Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church Sermons
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Psalm 46
Pastor Don will be preaching on Psalm 46 - the psalm which inspired Luther’s great hymn. It is a psalm for troubled times. There will be readings from Romans 1.16,17 and 3.21-26. This was the passage that helped Martin Luther rediscover the Gospel. If you are a bit overwhelmed by all the instability of life these days, we encourage you to live in Psalm 46.
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Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus
This morning we welcome to our pulpit Elisèe Ouoba from Burkina Faso, West Africa. He is here for the Global Church Tour. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in New Testament at Wheaton Graduate School. Today in the Word Elisèe will be speaking on “Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus†from Luke 23.26-43
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The Fear of Failure
In the 11:00 service Brad Meuli will be speaking on “The Fear of Failure.†His scripture reading is Psalm 121:1,2. Brad left a very successful banking career to answer what he believed was a call on his life by the Lord telling him that He had work for him to do. Brad was obedient to this call and is the President/CEO of the Denver Rescue Mission
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Being in Mission - The Best is yet to Come
In the 8:30 service Dr. Bob Cutillo will be speaking on "Being in Mission: The Best is Yet to Come. Scripture reading is Luke 10:33. Since 1999, Dr. Cutillo has been the Medical Director at InnerCity Health Center in Denver, CO, a Christ-centered health clinic for primarily uninsured and Medicaid populations from numerous cultural contexts, which opened its doors in 1983 and is now seeing over 20,000 visits per year.
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Stewardship of the Kingdom
The word “stewardship†is usually associated with pleas for money in the church today. It is often connected with tithing, the ancient, but perennially applicable, biblical practice of giving back the first 10% of all that God has given us. It is sometimes connected not only with our “treasure,†but our “time and talents†as well. It is seldom seen, as today’s gospel reading portrays it, as the comprehensive corporate responsibility for producing the fruit of the Kingdom of God. What about Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church? We have a wonderful history of producing the fruit of the Kingdom, but this morning’s Scripture reminds us that that is no guarantee for the future; rather, it is an ongoing responsibility that we see to fulfill by the faithful pursuit of our God-given mission and vision.
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Christian Liberty: Handling Those Disputable Matters
The heart of this freedom letter tells us that we are free in Jesus Christ. But what does this freedom mean? How is it lived out? What does Christian liberty look like in the church? Today in the Word we will be looking at the issue of how we deal with what Romans 14 calls “disputable mattersâ€. The truth is, there was division over disputable matters in the early church in Rome. Part of Paul’s purpose for writing this letter to the Romans was to get them back on track. For us, the truth is, we still wrestle with this very issue. What is it that causes divisions in the church? So often it is in the area of non-essentials—the disputable matters.
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The Best Part of Waking Up
Love is our debt to one another. Is it really that simple? Why this emphasis on love? John answered that question for us: “We love because [God] first loved us†(1 Jn 4:19). What’s more, God is love (1 Jn. 4:7). In loving one another, then, we have communion with God himself. “Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God†(1 Jn. 4:7). To love God, we have to love one another. In loving one another, we really love God (1 Jn. 4:21). We as humans sinned and fell forever away from God. Yet God’s love for us is the greatest there can be. He spared no expense in his efforts to bring all creation back into relationship with him. We can never completely repay that debt to God. “It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.†–Eric Hoffer
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God-Sized Thoughts on Life, Politics, and Government for Romans, Republicans, Democrats, Anarchists, and Christians
The conventions are now over. We have two intense months left until our national election. We are thinking about life and government. The question is are we thinking God-sized thoughts about life and government? Today in the Word we will continue our study of Romans by looking at the early verses of chapter 13. This is not the first time in the Book of Romans that God addresses some basic political questions, but it is one of the most well-known passages in the Bible on the subject of government.
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Our Competence is from God
Scott is the Associate Regional Director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship on 7 different college campuses in the Rocky Mountain Region. His wife Connie trains and shepherds graduates who are now missionaries with Servant Partners which serves some of the poorest slums in the world. Their work with students and graduates takes them up and down the Rocky Mountains, and around the world to places like Kenya, Manila, and Mexico City. They live in Boulder and have three beautiful children, including a girl they adopted from East Africa.
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The Hinge of Faith
Christian faith and doctrine are important only to the extent that they are lived out in the life of the believer. Paul in his letter to the Romans makes abundantly clear what the book of James underscores, that “faith without works is dead.†This morning we come to the twelfth chapter of Romans where Paul turns his attention away from sound doctrine to sound practice. In the same way that a hinge holds together two moveable parts, Paul, with his use of the word “therefore†begins to reveal what true Christian faith looks like. George Barna has concluded from much of his research, that the single biggest reason for non-believers not coming to faith in Christ, is because to them, there is no discernable difference. When our system of belief is inconsistent with our actions, it’s like taking the pin out of a hinge-not only does it cease to function as it should, but it quite literally falls apart. Listen to what Paul has to say in these first two verses as paraphrased by Eugene Peterson: “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.â€
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