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  • Ep 158 - Mark 8:22-33 | Men Like Trees | Aaron Ventura

    Sin is always shortsighted. The devil always tries to make obedience to God seem impossible and unsavory, and the reward of obedience hardly worth it. But what Jesus comes to reveal in the gospel is that there is no other way to salvation, no other way to happiness, no other way to the Father’s House, except through Him. Jesus is the way of the Lord, and the pain and suffering and cross of this life, is in the Apostle’s words, “not worth comparing to the glory that is to come…the glory that is to be revealed in us” (2 Cor. 4:17, Romans 8:18). That is the eternal glory we must fix our eyes upon.

    Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

     

    39 min
  • Ep 157 - Mark 8:1-21 | A Sign from Heaven | Aaron Ventura

    Jesus is that one loaf. He is the bread. He is the multiplier of bread. He is the Creator of bread. And if Jesus is in the boat with us, if the leaven of Christ (the gospel) is in our hearts, then we have food for eternal life.
    So repent of your unbelief, seek not a sign from heaven, for the sign of salvation has already been given, Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

    Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

    43 min
  • Ep 156 - Mark 7:14-37 | Bread for Dogs | Aaron Ventura

    Jesus is the God who comes to show us the way of holiness. And if we would be holy as he is holy, then we must observe his teaching in this gospel:

    • First own up to where evil truly comes from, it comes from within. We must stop blaming other people, we must stop blaming our circumstances, we must stop making excuses for our sins.
    • Second, we must humble ourselves like the Syrophoenician woman, we must be willing to get on the ground and wrestle with God for his blessing.
    • And Third, we must be willing to have Jesus make us uncomfortable so that he can remake us, poke open our ears, spit, and touch our tongue. All these things He must do, if we would become servants of The Master, and sons of the Most High King.

      • Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

      43 min
    • Ep 155 - Deuteronomy 6:4-9 | Covenant Loyalty in the Home | Tyler Hatcher

      In this episode we have the pleasure of hearing guest preacher Tyler Hatcher, one of the pastors at Trinity Church in Woodinville. trinitykirk.org Pastor Hatcher spoke on developing covenant loyalty within your family tribe and gave four practical ways to accomplish this most vital of goals. 

      Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

      50 min
    • Ep 154 - Mark 6:45 - 7:13 | Secular Pharisees | Aaron Ventura

      If you don’t want to be ruled by Pharisees, crucify the Pharisee in your own heart. It’s not hard to spot a Pharisee out there, it is very hard to kill the Pharisee in here. But this is what Christ calls us to do.

      Our old man deserves to die. All of us have broken all of the commandments. And this is exactly why God came to earth in Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus is walking on water, healing the sick, and arguing with Pharisees. It is because he loves them.

      Jesus loves his hard-hearted disciples, and eventually he will open their eyes.

      Jesus loves the crowds coming to him for healing like sheep without a shepherd, and eventually he will save their souls.

      Jesus loves even the Pharisees, and he is going to take their best and brightest, a man named Saul of Tarsus, and turn him into an Apostle.

      So while it may seem bleak out there (and it really is) and wicked in here (which all of us must fight against), Jesus has the power to make us actually holy, actually righteous, and that is what his death and resurrection offers to all.

      Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

      41 min
    • Ep 153 - Mark 6:30-44 | Like Sheep Without A Shepherd | Aaron Ventura

      The gospel is that Jesus Christ is the eternal Word from the Father. He is the infinite God, made flesh for man.
      And if you want to live forever, then you are going need spiritual food. Because man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

      Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

      45 min
    • Ep 152 - Mark 6:14-29 | A Prophet on a Platter | Aaron Ventura

      If we want to become a faithful and honest church, where truth and love abound, then we are going to have to be a little bit brave.

      • We are going to have to first confront the wickedness and perversity in ourselves. We are going to have to repent, and put to death that little Herod and that bitter Herodias that dwells in our flesh. Our envy, our lust for power, for money, for reputation. The hankering for other people’s approval must die in us if we want courage to stand.
      • The true prophet is willing to lose his head for Christ. To decrease that He might increase.The true king is willing to lay down his life for the sheep, to face down wolves to protect those who are his.

        • Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

        50 min
      • Ep 151 - Mark 6:1-13 | The Carpenter | Aaron Ventura

        This morning we come to a new chapter and section in Mark’s gospel. So far we have seen Jesus perform many miracles and those miracles come to climax with the resurrection of a twelve year old girl from the dead (the raising of Jairus’s daughter), which we saw last week (that was how chapter 5 ended).

        • All through these opening five chapters, Jesus has been demonstrating that He has power to heal any affliction, He has power to cast out and conquer demons, He has power to control the wind and the waves of the sea, He even has power over death itself.
        • And the conclusion Jesus wants us to arrive at from observing these mighty works is that Jesus is indeed God, Jesus is divine. No one could do all of these things the way that Jesus does unless He is God. And so miracles are given as signs of Jesus’ divinity, and yet not all who hear and see these signs come to that conclusion. As Jesus said when he taught in parables, not everyone has ears to hear nor eyes to see.
        • This is especially true of Jesus’ own family, his friends, and his acquaintances back in Nazareth. And the question I want to set before us as we ponder this text is: Why is it that some people refuse to believe in Jesus? We know of course the big answer is sin, but what specific sins, what specific obstacles are there, for people to believe on the Lord Jesus?
        • This text is going to give us some good examples to answer that question.

          • Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

          48 min
        • Ep 150 - Mark 5:21-43 | Daughter Zion | Aaron Ventura

          "We don’t know the name of this woman. But we know that God calls her “Daughter.” And if you feel or have felt as this woman did, that no earthly physician can heal your soul, that there is a constant flow of impurity within you that seems unstoppable, and everything you touch becomes tainted with sin, then forsake yourself, and reach out in faith to the Lord Jesus. He alone has the power to heal you and make you pure. And He delights to adopt those with faith into his family."

          Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

          45 min
        • Ep 149 - How to Think About Parenting - Joe Stout

          In this episode, Joe Stout, elder at Christ Covenant Church, walks parents through some ideas on how to think biblically about parenting. This was part of a Sunday School class that took place on June 25th, 2023.

          Christ Covenant Church (CCC), is a local reformed church in Centralia WA. We are a gathering of saints who love the Lord Jesus Christ because He first loved us. We are a thoroughly Trinitarian, Biblically devoted, and Historically Reformed church founded within the CREC denomination in 2021 in Centralia, WA. Learn more at ChristCovenantCentralia.com

          1. Covenant Authority - Granted By God

          Proverbs 13:24

          He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

          Main idea: God has granted Christian parents authority (as viceroy) to raise their children and parents must exercise this authority (regardless of previous success or failures) if they desire to truly love their children and honor Christ.

          2. Faith - In the Promises of God 

          Genesis 15:5,6

          Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

          Main idea: Christian parents must begin by believing God’s Promises regarding their covenant children. Before we can implement effective and fruitful parenting, we must first believe that God has already promised to give the growth. 

          3. Faithfulness - Obedience to the Promises 

          Ephesians 6:4

          And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.


          Main Idea: Having believed the promises, if follows we treat covenant children not as pagans but as holy (1 Cor 7:14) and covenantally tied to their Heavenly Father (Deut 7:9). Parent’s generally and father’s specifically are called to shape every aspect of their children's lives from birth (paideia) with Christ as King (Joshua 24:15).

           

           

          39 min

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