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 ℗ & © 2010 Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church 720 Greg and Sarah (Sally) Livingstone were based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia until 2006. Since 2001, they saw the number of full-time workers among the Malay Muslims increase from 20 to 140. Together, they have spent over 40 years focused on bringing a saving knowledge of Christ to the Muslim peoples of Asia and Africa.  Livingstone was instrumental in founding both Operation Mobilization and Frontiers. He also served as the North American Director of Arab World Ministries and now assists the Muslim work of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Their partnership with their sending churches has led to the placement and coaching of over 1000 long term missionaries in 40 Muslim countries. Greg greatly enjoys helping churches send out their own teams “where Christ is not named”. His present venture is as chairman of the Libya Partnership of 28 mission agencies. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-luckiest-people-in-the-world http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-luckiest-people-in-the-world.mp3 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:31:56 GMT Greg Livingstone Greg and Sarah (Sally) Livingstone were based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia until 2006. Since 2001, they saw the number of full-time workers among the Malay Muslims increase from 20 to 140. Together, they have spent over 40 years focused on bringing a ... greg_livingstone,mission,matthew 26:30 Paul’s short letter to the Philippians is a gospel of encouragement. It celebrates the good news of God’s coming in Jesus Christ. It gives us many reasons for hope even when life is hard. Over the next six weeks we will be continuing our brisk walk through this letter, mining it for its encouragements, letting it shape our spirits, and leading us to deeper worship. Today in the Word we come to chapter two where the Apostle Paul explains what it means to live lives worthy of the gospel. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/living-the-gospel-together http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/living-the-gospel-together.mp3 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:24:37 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting Philippians: The Gospel of Encouragement philippians,paul,prison,letter 34:56 Paul’s short letter to the Philippians is a gospel of encouragement. It celebrates the good news of God’s coming in Jesus Christ. It gives us many reasons for hope even when life is hard. In the next seven weeks, we will be taking a brisk walk through this letter, mining it for its encouragements, letting it shape our spirits, and leading us into deeper worship. Paul, who is in prison, invites believers to take a step back and focus on the big picture. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/advancing-the-gospel-together http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/advancing-the-gospel-together.mp3-new Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:10:24 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting Philippians: The Gospel of Encouragement prison,hope,philippians 34:41 Our theme for the year is Jesus is Lord of the Church:  Proclaiming His Greatness From One Generation to the Next. Our Bible text for the year, which we will look at today, and will repeatedly turn to this year is Acts 2:42-47. It is a famous New Testament passage that gives us a picture of the early church and a reminder about what the church is supposed to be. Today in the Word we will highlight the importance of worship in the church. The word “worship” is not a noun; it is a verb. It is a verb that has to do with the most important thing in life. It is a verb which not only applies to Sunday morning but to all of life. Where do we see worship in the early church? How can we let it permeate our lives as God intended? http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-lordship-of-christ-and-worship http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-lordship-of-christ-and-worship.mp3 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:58:26 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting Our theme for the year is Jesus is Lord of the Church:  Proclaiming His Greatness From One Generation to the Next. Our Bible text for the year, which we will look at today, and will repeatedly turn to this year is Acts 2:42-47. It is a famous New ... lordship,worship,acts 26:56 Focus is very important at the beginning of the year. It is also very important in an anniversary year. It is very easy to get out of focus or to focus on the wrong things. As we move toward our 30th anniversary in the Fall, we believe our theme for 2010 will help us to focus clearly.   If there is one lesson we have learned over 30 years as a church, it is that Jesus is not just Lord, but He is Lord over the church - every church, and this church. Each generation, each wave of leaders, is entrusted a task of proclaiming His greatness from one generation to the next. Let’s continue to be faithful to that task. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/jesus-is-lord-of-the-church-proclaiming-his-greatness-from-one-generation-to-the-next http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/jesus-is-lord-of-the-church-proclaiming-his-greatness-from-one-generation-to-the-next.mp3 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:04:24 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting Jesus is Lord of the Church:  Proclaiming His Greatness From One Generation to the Next focus,anniversary,proclaim,faithful,generation 37:08 Our travels are not yet complete. We remain in the season of Christmas - it lasts until January 6. The 12 Days of Christmas…our culture celebrates Christmas on Christmas Day and that’s the end of it. Christians historically have celebrated Christmas for a season.   In this series of messages, we have looked at the journey of the human race (Genesis 3 and 4), the journey through messiness (Matthew 1), and even the journey through spirituality (Matthew 2). What follows most of the travels of the season? I’ll give you the answer in one word - normal. We get back to our “normal” routines. Now it is time to follow Jesus in a new year, through the normal stuff of life. Today in the Word we will look at what happened after Christmas. The journeys for Joseph and Mary and Jesus did not stop. They travelled to Jerusalem, Egypt and Nazareth. What happened next? And how do we follow him through Normal? If you missed any of the messages of this series, you can get copies of the CDs or listen to them online at our website. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-journey-through-normal http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-journey-through-normal.mp3 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:37:31 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting The Journey:  Spiritual Travels During Advent travel,journey,bethlehem,normal,christmas,12,epiphany 33:30 The journey isn’t over yet! Actually, though Advent season has come to an end, Christmas season lasts until January 6. Remember the 12 days of Christmas? Our culture celebrates Christmas on Christmas Day, December 25, and that’s the end of it. Christians historically have celebrated Christmas for a season. Sounds good to me! And, truth be told, all the events of the birth of Christ DID NOT happen on that first night. Take the visit of the magi, for instance. They came sometime later.  We have been considering the journeys of Christmas, particularly focusing on God’s journey to this world and the journey of our hearts towards Bethlehem.   Today in the Word we will consider the journey of those court scientists and astrologers from Persia. How did they know? What led them to Jesus? For many, the path to Christ leads first to an awakening to the spiritual world, and then to Jesus. That is the way it appears to have been for the magi. They knew about wonders, but not the greatest wonder of all until that fateful day they came face to face with Jesus. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-journey-through-spirituality http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-journey-through-spirituality.mp3 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:36:50 GMT Bruce Finfrock The Journey:  Spiritual Travels During Advent magi,journey,bethlehem,jesus 23:25 Journeys through the ages. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/journeys-christmas-eve http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/journeys-christmas-eve.mp3 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:48:42 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting The Journey:  Spiritual Travels During Advent journey,bethlehem,christmas_eve 25:57 Last week we considered the "Journey through Messiness." Today we are going to take another step on the journey and consider the importance of journeying through poverty and insignificance. We Americans live in a place and time in history where most of the people we know, including ourselves, flee poverty and insignificance as if fleeing from the plague. In its simplest definition, poverty is the lack of something that is essential for life. For us, material poverty is something we seldom, if ever, experience in the way it is experienced by much of the world. Spiritual poverty, on the other hand, is something we all experience even when we don't realize it. Years ago, Victor Frankl wrote a beautiful little book entitled "Man's Search for Meaning."  He concluded that the search for meaning in life is universal and finding such meaning is essential for life. Where do we find meaning in life? The Christian Gospel declares that the journey through poverty and insignificance of Jesus of Nazareth is the key to our search for meaning. Today we will explore how and why the experience of poverty and insignificance is essential to our lives and well-being. http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-journey-through-poverty-and-insignificance http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-journey-through-poverty-and-insignificance.mp3 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:44:15 GMT Dr. Marty Martin The Journey:  Spiritual Travels During Advent journey,gospel,poverty,insignificance 40:58 Christmas is a time when lots of people travel. We go on a journey. Airports are crowded. Families want to re-gather. Surprisingly, the earliest Christmas was full of travel too. In the Biblical account, everyone is on the move - the holy family, the Eastern magi, the nameless shepherds. This Christmas we want to encourage you to undertake a deeper kind of travel - a spiritual travel that takes you all the way back to Bethlehem. This journey begins, not with Travelocity, but with your own heart. Although our Journey to Bethlehem event is over, we are not finished with the journey. We take another step this morning as we consider The Journey Through Messiness. Many people work very hard to have a perfect Christmas. From baking, to planning family get-togethers, to the way we decorate our homes, we want everything to be just right. If it is “just right” perhaps maybe we will evoke the feelings of Christmas. The problem is, we can never get it “just right”. Life is too busy and more complicated than that. Today in the Word we are vividly reminded of the messiness of that first Christmas, and how God delights in working His redemptive grace in the midst of this messy, fallen world http://www.sermoncloud.com/CCPC/the-journey-through-messiness http://media.monkserve.com/EKK/1392/the-journey-through-messiness.mp3 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:37:35 GMT Dr. Don Sweeting The Journey:  Spiritual Travels During Advent advent._messiness,busy,christmas 26:10