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Christ Restoration Church exists to honor God by fostering a movement of Christ's Kingdom through the proclamation and practice of the gospel that serves and transforms the Sunapee region, and through the Sunapee region the world. Find out more about our church at www.christrestorationchurch.net

Christ Restoration Church


    • May 11, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Jesus, Our Atoning Sacrifice

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 42:07


    Hebrews 9:1-14 May 11, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! (…) What, will these hands ne'er be clean?” ~ Shakespeare, excerpt from Macbeth “We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to […]

    Jesus, Our Priest of Promise

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 41:33


    Hebrews 8:1-13 May 4, 2025 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.” ~ Kahlil Kibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and philosopher “The church is the church as a creature of God's Word—a […]

    Why We Can Come to Him

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 35:59


    Hebrews 7:11-28 April 27, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy. What does it feel like to be weary? You have trouble concentrating. The problems of the day are like claws in […]

    The Resurrection & the Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 39:58


    1 Corinthians 15:1-22, 55-58 April 20, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this […]

    Hosanna! Blessed is our Priest & King!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 46:50


    Hebrews 6:19-7:10 April 13, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “God's dynamic plan is predicated on shalom – the intended state of peace and wholeness that all of God's creation is meant to experience. This isn't peace as we Americans conceive of it, like snoozing in a hammock; rather, it […]

    Sharing About Haiti

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 8:29


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    Maturing in the Surety of Our Hope

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 43:49


    Hebrews 6:9-20 April 6, 2026 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “If our hope is anchored in our own experience or efforts, we will never be settled.” ~ Rankin Wilbourne, contemporary pastor and author “Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than […]

    God's Instrument for Our Maturity

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 46:08


    Hebrews 5:7-14; 6:1-3 March 23, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We will never get anywhere in life without discipline, be it in the arts, business, athletics, or academics. This is doubly so in spiritual matters.” ~ Kent Hughes (1942-present), American pastor, professor, author “You do not become a master […]

    Detour from Maturing

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 32:30


    Hebrews 5:11-14 March 16, 2026 preached by David Pinckney Download Time of Reflection Quotations “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” ~ 2 Peter 3:18 (CSB) “For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the […]

    Our Great High Priest

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 44:57


    Hebrews 4:14-5:10 March 9, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to […]

    The Practice of God's Rest

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 40:23


    Hebrews 4:9-16 March 2, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The road is rugged, and the sun is hot. How can we be but weary? Here is grace for the weariness – grace which lifts us up and invigorates us; grace which keeps us from fainting by the way; grace […]

    The Weighty Offer of God's Rest

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 44:29


    Hebrews 4:1-13 February 23, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “To whatever you give your heart and entrust your being, that, I say, is really your god.” “Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is […]

    Seeing Jesus Changes Everything

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 47:11


    Hebrews 2:5-18 February 2, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Our whole business in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.” ~ Augustine of Hippo (354-430) “When we get into difficult circumstances, we impoverish His ministry by saying, ‘Of course, […]

    Defying the Drift

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 42:24


    Hebrews 1:1-5, 14; 2:1-4 January 26, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “[The fear of God] is the result of discovering that the God whom we thought of with slavish, servile fear, the holy righteous, terrifying God of judgment and majesty, is also the God who forgives us through Jesus […]

    Long Ago, at Many Times and in Many Ways

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 41:35


    Hebrews 1:1-14 January 19, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “It is significant that God does not present us with salvation in the form of an abstract truth, or a precise definition or a catchy slogan, but as story. . . Story is an invitation to participate, first through our imagination […]

    Fix your Eyes on the Final Word

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 31:06


    Hebrews 1:1-4 January 12, 2025 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The book of Hebrews tells us that life is a journey… from weariness to rest… from alienation to the presence of God… from isolation to the city of God. And, the only way you are going to get home is […]

    Developing Hearts of Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 48:00


    selected passages January 5, 2025 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don’t waste it.” ~ Lecrae Devaughn Moore (1979-present), American musician, record and film producer, record executive, actor, and entrepreneur “The greatest surprise in […]

    The Blessing of Forgiveness

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 37:16


    Psalm 32 December 29, 2024 preached by Mike O’Leary Download Time of Reflection Quotations “When the apostles preached, they could assume even in their Pagan hearers a real consciousness of deserving the Divine anger… It was against this background that the Gospel appeared as good news. It brought news of possible healing to men who […]

    Joy to the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2024 24:54


    Psalm 98 December 24, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Sermon Passage Psalm 98 (ESV) 1 Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 2 The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his […]

    The Good, Wise, and Joyful Tidings of God!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 31:51


    selected passages December 22, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “‘Evangelion' (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word, and signifies good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that makes a man's heart glad, and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy.” ~ William Tyndale (1494-1536), English scholar and […]

    Wisdom in Relationships

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 36:55


    selected passages from Proverbs December 15, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.” ~ Epicurus (341–270 BC), Greek philosopher “Nothing is more sacred, more […]

    The Essence of Foolishness

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 36:47


    Selected Passages from Proverbs December 8, 2024 preached by Mike O’Leary Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~Soren Kierkegaard “Now this is to be a fool— to act contrary to your own […]

    The Power of the Tongue

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 37:32


    Proverbs 13:3, 15:1-2, 4, 18:20-21, 21:23-24, James 1:26 December 1, 2024 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “Words are not in the power of men; men […]

    Wisdom & Emotion: Joy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 43:03


    Selections from Proverbs November 24, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Man's happiness was never meant to be determined by his circumstances, and that is the fatal blunder that we all tend to make… We must come back to the soul and to God who made it. We were made […]

    Wisdom & Emotion: Anger

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 45:24


    selected passages from Proverbs November 17, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A man who does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), American minister, social reformer, and speaker “It is only our bad temper that we put down […]

    The Theology of Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 36:41


    Proverbs 6:6-11, 12:11, 21:5, 25-26 November 10, 2024 preached by Raymond Harrison Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Imagine a society where no one had to work. Robots and artificial intelligence performed all essential jobs while advanced technologies provided unlimited clean energy, food, and consumer goods. Human beings were free to pursue their passions and spend […]

    The Wisdom of Authority

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 40:53


    selected passages from the Proverbs October 27, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ.” ~ John Stott (1921-2011), English minister, theologian and […]

    Hearts of Wisdom – Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 42:13


    selected passages from Proverbs October 20, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.” ~ Augustine (354-430), North African bishop, theologian, philosopher and author “There can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no […]

    Radical Generosity

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 39:36


    Proverbs 11:24-25, 28, Proverbs 3:9-10, Matthew 6:1-4, 21 October 13, 2024 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “I am not a greedy man. If I was, why would I donate to charity? I care about others as well.” ~John Rockefeller “I know that a man who shows me his wealth is […]

    Hearts of Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 36:55


    Proverbs 4:1-27 October 6, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Everybody's got a hungry heart. Everybody's got a hungry heart. Lay down your money and you play your part. Everybody's got a hungry heart.” ~ Bruce Springsteen, singer, songwriter, and musician “The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who […]

    The God of All Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 37:18


    Proverbs 30:1-9 September 29, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “It should fill us with joy, that infinite wisdom guides the affairs of the world. Many of its events are shrouded in darkness and mystery, and inextricable confusion sometimes seems to reign. Often wickedness prevails, and God seems to have […]

    Trusting Wisely

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 24:23


    Proverbs 3:1-12 September 22, 2024 preached by Raymond Harrison Download Time of Reflection Quotations “To be Christian, faith has to be new – that is, alive and growing. It cannot be static, finished, settled. When Scripture, prayer, worship, ministry become routine, they are dead. When I have decided that I can now cope with the […]

    The Way of Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 36:41


    Proverbs 2:1-22 September 15, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “A lowly person is a teachable person, easily entreated and open to explanation. Many of our spirits are too arrogant: they can teach others but can never themselves be taught.” ~ Watchman Nee (1903-1972), Writer and native leader in the development […]

    The Beginning of Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 43:52


    Proverbs 1:1-33 September 8, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Other stories are always looking for ways to humanize God and deify us, but God's story exalts Him and brings appropriate humility to us as His creatures. All wisdom starts here. If you miss it, you are on the wrong […]

    God's Approach to Prayer

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 36:03


    Psalm 116 September 1, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “The Bible does not present an art of prayer; it presents the God of prayer.” ~ Edmund P. Clowney ( 1917-2005), American pastor and professor “For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into […]

    Intercessory Prayer – Appealing to God on Behalf of Others

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 35:58


    Psalm 85 August 25, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Then comes intercession, the hardest work in the world–the giving of one's self, time, strength, energy, and attention to the needs of others in a way that no one but God sees, no one but God will do anything about, […]

    Bearing Witness to the Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 49:41


    John 21:1-19 August 18, 2024 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We tend to live under a vague sense of guilt…we are not nearly as vigorous in appropriating God's forgiveness as He is in extending it. Consequently, instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live […]

    Praying for Guidance

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 35:01


    Psalm 25 August 18, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007), American writer “Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” ~ C.S. Lewis […]

    Meditation – Fostering a Posture of Prayer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 31:34


    Psalm 77 August 4, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “There is not one of the godly who does not daily experience in himself the same thing. According to the judgment of the flesh, he thinks he is cast off and forsaken by God, while yet he apprehends by faith […]

    A Prayer Primer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 37:24


    Psalm 130 (ESV) July 28, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We need daily, personal, sincere repentance in the spirit of the gospel. Repentance that lays hold of the mercy of God in Christ. The kingdom of heaven is marked by repentance.” ~ David Dickson (1583–1663), Scottish minister and theologian […]

    Needy gods vs. the God We Need

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 39:58


    Acts 17:16-34 July 21, 2024 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.” (John 5:26) “Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His […]

    Staying with the One Thing: Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 40:55


    Psalm 84 July 14, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Christ died our death, and now in His resurrection He continues to wear our nature forever, and in it He lives for us before the face of God. He could not do more for us than He has done; we […]

    Staying with the One Thing: Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 37:06


    Psalm 84 July 7, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We pilgrims walk the tightrope between earth and heaven, feeling trapped in time, yet with eternity beating in our hearts. Our unsatisfied sense of exile is not to be solved or fixed while here on earth. Our pain and longings […]

    Staying with the One Thing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2024 39:02


    Psalm 84 June 30, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “We pilgrims walk the tightrope between earth and heaven, feeling trapped in time, yet with eternity beating in our hearts. Our unsatisfied sense of exile is not to be solved or fixed while here on earth. Our pain and longings […]

    Entitled Children and the Faithful Father

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 40:25


    Luke 15:1-2, 11-32 June 16, 2024 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Time of Reflection Quotations “…you want the best robe without your Father's giving it you, and shoes on your feet of your own procuring; you do not like going in a beggar's suit and receiving all from the Lord's loving hand; but this […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is…

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 44:54


    Acts 2:37-47 June 9, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Do you know what the measure of spiritual maturity is in the Scriptures? It is not the display of spiritual emotion, or even the display of spiritual gifts, but the manifestation of spiritual fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 39:39


    James 3:13-18 June 2, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” ~ Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Renowned English-American poet “The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Kindness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 41:54


    Titus 3:1-15 May 19, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “[Christian love] is that benevolent disposition or kindness which consists in good-will to all creatures, and which leads us, as we have opportunity, to promote their happiness… It is a benevolence, which is the result of regeneration; cherished by a […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Goodness…

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 46:20


    selected passages May 12, 2024 preached by Abrm McQuarters Download Time of Reflection Quotations “God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.” ~ Augustine “Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Patience

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 45:23


    selected passages May 5, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of […]

    The Fruit of the Spirit is Peace

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 43:09


    Galatians 5:19-23, John 14:25-27, John 16:32-33, Philippians 4:4-7 April 28, 2024 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Time of Reflection Quotations “Man is not at peace with his fellow man because he is not at peace with himself; he is not at peace with himself, because he is not at peace with God.” ~ Thomas […]

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