South Elkhorn Christian Church Podcast

The Spirit fills us to speak in a new language, the very language our world needs. Acts 2:1-4 Music: purple-planet.com

There is a holy power that can humble kings and spark hope in a broken world.  Rizpah  wielded it, Christ became it, and it can live in us, too. Music: purple-planet.com

Judas has a bigger story, too. With God there is always a bigger story. Matthew 26:69-27:5. Please note the scripture passage depicts death by suicide and the message engages the complexity and tragedy of suicide. if you or a loved one are in crisis, please call the Crisis Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 where a trained professional can listen to you, offer resources, and provide help. Music: purple-pla...

Easter is not a Sunday, a service, or just a season. Easter is a person and a people. John 20:19-31 Music: purple-planet.com

With God there is always a bigger story. Love always has one more move. Mark 16:1-8 Music: purple-planet.com

Christ does not keep us from struggle, difficulty, or hardship. Instead, Christ walks us through the wilderness of struggle to show us its hidden gifts. Mark 9:24 Music: Purple-planet.com

Christ does not keep us from struggle, difficulty, or hardship. Instead, Christ walks us through the wilderness of struggle to show us its hidden gifts. Hebrews 4:14-16

Struggle doesn’t mean you are bad or broken. It means you are human. And Jesus struggled, too. It’s just what happens when you commit to something bigger than yourself. The struggle of Jesus also shows us that we are far more resilient than we often realize or imagine. 1 Corinthians 4:8-11 Music: purple-planet.com

Lent begins a season of preparation for Easter. But it is not meant to be a spiritual obligation or chore. It is an invitation to learn what happens when we finally let the wilderness in. Mark 1:12-15 Music: purple-planet.com

Guest Preacher Patrick Messer preaches on the remarkable story of the transfiguration of Jesus. The story's power can sweep our imaginations up to that mountaintop to be baptized in the brilliant light of Christ along with three awestruck disciples. However, while the miraculous is obvious, the meaning is not. Gather around this sacred scene and dare to ask if Jesus is the  only  person...

Trust at the heart of everything. Jeremiah 17:5-10 Music: purple-planet.com

Courage is not conquest, it's compassion. It is facing the struggles around us and within us with an open heart. Joshua 1:5b-9 Music: Purple-Planet.com

Wisdom is knows no age because it transforms every age. Proverbs 8 Music: purple-planet.com

The light of Christ is not so much what we see, it's what makes everything we need to see truly visible. John 8:12-15 Music: purple-planet.com

“Thank God” may seem the best way to close the door on 2020. And yet those words may be more powerful and profound than we realize for stepping into the new year. Ephesians 1:3-14 Music: purple-planet.com

Peace is not confined to a feeling. It is a force for wholeness and completeness in world broken apart by so much. The Prince of Peace is meant to bring us together, again. Romans 15:5-7,13 Music: purple-planet.com

The Christ-child invites us to see the bigger picture, especially in unexpected ways. Matthew 11:2-6 Music: purple-planet.com

We need Advent this year, perhaps more than ever. Advent is about patient endurance, active waiting, holding on to a transforming hope–all made possible by the God who has chosen and chooses again to be "all in" with us.  (John 1:1-5,14,16) Music: purple-planet.com

Associate Minister Holly Fuqua explores what it means for us, like Joseph in the gospel of Matthew, to wake up to what God is doing. Matthew 1:18-25 Music: purple-planet.com

There’s a difference between cheap gratitude and deep gratitude. Listen in and learn more from this surprising story of the deeper way of love (Luke 17:11-19). Music: purple-planet.com

Perhaps the wonder is not that Moses and Aaron turn the Nile to blood, but that God makes unavoidably clear to everyone what the Nile already was: a river of blood for the Hebrews. Exodus 7:14-25 Music: purple-planet.com

Before Jesus shared some of his most famous teaching, he first sat down. Sometimes you see what someone stands for when the sit down. Matthew 5:1-12 Music: purple-planet.com

The first plague is not what we think. It reaches back to Genesis and forward to the God who chooses suffering people yet again. Exodus 7:1-13 Music: Purple-planet.com

Exodus sermon series resumes. God remembers, even when God's people forget. God remembers, especially those who are forgotten. Exodus 6:1-13 Music: purple-planet.com

Jesus is most Jesus at the table. And Disciples are most Disciples by keeping the table open. Luke 14:1-2,12-146; 15:1-2 Music: Purple-planet.com