http://sermonfeed.com/dcfclemson/main en-us dcf is a community of believers residing in Clemson, SC. Our teaching podcast features recordings of the teaching element of our Sunday morning gatherings. no Sun, 27 July 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 25:28 A pastoral letter of hope and benediction Sun, 20 July 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 28:41 Colossians 4:7-18 Sun, 13 July 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 49:13 Colossians 4:2-6 Sun, 29 June 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 35:02 Colossians 3:18-4:1 Sun, 01 June 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 37:59 Colossians 2:1-15 Sun, 18 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 33:06 Suffering and Glory: Words that form our identity. Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 37:52 In Jesus, Heaven comes to us. Sun, 04 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 27:27 The Gospel moves from Heaven to Earth, the most daring of rescues. Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 32:32 Hope is the place we live. Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 29:38 But God makes all things new. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 36:40 Satan destroys. Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 29:22 Satan lies. Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 22:20 Jesus' resurrected life spells doom for all that is death. Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 26:34 We find our truest food when we feast on Jesus. Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 23:05 If you can, pitch your tent somewhere near Abraham's street. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 28:11 Recognizing our fleeting days and years gives us the opportunity to be re-oriented to the central truth: God Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 24:56 Work sucks. But it also contains artful, worshipful, redemptive possibilities. Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 32:56 Make friends with money. Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 27:06 The question is simple: Who is King? Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 35:15 Christ has put humanity back together again. But why does it always have to be so far away? Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 34:45 We pray. We ask. We hope. And God is doing nothing. Or is He? Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 25:31 Before we move, before we act, before we create, we must see Jesus. Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 27:56 Our strengths and ingenuity can get us a lot. But not enough. Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Miska Collier 34:13 Even when we are an outcast in the desert, God comes after us. Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 38:56 God works redemption in the strangest ways. Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore and Abdul-Baasit Shaibu 51:30 An interfaith conversation between Nathan Elmore and Abdul-Baasit Shaibu. Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Stuart Hayes 32:40 Strangely, Jesus sleeps while we are filled with fear. Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 25:10 God often appears where and when we aren't looking. Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 29:22 Our longings and desires point us back home. Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 35:33 The Fall has placed a deep scar on our humanity. We still live with the curse brought on by our rebellion. Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 29:58 Violence, it seems, is a constant interruption of what is good and true and beautiful. Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 32:18 The only part of creation that God called "not good" was Adam's loneliness - and God determined to fix it. And fix it he did! Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 30:24 This place we were made for, the place our soul still knows as home, was a place of both beauty and danger. Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 50:00 It's all together now, somehow. The cosmos is beautifully filled and ordered. Human being is in his/her place. And here, on the seventh day, time is more specifically sanctified - as God's way of further marking our days, and in particular, dividing work and rest. Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 25:23 Humanity has dignity and value and worth because we bear God's image. He is imprinted on us our very nature. Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 32:14 The picture of the righteous is a tree, deeply rooted and at rest beside the water. Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 26:26 It all begins with God. There doesn't seem to be much to the world yet, but there is everything. God. Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 34:27 God is the ultimate artist. Creation points to his vivid, playful, grand, beautiful nature. Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 47:36 What do devils and angels and demons do in our world -- and what difference does it make to me? Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 42:35 Why are we repetitive with some of our Sunday worship forms (Lord's Prayer, Passing the Peace)? How can they be heartfelt if we do them over and over again? Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore and Stuart Hayes 50:13 In light of the 19th and 20th centuries, how should the Church (and our church) approach cross-cultural mission in the 21st century? Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 34:14 I hear the buzzword "Christian consumerism." What is that, and why does it matter? Sun, 20 May 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 25:23 We think God has forgotten or that his promises will not be kept -- we just keep experiencing the same days, the same years, on and on and on... but God has not forgotten Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 53:43 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 33:17 All of our disgrace and sin and brokenness - God rolls it all away Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Stuart Hayes 44:20 Who is your master? Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 26:21 It.s a dangerous thing when our desires shut down. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 41:02 Whenever we cast that lustful look, what exactly is it we are looking for? Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 39:44 We inhabit a very, very angry world. But anger is more complicated than it looks, especially when the God of the Christian Scriptures is often angry. Sometimes a good hatred is the better part of love. On the other hand, the echoes of Cain should warn us Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 29:34 All our stuffing and grabbing and hoarding tells us this: we are starved for God. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 20:34 Greed's first sin is not wanting too much. Greed's first sin is not knowing what is actually worth wanting. Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 28:46 When we are desperate and hungry, we enviously believe that someone - or something - else can assuage our barrenness. It's a lie. Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 30:48 We are in a desperate place, born starving into a starving world. Who will help us? Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 35:34 How does Jesus use harsh-seeming words and a Table to upend much of what is wrong and broken in our world? Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 38:59 The divine and the human come together in Matthew's birth narrative - as does peace and the stuff of dreams. In the screaming human vortex of crisis and struggle, in the hour of need, through a medium of his choosing, through a way of his making, di Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 27:32 A genealogy, supposedly dry and musty history -- just lines of facts -- tells us most everything we need to know about Advent. Hope stretches out across generations, and we often have to wait, a long time. But God is always at work, even amid the everyday Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Stuart Hayes 45:51 Jesus says some pretty strange things; things that, on the surface don't make a lot of sense; things that I'm not sure we even understand. I believe these unfamiliar callings of Christ are signposts for our own misunderstanding. I believe they indicate Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 33:30 After so much judgment, mercy floods in. This is the way God always intended for it to be. Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 33:25 Late in the book of Amos, it is inevitable: God's judgment will find his peculiar people - Israel - and God's love is for all the peoples of the world. Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 32:15 Why might Amos be hard to hear? Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 34:47 Prophet: such a strange word, such a strange person. Maybe we need more strange prophets these days. Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 46:35 What happens when the party stops? The prophet Amos delivers a judgment from God that arrives like a permanent scratch in the record, like a terrible noise startling the revelry of wealth and spiritual complacency. Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 50:25 Did God really say that we shouldn't ask for his presence? Did God really say he hated our worship? What is going on here? Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 35:22 Grace is spurned. God has been forced to show a fierce sort of love. Sometimes, a sad song is the only appropriate tune. Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 32:06 Human history: here a hieroglyphic on a stone wall, there a text message on a Blackberry. Relationships, families, nations, civilizations -- there is always a history. And through Amos, his prophet-messenger, God announces a judgment on Israel -- given th Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 39:54 We might divorce our Sunday from our Monday. We might divorce our love for God from our concern for the oppressed. But God doesn't. If it isn't just, it isn't worship. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 28:38 God roars and fire falls. Is there a kind of love that could stir such harshness? Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 23:57 God is often silent, a mysterious, still voice. But Amos says, "God Roars." What would make God roar? Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier, Nathan Elmore, and Stuart Hayes 38:45 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 46:25 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 36:11 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Monica Perez 43:37 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 54:11 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier and Nathan Elmore 63:21 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 39:35 Jesus is here. He knocks. Will our hearts receive Him? Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 45:27 Is it possible we are most faithful, most dangerous to the Kingdom of Evil when we are weakest? Sun, 28 May 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 42:32 We catch a glimpse into the otherworldly vision of Jesus -- as seen by St. John. The Kingdom of God and the centrality, particularity, and authority of Jesus continues to flip the script, this time in Thyatira. Here is a powerful image of Jesus, with those bronze feet, making all his enemies his footstool and inviting his followers to hold onto him, which is hard enough and just enough. Sun, 14 May 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 41:13 Does it really matter what your name is? Jesus, with a sword hurling from His mouth, thinks it does. Mon, 08 May 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 47:53 What is Jesus up to, encouraging us in our suffering rather than removing it? Mon, 01 May 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 44:02 Jesus the Christ stands in the middle of the church at Ephesus and speaks about the place of love in it all: in the throes of ethnic-based tensions between Jewish and Gentile Christians; in the tightening politic of Rome's rising emperor-cult; and in the surrounding context of local pagan spirituality. He stands there as the last tree standing, the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God. Isn't that tree lovely? Isn't love lovely? Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 31:20 A tale of two boys, a Dragon, a father's hope, and a Jesus who refused to stay dead. Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Stuart Hayes 44:34 Paul writes to us today, as a mentor, one who we respect, who has lived with us and we are feeling the weight of his words. Not only can we take encouragement from those words, we can also see more deeply into the life of being a mentor and hear Paul's subtle calling to do the same for others. Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 54:05 God speaks to us. So does the Deceiver. How do we know the difference? Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 38:24 Our human senses, good and vital as they are, are never enough. There is a world out there we can not see or smell or touch. Another sense, the sixth sense of faith, is necessary to encounter it. Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 22:39 How many aromas does coffee have on a given morning? How many aromas does coffee have on a given morning? What does the scent of a single rose cost? Why do I suddenly smell fresh laundry ñ all clean and white? A series of questions asked along the roadÖin the hope of redeeming the smells. Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 32:48 There are many dark, distressing images in our world. Only a particular beauty, a God-beauty, offers visions of life. Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 52:52 What did Eden sound like, before sin and the Ruin? Can we still hear beautiful echoes, God-echoes? God-sounds are the only remedy to the dark voices of the Serpent. Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Nathan Elmore 44:09 For the fine art of distinguishing the tastes of life, there is a Main Course. For the fine art of distinguishing the tastes of life, there is a Main Course. Tasting ñ according to the Psalmist ñ is one of Godís methodologies for bringing us into the sight of his particular goodness. Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 31:21 Why did God create the species known as human? God created a physical world and made us a physical species. God invites into a fully alive, sensual, embodied spirituality. Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 45:30 Embrace the prayer. Dive into it. Be awakened. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0500 Winn Collier 37:32 Has your soul run thin? Your hope run dry? Paul's Ephesian prayer speaks to sure dire (and common) times. It is time to pray. It is time for an awakening. Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:00:00 -0500 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:00:00 -0500