Conoy Church Podcast

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: December 22, 2024 Synopsis: Today as we celebrate Advent we look at the theme of LOVE by engaging with a quote from an Austrian poet named Rilke and taking a 10,000 foot view of the whole story arch of scripture and the story of who God is...angry or loving? Why is it important to have a perfect image bearer and how does that help us with understanding who God is? All th...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: December 15, 2024 Synopsis: Today as we celebrate Advent we look at the theme of PEACE and we tell several stories that culminate in the idea that Jesus rewrites our narrative around how enter into conflict and how we create peace in the world. Humanity's limited imagination seems to answer conflict with more conflict in order to obtain peace but Jesus demands that we un...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: December 8, 2024 Synopsis: We continue our Advent 2024 series "The Promises of Christmas" by looking at the theme of Joy. Today we contrast the idea of happiness and JOY by considering how happiness is connected to circumstances but our Joy is rooted in our relationship with God and extends far beyond our circumstances. Pastor Nick takes us through some Biblical stories...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: December 1, 2024 Synopsis: This morning we begin our Advent 2024 series "The Promises of Christmas" by looking at the theme of Hope. Pastor Nick helps us understand that Hope is not optimism as we understand it today but instead it is waiting on the work of God even when God's people do not follow God. Waiting is a helpful idea as we ... wait ... on the coming of Christ...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: November 24, 2024 Synopsis: Today we close out our mini-series "Thankful" with a sermon called "The Blessing and Burden of Thanksgiving" by Pastor Nick where we dive into the importance of community during this time of the year. Today is a day where we celebrate communion as a church and in order to do so we're rooting ourselves in Matthew 22 where we learn that Jesus te...

Speaker: Reverend Jim Stauffer Date: November 17, 2024 Synopsis: This morning we begin our mini-series “Thankful” in preparation for Thanksgiving with our friends and families but also the Advent Season. We are blessed to have Reverend Jim Stauffer join us to bring us a message centered in Hope to get us focusing on the right places in this season of our lives. Intro Music:      Inspire And Motiva...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: November 10, 2024 Synopsis: This is our final week on The Sermon on the Mount! Pastor Nick recaps where we have been and then takes us into the final section where Jesus contrasts several things: gates, roads, trees, prophets, disciples and houses. Why does Jesus ask us to compare these things and what does it mean for our walk as his disciples? Join us for the conclusio...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: November 3, 2024 Synopsis: Today we have a word on judgement from the Sermon on the Mount - "do not judge or you will be judged." These are some of the most famous words in the scripture. Can we take them on their face? Or is there something more...something deeper to explore? What are Jesus' instructions for us as we engage in community and as we try to help our brother...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: October 27, 2024 Synopsis: What do you value? How much do you value it? Does it compete with your devotion to God? These are the questions that Jesus is asking as he engages us with this next section of the Sermon on the Mount today! We're going to get into "mammon" and maybe some tricky topics like money, stuff and worry. BUT...its all worth it if we're willing to dig i...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: October 20, 2024 Synopsis: Today we're four weeks into The Sermon on the Mount and we're sitting at the halfway point! Jesus begins this section with a fiery word: hypocrite! We'll talk about what that means and then dig into the section on giving, prayer and fasting and how that impacts our modern spiritual practices. Don't miss out on today because the wisdom underneat...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: October 13, 2024 Synopsis: We continue exploring The Sermon on the Mount this morning and we dig into the end of Matthew chapter 5. Jesus gets into divorce, oaths, retribution and love of enemies. We're going to dig into these teachings because while they are pretty well known we have a feeling that you might be surprised at how they can and should be applied in our live...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: October 6, 2024 Synopsis: This morning we're studying The Sermon on the Mount. Last week we discovered two things in Jesus' opening words to this sermon - the powerful aren't who we think it is and being people of the Kingdom of God requires action from us! This morning we learn more about what it means to follow God's covenant and we hear Jesus speak about The Law, murd...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: September 29, 2024 Synopsis: We jump into a new series today on the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 5-7 and represents Jesus’ most significant collection of teaching. The focus of the opening stanza is on turning what His audience understood about the world and the Kingdom of God upside-down. We’ll explore what the word “blessed” means an...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: September 15, 2024 Synopsis: Today is our final day in the book of Daniel...that's right - its our wrap up! Daniel 11 & 12 - today is the explanation of the vision that caused Daniel so much strife in chapter 10. And to really understand what we're reading we're looking back in history and also into the future. Daniel 11 & 12 presents us with such an...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: September 8, 2024 Synopsis: We’re closing in on the end of the book of Daniel and this week we find ourselves in Daniel 10. This chapter builds upon some of the discoveries we made in our teaching on chapters 7 & 8 as we find Daniel deep in prayer but his answer delayed - but why? Tune in today to learn more about Daniel’s perspective on the world, spiritual warfare...

Speaker: Pastor Jeff Date: September 1, 2024 Synopsis: We’re still in the book of Daniel and in our series “Adventures in Babylon” diving deep into chapter 9. In this chapter Daniel knows the end of the exile draws near and gives a heartfelt prayer to God. Pastor Jeff helps us to engage the text and understand the prayer of Daniel and the engagement of the angel Gabriel. Join us today to learn mor...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: August 25, 2024 Synopsis: Today we continue in our "Adventures in Babylon" series on the book of Daniel. This morning we're combining chapters 7 & 8 - two dreams that Daniel had and by looking at both of these we get an understanding of them that we wouldn't otherwise. We're going to be making connections within the book of Daniel and across scr...

Speaker: Pastor Nick Date: August 18, 2024 Synopsis: We continue in our "Adventures in Babylon" series on the book of Daniel and today we dive into chapter 6: the infamous story of Daniel and the Lions Den! It's really easy to think that we've heard this all before but let's jump into this with humility and remember that God can give us fresh eyes and a fresh heart as we enco...

Speaker: Rev. Dale Ressler Date: August 11, 2024 Synopsis: We continue in the teaching series on Daniel that was requested by one of our congregational kiddos. Today we’re exploring the passage of Daniel 4 & 5 and the idea of pride as we look at two different stories about two different kings and how they reacted to God's call upon them. We're especially thankful to have Rev. Dale Ress...

Speaker:  Pastor Nick Date:  August 4, 2024 Synopsis:  We continue in the teaching series on Daniel that was requested by one of our congregational kiddos. Today we’re exploring the passage of Daniel 3 where we find that the main character(s) shift from Daniel to his friends and their extraordinary faith as they follow Jeremiah’s instructions in his letter in chapter 29 to stand up to the allure o...

Speaker:  Pastor Nick Date:  July 28, 2024 Synopsis:  We're in Daniel 2 today! This series was requested by one of our congregational kiddo's who loves the stories in Daniel - so we're diving in! This morning we're looking at the story of a King named Nebuchadnezzar who had a dream that he didn't understand and how God, through Daniel, was able to interpret the dream and save t...

Speaker:  Pastor Nick Date:  July 21, 2024 Synopsis:  Today we start our new series on the book of Daniel! This series was requested by one of our congregational kiddo's who loves the stories in Daniel - so we're diving in! Today we look at the background of what took God's people into Babylon (2 Kings 24) and a story of faithfulness to God in Daniel 1. We end by asking the question &q...

Speaker:  Reverend Dale Ressler Date:  July 14, 2024 Synopsis:  Today we're jumping into Core Value 10: Relying on God. We're looking into what it means to confess our dependency on God for everything, and seeken to deepen our intimacy with him by living prayerfully. Intro Music:      Inspire And Motivate by Mixaund | https://mixaund.bandcamp.com            Music promoted by https://www.fr...

Speaker:  Pastor Nick Date:  July 7, 2024 Synopsis:  Today we're jumping into Core Value 9: Living Simply. We're looking into what it means to trust in God because if we can trust in God then we can disengage from the race that the rest of the world is running which will free us up to love boldly, give generously and serve boldly. Intro Music:      Inspire And Motivate by Mixaund | https:/...

Speaker:  Pastor Nick Date:  June 30, 2024 Synopsis:  Today we're jumping into Core Value 8: Pursuing Peace. While the "normal take" on this core value might be to focus on the historical non-violence aspect of the denomination Pastor Nick tries to view that as a symptom and have us swim upstream to understand what pursuing peace and bearing shalom might mean as followers of Jesus. I...