CCRS Podcast

In today's message, Pastor Phil will remind you that as a Christian, your identity is found in Christ and nothing else! The world around you will try to tell you that your identity is found in your job, relationships, or what you can give to others... But when you choose to live into the identity that the world gives you, it clouds how God sees you and it clouds the path that God has chosen you for. When you allow Christ to define who you are, His righteousness is imputed to you and you're right in His eyes.

Perfection can be viewed as the thing you need in order for God to love you... And today, Pastor Phil will remind you that that couldn't be further from the truth. God loves all of His children, whether they're imperfect, trying their best, or breaking His heart. The truth is, that God knows that perfection isn't something that can be achieved in this life. That's why He offers believers His Holy Spirit to enable the power to fight sin. No amount of perfection grants love, God loves you and your journey to be more and more like Him.

The Old Testament followers of God went to offer sacrifices once a day and on the holy day of atonement. If sin was committed, they had to wait until the next sacrifice to be made right with God again... And today, Pastor Phil will remind you that you can ask for forgiveness at any time. There's no special time or place, all you need to do is confess your sin and ask God to forgive you. He promises that He will forgive! So the next time that you ask for forgiveness, be reminded of the blessing of talking right to your Lord.

In today's message, Pastor Phil will remind you of the good news that Jesus is coming again! He will return to the Earth to destroy evil, defeat satan, and bring true peace. For those of you who have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you'll be raptured. Raptured just means that someday, at any time, Jesus might decide to take you to be with Him before you pass... And at another time, Jesus will return to the Earth to fulfill the book of Revelation and restore the world to its original sinless beauty.

Since the fall of humanity in the garden of Eden, sin has proven itself over and over to be deadly. The consequences of sin, no matter how small, always catch up. All those nights of excessive drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors will eventually cause problems... And in today's message, Pastor Phil will remind you that because sin leads to death, forgiveness leads to life. When God forgives you of your sin, you're raised from the dead. Sin no longer has a hold on you because of Jesus.

For every impure thought, an unkind word, or sinful action, there must be atonement. There must be something to balance the scale because, without atonement, sin just keeps piling up and up until it crushes you... And in the Old Testament, the blood of animals was offered as a sacrifice for sin. Bulls, goats, rams, and doves were common sacrifices that had to be made daily... Because the blood of animals was only good for so long. The blood of Jesus is eternal, it is holy and makes us whole.

What would you do if you could do the impossible? Fly? Well in today's message, Pastor Phil will remind you that God is beyond our finite understanding of the impossible. There is no impossible for God. For every terminal diagnosis, accident, or bodily abuse, The Lord sees the impossible as possible, with faith. So while something makes look and feel impossible to you, please know that in faith and in prayer, God can do the impossible on your behalf. Prayer brings about a real-world change in an incredible way.

God is not a god of shame. God is not a god of shame, this is a message that many people need to understand. God will never shame you for your mistakes... He only wants to repair the relationship you have with Him so that sin is no longer the divide... And in today's message, Pastor Phil will remind you that God's forgiveness is unlike any other. God's forgiveness is permanent, He casts your sin as far as the East is from the West... And He sure won't bring it up a few months from now.

In the Old Testament, the levitical priesthood was appointed by God to go before God as mediators for the children of Israel. The priests would care for the temple and offer sacrifices as atonement for sin for the Israelites... But the Levitical priesthood was done away with when Jesus offered Himself as the eternal sacrifice for all sin. From that moment on, anyone who called on the name of Jesus for forgiveness would be forgiven and saved... Jesus is your high priest, you're a part of a royal priesthood.

The Law of the Old Testament appoints God’s priesthood to the tribe of Levi. So when the New Covenant places Jesus – from the tribe of Judah – as our new high priest, it seems to pose a problem for Jewish Christians. Today Pastor Phil walks us through a passage of Hebrews that sets out to resolve this tension. God made a promise to raise up a high priest who is outside the traditional lineage because He has always been and always will be greater. And, as you’ll hear today, Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise.