Christ Restoration Church Sermons
216 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChrist Restoration Church exists to honor God by fostering a movement of Christ's Kingdom through the proclamation and practice of the gospel that serves and transforms the Sunapee region, and through the Sunapee region the world. Find out more about our church at www.christrestorationchurch.net
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
April 22, 2024 14:04 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBselected passages April 21, 2024 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “[Self control is] control over one’s behavior and the impulses and emotions beneath it” ~ Philip Towner “Our minds are mental greenhouses where unlawful thoughts, once planted, are nurtured and watered before being transplanted into the real world of unlawful […]
The Fruit of the Spirit is Joy…
April 14, 2024 14:57 - 42 minutes - 29 MBGalatians 5:16-23, John 15:9-14 April 14, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “‘Evangelion’ (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word, and signifies good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that makes a man’s heart glad, and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy.” ~ William Tyndale (1494-1536), English […]
The Fruit of the Spirit is Love
April 07, 2024 18:07 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBGalatians 5:13-23 April 7, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed […]
Christ Lives…in Me!
March 31, 2024 19:04 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBGalatians 1:1, 2:20, 5:5; 6:14-16 March 31, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If the resurrection isn’t true, we should all go home. Religion makes a lame hobby.” ~ Jared Wilson, contemporary author and professor “The first Christian community had a strong interest in historical reality, especially the historical reality […]
Boasting in the Cross of Grace
March 17, 2024 20:09 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBGalatians 5:11; 6:11-18 March 17, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The radical gospel of justification by faith alone does not allow for a middle-of-the-road position. Either one must proclaim it as unconditionally as possible, or forget it.” ~ Gerhard Forde (1927-2005), Lutheran theologian “Grace doesn’t sell; you can hardly […]
A Fruitful Life with the Spirit
March 03, 2024 15:59 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBGalatians 5:13-26 March 3, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless.” ~ Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), English pastor and […]
Walking in Step with the Spirit
February 25, 2024 15:07 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBGalatians 5:4-6, 13-26 February 25, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We may take comfort about our souls, if we know anything of an inward fight and conflict. It is the invariable companion of genuine Christian holiness… Do we find in our heart of hearts a spiritual struggle? Do we […]
Steadfast Freedom, Part 2
February 11, 2024 15:42 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBGalatians 5:1-15 February 11, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints, but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.” ~ Timothy J. Keller (1950-2023), American pastor and author “In the kingdom of God, where God […]
A Crucified Flesh
February 08, 2024 15:30 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBGalatians 5:13-26 February 18, 2024 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The believer caught between the flesh and Spirit is also caught between death and life. That is what happens when God intervenes in a human life. That intervention does not necessarily bring tranquility. In fact, it is more likely to bring tension […]
Steadfast Freedom
February 04, 2024 14:30 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBGalatians 5:1-15 February 4, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We are much more concerned about someone abusing his freedom than we are about his guarding it.” ~ Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) American author and speaker “Brokenness is the stripping of self-reliance and independence from God. The broken person has no […]
Children of Freedom
January 28, 2024 17:06 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBGalatians 4:1-7, 21-31 January 28, 2024 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I […]
Gospel Culture
January 21, 2024 15:21 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBGalatians 4:7-20 January 21, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints, but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.” ~ Timothy J. Keller (1950-2023), American pastor and author “A Christian is a perfectly free lord […]
Gospel Freedom – Part 2
January 14, 2024 16:09 - 40 minutes - 28 MBGalatians 3:23-4:9 January 14, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “True freedom is to be one’s true self, but my true self is made for loving, and loving is self-giving. So in order to be myself, I have to deny myself and give myself. In order, then, to be free, […]
Gospel Freedom
January 07, 2024 20:15 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBGalatians 3:23-4-9 January 7, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “True freedom is to be one’s true self, but my true self is made for loving, and loving is self-giving. So in order to be myself, I have to deny myself and give myself. In order, then, to be free, […]
Behold that Star!
December 24, 2023 23:38 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBMatthew 2:1-12 December 24, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Sermon Passage Matthew 2:1-12 (NIV) 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw […]
A Hope Intervention Part 2
December 17, 2023 13:35 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBselected passages from Micah December 17, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and […]
A Hope Intervention
December 10, 2023 15:52 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBselections from Micah 2-3 December 10, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) in The Return of the King “If men will not understand the meaning of judgment, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.” ~ […]
The Eucatastrophe of Christmas
December 03, 2023 15:03 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBMicah 1:1-7; 7:18-20 December 3, 2023 preached by Mike O’Leary Download Time of Reflection Quotations “I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound […]
Cultivating Christian Contemplation
November 26, 2023 20:47 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBColossians 3:1-4, 15-17; Philippians 4:4-8 November 26, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection “The word meditate as used in the Old Testament literally means to murmur or to mutter and, by implication, to talk to oneself. When we meditate on the Scriptures we talk to ourselves about them, turning over in […]
Putting on Thanksgiving
November 19, 2023 15:51 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBColossians 3:12-17, Philippians 4:6-8 November 19, 2023 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ~Doris Day “…God’s command to be thankful is not the threatening demand of a tyrant. Rather, it is the invitation of a lifetime—the opportunity to draw near to Him at any moment […]
The Law and the Promise
November 12, 2023 16:48 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBGalatians 3:13-29 November 12, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me… but it can restrain him from lynching me.” ~ Martin […]
Covenants and Contracts
November 05, 2023 15:18 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBGalatians 3:11-29 November 5, 2023 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Relying on God has to begin all over again everyday as if nothing had yet been done.” ~ C.S. Lewis “In the same way, the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream flowing, it is God’s nature to keep […]
Through Faith Alone
October 29, 2023 23:20 - 47 minutes - 1 ByteGalatians 3:5-14 October 29, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “[Faith] is trust in God’s character and obedience to His living voice expressed in His Word. Consequently the object of faith in the Old Testament is the promise of God which awaits its fulfillment in the coming of Christ. Faith […]
A Gospel Interrogation
October 22, 2023 18:02 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBGalatians 2:20-3:6 October 22, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from […]
The Heart of the Gospel – Part 2
October 15, 2023 14:50 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBGalatians 2:11-21 October 15, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can’t save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.” ~ Brennan Manning (1934-2013), American author and speaker “The more we understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the more […]
The Heart of the Gospel
October 08, 2023 18:16 - 43 minutes - 30 MBGalatians 2:11-21 October 8, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.” “When the article of justification has fallen, everything has fallen… This is the chief article from which all other doctrines have flowed… It alone […]
Same Gospel, Same Freedom
October 01, 2023 17:53 - 43 minutes - 30 MBGalatians 2:1-10 October 1, 2023 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Paul’s claim [was] that the message he preached was the authentic gospel of Christ. It is this: two things on which Paul pre-eminently insisted – that salvation was provided by God’s grace and that faith was the means by which men […]
The Gospel + Anything = Nothing
September 17, 2023 14:58 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBGalatians 1:1-9 September 17, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The radical gospel of justification by faith alone does not allow for a middle-of-the-road position. Either one must proclaim it as unconditionally as possible, or forget it.” ~ Gerhard Forde (1927-2005), Lutheran theologian “God saves sinners single-handedly, He will not […]
Trusting in the Lord, Part 2
September 10, 2023 15:06 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBPsalms. 37:1-11, 27-29; Matthew 5:1-12 September 10, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We pilgrims walk the tightrope between earth and heaven, feeling trapped in time, yet with eternity beating in our hearts. Our unsatisfied sense of exile is not to be solved or fixed while here on earth.” “Don’t […]
Trusting the Lord
September 03, 2023 18:17 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBPsalm 37 September 3, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.” ~ John R. Stott (1921-2011), English minister and author “How many of our sleepless hours might be traced to our untrusting and disordered […]
The Source of Joy
August 27, 2023 20:14 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBPhilippians 2:1-11 August 27, 2023 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Sadly, many of the things that undermine our joy and happiness, we create ourselves. Often it comes from the negative tendencies of the mind or emotional reactivity…” ~ Desmond Tutu & Dalai Lama “Unbelief doesn’t see God as the ultimate […]
Waiting on the Lord
August 13, 2023 19:08 - 32 minutes - 21 MBPs. 25:1-5; 37:3-8; 62:5-8; 130:5-8 August 13, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If our hope is anchored in our own experience or efforts, we will never be settled.” ~ Rankin Wilbourne, contemporary pastor and writer “Contentment is far more powerful than a change of circumstances. Instead of being sourced […]
The Riches of God’s Revelation, Pt. 2
August 06, 2023 16:32 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBPsalm 19 August 6, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Americans have…a new rule written into their mental operating systems: Do your own thing, find your own reality, it’s all relative.…Today, each of us is freer than ever to custom-make reality, to believe whatever and pretend to be whoever we […]
His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
July 23, 2023 19:25 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBPsalm 136 July 23, 2023 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands” ~ Martin Luther (1483-1546) “Anyone who has looked deeply […]
Embracing a Life of Repentance – Part 2
July 16, 2023 17:36 - 37 minutes - 26.2 MBPsalm 25 July 16, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again after each stumble – because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, […]
Embracing a Life of Repentance
July 10, 2023 00:39 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBPsalm 130, Psalm 103:8-14 July 9, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “True brokenness is a lifestyle – a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life – not as everyone else thinks it is, but as He knows it to be.” ~ […]
The Practice of Praise
July 02, 2023 14:46 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBPsalm 150 July 2, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “One design you are to pursue to the end of time – the enjoyment of God in time and in eternity. Desire other things so far as they tend to this; love the creature, as it leads to the Creator. […]
A Prayerful Vision
June 25, 2023 15:29 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBPsalm 16 June 25, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The highest of all God’s commands is this, that we ever hold up before our eyes the image of his dear Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. He must daily be to our hearts the perfect mirror, in which we behold […]
Lead Me in Your Righteousness
June 18, 2023 22:58 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBPsalm 5 June 18, 2023 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A lowly person is a teachable person, easily entreated and open to explanation. Many of our spirits are too arrogant: they can teach others but can never themselves be taught. Many possess a stubborn spirit: they stick to their opinions even […]
I Will Remember
June 12, 2023 00:15 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBPsalm 77 June 11, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There is not one of the godly who does not daily experience in himself the same thing. According to the judgment of the flesh, he thinks he is cast off and forsaken by God, while yet he apprehends by faith […]
God for the Poor and Needy
June 04, 2023 17:21 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBPsalm 40 June 4, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” ~ Anne Lindbergh (1906-2001), American author and aviator “Man is never sufficiently touched […]
Life Following the Day of Pentacost
May 28, 2023 14:18 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBJohn 15:26-27, 16:7-11; Acts 2:1-4, 22-24, 37-38 May 28, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Look at the deadness in your life. Look at the anger. How is that going to be turned into forgiveness? Look at the insecurity. How is that going to be turned into confidence? Look at […]
John’s Definition of a Faithful Witness
May 21, 2023 19:49 - 43 minutes - 15 MB1 John 1:1-10 May 21, 2023 preached by Joshua DePasacreta Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.” ~ David Jeremiah “To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a […]
Life Following the Ascension
May 15, 2023 00:18 - 42 minutes - 14.7 MBJohn 14:18-20; Luke 24:36-53; Colossians 3:1-3 May 14, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.” ~ Oswald Chambers (1874-1917), Scottish writer and teacher “The ascension changes the way we understand our place in this […]
Life Following the Resurrection
May 07, 2023 12:17 - 41 minutes - 14.4 MBJohn 21:1-6, 9-10, 18-24 May 7, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If Jesus is not raised from the dead, nothing matters. But if He is raised, everything matters.” ~ Steve Lawson (1951-present), American pastor and professor “The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless […]
Christ’s Restoration
April 30, 2023 16:04 - 34 minutes - 12.2 MBLuke 22:24-32, John 21:15-24 April 30, 2023 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep […]
The Resurrection: The Beginning of the End of Shame
April 23, 2023 12:58 - 36 minutes - 12.7 MBJohn 21:4-19 April 23, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer “Guilt says, ‘You failed.’ Shame says, ‘You’re a failure.’ Grace says, ‘Your failures are […]
The Resurrection: The Beginning of the End of Doubts
April 16, 2023 13:01 - 34 minutes - 12 MBJohn 20:19-31 April 16, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.” “We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not […]
The Resurrection: The Beginning of the End of Tears
April 09, 2023 20:46 - 37 minutes - 12.9 MBJohn 20:1-18 April 9, 2023 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet-diplomat and politician “The resurrection of Jesus was a hidden event. Jesus didn’t rise from the grave to baffle his opponents, to […]
How to Bury a King
April 02, 2023 15:08 - 36 minutes - 12.6 MBJohn 19:19; 23-42 April 2, 2023 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.” ~ Saint Augustine “I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, […]