Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church
Sermons from the worship services of Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Episodes
511 episodes since 2019
Lord, Teach Us to Pray
God hears simple prayers, for his Spirit searched our hearts and brings them to God (Romans 8:26). But, as we grow as disciples, we should mature in prayer. Our prayers should still have a child-like devotion, but the content of our praye...
September 15, 2024
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33:51
A Revelation to the Church
On one hand, the headlines of our day, on the other, the book of Revelation. Two worlds, as different as a hare-brained dictator and a seven-headed monster, as a terrorist's bomb and a bowl of wrath. How can one world speak to the other?&...
September 15, 2024
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30:26
An Enriching Attitude
Wealth presents substantial dangers for us all. And, lest we think we don’t have to worry about that, compared with the rest of the world, the poorest among us would be considered wealthy. And often, it is the kind of lifestyle that comes along...
August 25, 2024
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26:47
Providence, Blessings and Burials
It’s easy to recognize the presence of God when things are going well: the sun is shining, you have plenty of money in the bank, you’re healthy. But what about cloudy days, when the doctor brings bad news, or relationships seem to be coming apa...
August 25, 2024
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33:19
Watch Your Mouth!
“Watch your mouth!” Did your parents ever have to say that to you? Maybe you said something hurtful or sinful. In the 9th commandment, God says: “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:16). “False testimony” is no...
August 18, 2024
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23:45
Dreams Fulfilled
The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at Joseph the dreamer. Despite being able to interpret the dreams Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker, his own dreams had been seemingly dashed. Then, upon interpreting Pharaoh’s dream and giving a solution...
August 18, 2024
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29:07
Greed or Good
God brings a lawsuit against his people. At the heart of it is idolatry, but the idolatry expresses itself in greed and theft, a breaking of the 8th commandment. God’s call to repent in Micah 6 involves two things. Paul summarizes them well in ...
August 11, 2024
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25:08
Interpreting Dreams
As we’ve followed the life of Joseph, we’ve seen that God gave him big dreams, set him aside for His purposes. But Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt. The question hangs out there at this point in the story: are his dreams dashed?...
August 11, 2024
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28:01
Anatomy Class with Professor Jesus
What were once sexually deviant views have become mainstream. Ethics teachers will tell you that sexual activity outside the bonds of marriage is not wrong as long as it involves two consenting adults and as long as no one gets hurt. Even among...
August 04, 2024
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25:50
The Dreamer
If Abraham’s life was marked by faith (in experiencing God) and Jacob’s by the “scandal of grace” (God’s grace), then Joseph’s story is about dreaming and the realization of those dreams. Joseph’s life seems a living illustration of Romans 8:28...
August 04, 2024
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24:40
Pro-life and Pro-love
By age 16, a child has seen well over 30,000 murders on television or in the movies, and no telling how many as a participant in video games! Have they, have we, become callous to killing? What does it mean in the 21st century: you shall not ki...
July 28, 2024
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24:31
Family Ties and Tie-ups
Jacob heads back to Canaan, coming face-to-face with his brother Esau and re-settling in the promised land, part of the covenant promise. Over three chapters about Jacob’s messy family, we can learn some lessons: From Jacob and his family, we c...
July 28, 2024
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33:00
Honoring Our Parents
Paul has been talking to the Ephesians about relationships in people’s lives, starting with a marriage relationship and ending with one’s work (slave-master!) relationship. He notes that both are two-sided. In between, he turns to the relations...
July 21, 2024
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28:11
Thanks God It's Sunday!
TGIF, "Thank God It's Friday!" is a popular saying people use to celebrate the end of work's drudgery and look forward to the coming of the weekend, with all of its fun activities. For most, Sunday simply becomes the second day of that we...
July 14, 2024
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27:04
Scandal of Grace: Wrestling Match
Can you point to a key event in your life, a seminal moment in which the direction of your life changed for good? Perhaps it was a career decision, meeting your future spouse, coming into a relationship with Jesus Christ. We are goi...
July 14, 2024
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29:32
The Command of Truth
One of the ways Jesus dealt with the third commandment had to do with oaths. I would guess that's not a major issue in our lives today. Few of us ever have to take an oath in court, although many of us have taken marriage vows. But at the...
June 30, 2024
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25:56
The Scandal of Grace: A Tangled Web
As we work our way through Genesis, we've been looking at "the scandal of grace" - that God, out of His grace, sometimes acts in scandalous ways or allows what seem like scandalous things to happen. Thus far we've seen a second son chosen...
June 30, 2024
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32:13