The Central Peninsula Church Podcast

Episode 13: Resurrection

General Info

• Date: April 17, 2022
• Release Date: April 22, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Episode 13 - Resurrection

 

Podcast Summary 

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into resurrection.

 

Highlights

 

Easter is about resurrection, not resuscitation - 4:30

• Jesus was resurrected not resuscitated
• Lazarus still died again
• Life, death, burial, and resurrection

 

Present Age and the Age to Come - 6:15

• Present Age: Human Evil, Natural disasters, Spiritual evil
• The Age to Come: the new creation, all evil is dealt with, God has healed all that was broken
• The age to come has started in the present and one day will be fully consummated in the future when all of that evil is done with.
• We live in that tension between those two kingdoms

 

 Folk Theology - 14:15

• We take them at full value without diving into it
• Michael Angelo paintings
• Heaven is God’s space, being in the presence of God
• Adam and Eve and the Garden
• Separation of Heaven and Earth
• Revelation 21
• What’s true of Jesus in the resurrection is true of us in the resurrection

 

Groaning and Labor Pains - 23:10

• Anticipation of new creation
• Winston the Sneed dog
• Groaning Posture

 

Praying the Magic Prayer - 28:08

• The Resurrection reshapes everything
• Ordering our lives around the reality of the resurrection of Jesus
• Repentance means “rethink”
• It gives us meaning as Jesus trains us as we live in the reality of the Kingdom of God
• Reorders our social relationships

Resources & References 

• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• Revelation 21
• Winston the Sneed Dog
• April 17, 2022 CPC Sermon: A Surprising Hope
• Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy

Episode 12: Known

General Info

• Recording Date: April 11, 2022
• Release Date: April 15, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Episode 12 - Known

 

Podcast Summary 

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into being known.

 

Highlights

 

Easy Going Relativism - 4:30

• Guilt still persists
• No framework for guilt
• Freedom was the ability to say no to our desires
• Freedom in boundaries

 

Check Engine Light - 10:15

• When we feel guilty we move toward repentance
• It starts with confession
• Renouncing our sin
• Embrace God’s Forgiveness
• It’s the framework to deal with our guilt

 

Avoidance  - 12:15

• Humility vs. Humiliation
• Bringing our real selves. Opening ourselves up.
• Being known by God

 

Barriers to being known - 21:48

• Privacy
• Privacy hinders intimacy
• God is inescapably big
• There is no privacy between you and God

 

Being Fully Known- 27:09

• Recognize that you are known
• We want to be known, loved, and we want to be changed
• Search Me O God
• It’s an invitation to know yourself

 

Quotables

• “Being your own God isn’t as life-giving as we hoped.”

Resources & References 

• Velveteen Rabbit
• A.W. Toser
• Joni and Friends
• April 10, 2022 CPC Sermon: The Inescapable God
• Psalm 139

Episode 11: Guilt

General Info

• Recording Date: April 4, 2022
• Release Date: April 8, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Guest: Dan Reid
• Episode 11 - Guilt

 

Podcast Summary 

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into the role of guilt with Pastor Dan Reid. 

 

Highlights

 

Why People Go Into Ministry - 5:00

• Dan tells his story
• Motivation for going into full-time Christian ministry
• Kevin tells his story
• Brandon tells his story

 

Underwater - 10:03

• Depths of our sin
• Crushed with guilt

 

Lent  - 17:05

• Grieving and sacrifice
• Reflect on the uncomfortable
• Easter is COMING
• From death comes light

 

Reverence - 21:48

• Have we completely gotten rid of reverence?
• Reverent fear
• A high view of God
• Understanding our times

 

Waiting on God- 27:00

• Trusting Him
• Will I believe His promises or not?
• Reverence leads to service
• The awe of who God is and what He has done.
• What Christ did for me

 

Quotables

• “Without feeling the shadow side, we can’t experience the joy.”

 

Resources & References 

• Wisconsin Cheese
• Trader Joe’s Plain Yogurt
• John Wesley
• April 3, 2022 CPC Sermon on Hope for the Guilty
• InterVarsity
• William Jessup University
• Abba
• Inside Out
• Psalm 130

Episode 10: Self-Deception

General Info

• Recording Date: March 27, 2022
• Release Date: April 1, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Episode 10 - Self-Deception

 

Podcast Summary 

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into the role of self-deception. 

 

Highlights

 

Self Preservation Mode - 7:03

• Minimizing-think of our actions in small ways
• Relativize-everybody else is doing it
• Trivialize-our actions don’t really bring about any harm

 

Renouncing Sin - 14:06

• Renouncing sin strips sin of its power
• Through renouncing sin change happens

 

Restoration Process at CPC - 16:18

• Exposing Sin - is it something they want to change in their life.
• Repenting of Sin 
• Realigning your way with Jesus

 

Do you want to get well? - 20:44

• When you are in self-deception mode, you will always find people to agree with you
• Where do you find your joy?
• How do we shape our loves?

 

Pay attention to the story you are telling yourself - 29:42

• Find your Nathan
• You have permission to speak into my life

 

Four Stages of Purgation - 33:05

Quotables

• “Sometimes we want our sin, more than we want God.”

 

Resources & References 

• Nutribullet
• March 27, 2022, CPC Sermon on The Process of Confession 
• The Spirituality of the Psalms - Walter Bruggeman
• Psalm 51
• John 5:1-15
• Create In My Clean Heart
• John 10:10
• McDonald's Chicken Nuggets
• Invitation To A Journey by Robert Mulholland

Contact us at communications@cpc.org or visit our website at cpc.org.

Episode 9: Confession

General Info

• Recording Date: March 21, 2022
• Release Date: March 25, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Episode 9 - Confession

 

Podcast Summary 

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into the role of limitlessness and confession in our faith.

 

Highlights

 

The Myth of Limitlessness - 2:11

• Every industry is trying to overcome limitations.
• The doctrine of progress.
• Our heroes that seem to defy limits.

 

Examples of Limitlessness - 6:40

• Time
• Workaholics
• Consumerism
• Social media

 

The Solution to our Problem is Confession - 12:02

• Confession is a way we bring those problems to light.
• We tend to think of sin as only disobedience.
• The forgiveness God has to offer.
• Does forgiveness happen without confession?

 

Three Acts of Confession - 26:20

• Acknowledge sin and brokenness within me
• Don’t cover it up.
• Confess - name it as a problem and ask God for help and forgiveness. Confess with others in community.

 

What do you need to bring to God - 31:16

• Where are you operating out of a place of limitlessness?
• Where do you need rest?
• Where do you need to realign with Jesus?
• We can’t always see it, so ask some trusted people!

Quotables

• “Time holds us back from being limitless.”
• “The pursuit of limitlessness leads us to restlessness.”
• Augustine - “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

 

Resources & References 

• Twinkies
• March 20, 2022 CPC Sermon on Confession
• The Spirituality of the Psalms - Walter Bruggeman
• Psalm 51

Episode 8: Lament

General Info

• Recording Date: Mar 14, 2022
• Release Date: Mar 19, 2022
• Hosts: Brandon Pasion and Kevin Sneed
• Episode 8 - Lament

 

Podcast Summary

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin and Brandon take some time to debrief after this past week’s service and dig a little deeper into the role of lament in our faith.

 

Highlights

 

Seasons of Faith - 1:10

• How do we create a faith that encompasses the whole human experience?
• Is there room for grief and lament in our faith?
• The three seasons of faith.

 

The Purpose of Lament in the Christian Walk - 9:43

• Can lament be productive?
• How can we invite God into our lament?

 

Lament in Real-Time - 15:28

• The framework of lament.
• How we can use lament to connect with God.

Quotables

• “Lament done well is naming the brokenness in the world. And so in that act of prayer, it isn’t a passive withdrawal. But it actually gives us a footing to say “no, this is calling out what’s wrong and calling something broken that is broken”.
• Every great movement that we know of started with this… Holy discontent where you see what God intended and you see what is, and there’s something that wells up in our soul that says “This is not right and this will not stand”.
• It’s an act of realism to say “The world’s broken, but God we trust you”.

 

Resources & References

• The Spirituality of the Psalms - Walter Bruggeman
• Kevin’s Sermon
• The Framework of Lament references Psalm 13

Episode 7 Reframing Lent

On today’s episode of the CPC podcast, Kevin Sneed and Brandon Pasion sit down and chat about Lent. Often misunderstood, Kevin and Brandon take a little time to talk through the tradition and purpose of Lent and how we can enter into the story of God through this tradition.

 

Highlights

What Exactly is Lent? - 2:08

• Kevin & Brandon talk about the purpose and origins of Lent. They also discuss the traditional Church calendar and the largest season in that calendar: Ordinary time.

Advent & Lent (The difference is more than just candy) - 11:01

• What are the similarities and differences between Advent and Lent?
• Light and Shadow: The themes and mood surrounding the two seasons.

How do We Celebrate Lent in 2022? - 15:54

• What are the practices associated with Lent and why do we do them?
• How can we integrate those practices into our modern way of life?
• The purpose and beauty of sacrifice during Lent.

Being More Intentional this Lent - 27:11

• How can we as individuals be more intentional this Lenten season?
• Three questions you can ask yourself to establish a practice.
• How will we as CPC celebrate Lent together?

 

Quotables

• 14:07 - “To experience resurrection, which is where Easter takes us, you can’t do that without death. You can’t be resurrected from life. You’re resurrected out of death.”
• 15:54 - “In some ways, Lent just provides you the opportunity to take up any sort of practice that attunes your heart more towards Christ”.
• 17:04 - “We take something, we take a set season… we set aside something or we set up a practice where that then allows us to become more keenly aware of what God is doing in our lives.”
• 24:04 - “I think Lent is the moment that… when we intentionally try to find a way of self denial, we join with Christ in his own self denial in that moment: not my will, but Yours be done. And in Lent, we ask that same prayer.”

 

Resources & References (links to scripture & books mentioned, websites, etc)

• Matthew 6:16 - Sermon on the Mount (discussed at 18:54)
• Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross (referenced at 20:36)
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (referenced at 31:45)
• Airheads Candy

Episode 6 Is It The End Of The World?

In Episode 6 of CPC's Real Life, Together Podcast Mark Mitchell and Brandon Pasion discuss whether or not we are in the end times as we live through COVID-19.

Episode 5 Create Space for Grace

On today's show, we interview Michelle Anderson, CPC's Middle School Director and co-host of the Middle School Ministry Podcast. We talk about anxiety in isolation with teens and some encouragement and tips for parents.

Episode 4 What Will Stay and What Will Go

Brandon Pasion and Mark Mitchell talk about what new habits they will keep as we move into the "new normal" with COVID-19.