The Treadweary Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for Candlemas (Presentation of Our Lord Sunday - February 2nd) - Luke 2:22-40

Send us Fan Mail Jesus body and blood are the very gifts of the Lord given for food for our souls, forgiveness of our sin, and assurance of his mercy. Join us as we are finishing up John 6 looking at the words Jesus speaks about his body and blood as true food and true drink. He calls to us to chew on him, to eat of his flesh and drink his blood for life everlasting.  Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Pr...

Send us Fan Mail The source of life is in, and comes from Jesus Christ. This includes your faith and trust in him. As we continue our journey through John 6, we begin to look at the controversy of Christ saying that it is God who draws. God who gives you as a gift to Jesus to hold onto, so join us as we continue our hearing of the word. Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton Smee (Producer...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany - Matthew 4:12-23; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Isaiah 9:1-4

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday After Epiphany - John 1:29-42

Send us Fan Mail How often we look for Jesus in places we expect him to be because we thought we experienced him there last time.  Enter into the deep theology of John 6 as we start to hear Jesus preach his incredible church-shrinkage sermon about something as innocent as bread. Calling out the people for looking for him because of the gift not because of the Giver. Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Prod...

Send us Fan Mail The unexpectant Jesus comes to say, "Do not be afraid!", as he walks upon the water. Asa brief interlude between the bread episodes of John 6, Jesus walks upon water after fleeing the crowds that wanted to take him by force to make him king. How might the true King be coming to us in a weird way? How might Jesus be this One who appears in our lives in the most unexpected...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord Sunday - Matthew 3:13-17 "Allow it for now, for this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness." - v.15

Send us Fan Mail What does the feeding of the 5000, Exodus, and worship have to do with one another? Join us as we begin John 6 by looking at the feeding of the 5000. It is the only miracle, apart form the resurrection to appear in all four Gospel accounts. Why do you think it is so important? Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton Smee (Producer and Editor) Music provided by Gargoyle&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Reading through the Bible in a year always seems daunting, or boring. How can we read it systematically, but with variety? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Many of us have tried to read through the Bible in a year and given up because of the great wall of Leviticus. In this episode, Pastor Carleton talks about his time-tested way of reading through the Scriptures once in a year...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 4th Sunday of Advent - Matthew 1:18-25

Send us Fan Mail The Word of God is the words of Christ to redeem and save, love of nurture the souls of sinners. As we complete John 5, we hear Jesus preach to our sinful hearts to speak of the need for freedom and life in him. How do we shut him out? How do we seek glory in so many other ways but only in Jesus? How do we set aside the work of Christ for our own glory and prestige? Host  Pastor C...

Send us Fan Mail God gifts to us the Sabbath in order that he might break it on our account. Join us in John chapter 5 as we continue to look at Jesus and his work for us. How the Sabbath is a gift given for our enjoyment of him. How our worship is tied to the working of God on our behalf.  Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton Smee (Producer and Editor) Music provided by Gargoyle's...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Advent - Matthew 11:2-11 No one is above the need for a preacher to come and dispel the darkness of doubt in our hearts. Faith is a trust that what God has said is true. Even for John the Baptist, life was hard enough to have caused him to wonder about this Jesus. He needed a preacher so he asked Jesus to preach and he did. Happy Advent you brood of vi...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus Christ is the focus of our worship because he gives himself to us in that way. As we are reborn in Christ, the work of the Gospel and the Spirit is this removal of us from the bonds of our rules and religion to freedom in his name. The Christian life is not about changing one collection of deeds to another collection of deeds that are similar but sanctified. It is Christ&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 2nd Sunday of Advent - Matthew 3:1-12

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent, 2019 - Matthew 24:36-44

Send us Fan Mail The life of the Christian is one of a hidden harvest for which we may never see the fruit.  The life of faith is one to trust God and his promises. Part of this trust comes in hearing the promise. Part of it comes from living life as one trusting that what has been said to us is true. Join us as we finish up John 4. You will have a chance to hear a sermon (sorry about the bad audi...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus said, You worship what you do not know. What charge against someone. Ignorance. Join us as we dig into John 4 and look at this making of true worshipers and God's purpose in seeking out those he desires to create life in, granting living water to a barren soul. Host  Pastor Carleton Smee Production Carleton Smee (Producer and Editor) Music provided by Gargoyle's Nu...

Send us Fan Mail Foolishness of faith can seem insignificant until Christ is shown to be trustworthy. Sermon for Christ the King Sunday - Matthew 25:1-13

Send us Fan Mail He must increase and I must decrease. The call of the worshiper to exalt Christ and be humbled. How might our worship be tied to this encounter that John the Baptist has with his own disciples as they wonder about this Jesus who is baptizing more? How does envy creep into the lives of believers, of churches, of pastors? Join us at the end of John 3 wondering about where Jesus and...

Send us Fan Mail Sermon for the 22nd Sunday after Holy Trinity - Matthew 18:21-36 No sin is insignificant, but all sins are forgiven in Jesus.

Send us Fan Mail How can these things be? That is the question Nicodemus brings to Jesus after he hears: You must be born again. Join Pastor Carleton as we continue through John 3. Looking at this question of knowing, of authority, of testimony and power. What does Jesus have to do with a snake, and how can we say that Jesus condemns no one yet some are condemned? Plus...what does it mean that we...

Send us Fan Mail Being born again - where birth and worship meet.  Dwelling in the first 9 verses of John chapter 3, we take a look at who Nicodemus might be, what it means to be born again, how that impacts we as worshipers, and what the Spirit has to do with it above and beyond ecstatic behavior. If we recapture the phrase from what many evangelists do with it when asking you, "Excuse me si...

Send us Fan Mail Christ's clearing of the temple is a perfect image of the work of Christ upon us in the clearing out of all the idols that invade our worship. Going though the last half of John 2, we will be looking at the account of Christ clearing the Temple in Jerusalem at Passover. What do we make of the buying and selling? What do we do with the quote from Psalm 69 and its relationship...