Wasatch Christian church podcast

Often times the bible hits us right where we live.  And it seems confrontive, but it is actually all in love to grow us from spiritual infancy to maturity.  To change our mindset.  To make us more Christlike and enable us to have those things the bible talks about; courage, contentment, and abundant life.  In our series about facing the issues that hold us back, we look at two issues that are very...

Today we pause in our current series to be reminded of and pray for the persecuted church across the world. As Americans, we really do not understand what it is to go through real persecution, especially for our faith.  And to realize that it is not just missionaries or adults that go through the persecution, but often young children that choose to live for Jesus and come under immense pressure fo...

We continue in our series of facing the issues in our lives.  Todays topics focus on not learning from the issues in our lives and not controlling our thought life.  These are internal issues, but they manifest themselves in our lives in fear, doubt, anger, loneliness, and disabling ourselves.  They cause us to make bad relationship choices or to distance ourselves from others.  Things God never i...

Faith can be messy as God calls us to transform and conform to His likeness.  We face struggles, and yet in spite of how we feel, God calls us overcomers.  This morning we look at 2 more of the top 10 issues are that we deal with; our view on finances and our comparing ourselves with others.  Join us as we lean into God’s work and learn together how to overcome the issues that face us.

We often struggle with fear, doubt, relational wounds, or living in the past.  But that is not where God would have us to live. Biblically, there is a very different picture of the Christian life.  So why do we not experience the abundance and joy?  Reality is, because we will not face our issues or the things that haunt us.  This new series encourages us and gives us simple steps to overcome thes...

Nobody loves to wait.  In our instant gratification society waiting is a challenge for us.  But for Christians, one of the ways that God tests our faith is through delays and making us wait.  Why?  So, we can depend upon Him.  But waiting is risky because when we wait on God, we have to give up our control of the situation.  We don’t get the answers we want.  And we have to be okay with that.  Joi...

The bible speaks to us tremendously about money.  Jesus also had a lot to say about money.  Why?  Because how we handle money has a direct correlation to the maturity…..or lack of maturity….in our spiritual life.  There is nothing wrong with having money, or even being rich, that is not the issue.  The issue centers around how we deal with money and what drives our decisions concerning what we do...

God testing our faith is a good thing as it is always for our good.  We fear tests, we get anxious about tests, we don’t like tests.  But when God tests our faith through demands, His goal is for us to grow in Godliness.  What we need to do is to change our perspective on the testing’s that God gives us.  When God tests us with demands, the first thing we need to do is ask ourselves a question…..”...

God tests our faith through difficulties.  Our challenge is to see these events as God sees them, and not from our typical worldly point of view.  God tests us to grow us, and as the bible states; to grow us in perseverance, endurance, perfection, maturity, and completeness.  Its all about doing things Gods way in faith, once we learn to see things in God’s way in faith.  Join us today as we learn...

Nobody likes tests, but the reality for Christians is that God does test our faith, and it is for our good.  We begin a new series this morning on 4 ways that God tests our faith.  Today we look at the reason “why?” God would test our faith and its for our good.  It time, as Christians, to take on a biblical view of tests, trials, tribulations, and temptations.  Grab your bible and walk though it...

When Christians ‘collide’ with the worldly culture it should not be a surprise and it is not a bad thing.  It actually shows us that we are living our faith. Anytime a single match is lit in a dark room….the shadows run.  And the more light in the room, the less darkness there is.  The bible tells Christians that they are a light in a darkened sin filled world…..so the two cannot mix.  But the mos...

The truth of Jesus and His gospel message collide with the so-called ‘truths’ of our world and the culture.  That is why it is so important to hold tightly to the real truth of Jesus.  Our culture will try to temp us to believe in false truths, worry over unrealistic fears, and water down our faith….and if we are not careful, we can end up like many Christians who no longer have a fervor for our r...

When we live for Jesus, we collide with the culture of our world.  But that is not a bad thing, it shows that we are truly living for Christ….as the Apostle Paul stated, we are to fight the “good fight.”  Last week, in our series, we looked at standing firm for Jesus.  This week we look at being transformed in Jesus after salvation.  We can’t just “stop” doing bad things, we must also “start” doin...

Since the beginning, the Christian faith has been on a collision course with the culture that it exists within. The values of the world do not align with the values of the Faith. The priorities of the world do not align with the priorities of the Faith.  We Collide!

Three encouragements from Jesus’ sermon on the mount to overcome loneliness.  The problem is, they are not our first thought or reaction when it comes to overcoming the attitude of loneliness.  They are also counter culture.  But these three remedies, when done consecutively, will help us to change our attitude from loneliness to joy……and therefore…...the effort is completely worth it!

Step two in getting over loneliness.  Loneliness is not a bad thing, in fact it is an alarm going off telling us something is wrong and we need to deal with the issue.  Most importantly, we need to deal with loneliness God’s way.  That is what makes all the difference.  We can put a “band aid” on loneliness by filling our lives with things and other people, but that never fixes the problem.  Join...

Loneliness has been called, “the malady of our age” and “the leprosy of the West”.  Loneliness is a massive issue, especially since the isolation times from Covid.  The reality is that God created us to be in relationships, healthy relationships with Him and others.  But if we struggle with the attitude of loneliness, none of our relationships are healthy…..and neither are we.  Thank God, the bibl...

Judas Iscariot left his mark on history for all to know about.  1 man, 1 decision, 1 lasting consequence that is still well known by both saints and sinners.  So, what is the lesson of why this man is still written about in the bible?  Is there any life application for us from his life?  And why would Jesus call this man to be an apostle anyway?  Today we answer all these question and seek to alig...

The 11th apostle called by Jesus, Judas the Son of James was a man that seemed to live in obscurity.  Very little is sated about him in the bible and even church history.  And yet, this man serves as a tremendous example for Christians to aspire to.  Just because there is not much stated or known about this man does not mean that he was insignificant or hand no impact upon our world as an apostle....

Have you ever met someone so obstinate that they just drove you crazy?  Someone so single minded and strong willed that you wondered if God could even change them?  Well, introducing Simon the Zealot, one of the last of the apostles.  Zealously can be a good thing if going in the correct direction, but if zealous with the right intentions and wrong actions, a little misguided perhaps, it can be a...

Today we visit the 9th apostle called by Jesus, James the son of Alphaeus.  His place in the apostolic team is very interesting.  In a world of entitlement, self-promotion, self-expression, and the need to be notices.  This apostle challenges how we choose to honor Jesus by serving Him by serving others.  His story is so refreshing and we can all learn a lot from who he was and how he served.  Joi...

We all know about this apostle, the one we are studying today…..Thomas.  But we know him as who?  Yes, doubting Thomas.  This apostle has had to live with this for some 2000 years, but there was more to Thomas than just doubt.  He had his great moments of faith as we will look at today.  But even more impacting, is why would Jesus choose a doubter to be one of His apostles?  We will answer this cr...

Matthew, or Levi, is the seventh apostle listed as being called by Jesus.  The life that he allowed others to see was one thing, but the inner reality of Matthews heart was another thing.  We are often like Matthew, looking one way to everyone around us, but feeling something very different on the inside.  The inside is the part that Jesus sees and speaks to.  Join us as we look at the amazing tra...

This morning we look at the sixth apostle, Nathaniel.  Nathaniel was seeking God with all his heart, but he still had an issue.  He was subject to prejudice.  Prejudice blinds men’s eyes from the truth because it’s rooted in feeling not fact, in opinion not reality.  We too can struggle with prejudice.  But how to we deal with this subjective issue in our life?  Join us as we look at the life chan...

Phillip.  The fifth of the twelve apostles.  Prayed over by Jesus, chosen by Jesus.   Mentored by Jesus.  But…..to much a “seeing is believing” guy.  Phillip struggled with only seeing what was in front of him and was quick to point out the problems.  It took him quite a while to learn to be a man of faith.  Gracefully, Jesus was patient with him.  This is good news for us because we too struggle...