Clear River Podcast

Habakkuk: Help!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:26:00 -0500

Scripture : Habakkuk 1:1  Part of our series on the Minor Prophets, this message deals with the prophet Habakkuk. How to respond when God acts in ways we don't understand.

Obadiah: Making God Your Enemy

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:24:14 -0500

Series : The Minor Prophets  Part of our series on the Minor Prophets, this message deals with the prophet Obadiah and what it means to be an enemy of God

Zephaniah: The Glad God

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:21:38 -0500

Series : The Minor Prophets  Part of our series on the Minor Prophets, this message deals with the prophet Zephaniah and tackles questions of God's wrath and anger.

Nahum: He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands - Video

Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:14:36 -0500

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is drawn from the Prophet Nahum and recorded at Glacier National Park in Montana.

Nahum: He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands - Audio

Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:12:20 -0500

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is drawn from the Prophet Nahum and recorded at Glacier National Park in Montana.

Micah: Where is Your Hope

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:03:56 -0400

Scripture : Micah 4:1-7  From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is drawn from the Prophet Micah.

Hosea: The Battle Cry of Love, Part 3

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:01:11 -0400

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is part 3 of Hosea: The Battle Cry of Love...

Hosea: The Battle Cry of Love, Part 2

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:59:34 -0400

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is part 2 of Hosea: The Battle Cry of Love

Hosea: The Battle Cry of Love

Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:59:26 -0400

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is on the prophet Hosea...

Amos : Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:52:47 -0400

From our series on Majoring in the Minors: 12 Ways to Say A Deeper Yes to the Love of God. This message is on the prophet Amos

Majoring on the Minors - “I Am Jonah”

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:43:36 -0400

Jeff takes a look at Jonah.

Majoring on the Minors - Intro

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:41:37 -0400

Jeff begins a new series this week looking at the Minor Prophets.

Abide

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 19:07:21 -0400

David teaches us this morning from John 15.

One of these things is not like the other...

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:22:36 -0400

Bob shares this morning about the average church goer.

Mary Skow

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:04:13 -0400

Mary Skow teaches us this morning.

The Grand Narrative

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:08:31 -0400

Mark Weaver shares with us this morning about “The Grand Narrative” or “The Big Story”.

Loving God

Sun, 7 Aug 2011 19:59:10 -0400

Paul Kraft teaches this morning from Romans.

Bob Daknis

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:57:38 -0400

Bob teaches this morning from Philippians.

The Glorious Shield of Faith

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 16:23:27 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans.

This week: Romans 8:31–39

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

(Romans 8:31–39 ESV)

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:00:31 -0400

The Gifts of the Spirit’s Perseverance

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:50:45 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans.

This week: Romans 8:26-30

“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.”

(Romans 8:26–30 ESV)

The Gifts of Prayer, Perseverance and Purpose - part 3

Sun, 29 May 2011 18:07:44 -0400

The Gifts of Prayer, Perseverance and Purpose - part 2

Sun, 22 May 2011 19:14:02 -0400

Randy Young

Sun, 15 May 2011 19:55:45 -0400

We have a guest speaker this weekend. Randy Young joined us for our Men’s retreat and stayed to be with us on Sunday morning. He shares with us about the work he is doing in South America.

The Gifts of Prayer, Perseverance and Purpose

Sun, 1 May 2011 19:10:20 -0400

What Got Him Out of His Grave Can Get You Out of Yours!

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:47:31 -0400

Jeff shares an Easter message this morning:

Romans 11

“I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written,
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”

And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them; let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs forever.”

So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers:a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
“and this will be my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”

As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
or who has been his counselor?”
“Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.”

(Romans 11:1–36 ESV)

The Deepest Desire

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:08:59 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:18-27

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

(Romans 8:18–27 ESV) For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.”

(Romans 8:18–27 ESV)

No podcast this week

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:27:48 -0400

Due to some technical problems the sermon was not recorded this week. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Children of God

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 19:59:20 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:12-17

“So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

(Romans 8:12–17 ESV)

Make It Yours

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:40:36 -0400

Jeff talks to us this morning about the importance of memorizing scripture.

Romans 8:12-17 & 2 Timothy 3-17

Please follow this link to a YouTube video.
John Piper - Why Memorize Scripture?

Life In The Spirit

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:55:02 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:12-25

“So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”

(Romans 8:12–25 ESV)

Assurance

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:44:28 -0400

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:1-17

The Spirit of Life

Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:21:28 -0500

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:1-17

Life in the Spirit

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:07:32 -0500

Jeff continues looking at Romans. This week:
Romans 8:1-11

Romans Review: “No Condemnation”

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:05:34 -0500

Jeff gets us back up to speed on Romans

The On Ramp to Romans 3

Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:38:20 -0500

Jeff gets us back up to speed on Romans

The On Ramp to Romans 2

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:37:18 -0500

Jeff gets us back up to speed on Romans

The On Ramp to Romans 1

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:35:12 -0500

Jeff gets us back up to speed on Romans

(Apologies for the abrupt cut off - we had a faulty microphone this week.)

Romans Refresher

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:47:21 -0500

Jeff goes back into Romans after taking a couple of months off.

Understanding

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:46:01 -0500

Jeff speaks to us today about the importance of knowing and understanding God’s word.

Partnership

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 19:27:33 -0500

Jeff speaks to us today about the power of partnership.

Christmas 2010

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:20:08 -0500

Merry Christmas!

Advent Week 4

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:07:16 -0500

Fourth Sunday in Advent.

Advent Week 2

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:02:19 -0500

Second Sunday in Advent.

Advent Week 1

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:50:24 -0500

First Sunday in Advent.
Jeff shares about his trip to Columbia

God the Son

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:43:44 -0500

David Trujillo speaks this morning about who Jesus is.

Two Ways to Live - Week 7

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:53:08 -0500

“Two Ways to Live” Week 7

Two Ways to Live - Week 6

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:40:07 -0400

“Two Ways to Live” Week 6

Two Ways to Live - Week 4

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:52:42 -0400

“Two Ways to Live” Week 4

Two Ways to Live - Week 3

Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:07:58 -0400

“Two Ways to Live” Week 3