Dave McCue's Podcast

Ephesians Sermon Series #13: Family life for Christians must never be hierarchical--especially where one rules with an iron grip. This is not the way of love or that we learned Christ, but rather it starts with love from Jesus, love for Jesus, and the Love of Jesus in us loving others. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arr...

Ephesians Sermon Series #12: Imitate Paul as he imitates Christ. Jesus left his place to rescue us (and more), Paul left his place to reach to the gentiles (and more). We can also leave our comfort zones for the same purpose. 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,...

Ephesians Sermon Series #11: Changing your clothes. I find it ironic that on the first Sunday of the year that I am talking about something, anything that resembles New Year's Resolutions. Changing something isn't difficult, maintaining the change until it is the new normal, that is difficult. The way we were is not how we have learned Christ. Now its time to change everything. So roll u...

Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? and if we don't like that place is there any escape? Paul in Athens answers these questions all in one place 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 kno...

Ephesians Sermon Series #10: The gifts for a healthy church. Somewhere between Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4 the church changed radically, from trying to do things to please God to working alongside God as He seeks to make his kingdom come about to its full potential. The gifts are how that is done. How we join Him. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift t...

Ephesians Sermon Series #9: That there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God the Father of all should be seen as a hope for each of us. 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 no...

Ephesians Sermon Series #8: 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 be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing...

Ephesians #7: A life being formed into God's life will regularly slip into prayer. This is the third guide to Godliness. 1) is that we would grasp who God is and what he has done; 2) that we would live lives of adoration toward God; and 3) that we would be changed. It is not possible to absorb all the love and mercy that God has without it beginning to change us. So roll up your sleeves, put...

Ephesians #6: You, as you are changing into the fullness of his people are his mysterious plan revealed to the world. I know it sounds unlikely, but this is the way it is. As broken as we might be, that we might be the fulfillment of his wise plan, is the reality of it all. Don't lose heart. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming whe...

Ephesians #5: Peace with God leads us to seek peace with those who are our neighbors. God never really wanted a sanctuary that could not be moved, so he replaced it with us--his new holy of holies...that we might take his presence to others. Mobile holy of holies--that is what his people are. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Je...

Ephesians #4: We have seen who God is, praised him for it, and now we will need to look at what what he has truly done for us. 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 child...

Ephesians #3: Paul enters into a life of adoration as soon as he has described God. These are the first to guides to godliness in Ephesians; 1) that we would take hold of the knowledge of who God is and what he has done for us; and 2) That we would live lives filled with adoration for the God who has poured more love into us than we can imagine. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be t...

Ephesians #2: The single longest sentence in the NT leads us into an understanding that God is three and one--to the glory of His name. 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 obedi...

Ephesians #1: This is not just a simple greeting used by the author, it is the beginning and end of the gospel. May a life of grace and peace be yours through this process. 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...

Matthew 14: Asks a great question, "Who do you say Jesus is?" Before we can efficiently ask "How then shall we live?" We need to first understand what being a truster of and having belief in Jesus means to us. Then we shall be able to live out of that in sincerity. So, who do you say Jesus is? So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift...

An idea that infects Christianity is the idea that the language that the Bible was written in was a "special" spiritual language. Within the last 50 years, though, archeology has shown that many of the very special words that we thought had spiritual meaning are simple everyday words used on shopping lists and such. What if we are to live into that ethic instead of the extra special once...

We are different from those who do not believe as we do, that much goes without saying. What does need to be said that as people that follow Christ, those differences should not be used as barriers that new comers must climb over in order to join us. Instead these differences should be held loosely--more of an item for a teachable moment than as an adherence first item. So roll up your sleeves, pu...

How do we get from "No one has seen God at any time" to we knew Jesus, we walked with him and touched him. The Incarnation is how. This Jesus, who came to form common ground with us. Shows us how we should then act as his representatives--forming common ground with those who do not know him. Just as he showed us the Father--who we did not know. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in g...

First Sunday at Colville. The gospel according to Dave is an effort to put the work God is working out into a short presentation. Do you have the gospel worked into your own words? Until you do, its not likely that you will be able to share it conversationally. It is shared here since the church's service was shared with other churches during Rendezvous. So roll up your sleeves, put your mind...