Guest preacher Jenna Hughes shows that Hebrews 11 is less about our faithful character and more about the God in whom we put our faith. Readings from this service: Hebrews 11: 1-22 Psalm 42: 7-11 John 15: 1-5 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Ben and Alex talk about our place in the long story of the faithful people of God. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Alex looks at the confident assurance of hope we get through the living blood of Jesus. Readings from this service: Hebrews 10: 19-39 Psalm 143: 10-11 John 14: 6 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttlworth

Alex and Ben dig into some of the more difficult parts of chapter 10 and manage to avoid any reference to bacon. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Hebrews 10 shows that our deep need for moral cleansing is fully and finally met through Jesus’ atoning sacrifice. Readings from this service: Hebrews 10: 1-18 Psalm 40: 6-8 Matthew 9: 9-13 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Ben Hughes

From Hebrews 10, Alex and Ben look at how the sacrifice of Jesus will never be repeated, even if the discussion about it will be many times! Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Through the swirling, repetitive, and even seemingly contradictory language of chapter 9, Hebrews reveals how Christ fulfills and turns upside down everything they had ever hoped for. Readings from this service: Hebrews 9: 11-28 Psalm 68: 19-20 Luke 24: 13-27 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download o…

From Hebrews chapter 9, Ben and Alex try to explain the biblical structure of chiasm, by reference to bacon cheeseburgers. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Alex looks at the implications of the resurrection, and why, without it, our faith is futile. Readings from this service: 1 Corinthians 15: 12-22 Psalm 118: 17-24 Matthew 28: 1-10 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Rev. Ben delivers an insightful and powerful Good Friday message. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Ben Hughes

Mark’s passion narrative shows us that even at the cross Jesus is not a powerless victim, but a conquering King. Readings from this service: Isaiah 52: 13-53: 12 Psalm 22: 1-11 Mark 15: 1-39 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Ben Hughes

Alex and Ben walk through the radical changes that took place between Palm Sunday and Good Friday along with a few small rants about ceremonialism and a brief digression into a current motor racing scandal. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Nothing is built to last: from the Great Temple, to your new TV, even your own body. But our frustrations when things go wrong are because we were made for eternity. Readings from this service: Hebrews 9: 1-14 Psalm 95: 6-7 Mark 14: 53-65 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Ben and Alex discuss Hebrews 9 and the history of ... everything. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

The New Covenant secured by Christ offers newfound innocence, real connection, and a renewed heart for all who will have Him. Readings from this service: Hebrews 8: 1-13 Jeremiah 31: 31-34 Psalm 89: 30-37 Luke 22: 14-20 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben discuss how even under the Old Covenant, they longed for something new and better. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Christ, the king and priest of righteousness and peace brings us into unique hope. Readings from this service: Hebrews 7: 11-28 Psalm 110: 4-7 Matthew 26: 26-29 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Alex and Ben are joined by special guest Marian Ahlers to help them stick to the subject. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Hebrews 7 proclaims that Christ’s priesthood is more foundational, more authoritative, and more lasting any other. He alone has the power to transform our view of God and God’s view of us. Readings from this service: Genesis 14: 18-20 Hebrews 6:19–7: 11 Psalm 110: 2-4 John 8: 53-59 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit…

Alex and Ben finally talk about the mysterious character of Melchizedek who appears more in Hebrews than anywhere else in the Bible. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

From Hebrews 6, Alex explains how, with Christ, we can have the firmest of hopes, in the stormiest and most hopeless of times. Readings from this service: Genesis 22: 15-19 Hebrews 6: 13-20 Psalm 62: 5-8 Matthew 27: 45-51 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben are joined by Tami and special guest Debbie, in an attempt to keep them on track through Hebrews 6. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Hebrews 6 features a stern warning against the peril of abandoning Christ. Ironically, this difficult word is one of the ways that God brings safety and assurance to unbelieving hearts. Readings from this service: Hebrews 5:11–6:12 Psalm 131 John 15: 4-9 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our ap…

Ben & Alex discuss Hebrews 5 and why they are so dull. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Confidence in Christ leads to biblical reverence in the church Readings from this service: Hebrews 4:14–5:10 Psalm 2: 6-12 Luke 22:39-46 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Hebrews 5, confidence, reverence, and shrunken skulls Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

In Christ we look forward to a great homecoming and a true Sabbath rest. Hebrews 4 exhorts us to abide in Christ through faith so that we can enter it. Readings from this service: Hebrews 4: 1-13 Psalm 95: 6-11 Luke 6: 1-11 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Alex and Ben introduce an important theme for several studies in 2024: rest and how we can only truly find it in Jesus. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Alex and Ben discuss Hebrews 3 and the need for fellowship and rest. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Jesus, the ultimate priest and sacrifice, frees us from the power and fear of death. Readings from this service: Hebrews 2:1-18 Psalm 8: 3-6 Luke 18: 9-14 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Ben breathes his horrible disease on Alex while they discuss Hebrews chapter 2. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

Jesus, the creator and sustainer of all things, steps into our world to reveal himself and save us. Readings from this service: Hebrews 1: 1-14 Psalm 45: 6-7 John 1: 1-5, 14-17 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Alex, Ben, and Tami launch Season 5 with a discussion of Hebrews 1 and the progressive rock of the 1970’s. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di CCFC Clergy

The old man Simeon meets the infant Christ and finds in Him the fulfillment of his deepest hopes. Christmas is an invitation for us to do the same. Readings from this service: Leviticus 12: 6-8 Isaiah 60: 1-3 Luke 2: 22-38 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Zechariah shows us how freedom and healing make us fit to serve. Readings from this service: Isaiah 40: 1-11 Psalm 111: 4-9 Luke 1: 57-80 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

Before Jesus was even born, his mother Mary understood that His coming would invert the order of the World and offer new hope for sinners and sufferers. Readings from this service: 1 Samuel 2: 1-10 Psalm 34: 1-8 Luke 1: 46-56 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!…

Mary, Elizabeth, and John teach us that God’s decision to show up in our lives and save us is entirely an act of grace. Readings from this service: Daniel 7: 13-14 Psalm 132: 11-12 Luke 1: 26-45 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!Di The Rev. Alex Shuttleworth

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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di 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!Di CCFC Clergy