Cascade Community Church Podcast

When God gives you a dream it is for powerful motivation. He invites us all into His plan to win the biggest game of all! Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

What happens when you pray?  Actually, A LOT more than we realize!  Daniel 10 reveals some amazing stuff going on behind the scenes when we talk to God.  Join the conversation as Pastor Nate concludes the Courage series this week.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Sometimes leadership looks like prayer.  Daniel teaches us in chapter 9 how to lead God's people out of Babylon by owning sin, choosing humility and crying out to God. Pastor Nate brings this Father's Day message.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Daniel is most known for his night in the lion's den.  How did he get there?  Was it avoidable?  Are we headed for a similar fate?  Pastor Nate draws life lessons from Daniel chapter 6 regarding staying faithful to the God who is in control of our lives and our stories.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Pastor Nate continues with the Daniel stories by recounting chapter 5 and the end of an era. Sometimes God will (in his kindness) wait and let us mess up. Sometimes "the writing is on the wall" and God chooses to judge. The smart play is to choose humility before it chooses you.    Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Daniel is a book that demonstrates how God's people can stand courageously in a fallen culture.  Today pastor Nate and Pastor Michael look at God's perspective on sex and how we can stand in an unbiblical sexual culture. What is the purpose for sex? God created sex to bring man and woman to a place where they were most satisfied, fulfilled and secure.  Listen as we explore God's incredible sexual design.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Daniel chapter four is the Old Testament equivalent of the prodigal son story in the New Testament.  This message will clearly illustrate what true conversion looks like.  It will also demonstrate how God changes culture by changing hearts.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Daniel and his friends found themselves in a culture that was different and offensive to their own.  How did they react and respond to that culture?  We find ourselves in a similar situation today.  What can we learn from Daniel and where do we stand in culture?   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

When do you tend to pray?  Daniel shows us that desperate times call for desperate measures.  Join Pastor Nate as he unpacks Daniel 2 and how to pray when life gets messy.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

 How does a life of faith exist within a hostile culture? What if you find yourself often alone? What is the effect of prayer? Daniel lived in a land far from his real home -- and followed God even when the cost was high. His stories are our story. Today, Pastor Nate teaches from the first chapter of Daniel.   Continue the conversation. Community Group Leaders click here to access study questions.

Jesus flipped the script when it comes to forgiveness.  So what does it really look like to "love our enemies" and offer forgiveness for offenses?  We have opportunity every day to forgive or to choose to be offended.  Pastor Nate takes a look at Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5 and 18 in this message.   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

What is the worth of a human life?  Jesus turned the value system of the world upside down when he declared that "every person has value."  Pastor Nate leads a conversation from the words of Jesus on how we can see what God sees so we will do what God says.   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

All of us want to be great. This message gives us the front row seat to see what the paradigm of Greatness looks like from the perspective of Jesus. Is it possible that the way Jesus teaches greatness is the most fulfilling, most useful, most hopeful form of Greatness offered?     Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

He is history's most familiar figure. Yet on the day he died, it looked as though his mark on the world would quickly disappear. What makes him unique? Why have billions been drawn to him? What is his irresistible  influence?    Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Pastor Nate concludes the Make Room series (Lent) by turning our attention outward.  In Mark 2, Jesus is interrupted by 4 dudes who carry their buddy to him in dramatic fashion.  Who's the "one" that God wants you to reach?   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Football has a pass named after a prayer (Hail Mary).  Yeah -- we pray when times are tough -- and that's good.  But does prayer really change things?  Pastor Nate leads this conversation on the practical aspects of a life of prayer from both the Old and New Testaments.   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

What does it mean to honor God with your body? Does God even care about what you eat or how often you work out? Pastor Todd joins Pastor Nate for this provocative conversation. Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

The Bible isn't just a book full of facts and stories.  It is meant to display God's character and His plan for us.  Pastor Nate leads a conversation on loving God with our minds by engaging the heart of God via Scripture.   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

Today we’ll learn to make room in our lives through simplicity.  Simplicity is an easy concept to grasp, but it flies in the face of our culture and our natural tendencies. Can simplicity not only make room to love God more, but also open doors to loving people?   Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.

We suffer from "hurry sickness."  But our bodies and souls were never meant to sustain the pace we are driven to live.  Pastor Nate draws from the example of Jesus to introduce the spiritual discipline of silence and solitude.  Jesus' invitation:  "Come away to a quiet place and rest."    Continue the conversation. Click here to access this Sunday's followup questions.