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Coram Deo Denver
by Coram Deo Denver
A congregational network of friends trying to follow Jesus in Denver.
Episodes
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Fireside Chat - Towards a Theology of Hope with Ryan Tafilowski
In this talk, Ryan walks us through a candid, personal, and theologically deep meditation on Paul's words in Romans 5. The invitation is to consider the ways in which hope is a uniquely Christian virtue, especially in the midst of suffering. Ryan does uses a slideshow for verses, questions, and...
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Fireside Chat - The Church as a Brave City with Hugh Halter
Table Talks are extended evenings of stories and theology. Our community hosts these with internal and external voices to focus on specific conversations. We eat food and let the night's topic breathe by offering extended space for conversation afterward. In this recording, we hear from a pioneer...
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Fireside Chat - Stories on Faithfulness with Jon Petersen
Table Talks are extended evenings of stories and theology. Our community hosts these with internal and external voices to really focus on a specific conversation and then let the topic breathe by offering extended space for dialogue and more conversation afterward. In this recording, we hear from…
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Sunday Gathering - What is Church?
In these recording, we had a panel of people answer the question "Why and how has the Church been valuable for you and your discipleship to Jesus?" Then, Dave offers an explanation of the church exploring 5 dimensions or levels of the church. The model is illustrated by the stories and based on…
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Sunday Gathering - Story Lab Exercise
In August we recenter on the mission and vision for our church family. One of the core values we have is participation. The mission and vision of Coram Deo is empowering the members to be taking risks and living out their sense of mission and vision. This week we did a prayerful reflection…
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Practices - Scripture
In this message, Matt wraps up our series on Practices. Over the last handful of months, we have slowly been introducing the core practices that makeup Coram Deo's communal Rule of Life: Prayer, Community, Fasting, Giving, Sabbath, and Scripture. You will be inspired and challenged to fall back…
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Practices - Invitation to Consecration
In this teaching, Dave takes a break from our series of practices to give a Missions update and call us back to the "why" of practices. As our community seeks to remove the secular and sacred divide in our lives we must not forget the call to a consecrated life. It is the deeper motive and why...
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Practices - Sabbath
In this month's practice, Dave introduces a biblical and theological foundation for Sabbath as Stopping, Resting, Delighting, and Worshiping. He then offers some challenges as to why we desperately need this practice and tips on how to start. Check out the practices tab for more resources that...
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Practices - Generosity
This month we had our dear friend Ken Janke as a guest teacher. Ken is a legend and a deep well of hope for many networks of people around the globe. Most recently he settled down in Castle Rock to partner with his best friend Jon Petersen in a ministry called City Table (Check out their…
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Practices - Why Fast?
In this second message on Fasting David invites us to reflect on the "why" behind the practice. Often Fasting is seen as a means to an end, an intense practice to get God to move or get a breakthrough. David argues that Fasting is not primarily causal, but rather a natural response to…
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Practices - Introduction to Fasting
In this message, David focuses on Matthew Chapter 6 from the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. He challenges us to see that fasting was a normative part of Christian life until the mid-17th century. Not coincidentally this was also a time period that saw the rise of rationalism and an increasing...
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Practices - The Formative Power of Community
In this teaching, Matt tells some stories and reviews some Scriptures highlighting the power of family to shape us. He provides some deep thoughts for you to reflect on the life of Jesus and our lifestyles as disciples of Jesus.
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Practices - Introduction to Community
In this short teaching, Dave introduces our second practice of Weekly Community. We are in a season of exploring six foundational practices that Jesus assumes his followers have integrated into their lives. Prayer and Community are foundational practices because they both invite us to present our...
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Sunday Gathering - Welcome to Advent
In this short message, Matt invites us into the season of Advent reminding us of the posture of (1) Remembrance, (2) Hope for the future, and (3) living in the present.
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Sunday Gathering - Defining Church
In this message, Dave draws from a scene in Acts 20 where Paul is depicted giving his final goodbyes to his friends from the Church in Ephesus. It is a scene charged with prayer, family, and a sense of mission. He kicks off by reflecting on Church as an identity that defines our shared biblical...
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Sunday Gathering - Defining a Disciple
In this message, Matt reflects on the definition of a Disciple as someone who is trying to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. He reflects on these phrases through his own life and the life of Levi the tax collector.
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Sunday Gathering - Sending Out
In our final Sunday Gathering for this season, Donny offers a vision casting message on why we gather in smaller communities during the scattered season. Then, Matt wraps things up with some comments about the scattered season and a benediction prayer!
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Handling Scripture - The Narratives of Genesis
In this message, Christy models how to be a faithful reader as she engages the book of Genesis. She uses the illustration of Geology to invite us to see the way Narratives function while you are still living in them. She zooms out on the whole book of Genesis to gain some narrative and literary...
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Handling Scripture - The Book of Amos
In this message, Justin models how to be a faithful reader as he engages the book of Amos. He gives some context for the role and function of the Prophets and provides some broader context for Israel's history. Then uses chapter 5 to highlight God's displeasure with religious behavior that…
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Handling Scripture - The Book of Ecclesiastes
In this message, Dave tries to model how to be a faithful reader as he engages the book of Ecclesiastes. In the first half, he observes and overviews the basics of the text, genre, history, and culture that surrounds the book. Then he expands upon the meaning of the book within the broader...
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Handling Scripture - Paul’s Letter to Titus
In this message, Matt models how to be a faithful reader as he engages the book of Titus. This is a book filled with theological topics that we could spend time exploring and debating about. Matt stays zoomed out and demonstrates beautifully how the humanity of the book, the historical context of...
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Handling Scripture - Practically Engaging Scripture
In this teaching, Dave recaps key points from the first two messages and starts to introduce their impact for practically reading Scripture. He offers some pitfalls to avoid as well as a vision for the types of readers we should long to become. He then gives some practical tools for structuring…
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Handling Scripture - The Function of Scripture
In this teaching, Dave takes us deeper in our series on Handling Scripture by exploring the function of the Bible. He reviews the "what" of Scripture as a mutually human and divine library of books that tells a unified story about how God has acted to save humanity. Then he dives deeper into a...
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Handling Scripture - The Nature of Scripture
In this teaching, Dave introduces our series on Handling Scripture by exploring the nature of the Bible. He gives some orienting ideas and then highlights the tension we all live with between the humanity and divinity of the Bible. He explores how these two views create unnecessary problems for…
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Sunday Gathering - Values and Way of Life
In this short teaching, Matt revisits some of the core values that have shaped and will continue to shape our church culture. He discusses (1) Coram Deo, (2) Participation, (3) Hearing God's Voice, (4) Power of Story, and (5) the five Pillars of 24/7 Prayer (presence, prayer, mission, justice…
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Sunday Gathering - The Prophetic
Finishing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity by focusing on the role of the Prophetic in shaping our lives as individuals and a community. Dave introduces the topic by giving some framework and an invitation to lean in. Kaity then gives more practical training for how to try and grow in...
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Sunday Gathering - APEST In Real Life
Continuing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity we zoom in on the APEST focusing on how this plays out in real life (or as the kids say IRL). Our dear friend Kevin Colon joins us this week to give us a broader and more practical perspective on APEST influencing all parts of life. He ends...
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Sunday Gathering - The Shepherding Grace
Continuing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity we zoom in on the APEST focusing on the Shepherding grace. Ben invites us to engage and love others with a pastoral presence. Further, he makes this more practical by outlining three postures of Awareness, Curiosity, and Kindness. He also…
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Sunday Gathering - Teaching on Teaching
Continuing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity we zoom in on the APEST focusing on the teaching grace. Dave guides us in reflection on the life of our Rabbi, that is Jesus the master teacher. Specifically, he focuses on the way Jesus teaches from and with authority for the purpose of...
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Sunday Gathering - The Evangelistic
Continuing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity we zoom in on the APEST focusing on the evangelistic grace. Christy offers an object lesson in how to lighten the baggage we carry around this value and practice. She then reflects on the approach and method of Jesus and Paul. Finally, in...
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Sunday Gathering - The Apostolic
Continuing our series on Embracing Ministry & Maturity we zoom in to the APEST focusing on the grace of the apostolic. Matt share's from the God story and his own story. He challenges us that following Jesus propels us out into the world. If we realize we are part of God's story we will begin to...
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Sunday Gathering - Embracing Ministry & Maturity with APEST
This week Dave revisits Paul's words from Ephesians 4. This time focusing on Paul's call to give up our lives so Christ can give them away. This also leads to introducing our sermon series for this gathered season: Embracing Ministry & Maturity with APEST. The APEST is an acronym that refers to...
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Sunday Gathering - Core Values and Rest
This last Sunday we gathered to share stories and reflections from our Scattered season this Spring. Matt shares a short message calling us back to the simplicity of love and a reminder of the ethos of New Testament discipleship. The church forms as a byproduct when normal people listen and try…
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Sunday Gathering - Scattering into Homes and Rule of Life
In this recording Matt gives answers to three simple questions: Why do church this way How does Leadership work? And what is the end purpose? Then Dave gives a quick orientation to Rule of Life and directs you the listener to engage with one using the resources on our website.
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Sunday Gathering - An Invitation to Sacrificial Love
We felt the Lord leading our community to gather a couple more times before scattering into house churches for the Spring. This week Mike Brown shares with us a powerful and marking word on sacrificial love. We would encourage you to set apart some distraction-free time, grab a pen, a journal…
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Sunday Gathering - Standing Firm in Ephesians 6
This week Kaity navigated us through the spiritual armor of God that Paul closes his letter with. She highlights the effort required to armor ourselves and others. As well as how apprentices of Jesus have access to a reality that is beyond their present circumstances, a reality that allows us to...
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Sunday Gathering - Pleasure, Power, and Meaning in Ephesians 5
Dave covers the second part of Ephesians 4 all the way through the first verses of Ephesians 6. He highlights Paul's vision of living worthy of the Gospel in our behaviors and positions of authority. He then outlines offers some cultural reflections explaining why we get stuck in Sin and how we…
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Sunday Gathering - Individuality and Community in Ephesians 4
Dave covers the first part of Ephesians 4 highlighting Paul's vision of individual justification and communal unity. He then outlines two warnings regarding our American individualism and idealism.
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Sunday Gathering - Defeating Disappointment in Ephesians 3
Matt walks through Ephesians 3 highlighting Paul's ability to access the power and purpose of the Gospel. As followers of Jesus, we are invited and empowered to follow his example by overcoming disappointment in our lives and believing in others.
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Sunday Gathering - A Holistic Gospel in Ephesians 2
This week we had the privilege of hosting a dear friend named Brandon Washington. Brandon serves as the pastor of preaching and vision at The Embassy Church in northeast Denver. In this survey of Ephesians 2, Brandon outlines how the holistic message of the Gospel necessitates both vertical and...
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Sunday Gathering - Heaven and Earth in Ephesians 1
This week we begin a six-week series marching through Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus (and the surrounding churches of Asia Minor). Dave highlights Paul's integrated worldview of heaven and earth coming together. As well as Paul's prayer for the Holy Spirit to bring revelation, hope, and...
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Sunday Gathering - The Parable of the Sower
In this message, Matt offers some words, invitations, and a deep challenge to reflect on the soil of our own hearts. He also weaves this parable of Jesus into the orienting values of our church family. *Apologies for the audio quality of this recording, we had some err technical difficulties with...
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Christmas Eve - Might from the Margin
Dave offers a Christmas word from Luke's account of the birth story. Special attention is given to the somewhat obscure roles of to elderly people named Simeon and Anna.
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Lecture 6 - Recap and Reflections for Life
This is the sixth episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. It recaps the content of the previous five lectures. Then closes with some personal reflections on Stan Grenz's work and implications for following Jesus in this cultural moment.
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Lecture 5 - What does it mean to be human?
This is the fifth episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. It revisits the cultural dilemma postmodernism has left. Then offers a theological solution through Stan's understanding of the Image of God.
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Lecture 4 - How do we know what we know?
This is the fourth episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. It introduces the landscape of epistemology and then outlines some of Stan's appropriations epistemology for theology.
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Lecture 3 - Sources and Motifs in Theology
This is the third episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. It outlines the basic methodology that Stanley J. Grenz envisioned.
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Lecture 2 - How did we get here?
This is the second episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. It outlines the basic cultural dilemma many followers of Jesus find themselves in. Then David gives some of the cultural contours that got us here by exploring the terms modernity, postmodernity, and...
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Lecture 1 - Storied Theology
Our community is in a season of scattering into homes and various learning cohorts. This is the first episode for an academic course we are running on Theology & Culture. We will be exploring these topics through the thought and work of theologian Stanley J. Grenz. It kicks off the series on a…
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Sunday Gathering - The Spiritual Power of Habits
In this recoding Dave expands on the concept of a “Rule of Life.” He makes the point that we all have one already! The only question is if it has been intentionally or accidentally established. The hope is to shift your paradigm for discipleship and invite you to establish your own Rule of Life...
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