Christ Restoration Church Sermons
225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 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 Final Public Appeal of Jesus
May 29, 2022 15:48 - 38 minutes - 13.2 MBJohn 12:35-50 May 29, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” ~ Jesus from John. 17:3 (NASB) “Since no man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation […]
Finding True Satisfaction
May 22, 2022 16:45 - 39 minutes - 13.6 MBJohn 4:10-14; 6:26-27, 35, 48-51; 7:37 May 22, 2022 preached by Mike O’Leary Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Sin isn’t just a lingering tendency to do the wrong thing, but a stubborn longing for the wrong thing.” ~Marshall Segal, Managing Editor at DesiringGod.org “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own […]
The Hour of Glory
May 15, 2022 21:09 - 34 minutes - 12 MBJohn 12:20-36 May 15, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “You may delay, but time will not.” ~ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~ Mother Theresa (1910-1997) “What are you really living for? It’s crucial to realize […]
The King and the Crowds
May 08, 2022 14:25 - 38 minutes - 13.5 MBJohn 12:9-19 May 8, 2022 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus did not come with sword in hand but with nails in hand. Not to bring judgment but to bear judgment.” ~ Edmund Clowney (1917-2005), Presbyterian theologian “It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. […]
Hanging in the Balance
May 01, 2022 17:42 - 32 minutes - 11.2 MBJohn 11:54-12:8 May 1, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.” ~ George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish author, poet and Christian minister “To be a true Christian is […]
The Resurrection and the Life
April 18, 2022 01:01 - 12.8 MBJohn 11:1-7, 20-27, 32-46 April 17, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955), famed theoretical physicist “Things aren’t always what they […]
The Surety of the Shepherd
April 03, 2022 15:17 - 11.9 MBJohn 6:37-40, John 10:22-30 April 3, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “[Many Christians] below the surface of their lives are guilt-ridden and insecure … [and] draw the assurance of their acceptance with God from their sincerity, their past experience of conversion, their recent religious performance or the relative infrequency […]
The Works of God
March 27, 2022 17:15 - 11.9 MBJohn 10:22-42 March 27, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will […]
The Good Sheperd
March 20, 2022 18:10 - 14.2 MBJohn 10:1-21 March 20, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the […]
Muddy Glory
March 13, 2022 23:48 - 14.3 MBJohn 9:1-41 March 13, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Endurance in the midst of suffering, not success, health, or wealth, is the mark of a genuine Christian life. Furthermore, it is faith and hope in the midst of suffering, not miraculous deliverance from it, that display most clearly the […]
The Place of Honor
February 27, 2022 17:17 - 13 MBJohn 8:31-32, 48-59 (ESV) February 27, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Don’t you want a little taste of the glory? See what it tastes like?” ~ an excerpt from the movie Nacho Libre “When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God […]
How Does The Truth Set Us Free?
February 20, 2022 20:09 - 11 MBJohn 8:28-47 (ESV) February 20, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. He did not […]
The Testimony of True Light
February 13, 2022 21:04 - 13.9 MBJohn 7:37-44, 8:12-30 February 13, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “I think we are blind. Blind but seeing. Blind people who can see, but do not see.” ~ Jose Saramago (1922-2010), Portuguese writer “Christ never failed to distinguish between doubt and unbelief. Doubt is can’t believe. Unbelief is won’t […]
Glass Houses
February 06, 2022 23:42 - 11.4 MBJohn 8:1-11 February 6, 2022 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations Sermon Passage “Don’t let religious-sounding reluctance fool you. When you plead “unworthy” and refuse to be served by God, you place your judgment about yourself above God’s. You say you would prefer to go it alone, and you imply that your […]
Let the One Who is Thirsty Come
January 30, 2022 21:11 - 12.7 MBJohn 7:32-52 January 30, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations Sermon Passage “I am restless. I am a thirst for far-away things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I […]
The Incarnation in Action
January 23, 2022 15:21 - 11 MBJohn 7:1-31 January 23, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If God is the creator of all things, and if the Bible has his seal of truth and power, then the Bible has the right to interrogate my life and culture, and not the other way around.” ~ Rosaria […]
A Call to Pray
January 17, 2022 16:25 - 12.8 MBMatthew 6:1-13 January 16, 2022 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Prayer is where the action is.” ~ John Wesley (1703-1791), English minister, writer and theologian “One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, […]
Treasuring Christ
January 02, 2022 17:41 - 14 MBLuke 18:18-30 January 2, 2022 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Treasure, that is what you are Honey, you’re my golden star You know you can make my wish come true If you let me treasure you.” ~Bruno Mars “For so blindly do we all rush in the direction of self-love, […]
What Child is This?
December 26, 2021 15:09 - 12.1 MBLuke 2:22-40 December 26, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Silent night, holy night. Silent night, nothing feels right.” ~ Sufjan Stevens (1975-present), an excerpt from his song “That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!” “Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s […]
The Simple Wonder Of Christmas
December 24, 2021 15:09 - 7.31 MBLuke 2:1-7 December 24, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Sermon Passage Luke 2:1-7 (ESV) 1In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his […]
Good Tidings of Great Joy
December 19, 2021 15:33 - 11.7 MBIsaiah 61:1-11 December 19, 2021 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 the more […]
The Coming of the King
December 12, 2021 21:08 - 15 MBIsaiah 40:1-11 December 12, 2021 preached by Scott Sottosanti 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 “There is no power without prayer, and there is no power in prayer without a resolve to endure all things for the sake of […]
The Promise of Peace
December 05, 2021 20:41 - 1 ByteIsaiah 11:1-10 December 5, 2021 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 the more […]
A Great Light in Deep Dark
November 28, 2021 20:20 - 12.7 MBIsaiah 9:1-7 November 28, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence.” ~ Dorothy Day (1897-1980), American writer and social activist “None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people […]
Thankfulness in Jesus
November 21, 2021 16:09 - 12.4 MBColossians 3:1-17; John 6:11-13, 27, 35 November 21, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “In contentment I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss.” ~ Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), American poet “Is that all there is, is that all there is? If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s […]
Life in Jesus
November 14, 2021 16:04 - 13.2 MBJohn 6:35-40, 47-58 November 14, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.” ~ Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), British theologian, missiologist, missionary and author. “Christianity […]
The Dynamic Draw of God
November 07, 2021 22:31 - 11 MBJohn 6:41-51, 60-66 November 7, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others, but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you […]
The Hard Words of Eternal Life
October 31, 2021 17:43 - 27.4 MBJohn 6:60-71 October 31, 2021 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Ultimately, nothing in this life, apart from God, can satisfy our desires. Tragically, we continue to chase after our desires ad infinitum. The result? A chronic state of restlessness or, worse, angst, anger, anxiety, disillusionment, depression—all of which lead to a […]
The All-consuming Call of Christ
October 24, 2021 15:59 - 11.5 MBJohn 6:41-59 October 24, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Sin is ironic. Its intention is self-exaltation, its result is self-debasement. In trying to ascend, we fall.” ~ Glenn Tinder, excerpt of “Can We Be Good Without God?” from The Atlantic Monthly “Authority in the theological sense is not to […]
Seeking Jesus
October 17, 2021 19:19 - 11.2 MBJohn 6:22-40 October 24, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The miracles were to the gospel as seals are to a writing.” ~ William Gurnall (1616-1679), English author and minister “The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the […]
Jesus… and an Impossible Situation
October 03, 2021 14:48 - 14.2 MBJohn 6:1-15 October 3, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “He [Jesus] must increase but I must decrease.” ~ John 3:30 (ESV) “A great man is always willing to be little.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American writer “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, […]
The Glory of God Made Flesh
September 26, 2021 15:32 - 12.4 MBJohn 1:14-16, 3:16-21, 5:42-44, 24 ESV September 26, 2021 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “He [Jesus] must increase but I must decrease.” ~John 3:30 (ESV) “A great man is always willing to be little.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 19th Century American Author “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so […]
The Presence of God in a Precarious World – Part 2
September 19, 2021 13:01 - 12.4 MBPsalm 46 September 19, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” ~ Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2002 “I give speeches around […]
The Presence of God in a Precarious World
September 12, 2021 23:56 - 13 MBPsalm 46 September 12, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “How desperately sad is the fact that the church is known by schism, not unity; ignorance, not knowledge; and indecisiveness rather than maturity. How it must break God’s heart to see us continue in such a poverty stricken condition in […]
The Precious Gift of Unity
September 05, 2021 18:48 - 12.9 MBPsalm 133 (NIV) September 5, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “How desperately sad is the fact that the church is known by schism, not unity; ignorance, not knowledge; and indecisiveness rather than maturity. How it must break God’s heart to see us continue in such a poverty stricken condition […]
Courage’s Inner Dialogue
August 29, 2021 18:48 - 15.7 MBPsalm 77 August 29, 2021 preached by Scott Sottosanti Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A man of conscience can never be a consensus leader. He doesn’t take a stand to search for consensus, he’s ultimately a molder of consensus. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and […]
The Work of His Steadfast Love
August 22, 2021 16:47 - 11.4 MBPsalm 36 August 22, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There is no other matter in which the heart is more deceitful and unsearchable. Alas, how much pride the best have in their hearts! Pride is God’s most stubborn enemy! There is no sin so much like the devil as […]
The Steadfast Love of God
August 15, 2021 15:11 - 12 MBPslam 36 August 15, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good… Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk […]
Turning to Hope
August 08, 2021 15:11 - 10 MBPsalm 16 August 8, 2021 preached by Daniel Garlington Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The pleasure of seeing God is so great and so strong that it takes the full possession of the heart; it fills it brimful, so that there shall be no room for any sorrow, no room in any corner for anything […]
A Song For The World
August 01, 2021 19:52 - 11.4 MBPsalm 96 August 1, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Mercy is given to be shared. And what it touches, it ultimately sweetens. We are to pass along what we have received from God – steadfast love, inexplicable kindness, overflowing compassion. We sinned against God and He responded with mercy. […]
A Song For the King
July 25, 2021 15:00 - 12.9 MBPsalm 96 July 25, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “God’s dynamic plan is predicated on shalom – the intended state of peace and wholeness that all of God’s creation is meant to experience. This isn’t peace as we Americans conceive of it, like snoozing in a hammock; rather, it […]
What’s in a Song?
July 18, 2021 14:23 - 13.2 MBPsalm 96 July 18, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “I doubt that there is such a thing as a measure of spirituality, but if there is, gratitude would be it. Only the grateful are paying attention. They are grateful because they pay attention, and they pay attention because they […]
Good Fear, Good God
July 11, 2021 19:22 - 25.7 MBPsalm 128 July 11, 2021 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the world always. Can man save your soul? No. Will man be your judge in the great and dreadful day of […]
King of Glory
June 28, 2021 00:18 - 13.1 MBPsalm 24 June 27, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The marvel of Heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation!” “As salt tinges every drop in the ocean—so does sin […]
Maturing Souls
June 20, 2021 21:54 - 13 MBPsalm 131 June 20, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting of ourselves into His place, to do for Him that which we dream He either cannot or will not do!” ~ Charles […]
You Can’t Handle the Truth
June 13, 2021 18:48 - 11.3 MBJohn 5:30-47, 6:1 June 13, 2021 preached by Robert Moore Download Time of Reflection Quotations “No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science) simply discloses to us the facts of reality to which theology must submit; rather, every discourse is, in some sense, religious. The playing field has been leveled. Theology is most persistently postmodern […]
Order In the Court
June 06, 2021 16:35 - 13.7 MBJohn 5:15-30 (ESV) June 6, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.” ~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and Christian apologist “This thinking for one’s self independently of God and His revelation… is a sin of […]
The Reflecting Pool
May 30, 2021 15:19 - 12.4 MBJohn 5:1-18 May 30, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A story is precisely the sort of thing that cannot be understood till you have heard the whole of it.” ~ C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British writer and lay theologian “Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences […]
The Sign of Faith
May 23, 2021 23:46 - 14 MBJohn 4:43-54 May 23, 2021 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The truth does not change according to your ability to stomach it.” ~ Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), American writer “Remove from the Christian Religion, as Christendom has done, its ability to shock, and Christianity…is altogether destroyed. It then becomes a tiny […]
A Deeper Well
May 09, 2021 13:53 - 15.9 MBJohn 4:1-30 May 9, 2021 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.” ~Quote from The Pilgrim’s Regress, C.S. Lewis, British novelist “The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without […]