SIDERIS PODCAST

What is your first thought when you wake up each morning? Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person?

Are you a cynic? Are you growing more cynical? Is your hope growing as the years go by or is it fading? What makes Peter say that we are can be born to a living hope?

An introduction to the letter of 1st Peter. Have you ever felt disoriented? Well, so were the Christians living in modern day Turkey in A.D. 62. They were wondering why it would feel so strange being a Christian if this was the world God created? Had they gotten something wrong?

Sideris' very own Tyler Smith shares a story of God's grace in 2019.

Sideris' own Andrea Akici shares a story of God's grace from 2019.

What does the story of the Magi teach us about seeking and finding?

Pastor Ryan takes a look at the uniqueness of the Christmas story from Mary's perspective.

Luke 7:18-23 // Joy is something that we all try to fin in this life, but what if we are looking in the wrong place. God wants joy for us, but his ways are always unexpected.

Isaiah 11:1-11 // Every person longs for peace, but why can't we figure it out? Is it a yet discovered technology, economic principle, political theory that we must unearth?

Genesis 11:1-9 & John 2:13-22 // Flood, Tower of Babel, Jesus in the Temple all show us God's Anger, but what does that anger lead to?

The stories of Jacob, Paul and Augustine help us see a pattern of God reorienting people though intense wrestling.

What does it mean to be a spiritual orphan?

What does the OT Law and Jesus's Sermon on the Mount have in common? What does it tell us about what God wants to do when He shows up in our lives?

Does God heal today?

Joshua 2 and John 8:1-8 // When God shows up he gives us a new identity. We are no longer associated with our sin, but with our Savior. We look at the OT story of Rahab the prostitute and the NT story of the Woman caught in adultery.

We look at Abraham and Peter to see if there are similarities in what happens when God shows up in their lives.

Can modern science and Genesis 1 coexist?

Pastor Ryan talks about the "institution" of Science and how it processes knowledge.

* We recommend reading the transcript from Talk #1 here before listening. Find it here: https://siderischurch.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/what-is-scientism/ Talk #2 focuses on Acts 17 tells us of the worship of the "unknown god" by the intellectual giants of ancient Athens. Is the worship of science in our culture something of the same. What, if any, are the limits of scientific knowledge. Seven Scie...

What is justice? Whose justice is it? How do we participate in this justice?

What is the beautiful labor of the cross? How does it lead to ultimate and lasting contentedness.

What is worship? Why should we worship? How can we be skillful at worship?

We all find ourselves in several pits throughout our life. What do Jesus and the Psalms written about him teach us to do from the pit?

In the final sermon in our Colossians series we look at the unique relationship between Onesimus, a runaway slave, and his master Philemon. Paul has a revolutionary take on what Philemon and Onesimus should do to restore their relationship. It sheds light on how the gospel changes everything in light of God's grace and mercy toward all humanity.

God calls us to live and speak wisdom toward those outside the family of God. How do we do that?