Cape Cod Church Podcast

As we continue Part 4 of our "Home" series, Pastor Tom Maine shares the importance of building a community that loves, serves, and grows together.  Home is so much more than a place. It's not a house or a building – it's a community of people who are called to love and serve each other as only families can do – a community of belonging and purpose. After going back to the beginning last week to ex...

Join us as Pastoral Associate Brittany Feldott continues our HOME series with an exploration of the creation narrative in Genesis, searching for clues about our interior design. Each of us has an innate drive to find a place to call home: a safe place to rest, to decompress, to grow. And it's not just us people: birds, worms, and bees all have their places. Trees, too, like to put down roots. What...

In this inaugural episode for our Faith + Work ministry, we gathered a panel of marketplace leaders to speak on the topic everyone is thinking about: career transitions.  Featuring guest speakers Ed Emma (Jockey Corp, ret.), Charles Galda (Vision New England), Theresa McLaughlin (TD Bank, ret.), Mat Capron (Cognizant), Dale Seibt (Aerie Pharmaceuticals), and moderator Bryan Pearce (Ernst &Young, r...

As we continue our series "Home," guest speaker, Pastor Gordon MacDonald shares his thoughts on supporting actors—those who contribute to shape the lives of others—looking back on his 82 years.    In a world that celebrates extraordinary people...is it possible that we've missed out on the value of 'ordinary'?   It turns out that after a lifetime... the things that stick out are the extraordinary...

As we kick off a new series "Home," guest speaker Pastor Dave Ripper shares his experience being a chaplain for Boston Bruins, and what he has learned about faithfulness through his calling over the years.  What does a faithful life look like... in real life? Churches like to talk about faithfulness... it's one of the famous fruits of the spirit that many of us learned in Sunday School as kids......

As we wrap up the "Outsiders" series, Youth Pastor Alexa Franco of Cape Cod Church, and Youth Interns David Ash and Kyllie Costa talk about gratitude and what that means for all of us...and the gifts Jesus offers.  Gratitude versus ingratitude…one can bring life, while the other can pull us away from the source of life.  The story of the ten lepers in Luke 17 paints a picture of the difference gra...

As we continue our Outsiders series, Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church focuses on the inner person, and shares how God steps into the middle of our story as outsiders and offers to move us from the pain of the past.   Lyrics are where culture cries out...and often the cry is loneliness. Loneliness is complicated. It can happen in a crowded room, in the midst of success and celebration, and to...

As we continue our series "Outsiders," Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church talks about looking at the "Man in the Mirror" and understanding the cost of being good.    Parables are mirrors...they show us what is and what should be.    The story of The Good Samaritan is the story of outsiders and insiders, of what often is and what could be. It turns out that being good, being for the outsider, is...

As we continue our series "Outsiders" by Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church, we talk about how God revealed the meaning of loving God and loving people through a parable.   When Jesus came to outsiders...everyone wondered why. The insiders were critical and the outsiders were skeptical. It turns out, being good to outsiders is hard work. So Jesus told a story...a story about a Samaritan—let's c...

We kick off a new series, "Outsiders" where Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church talks about the notion of identity–to divide the world as insiders and outsiders, and how we can change that.  It's an old story—as old as time it turns out. Active in us is a desire to divide the world by in and out, us and them. The story of Jesus arcs from insider to outsider, and it's no accident. From tax collec...

As we wrap up our series "Rebuilders" by Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church, we turn our attention to rebuilding the inner person.    We are done with rebuilding the walls...but what about you? The inner you: not the project you're working on, but the person you are. The past year has waged an emotional battle on the inner person – and the damage is everywhere.    How do we rebuild the inner pe...

We continue our series "Rebuilders" with a message on how to deal with critics, and what to do, "When You Have A Target On Your Back" by Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church. How can you get onto the work of rebuilding with a target on your back? As if a pandemic weren't enough, the past year has been full of conflict. Every turn seems to reveal a new criticism, another level of contempt.  Confli...

As we continue our series, "Rebuilders," Senior Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church shares lessons about what God wants us to do, and where to find hope in times of trials, successes, and in-between.  In a season of rebuilding our lives post-pandemic, we are still too overwhelmed and too focused on the things that need to be done...and sometimes it can feel like all hope is lost.  Let's look at...

As we kick off our new series "Rebuilders," Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church talks about rebuilding our lives and knowing what God wants to do in this new season.    Are you ready to rebuild? How do you want to come back? After a year of disruption that has left us a bit disoriented and maybe even disappointed, we now have an opportunity to rebuild! This could be just the moment God has been...

As we wrap up our "Meant to Be" series with Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church, we look at the greatest prophet of all – the one all the prophets were pointing to – Jesus.   We're looking at suffering...not only ours, but the prophets'. What's the point of the pain?    This week, we explore questions that lead us right to the story of Jesus, and the story of hope. No matter where you have been,...

As we near the end of our "Meant to Be" series, Pastoral Associate Brittany Feldott of Cape Cod Church reveals how God views anger through the story of Jonah.    It's easy for us to justify when we're feeling angry. After all , we like to remind people, even Jesus flipped tables sometimes . But when is the right time? When is our anger justified?   The famous prophet Jonah has a little something t...

As we continue our series, "Meant to Be," Senior Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church talks about the consequences of unhealthy relationships and how we can overcome the fear of being alone.    No one wants to be alone...not really. And, that's a problem. Desperation often drives us into unhealthy and unfaithful alliances that only magnify the original causes and pain of standing solo.   The prop...

As part of our Mother's Day celebration at Cape Cod Church, guest speaker and Kids Ministry Director Leiko McSherry shares why motherhood is a complex yet beautiful gift! What could a prophet from 3000 years ago teach us about parenting? You'd be surprised!  As the Israelites prepared to go up against a formidable foe, a timeless lesson on influence and leadership was being written. In a world whe...

For Week 3 of our "Meant to Be" series, Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church delves into the story of idols, fakers, and makers. If the prophets had a problem with idols, we should too. At the heart of a story about fake gods and carved statues is  a modern message of misguided loves. When we love the wrong thing, the wrong way, and in the wrong order...things can go terribly wrong. What started...

We all experience ups and downs in life. But since COVID-19 arrived, we've felt those lows more intensely... and many of us have lost hope. In light of the unique challenges the pandemic has posed, this talk explores various types of depression, its causes, and possible treatments. Dr. James Manganello (PhD Boston University, Master of Public Health Harvard University, Board Certified Expert in Tr...

We continue our Cape Cod Church message series, Meant to Be, and for Part 2, Senior Pastor Ben Feldott digs into the prophets' warnings about injustice, and the way we can go back to what God says. While many of us agree on where justice exists, we still wrestle on what injustice is and where it comes from. We learn from the prophets how to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.  Let's lean into...

In this new Cape Cod Church message series, Meant to Be, Senior Pastor Ben Feldott talks about how God offers us a vision for 'how to be human,' and why He sent prophets when our way of doing things fails.    Prophets speak truth to power, and with a bold finger, point to a better way. They have the singular ability to see what is wrong, and what could be, and the boldness to say so. They are not...

As we wrap up our "Jesus in the Letters" series, Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church invites us to look at Paul's grand masterpiece: Romans. Romans is nothing short of the story of what God is doing in the world. The big and surprising story of God's big idea revealed. Every generation comes to grips with the timeless truth of Romans. How can we apply those truths to our individual lives and our...

In our Easter Sunday service, Pastoral Associate Brittany Feldott walks through the story of Easter; the worship team rattles us with a new song; and Senior Pastor Ben Feldott of Cape Cod Church shares how the story of Jesus radically changed the world in his message 'He is Risen Indeed.'  2000 years ago something happened… Everyone began talking about Jesus of Nazareth, and what He did. People wr...

As we come towards the end of our series, "Jesus in the Letters," Senior Pastor Ben Feldott shares how to find freedom from the 'tyranny of needing to be right', and how love takes precedence in the books of John.  John has maybe the most envious moniker of all… "The Disciple Jesus Loved." Famous for his first-hand biography, the Gospel of John, he also wrote three letters for us (and the Book of...