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Locked gates and prison cells are no match for the unstoppable force of the early church. Join us as we look at Acts 5 and learn three things we can’t stop doing, because God won’t stop.

What if true generosity isn’t about how much you give, but the condition of your heart, and what God might be calling you to release? In this powerful message comparing Barnabas with Ananias and Sapphira, guest speaker Mike Romberger gives us a powerful reminder that giving isn't about elevating us but glorying God!

How do we respond when it is becoming increasingly harder to be a Christian in our world? Learn from the example of the early church on how to be BOLD.

Satan will use any tactic to get us from worshiping God. But whether it is sin, sifting or the supernatural, all of these schemes can be conquered through Christ. Listen to this message to discover how!

We all mess up, but we don’t have to settle for thinking we’re messed up. Listen to this message to find out from King David how to move from guilt to God.

Ready to wake up to a better life? It's time to WAKE UP. Listen to this powerful message of hope from Easter 2023

Just like a mountain climber has to plan their next move up on the mountain, building habits takes planning and preparation. So what does it take to get over the hump of building up habits? Listen to this message to get a awesome biblical strategy for building your habits.

Following up on the message on holding onto biblical sexuality in the digital age, Pastors Sawyer and Matt talk about what to do if you have already messed up when it comes to sexuality. They talk through practical steps that we all need to take to repent and restart, avoid shame, find forgiveness and return to the path outlined by God. This is an important episode that we hope helps you no matter what your past or present looks like. Episode Links: - Connect with Us: [email protected] // [email protected] - Listen to Last Week's Message - "Protect Your Path": https://arisedenver.com/media - "The Mortification of Sin" by John Owen: https://www.amazon.com/Mortification-Sin-Puritan-Paperbacks/dp/0851518672 - "Sexual Detox: A Guide For Guys Who Are Sick of Porn" by Tim Challies: https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Detox-Guide-Guys-Sick/dp/1453807284 - "Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality" by Rachel Joy Welcher: https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Back-Purity-Culture-Rediscovering/dp/0830848169/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Following up from this past Sunday's message, Pastors Matt and Sawyer dive into the important implications of God's grace. If it is God's grace from the beginning to the end, how does that grace affect us? Does grace give us license to do whatever we want? What does grace enable us to do? How does grace work with good works? Episode Links: Last Week's Sermon: https://arisedenver.com/media Connect with Us: [email protected] & [email protected] Website: https://arisedenver.com "Better Than You Think" Series - https://arisedenver.com/currentseries

From the defeating of aliens to finding the Holy Grail, every quest ends with the heroes reaching the goal and the celebration beginning. But for the Christian life, our goal is not reached in a two-hour movie or 12 chapters of a book. Listen in as we wrap up our series and find encouragement as we all press onwards toward the goal of following Jesus.

We all have questions about God, about faith, about our lives. In this episode, Pastors Sawyer and Matt dive into some tough theological questions that stemmed from Pastor Matt's sermon about the obstacles that we face on the quest of following Jesus. We discuss how God responds to our sin, the difference between discipline and punishment, and close with the relationship between the bad things that happen in our lives and our sin. It is such an important discussion for all of us as we work on bringing God more into the 10,000 messy minutes of our lives. Episode Links: - Last Week's Sermon: https://arisedenver.com/media - Have a Question? Connect with Us : [email protected] // [email protected] - Website: https://arisedenver.com

This will be our last episode of Season 3. Listen in as Sawyer encourages you to share your faith during this time and suggests some way to use this unique season to help new people follow Jesus. Your faith may have saved you, but it is not for you.

Our times are certainly different now then they were even one short month ago. It is so easy to get bogged down and discouraged by our new reality, but what if God has made you for such a time as this. What if this is your moment to grow, to love like Jesus, to change your outlook, to be BRAVE? In this episode, Sawyer and Matt dive into wise and godly decision-making during this new season of life and challenge all of us to be BRAVE, to trust God and to dive deeper.

In a new step for The 10,000 Podcast, it's not just Sawyer and Matt on the podcast! We are joined by our first guest, Reza Zadeh, chaplain for the Denver Broncos, to dive deeper into his message from this past Sunday about withstanding the waves of this storm that we are currently in and how we can still have peace through putting our trust in a person - Jesus. If you haven't listened to his message, we definitely encourage you to check it out (www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0fbHkz2DwI&t=1s). Listen in for a great discussion about finding peace, how ministry looks different due to stay-at-home restrictions and COVID-19, and a lament of the lack of good Iranian food on the Front Range.

What does it look like to live out your faith in our current climate? How do I really know if I am saved? Is obedience required for my salvation? In this episode of The 10,000 Podcast, Sawyer and Matt dive into these questions and more all stemming from last week's sermon at Stapleton Church. Although more of theological discussion, the conclusion of the episode is very practical and will encourage you to live out your faith and show your fruit. "This Won't Hurt a Bit" Podcast - COVID-19 Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covid-19/id1047494657?i=1000469103217 Email your questions to Sawyer Trapp: [email protected]

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic dominating everything in our world, Sawyer and Matt take a step back and look at how we can best respond to this crisis and new world as followers of Jesus. Talking through a range of topics, this podcast deals with change, innovation, still being on mission, helping others, worry and anxiety, as well as huge thank you to healthcare and mental health workers and professionals. We know that times are crazy but we can still bring God into our 10,000 minutes and dive deeper in our faith even now.

John the Baptist, doubts, miracles and the Kingdom. In this episode, Matt and Sawyer cover many different topics in response to last Sunday's message. We encourage you to dive deeper with us as we look at the life of John the Baptist and how his life reflects many of our own. Many of have gone through seasons or our currently praying for a miracle, how we respond and still have faith when you don't get your miracle?

If you are a follower of Jesus, then you most likely wish you had more faith. It is something we all want, but it seems quite difficult to achieve. In this episode, Matt asks Sawyer questions about his sermon from this past Sunday about how we can have "great faith." As we dive deeper, we hope this episode encourages you in your faith and allows you to stop trying harder and just trust more in our God!

For the next few weeks of our God and Science series, you will get to enjoy a thought-provoking Q&A discussion with scientists in the Stapleton Church community. This discussion features virologist, Mike Rudy. He shared loads of information about the nature of existence, thoughts about the fall of humanity, and how evolution actually may be less of an answer to the existence of life than previously thought. Lots of great questions were asked and it really was a thought-provoking discussion that will help you bring God more into you 10,000 minutes this week!

For the next few weeks of our God and Science series, you will get to enjoy a thought-provoking Q&A discussion with scientists in the Stapleton Church community. This discussion features geologists Megan Cornelissen and Doug Johnson and aerospace engineer Stephanie Staley. Lots of great questions were asked and it really was a thought-provoking time. We hope it deepens your faith and allows you to bring God more into your 10,000 minutes.

Spiritual Gifts are one of the hot and often controversial topics in the world of the church. In this episode, Sawyer and Matt do a deep dive into how we should be using our gifts as Christians, what their roles and connections are and whether or not all gifts are still present. It is a very thoughtful and helpful episode that will motivate you to fan the flame of your gifts to build up your church, Listen in!

We all get angry, we all fume, we all get frustrated; but how can we change this? Following the sermon on Sunday about growing in our listening skills, Sawyer and Matt dive deeper into how we can control our anger. Looking at practical techniques and personal experience, we hope that this episode helps you in your relationships and provides helpful advice that allows us all to tame that anger inside.

We all long for relationships in our lives, even in this hyper-connected world. Even as counter-intuitive as it may seem, the secret to relationships and community is actually opening ourselves up to others. Being vulnerable. In this episode, Sawyer and Matt dive deeper into how we actually go about being vulnerable, who we should be vulnerable with and encourage you to take the risk of opening up for the sake of the connection we all long for!

This week, Matt and Sawyer continue their deeper dive into our Belong series and unpack some of the objections that we all feel when we start to put others first: - What happens when you feel unseen and unappreciated? - Who is taking care of me if I am always taking care of others? - When has my helping transitioned into enabling? We hope our discussion helps you feel more encouraged, supported and answers some of your questions as we all seek the humility that Jesus calls his followers to live out! Have questions that you want answered? Email [email protected] to have your question answered in an upcoming podcast!

How do we actually Spur others on to love and good deeds? What does it look like to belong together even when we need to have difficult conversation? In this episode of The 10,000 Podast, Sawyer and Matt dive into what this spurring may look like, when it is needed and when it should be avoided. Listen in and cowboy up to spur the people in your life on back to God!

We have never been more connected, yet we've never felt more alone. Join Matt and Sawyer for Season 2 of The 10,000 Podcast as they help you dive deeper into our Sunday messages. We are looking at how we put the phone down and engage more deeply with the people in our lives as well as deepen our relationship with God!

“If you read Proverbs over and over again and understand it, you’ll have a master’s degree in finance.” -- Dave Ramsey. In this episode of the 10,000 podcast, Matt & Sawyer look at some money proverbs from the book of Ecclesiastes that should help your 10,000.

"Money is the answer for everything." Yes, that is straight up biblical truth. If you didn't know that was in the Bible, you weren't alone. So in this episode of the 10,000 Pod Matt & Sawyer break down this verse and others, as well as answering a listener question about suffering.

In this episode Matt & Sawyer answer a question about what happens to awful people who repent and turn to Jesus on their deathbeds, as well as discussing some age-old wisdom about how we could work smarter, not harder.

Have you ever had a horrible boss? We've all had someone in authority over us who is difficult to deal with. So how do we respond? In this episode Matt & Sawyer tackle this topic as well as answering a tough question: How do you not hate God when he allows so much bad in your life?

Does the Bible contradict itself when it tells us not to judge another person? In this episode of the 10,000 Podcast, Matt and Sawyer tackle this question before examining the reality that wisdom is more important than whoever has a position of power or the biggest platform.

GK Chesterton once said that human depravity is the only bit of Christian theology that we can actually prove. We all have deficiencies and sin. So what do we do about it? In this episode of the 10,000 hear about Sawyer's attempt to jump a fence, how the wrong relationship can ruin you, and why we need to find the one who actually has never sinned.

Sometimes we wonder: is this right or wrong? It it sin? But sometimes that's the wrong question. Sometimes we need to ask simply: is it wise or stupid? As Sawyer Trapp and Matt Wolf break down some of the proverbs of Solomon we learn to ask that different question.

The perfect pulled pork. It takes hours and hours to slow cook in a smoker. Like good barbecue, the best things in life take a long time. In this second episode, Sawyer and Matt discuss dealing with criticism, how patience is one of the best predictors of success in life, and why nostalgia isn't good for you.