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The Salty Pastor
Just like Matthew 5:13 says, Christians are the salt of the earth so join us as we find our saltiness on our journey through life together. Listen as Dr. Douglas Peake dives deep into the topics of his sermons each week, breaking down content, discussing evidence, telling stories and speaking into current events using biblical truths and principals.
Episodes
- The Salty Pastor
Stop Dulling Your Senses
Men struggle with emotional presence in a different way. They're not typically filtering the present through past emotions — they're not aware of what they're…
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Are You Showing Up for Your Own Life?
Most people are physically present in their lives but not actually there. They're somewhere in the past, relitigating something that already happened, or…
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STUCK IN THE PAST
Carli Lloyd was 21 years old when her coach told her plainly: you're strong, but you're mentally weak. You're lazy. You don't push yourself. Your character is…
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The Same Power That Raised Jesus
Paul writes to people living in the epicenter of idol manufacturing in the ancient world — a city where the economy depended on idolatry, where following Jesus…
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BREAK UP WITH THE WORLD
Worship, service, and generosity aren't programs or obligations — they're the three primary ways the world loses its grip on you. Every time you worship…
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THERE'S ONLY ONE YOU
Henry David Thoreau wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation — and then go to the grave with the song still in them. That second half of the quote…
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God Is a Woodworker
Most people believe their story needs to be cleaned up before God can use it. Get the bad stuff sorted out first, then bring it to him. But Ephesians 2 tells a…
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The Question That's Been Around Forever
Jeremiah asked it in the 7th century BC. Aristotle built his philosophical masterwork around it in the 4th century. People are still asking it today — and…
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You Reap What You Sow
Paul draws a careful distinction in Galatians 6 between burdens and loads. A burden is the weight everyone carries — the difficulty, the grief, the hardship of…
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Free From Something, Free For Something
A young woman came in broken-hearted despite having everything going for her — popularity, a future she'd dreamed of, the energy of someone who loved life…
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What's Stealing Your Freedom
Paul asks the Galatians a question that cuts right to the point: you were running a good race — who cut in on you? Something stopped you. An obstacle, an…
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The Courage Freedom Requires
What draws us to stories of soldiers and first responders isn't the action — it's the courage. The willingness to face something genuinely frightening and keep…
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Truly Believe Who You Are
We are not free because we don't truly believe. Not at the surface level — most followers of Jesus know the right things to say. But at the deepest, most…
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Does Your Life Look Free?
You were called to be free. That's not a theological nicety — it's the direct language of Galatians 5: you were called to be free. Not called to survive, not…
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Three Attitudes That Keep You Stuck
Martin Luther King Jr. had been preaching on servanthood and love for two decades when he stood up and said: the laws you have on the books are unjust. I'm not…
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Stuck in No Man's Land
A college sophomore at Columbia wrote an essay in the New York Times about a years-long "something" with a young man named Jeremy. They'd known each other…
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Going Through the Tunnel of Chaos Together
The best time to decide how you'll fight in your marriage is before you're fighting. That's not unromantic — it's wise. A personal code of honor in marriage…
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These Are the Lines I Won't Cross
A personal code of honor isn't about perfection. It's about direction. The difference between legalism and a code of honor is this: legalism says I failed, I'm…
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Your Personal Code of Honor
A personal code of honor isn't legalism. Legalism is an external standard — a set of rules you're trying to hit, and when you miss, you're a failure. A…
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Guardrails...
From the very beginning, God's covenant with humanity was never about rules. It was about faith. When Abraham believed God, that belief was credited to him as…
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Even Peter Got It Wrong
The chief apostle. The man who preached the first sermon. The one in all the stained glass windows across western Europe. And he still caved to peer pressure —…
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They'll Use Your Past Against You
Paul had a complicated past. Before he was a follower of Jesus, he hunted down Christians — he didn't just disagree with them, he had them killed. So when he…
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Rule Keeper, Rule Breaker — Both Broken
There are three unhealthy ways people relate to rules. Some rebel against them completely — defiant, always searching, never settling, convinced that freedom…
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Your Unhealthy Relationship with Rules
We've become a nation drowning in rules. There are so many laws on the books that legal scholars estimate the average American unknowingly commits multiple…
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The Principle of the Path
You can load your car with a tourist guide to Portland, download restaurant menus, pack an umbrella, and dream about the whole weekend. But if you get on I-84…
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Let Go of the Glory Days
There's a Springsteen song about people who peaked in high school and spent the rest of their lives talking about it. It's easy to laugh at — until you realize…
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Healthy Ambition
Proverbs doesn't treat laziness as a personality trait or a bad habit — it treats it as a producer. Lazy hands make for poverty. The way of the lazy person is…
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Everyone God Called Was Already Working
Work has been recast in our culture as something to escape, endure, or minimize. But if you read Scripture from beginning to end, you find exactly the…
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Dead Reckoning for the Soul
Worship has two dimensions that most people keep separate when they were meant to work together. The first is daily life. Paul's instruction that whatever you…
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Worship Isn't What You Think It Is
Almost everyone who follows Jesus has said it at some point: I wish I knew him better. I wish the connection were deeper. I wish I had more direction. And most…
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Generosity Reorients Your Heart
There is nothing spiritual about poverty in itself, and nothing spiritual about wealth in itself. What is spiritual is a godly ambition — a genuine desire to…
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What Jesus Actually Said About Money
Most teaching on money appeals to the worst part of us. One direction says money is spiritually suspect — to be poor is holy and prosperity is a sign of bad…
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If We Don't Do It, Who Will? - a Special Message from Kim Peake
There was a girl named Philomena — sharp, bright-eyed, excited about school and learning and everything ahead of her. She was nine or ten when Kim Peake met…
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Become a Grace Person.
There's the grace that covers your past — the sweeping forgiveness that wipes the slate clean. And then there's the grace you need for today, for this specific…
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A Gift You Didn't Deserve
Grace is not a feeling. It's not religious sentiment. It's not God looking the other way. It's a specific act — done at enormous cost, on behalf of people who…
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The Yoke You're Carrying
Three very different people. A World War II prisoner of war who survived 47 days adrift in the Pacific, came home a hero, and still couldn't get free from the…
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Crucify the Flesh
Freedom requires four things. Not a formula — four qualities that, without them, freedom will keep slipping away before you ever really have it. Paul lays them…
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The Yoke You're Carrying
Three very different people. A World War II prisoner of war who survived 47 days adrift in the Pacific, came home a hero, and still couldn't get free from the…
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Daily Habits, Different Life
What you invest yourself in determines what you reap down the road. That's not a motivational principle — it's a law. It applies to your relationships, your…
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You Trained for This
Here's an uncomfortable question worth sitting with: is what you're currently experiencing in your life the result of pure circumstance — or have you somehow…
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The Adventure Right in Front of You
Most men believe the real adventure is just around the corner — the next deal, the next season of life, the next thing that will finally make everything come…
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Why Men End Up on the Couch
Why do so many men slowly drift into passivity, comfort, and inaction? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores how men were designed for responsibility, purpose…
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Find a Mentor
A guardrail doesn't do any good if you build it at the point of crisis. You can't attach a guardrail to open air. You build it before the dangerous curve — in…
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If I'd Known Then
Nobody plans to have their marriage fall apart. Nobody dreams of financial disaster or watching their kids walk away from the faith. And yet all around us…
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The Hardest Person to Forgive
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive isn’t someone else—it’s yourself. In this episode, Pastor Doug explores the burden of guilt, shame, regret, and the…
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Cancel the debt
What does forgiveness actually mean—and why is it so difficult? In this episode, Pastor Doug explores the powerful biblical idea of “canceling the debt” and…
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Have a barbecue
Real friendship doesn’t happen by accident. In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores why meaningful relationships require intentionality, honesty, loyalty, and…
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We All Know What It's Like to Be Left Out
Everyone knows the feeling of being left out, overlooked, rejected, or unseen. In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores the deep human desire to belong—and how…
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You Don't Have the Right to Label Yourself
Who has the authority to define who you are? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores the growing cultural belief that identity is something we create entirely for…
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Why can't you focus?
Why is it so hard to focus anymore? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores how distraction, noise, constant stimulation, and divided priorities are shaping the…
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Mothers: The REAL MVP.
Mothers often carry unseen burdens, give endless love, and shape lives in ways the world rarely fully recognizes. In this Mother’s Day sermon, Pastor Doug…
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What the World Gets Wrong About Women
What does the world get wrong about women—and what does God say instead? In this Mother’s Day sermon, Pastor Doug explores the contrast between cultural…
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Good Soil: The Kind of Heart That Grows Faith
What makes faith actually grow? In this sermon, Pastor Doug focuses on Jesus’ teaching about good soil—the kind of heart that not only receives truth but holds…
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The American Soil Problem - Pastor Dave Gibson
Why does the same truth produce such different results in people’s lives? In this sermon, Pastor Dave Gibson explores Jesus’ parable of the soils and what it…
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Who are you, Lord?
“Who are You, Lord?” It’s one of the most important questions a person can ask—and one that changes everything when it’s answered honestly. In this sermon…
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Your Biggest Hurdle to Faith (And How to Overcome It) Part 1
What’s standing between you and real faith? In this sermon, Pastor Doug challenges listeners to identify the personal hurdles that keep them from fully…
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The Honest Skeptic
Is doubt the enemy of faith—or can it actually lead you to truth? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores what it means to be an honest skeptic—someone who…
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Denying the Undeniable
Why do people deny what seems so clear? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores the tension between truth and the human tendency to ignore, suppress, or redefine…
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Come and See What Personal Faith Really Does
What happens when faith becomes personal? In this sermon, Pastor Doug invites you to move beyond secondhand belief and discover what real, personal faith in…
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How to FIND your Faith.
What do you do when your faith feels distant, weak, or even gone? In this sermon, Pastor Doug explores what it really means to find your faith—not as something…