http://www.cherrycreekpres.org Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church Podcasts en Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church Podcasts Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church no Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church hjohnson@cherrycreekpres.org ℗ & © 2011 Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church 720 We welcome Dr. Don Sweeting and his family back to CCPC as we continue our 30th anniversary celebration this morning. The Sweetings have completed their move to Florida where Don now serves as President of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. His message this morning, “A Church Worthy of the Gospel,” is taken from Paul’s letter to the Philippians. His call to “stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the Gospel” is echoed by CCPC’s Mission (“becoming and making wholehearted disciples”) and Vision (being His “witnesses...to the ends of the earth”) which Don was instrumental in formulating. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/a-church-worthy-of-the-gospel http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/a-church-worthy-of-the-gospel.mp3 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:22:53 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting We welcome Dr. Don Sweeting and his family back to CCPC as we continue our 30th anniversary celebration this morning. The Sweetings have completed their move to Florida where Don now serves as President of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. ... The next three Sundays we will be celebrating our 30th Anniversary of having become a "particular" church in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.  Today our founding pastor, Mark Brewer, will be preaching.  In attendance will be a number of people who served on the Steering Committee and many original members of CCPC.  It is a wonderful opportunity for reflecting on the faithfulness of God in bringing our church into being and blessing us richly over three decades.  There is so much to be thankful for and we are grateful for the many people who have traveled long distances and those who, in many other ways, have contributed so much to make CCPC what it is today.  If you have made an extra effort to be here this morning, we want to extend a special welcome and to thank you. We appreciate the sacrifices you made to make this a wonderful church home for the many individuals and families who now regularly experience and extend God's blessings.  God bless you!! http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/30th-anniversary-celebration-sermon http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/30th-anniversary-celebration-sermon.mp3 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:55:37 GMT Mark Brewer The next three Sundays we will be celebrating our 30th Anniversary of having become a "particular" church in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.  Today our founding pastor, Mark Brewer, will be preaching.  In attendance will be a number ... Our Gospel reading this morning gives the account of Jesus' transfiguration. It is followed by the account of the healing of a boy that is as life-changing a "transfiguration" for him as the transfiguration of Jesus was for those who witnessed it. It reminds us that this is God's gracious purpose for us as well ... the day will come when we too will be changed and our physical bodies will reflect the reality of the inner presence of God's Spirit in us in a new and wonderful way. In the meantime, we are called to experience the "transfiguration" or transforming of our lives and character within ... a transformation that is and is to be as real and important as the physical transfiguration that awaits us in the future. In fact, apart from that inner transformation there can be no true fulfillment of God's ultimate design for our lives. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/two-transfigurations http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/two-transfigurations.mp3 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:33:16 GMT Dr. Marty Martin The Gospel of Mark “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” This is exactly what the Pharisees failed to do and their tendency is one that emerges in the history of humanity and the church again and again. The Pharisees took a tradition that emerged from Jewish ceremonial law and turned it into a standard for measuring “righteousness.” Being “right with God” became a measureable behavior (hand-washing) that no longer reflected its original symbolic purpose. When this is done, by Pharisees long ago or by us today, it becomes a barrier that separates people from the grace of God rather than leading them to God as it claims to do. Are our behaviors important? Of course they are, but if we make them a measure of how we stand in relation to God instead of grateful responses flowing out of hearts given to God, we make them the wrong thing. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/when-the-non-essential-is-made-essential http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/when-the-non-essential-is-made-essential.mp3 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:26:44 GMT Dr. Marty Martin The Gospel of Mark Where is God when we need Him most? Why is He so often silent? In our attempt to answer these questions, we are faced with both mystery and holy paradox. But as we honestly grapple with the questions, listening intently for the whisper of God’s wisdom, we may begin to hear what God intends through His purposeful silence and seeming absence. It is out of these times in which we strain to hear the voice of God that the greatest perception may come. They may become the doorway to deeper understanding of the will and the ways of God (Isaiah 55:8-9). Today’s Gospel lesson confronts us with our own fears, only to discover that just when we thought He was nowhere to be found, He was there all along . . . “I will never leave you or forsake you.” If only we learn to listen—to wait, watch, and pray, we may find God’s silence to be astoundingly articulate http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/where-is-god-during-the-storm http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/where-is-god-during-the-storm.mp3 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:22:25 GMT Bruce Finfrock The Gospel of Mark Today we celebrate our nation’s independence.  The freedom we enjoy as Americans is a great gift and it carries with it a great responsibility.  The accounts of Jesus’ sending out of the Twelve, the death of John the Baptist and the feeding of the five thousand do not explicitly address freedom, but they have important implications for our understanding of both the gift and the cost of the greatest freedom of all … freedom in Christ.  The account of John the Baptist is wedged into the narrative of Jesus sending out the Twelve and their returning to him to report what they had done.  Why?  His followers were learning both the extent of the provision the Lord makes for those who carry His Gospel into the world  and the cost of discipleship.  God’s gracious provision, freely given to us in Christ, and the high cost of discipleship are not contradictory, but complementary. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/a-kingdom-view-of-independence--freedom http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/a-kingdom-view-of-independence--freedom.mp3 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:34:14 GMT Dr. Marty Martin The Gospel of Mark Mark was the founding pastor for two church plants, has been the mother or partner church pastor for five other church plants, and has served as a denominational church planting director. Mark is the author of three books on church planting. Since 1998, he has served with Dynamic Church Planting International and is currently the Executive Vice President. Mark has trained leaders on six continents, in countries as diverse as Pakistan, Siberia, Egypt, Peru, The Congo, Australia, Ethiopia, Italy, Nepal, Myanmar, Australia, Colombia and others. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/why-plant-churches http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/why-plant-churches.mp3 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:59:14 GMT Mark Williams Mark was the founding pastor for two church plants, has been the mother or partner church pastor for five other church plants, and has served as a denominational church planting director. Mark is the author of three books on church planting. Since ... Our text today tells of the raising of the daughter of a man named Jairus and the healing of a long-afflicted woman.  In these episodes, Jesus further establishes healing as one of the central aspects of His ministry.  What is the relationship between healing, broadly understood, and salvation?  We tend to think of salvation primarily in the sense of going to heaven and being delivered from hell after we die.  Though our eternal destiny is an important implication of our salvation, it is not the primary focus of Jesus’ teaching and ministry.  We also read today that the people from Jesus’ hometown took offense at Him.  At this point in the gospel He has not specifically addressed eternity. Their offense was at the fact that He had wisdom and powers that they did not understand … wisdom and powers that were addressing the here and now.  This is profoundly important for our understanding of our own calling and purpose. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/faith-healing-and-hostility- http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/faith-healing-and-hostility.mp3 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:50:38 GMT Dr. Marty Martin The Gospel of Mark Everyone believes in something. Clubs, corporations and individuals all have statements of faith. Even the celebrated atheist has faith. But, is it a solid faith? Can it stand up over time? Is it big enough for the world? Can it endure disappointment? Can it hold up in the face of suffering? Can it stand in the face of death? In this series we are exploring one of the oldest and most universal creeds of Christians - the Apostles’ Creed. We have looked at Christ’s life, and His suffering and death. Today in the Word we will be looking at the exaltation of Christ - His resurrection to His promised return. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/on-the-third-day-he-rose-again-from-the-dead http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/on-the-third-day-he-rose-again-from-the-dead.mp3 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:16:05 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting CREED: Living By a Solid Faith From our study this morning we see that Christ was not only Paul’s reason for living but his resource as well. It is not hard to imagine the confidence that this produced in Paul even at his worst moments. Nothing too great for the living Lord could come his way. Nothing outside the will of God would cross his path. There are many people in our world today who would give their right arm for a philosophy of life that would give them this kind of sufficiency and confidence. There was also the shadow of the executioner falling across the entrance to Paul’s cell, so he had to do more than prepare for the eventualities of life. He had to come up with some answers for death as well. While life is full of possibilities, death is full of certainty. Paul was as realistic and sincere about death as he was about life when he said, “To die is gain.” Death for him was not the ultimate tragedy. It was but a brief intermission between act I and act II of the story of his existence. Given the fact that Paul’s statement about living and dying is separated by a simple comma, we are reminded about the shortness of life and begs the question of what we are doing with it. This morning’s message will not only challenge us with that thought in mind, but will inspire and renew our hope in what lies ahead on the other side of the comma. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/for-me-to-live-is- http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/for-me-to-live-is-.mp3 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:02:05 GMT Bruce Finfrock Philippians: The Gospel of Encouragement