Champion Church of the Nazarene Podcast

Rev. Matt Slater | James 4:13-5:6 | We have plans, goals, and aspirations in life and for resources. In today’s message, James cautions us with our mortality to rely upon what God gives for life so we can live faithfully in Him.

Rev. Matt Slater | James 3:13-4:8a | We are saturated with messages that lead us to the pursuit of happiness. But often this is a journey that leads us to selfish ambition and envy. Join us as we continue our series in James as faith leads us to trust God for all things in our lives.

Rev. Matt Slater | James 3:1-12 | Words are powerful, more so than we often realize. James understands this and shares that followers of Christ are to speak in a specific way. Join us as we look to God to tame our speech for His purposes.

Rev. Matt Slater | James 2:1-17 | The way people divide themselves, like at our school lunches growing up, is often considered as a normal way of relationship. However, as we continue in the letter of James, we will discover that faith in Christ leads us to care and enter into relationships with all people without favoritism.

Rev. Matt Slater | James 1:16-27 | As we continue our journey with the letter from James, we learn that in the life of faith, a posture of openness is essential to allow God to form us, even if we don’t like it. He gives us the key to a growing faith in Christ that will lead us to live as Christ says.

Rev. Matt Slater | James 1:1-15 | It sometimes seems like the only constant is change. As we begin our message series in the Book of James, we discover that our faith is able to remain in the midst of change because of God. To be faithful is to always be open to God’s way in a changing world.

Rev. Matt Slater | Romans 12:1-2 | How can a word help frame what is next in our life of faith? As we begin the new year, Pastor Matt shares the focus of this new year as a church and how God might bring renewal in a new way.

Rev. Christine Cline | Luke 5:1-11 | Our guest preacher, Pastor Christine Cline challenges us to take up the calling Jesus gives to all of his disciples. Are we keepers of the aquarium or fishers of people? What would our lives look like if we followed him completely?

Rev. Matt Slater | Titus 2:11-14 | Our Christmas Eve message. Merry Christmas! Programming note: there will not be an episode Sunday, Dec. 26 as we will be having our Blue Christmas service.

Rev. Matt Slater | Luke 1:46-55 | In our final week of Advent, we journey with Mary as she ponders carrying the Messiah that will bring love to the world. We will discover the love God gives, is revolutionary, not just for us, but for us to offer to others.

Rev. Matt Slater | Luke 3:7-18 | Ads for companies often tell us joy comes when we consume their product. We are tempted to think joy comes from ourselves. But in this third week of Advent, we find that joy comes from God alone as we turn to Him in everything.

Rev. Matt Slater | Luke 3:1-6 | In the second week of Advent, we explore what true peace is, the kind that God wants in our world. We will find that our definitions of peace are actually false and that it starts with personal repentance to help to bring God’s peace into the world.

Rev. Matt Slater | Psalm 25:1-10 | In this first week of Advent, we journey with David in one of his Psalms, understanding what true hope is. It doesn’t come from our circumstances or even within ourselves, but from the God who loves us and is with us.

Rev. Matt Slater | As we celebrate Christ the King Sunday, we finish our series What About by asking questions what about other religions? While we will differentiate numerous religions, we will discover our relationships with those who are different are the most important ways of living in faith.

Rev. Matt Slater | This week as we continue our series, we wonder, What about sexuality? We begin the conversation with how God created us as sexual beings and the healthy ways to express that reality and then explore answers to questions how we might live faithfully to God in our lives.

Rev. Matt Slater | This week as we continue our series, we wonder What about science? As we field questions about the relationship between faith and science, we will discover there is a lot to be learned in both disciplines that help us in the life God calls us to live.

Rev. Matt Slater | We start a new teaching series this week called What About? And we’ll be looking for answers to your questions about Spooky Season, how we are to view it and how we are to live in the midst of it. Join us as we investigate scripture and history to live faithfully to God.

Rev. Matt Slater | 2 Corinthians 12:6-10 | In this week’s episode we finish our series Way Truth Life and we get honest about a life that follows Jesus. Adversity and weakness are common in that life, and our proper response to them might be different than you think. Journey with us as we’ll find Christ flips the script on weakness.

Rev. Matt Slater | Acts 2:42-47 | As we continue our series Way Truth Life, we examine the practices through which God work in us. Like any relationship, the start is only the beginning of a path of intentional growth and grace.

Rev. Matt Archer | John 13:34-35 | There's a lot of division in our world. Jesus calls his church to be different. Today we will be challenged to live as Jesus calls his disciples to live in everything.

Rev. Matt Slater | John 21; Acts 1-2 | As we continue our journey of grace in our series Way Truth Life, we follow the story of Peter who had a significant change from what he knew to be. We explore God’s sanctifying grace which changes us completely.

Rev. Matt Slater | Luke 18:35-19:10 | There’s a lot of brokenness in our world. The cause comes from one source. God provides a remedy for all of it. We look at two men in scripture who have different needs in their brokenness, but one solution.

Rev. Christine Cline | Acts 10 | In our second week of our series Way Truth Life, we examine God’s reaching out to us before we even acknowledge him. The good news it that God is working in far greater ways than we know.

Rev. Matt Slater | John 1:35-42 | Our new series Way, Truth, Life is an exploration of discipleship. What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? Is it about belief? Habits? Or something greater. Join us for the journey of grace known as discipleship.

Rev. Matt Slater | Ephesians 6:10-20 | As we conclude our series in the letter to the Ephesians, we wonder about how to live faithfully to God when there are powers in the world that resist Him. We will discover that evil lurks in places we don’t normally think, and how we can be equipped by God to stand firm in His grace.