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Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:   The Kingdom of God has Come Near You Speaker:  Justin Sytsma Passage: Luke 19:1-25 It can be very easy to focus on the power that is displayed in the gospels, but Jesus makes it clear that power over demons and scorpions is not the most important aspect of God’s kingdom. There is something greater in the believer’s experience. Episode 25-0039: © 2025 Kortright...

Welcome back to this week's Sunday Sitdown where we unpack the challenges of following Jesus - comfort, priority, and history, and get specific on the ways we can push back against these tendencies. NOTE: There was an intermittent issue on Grant's microphone so there are couple minutes of audio that are lower quality, but hopefully it's all intelligible!

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  The Cost of Following Jesus Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 9:57-62 Living the Christian life in the modern world can be a challenge. Wrestling with these challenges is the most important thing we can do; but how? This week Grant lays out three challenges we will face and three practices that will aid in facing those challenges. Episode 25-0038: © 2025 Ko...

Welcome back to another episode on our series working through the Gospel of Luke, where this week Grant and Justin explore rejection, revenge, and retribution. As always, if you have questions you'd like to have considered, please send to questions@kortrightchurch.org.

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Responding to Rejection Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 9:51-56 How do you handle rejection? It’s hard sometimes. The tendency to lash out is strong for many of us depending on the situation. It was no less so for the disciples; yet Jesus wants us to understand that’s not what he came here to do. Episode 25-0038: © 2025 Kortright Presbyterian Church

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Scrambling for Greatness Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 9:45-52 How competitive are you? It seems we all have a little bit of a desire to be proven better than some others. Or we get a boost to our self-worth when we can show we’re right and they’re wrong. The disciples were no different, but as Grant shows us, Jesus challenges us to pursue a better way....

In this week's episode, Justin Sytsma and Grant Vissers lean into the weirdness of the transfiguration and our very human tendency to try to contain God as individuals or a church. Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Remembering God Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 9:37-44 In many ways, in North American culture, September is the Monday of the year. The weekend (summer) is over and it’s time to get back to work. But that isn’t always easy; it can take a while to get back into the flow of “real life.” Grant shows us how the same holds true for us spiritually as well. Ep...

In this week's episode, Justin Sytsma and Grant Vissers lean into the weirdness of the transfiguration and our very human tendency to try to contain God as individuals or a church. Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Interrupted by God Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 9:28-36 Sometimes we can get so excited by what’s happening we just need to be a part of it. And so we act first and think later…maybe. This week Grant shows us that Peter was a lot like us in this way and points out just what it took for him to stand down and pay attention. Episode 25-0035: © 2025 Kortri...

In this week's episode, Justin Sytsma sits down with Allison Pinches to go a little more in depth into Luke 9:18-27, a pivotal moment where Jesus reveals himself to his disciples and asks this crucial question "who do you say I am?" and what it looks like to "take up our cross daily".Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org!

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Who Do You Say I Am? Speaker:  Allison Pinches Passage: Luke 9:18-27 There is a great deal of emphasis on identity in our culture these days. We ask ourselves, “Who am I?” or “Who do people think I am?” A great deal of effort goes into crafting these identities on social media and elsewhere. This week Allison continues our examination of Luke as Jesus himself d...

Join us this week as Lindsay Sytsma and Justin Sytsma explore the 5 works that Lindsay highlighted in her sermon from Sunday - Welcome, give, everyone, satisfied, and broken. How can the church live out the call of the Kingdom of God using these 5 concepts? Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org!

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  More Than Enough Speaker:  Lindsay Sytsma Passage: Luke 9:10-17 Our series on Luke continues this week with Lindsay Sytsma guiding us through the account of what might be Jesus’ most iconic miracle – the feeding of the 5000. As she does she helps us to identify five words that will enable us to relate this expression of God’s abundance to our own lives. Episode...

Join us this week as we go a little deeper to Jesus' call to his disciples to go from village to village and do as Jesus has been doing - the call to proclaim the Kingdom and heal. Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org!

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message:  Go and Do Speaker:  Justin Sytsma Passage: Luke 9:1-10a This week Justin continues our look at the book of Luke by taking us through the first time that Jesus sends his disciples out into the world to put into practice what they had been learning. Episode 25-0032: © 2025 Kortright Presbyterian Church

Join us this week as we go deeper into Jesus making a private moment public and a public moment private with two individuals healed at the end of Luke 8. Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org!

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message: Flipping the Script Speaker:  Annabelle Edward Passage: Luke 8:10-56 In most social situations we have a set of realistic expectations that help us to function within that social event. It can make us quite uncomfortable when something or someone turns those expectations on their head. But sometimes, as uncomfortable as it might seem, things actually work out fo...

Join us this week as we go deeper into how Jesus' presence confronted both evil and the townspeople in the Gerasene region in Luke 8 - and how Jesus confronts us today. Be sure to bring us your questions following Sunday's service - questions@kortrightchurch.org!

Title: When Jesus Comes to Town Series: The Gospel of Luke Message: When Jesus Comes to Town Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 8:36-39 When Jesus visits the regions of the Gerasenes, he encounters a man possessed by many demons. For modern readers, it is easy to write it off as an example of mental illness. But Justin digs a little deeper helps us to understand that there is something more goi...

Welcome to The Sunday Sit-Down, where we take a deeper dive into the past week's sermon. This week Justin Sytsma and Abi Buckle explore some of the themes from Pastor Grant's sermon on Luke 8:22-25 as Jesus rebukes the storm as the disciples "misplace" their fear. How do we have a healthy view of Jesus through life's storms?

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message: At the Mercy of The Storm Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 8:22-25 What is the worst storm you have ever lived through? What did it feel like when you were out of options and left to the mercy of the storm? This week Grant helps us to see there is only one option to take out of the chaos. Episode 25-0029: © 2025 Kortright Presbyterian Church

In Luke 8, Jesus challenges what it means to be family. He says that His own family are those who hear the word, and put it into practice. That should challenge the way we do community and family. Welcome to episode 24 of the KPC podcast where we dive deeper into the text from Sunday and talk about how to apply it to our lives.

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message: Bounded Sets and the Family of God Speaker:  Grant Vissers Passage: Luke 8:19-20 We all have to one degree or another struggles with the family vs work balance. Sometimes it can be made all the more difficult when other people try to define what is and isn’t family. They are surprised when we define family more broadly than maybe they do. What did Jesus have to...

Series: The Gospel of Luke Message: Kingdom and Empire Speaker:  Lindsay Sytsma Passage: Luke 8:16-18 In this episode Lindsay Sytsma continues our look at the gospel of Luke in chapter8. She explains to us how the Kingdom Jesus came to bring does not loke like or work like the earthly empires we are accustomed to. Episode 25-0027: © 2025 Kortright Presbyterian Church