Flipside Christian Church
by Pastor Karl Roth
Join us every Sunday morning at 9 or 10:30 AM in the Maywood Center. Sermons & Bible Studies available online on any podcast platform or visit our YouTube channel "@flipsidechristianchurch"! Download our app at https://flipsidechristian.churchcenter.com/setup for more info about our church and ministries. Flipside Christian Church Madera Ranchos, CA
Episodes
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Matthew 27:1-31 | Kingdom Now: Freedom I Never Earned
Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 27:1-31, the last of the six trials Jesus endured before the cross. He covers Judas’s remorse, Pilate’s courtroom, the crowd’s choice of Barabbas, and the soldiers’ mockery. Along the way he explains some of the details that trip people up, including the Jeremiah...
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Matthew 26:57-75 | Kingdom Now: Faithful When It Costs
Pastor Karl closes out Matthew 26 verses 57-75 with two people on trial: Jesus before the religious leaders, and Peter before the crowds. Jesus is tried for who he is, and Peter for his association with Jesus. The big idea is that faithfulness isn’t proven by what we promise, but by how we…
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Matthew 26:30-56 | Kingdom Now: Worship, Prayer, and the Power of the Spirit
On the night before the cross, Jesus sang a hymn with His disciples, then went to Gethsemane. Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 26:30-56 and shows what that night teaches about worship, prayer, and obedience. Worship drives music, not the other way around, and Jesus worshiped before He faced the...
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Matthew 26:17-29 | Kingdom Now: His Sacrifice, His Covenant, His Return
Pastor Karl continues in Matthew 26 with one big idea: communion looks back to Jesus’s sacrifice, forward to his return, and rests on the new covenant sealed in his blood. Looking at the Last Supper, he traces the Passover back to Exodus 12, where the blood of a lamb marked the homes God passed...
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Matthew 25:31-26:16 | Kingdom Now: The Heart Always Leaves Evidence
Pastor Karl wraps up Matthew 25 and opens Matthew 26 with one big idea: devotion to Jesus begins in the heart, but it never stays hidden there, because the heart always leaves evidence. In the sheep and goats passage, Jesus isn't announcing how anyone earns salvation. He's revealing hearts that...
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Matthew 25:1-30 | Kingdom Now: Don't Look Ready, Be Ready
In this episode of Kingdom Now, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 25:1-30, where Jesus, days before the cross, tells his disciples how to live while they wait for his return. Karl opens with a personal story about the excitement of waiting on a renovation, and how it exposed how little joyful...
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Matthew 24:36-51 | Kingdom Now: Wake Up and Get Ready
In this message, Pastor Karl concludes Matthew 24, wrapping up the second half of Flipside Church's 21st birthday series. Set on the Tuesday before the crucifixion, Jesus turns from predicting what's coming to teaching His disciples how to live until He returns — and the focus isn't prediction,...
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Matthew 24:1-35 | Kingdom Now: No Retreat Until He Returns
Flipside Church turns 21 — and Pastor Karl marks the milestone by diving into Matthew 24, Jesus's teaching on the end times. Before opening chapter 24, Pastor Karl revisits the close of Matthew 23, where Jesus weeps over Jerusalem's rejection of Him — a rejection Paul later explains (Romans 11)…
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Matthew 23:1-36 | Kingdom Now: Repentance Before Transformation
In this message from Matthew 23, Pastor Karl walks through one of the most confrontational moments in Jesus's earthly ministry — the day He turns to face the religious establishment head-on and calls out hypocrisy for what it is. The big idea: true discipleship begins with repentance in the heart...
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Matthew 22:1-46 | Kingdom Now: The Authority of Jesus
This week in our verse-by-verse journey through Matthew, Pastor Karl unpacks Matthew 22 — a pivotal chapter set on the Tuesday before Jesus' crucifixion, where four different groups challenge his authority, only to be silenced one by one. Pastor Karl opens with a look at how authority is viewed...
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Matthew 21:18-46 | Kingdom Now: Faith That Bears Fruit
Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series with a hard-hitting look at Matthew 21:18–46, where Jesus confronts religion without fruit. The big idea: because Jesus is King, genuine faith must produce the fruit of obedience. Starting with Jesus cursing the barren fig tree — a symbol of Israel's...
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Matthew 21:1-16 | Kingdom Now: The Coronation of the King
Matthew 21 opens with Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem—his coronation as King. Pastor Karl unpacks why this moment was unlike any earthly coronation: a king who arrived not on a warhorse but on a humble donkey, fulfilling prophecies spoken generations earlier through Isaiah, Zechariah, and...
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Matthew 20:17–34 | Kingdom Now: Serve Like Jesus, Pray Like a Beggar
Pastor Karl continues the Kingdom Now series in Matthew 20, exploring what sets kingdom greatness apart from worldly greatness. As Jesus tells His disciples He is heading to Jerusalem to suffer, be mocked, and be crucified, James and John's mother asks for positions of honor for her sons —…
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Matthew 20 | Kingdom Now: Gifts vs. Rewards
In this message, Pastor Karl continues the "Kingdom Now" series with a study through Matthew 20, unpacking Jesus's Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. Building on Peter's question at the end of Matthew 19 — "What do we get for the sacrifice we've given?" — Pastor Karl explores the difference...
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Matthew 19:1-30 | Kingdom Now: Hardness of Heart
In this message, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 19, where the Pharisees approach Jesus with pointed questions about divorce — testing him against the competing rabbinic schools of Shammai and Hillel. Rather than settling the debate on their terms, Jesus redirects them to God's original design...
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Matthew 18:21-35 | Kingdom Now: Forgiveness That Sets You Free
How many times should we forgive someone who has wronged us? In this message, Pastor Karl explores Jesus' powerful teaching in Matthew 18:21–35, revealing that forgiveness is not about keeping score—it's about reflecting the incredible mercy we've received from God. Through the Parable of the...
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Matthew 18:7-20 | Kingdom Now: The Wandering Sheep
In this episode of Kingdom Now, Pastor Karl continues the verse-by-verse study through Matthew 18, picking up where Jeff Stemple left off. Building on the disciples' question of "who's the greatest?", Karl unpacks Jesus's answer: none of us are — apart from Him, we're all dependent and called to...
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Matthew 18:1-6 | Kingdom Now: Who's the Greatest? (with Jeff Stemple)
Who's the greatest? It's a question we ask about quarterbacks, pitchers, and point guards—but Jesus' disciples asked it about the Kingdom of Heaven, and His answer flipped their entire framework upside down. In this message from Matthew 18:1-6, guest speaker Jeff Stemple unpacks what happens when...
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Matthew 17:5-27 | Kingdom Now: The Way of the Cross
In Matthew 17, Pastor Karl traces three big ideas through one of the most pivotal chapters in the Gospel of Matthew — from the Transfiguration to a failed exorcism to a coin found in a fish's mouth. Kingdom authority resides only in the King. God must first overpower us before He can empower us —...
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Matthew 16:21-17:8 | Kingdom Now: Listen to Him (with Jeff Stemple)
What happens when following Jesus doesn't look like what you signed up for? In this message, guest speaker Jeff Stemple picks up where last week's sermon left off — right at the moment in Matthew 16 where Jesus begins speaking plainly about suffering, rejection, and death, leaving his disciples...
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Matthew 16:5-28 | Kingdom Now: The Price of Discipleship
In this message from Matthew 16, Pastor Karl unpacks what it truly means to be a disciple of Jesus. This chapter marks a turning point in the Gospel of Matthew — Jesus shifts from miracles and crowds to confession and the cross, pressing his followers on three essential questions: What are you...
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Matthew 15:29-16:4 | Kingdom Now: The Prerequisites of Grace
In this message from Matthew 15:29–16:4, Pastor Karl examines two very different groups of people who come to Jesus — and what their approach reveals about how we receive grace. The first group comes from the Decapolis, a Gentile region with no religious standing or covenant claim. They bring...
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Matthew 15:1-28 | Kingdom Now: Dirty Hands, Empty Hands
In Matthew 15, Pastor Karl walks through two encounters that reveal how Jesus responds to very different kinds of people. The first is a confrontation with the Pharisees — religious leaders who had mastered looking clean on the outside while leaving their hearts completely untouched. Jesus…
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Matthew 14:22-33 | Kingdom Now: The Invitation (with Jeff Stemple)
What do you do when the storms of life hit? Our instinct is to hunker down, strain at the oars, and just try to survive. But what if the storm isn't just an obstacle — what if it's an invitation? Guest speaker Jeff Stemple walks us through one of the most familiar stories in Scripture: Jesus...
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Matthew 14:1-21 | Kingdom Now: Two Tables, Two Kingdoms
In this message from Matthew 14, Pastor Karl explores two seemingly separate events — the beheading of John the Baptist and the feeding of the five thousand — and reveals how they are deeply connected as a portrait of two contrasting kingdoms. Drawing on the parallel between Herod's banquet and...
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Matthew 13:44-58 | Kingdom Now: The Hidden Treasure, The Pearl & The Net
In this concluding message of Matthew 13, Pastor Karl unpacks the final three parables of Jesus — the Hidden Treasure, the Pearl of Great Price, and the Net — and challenges the common interpretations most of us have grown up hearing. Rather than reading these parables through a modern American...
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Matthew 13:31-33 | Kingdom Now: The Mustard Seed & The Leaven
In this message, Pastor Karl digs into the third and fourth parables of Matthew 13 — the Mustard Seed and the Leaven — and recovers an interpretation that the earliest church held for the first three centuries: these are not simply triumphant stories of kingdom growth, but diagnostic warnings…
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Matthew 13:36-43 | Kingdom Now: The Weeds and the Wheat (with David White)
What do you do when the world around you feels messy, broken, and out of control? In this week's message, guest speaker David White walks us through one of Jesus's most vivid parables — the Parable of the Weeds and the Wheat from Matthew 13 — and unpacks why the kingdom of heaven doesn't always...
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Matthew 13:1-23 | Kingdom Now: The Sower
In this episode, Pastor Karl opens Matthew 13 — a chapter packed with seven parables — by laying the groundwork for what parables are and why Jesus used them. A parable, he explains, is a real-life story "thrown beside" a hard truth to make it easier to understand. Jesus uses seven of them in…
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Matthew 12:40-50 | Kingdom Now: Clean Isn't Enough
In this message, Pastor Karl wraps up the church's three-week study of Matthew 12 — what he calls the hinge point of Jesus's ministry and of all human history. Drawing from verses 40 through 50, he unpacks three powerful moments that reveal the heart of what Jesus was communicating to a resistant...
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Matthew 12 | The Journey To Easter: God's Verdict (Easter Sunday)
This Easter, Pastor Karl takes an unconventional approach — rather than turning to a traditional resurrection passage, he stays in the church's ongoing study of Matthew 12, the hinge point of Jesus's ministry and the moment that set the crucifixion in motion. Through Matthew 12, Pastor Karl…
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Matthew 12 | The Journey To Easter: The Hinge Point
In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor Karl walks through Matthew 12 — not the triumphal entry itself, but the pivotal chapter that sets it all in motion. This is the first moment in Scripture where a plot to kill Jesus takes shape, and the first time Jesus begins pointing toward his own death and...
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Matthew 11:20-30 | The Journey To Easter: Indifference Is Not Neutrality
In this message, Pastor Karl tackles one of the more challenging passages in Matthew's Gospel — a section most preachers skip, especially leading up to Easter. Working through Matthew 11:20–30, he confronts a subtle but serious spiritual danger: indifference toward Christ. Using Jesus's sharp…
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Matthew 11:1-19 | The Journey To Easter: The Disappointed Believer
In this message, Pastor Karl opens a four-part Easter series through Matthew 11–12, describing these two chapters as the "hinge point" of Jesus's ministry — the moment when people moved from being amazed by Jesus to being required to make a decision about him. He frames the series around four...
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Matthew 10:26-42 | Kingdom Now: The Cost of Loyalty (with Michael Rondon)
In this message, guest speaker Michael Rondon picks up in Matthew 10, covering the second half of the chapter and unpacking six key themes Jesus presents to his disciples: fear, worth, public allegiance, division, discipleship, and faithfulness. Anchoring the entire message in the concept of...
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Matthew 10 | Kingdom Now: Sent, Costly, Unafraid
In Matthew 10, Pastor Karl highlights a pivotal transition in Jesus' ministry, where the disciples move from merely observing and admiring Him to being sent out as active participants in His mission. Jesus calls the Twelve, empowers them with authority to heal, cast out demons, and proclaim the...
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Matthew 9:18-38 | Kingdom Now: Reach Out in Faith
In this episode of the podcast from the church, Pastor Karl concludes the study of Matthew chapter 9, highlighting Jesus' revelation of His power through a series of remarkable miracles. He explains Matthew's Jewish perspective, portraying Jesus as the promised Messiah and Anointed One…
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Matthew 9 | Kingdom Now: Recreate, Not Repair
Pastor Karl continues the "Kingdom Now" series in Matthew 9:1–17, showing that Jesus doesn't patch torn-up lives—He recreates them entirely, unleashing kingdom power to prove His authority and bring radical newness. He explores the healing of the paralytic, lowered through the roof by four…
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Matthew 8:23-34 | Kingdom Now: Chaos & Comfort
Guest speaker David White continues the "Kingdom Now" series in Matthew 8, showing that wherever God’s kingdom arrives, chaos is confronted—but comfort is challenged. He examines two powerful encounters: Jesus calming a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee, where panicked disciples question His…
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Matthew 8 | Kingdom Now: The Authority of the King
In this message, Pastor Karl transitions from the Sermon on the Mount into Matthew 8, emphasizing Jesus’ supreme authority over the natural and supernatural realms. He highlights the ongoing reality of spiritual warfare against unseen forces of darkness (Ephesians 6:12), seen in Scripture and in...
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Matthew 7:21-29 | Kingdom Now: No Turning Back
In this sobering conclusion to the "Kingdom Now" series on the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Karl closes Matthew 7:21–29 with Jesus' urgent call to authentic, obedient faith. He recaps the narrow gate—Jesus Himself as the exclusive way to the Father (John 10:9)—requiring self-denial and kingdom...
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Matthew 7 | Kingdom Now: The Danger of Self-Deception
In this challenging and convicting message from the "Kingdom Now" series on the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Karl dives into Matthew 7:1-20, unpacking Jesus' teachings on judgment, discernment, prayer, and true discipleship. Pastor Karl begins by clarifying "Judge not, lest you be judged" — Jesus...
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Matthew 6:27-34 | Kingdom Now: Don't Worry
In this convicting installment of the "Kingdom Now" series on the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Karl tackles the final section of Matthew 6, where Jesus confronts the disciple's battle with excessive worry. Jesus commands, “Do not be anxious about your life,” addressing our deepest fears over...
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Matthew 6 | Kingdom Now: Secret Discipleship
In this challenging continuation of our series on the Gospel of Matthew, Pastor Karl unpacks Matthew 6, where Jesus lays out His expectations for true disciples in the Sermon on the Mount. Building on the heart-revealing demands of chapter 5, Jesus shifts the focus from mere external obedience to...
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5 Good Minutes (2025)
In this special year-end episode, Pastor Karl and the Flipside Church staff share their personal “Five Good Minutes” reflections on what God taught them throughout 2025. Tricia Cheshier speaks on trusting God and saying yes, overcoming fear to step into full-time children’s ministry and watching...
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Christmas Eve | The King Has Come: The King in the Cradle
Merry Christmas! In this heartfelt Christmas Eve service message, Pastor Karl explores the profound truth that Christmas is far more than a baby in a manger—it's the culmination of God's everlasting love story that began in the Garden of Eden. Drawing parallels between Eden and Bethlehem, Pastor...
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Week 4 | The King Has Come: Love
In this powerful message from Pastor Karl, we journey beyond the manger to discover the timeless roots of Christmas in the Garden of Eden. Christmas is far more than a seasonal vibe—it's the profound story of God's unchanging love, revealed through proximity, provision, and loving parameters....
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Week 3 | The King Has Come: Joy
In this profound and hope-filled Advent message, Pastor Karl continues the Christmas series with an honest, Scripture-saturated exploration of the third great gift Jesus brings: joy. Turning to the familiar yet astonishing encounter in Luke 1:26–38, Pastor Karl places us in the world of a young,...
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Week 2 | The King Has Come: Peace
In this stirring and deeply encouraging Advent message, Pastor Karl continues the series The King Has Come with a raw and life-giving exploration of the second great gift Jesus brings: peace. Turning to the familiar yet profound scene in Luke 2:8–20, Pastor Karl invites us into the midnight…
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Week 1 | The King Has Come: Hope
In this stirring and deeply encouraging Advent message, Pastor Karl launches the new series The King Has Come with a powerful exploration of the first great gift Jesus brings: hope. Turning to Luke 2 and the quiet, largely forgotten figures of Simeon and Anna, Pastor Karl paints a vivid picture…
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Join us every Sunday morning at 9 or 10:30 AM in the Maywood Center. Sermons & Bible Studies available online on any podcast platform or visit our YouTube channel "@flipsidechristianchurch"! Download our app at https://flipsidechristian.churchcenter.com/setup for more info about our church and ministries. Flipside Christian Church Madera Ranchos, CA
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