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A conversation on...
by Corner Church
Welcome to A conversation on. We are a group that values questions over answers, journeys over destinations, and process over quick solutions. A conversation on is a sermon series for those that don't already have everything figured out.
Episodes
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Run With Purpose | 1 Corinthians Week 10
What deserves our focus? In 1 Corinthians 9, Paul describes athletes training for a crown that will not last. We wrestle with the desire to look impressive, the difference between intention and focus, and what it means to run toward a life shaped by Jesus. This is the conversation behind our Week...
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Love Builds Up | 1 Corinthians Week 9
What happens when being right matters more than caring for the person next to us? In 1 Corinthians 8:1–13, Paul connects knowledge, freedom, and love—and asks us to consider how our choices affect others. In this episode, we share the conversations behind the message: food offered to idols, the...
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What Should Change? | 1 Corinthians Week 8
What if following Jesus begins right where you are? In the conversation behind our Week 8 message, we explore 1 Corinthians 7 and the invitation to keep Christ central in our relationships, responsibilities, and uncomfortable circumstances. From the restored man in Mark 5 to everyday moments of...
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Rights and Desires | 1 Corinthians Week 7
What happens when we hold too tightly to our rights and desires? In Week 7 through 1 Corinthians, the Corner Church team explores 1 Corinthians 6, Acts 16, personal freedom, healthy boundaries, and the peace that comes from keeping Christ central.
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Grace, Accountability, and Restored Relationships
How do we face serious wrong without giving up on people? Starting in 1 Corinthians 5, we wrestle with grace, accountability, healthy boundaries, and the slow work of restored relationships. The conversation asks what it looks like to keep Christ at the center while becoming a community where…
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Made for These Moments
Who comes to mind when you think of a good neighbor? After Corner Church's United Service, we share stories of the neighbors who shaped us and ask what it means to be placed well among the people already around us. We talk about Ephesians 2:10, the small and often unseen ways Jesus noticed…
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How Do We Know Success?
What if visible success is the wrong scoreboard for faithfulness? In this conversation around 1 Corinthians 4, we wrestle with the difference between knowing the right things and actually being transformed, Paul’s sarcasm toward a church convinced it had arrived, and the temptation to treat...
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What Is Growing Between Us?
What if spiritual maturity is less about how much we know—and more about what is growing between us? In this episode, we share the conversations behind “Built to Last” in 1 Corinthians 3. We talk about Corinth as a crossroads, the dark side of excellence, Jesus washing the feet of disciples still...
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When Everything Feels Up to You
What happens when faith becomes one more thing you feel responsible to manage? In this conversation, we explore the exhausting belief that everything is up to us: other people's choices, the outcome of every situation, whether we can hold the future together, and whether we can make ourselves...
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Who Are You Trying to Impress?
The pressure to prove ourselves and how the cross changes the scorecard Why do we feel so much pressure to appear successful, capable, or worthy? In this conversation surrounding 1 Corinthians 1:18–31, we explore where that pressure comes from, how it shapes our relationships, and what changes…
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The Cross and the Noise - Who Is at the Center?
Division, pride, and personality conflicts are often symptoms of something deeper. As we begin 1 Corinthians, Paul brings us back to the question underneath them all: Who is at the center? The way through the noise is the cross, where grace replaces superiority and Christ brings divided people...
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The King at Another King's Table
In 2 Kings 24–25, Jerusalem falls, the temple burns, and Judah goes into exile. The story looks over—but 2 Kings ends with Jehoiachin leaving prison and taking a seat at another king’s table. In this episode, we share the conversations behind the message and wrestle with resilience, persistence,...
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Rediscovery - What You Carry Through the Storm
In 2 Kings 21-23, Josiah discovers what Judah had lost: the Word of God, their covenant identity, and the memory of God’s rescue. The coming exile is not undone, but God gives his people something to carry into it. This message explores the foundations that do not keep life from being shaken, but...
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Still Becoming
Hezekiah was faithful, experienced God’s deliverance, and still had places in his life that needed to grow. In this episode, we share the conversations behind the message and explore how awareness, humility, and dependence on God keep adjusting our trajectory toward Christ.
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Who will you trust?
Israel didn't collapse overnight. For more than two centuries, God patiently warned His people as they slowly shifted their trust from Him to politics, wealth, military alliances, cultural trends, and false gods that promised security but delivered nothing. By the time Assyria conquered Israel…
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When Fear Changes What You Trust
Fear doesn't just make us anxious—it quietly reshapes what feels safe, trustworthy, and worth following. Fear rarely announces itself by saying, "Make a bad decision." Instead, it slowly changes what looks like the right decision. This week we explore the story of King Ahaz in 2 Kings 13–16 and...
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What Are You Remembering?
How what we choose to remember shapes our faith, our relationships, and the direction of our lives. Everyone remembers something. The real question is whether we're remembering the right things. In this episode, we explore the story of King Joash—a man who began with extraordinary faithfulness…
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However
Jehu's story is one of the most dramatic and unsettling narratives in Scripture. Anointed by God to confront corruption and bring judgment on the house of Ahab, Jehu acts with decisive courage—but his story doesn't end the way we might expect. In this episode, we explore the violent events of 2...
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Fear, Trust, and the People Beside You - Why fear and faith were never meant to be carried alone
Fear and trust show up in every major moment of life. A difficult diagnosis. A career change. A financial setback. A step of faith into the unknown. The question isn't whether you'll feel fear—it's what voice you'll listen to when fear and trust are speaking at the same time. In this episode, we...
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Not What Was Expected - When God's Grace Shows Up in Unexpected Places
In 2 Kings 5, a powerful military commander is helpless, an unnamed servant girl becomes the voice of hope, a foreign enemy discovers faith, and an insider misses what God is doing right in front of him. This story is packed with irony, challenging our assumptions about who understands God, who...
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Being Seen
In a world that rewards distraction, being seen has become rare — and precious. In this episode, we sit with the quieter stories of 2 Kings, where the narrative shifts from kings and prophets to ordinary people with ordinary needs, and ask what it means to actually show up for someone. We dig…
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Before the Water Is Gone - seeking God early
In this episode, we talk through the conversations that shaped this week’s message from 2 Kings 3 and Mark 5. Why do we wait until things are desperate before asking for help? What keeps us from turning to God early? And how do practices like prayer, Scripture, confession, and community train us…
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Persistent Disciple - Why growth with God rarely happens through convenience, speed, or immediate gratification.
In this episode, the conversation moves through 2 Kings 2, Luke 11, and the persistent relationship between Elijah and Elisha to wrestle with a difficult question: What does it actually look like to persist in being discipled? Elisha refuses to walk away. He keeps following. Keeps listening.…
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Intentionally Looking to God - 2 Kings 1, Ahaziah's wrong turn, and the question of how we persist
The conversation circles a question we couldn't shake while writing: how will I persist? When we're hurting, exhausted, or quietly disappointed in life, who do we intentionally turn to first? Ahaziah turned to Baal-Zebub. Jesus, in Gethsemane, turned to His Father. Most of us turn to a hundred...
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Hope Still Interrupts Failure - What First Kings teaches us about prayer, repentance, and mercy
First Kings is filled with kings who compromise, leaders who fail, and people who drift from God in ways that feel painfully familiar. From Solomon’s divided heart to Ahab’s destructive choices, the story does not hide the consequences of leadership, disobedience, and misplaced trust. But First...
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What Are You Doing Here?
In this episode, we unpack the real conversations that shaped this week's message from 1 Kings 17-19. Elijah goes from bold faith and public miracles to fear, exhaustion, and a cave. We talk through why trust in God is not a switch, what happens when fear gets louder than memory, and why God's...
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When Control Feels Right but Breaks Everything
Rehoboam, the weight of advice, and the quiet cost of choosing pride over humility What if the real danger isn’t bad advice… but the kind of heart that can’t receive good advice? In this episode, we step into 1 Kings 12 and the pivotal moment where Rehoboam inherits a kingdom—and fractures it...
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Easter, the inner life, and the access we don’t know what to do with
We say “He is risen” like it’s obvious. Like it’s simple. Like we know exactly what that means. But what if Easter isn’t just about Jesus not being dead anymore? In this conversation, we walk through the story we’ve heard a hundred times—slowing it down, sitting in the tension, and asking better...
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The Fold: When wisdom, wealth, and influence grow—but the heart quietly moves in another direction.
In this episode, we explore one of the most striking narrative turns in the Bible: the transition from 1 Kings 10 to 1 Kings 11—the moment when Solomon’s story “folds.” At the height of wisdom, wealth, and global influence, the very king who asked God for understanding begins to drift away from...
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Turn Toward God - Why direction matters more than perfection
Turn Toward God - Why direction matters more than perfection What do you do when life gets hard again? In this episode, we walk through 1 Kings 8 and Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the temple—a moment that isn’t really about a building, but about direction. Over and over, Solomon names…
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What draws us to wisdom—and what actually makes it ours?
What draws us to wisdom—and what actually makes it ours?In 1 Kings 4, we see Solomon’s wisdom spreading across nations. Kings travel. Crowds gather. His insight becomes famous.But what is wisdom, really?In this conversation, we process the difference between information and transformation. We…
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Wisdom Please: What We Ask for When the Weight Is Real
What do you ask God for when the moment actually matters? In 1 Kings 3, Solomon steps into leadership, responsibility, and uncertainty all at once—and instead of asking for power, protection, or success, he asks for wisdom. In this conversation, we explore what that request reveals about God’s...
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What Strength Actually Looks Like
At the start of Solomon’s reign, David gives a final charge that cuts deeper than leadership advice: be strong, walk in obedience, and live faithfully. But Scripture quickly exposes the tension underneath it all — how easily we demand righteousness from others while quietly protecting our own...
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How to extend grace when you're not set up for success—lessons from the transition between David and Solomon
In this episode, we dive into the opening chapters of 1 Kings, exploring one of the Bible's most dramatic power transitions. As David lies dying—old, frail, and unable to stay warm—his son Adonijah makes a play for the throne that was actually promised to Solomon. What follows is a masterclass in...
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Twenty years of ordinary moments, faithful people, and the slow work of noticing Jesus at work.
Some moments feel small when they happen. A conversation. A decision that doesn’t make sense yet. A season that feels unfinished. In this episode, recorded during Corner Church’s 20-year celebration, we reflect on the kind of faith that only becomes clear with time. Drawing from Scripture, shared...
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Focused on Christ: Practices That Shape Our Trajectory
Before this message ever became a sermon, it started as a conversation. In this episode, we talk through the questions, tensions, and Scriptures that shaped our Ethos series—especially the idea that formation isn’t about perfection, but direction. We explore why Jesus consistently focuses on...
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What We Mean by Growth - When improvement doesn’t make life easier—but changes what we can carry
We sat with a question that sounds simple and turns out not to be: What do we actually mean when we say we want to grow? Is growth about things getting easier? About accomplishing more? Or is it about having the capacity to stay present when things don’t? In this episode, we wrestle with the...
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Local - When faith stops being abstract and starts showing up
What does faith look like up close? In this episode, we continue Corner Church’s Ethos series by exploring the idea of local — the people and places close enough to actually experience our lives. Drawing from James 2 and the life of Jesus, this conversation wrestles with the tension between…
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We Carry This Together
Why shared life forms healthier faith, deeper trust, and real community In this conversation, the team reflects on the writing of this message and the Ethos value We Carry This Together. We talk about Christmas stories that hold both beauty and breakdown, why self-sufficiency quietly isolates us,...
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When God Interrupts
The shepherds were interrupted. Mary was overwhelmed. The crowd was amazed. Same night. Same news. Different responses.In this episode, we reflect on Luke 2 and the moments when God breaks into ordinary life—sometimes clearly, sometimes quietly—and how we respond when we notice Him at work. We…
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Why Showing Up Still Matters
A conversation about effort, overwhelm, and the small steps that change everything. This episode pulls back the curtain on the dialogue that shaped our latest Ethos message. We talk about the extremes we slip into — doing too much, doing nothing, taking credit, carrying all the weight — and how…
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Side by Side Isn’t Enough
What does it take for a crowd to become a community? In this episode, we reflect on story, connection, and the difference between sharing a moment and sharing a life. We look at how Jesus keeps turning toward people—face to face—and how that shapes our calling as a church. Honest, practical, and...
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Shared Story, Shared Direction
In this episode, we wrestle with the beauty and complexity of being a church made of different people, different stories, and one shared direction. What does it take to move from information to transformation? How do we honor story without losing Jesus…and honor Jesus without losing each other?...
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Building on the Next Page
What if the Sermon on the Mount wasn’t just something to believe, but something to build with? We talked about faith that doesn’t just admire Jesus’ words but builds with them. From humility as the foundation to grace as the structure—what does it mean to actually live the Sermon on the Mount…
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The Voices We Follow
In this conversation, we wrestle with the question beneath Jesus’ words in Matthew 7: “By their fruit you will recognize them.” Together we talk about discernment, bad advice, and the quiet internal work that shapes who we trust—and who we become. From Eve to Rehoboam to Herod, we explore why…
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No Filters: Embracing Grace and Authenticity
In this episode, we dive into the theme of "No Filters," exploring the profound realization that God's grace is made perfect in our weaknesses, not our perfections. Join us as we discuss the importance of authenticity, the biblical narratives that shape our understanding of identity, and how we…
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Deeper Than Behavior: Walking the Narrow Road
In this week’s conversation, we unpack Jesus’ words about the narrow and wide gates from Matthew 7:13–14 — not as a warning about who gets in, but as an invitation into a deeper kind of life. Together they explore what it means to move from surface-level faith to genuine transformation — from...
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Ask, Seek, Knock
In this episode, we delve into the profound teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on the themes of asking, seeking, and knocking. Join us as we explore the essence of prayer, the innocence of a child's faith, and the importance of internal transformation. Through personal stories and...
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Planks, Specks, and Pearls
A conversation on judgment, discernment, and the kind of wisdom that builds a solid foundation.
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The Divided Mind: Fear, Worry, and Trusting God
The Divided Mind: Fear, Worry, and Trusting God In this episode we trace the path that shaped our latest message in the Sermon on the Mount series. From peanut-butter phobias to deep-end worries, we explore how Jesus’ words in Matthew 6 confront both irrational fears and everyday anxieties....
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