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Connect Church Longview Podcast
by Connect Church Longview
Welcome to the Connect Church Longview podcast—your go-to source for uplifting messages, real-life insights, and Spirit-filled discussions rooted in God’s Word. Each episode is designed to help you grow closer to Jesus, find authentic community, and strengthen your faith for everyday life. As Scripture reminds us: “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ” (Romans 10:17 NLT). Tune in weekly and discover how we’re connecting people to Christ and each other in Longview, Texas, and beyond.
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Mama Knows
Send us Fan Mail Mama knows. Not just when the room gets quiet or when a hand slips toward the cookie jar, but when something is off in the heart, in the home, or in the story we keep telling ourselves. On Mother’s Day, we start by honoring moms and naming the value of what they carry, then we...
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When Plans Go Sideways - Jim Rapp
Send us Fan Mail Your plans can look perfect right up until the moment they don’t. One hidden patch of “black ice” and suddenly you’re spinning, sliding, and trying to figure out how you got there. We start with that kind of real-life scare, then connect it to something even bigger: Jesus doesn’t...
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Dangerous Religion
Send us Fan Mail Some of the most dangerous moments in faith look “successful” from the outside. We can serve, give, sing, quote Scripture, and still be carrying a heart that won’t surrender. That’s why we go straight into Romans 2:17–29 and ask the uncomfortable questions: Are we chasing praise...
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God Judges The Heart
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever thought, “At least I’m not as bad as them,” Romans 2 has a way of turning the spotlight back where it belongs. We keep walking through our Romans series and land on a hard, freeing truth: God judges the heart. Not the polish. Not the church image. Not the spiritual...
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Without Excuse
Send us Fan Mail Romans 1 doesn’t let us hide behind excuses, and that’s exactly why we needed this conversation. We start with a simple challenge: when you walk outside, look up. Creation is not just background noise, it’s testimony. The earth and sky, the order of seasons, and the design of the...
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A Burden for the Gospel
Send us Fan Mail If the gospel feels light to you, it probably isn’t shaping you yet. We lean into Romans 1:8-15 and follow Paul’s surprising starting point: gratitude, constant prayer, and a real longing to strengthen people he hasn’t even met. That simple order confronts a habit many of us slip...
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Unashamed
Send us Fan Mail Freedom is easy to enjoy and even easier to forget. We start by honoring our veterans and military families, then we shift into Romans 1:16 to 17 with a message that refuses to stay comfortable: the gospel of Jesus Christ is not something we “add” to life, it is the power of God...
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Called, Set Apart, Assigned
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever felt worn out trying to do “Christian things” while still feeling unsure of who you are, Romans 1:1–7 puts the pieces back in the right order. We start a slow, verse-by-verse walk through the Book of Romans and land on a simple framework that hits hard: called, set...
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Be Kind. Rewind.
Send us Fan Mail A church can have the right words, the right routines, and still be missing the one thing that makes it shine: love. We open Revelation 2:4–5 and let it confront us with a hard question God asks his own people: when did you stop loving me and loving each other like you did at...
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Overcoming Temptation
Send us Fan Mail Temptation doesn’t usually kick the front door down. It whispers, it inches closer, and it waits for the moment you’re tired, lonely, offended, or confident you can handle it. We dig into a simple but demanding idea: if we choose first, we don’t have to live in the damage later....
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Take It Back
Send us Fan Mail Joshua 24:15 doesn’t leave room for a half-hearted faith. When the line is “choose today whom you will serve,” excuses get exposed fast, especially the subtle ones that look spiritual on Sunday but collapse under real life pressure. We take that ancient challenge and bring it…
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The Power Of Consistency
Send us Fan Mail Your life doesn’t usually fall apart from one big decision. It drifts from a hundred small ones you repeat without thinking. We get real about that drift by starting where Paul starts in Romans 7: the confusing gap between who we want to be and what we actually do. When we stop...
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No One Is Good
Send us Fan Mail “No one is good” sounds like a slap until you hear it the way Jesus meant it. We talk through why that line is actually a doorway out of shame, out of religious pressure, and out of the exhausting need to prove we belong. When only God is the standard of goodness, the room gets...
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When You Stop Holding Back
Send us Fan Mail The culture trains us to accumulate, protect, and chase the next thing, but Jesus says something that cuts straight across our instincts: it is more blessed to give than to receive. We take that line from Acts 20:35 and put it under pressure, not as a guilt trip about money, but…
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What Is Faith?
Send us Fan Mail One word keeps showing up when faith is under pressure: yet. When we say “I can’t,” “it won’t change,” or “God won’t move,” we quietly lock our future to our current feelings. We push back on that mindset with a simple but demanding invitation: add “yet,” and let hope breathe...
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Pointless Christianity
Send us Fan Mail Something is off when we can talk about God, show up to church, and still feel hollow inside. We dig into that tension with a message titled “Pointless Christianity,” starting with Jeremiah’s confession that God’s word burns like fire in his bones and he cannot hold it in. That...
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Shut Up And Dig!
Send us Fan Mail Some problems don’t go away because you “tried harder” this week. They come back because you only trimmed what you could see. We lean into a challenging, hope-filled message built around James 4:8 and a simple but uncomfortable idea: if the fruit in your life keeps staying…
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One Word That Will Change Your Life
Send us Fan Mail One word can reveal what you’re really building with your life, and it isn’t “successful” or “influential” or even “happy.” We’re talking about faithfulness, the kind that holds steady when the doctor’s report hits, when relationships strain, and when your own emotions try to run...
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When You Want to Give Up
Send us Fan Mail Quitting rarely starts with a big decision. It starts with getting tired, getting isolated, and quietly letting your faith go stale. We get honest about that moment when you realize the enemy has been working closer to home than you expected, especially when it comes to our kids,...
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Let's Get Involved - The Covenant Phase
Send us Fan Mail You can be busy, religious, and well-intentioned and still be completely distracted from the one thing that matters most: a real relationship with God. We go straight at the pride we all carry and the silent belief that if we just do enough good things, God will owe us something....
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Internal Voices
Send us Fan Mail Your thoughts are not harmless background noise. They can steal your joy, drain your peace, and reshape your identity until you start living like the lie is true. We go straight to the heart of spiritual warfare in the mind, using 2 Corinthians 10:5 as the framework: demolish...
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Let's Get Involved - The Dating Phase
Send us Fan Mail Chains don’t politely loosen over time they break when we finally let God take the lead. We start with a brutally honest look at bondage and freedom, using smoking as a real-world example of how shame hides in plain sight and why surrender creates both spiritual and practical...
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Voices
Send us Fan Mail Noise has a way of sounding like normal life until you realize it’s steering your soul. We’re living in a constant stream of opinions, alerts, headlines, and “just one more scroll,” and it’s quietly training us to react instead of listen. This week we start a blunt, faith-forward...
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My Cup is Empty
Send us Fan Mail Your life can look “fine” on the outside while you’re running on empty inside. We talk about what changes when you stop trying to muscle through anxiety, despair, and temptation with your own strength and start drawing from God’s unlimited resources. Using Ephesians 3:14-21 as…
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Shut up And Dance
Send us Fan Mail Joy is not a mood, it’s a lifeline and when it disappears, strength goes with it. We start with John 15: Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, and apart from him we can do nothing. That connection is not poetic, it’s practical: it shapes what we produce, how we pray, and…
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The Anointing
Send us Fan Mail You can be doing everything “right” and still get hit with a cave season. That tension sits at the center of Psalm 92:10, where the promise is not just oil, but fresh oil and the kind of spiritual renewal that doesn’t disappear when your circumstances change. We lean into a...
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Back To The First
Send us Fan Mail Losing your first love rarely happens all at once. It happens in small compromises, quiet pride, and a faith that knows the right words but forgets the Person behind them. We open Revelation 2:4–5 and let it read us: God’s complaint is simple and piercing, you don’t love Me or…
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Fruitful Faith
Send us Fan Mail If your life is producing fruit you don’t like, the problem might not be your circumstances. It might be your seed. We get honest about the gap between public church behavior and private devotion, and we challenge the idea that faith is real if it never turns into action when...
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Planted In Faith
Send us Fan Mail Where you’re planted determines what you grow and sooner or later the fruit tells the truth. We’re digging into what it means to be planted in faith, why your “soil” matters, and how hidden roots in bitterness, pride, and unforgiveness can quietly shape your words, your...
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Action Required
Send us Fan Mail Faith can be loud and still be lifeless. James puts a mirror in front of us with one uncomfortable line: faith without works is dead, and we don’t get to edit that down to something easier. We dig into what it looks like when belief stays in our mouth but never reaches our hands,...
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The Laying on of Hands
Send us Fan Mail Empty pews can look like failure, but what if they are proof that the church is finally doing its job? We start with a moment that flips the script: walking into an empty sanctuary during the week, feeling the sting, and then realizing the people are not gone. They are out in the...
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Faith To See
Send us Fan Mail Your life is telling a story, but your perspective decides the genre. We talk about why thanksgiving is not a calendar event but a daily spiritual posture, rooted in 1 Chronicles 16:34: “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.” When gratitude...
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Back To Your First Love
Send us Fan Mail You can sit in church every week and still feel your love for God go cold. That’s the tension we lean into as we open Revelation 2:4–5, where Jesus names the problem plainly: we stop loving Him and each other like we did at first, and we need to turn back and repeat the first...
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Pastor Stephen Tilmon | The Way
Send us Fan Mail “But now.” Two words in Romans 3 that feel like a door cracking open in a locked room. We start where Paul starts: every one of us comes up guilty, religious or not, churchgoer or not, polished or messy. Then the turn hits and we lean into the hope. God doesn’t ask us to...
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Guest Speaker Jim Rapp | When Plans Go Sideways
Send us Fan Mail One moment you’re cruising along and the next you’re spinning on black ice, doing everything you can just to stay alive. That’s the feeling behind “When Plans Go Sideways,” a message about what happens when life turns without warning and your best laid plans don’t survive the...
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Pastor Stephen Tilmon | When Death Lost Its Sting | Easter 2026
Send us Fan Mail Death feels permanent. Regret feels defining. And a lot of us walk into Easter carrying things that feel buried for good. We go straight at that tension with 1 Corinthians 15 and the message Paul refuses to soften: if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, then preaching is useless,...
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God Is Faithful
Send us Fan Mail God doesn’t become less faithful when we become less faithful, and Romans 3 refuses to let us pretend otherwise. We start the year by commissioning Bill and Lori Fair as associate pastors and praying protection over their home and ministry, then we open Scripture and let it…
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The Light Has Come - 2025 Candle Light Service
Send us Fan Mail What if the brightest part of Christmas isn’t the lights on the house, but the light within you that pushes back the night? We walk through John 1, Isaiah 9, and Luke 2 to show how Jesus doesn’t offer a system or a slogan—he offers himself. That changes how we face fear, shame…
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Into The Deep Series - Growth & Pain - Week 4
Send us Fan Mail Want power without the pain? We go straight at the tension many of us feel but rarely admit: everyone wants resurrection, few want crucifixion. Walking through Philippians 3, we talk about knowing Christ not just in triumph but in suffering, and why that path is the doorway to…
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Into The Deep Series - Surrender & Renew - Week 2
Send us Fan Mail What if the difference between empty nets and breaking nets is a single line: “If You say so”? We trace a bold path from Romans 12’s living sacrifice to Luke 5’s deep-water obedience, confronting the modern trap of feeling-led faith. Without shaming or fluff, we get honest about...
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Into The Deep Series - Knowing Christ - Week 3
Send us Fan Mail Hungry for a faith that goes beyond Sunday feelings? We dive straight into Philippians 3 and ask a bracing question: what are we still counting as valuable that Christ is asking us to count as loss? From family priorities to spiritual résumés and church lingo, we lay down the...
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INTO THE DEEP Series - The Cost - Week 1
Send us Fan Mail What if the missing piece in your spiritual life isn’t a new song or a bigger stage, but a truer surrender? We open Scripture with a clear-eyed look at what Jesus actually asked of His disciples: count the cost, carry the cross, and follow without conditions. That call takes us...
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It Is Well - Into the Deep Series - Week 9
Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the outcome is unclear, the clock is loud, and your heart won’t settle? We open with an urgent moment—standing in the gap for Jacob—and move straight into the heartbeat of the hour: prayer over programs, presence over performance, and trust that isn’t held...
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Trusting God - Into the Deep Series - Week 8
Send us Fan Mail What if the turning point you’re waiting for is not clarity, but trust? We dive into a bold, practical journey of faith that starts where our understanding ends—moving from self-reliance to God-reliance in grief, confusion, and cultural noise. We open with a fierce reminder of...
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The Heart of Worship - Into the Deep Series- Week 7
Send us Fan Mail What if the loudest part of church is drowning out the very thing that gives it life? We open this message by naming a hard truth: the heartbeat of a healthy church is the heartbeat of Christ, not the perfection of our programs. From there, we follow a path into the deep—past...
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Maturity & Mission - Into the Deep Series - Week 6
Send us Fan Mail What if spiritual maturity isn’t what you know but what you multiply? We open with honest prayer for those wrestling with anxiety and depression, then pivot to a bracing challenge from Luke 19: you’ve been entrusted with something real—now invest it. No hype, no shortcuts—just a...
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Taking Out the Trash - Into the Deep Series - Week 5
Send us Fan Mail What if your spiritual ceiling isn’t sin but clutter—old wins, safe roles, and the quiet pride that sounds holy but keeps you shallow? We open Philippians 3 and sit with Paul’s hard word—scubala—and let it reframe how we measure value: everything is garbage compared to knowing...
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Growth & Pain - Into the Deep Series - Week 4
Send us Fan Mail Want power without pretense? We walk straight into Philippians 3:10–11 and sit with the uncomfortable truth that intimacy with Jesus includes sharing in His sufferings. Not to glamorize pain, but to see it clearly: as the forge where endurance hardens into character and character...
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Knowing Christ - Into the Deep Series - Week 3
Send us Fan Mail What if the life you want isn’t found in doing more for God but in drawing nearer to Him? We open Philippians 3 and push hard against the temptation to confuse spiritual performance with a living relationship. Paul’s stunning claim—that every achievement is garbage beside the...
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Surrender & Renewal - Into the Deep Series - Week 2
Send us Fan Mail What if spiritual depth isn’t found in the perfect feeling but in a decisive yes? We open Romans 12:1–2 and take an honest look at surrender and renewal—how living sacrifice starts at the altar and grows as the Holy Spirit rewires how we think. From frustrated rehearsals to…
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Welcome to the Connect Church Longview podcast—your go-to source for uplifting messages, real-life insights, and Spirit-filled discussions rooted in God’s Word. Each episode is designed to help you grow closer to Jesus, find authentic community, and strengthen your faith for everyday life. As Scripture reminds us: “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ” (Romans 10:17 NLT). Tune in weekly and discover how we’re connecting people to Christ and each other in Longview, Texas, and beyond.
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