Kindred Church

Many of the resolutions and aspirations set this time of year are born out of a place of not enough, and the general tone around January sounds like striving, and pushing, and straining. Is there another way to approach the new year that doesn't expect so much try-harder energy? We look this morning to the famous story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 for the answer.  This message is from our Sunda...

Many of us approach the end of this season feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and defeated from the endless tug of war on our attention the holidays seem to demand. We believe Christmas has something to say to our striving, something to offer our overwhelm and the invisible burdens we all carry during this time of year and every other day of the year too. The invitation of Christmas is to behold – th...

It's Week 3 of Advent: Joy. We explore Zechariah's song in Luke 1 as a means to understanding the path of Joy that the Christmas story lays out for us. Zechariah's own darkness and uncertainty left him waiting for a breakthrough. As we each wait in our own way, today is a reminder that joy is available to us in both great times and in dark times: sometimes it just takes the right ba...

Peace is something we all crave, but it often feels elusive and short-lived. This week's passage invites us to reimagine peace not as a sense of calm or tranquility, but as a revolution of the heart and an invitation to the humble way of Jesus that opposes the arrogant, rejects violence, and redefines the "rich".  This message is from our Sunday morning service on December 7th, 2025...

This is our first week in our Advent series as we anticipate the coming of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas. Waiting tends to bring out the worst in us. It makes us anxious, irritable, and mean. Advent invites us to reimagine our waiting – it offers us a different perspective that waiting doesn’t have to end with the worst in us, but that God can use waiting to form the best in us.  This message is...

Hope is a paradox. It's the unrelenting belief that your current reality is not the end of the story and the bravery to acknowledge with uncompromising honesty that this part of the story we're in now is horrible. Without facing the ugly facts, hope is just cruel optimism, and without the courage to dream that things could be different, facing the overwhelming darkness is soul crushing h...

Jesus was the king of speaking in metaphors. Today, we explore what soil and light have to do with being his followers - being hearers and doers of the Word of God. Jesus' invitation to live in the light challenges us to consider the many ways we hide from ourselves, others, and God and to get curious about the things that cloud our understanding of who God is.  This message is from our Sunda...

Luke gives special mention to the women among Jesus' ministry team here at the beginning of chapter 8. Passages like this one, among others, are crucial for understanding the affirmation of women in leadership and the role Jesus intended for women in his Kingdom. We use Luke's acknowledgment of their partnership here to address other passages that have been widely misused to limit and ex...

This week’s passage features an awkward dinner party when an uninvited guest makes makes her way there. We explore the significance of the table for each of the characters in our story. The way of Jesus proposes the table is a place of transformation, where we experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus in the presence of others and where we can be challenged to face our own self righteousness, s...

Jesus ushers in the Upside Down Kingdom where he tells us the broken and poor are close to God and the seemingly well off or rich are missing it. Leveraging the ideas of threshold moments and hindsight realization, Jesus is taking his disciples (and now us) on a journey towards understanding the true economy of the kingdom of Heaven - how what we know now is just a slice, and because of Jesus ever...

We continue our study of Luke by exploring the calling of Peter and Matthew – two men who were rejected by mainstream culture, but were exactly the kind of people Jesus was looking for to build his team. Peter's boat filling with fish to the point of sinking reminds us that even in the middle of a miracle of Jesus, we still might drown, but if we follow him and do our part, great things will...

This is a question people have been asking for centuries … How do I find God? Where should I go to find Him? Where can I go to be with God? Throughout time and across culture and continents, the divine has this sort of pull on the human heart…giving merit to the idea that there must be more to life. That itch – that inkling - be it very subtle or intense, of a divine being much greater and more po...

We begin our journey through the book of Luke today with the moment Jesus is inaugurated into public life and ministry. His baptism and his temptation in the wilderness are an intentional and purposed preparation. We explore the battle for Jesus’ mind and his fight to stay human and the profound comfort it brings us in our own moments of weakness and the battles we fight in our own minds.  This me...

This morning serves as a sort of State of the Union as we celebrate what God has built over the last five years at Kindred Church and the financial challenges we face looking toward the future. We believe giving is an expression of faith. We explore where that belief comes from and what it means for each of us and our church operationally and practically.  https://kindredchurch.co/give This messag...

We open our new home at The Simon in Louisville by pausing to discuss the current state of the world and our country before examining the root of human darkness in the story of Cain and Abel. What can change the trajectory we are on? Jesus and only Jesus - in his gentle and lowly way. Join us as we Rediscover, Reimagine, and Rebuild our faith as we follow the gentle and humble Savior. This message...

Instead of a traditional message, Zack and Lindsey talk about "Things No One Tells You About A Church Plant" as they reflect over the last five years and some of the hidden beauty in what God has brought together at Kindred. Their discussion is followed by worship led by Becky Ykema to close our service today. This message is from our online service on Sunday, September 7th, 2025. You ca...

In a culture of optimization, what are we to make of seasons that disrupt our productivity and our sense of momentum and achievement? What antidote is there for the fear of wasted time or the sting of regret as we experience disappointment and discouragement when we’re forced in another direction? This morning we explore the idea that there is no such thing as wasted time in the Kingdom of Heaven....

We close our study of the book of Colossians by taking a look at Paul’s last challenge to us: care and compassion for the outsider. Using our values of “Selfless” and “Sincere,” how can we take our theology and make it a practical way of living. Exploring the idea of Praxis, the call for the follower of Jesus is to always be ready to implement the Way of Jesus no matter what we come across. This m...

Today we approach a difficult passage around submission, obedience, and servitude. Paul's directives to households have long been used to subjugate women, overburden men, silence children, and excuse the corruption of power. Though, what if these verses were intended to demonstrate our freedom from hierarchy and act as a subtle resistance to the way of patriarchy and degradation? If Jesus tru...

We’re taking a short break from our study of Colossians as we navigate this unique and challenging moment in the life of our church. Displaced and still searching for our next home, it would be easy to let discouragement and disappointment steal our hope. This week we’re reminded of a story from the book of Acts featuring Paul and a woman named Lydia that inspires us to keep trusting, believing th...

When we talk about simple grace (see "A Simple Kind of Life"), a natural question develops – how , then, are we supposed to live – and what about all of the behaviors that Paul talks about over and over again? Don’t they matter? Great question – of course behaviors matter, theological stances matter – they just aren’t the point. Jesus and his work is, the rest is what we learn and grow i...

Colossians chapter 2 is Paul at his best – cautioning the Colossian church (and us today) about the influence of teachers that infiltrate Christian circles with the intention of confusing people, furthering strange agendas, or making personal profit. We explore what it looks like to be rooted and begin to grow in the simple message and ways of Jesus: that Jesus is sufficient for all that we want a...

Today we begin our look at the book of Colossians, an ancient letter written to an ancient people trying to make sense of the way of Jesus among a diverse and spiritually confused culture. Being woven together is a powerful vision for the meaning of life, and an invitation out of darkness and into the Kingdom of Light. Together we’ll begin to explore these question, “If Jesus holds power over deat...

In the final week of our Jonah series, we are confronted with God's mercy and justice. How can both be true? This seeming incompatibility was the source of Jonah's rage, bitterness, and self-righteousness. As Jonah is brought face to face with his own hypocrisy, we are invited to examine what keeps us cut off from compassion and cut off from God.  This message is from our Sunday morning...

Jonah is about more than a man being swallowed by a mystical giant fish. It is about complex themes like mercy, hate, and redemption. It’s about the parts of our heart bent toward judgement and self-righteousness and our own fallibility. It begs us to ask, "Can people really change?" We're meant to see that Jesus’ journey to the depths of hell and out the other side – his death and...