Sojourn Church Podcast

Scott gives 4 reasons to come out for the six week Christian education hour starting this Sunday

A sermon from Luke 2:25-38 on how understand the fulfillment of God's promises to the nation of Israel. According to the New Testament, the promises to Israel are fulfilled in Christ and the church, not in the nation of Israel today.

Guest preacher Rev. Justin McLendon preaches a sermon from Romans 8.

Scott and his guest discuss Psalm 4 For all resources related to the psalms project, go to sojournersandexilesmusic.com

Pastor Scott preaches a sermon from Psalm 139 offering reasons why we should embrace a pro-life ethic with suggestions for how we can live it out in the world.

A sermon from Luke 7:18-23 and Hebrews 2:1-4

Scott and his guest discuss Psalm 3 as part of our ongoing Psalms Project release. Psalm 3 is now available for listening on streaming platforms. You can find it on YouTube Here . Please visit www.sojournersandexilesmusic.com for one place that has all of the psalms and our conversations, along with music and devotional material.

Sermon Text: Psalm 121 - Song of Ascents I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. 6 The sun shall not strike you by...

Jesus Presented at the Temple 22 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two youn...

The Word Became Flesh 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose nam...

SERMON TEXT: Luke 2:1-21 The Birth of Jesus Christ 2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem,...

Scott and his guest discuss Psalm 2 as part of the Sojourn Church Psalms project. Psalm 2 release is out can be found on most platforms and on youtube HERE.

SERMON TEXT: LUKE 1:57-80 57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.” 61 And they s...

SERMON TEXT: Luke 1:26-56 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin betrothed[a] to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”[b] 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of g...

Scott and his guest discuss Psalm 1 in conjunction with the musical release of Psalm 1 from the Psalms Project.  To listen to Psalm 1, go to the link below: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sojournersandexiles/psalm-1?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=Email+&utm_source=SendGrid

SERMON TEXT: Luke 1:5-25 5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in year...

SERMON TEXT: Luke 5:27-32 27 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his discipl...

Pastor Scott and his guest announce the release of the Psalms Project at Sojourn Church.  They discuss what the Psalms Project is,  the arrangement of the Psalter, the different kinds of Psalms,  the history of Psalm singing, and why Psalm singing is important for the 21st Century church.  

SERMON TEXT: Luke 5:17-26 17 On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. 18 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, 19 but finding no...

Sermon Text from Luke: Jesus Cleanses a Leper 12  While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy.  And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”  13  And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.  14  And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show...

SERMON TEXT: LUKE 5:1-11 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the...

Pastor Scott continues the series in the Gospel of Luke. SERMON TEXT: LUKE 4:31-44 31 And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, 32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. 33 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, 34 “Ha! What have you to do...

Guest Pastor Matt Esswein preaches from 1 Sam 16

SERMON TEXT: LUKE 4:16-30 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 17 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor....

SERMON TEXT: Luke 4:1-15 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall no...