The Treadweary Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Gods love for us is evidenced by the love we have for Christ and the trust we have in him. The weird speech of God in John 16 is a forecast of the need to for us to be reassured by Christ that his apparent absence is a kind of a good thing. The liturgical calendar is a wonderful resource and rhythm to follow as it brings our creeds into the way we live so that we may better unders...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 18:21-35

Send us Fan Mail The work of the Spirit is the opening of our ears to hear Christ in the midst of all the noise of the world. Join us as we begin to explore John 16 where Jesus first tells us of the troubles which are to come, but the the voice of one who will speak to bring us relief.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 18:15-20

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 16:21-28; Romans 12:9-21

Send us Fan Mail Persecution and sufferings are not things the Christian avoids, but are things that come to the Christian because our Jesus suffered both for our sake. Join us as we complete John 15 and learn about the truth of persecution in the midst of the Christian life. How the Christian is one who will suffer because our life in Christ is based on a suffering Jesus. 

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 16:13-20

Send us Fan Mail Christ is the vine, God is the gardener, and we are the branches who just happen to pbear fruit that is grown on us by the vine. How often it is that we hear the word to bear fruit and think it is this command to go out and do things. No! It is this word that reminds us of who we are. Join us as we go through John 15 looking at Christ's statement to us that we are branches th...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 15:10-28

Send us Fan Mail As the Spirit comes and does his work, he becomes the spokesperson for God to remind us of God's work for us in Jesus. Join us as we conclude John 14. Christ tells us that he is leavig to complete his work and sit at the right hand of the Father. He tells us of the gifting of the Spirit. What the work of the Spirit looks like and how we must depend on him to help us love Chri...

Send us Fan Mail "If it is you, command me to come to you upon the waters." - Matthew 14:28 Sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 14:22-33

Send us Fan Mail The way of Christ is his and not ours. Join us as we continue our study of John, finishing up John 13 and entering into John 14. We will look at this question of what it means to obey Christ and love one another. What does it mean for Jesus to say that where I am going you cannot come, right now anyways? What does it mean for Jesus to tell us that he is the way, the truth, and the...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost - Genesis 32:22-31; Matthew 14:13-21

Send us Fan Mail As Jesus bares himself in stooping down to wash the feet of his disciples, he lays bare the truth of his work on our behalf for his people. Join us as we dig into John 13, the Maundy Thursday text of footwashing, and the "commissioning" of Judas to go out and perform his work quickly, in order that Jesus may be shown to be the Jesus we need.

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost - July 26, 2020 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43; Genesis 29:15-28 

Send us Fan Mail As with all things, Christ was setup for reaching to the cross as the ultimate sign of who he is and why he came. We are finishing up John 12 as we look at some tough verses around blind eyes and closed hearts, loving the praise of men, and condemnation. Where does the cross fit? When Christ says that if we want to see the Father we then look at him, what does God look like to us?

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 7th Sunday after Pentecost - Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43; Genesis 28:10-19a

Send us Fan Mail In Christ we hear a "No" for the life we have, and a "Yes" for the life we need. Join us as we continue in John 12 and hear about death and life. We hear Jesus give a peculiar answer to some Greeks, and then hear the Father proclaim a sermon to the people gathered there, listening to Jesus, that seems awfully weird for what was to take place in only a few days...

Send us Fan Mail When Christ enters into Jerusalem on that donkey, it is not just a moment to have a parade at church but the fulfillment of centuries of worship sung in the Temple in prepartion for this One who was to come. Join us as we continue in John 12 and read about the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. Christ comes, not as a conquering hero, but One who has already won, riding a donkey as a...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus came into the world to save sinners, not to shame them. Join us as we continue our study of the Gospel of John as we pick up where we left off with John 12. We will hear about Lazarus, Martha, and Mary again, but a few things we didn't know before. Lazarus is known as "the dead guy", Martha the "waitress", and Mary...well. you will have to listen. Ne...

Send us Fan Mail It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life. - Jean-Luc Picard Join us as we conclude our study of John 11. Here we have the good work of Christ, in which he raised a man from the dead, being the final nail in the coffin of sinners fighting against the Savior. Seeing in a Christ a threat to their power, the religious leadership leads the w...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Ascension Sunday - May 24, 2020... Luke 24:44-53

Send us Fan Mail The work of Christ is to raise the dead, and unbind the bound. Open your Bibles and join us as we continue to look at John 11 and the raising of Lazarus. We finally get Lazarus out of the tomb, but what does this interaction say about us, about Jesus, and about our worship? What does speaking have to do with our relationship with God? Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 6th Sunday of Easter - John 14:15-21

Send us Fan Mail Even Jesus, in all his love and righteousness, gets angry at unbelief.  Join us as we continue through John 11, where we first saw the disciples and their ignorance, then we heard Martha speak her unbelief and still receive a sermon from Christ on life out of death and express faith from her own lips. Now we meet Mary, but she fits the same mold. Martha and the Jewish leaders fail...