Border City Church Podcast, Detroit, MI

In this message, Steve continues our series on preparing room in our hearts for Jesus, specifically talking about preparing room for joy. Joy enters when Jesus is welcomed, joy is announced to those who are humble, joy confronts fear in our hearts, joy grows when we respond to what Jesus is saying, and joy is for all people.

In this message, Paul continues in our preaching series on preparing room in our hearts for Jesus. He preaches about 3 people (Mary, Joseph and the shepherds) who physically prepared room for Jesus when He came to earth in human form. God also did a work in these peoples hearts as they prepared room physically for Jesus.

In this message, Paul begins our series on preparing our hearts for Jesus to have His way in our lives. Three of the prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in His coming to earth are discussed in this message. Those are: John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus (as we should prepare room for Him in our own hearts), Jesus being born to a human virgin (Mary, who was fully human receiving the seed of Go...

In this message, Rodney preaches on how we can live daily with God's peace. He explains that living in God's peace comes from living from an identity of being in Christ. The main passage that he spoke from is Philippians 4, where it says that when we give God our anxieties and worries, He gives us peace that surpasses all understanding.

Posture of a King - Steve Martel - 11-23-25 by Border City Church

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about how we can spiritually wage war against the enemy. Many of the battles that we face are actually spiritual ones, although we sometimes tend to approach them naturally. The main passage was Ephesian 6:10-17, which talks about the Armor of God.

In this message, Minda preaches about how being equipped by five fold gifts causes us to mature as followers of Jesus. She challenged us to position ourselves to receive from equipping gifts, to lean into maturity, to love people from our local church body, and to know where and how we are working in the Church body and outside the body.

This is the second message in a series about the apostolic gifts from Ephesians 4. In this message, Paul Nichols teaches about how each of the 5 apostolic gifts equip us. He explains that we need posture ourselves to receive from these gifts so that we can be receive revelation of Jesus, which is what Jesus is building His Church upon.

In this message, Paul Nichols teaches about the Ephesians 4, Five Fold, Apostolic Equipping Gifts. He explains that Jesus gave these gifts to His Church to equip them to be mature and to do His works. He emphasizes that the aim of the gifts is Jesus' Church being a collective dwelling place of God.

In this track, Steve preaches on being the light of Jesus. He talks about how we are called to keep the light on all the time. We need to contend to see spiritual fruit in our lives. We need to have boldness to confront sin in our lives and the lives of others. We need to contend for seeing masses of people coming to know Jesus. We need to fight against spiritual drowsiness.

In this message, Steve Martel preaches about Imitating God. He explains that in order to imitate God, we have to follow Jesus as our pattern, and know our identity as a child of God.

In this message, Jess preaches on how we can walk in wisdom. She explains that we should know the times that we live in, live with an urgency to preach the gospel, understand what Gods Will is, make it our aim to please God, trust Him over ourselves, and allow the Holy Spirit to renew our minds.

In this message, Bob preaches about living a Spirit Filled life. He explains that we are to be led and controlled by the Spirit and not by our own fleshly desires or the ways of this world.

In this message, Minda teaches about how Esau was willing to forsake his birthright and inheritance for a meal to satisfy his natural need of hunger in his weariness. We can be the same way by giving up on our birthright in Jesus' Kingdom, and the inheritance and purpose He has for us because we get tired and weary. We are called to get the rest we need and value our spiritual needs above our natu...

In this message, Paul speaks on having Godly grief. He teaches that Godly grief is feeling bad about anything in our life that separates us from Jesus, and actually repenting and changing, turning our hearts to Jesus. Godly grief and true repentance, decidedly being in the same "spiritual room" as Jesus, results in the glory of God manifesting in and through us.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about the path to manifesting and experiencing Gods glory. We experience Gods glory by turning our hearts to Him and encountering His presence.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about being the Glorious Church that Jesus has called us to be. The Glorious Church lives in purity, keeps itself pure, is already pure and is sent to the impure.

In this message, Jody Romero preaches on living fueled for the harvest of winning lost souls for Jesus. He talks about the importance of authentic vulnerability and honesty with Jesus and how Jesus will meet us in that place and change our lives. He also speaks about how it is our "food" or "fuel" to do the Kingdom work of our Father in Heaven to reach people.

In this message, Anton Keyter shared some prophetic senses and words that he was feeling on his heart for BCC. They were primarily concerning occupying the "Promise land" that God has called all of us to in our lives.

In this message Peter preaches about living a Spirit-Filled life. He talks about what it means to be filled with the Spirit, shares some personal experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and what happens when we live a life of being filled with the Holy Spirit.

In this message, Paul teaches about how we as believers are biblically supposed to prophecy and speak in tongues. He talks about how tongues is both for personal and corporate edification and prophecy is divine revelation that we discern from God for the edification of others.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about being filled with the Holy Spirit as the disciples of Jesus were on the day of Pentecost. He shares that we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be able to discern Gods word and His call. The Holy Spirit is a part of the Godhead that we are called to experience.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about living a life walking in The Spirit. He explains that living under the law is not the answer, and neither is living a lewd life filled with sin, but rather living a life by The Spirit, being justified and sanctified by Jesus Christ.

In this message, Werner teaches us about the Holy Spirit in our lives. We have to have the Holy Spirit in order to have relationship with Jesus, and therefore learning about hearing from and knowing the Holy Spirit is imperative to our faith.

In this message, Minda Nichols walks us through the closing of the Apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. In it, we see practical and fundamental instructions on how we as Christians are called to live together as a church family.