Christ Church Fox Chapel Podcast

Rev.  Alex and guest, Pastor Justin Cassidy of Cross Roads Church, discuss the lies satan tells us about comfort and the dangers of becoming too comfortable. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

In today’s sermon we see that the author of temptation is also the father of lies. But for al who are tempted (which is everyone) Christ reveals truth and offers grace. Readings from this service: 1 Corinthians 10: 13-17 Hebrews 4: 14-16 Psalm 97: 10-12 Luke 4: 1-13 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

It's week two of our series on Lies. This week's lie tackles temptation—even the only perfect Christian, Jesus, was tempted.  Satan tried over and over again and targeted his strengths, proving that not only the weak are tempted. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

As we begin our new sermon series, Six (more) Lies of Satan and Why We Still Believe Them, Kat, Alex and Ben talk about the schemes of the enemy and why it’s so important to bring his lies into the light. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

We don’t fight the Devil standing on our own two feet. Christ empowered us by the victory of His resurrection and equipped us with His Word and Spirit. Readings from this service: Romans 12: 1-2 1 John 4: 1-6 Psalm 25: 1-4 Luke 4: 1-13 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

More than 500 people saw the Risen Jesus. The resurrection is a well-attested historical reality and bedrock hope. Readings from this service: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 Psalm 118: 14-17, 22-24 Mark 16: 1-8 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

This week, the chaps discus how Palm Sunday fits in with Easter Sunday, Good Friday, the Exodus, the Passover, the Davidic Covenant, the Last Supper, judgment, at least one inter-testamental revolt, weekly Holy Communion and Formula One. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Rev. Ben closes our Tetelestai series on this Palm Sunday. Jesus went to the cross at Passover to bring about a new and greater exodus from the powers of sin and death. Readings from this service: 1 Corinthians 5: 7b-8 Exodus 12: 3-8, 11-13 Psalm 118: 13-16 Matthew 26: 26-30 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

The central human question is “what do I need to do”, but what if there is no answer. Although the cross answers many of our questions, it also reveals that some of us are asking the wrong ones. Readings from this service: Galatians 3: 10-14 Deuteronomy 21: 22-23 Psalm 24: 3-6 Matthew 5: 17-20 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

The Revs welcome the extraordinary Mrs. Fire—Children's Minister, music teacher and overall amazing Christian! The discussion this week delves into what "the law" is and the exchange that was made on our behalf to guarantee our forgiveness for breaking it. Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

This week, Alex is joined by Becky Lowe, Catherine Parham, and Corrie Passavant, fresh from a time of prayer as they discuss their experience of praying through a passage from Luke chapter 4.  Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

We have all inherited Adam’s legacy of sin and death, but in Christ we have a far greater legacy of grace and righteousness and life. Readings from this service: Romans 5: 12-17 Psalm 51: 1-6 Luke 4: 1-13 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Rev's Alex & Ben are joined by Kat Shuttleworth and Kris Kann this week.  This week we study 1 Peter 1: 18-19, zooming in on "The Ransom." It's so easy to get stuck in  seeking our own will and relying on our own resources. Has the cross provided for us to be able to find relief from that, and from ourselves? Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Vis...

Rev. Alex's message this week looks at the cost of our ransom and what it alone achieved. Readings from this service: 1 Peter 1: 18-19 Isaiah 53: 4-12 Psalm 49: 6-9 Mark 10: 45 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

For many the message of Christ crucified is a skandalon - a stumbling block – but it is the ultimate display of God’s love and power. Readings from this service: 1 Corinthians 1: 18-25 Psalm 111: 7-10 Matthew 11: 25-30 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Our new series zooms in on the cross. There is a lot of material about the cross available to us, but how well do we really understand its significance? This week we focus on the scandal of the cross. The Corinthians are obsessed with knowledge, and not being able to understand the purpose of the cross was scandalous—how could the Son of God be crucified???  Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC...

Special guest, member, listener and Bible Study Fellowship leader Marian Ahlers, joins in to help introduce our new series, Tetelestai: The Finished Work of Christ. During Lent, should we be focusing on "doing better" to receive God's approval, or instead should we reflect on what Christ has done? Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Downlo...

Rev. Alex opens our new series, Tetelestai: The Finished Work of Christ , this week. Death, debt, and the demonic are all defeated but even more is finished by christ’s work on the cross. Readings from this service: Colossians 2: 13-15 Psalm 22: 1-4 John 19: 28-30 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Rev. Ben delivers our Ash Wednesday homily. Readings from this service: 2 Corinthians 5: 10b-21 Psalm 103: 8-14 Psalm 51: 1-13 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

One of the themes of our series has been that God is (and has been) building a church where everyone can serve. Paul has left behind or lost many in his journey to build the church and has suffered in doing so, but perseveres in the knowledge that the Lord sustains Him. We experience the same to this day as we see much coming & going in our own congregation, for many reasons, but the word of t...

There is a personal cost when we build a church that serves, but if we do, God strengthens both the server, and the served. Readings from this service: 2 Timothy 4: 9-22 Psalm 37: 39-41 Matthew 10: 16-22 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Special guest Niki De Luca joins Alex & Ben to talk about how the power of scripture helps and sustains us through suffering.  To prepare for this week's episode, make sure you read 2 Timothy 4: 1-8 as well as search  "Cake or Death" on Google.   Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

Preaching, according to Paul, is a God-centered practice of heralding the good news of Jesus Christ from the Scriptures. Preaching is not about us, but by God’s grace, preaching is for us. Readings from this service: 2 Timothy 4: 1-8 Psalm 119: 49-56 Mark 6: 30-34 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!

This week's reading, 2 Timothy 3: 10-17 , refers to imposters and magicians and swindlers— Twitterati in today's terms—and how they can lead us down the wrong path, vindicating Rev. Alex's strong distaste for clowns and the circus. This reading shows us that these cowboy builders have been around forever and that we've not been spared. Being rooted in scripture is what keeps us...

What is scripture & what does it do?  Readings from this service: 2 Timothy 3: 10-17 Psalm 119: 105-112 John 15: 18-21 Thanks for listening! CONNECT with CCFC: Visit us on Facebook Visit our website Download our app!