Beatitudes Radio

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in a special Maundy Thursday edition of MonoDia Worship Podcast. Our topic is "Finding the Sacred: The Evolution of Communion." The sacred can occur at any table, at any time, with any person. To watch the video podcast: CLICK HERE Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, May 1 @8:45a (MST)

Good Friday, Jesus dies. Easter Sunday, he rises from the grave. What happened in between those two events? Saturday . But what exactly happened during those 24 hours? Purgatory? Hell? What does scripture have to say about it, or does it?     Listen today as Pastor Tony wraps up our Lenten worship series: "One Week that Changed the World” and takes a look at Saturday. Listen as he explores the uni...

Why was Jesus crucified? For most Christians, the answer is simple. Jesus died to save us from our sins. But if you were a follower of Jesus in the first century, you would not find the answer to this question in the Gospel of Mark anywhere. To the chief priests, elders, teachers of the law, and later, Pontius Pilate, Jesus was accused of the crime of sedition for claiming he was the “King of the...

For most of us, Thursday is just a day to muddle through to get to Friday. But to Jesus, the Thursday of his final week was significant with a flurry of activity and busy-ness. Everything recorded in scripture indicates it was perhaps the busiest day of the week for Jesus.    Our Lenten worship series "One Week that Changed the World” continues today as Pastor Tony takes a look at Jesus’ Thursday...

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. When someone says, "God told me", do you believe them? Why or why not? What role should doubt play if any? Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, April 3 @8:45a...

“It was Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the library!” Remember that Hasbro boardgame, Clue? While it was probably more of a mathematical game of probability, Hollywood fictionalized it a few years ago into a whodunit movie, and suddenly we learned the backstory of all the characters and began to question their motives. Why did Mrs. White betray Prof. Plum to murder Mrs. Peacock?    Our Len...

Bleak. A snapshot of our world this day reveals calamity at every turn. From an ongoing global pandemic and signs of cataclysmic climate change to the threat of nuclear war by a Russian revanchist, it can only be as the 80's alternative rock band R.E.M. asserted "it's the end of the world as we know it."    But is it? The Gospel of Mark gives account of Jesus' Tuesday in which he prophesized the f...

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. This week we continue exploring the story of the Patriarchs of the Old Testament and the narrative of Moses' burden of leadership. Next chance to join in LIVE: ...

Unstated expectations. We all have them. Quite often, though, unstated expectations can be grievous for ourselves and for others. But what happens when you have unstated expectations of God? And what does God expect of you?    Our Lenten worship series continues: "One Week that Changed the World” follows the final week of Jesus’ ministry and life. This week, Pastor Tony takes a look at Jesus’ Mond...

Join Pastor Tony and Charity Gleason-Davis in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, March 6 @8:45a (MST) To watch the video podcast: CLICK HERE

How dependent should you be on God? Humanity is fickle and inconstant when it comes to our beliefs and faith. Ancient scripture accounts speak of Gideon's army being reduced to a ridiculous number in order that Jehovah’s intervention on behalf of Israel would be the more striking and all the glory His.    So, who do you rely on? Our natural instinct is to depend upon self for survival. If you depe...

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, February 20 @8:45a (MST) To watch the video podcast: CLICK HERE

Who is Gideon? Old Testament accounts name him a prophet, and some goes as far as to say the greatest of all 15 judges found in the Old Testament. No doubt an agent of change, but did he act of his own accord?  Imagine if you will, a showdown: The god of Israel versus Baal. As our country becomes more religiously pluralistic and tensions arise over this, what informs our response to this religious...

Have you ever made a snap judgment? Sized someone up? Given them the “once-over”? Homo sapiens (humans) have been doing it for centuries as a means of survival. Our brains are wired to see differences as a threat. We stereotype. But the author of the Old Testament book of Judges blew up the stereotypical role of women in Israel with the prophetess and only female judge of the fifteen mentioned in...

Today’s sermon is from our vault of archived messages of the past two years. Pastor Tony, like so many of us have now experienced, was exposed to the COVID-19 virus this past week at church. He tested negative today, but out of an overabundance of caution, he did not attend our service of worship. We are instead replaying a sermon he preached March 22, 2020, when our nation and our church had just...

Who's in charge here? The Book of Judges covers about 300 years of the history of the Israelites and Jewish people, and the endless pattern of captivity and release under the leadership of 15 Judges. Many believe the writer of Judges designed it to influence a course of action for the deliverance of the Israelites held captive in Babylonia. But if God will not allow sin to go unpunished, does that...

It’s a new year. Hope springs eternal, and yet the ambiguity of the pandemic lingers on. You can identify, especially in those moments of late when you feel anxious, lost, or just plain stuck. Thousands of years ago, the Israelites found themselves in a similar quandary. Having been exiled to Babylon, these captives cried out to the Lord for direction, freedom and release. The prophet, Jeremiah, r...

SERMON:  Jacob Marley: Letter to a Fettered Spectre by Kent Hemmen Saleska, Minister Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, January 16 @8:45a (MST) To watch the...

Have you found it more difficult this year to sit in the light and hope of the Christmas season? Throughout scripture, we discover a rich tradition of God’s presence symbolized by light. For many, however, Advent and Christmas does not always hold joy, light and peace. And with the added element of a global pandemic impacting all of humanity, the light can’t always break through the darkness. Join...

So, you say you believe in Santa, but what about ghosts? What lessons can we learn from beyond? Many believe ghosts to be messengers of the myriad potential consequences of our actions while we’re alive. For instance, take Jacob Marley, Esquire, and business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” In this tale of hope and reconciliation, could the fearsome visage  of M...

Will the real Mary please stand up? The virgin Mary's life seems to be shrouded in legend which differs starkly from the Mary we historically know. So which is it? Join Pastor Tony as he explores our expectations of Mary in Jesus’ birth story and the hazards of placing expectationson ourselves and on others. Recorded live at Beatitudes Church in Phoenix, AZ on 12/12/21  Preaching: Rev. Tony Minear...

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. Next chance to join in LIVE:   Friday, December 24 @8:45a (MST) www. BeatitudesChurch.org

Anna and Simeon. Two retirees sitting in the Temple just resting their bones. Because isn't that what you do after you've spent a lifetime prophesizing and, in Anna's case, proselytizing? Two faithful and seasoned Jews who had waited all their lives for the Messiah. Why else get up in the morning? But did either Anna or Simeon fit that stereotype? In particular, Anna was an 84-year-old widow and p...

At the very least, Jesus' birth shook the status quo, but could a tiny baby really be the catalyst for the murder of all the infants in Bethlehem? Herod the Great, Roman King of Judea, most certainly initiated the massacre in an attempt to get rid of the baby Jesus. But where was God in all of this and what do we do with this anything but rated “G” origin story? Could a truly good God permit such...

Join Pastor Tony and Janelle Tapphorn in an alternative worship experience designed to enlighten and challenge you with new ideas about traditional concepts. This service incorporates a thought-provoking message, discussion and meditation. Next chance to join in LIVE:  Sunday, December 19 @8:45a (MST) www. BeatitudesChurch.org