Christ Presbyterian Church
Weekly teaching from Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, Minnesota. Our pastors are of different ages, genders, and backgrounds and offer practical, thoughtful, Bible-based teaching to help us grow in our understanding of and relationship with Jesus. Learn more about CPC at cpcedina.org.
Episodes
822 episodes
Pastor's Cut: Invited—Week 5
This episode of Pastor’s Cut features host Melissa Schaser in conversation with Emily Hamilton, who reflects on her sermon from John 11 and Jesus raising Lazarus, emphasizing how Jesus is Lord over death and invites the community to pa...
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Season 16
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Episode 286
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11:41
Invited—John 11:38-44
This sermon reflects on Jesus raising Lazarus to show that human beings are ultimately powerless before death, but God fiercely opposes death and has authority over it. By connecting this story to present-day suffering, it emphasizes that death...
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Season 16
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Episode 285
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22:13
Pastor's Cut: Invited—Week 4
This episode on Pastor's Cut centers on how recent violence and unrest in Minneapolis reshaped Petey Crowder’s sermon, calling the church to bring both personal and communal burdens to Jesus in a time of fear and anxiety. Petey and Mel...
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Season 16
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Episode 284
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20:06
Invited—Matthew 11:28-30
This sermon invites weary and burdened people to bring their struggles to Jesus, grounding that call in Matthew 11, where Jesus offers rest not by removing burdens, but by teaching a gentler, life-giving way to carry them. It emphasizes that Je...
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Season 16
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Episode 283
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24:08
Pastor's Cut: Invited—Week 3
Pastors Melissa and Carrie have a conversation about Sunday's sermon. Which challenged listeners to move from simply believing that Jesus is real to truly believing in Him with trust that shapes how we live, illustrated by the...
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Season 16
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Episode 282
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13:27
Guest Preacher—Glenn Packiam
Pastor, speaker, and author of the book we gave our congregation on Christmas Eve, What's a Christian, Anyway?, Glenn Packiam, speaks.
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Season 16
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Episode 281
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30:58
Pastor's Cut: Invited—Week 2
This episode of Pastor’s Cut features a conversation with Jonathan Hicks about his sermon on the invitation to “come and see,” highlighting how encountering Jesus naturally leads people to invite others through ordinary relationships l...
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Season 16
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Episode 280
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15:08
Invited—John 1:43-51
This sermon reflects on how the Christian faith becomes credible when the gospel is visibly lived out by real people, emphasizing Jesus’ repeated invitation to “come and see” as a call to experience Him personally rather than just intellectuall...
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Season 16
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Episode 279
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25:02
Pastor's Cut: Invited—Week 1
The episode explores our new sermon series on invitation, centered on Jesus’ call to the fishermen in Matthew 4. Pastor Petey reflects on what it means for both longtime believers and newcomers to continually lay down sources of identity and se...
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Season 16
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Episode 278
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16:46
Invited—Matthew 4:18-22
Pastor Petey preaches that invitations open us to new possibilities, and Jesus’ core invitation "Come, follow me" is an invitation to apprentice under Him by being with Him, becoming like Him, and doing what He does. Following Jesus means leavi...
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Season 16
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Episode 277
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23:29
Pastor's Cut: Fear Not—Week 5
Donation Drive & Mission Spotlight information: qr.link/TeJW4IThis episode reflects on a sermon from Luke 2 that emphasizes the ordinariness of the shepherds and how God transforms ordinary people...
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Season 15
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Episode 276
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16:07
Fear Not—Week 5
The sermon explores how God works through ordinary people by highlighting the shepherds in Luke 2 and showing that their low status did not disqualify them from participating in God’s saving work. It emphasizes two invitations from the passage:...
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Season 15
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Episode 275
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21:35
Pastor's Cut: Fear Not—Week 4
Donation Drive & Mission Spotlight information: qr.link/TeJW4IThis episode features Pastor Emily Hamilton discussing her sermon on Mary’s encounter with the angel Gabriel, emphasizing God’s invita...
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Season 15
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Episode 274
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13:52
Fear Not—Week 4
This sermon reflects on the angel’s message to Mary, emphasizing that “do not be afraid” means not letting fear control us, and highlights Mary’s courageous “yes” to God despite the real social, personal, and physical risks she faced. It explai...
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Season 15
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Episode 273
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23:50
Pastor's Cut: Fear Not—Week 3
Donation Drive & Mission Spotlight information: qr.link/TeJW4IThis episode discusses the third week of CPC’s “Fear Not” sermon series, Petey and Melissa dive into a great conversation a...
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Season 15
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Episode 272
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22:21
Fear Not—Week 3
When disappointment has made hope feel risky, God gently invites us to trust Him again. In Advent Week 3, we walk with Zechariah in Luke 1 and discover that Christian hope isn’t found in outcomes, but in holding onto a faithful God who brings l...
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Season 15
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Episode 271
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21:03
Pastor's Cut: Fear Not—Week 2
Donation Drive & Mission Spotlight information: qr.link/TeJW4IThis episode discusses the second week of CPC’s “Fear Not” sermon series, focusing on Joseph’s response to the shocking news of Mary’s...
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Season 15
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Episode 270
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Fear Not—Week 2
By reflecting on Joseph’s experience in Matthew 1, Pastor Petey emphasizes that God meets people in uncertainty, offering His presence rather than a detailed plan. Ultimately, he encourages listeners to wait patiently, release control, and take...
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Season 15
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Episode 269
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20:25
Pastor's Cut: Fear Not—Week 1
Donation Drive & Mission Spotlight information: qr.link/TeJW4IPastors Melissa and Petey discuss the first sermon in the Fear Not series, focusing on how people—like Judah in Isaiah—often ...
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Season 15
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Episode 268
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15:28
Fear Not—Week 1
The sermon teaches that although we often feel emotionally, spiritually, or practically “stuck,” God is actively writing a better ending to our story. Drawing from Isaiah 8–9, it emphasizes that God’s light breaks into our darkness through Jesu...
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Season 15
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Episode 267
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21:45
10 Commandments: Set Free to Live Free—Exodus 20:17
The sermon explains that coveting is a hidden, disordered desire that harms our lives and relationships, much like upstream pollution creates dead zones in a river. God gives the Tenth Commandment to transform our hearts, not just our outward a...
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Season 15
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Episode 265
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10 Commandments: Set Free to Live Free—Exodus 20:16
The 9th Commandment calls God’s people to protect truth because communities cannot flourish where dishonesty destroys trust. Lies, whether spoken, exaggerated, repeated online, or shared for convenience, bind us in spiritual chains, while truth...
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Season 15
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Episode 264
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10 Commandments: Set Free to Live Free—Exodus 20:15
This sermon focuses on the commandment “You shall not steal,” explaining that stealing violates God’s generous nature and our understanding that everything ultimately belongs to Him. Drawing from Genesis, Pastor Melissa teaches that humans are ...
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Season 15
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Episode 263
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24:04
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10 Commandments: Set Free to Live Free—Exodus 20:14
Pastor Petey explains that God calls His people to keep their promises and embody covenant love, reflecting God’s own steadfast faithfulness in all relationships, not just marriage. He concludes that through Jesus, who forgives and restores the...
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Season 15
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Episode 262
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21:36
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10 Commandments: Set Free to Live Free—Exodus 20:13
Pastor Petey explains that the Sixth Commandment, “You shall not murder,” is about far more than refraining from taking a life—it’s about valuing every person as made in the image of God. Jesus expands this commandment to include anger, contemp...
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Season 15
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Episode 261
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