Central Kitsap Presbyterian Church Podcast

August 8, 2021 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman preaches about the request of James and John to be great.

August 1, 2021 | Pastor Tyler preaches about the "rich young ruler."

July 25, 2021 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman preaches about a challenging topic in Christian doctrine: hell.

July 18, 2021 | In Mark 10 Jesus has some difficult words to say about divorce. It might be tempting to skip over them, but transformation often happens by listening to the hard words of our Lord.

July 11, 2021 | Are faith and doubt opposed to one another? Or can they actually exist side by side?

July 4, 2021 | Jesus takes his disciples up on a high mountain and is transfigured in blazing glory. How do we fit this mysterious episode in with the grittiness of Mark's gospel?

June 27, 2021 | "You are what you eat" goes the old saying. According to Jesus... that might not be far from the truth...

June 20, 2021 | Who do you say I am? This is Jesus' question to Peter and is perhaps the most important question we are faced with in life. Who do we say Jesus is?

June 13, 2021 | Two healings where Jesus spits on people. What does this reveal about the sort of Savior he is?

June 6, 2021 | Here are some of the more difficult words of Jesus in all of scripture: when he tells a woman she is a dog. What can possibly be meant by such a seemingly rude comment?

May 30, 2021 | We look at two healings sandwiched together: Jairus' daughter and a woman bleeding for twelve years.

May 23, 2021 | On Pentecost Sunday, we look at the sending out of the disciples... and the cost of that sending in this Markan sandwich.

May 16, 2021 | Jesus crosses the lake of Galilee and performs a strange miracle in Gentile territory involving pigs and demons!

May 9, 2021 | This week we look at a parable about listening to parables and Jesus' invitation for us to pay attention.

May 2, 2021 | Jesus' family tries to "take control" of Jesus. Religious experts demonize him. How does Jesus respond to these attempts to box him up?

April 25, 2021 | Jesus emerges on the scene in Galilee as a king... but why does he command everyone to be silent about who he is?

April 18, 2021 | Ty Whitman takes a look at the beginning of Jesus' ministry and the call of the disciples, which is also our call.

April 11, 2021 | Now through Lent and Easter, we "begin again at the beginning" and move to the opening chapter of Mark's gospel, which brings us to the river Jordan.

April 4, 2021 | Easter Sunday! Christ is Risen! So why does Mark end his gospel with fear?

March 28, 2021 | At last we come to the cross of Jesus Christ on this Palm/Passion Sunday at the beginning of Holy Week.

March 21, 2021 | "He suffered under Pontius Pilate" is a central word in our creeds. Today, we'll look at why that is.

March 14, 2021 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman preaches about Jesus' testimony before the high priests... and Peter's failure. 

March 7, 2021 | Jesus prays in deep anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane? Why? He is going into an apocalyptic war.

February 28, 2021 | Surrounded by deserters, deniers and a betrayer, Jesus invites them all to the Table to celebrate Passover and initiate a New Passover. 

February 21, 2021 | In this slow march through the final week of Jesus' life, we move to the outskirts, to Bethany and the woman who anoints Jesus.

February 14, 2021 | We move with Jesus further into Holy Week, with the bizarre incident of him cursing a fig tree and turning over tables. How are these two stories connected, and how do they still speak to us today?

February 7, 2021 | We begin a months-long sermon series in the Gospel of Mark, but we begin... at the end. Palm Sunday in February. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the final week of Jesus' life, and we'll be marching through that week slowly together from now until Easter.

January 31, 2021 | We conclude our January sermon series by looking at what it means to say "yes" to community by looking at the often overlooked patriarch Isaac.

January 24, 2021 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman preaches on our maximal commitment to rest and doing rest well.

January 17, 2021 | We are all called into "six days' labor." What is the general work we are all called into as Christians, and how do we discern the particular work we ourselves might be called into?

January 10, 2021 | In our first "maximal (covenant) commitment" we look at the covenants surrounding marriage and family.

January 3, 2021 | With the New Year comes a new sermon series titled, "Let Your Yes be Yes," where we are looking at the language of covenant in the Bible, and the maximal commitments we are invited to make. But these begin with the God who first says "yes" to us in a covenant with his people.

December 27, 2020 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman offers a reflection on the Great Commission to conclude a tumultuous year.

December 24, 2020 | Our Advent series concludes with a meditation on the prologue to John's Gospel and the moment when everything in human history changed.

December 20, 2020 | The Revelation of John gives to us a nativity unlike those we're accustomed to seeing on Christmas cards of sheep and donkeys. This telling of the nativity features a dragon! 

December 13, 2020 | We continue our Advent sermon series with a look at Paul's understanding of the incarnation and Christ's "Advent."

December 6, 2020 | Turning to the epistles of Peter, we find Christ's second Advent is a major theme. How do these words come to us, 2,000 years later, still awaiting Christ's return?

November 29, 2020 | We often go to the stories of shepherds and wisemen at Advent, and rightly so. But historically for the church, Advent has been as much or more about Christ's SECOND Advent as his first. So what does the rest of the New Testament have to say about Advent? We begin with Jesus and an "Advent" sermon he preached on the Mount of Olives.

November 22, 2020 | We wrap up our 1 Corinthians 13 sermon series by looking at the concluding verses. Faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love.

November 15, 2020 | Ministry Associate Ty Whitman preaches on love's no-matter-whatness... love believes all things, endures all things, hopes all things...

November 8, 2020 | How does truth fit into the context of loving others? How do we insulate ourselves from truth, and how can we rejoice in the truth?

November 1, 2020 | We all keep "records" of the wrongs others have done. How do we go about "chucking the ledger" to make a path for love?

October 25, 2020 | Love is not easily angered. But sometimes it's angered. What does Christian anger look like, especially in the context of love?

October 18, 2020 | Love is not rude. But rudeness had a different definition in the New Testament world than it does today. How might it help us live and receive Christian love?

October 11, 2020 | Love does not brag, it isn't arrogant. It's easy to think of arrogant people in our lives... but where might it be lurking in our own hearts we might be failing to notice?

October 4, 2020 | Love is not jealous/envious/zealous. Where does our jealousy come from?

September 27, 2020 | Paul tells us that "love is kind." What does Christian kindness look like in this age of shouting?

September 20, 2020 | Paul begins his list of love attributes with "patience"... things take the time they take.

September 13, 2020 | There are so many things that might tempt us as places to stash our identities... but love is where Paul challenges us to be rooted.

September 6, 2020 | We begin our Fall sermon series, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" in which we will be looking, all fall, as 1 Corinthians 13.

August 16, 2020 | Who are the pure of heart? Is this simply some wildly unattainable trait, or did Jesus, in fact, believe that the pure-hearted were already sitting before him?