Campus Christian Fellowship Sermons: Recent Episodes

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CCF is a Christian campus ministry at Truman State University. These are recordings of the teachings given at our large worship gatherings.

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Reed tells us to do it. You do not need to have it all figured out before you can try it.

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CCF Seniors share their wisdom.

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Reed asks us to consider if maybe the treasure is hidden in plain sight.

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CCF Seniors share their wisdom. And maybe a surprise announcement?

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Guest speaker Marty Solomon throws around the question of "Is the steward a villain or a hero?”

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Brooke teaches that it’s what’s not seen by others that is most important.

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Komar says that “Bro, it’s not about you.”

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Junior Lawson Huff reminds us that Jesus wants us to be a follower, not an admirer.

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Drohr muses that maybe there is, in fact, a treasure hidden in a field.

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Reed teaches that forgiveness is in our own hands

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Derrick takes a look at why we fast

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Reed breaks down the good news before the bad news before the great news.

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CCF Alum Chris Nation takes a look at how God made Himself known throughout his life.

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Junior Hannah faces her shame.

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Brooke asks the question of “How do you let go?”

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Derrick hopes you take the chance and dance.

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IFG intern Ethan gives the first testorimony of the semester.

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CCF alum Emily Gibson teaches that with every wander off the path there is forgiveness.

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CCF Alum, Kyle Oesch, teaches us that we are to live as courageous servants.

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Keevin invites us to become a person of persistent prayer.

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LeAnn Dent teaches that laughing doesn’t mean not believing.

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Reed talks the purpose of parables.

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Reed welcomes us into the next semester.

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There is no hope without the hopelessness

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Senior Leah shares the story of her “one thing”

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Brooke reminds us to focus on the now while preparing for the future

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Nathan Komar wonders about the importance of money

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Who is the true King?

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Guest speaker Marty Solomon, host of the Bema Podcast, gives his take on Mark 8.

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CCF Alum Josh Taylor shares his story

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How does donkey power equal the aroma of Christ?

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Student Intern Cora Stimpson wonders what it means to be childlike before God

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Keevin reminds us that expectations can be one of the greatest obstacles in our walk of faith

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Jesus asks us the question, "Who do you say that I am?"

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Derrick reflects on the world of creation

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Student intern Lawson tells us of the big "T" truth

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Junior Miriam Johnson tells us about her lifelong struggle

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Reed faces his own unbelief

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Stephanie McG tells us how Jesus restores wrecked lives

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Intern Robert Lee focuses on The Parable of the Sower

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Derrick reminds us that our identity is in Christ

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Reed walks us through Mark 2

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Derrick begins our new sermon series on Mark.

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Reed continues his introduction to CCF

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Reed welcomes freshmen to our annual Service On the Lawn

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Things change.

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CCF Seniors share their wisdom.

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CCF Seniors share their wisdom.

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Student intern takes the weight of the world off our shoulders.

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Reed’s nine entries for love.

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Alumna Hannah Scott tells her story.

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Student intern Robert Lee talks about the body.

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Senior Cora Stimpson talks about her beginning and her end.

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Student intern Emily Hlas talks about the body and the blood.

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Keevin talks 1 Corinthians 10.

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Derrick cries Hosanna!

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Bema Podcast Host Elle Grover Fricks stands in the middle of getting it right and YOLO Christianity.

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Reed makes an outreach proposal.

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Reed talks about matters of conscience.

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Junior Ellah Metcalf talks about her journey with celibacy.

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Reed gives free relationship advice.

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Stephanie discusses the importance of bodies.

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Reed goes from dust to dust to dust to dust.

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Komar talks about having the difficult conversations.

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Alumnus Jackson Page shares about his past of being abused and how the Lord has been putting him back together.

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Brooke questions where our sense of self comes from.

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Reed talks about building a temple.

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Junior Kirsten Boyle shares her testorimony.

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Derrick believes in this.

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Derrick opens our series on 1 Corinthians with a word on wisdom.

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CCF Seniors share their wisdom with the group.

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A dream. A vision. A friendly Saturday afternoon. An invitation.

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Senior MK Aurand has one thing to tell you.

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Reed sets up some forward operating feasts.

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Student intern Robert Lee goes back to the desert.

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Derrick sees the Lord and no other.

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Nat explores lament and justice.

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Senior Elizabeth Harness asks what the resurrection means for her life now.

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Guest speaker and host of the Bema Podcast Marty Solomon examines Micah’s case.

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Reed tries to find Jonah’s central question.

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Keev talks about the God who gets angry.

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CCF intern John Zielinski gets sin cera.

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Derrick just can’t understand.

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Reed is here. Our apologies for the poor audio quality — technical difficulties this week.

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Graduate student Curtis Halbrook finds out he’s not alone.

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Emma is not enough.

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CCF intern Shane Hawkins misses it.

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Reed tells the story behind Isaiah.

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Student intern Emily Hlas reluctantly gives away her toast.

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Derrick sees God high and lifted up.

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Komar talks brothers.

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Joelle lights a little light.

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Reed talks prophets.

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Derrick talks freedom.

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CCF senior Hank shares her story.

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CCF seniors share their stories.

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Guest and friend Phil Fartum asks, “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?”.

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There is nowhere you can go.

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Conrad’s idols smashed with a single letter.

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Do Not Be Afraid

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Reed asks why (again).

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Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

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Alum Lydia Donaldson asks who, what, where, and why.

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Alum Josh Huber considers a female metaphor for God in Psalm 131.

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Get some sleep!

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Brooke watches for the morning.

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Paulie G. investigates a ghostly light.

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Hannah walks the ancient path.

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Nate leaves the Grinch out of it this time.

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Nat considers the difference between helping and fixing.

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How long?

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CCF alum Owen Thornburg shares his story.

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Reed tells some stories we live by.

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Graduate student Isaiah Minner talks shame, silence, and solitude.

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Keevin gets lifted out of the pit.

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Derrick kicks off our semester of Sunday testorimonies by talking about his own vocation.

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Seniors tell their stories.

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Derrick gets the baby room ready.

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Derrick walks a narrow path.

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Reed asks some questions.

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Derrick can't make it out of life alive.

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CCF alum Chris Nation takes us on a walk through the woods.

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Reed reads a letter to his son about money.

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Keevin sees the pure in heart.

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Derrick walks us through a personal history of prayer.

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Reed talks fasting to feast.

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Derrick gets militantly nonviolent.

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Stephanie talks thirst.

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Reed tells the truth.

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Alumna Hannah Smiles speaks to and for the meek.

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Noah asks what really happens when you gouge out the eye.

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Reed mourns with those who mourn.

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Derrick smashes some windows.

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Nate is the holiday cheermeister.

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Reed talks blessing.

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Reed introduces our Wednesday series on the Sermon on the Mount, asking what abolishing and fulfilling are really all about.

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Derrick welcomes new students to CCF and asks us to think about not existing.

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Reed asks us to love our betrayers

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CCF says hosanna in the highest

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CCF student intern JJ Noa dances with the devil.

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CCF alum and unique human treasure Chris Nation thinks about what is beautiful.

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CCF alum (and upcoming staff member!) Brooke Barnes examines a fig tree.

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Komar presses on.

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Guest Phil Tatum, director of Globalscope, reconsiders what it means to pick up a cross.

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Reed gives his own testorimony.

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Reed asks just how far back and forward Ash Wednesday is asking us to remember.

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Derrick talks about being identified with Christ in his death.

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Former CCF campus minister Joe Belzer talks about what God is doing.

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CCF student intern Amara asks why it’s better to be in the world.

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Natalie is working out her own salvation with fear and trembling.

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CCF alum Tyler Mathews thinks about the God made man.

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LeAnn Dent observes a mystery.

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Keevin talks faith.

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CCF alumna Sarah Jensen shares how God transformed her anger into love.

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Derrick investigates idol factories.

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Ghost of Kirksville Past Noah Jensen admits that money can buy happiness.

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Derrick thinks about what the Word of the Cross means for how we speak it.

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CCF Seniors share wisdom and stories of how God has worked through CCF during their time here.

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Derrick talks about time — how we experience it and mark it, and what that has to do with Advent.

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Derrick talks about what the baby Jesus has to do with the crucified Christ.

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Derrick talks about what the crucifixion means for peace and violence.

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Reed follows up Marty's talk on repentance and confession with some thoughts on forgiveness.

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Derrick teaches what the way of the cross means for peace.

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Special guest and BEMA Podcast host Marty Solomon through the process of confession and repentance from a Jewish perspective.

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Natalie talks about the feet-washing way of Jesus.

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CCF senior Amara does some pruning.

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Reed talks about enduring suffering on the way to something greater.

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CCF resident old person Paul Gibson brings shame into the light of grace.

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Nate Komar looks at Luke's portrayal of Jesus as a prophet and his message of the kingdom in our midst.

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CCF alum Kyle Swetlishnoff talks about home.

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Reed asks what kind of power is in the cross.

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Leah asks honestly whether God really has abandoned us.

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Derrick walks us through the failures and successes of fasting, and thinks about how to keep everything (including media!) in its right place for a life of loving God.

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Reed tries to name what’s going on between us and media.

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Reed and CCF explore experiences of condemnation.

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Keevin talks fear and the cross from the Gospel of Mark.

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Noah Jensen, accompanied by cicadas, tells the story of what God's love does with neglect and abuse.

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Reed introduces our Fall sermon series on the crucifixion.

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Ally Holloway shares what the Lord taught her about comparison and rejection through Opera Performance.

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Derrick knows he needs a mouthpiece but then realizes YHWH has given him an even greater gift.

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Lydia Richard shares with us how she as a creator has been crafted by THE creator. Check out some examples of her work here and here.

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Keevin talks about Moses and the Important choices we make in life.

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Kylie Ostermeyer shares with us the beauty in the unknowns of her degrees.

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Reed leaves the lamp on for his boy.

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Keevin McGlumphry answers some questions and tells us about his time in the victor’s village.

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Jake Wendel shares with us the tension and intersection of faith and economics.

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Special guest Marty Solomon talks God going mobile.

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Brian Walker shares with us where he finds his passions alongside his Computer Science degree.

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Leah and Mere talk about the obedience of Shiphrah and Puah in the face of the death edict.

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Lydia Donaldson shares with us how she has learned to give glory to God as the creator of her creative writing.

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Kelsie Mitchell shares how Philosophy and Religion and Communication have influenced the way she sees the Bible.

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Reed attempts a kairological account of things.

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Derrick Rohr answers some questions for us all to listen to.

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Derrick reminds us to remember.

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Ivan Bossert shares the majesty in the obedience of biology.

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Reed had a plan, but ended up talking about God's offensive compassion instead.

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Rachel Whitehouse teaches us about how Christians are to scorch the Earth with what sets our souls on fire.

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Derrick learns to turn from pharaoh, listening for God’s voice, and living that vocation.

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Caleb DeWitt shares with us his devotion to both God and chemistry.

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What are we to do when Pharaoh’s demands have become our own internal voice? What might God do with us?

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John Jones expounds upon the intersection of history and faith.

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Reed and Moses don't see the glory.

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Reed answers some questions for the first podcast of the semester.

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Leah answers some questions for the last podcast of the semester.

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Derrick and Reed obscure and illuminate.

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CCF Senior Elli Jensen shares with us how God has called her to pause.

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Keevin encourages us to ask: “How am I doing in fully trusting and obeying God?”

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CCF Junior JJ Noa shares with us the ways the Kingdom is at hand in his own life.

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Reed talks election and kingdom.

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Erin, Lydia and Megan tell us about their experience being in an accountability group together.

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Derrick talks about what the Red Sea and Forest Lake share in common.

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CCF super senior 2 Seth Smith tells us about the spooky scary skeletons in his closet.

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Derrick reminds us to die.

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CCF Intern Elyse Ellis shares with us the struggle of feeling alone but being known by God.

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Leah takes a look at God’s response to the oppressed (as well as their oppressors).

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Mere and Reed share their top 10 podcasts they love.

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Tyler tells us about the “10 things I hate about… scriptures I heard as a kid.”

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Nate answers some questions that the Humans of CCF asked him.

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Reed asks about the mystery of priesthood.

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Mere answers 40 questions that the Humans of CCF asked her.

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Reed tries to carry both the virus and the rest in his body.

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CCF Senior Carson Lackey talks about the power of bringing Christ to the communities you are already in.

Click here to see Carson’s family.

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LeAnn Dent gathers up the mystery.

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CCF Intern Paul Gibson illustrates how uncertainty can lead us to the certainty of God.

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Derrick explores how to live with God in a world where nothing is ever really certain.

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CCF Senior Hailey Rupprecht talks about the ways God uses other people to reveal the good within ourselves.

Click here to see Hailey’s family!

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Derrick considers the beautiful, terrible freedom of God and asks what’s in a name.

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Mere and Reed talk about the new Wednesdays podcast series we're doing this semester!

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Reed looks at the burning bush and asks if our focus on the mountaintop has made it hard to hear what’s coming from the bush.

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Reed introduces our house church series "Dispatches from the Exodus" by looking first at the climax of the Exodus narrative and asking, “Does this story of deliverance and wilderness-wandering have anything to do with the world we find ourselves in right now?”

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Reed tells us about the ways his golden boyhood was stripped away in order to reorder his misplaced righteousness.

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Nate teaches us about the Spirit that isn’t bound to the dimension of time that was there with the disciples and is with us now.

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CCF Alum Sidney Shields talks about opening windows to receive the light of God.

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Keevin asks “How are you working out your faith?”

Listener note: if you want to check out the video he references, it can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USFFbwrNa9I

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Mere teaches us about the Holy Spirit and the ways she sees it moving through those around her.

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Reed brings to light the difference between Right-Handed and Left-Handed power.

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Leah expounds upon the perfect love that Jesus embodies that allows us to see the work that God is bringing to completion.

Listener note: The excerpt she reads is from "Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living" by Krista Tippett

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CCF Alumni and current student leader Robyn Schroeder shares about her “curio cabinet” and the power of vulnerability.

Listener note: The audio cut out towards the end of her testimony and we apologize.

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Derrick talks about how Jesus wins the Super Bowl (go chiefs) without tackling a single person.

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Student intern Dane Bossert asks us to reflect on what the gospel really is and how to respond to the chains in our lives.

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Derrick meditates on the tension between the miracle of Lazarus and the reality of death in our time.

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Reed introduces the series on Philippians by asking what is the good work that God wants to finish in us this semester.

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Derrick talks about listening to the voice of the shepherd.

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Reed and Mere have a short conversation about year-end giving at CCF, especially focusing on CCF alumni’s role in contributions. And this episode acts as the premier of our new podcast intro, featuring music by Devon Russell and the voice of Michael Anderson.

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Reed concludes the wisdom series by asking what wisdom Paul was talking about when he spoke of God’s wisdom hidden in a mystery.

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Nate talks about being blind to the truth all around you, and how you come to see in Jesus.

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CCF student Oluwaranti Oginni talks about how to respond with grace when the church is imperfect.

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Accusation. Lies. Shame. Silence. Truth. Freedom. Leah Dieker brings the message of John 8.

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Reed asks if the Whirlwind has another purpose beyond putting Job in his place. Note: all verses used in this sermon come from Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew scriptures.

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Mere preaches John 7: where do we find ourselves among the divisions of the crowd?

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Stephanie talks about obedience, missions, and CCF’s missionary legacy in the world.

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Special guest Marty Solomon of the Bema Podcast talks about Esther and the decision to stay.

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Derrick and Reed take a break from the sermon series to talk family business — with the one goal in mind to love God and neighbor, why does CCF do the things it does and why does it not do the things it doesn’t? What is CCF’s approach to involvement, discipleship evangelism, doctrine, and the gospel?

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Reed and his wife LeAnn sit down for ‘the talk,’ imagining how they might talk to their kids about sex when they’re college-age. We are often told, “Don’t have sex before marriage,” which is good and right, but the bible doesn’t say it quite that concisely. It’s more like wisdom than law, which means that, as we grow older, we need to dig deep into the wisdom of it to see why it holds true.