The Valley Church Troy Podcast

Summer Fest is a teaching series that explores the festivals of Israel as divine moments set on God’s calendar—intentional times where He invited His people to encounter His presence, remember His faithfulness, and anticipate His redemptive plan. These sacred festivals were not merely ancient traditions but signposts pointing forward to Jesus Christ and God’s ongoing work in the world today. As we...

Summer Fest is a teaching series that explores the festivals of Israel as divine moments set on God’s calendar—intentional times where He invited His people to encounter His presence, remember His faithfulness, and anticipate His redemptive plan. These sacred festivals were not merely ancient traditions but signposts pointing forward to Jesus Christ and God’s ongoing work in the world today. As we...

Summer Fest is a teaching series that explores the festivals of Israel as divine moments set on God’s calendar—intentional times where He invited His people to encounter His presence, remember His faithfulness, and anticipate His redemptive plan. These sacred festivals were not merely ancient traditions but signposts pointing forward to Jesus Christ and God’s ongoing work in the world today. As we...

Summer Fest is a teaching series that explores the festivals of Israel as divine moments set on God’s calendar—intentional times where He invited His people to encounter His presence, remember His faithfulness, and anticipate His redemptive plan. These sacred festivals were not merely ancient traditions but signposts pointing forward to Jesus Christ and God’s ongoing work in the world today. As we...

Summer Fest is a teaching series that explores the festivals of Israel as divine moments set on God’s calendar—intentional times where He invited His people to encounter His presence, remember His faithfulness, and anticipate His redemptive plan. These sacred festivals were not merely ancient traditions but signposts pointing forward to Jesus Christ and God’s ongoing work in the world today. As we...

One thing we see in Scripture is how God invited His people to befriend those who were different from them. One story we read about in Acts 10 when Peter, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, encounters a Roman centurion after God sends both them divine messages to set up the meeting. God was super intentional with them! Join us as Pastor Jayden leads us into the heart of the Gospel and our final mes...

If there's one thing we all could work on, it would be learning how to be present with our friends. How to rejoice with them when they are celebrating, and how to mourn with them when they are grieving. A great rule of thumb is to say little and sit long. A lot of times, our well-meaning words land poorly, so just show up and by your presence demonstrate your love and support. Check out this m...

The Bible, as God's Word, is full of wisdom about friendships and relationships. Join us as we dive into three passages that reveal not only warnings about choosing poorly but also great advice for how to choose wisely our closest people. Because we really are a product of the 4-5 people we hang around the most, so let's choose the right friends. This series explores God’s design for frien...

This series explores God’s design for friendship and offers practical, biblical wisdom for building healthy, life-giving relationships. Throughout this series, we will learn how to choose friends wisely, show up faithfully, navigate conflict, and grow together through honesty and grace. Ultimately, the series points us to Jesus as our truest friend and the foundation for all meaningful connection....

This story includes three main actors: God, Philip, and the Ethiopian official. Phillip is in the middle of a incredible revival when God sends him to a desert road. The Ethiopian official is traveling home after worshipping God in Jerusalem, but his experience was limited because he would have been barred from entering the Temple precincts. Why was he barred? Because he was not physically sound,...

We've all encountered the ones who seem so bent on destruction and violence that there's seemingly no way they could ever make a clean break and actually want to start over. King Manasseh was one of those people. Bound and determined to do literally everything God had forbidden, Manasseh did with gusto! Until he hit rock bottom's rock bottom. Then he prayed to make a clean break from h...

Loneliness. Rejection. One more bill in the mail. It wasn’t just a bad week—it was twelve years of her life. Twelve years of bleeding. Twelve years of trying to get better. Twelve years of losing strength, hope… and money. Even after numerous "let's try another doctor" conversations, nothing changed, and her life became more and more isolated. Then Jesus came to her town, and all the...

A good plot twist makes for a great movie! A good plot twist puts us on the edge of our seats as we see characters' lives move into a different direction and a new reality. When God steps into our lives, we can experience our own plot change. God can take away our guilt. God can bring healing when we least expect it. God can provide for us when we feel like hope is lost. God can see value in u...

52 days. It was completed in just 52 days! What an incredible turnaround! Just like Jesus, who finished it in 3 days. Just 3 days, and he arose from death the victor! In both cases, it was totally a God thing. People don't just come back to life from horrific, disfiguring torture and death, and neither do walls that had lain desolate for 2 centuries rebuild themselves in under 2 months! But wh...

You know that you know that this is the right move, the right decision, the right time to make a change. But then why does it seem like everything is coming at you all at once?! The haters, the heartbreak, the setbacks. Nehemiah faced opposition and resistance too in the work he knew God had told him to do. How did he handle it? Check out this message to find out! In a world marked by brokenness,...

Do you lonely, isolated? Doing what you believe you're supposed to be doing, but lacking the camaraderie that makes work meaningful? Nehemiah may have felt that way too, coming to Jerusalem to repair the walls. He wasn't an engineer. How was he supposed to do this work? With help. Nehemiah mobilized every family to focus on just a portion of the wall, and together they completed to task! J...

After Nehemiah received the heartrending news that Jerusalem's walls were still broken down and the glory of the city still in shambles, what did he do? When you encounter ruins in your own life, what do you do? If you said, pray and seek God, you would be like Nehemiah. But for many of us that is not our first move. But what might happen if it was? Join us for a glimpse at that answer! In a w...

In a world marked by brokenness, setbacks, and uncertainty, the book of Nehemiah offers a powerful roadmap for restoration. This series dives into Nehemiah’s journey of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem—not just as a historical event, but as a spiritual blueprint for how God helps us rebuild our lives, families, communities, and faith. Through themes of prayer, vision, opposition, perseverance, an...

Join us for a special message on the value and importance of giving to the Kingdom of God. This is more than a "money sermon" but is rather an opportunity to put some things into perspective, a heavenly and eternal one, and be intentional with how we use the money entrusted to us rather than being owned and controlled by our possessions and the desire for just a little more. Dr. Stan Tha...

In this message, Pastor Mark takes us into 2 Timothy 4:6-8 and some of the last words of the Apostle Paul to his young protege, Timothy. As we consider what kind of legacy a kingdom warrior ought to leave behind, it is tempting to think in terms of our culture and the human impulse to acquire, to be the best, to be honored and esteemed by others, to win! But that's not how Paul frames it. For...

This series explores what it truly means to be a warrior in God's kingdom—not through physical strength or aggression, but through spiritual courage, conviction, and purpose. We will look at how God equips ordinary people with extraordinary strength to stand firm in the face of fear, temptation, and adversity. Whether you're in a season of battle or preparing for one ahead, this series wil...

Join us as we celebrate Jesus and hear from former OSU player C.J. Saunders in a live interview! From walk on cornerback for OSU to voted a team captain to an injury that delayed him from the pros to signing on for with the Panthers, CJ's story never happened how he scripted it for himself, but because of God's divine intervention at important junctures, CJ got to play the game he loves wi...

"Holy." What's that word conjure up for you? Maybe it sounds like someone trying to prove they are better than you, or maybe it's just a deeply confusing Church word. Jayden helps us peel back these layers to get at the heart of holiness, and in the process, at the heart of God. Check it out. You know that thing, the thing you know you should do, but you just keep putting off for one reason or ano...

Many times in our faith journey, we encounter moments where our progress slows. Maybe it is because an opportunity hasn't arisen or a key person has left. So we pray for God to make a way. But what happens when God asks you to wait? How good are you at waiting? Like in a chess match between skilled competitors, the wait between turns is crucial to the match. You can't play until your oppon...

If you have spent any amount of quality time around the Church, you have probably heard us talk about the importance of reading your Bible. But maybe you are like the majority and struggle to actually make that happen. And yet, just giving 10 solid minutes, inviting the Holy Spirit to speak to you, reading for transformation not just information, can be a game changer for your life. Still on the f...