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Zechariah’s story shows how human fickleness can’t spoil God’s sovereign purpose to shatter hopelessness and replace it with joy. Readings from this service: Malachi 4: 1-6 Psalm 80: 1-3 Luke 1: 5-25 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Ben Hughes

As we end the church year, and our series on Revelation, Alex asks if we’re ready for the end of the world, and reminds us how to be certain that we are. Readings from this service: Revelation 19: 11-21 Psalm 110 John 12: 12-15 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben wrap up the sermon series and podcast season with the Last Battle in Revelation 19. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

John's vision of the New Jerusalem shows us that Christ has prepared a future full of community, divine proximity, and glory for all who will have him. Readings from this service: Revelation 21: 9-27 Psalm 84: 1-4 Luke 19: 41-48 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

In an apparent discussion of Revelation 21, Alex and Ben are briefly admonished by Tami for their foolish chatter on giant mollusks, the habitable volume of the Earth’s surface, and Turkmenistan. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

John hears five promises spoken from the throne of God that give us solid hope amid a hopeless world. Readings from this service: Revelation 21: 1-8, 22: 1-5 Psalm 122 John 14: 1-3 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Ben Hughes

Alex and Ben meet ostensibly to discuss Revelation 21 but get distracted by a distraction Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

In this bonus episode Alex and Ben are joined by special guests Jesse Egeler and Rev. Stephen Manyama to hear stories of God’s work on Ukara island in Tanzania, how their families became friends, and what God might be doing there next. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex asks, what happens at the end of the end of the world, and how can we find ourselves on the winning side? Readings from this service: Revelation 20: 1-15 Psalm 2 John 11: 17-27 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

In this special extended episode, Alex and Ben discuss the details of four different understandings of the end-times… in detail. You’ve been warned! Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

When you’ve lived in a dark place for a long time, it’s not always easy to see it, but Christ has proposed to set us free and is coming to complete the job soon. Readings from this service: Revelation 18: 1-3, 18:21–19:8 Psalm 46: 4-7 John 7: 37-38 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben discuss the symbolic evil of Babylon, its power over us now and its inexorable downfall in the end. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Alex and Ben discuss the new song of the people of God. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

In this vision of Jesus, the victorious Lamb, we see that our future in Christ is full of belonging, deep goodness, and wild happiness. Readings from this service: Revelation 14: 1-5 & 15: 1-4 Psalm 40: 1-3 John 4: 19-26 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

John has a vision of a Dragon, a Sea Beast, and a Land Beast, that together form a counterfeit Trinity – an unholy triumvirate offering a counterfeit Gospel. Readings from this service: Revelation 13: 1-18 Psalm 46: 8-11 John 15: 18-21 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben discuss the dragon and the two beasts, and how they form a counterfeit evil trio to blaspheme the Holy Trinity. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

From Revelation 12, Alex asks: what is it like before the end; and how do we find ourselves on the winning side? Readings from this service: Revelation 11:19–12:17 Psalm 145: 1-3, 10-13 John 17: 6, 14-19 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben talk about the woman and the dragon and the woman and the dragon... and the woman. And how salvation history tends to repeat itself until the end. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

From Revelation 7, Alex asks, who get’s eternal life, how do they get it, and what is it like? Readings from this service: Revelation 7: 1-17 Psalm 22: 25-28 John 10: 9-16 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Alex and Ben have a really really long conversation about Revelation 7 and a very brief one about Clint Eastwood. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

This symbolic vision of Jesus the Lamb opening the seven seals on the scroll of history offers fresh hope to weary Christians. Even when deception, war, famine, and death seem to reign, God’s sovereign purposes remain. Readings from this service: Revelation 6:1-17, 8:1-5 Psalm 56: 8-11 John 8:12 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on …

Alex and Ben discuss two more chapters of Revelation, the seven seals, and Johnny Cash. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

From the vision of Revelation 4 and 5, Alex looks at who God is, what He’s done, and how. Readings from this service: Revelation 4:1–5:14 Psalm 103: 15-19 John 18: 1-6 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Alex and Ben discuss the wonders of the lion and the lamb of Revelation chapters 4 & 5. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

We begin a new series this week, Revelation: Things Are Not As They Seem Richard Bauckham is right in calling Revelation “a work of immense learning, astonishingly meticulous literary artistry, remarkable creative imagination, radical political critique, and profound theology.” The book’s vivid imagery and bizarre symbolism engage the imagination a…

Alex and Ben introduce our latest series from the book of Revelation, discuss what it is and how to read it. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

What do we do if we realize that we’ve made a horrible mistake? Is there any hope of redemption or are we doomed to face the consequences? Readings from this week's service: Judges 11: 29-40 Psalm 104: 35 Matthew 14: 1-11 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex is joined by guests Kat Shuttleworth & Kris Kann to finish out the series on Judges. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

When Israel resorts to prayerless pragmatism instead of trusting the Lord they end up with a man who is competent, but not called. The Gospel offers a better hope than our self-reliance. Readings from this service: Judges 11: 1-1 Psalm 19: 12-13 Mark 8: 27-33 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download o…

Alex and Ben discuss Israel’s latest judge, Jephthah AKA "the Phil Collins of the Old Testament." Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Alex asks why we do what is evil in God’s eyes and what is His solution to our sin. Readings from this service: Judges 10: 6-18 Psalm 107: 17-19, 42-43 Matthew 6: 31-34 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Alex and Ben discuss the worst judge so far, and yet why he might have appealed to the Israelites somehow. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Gideon’s ascent to power and moral corruption serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder that we all need the cleansing power of Jesus. Readings from this service: Judges 8: 22-35 Psalm 78: 5-8 John 12: 36b-43 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben continue with the discussion of Gideon. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

God uses Gideon’s internal weakness of character and external weakness of circumstance to bring glory to Himself by miraculously defeating the Midianites with only 300 men. This reminds us that Christ’s power is made perfect in weakness, whether that weakness comes from our own lack of faith or from the difficulties in our lives. Readings from this…

This week Ben and a special guest discuss Judges 7 and God’s tendency to demonstrate divine power in the absence of human capability. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Parents often beat themselves up for letting their children down, but in the grace of God, sometimes it’s the children He uses to bring the parents back to faith. Readings from this service: Judges 6: 1-27 Psalm 44: 1-4 Matthew 7: 7-11 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex, Ben, and Tami discuss Gideon and God’s patience with us, even when we have doubts about his power. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Today we welcome The Rev. Canon Bill Henry as our guest preacher. Deborah, the judge, was a woman with amazing God-given gifts who provides us today with a timeless example of spiritual leadership. Readings from this service: Judges 4: 1-23 Psalm 83: 1-2, 9, 15-16 Luke 1: 46-55 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our…

Alex and Ben discuss Deborah, and God’s tendency to shatter our assumptions about what power must look like. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

The weirdness and edginess of the story of Ehud makes a profound point: that God moves in surprising ways. Readings from this service: Judges 3: 12-30 Romans 1: 18-24 Psalm 78: 32-35 John 19: 5-11 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh The Rev. Ben Hughes

In the latest passage to be released, Alex and Ben discuss the most toiled-humor-based chapter in scripture, remarkably holding back on some of the more childish jokes. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

We can use all sorts of strategies and techniques to improve our lives, but ultimate freedom only comes from the Spirit of God. This is good news, because His power is available equally to anyone, regardless of who they are. Readings from this service: Judges 3: 7-11 Psalm 105: 1-5 John 3: 16-21 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on …

Alex and Kat discuss how sometimes God needs to make the peace before he can keep it, sometimes even disturbing the peace in the process. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

God is consistently the God of grace, but sometimes, His grace, doesn’t look like we think it should. Readings from this service: Judges 2: 16-3:6 Psalm 106: 40-45 John 16: 32-33 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Alex and Ben discuss how doing what is right in our own eyes leads to conflict with others, and even with ourselves. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Oleh CCFC Clergy

Judges 2 underscores the importance of teaching our kids to know about God and follow Him. We fail in this calling, but Christ is faithful even when we are not. Readings from this service: Judges 2: 6-15 Psalm 89 : 30-37 Luke 19: 41-44 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben discuss Israel's downward spiral of syncretism and apostasy, construction projects, formula one, the original Italian Job movie and the difference between teaching your kids abstract truths vs showing them what you really care about with your worship. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Downl…

Although there is always a consequence, and often crisis, that flows form sin. God consistently offers, to His people, grace. Readings from this service: Judges 1:1-2 & 1:27–2:5 Psalm 106: 6-7, 34-37 Luke 6: 20-23 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

The book of Judges corrects our spiritual vision by helping us see the truth about ourselves and accept the truth of the gospel. Readings from this service: Exodus 23: 28-33 Joshua 24: 14-15 Psalm 101: 1-4 John 13: 36-28 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…