared for us to do” (GW).

God wants you to serve him on earth. He didn’t put you here just to take up space, use resources, and die. He put you here to make the world a better place, to make a unique contribution, and to serve him with the shape that he gave you.

Nobody else can be you. If you don’t serve God the way he planned for you, then the world misses that part of the puzzle.

Another name for good works is “ministry.” Anytime you use your talents and abilities to help someone, you are ministering to them. The Bible says in 1 Peter 4:10 in The Living Bible paraphrase, “God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings.”

You know those talents that you may have been trying to use for your benefit? They’re actually not just for you. God gave you your talents and skills and abilities for the benefit of other people.

God wired the universe so that we would need each other. Nobody’s got it all together—but we don’t have to! We were created to depend on each other and benefit from each other’s gifts.

When you get to heaven, you’re going to serve God forever, so he wants you to practice now.

On earth it’s impossible to serve God directly. The only way you can serve God now is by serving other people. That means anytime you help someone, it’s like you’re doing it for him. You’re practicing on earth what you’re going to do in heaven.

Do you want to serve God well? Start practicing now by serving others.