The Lyons-Muir Church Podcast

July 27, 2025 What does it really mean to make followers of Jesus? In this week’s message, we explore the heart of discipleship — not as the transfer of religious information, but as the imitation of Christ’s character. Drawing from Luke 6 and Paul’s letters to the early church, we’ll see that discipleship is a relational, transformational journey of becoming more like Jesus and helping others do...

July 20, 2025 In a world overflowing with anxiety, cynicism, and fear, what does it mean to be a hope-filled people? In this third message of the Living the Mission series, Pastor Tim Trommater explores biblical hope through Romans 15:13 and 1 Peter 3:15. With raw personal testimony and grounded theological reflection, this sermon unpacks how Christian hope is not mere optimism, but a confident ex...

July 13, 2025 In this second message of our Living the Mission series, Pastor Tim Trommater explores what it means for the church to be a healing congregation. Drawing from Luke 4:16–21 and James 5:13–16, this sermon unpacks Jesus’ mission to bring restoration to the broken and challenges us to embody that same healing presence in our community. Through personal story, biblical insight, and practi...

July 6, 2025 Before we can live out God’s mission, we must know who we are. In this opening message of our summer series, Living the Mission, we turn to 1 Peter 2:9–10 to rediscover our core identity as God’s chosen people, called out of darkness to reflect His light. This message invites us to release performance-based faith and embrace the truth that transformation begins with being, not doing....

June 29, 2025 In this capstone message of the Rhythms of Rest series, “Releasing Control,” we explore how Sabbath is not just a personal pause but a communal and justice-oriented command. Drawing from Deuteronomy 5, we examine God’s vision of rest as freedom, for ourselves and for those around us. Sabbath is more than self-care; it’s a revolutionary act of trust and surrender, rooted in God’s cove...

June 22, 2025 In this fourth message of the Rhythms of Rest series, we turn to Psalm 23, not as a funeral passage, but as a living roadmap for soul-deep renewal. Exploring themes of spiritual rest, divine guidance, and restorative presence, this sermon reminds us that true rest isn't just about relief or escape, it's about walking with the Shepherd who restores, reorients, and leads us with purpos...

June 15, 2025 In a world driven by performance, pressure, and productivity, Jesus offers a radically different invitation: “Come to me, all who are weary.” In this message, part three of the Rhythms of Rest series, we explore Matthew 11:28–30, not as a poetic sentiment, but as a life-giving promise. Rest isn’t merely a break from busyness; it’s a relationship with the One who carries our burdens w...

June 8, 2025 In a world driven by busyness and defined by productivity, rest often feels like a luxury we cannot afford. Yet Scripture teaches us that rest is not a reward for exhaustion but a declaration of trust in God's provision. In this message, Rest Is Resistance, we explore the story of Israel’s manna in the wilderness (Exodus 16:22–30) and uncover how Sabbath is a bold act of faith — a pro...

June 1, 2025 In the opening message of the Rhythms of Rest series, “The Gift of Stopping,” we explore the sacred invitation to pause and embrace rest as a fundamental part of God's design for our lives. Rooted in Genesis 2:1–3, this sermon challenges the cultural glorification of busyness by uncovering the true meaning of Sabbath — not merely as recovery from exhaustion, but as a celebration of co...

May 25, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we take time to reflect upon the living memorials of our lives and how our impact on the world draws people to experience Christ through us.  Our lives are more than names on a headstone, but are stories of interaction and community.  We are all living memorials, and we are called to live life that way. To learn more about Lyons-Muir Church, submit a p...

May 18, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, The Implications of Easter, ends as we move from the open Tomb into the world. The resurrection was never intended to be a moment in history; it has always been meant to be understood as a moment that pushes us forward into our mission. We are commissioned and called to live as resurrection people daily, loving the people around us...

May 11, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, The Implications of Easter, continues with a look at Paul’s writings to the Romans. By looking at Paul’s writings regarding the nature of sin and the Spirit, we recognize that our eternal future rests on the Resurrection in history as it paves the way from this moment in time to eternity. To learn more about Lyons-Muir Church, subm...

May 4, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we continue our teaching series, The Implications of Easter, by turning to the earliest New Testament writing regarding the Resurrection.  Following Paul’s teaching to the people of Corinth, we come to recognize that the historic event of the Resurrection is the foundation of everything we believe as people of faith. To learn more about Lyons-Muir Churc...

April 27, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we start a new teaching series titled, The Implications of Easter. Easter, and the Resurrection were never meant to be a standalone event in the life of the church or in history. The Resurrection broke history, and changes everything in our lives of faith, in our community and in our world. And it calls us to respond. To learn more about Lyons-Muir C...

April 20, 2025 This morning, at Lyons-Muir Church, we celebrate Easter Sunday by journeying to the tomb with Mary, Peter, and John.  Even though we have heard the story before, today we “Look Again” at the garden and recognize that we are all called to live as Easter People in a Good Friday world, and that Jesus calls each of us by name. To learn more about Lyons-Muir Church, submit a prayer reque...

April 18, 2025 This evening, at Lyons-Muir Church, we celebrate Good Friday together by walking through the story of Jesus as he moves from garden to courtyard, from the courtyard to his trial, from trial to the cross, and from the cross to the grave.  We remember his sacrifice this Good Friday and recognize that God does his best work from the tomb. To learn more about Lyons-Muir Church, submit a...

April 13, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we conclude our teaching series on grieving with God by studying the fifth and final chapter of Lamentations. After all the trauma, drama, and tragedy that surrounded Jeremiah, he concludes his writing by restoring his relationship with God. In the same way, when struck by grief in our lives, we are called to reconnect with God, who is with us in our...

April 6, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Grieving with God, continues as we turn to chapter 4 of Lamentations.  Sometimes we feel as though we have lost our shine. Sometimes we question whether we have any value at all. But our value, our identity, is not determined by our present situation. Our identity and our value are ascribed by something else, by someone else. To l...

March 30, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we continue our teaching series, Grieving with God, by looking at the last section of Jeremiah’s third poem.  In a raw and real cry out to God, we wrestle with what it looks like to seek God in the chaos in life. At the same time, we remember that the worst thing that can happen to us is never the last thing. That God works through the chaos. To lear...

March 23, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Grieving with God, continues with a look at silence.  Sometimes, we reach out to God in prayer, we cry out in our grief and God is silent. But silence is not the same as absence.  And in the times of God’s silence, we are invited into a time of remembrance, of all that God is and has done in our lives. To learn more about Lyons-M...

March 16, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we continue our teaching series, Grieving with God, by turning to chapter two of the book of Lamentations. In this poem, Jeremiah paints a picture of a city crying out. Many of us recognize this kind of grief as places and spaces in our lives fall into chaos. But threaded through it all, we find simple structures that lead us on our healing path, one...

March 9, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, we begin a new teaching series titled Grieving with God.  As we move into the season of Lent, we begin our journey in the book of Lamentations, a book of poems that share the reality of sadness and sorrow at the destruction of Jerusalem. As we dive into the realities of suffering in our lives, we find that suffering is something we all experience. But...

March 2, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Masterpiece in Progress, ends with a look at the armor of God that we are each given.  We live in a world of chaos, and each of us is in a spiritual battle. Drawing from the entire book of Ephesians, we line out the armor we are given, with the teachings that Paul has given us through his letter.  It’s time to suit up for the spir...

February 23, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Masterpiece in Progress, continues with a look at what it means to keep Christian relationships with our families and loved ones.  There is a difference between the institution of marriage and what Christ calls us to in Christian marriage. As we dive into Paul’s teaching of relationships, we must keep in mind our understanding...

February 16, 2025 This week, at Lyons-Muir Church, our teaching series, Masterpiece in Progress, continues as we move into chapter 5 of the book of Ephesians.  Paul calls us to be “children of the light.” As people of faith, we must take the time to be intentional with our interactions, to live wisely, and to set our priorities on the things that have eternal value, not simply value in this world....