Cascade Community Church Podcast

God's Children and Heirs with Christ! The goodness of God is mind-blowing and the basis for motivated service. He draws us into His Kingdom with overwhelming generosity. Let's live this life getting ready for the next....it will be worth it all! Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

This week we continue our study in Galatians 3:36 - 4:7 where Pastor Jan Hettinga focuses on the amazing privilege of being adopted as God's children and invited to call Him...Father. We will be focusing on the goodness of God and what appropriate gratitude looks like. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Compromise. Confrontation. Hypocrisy. Nope - not a political drama. In Galatians Ch 2, Paul & Peter contend with one another. What's at stake? The purity of the Gospel.   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Today's scripture tells the story of how God interrupted Paul's life & brought him (and everyone else) to a crisis of belief. Galatians 1:11-2:10.  Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

"We talk about "rights" and "freedoms".  So does God.  But how we become free is a paradox.  The Free series will explain Christianity is different than any other religion.  True freedom is not based on what we do but on what has been done for us by Jesus.  Message one covers Galatians 1:1-10

Pastor Nate wraps up the Core apptitude series with a study of the church from 1st Corinthians 3. What is the church? Why are we "Better Together"? Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

3rd in the Core series, Pastor Nate leads a conversation on our value of learning to "Serve" one another in love.  The text is 1 Corinthians 12 and the morning includes a Serve Expo representing opportunities to get in the game. Continiue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

God gave Jesus to us setting the standard of what giving can look like. We want to be a body that looks as generosity as a moving target, always asking what more we can do to invest in the people around us. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

What happens when you become a follower of Jesus Christ?  How is your life different when you join a faith community?  What can you expect to see change?  This "Core" series opens up a conversation about what we trust God to do in the lives of fully committed followers here at Cascade.  This week's focus:  Grow. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

At the start of 2014, Pastor Nate talks about keeping first things first.  The place of Gods Word in our lives and coming back to our first love (Rev 2) are themes. Are you ready to live a passionate purposes life in this new year? Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Faith pleases God! We stand on the shoulders of great men & women of faith who have gone before us cheering us on in heaven. May 2014 be a year of extraordinary faith. Step out in faith and see God do amazing things! Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Merry Christmas from Cascade!  This evening Pastor Nate shares with us the mission of Jesus birth and His plan for rescue. See you Sunday!

Generous Love; Jesus tells the story of a victim who was fighting for his life. Three kinds of people saw his need. Who really "got" God's generous love; living it out? The good Samaratan is a powerful example that can be extremely challenging to live out. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Generous Life; At Christmas we give gifts to one another. Why? Because we're grateful. Today, Pastor Nate looks at the good gift of life that God has given us through Jesus! Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Generous Hope begins a new Christmas series.  This is a season of giving.  But why do we give gifts?  Isn't it because we're grateful for the people in our lives and what they mean to us?  God has given so much to us.  This talk covers one of the 400+ prophecies Jesus fulfilled.  From Isaiah 9 and Matthew 4, we learn of the hope Jesus offers by bringing light into our darkness.  Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Pastor Nate tells us the story of Naomi & Ruth from the time of the Judges. The Question: Is it possible that God has placed people in your life to move you forward in Christ? Who are you grateful for? Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Is Jesus Enough?: Pastor Nate wraps up the series with a final look at Jesus' statements in John 6.  Key thought:  When there are no other options, you find out if Jesus is enough. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

More than rules; How important is it to follow the rules? Pastor Nate discusses the relationship between rules & initially with Jesus. John 8 & the woman caught in adultery is our passage today. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

The Myth of the Comfortable Cross: This message makes since of the hard saying of Jesus; deny yourself, take up your cross daily and follow me. It focuses on partial convenient, comfortable christianity being a sure way to lose in the end. And, it brings us home to the eternal fact that centering out lives in Christ is the only way to win the ultimate prize. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Are we Fans of Christ or Followers of Christ?  Today we look at one of the factors that transforms us into Followers.  Are we choosing intimacy with Christ?  We look at Jesus' interaction with Simon the Pharisee and the "sinning woman" that both encounter Jesus.  We will learn that our interaction with Jesus remains knowledge until intimacy births change in our lives.  Are we Fans or Followers? #notafan Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.