Dave McCue's Podcast

Just as Jesus faces the same tests that the ancient Israelites also faced in their exodus from Egypt, we also face those tests. Will we trust God with our bodily needs? Will we worship that which is true? Will we seek to make God prove it, when things go wrong? How will we pass these tests? As God's beloved children-just as Jesus did. Especially since the designation was bestowed prior to the...

In the midst of Pax Romana John the Baptist proclaimed that a stronger one, a more important one was coming. Lest we get too comfortable in Pax Americana, its time for us to level the rough spots and fill in the pot holes and make the landscape of our lives ready for this one who brings true and lasting peace. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift tha...

Salvation is often the only concept that we consider, when we talk about faith, but forgiveness and reconciliation are the door--the entry point to a full and free life. Here we get to overcome the barriers that cause us to struggle. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves o...

Your life isn't fine…and then interrupted by God. Your life is broken…and then mended by God's gracious kneeling presence into your situation. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you...

Bill Strite standing in for Pastor Dave: Most of us without thinking about it view blessings as what happens around us, but then when life goes awry it feels like we might have lost God's blessings. The blessings of God are mostly spiritual in nature and cannot be taken away from us So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus a...

"If you will not go with us, don't make us go." As God forms a people for himself. He breathes his Spirit into us. Sometimes that is as incomprehensible as the wind to others, but to his people it is growth. Challenging and difficult, but worth it. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip...

Being a Christian doesn't make you perfect, instead it asks you to live into a new standard. (This is Ted standing in this Sunday for Dave.) So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now...

The pattern by which we live our lives matter. Does your pattern tend to hide part of yourself from God? If it does than that also is a pattern of truncated relationship with Him. Bring your whole self to the relationship and his shield will be around you as you live an authentic life . So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus ar...

The longing of our hearts is often for a better time, a better place, or a better us, we should however, redirect that longing to God. The one who satisfies. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then...

As we sing about what God has done, ascribe to him the work he is doing, and let him be in charge of our future and the judgement (in equity) we enthrone him in our hearts as he is enthroned currently in heaven. (I used the term tense in this sermon in-appropriately for English usage, for that I stand corrected.) So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift...

Pentecost: the third of the three major Christian holidays (Christmas God's incarnational presence teaches us that we can know God; Easter God's cleansing of us makes us able to become His people; and Pentecost God's enabling presence makes us able to live the life that breaks down barriers, accepts others, and are mediators of His love to the world.) So roll up your sleeves, put yo...

If Psalm 8 is Genesis 1 in song, then we need to pay attention to the position of humans is the story. As mediators of God's presence to both each other and to all creation, we need to take seriously the pre-requisite of right relatedness. Both to God, each other, and to the world. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus ar...

A guest speaker asks us some very important questions regarding how we are to follow Elisha's example. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves...

Elijah Sermon Series #8: As Elijah gives way to Elisha the idea of a spiritual inheritance comes into view. It matters not if your history, your family's history, your people's history has a negative slant or a positive slant--if you need Him, and we all do, do we seek his help or do we scoff? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s com...

Elijah Sermon Series #7: As we understand the way the Bible works together it is important to accept the correction that it brings. Is Elijah--and thus the Christian witness--respectable? Azariah, would say no, he is less respectable than Baal-Zebul, but is he right? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily...

1 Kings 22: Elijah Sermon Series #6: Ways to avoid becoming sheep without a shepherd, getting up a creek without a paddle. 1) Stop making bad decisions; 2) stop trying to disguise those decisions as good; 3) Stop taking authority where its not ours to take; and 4) inhabit the country that God provides. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s comi...

Elijah Sermon Series #5: Would you be wiling to trade your vineyard (the place God has provided for you), for something else? Is it right to ask another to do the same? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any...

Are you living as though death still has the last word in your life? Are your doors locked to secure you from the dangers of this world? The whole purpose of Jesus coming that we might have life and his victorious resurrection is that he now has the last word. Tombs have exits not just entrances. He has come that you might have life--now go and live. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear,...

Jesus tells us how to interpret the Holy Week events with a parable. That parable and Habakkuk 2 tell us that the Pharisees' response to the crowd was treasonous--the rocks cry out in judgement against them. Will we recognize the time of our visitation? They did not, even with the wealth of revelation they had received. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to recei...

Elijah Sermon Series #4: The People of God…Christians have a credibility Gap. The word Christian does not always seem to mean what we think it means. Perhaps that is because we merely acknowledge that there is a God instead of submitting to His Lordship in our lives. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily...

Elijah Sermon Series #3: Elijah's victory over Ahab is fresh, but it hasn't had the effect that Elijah wanted. But God has larger plans, greater plans. How would you react when you find out you're a smaller player than you thought. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those...

Elijah Sermon Series #2: When you hear this line, "How long will you hobble yourself between two opinions?" Do you hear the echo of Jesus saying, "No one can serve two masters?" You should. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what...

Elijah Sermon Series #1: The Elijah and the widow of Zarepheth narrative shows God crossing cultural, faith, national, and even the boundary of life and death to show His salvation. Will you let your boundaries get crossed? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, do...

Ephesians Series #15: The armor is God's Two things that I hope everyone knows about the struggle that requires armor. 1) Your position in Christ is not up for grabs and 2) not every battle is visible so grace is required. *not this episode has been re-recorded So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily s...

Ephesians #14: Christianity is not a philosophy to be learned or espoused--that is a great error, rather it is a relationship to be lived out as you walk through your life. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know...