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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A Faith That Works Through Life-Giving Communication
April 24, 2020 18:43James 1:26, 3:2, 7-10; Proverbs 15:1-2, 4; 16:24; 18:21a April 26, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Talking is the most dangerous thing people do, especially when they are stressed, and listening is the most infrequent thing people do, especially when they are stressed.” ~ Harville Hendrix […]
A Faith That Works Through Perseverance
April 18, 2020 20:04James 1:2-4, 12 April 19, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The best way out is always through.” ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet “I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.” ~ Marie Curie (1867-1934), French physicist and two-time winner of […]
Brokenhearted Hope
April 11, 2020 17:18John 11:1-53 April 12, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Guide for Home Worship 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 […]
The Arrival of the King
April 04, 2020 21:22Matthew 20:29-21:11 (ESV) April 5, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus had the guilty in mind when He hung high and stretched out wide…. He, bare-bodied and face set on joy, became as a slaughtered lamb underneath the wrath of God… Didn’t He know that […]
O Let Me Never Forget
March 28, 2020 16:58Habakkuk 3:1-19 March 29, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect […]
Earnestly Engaging God in Faith
March 15, 2020 11:57Habakkuk 2:1-20 March 15, 2020 preached by 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, it’s ability to shock, and Christianity…is altogether destroyed. It then becomes a tiny superficial thing, […]
Earnestly Engaging God in the Dark
March 09, 2020 01:02Habakkuk 1:1 -2:1 March 8, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Prayer is a moment of incarnation – God with us. God involved in the details of my life.” ~ Paul E. Miller, contemporary author “Even doubting thoughts and feelings that border on sin are better laid out before the gracious […]
A Faith that Works in Taming the Tongue
March 01, 2020 20:19James 3:1-18 March 1, 2020 preached by Don Willeman Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Ultimately, words have power.” ~ Toni Morrison (1931-2019) in “The Pieces I Am” “Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” ~ Unknown “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom […]
A Faith That Works Through The Word
February 23, 2020 17:35James 1:22-25; 2:12-13; John 5:24, 37-40; Luke 24:25-27 February 23, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.” ~ J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), English author, pastor and the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. “The deity of Christ is the key […]
A Faith That Works Through Compassion
February 16, 2020 17:29James 2:1-26 February 16, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” “…[Compassion] is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not […]
A Faith That Works Through Differences
February 09, 2020 19:48James 1:22 -2:13 February 9, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Jesus loved without discrimination, without looking at our worthiness.” ~ Tim Keller (1950-present), American pastor, theologian, and Christian apologist “The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty… The blessed ones who possess the […]
A Faith that Works in Obedience
February 02, 2020 20:55James 1:16-27 February 2, 2020 preached by Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Some of us live a Christian life as if we’re always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please… No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.” ~Kevin DeYoung, American Theologian and […]
A Faith That Works Through Temptations
January 27, 2020 02:26James 1:2-18 January 26, 2020 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent… that is exactly what discontent(ment) is – a questioning of the goodness of God.” ~ Jerry Bridges (1929-2016) author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators […]
A Schemer’s Blessing
November 10, 2019 17:10Genesis 48:1-22 November 10, 2019 preached by Scott Sottosanti 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. Our pain and longings make […]
A Peculiar Poem of Providence
November 03, 2019 20:06Genesis 49:1-33 November 3, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe […]
Living Within the Tension of the Transcendent & the Transitory
October 28, 2019 01:25Genesis 46:1-7, 27-34 & 47:1-13, 20-28 October 27, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.” ~ John Flavel (1627-1691), English minister and author “If […]
The Restorative Power of Grace
October 20, 2019 16:54Genesis 44:14-34; 45:1-9, 14-15, 25-28 October 20, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are… True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make […]
A Life Shaped By Providence – Part II
October 13, 2019 19:33Genesis 42:6-25; 43:16-34 October 13, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Everybody’s got their secret lives. All the way from the ocean to the desert, a million stories dying to be heard, but once they open up their mouths, they know they will never be the same again, so they hide.” […]
A Life Shaped By Providence
October 06, 2019 19:24Genesis 40:20-23 & 41:1a, 25-57 October 6, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “When I use the word ‘providence’…I mean that wonderful, strange, mysterious, unguessable way Yahweh has of ruling His world and sustaining His people, and His doing it, frequently, over, under, around, through, or in spite of the most […]
Jacob: A Schemer in the Grand Scheme
September 22, 2019 16:07Genesis 25:19-34; Genesis 32:22-31 September 22, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If you’re telling yourself a story Where the secrets twist like vines And you know where the bodies are buried But you can’t remember where you buried the mines… Remember, remember, it can’t be denied. Oh, oh, everyone hides.” […]
Raised with Christ
September 08, 2019 21:07Romans 6:1-14, Galatians 2:20 September 8, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.” ~ Brennan Manning (1934-2013), an excerpt from his book Abba’s Child “Death and resurrection are […]
Buried with Christ
September 01, 2019 16:32Romans 6:1-14, Galatians 2:20 September 1, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.” ~ John Owen (1616-1683), English theologian in Sin and Temptation “If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we […]
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
August 25, 2019 15:17Psalm 27 August 25, 2019 preached by Reece Brown Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Turn your eyes upon Jesus…” ~ Helen Howarth Lemmel (1863-1961), singer, hymnist and poet “It has been his experience, [David] as it no doubt has been ours, that time spent with God on such occasions is always well spent. Sometimes the […]
Leading a Prolific Life of Gospel Goodness
August 18, 2019 17:48Titus 3:1-8, 14 August 18, 2019 preached by Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “What does it look like for Christians to live out Jesus’ Kingdom vision in our daily lives? It looks like taking care of widows and orphans, advocating for the poor, improving economies, paying taxes, honoring those in authority, loving our […]
Love Story
August 11, 2019 16:151 John 4:7-10 (ESV) August 11, 2019 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “…you cannot truly repent of your sins without at the same time trusting entirely in Christ of the forgiveness of your sins, and your acceptance with God.” ~Thomas H. Gallaudet in The Child’s Book of Repentance, p. 123 “To […]