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In today’s episode we hear from four members of the Left Hand Church community about their faith journeys and what this community means to them.

In this message, Paula talks about the three kinds of guilt most people feel – which feelings of guilt are healthy and which are unhealthy – and the role guilt can play in making us wiser and more mature.

In this week's sermon, we conclude our sermon series entitled. Left Hand's Directions with a look UPWARD, at how we celebrate all we have learned along our journey to this point and all we have to look forward to as a community.

Where are we called, and to what purpose?  This week, Paula talks about what kind of a person we need to be to recognize and accept our call when it comes.

In this sermon, Paula talks about how our souls can embrace enough vulnerability to be able to live authentically with others. She’ll talk about how loving ourselves, accepting the world as it is, and accepting that part of life is lived in the swamplands, can help us become whole.

In this week’s sermon, John talks about Left Hand being the kind of church community where we’re willing to deal with the painful stuff, and where we believe that salvation and reconciliation is HOLISTIC.  John also discusses his dislike of the enneagram, and…..body hair?

In this week's sermon, co-pastor Kristie Sykes continues our sermon series on the direction of our church and how community, journey, and discovery of passion all play a part in looking forward.

This week, Paula will kick off our new sermon series on Directions.  Sometimes the best way to move forward is to look backwards.  This week we’ll look back at the history of the church, including our own congregation, Left Hand Church, as we begin to discern where we are going from here.

In this week's episode, Paula continues taking a look at Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus, and the sixth chapter is every bit as explosive as the fifth chapter.  Both have done great damage to the church and in culture at large.  John dealt wonderfully with the fifth chapter last week, but we'll take a look at a foundational understanding that'll help us comprehend both the fifth a...

"Wives, submit to your husbands" may be the most abused and misused passage in the Bible.  In this week's sermon, John will look at this passage from several perspectives and ask a hard question --- when, if ever, should we disobey scripture?

In this week's episode, Paula talks about misconceptions and responsibilities of being a Christian and a responsible citizen.

This week's sermon by co-pastor Paula Williams continues our sermon series entitled  A Walk Through Ephesians , with a look at Ephesians Chapters 3 & 4. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at what Paul had to say to the church at Ephesus about how to be human together. This week we examine how to live practically as followers of Jesus, including being committ...

This week's sermon by co-pastor John Gaddis continues our sermon series entitled A Walk Through Ephesians , with a look at Ephesians 2. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at what Paul had to say to the church at Ephesus about how to be human together. This week we examine that Paul is writing to the Ephesians in Ephesus - which happens to be the home to the largest temple in the kn...

This week's sermon by co-pastor Kristie Sykes kicks off our new sermon series entitled A Walk Through Ephesians , with a look at Ephesians 1. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at what Paul had to say to the church at Ephesus about how to be human together. This week we focus on the idea that if you truly know that God loves you as you are, maybe you’ll stop focusing on what you do...

Description: In today's sermon our co-pastor Paula Williams looks at how the Spirit started something in Jerusalem: the Church, and what Jesus said it should be. The church is the place where we do good deeds to leave the world a better place than we found it.  It is a place we work out together the meaning of life.  And it is the place we learn how to be human together.

In today's message, our co-pastor Paula Williams hosts several church members speaking on what our church has meant in their lives.

In today's sermon our co-pastor Nicole Vickey celebrates and examines Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles in a great wind with tongues of fire. Pentecost is the kept promise of Jesus, as he ascended to Heaven, that he would send the Holy Spirit to live with us and guide us.

In today's sermon we conclude our Unlocking Parables sermon series. Our co-pastor Paula Williams reexamines the parable of the prodigal son. The sermon focuses on the father’s grace, even though neither son acted with much love toward the father.

In today's sermon, John Gaddis looks at how our upbringing can impact the way we view the physical world and the spiritual world, and the work that we're called to do to bring those worlds together.

In this week's sermon, Paula Williams teaches us that the kingdom of God is a dragnet that pulls up everything, our strengths and weakness, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows.  Jesus is the one who helps us sort through the junk and heal the open wounds.

In today's sermon, John will talk about how the Kingdom of God is, first and foremost, a reality to be experienced.  It's not a conquering hero defeating his enemies. It's more subversive than that --- it's slowing down and listening with new ears, or seeing with new eyes.

In today's sermon, our co-pastor Paula Williams continues our new sermon series, Unlocking Parables.

This week's sermon is the first sermon in our new sermon series, Unlocking Parables.  In today's sermon, our co-pastor John Gaddis turns the parable of talents on its head and believes that the true message of the parable is to participate in the absurd, over-the-top abundant grace of Jesus.

This episode features our Easter Sunday sermon by our co-pastors Paula Williams and John Gaddis. In this special sermon, we look at this past year and the the darkness of pandemic we have each experienced. We ask ourselves: Does death have the last word? Even in the depth of our losses, death is not the end of the story. Resurrection, though, says the last word hasn’t been...

This episode features a Palm Sunday sermon by our co-pastor Kristie Sykes entitled "It's all about the Palms & the Passion". In this sermon, we explore that idea that there is no quick or easy resolution to the palms and the passion. There is only the tension of the day. It’s a difficult place to be. The palms and the passion together are the reality of our world, the reality of our lives.