FOUNDRYcast

As Foundry leads up to our FIRST baptisms this Sunday, Chad and Allison sit down to have a conversation about baptism. In this conversation we talk about; What Baptism Is (and Isn't) What A Sacrament Is Why we have a BIG definition of baptism What it means to baptize infants AND adults How God is working in baptism. Why baptism is a community event.  For more information on baptism at Foundry, che...

So you are telling me folks put ashes on their forehead? On this episode of FOUNDRYcast, Chad and Allison sit down and have a conversation about the history of Ash Wednesday, what the practice means and how Foundry is celebrating this ancient holiday of the church.  For more information on our Ash Wednesday service, check out wearefoundry.com/ashwednesday

It is 2016, we a dependent on our devices. I heard someone the other day say “ how did anyone get anywhere before GPS?” But the thing about our electronic devices, our cell phones, our internet routers etc. is that they must be within range of the appropriate emitted signals in order to be of any use. To put it another way, while signals are being emitted all around us, they don’t do us any good u...

Waiting is part of the holiday season. Kids are waiting for Christmas vacation, gifts and seeing their family. Adults wait for some time off, travel and other parts of celebrating the season. The biggest question I remember asking as a kid during Christmas was "Are We There Yet?" This question is part of travel, waiting on the vacation to start and when Santa is coming.  This Sunday we looked at t...

What happens when we read the New Testament scripture that fulfills the Old Testament scripture before we read that Old Testament scripture itself? What happens when we realize that Advent comes before Christmas, but also after Christmas, since Advent rolls around every year. What happens when we start feeling the tension between longing and fulfillment – between “the now and the not-yet?”

Jesus comes into our world to bring about absolute change. He does this in three different ways and promised to do it thousands of years ago through the prophet Isaiah.  And...how Cousin Eddie teaches us this all.

What is waiting? As a kid we all waited for many different things. Advent, a historical celebration of the church, is a season all about waiting. Advent asks us to do three things and they are all wrapped up in time. 1. Reflect on the people who were waiting on Jesus to come. (the past) 2. Reflect on what Jesus is doing around us right now. (the present) 3. Prepare for the return of Jesus. (the fu...

So what is hope? There are some words that we use so often, in so many different ways that I think that they loose meaning all together. This week in spending time in chapter six of Hebrews I realized that one of those words is hope. I use it all the time in my everyday interactions: “Hope this email finds you well,” “I hope the weather is better tomorrow,” “ I hope she remembers to bring that pac...

When I was a kid we still had night church. I remember trying to skip church once I hit high school. One time Mom caught me and told me to get there right away. So I did. The only problem was I was wearing cut-off shorts and a Guns N Roses T-shirt. Let’s just say the night didn’t end well. Why does worship matter? Why do we worship? Those are big questions. And they make us ask even more questions...

So what do you think of character of God is like? As we have been talking about #DoOvers these last 6 weeks, we have focused on some of our mistakes and some of the second chances God has given us. We’ve talked about fun things, good things, crummy things and disastrous things. What do you think the attitude of Jesus is like when we get a #DoOver? In our own brokenness, I think we often think Jesu...

I remember the first time I heard the word. “You’ve got to be sanctified”…mumbled from a half-toothed caricature of a depression era southern child. It was just one of the many fast-paced scenes from the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou”. I never thought much about the word until I had experienced it myself. This week, we are looking at the #DoOver we find in the story of Peter. Peter was one of th...

Meetings. We have meetings every day. Some of them are serious and some of them are just for fun. When was the last time you walked into a meeting that was significantly more serious than you expected? It’s never fun getting blindsided. For me, it is usually not being aware of something pretty big to someone else. I am not aware of the whole picture. Jesus has a secret meeting one night with a rel...

Nobody lives in a bubble. Things that other people do affect our lives … sometimes we need a #DoOver not because of what we do or the choices we make but because of what other people do to us. Sometimes these kind of #DoOver moments leave us simply frustrated and sometimes the are life altering. This week in worship we are going to talk about one of those life altering situations by looking at the...

#DoOver’s almost necessitate something happening first. Mine usually revolve around either rushing something or putting my foot in my mouth. I would say these two situations make up around 85% of my do over moments. But what if a do over involves a fundamental shift or change? What if it involves something you aren’t necessarily responsible for…but is more of an inherited situation? Makes things a...

At Foundry's Launch service we began the #DoOver Series: Dramatic Mistakes and Even More Dramatic Second Chances. Our first sermon comes from Genesis 4 and focuses around a conversation about truly knowing God.

Chad Brooks, our lead pastor, preaches the final message in our #right series. He shares the story of Paul, from Acts and Ephesians, and talks about how Biblical obedience is often the opposite from what we assume. Instead of being based in a list of things to NOT do, we find the freedom and completion in Christ we are searching for.

in this episode of FOUNDRYcast, Chad Brooks sits down with Foundry member Chris McBroom. Chris plays in our band and is married to Sara. They have a wild daughter named Marley, who we talk about several times in the episode.  Chris is great at inviting his friends to church and he shares with us some of his philosophy of asking your friends to come to church. 

This message comes from our 3rd preview service. Chad has been sharing a series called "RIght" and exploring what it means to have a bibilical understanding of "being right". Join us for the final message in the series on August 23rd. 

So how did Foundry get it's name?  This is just one of the topics on this latest episode of FOUNDRYcast. We also talk with Allison Sauls, our pastoral intern about her journey in ministry. 

On our first episode of FOUNDRYcast, DJ talks with Chad Brooks, pastor of Foundry. Allison Sauls, our pastor of connections, also joins the show. Chad shares some of the story of Foundry and what makes a new church different.