FOUNDRYcast

Let's be honest. The human experience can be tough. It is full of ups and downs. I often think of this Calvin and Hobbes storyline where their house was broken into while out of town. Calvin is concerned because the TV was stolen. His parents are shown in the final strip, laying in bed, and talking about the whole situation. The Dad looks over to the Mom and says, "When I was a kid, I just assumed...

Rev. Alan Johnson shares a message from James chapter 1 with us. He focuses on Practical Christianity and what it means to see our words as the last option. 

What is God asking Foundry to do in 2020? In this message, Chad takes the time to share where we have been in 2019, and where we feel God is asking us to focus on in the new year.  We have this conversation by asking two questions.  1. How does our new sanctuary change things? 2. How are we doing at creating followers of Jesus Christ?

It's the time of the year to talk about all of the new things. Plans, words, dreams, lists, resolutions...all of the things. But how many of these things end up being truly new? Ask anyone in the fitness industry when their gym begins to normalize towards the end of the month. But what are the real and true things we find in life? And when is the right time to actually find a way for things to be...

Around the middle of 2018, I started to feel this call to only preach gospel passages in 2019. I thought it sounded a little outlandish (and I am now embarrassed to even mention that), but I started asking people who knew me and know my ministry context what they thought. After a pretty good reaction I started asking people in my own church communities what they might think. Their thoughts were th...

Have you ever had a problem finishing things? It's a great google search if you get bored. Helping me combat this problem has turned into an entire industry of coaching, strategic plans, books, online courses and much more. On the downside, it serves as both a symptom and effect of a host of medical conditions. As we chase through life, especially since our culture has transitioned from an industr...

Gift giving can be hard. It is one of the things most seen has part of the holiday season, but it can be hard. And we have to thank these wise men for it. They started off the whole thing. In this weeks story about dreams and the birth of Jesus we are looking at two different characters and how they understand divine revelation. Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod....

Dreams are a funny thing. We have them as kids and they can excite or terrify us. As we get older, they stay with us. Sometimes, they make us feel just like we are kids again…and sometimes they can scare us. Again, just like we are kids. But the older we get the more we tend to look at our dreams as these psychological realizations about our life. Let's be honest…we have all had those dreams that...

For the last few weeks we have been talking about Anxiety as "empty space", and this week we will begin talking about filling that space. In many ways, this emptiness is at the beginning of the story of God and His interaction with creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hove...

I remember the first sermon I ever heard my Dad preach. In it, he referenced the 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". It is a fun song, and we all can think of the places where we typically hear it. It is easy to talk about worries when you don't have a care in the world. Jesus talks about worries. And in the conversation he lets us know that our worries are actually us worshiping our problems....

Space is an interesting thing. It can mean many different things to many different people. Space is all about possibilities...or space is all about chance. It can either be full of good things, or it can simply be space for bad things to happen. In the beginning of time, we find God looking upon our world as formless and void, and then filling it with creation (Genesis 1). But as sin entered into...

Anything that might give you a significant better situation requires some risks. To not take risks means to live a dull life. When I think of the things I have done that have provided the most enjoyment, they never come without cost. It might be time, hardship, or something else...but it always takes something. For many of these risks, there are inevitabilities that come with the rewards. I rememb...

On this episode of FOUNDRYcast, Jack Lockeby, our director of discipleship, shares a message about the power of testimonies. 

I think every kid goes through the "tell the truth" phase. It seems like understanding the difference between truth and lies is part of that early childhood learning phase. Sadly, we don't grow out of it all the way. It seems to be something that many of us feel the temptation for or either live in our entire lives. Jesus takes a moment to get into the gnarly bits of it during His teaching we call...

#Blessed. It's a loaded word. And not just for the young, hip instagram crowd, trying to somewhat normalize their public displays of the ideal life. We are in the deep south. How many times have we made jokes about knowing what "bless your heart" actually means? I think we can all agree it is a loaded word. It probably became a loaded word because it is a complicated word. No place better shows an...

Do you struggle with reading scripture?   Join us for a 6 week study of 1st John and a series of lessons on how to read the Bible. We will tackle the problems folks have shared with what stops them from reading the Bible and learn together.  For all digital resources, please visit and join our group page here . 

Think of a few paradoxes. You might have a couple in your own life...I know I do. Our expectations can sometimes get the best of us. We can try to be well meaning, but it sometimes escapes us, even with our best actions. Jesus dealt with the paradox of the kingdom throughout His entire ministry. People expected different things. And sometimes, He even talked about those different expectations. At...

Every so often I run into a story in the Bible that leaves me speechless. It's one of the ones that is so odd we don't really know how to react to it. And in these stories we can take a few different paths. One of them is we simply call it allegory or metaphor and we can allow ourselves to learn from it without ever accepting the truth of it. Another pathway we can take is that it is 100% real we...

Have you ever had an awesome neighbor? They can totally change your standard of living. Instead of just a simple "Hey, can I borrow this?" you might end up with a radically different understanding of community. But have you ever had a frustrating neighbor? When we lived in Kentucky we were pretty much next door to a meth house. Let me tell you, that was interesting. Neighbors are interesting becau...

We've got a complicated relationship with work. We want to find fulfillment and value in life...but we also need to pay the bills. For most of us, it means finding a balance between what we enjoy and what doesn't drive us crazy (but anything can make us a little crazy...right?). So work is a little complicated. Work actually begins at the very beginning. It's part of Adam's life as he is tasked to...

How good are you at finding things? Perhaps a better question is how good are you at losing things? I once lost my keys and functioned for months without a way to lock my dorm room, access my mailbox and only could drive my car because I had given my roommate a spare key. Ultimately, the keys were right in front of me. They had fallen into the center of a wire spool we were using as a coffee table...

Over the last couple of weeks we have dug deep into what the idea of the Kingdom of God means. This week, we are going to get a little specific and Jack Lockeby will be sharing from an encounter someone had with Jesus. It makes us ask tough questions of our own discipleship and what it means to follow Jesus. As they were walking along, someone said to Jesus, "I will follow you wherever you go." Bu...

One of the most common teachings of Jesus is the "Kingdom of God". We've been dancing around it this last year in our year of Jesus*, but now is the time to jump into the bigger picture. And the best place to really start of with is…well, the start of the whole Kingdom of God idea. Matthew's gospel brings it up at the beginning of the Jesus story. I n those days John the Baptist came to the Judean...