Cascade Community Church Podcast

We want to make a difference, right? But changing the world just seems like an impossible task. So we lose hope. What if we’re looking at evangelism all wrong? What if it were as simple as reaching ONE?   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.    

The Power of Self Deception. Today we wrap up the KNOWN series with the 7th Church: Laodicea. Steeped in self-deception, Jesus has some hard things to say to this body of Believers. Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Pastor Nate speaks from the 6th church of Revelation, Philadelphia.  Opportunities are all around us in the form of open doors.  How can we learn to step through those doors and follow Jesus into new places?   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Sardis:  The Walking Dead   Some churches have a great reputation. And some have been living off that reputation. Sardis had become a dead church of "used to-be faithful" Christians.  Their call to "Wake Up!" is ours as well   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

The church of Thyatira was doing a number of commendable things. They were in danger of imploding, however, by their unhealthy tolerance for false teaching and sin in the church. The minority of faithful believers are urged to persevere in that shifting sinful culture and are promised amazing rewards of leadership in the age to come.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

"Counterfeit.  Compromise.  Two words that the enemy of our soul loves to promote.  The church in Pergamum was located in the city "where Satan lives."  Pastor Nate gives a historical and comparative talk from Rev 2 and the 3rd church in the Known series.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Today you will hear from our amazing guest speaker, George Verwer. George is an Author and Founder of Operation Mobilization. Come hear George speak about Mystery, Mercy, Messiology and how God wants to use you!     Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Pressure.  Affliction.  We know what it is to suffer.  And Jesus has words for us in our darkest hours.  Pastor Nate continues the Known series with a message from Rev 2 and the persecuted church at Smyrna.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

The church in Ephesus had a lot going well.  They were the church everyone else wanted to learn from -- but they had lost their 1st love.  If you've lost your 1st love, what can you do?  Jesus actually has a very specific prescription!  Pastor Nate teaches from Revelation 2 in this practical talk.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Pastor Nate begins the "Known" series today with a powerful description of Jesus from Revelation chapter one.  The church belongs to Jesus, not to the pastor or to you.  His love for us is overwhelming and he has something to say to the church today.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Today Pastor Michael wraps up the Heavy Hitters Series.  We wrap things up by taking an inside look into the lives of modern day Heavy Hitter David Platt and Peter.  In the process we will discover the true unseen influences that made them who they are.  We will also find that maybe, the real heavy hitter in God's Kingdom... is you...   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

This week's heavy hitter doesn't have a name, just a job description.  He's Jonathan's armor-bearer and he models that "extreme circumstances call for extreme faith."     Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

The Apostle Paul was the greatest church-planter theologian in history. But what drove him despite failure and pain?  You might be surprised  as Pastor Nate talks from 2 Corinthians about one of his heroes.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.  

Enjoy a look at a life who radically turned into a discipler one he found Jesus....... Then had a significant contribution to the kingdom on heaven.     Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Some heroes are obscure, their names are hidden in history.  Obed is one of those.  He experienced the presence of God in a powerful way -- and it changed his life, his direction and his family legacy.  Pastor Nate tells the story from 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Jesus' epic statement "I am the way, the truth and the life," uniquely prepared the Apostle Thomas for the task he was to take on. Thomas' example launched William Carey to go to India bringing the gospel and impacting the nation.    Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

We are creatures of habit.  Faith often calls us to step beyond where we feel most comfortable and risk -- even if we don't know where, how, or why God is moving us.  Pastor Nate tells part of Abram's story from Genesis 12 and challenges us to walk with risky faith.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Rahab was a woman with a past. Her baggage included stuff she could control and things she couldn't. Pastor Nate highlights her story and the outrageous grace of God that changed her life. Because our past doesn't have to define our future.    Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Today we are going to look at the life of Keith Green and King David.  Both lives were marked by passionate love for God and His word.  We will look at 4 characteristics both men shared that kept them aware of the presence of God in their lives.  Listen as we learn to make this our reality as well.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

This message reviews the way Jesus worked through Oswald Chambers to accomplish His work.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.