Midtown Presbyterian Church
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At Midtown Presbyterian Church, we value honest questions and genuine community, working alongside one another as we discover more about what it means to follow Jesus in the modern world, and in Phoenix. You are welcome here.Listen to our teachings in this podcast to follow us, and be sure to join us Sunday mornings; visit thespringmidtown.org to learn more.
Episodes
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Flawed But Faithful | Bedrock or Stumbling Block? - Matthew 16:13-23 - Arienna Lacey
In this third week of our sermon series exploring the character of Peter, Arienna Lacey poses an extremely important question: What does it really mean to know Jesus? Not just know about him, but truly recognize him for who he is? In Matthew 16:13-23, we find Peter standing at a crossroads that...
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Flawed But Faithful | Eves on the Storm - Matthew 14:22-34 - Gayle Parker
What happens when the storm raging around us feels more real and more powerful than the God we say we trust? That tension is at the heart of one of the most gripping moments in the life of the apostle Peter, found in Matthew 14. This week, Gayle Parker invites us into the boat in the dead of…
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Flawed But Faithful | The Call of a Fisherman - Luke 5:1-11 - Clint Leavitt
What does an ordinary life look like when it becomes truly extraordinary? In this first week of a new sermon series on Peter, that question sits at the heart of our exploration of Luke 5, where we meet a weathered fisherman named Peter. His encounter would reshape not just his life, but the…
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Keeping The Pace of God | A New Story for Work and Rest - Revelation 21:1-6 - Clint Leavitt
What if the story we are living in is shaping us far more than we realize? Every choice we make, every relationship we invest in, every Monday morning we drag ourselves out of bed, all of it flows from a deeper narrative we have accepted as true. Our final message in this sermon series invites us...
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Keeping The Pace of God | Identity Shifting - Deuteronomy 5:12-15 - Tom Parker
What if one of God's most countercultural commands turned out to be one of his greatest gifts? As our teaching series on work and rest nears its close, we explore the fourth commandment, the Sabbath, through the lens of Deuteronomy 5:12-15, where Moses calls the people of Israel to observe a day…
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Keeping The Pace of God | The Problem of Work - Genesis 3:1-19 - Clint Leavitt
What if the frustrations of our work are not signs that we have failed, but rather signs that we are living in a world that was made for something better? That is the question at the heart of this week's message, which draws us into one of the most foundational passages in all of Scripture…
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Keeping The Pace of God | A Day unto the Lord - Exod 20:8-11; Lev 23:3 - Gayle Parker
What if the Sabbath is less about what we stop doing and more about who we turn toward as we pause? That question sits at the heart of this week's message, which draws from the fourth commandment in Exodus 20 and the call to holy convocation in Leviticus 23. Both passages make the same…
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Keeping The Pace of God | Work as Cultivation - Genesis 2:4-8, 15-22 - Clint Leavitt
What if the cultural ideals we celebrate most (self-reliance, following our hearts, doing it our way) are actually leading us away from the life we were made for? This week's message takes us on a fascinating journey from John Milton's Paradise Lost to the opening pages of Genesis, uncovering how…
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Keeping The Pace of God | Sabbath, An Act of Joy - Genesis 1:31-2:4 - Clint Leavitt
What if the most radical thing we could do in our modern world is simply stop? We live in a culture that measures our worth by our productivity and celebrates busyness as a badge of honor, but the ancient practice of Sabbath stands as a quiet, yet powerful act of resistance. In our second week of...
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Keeping The Pace of God | The Design/Dignity of Work - Genesis 1:26-2:3, 15 - Clint Leavitt
Keeping The Pace of God | The Design/Dignity of Work - Genesis 1:26-2:3, 15 - Clint Leavitt by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Shepherded | I Will Dwell In in the House of the Lord Forever - Psalm 23 - Clint Leavitt
What if the restlessness we feel deep in our souls is not a problem to be solved but a signpost pointing us toward something greater? We spend our final Sunday exploring Psalm 23 by focusing on its final verse and considering one of the most universal human experiences: homesickness. Drawing on...
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Shepherded | Surely Goodness and Mercy Will Follow Me All My Life - Psalm 23 - Clint Leavitt
What if the hardest stretches of our lives are not detours from the journey but the very heart of it? This week, the ancient pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago invites us to reimagine our walk with God not as a series of quick victories but as a long obedience in the same direction. Psalm 23...
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Shepherded | You Prepare a Table; Anoint My Head; My Cup Overflows - Psalm 23 - Clint leavitt
What does it actually take to stand firm when life gets hard? Not just to survive difficulty, but to move through it with genuine strength, purpose, and joy? We continue our adventure into one of the most beloved passages in all of Scripture, Psalm 23, and in verse 5 we encounter an unexpected...
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Shepherded | Your Rod and Staff, They Comfort Me - Psalm 23 - Jackie Parks
What does it actually mean to trust a shepherd we cannot see, through valleys we never asked to enter? Psalm 23 is one of the most memorized passages in all of scripture, yet there is a deep honesty in admitting that we do not always believe it. This week, our dear friend Jackie Parks guides us...
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Shepherded | Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Will Fear No Evil - Psalm 23 - Bob Simmons
What happens when the path our Good Shepherd leads us on takes us straight into darkness? Psalm 23 verse 4 leads us into one of the most honest realities of the Christian life: the valley is real, it is dark, and it is part of the journey. This week, Midtown friend, Bob Simmons takes us deep into...
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Shepherded | Paths of Righteousness for His Name's Sake - Psalm 23 - Clint Leavitt
This 4th week of our Shepherded series, Clint draws from the ancient wisdom of Homer's Odyssey, where we're reminded that even Odysseus, known for his cunning and brilliance, recognized he couldn't trust his own instincts when facing the sirens' call. He had himself tied to the mast because he…
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Shepherded | He Restores My Soul - Psalm 23 - Mike Shirey
Shepherded | He Restores My Soul - Psalm 23 - Mike Shirey by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Shepherded | He Makes Me Lie Down In Green Pastures - Psalm 23:2 - Clint Leavitt
In our restless world where busyness has become a badge of honor and exhaustion our constant companion, we find ourselves confronted with a profound truth: restlessness is not a scheduling problem but a soul problem. This week's exploration of Psalm 23's second verse reveals that true rest cannot...
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Shepherded | The Lord is my Shepherd - Psalm 23; John 10:11-18 - Clint Leavitt
In a world that seems to spin faster every day, where anxiety has become almost a badge of honor for being 'busy enough,' we're invited to discover a radically different way of living. This week we dive into the phrase 'He leads me beside still waters, He restores my soul,' reveals a profound...
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Live In Love | In Case You Forgot - Keep Forgiving - Matthew 18:21-35 - Clint Leavitt
This week is the last message in the Live in Love sermon series, and to complete the series we look to Matthew 18:21-35, where Jesus tells the parable of the unforgiving servant, challenging us to reconsider what we think we know about forgiveness. Clint opens the message with a haunting reminder...
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Live In Love | How Much Do You Love Mercy? - Luke 7:36-50 - Luke Parker
It is week 6 of our Live In Love sermon series, as Luke Parker asks us how much we love Mercy. This morning, Luke 7:31-50 confronts us with an uncomfortable truth: we are all masters at rigging the game of righteousness in our favor. Through the vivid story of a woman known as a sinner anointing...
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Live In Love | Responding to Evil with Good/Love - Romans 12:9-21 - Clint Leavitt
Our Western culture likes to throw the word "Love" around constantly, but when conflict arises, our definitions quickly crumble. Week five of Live in Love dives into Paul's thoughts about love in Romans 12:9-21, challenging us to move beyond love as a fleeting feeling and embrace it as a...
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Live In Love | Love Your Enemy-Pray for Those Who Persecute You - Matthew 5.38-48
Live In Love | Love Your Enemy-Pray for Those Who Persecute You - Matthew 5.38-48 by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Live In Love | Be Angry But Do Not Sin - Ephesians 4:25-29 - Clint Leavitt
This week's teaching takes us deep into one of the more misunderstood aspects of Christian living: how we handle anger in a world full of conflict. Drawing from Ephesians 4:25-29, we're confronted with Paul's paradoxical command to 'be angry, but do not sin.' The message challenges our cultural...
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Live In Love | Change Your Dirty Clothes - Colossians 3:5-17 - Tom Parker
In our second week of learning to Live In Love, Tom Parker brings us a message from Colossians 3 challenging us to examine what we're truly wearing in our spiritual lives. Just as we wouldn't want to wear an orange jumpsuit that represents imprisonment, we're called to strip off the old self and...
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Live In Love | Forgive One Another as Christ Has Forgiven You - Ephesians 4:30-5:2 - Gayle Parker
This week, Gayle Parker opens our next sermon series, Live In Love, with a message that takes us deep into the heart of what it means to truly forgive, drawing from Ephesians 4, the Gospel of John, and the parable of the Prodigal Son. We're challenged to put away bitterness, wrath, and anger,...
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Last Words | Do You Love Me? - John 21:15-19 - Clint Leavitt
In our final week of sermon series through the Gospel of John, Last Words, we consider how Peter's denial and restoration invites us to confront an uncomfortable truth: we are all capable of profound failure, yet that very failure becomes the gateway to experiencing God's deepest grace. The…
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Last Words | Belive, Don't Doubt - John 20:24-29 - Clint Leavitt
This week, we pause and take a look at our relationship with doubt in the Christian journey. Rather than viewing doubt as a spiritual failure or something to be buried in shame, we're shown through the story of Thomas in John 20:24-29 that doubt can actually be a pathway to deeper, more authentic...
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Last Words | Peace - 20.19-23 - Clint Leavitt
As we continue our exploration of the Last Words of Jesus in the gospel of John, Clint invites us to move beyond Easter Sunday and into the transformative reality of resurrection life. Drawing from John 20:19-23, we encounter Jesus stepping through locked doors to meet his fearful disciples with...
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Easter | Resurrection Sunday - John 20:1-18 - Clint Leavitt
This Easter, we are challangerd to consider the profound reality that resurrection is not just a historical event but a present power that transforms our lives today. The sermon centers on John 20, where we encounter Mary Magdalene walking in darkness to Jesus' tomb, carrying the weight of grief...
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Good Friday 2026
Good Friday 2026 by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Last Words | A Different Kind of King - John 12:12-25 - Luke Parker
This Palm Sunday, Luke Parker invites us to examine how easily we can misunderstand Jesus, even while celebrating Him. The passage from John 12 shows us a crowd waving palm branches and shouting praises, yet within days many of these same voices would cry 'Crucify him.' Why? Because they wanted...
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Good Friday 2026
Good Friday 2026 by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Last Words | Living In Unity- John 17:20-24 - Clint Leavitt
What does it truly mean to be unified in a world that profits from our division? This week we unpack how Jesus' final prayer for his followers in John 17 reveals that unity isn't about institutional mergers or superficial agreement, but about a radical, boundary-breaking love that the world…
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Last Words | Good Trouble - John 15:18-16:4 - Clint Leavitt
In this 4th week of our exploration of Jesus' Final Words, Clint draws us into John 15:18-23 and 16:1-4, confronting us with an uncomfortable truth: authentic Christian discipleship will inevitably produce resistance in our lives. Jesus doesn't sugarcoat the reality—if we truly follow Him, the...
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Last Words | Abide and Love - John 15:1-17 - Tom Parker
This third week of our exploration of Jesus' Last Words, Tom Parker invites us into one of the most intimate metaphors Jesus used - the vine and the branches. At its heart, this passage reveals a stunning truth: we are offered friendship with God himself. Not just servanthood, not just obedience,...
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Last Words | Advocate - John 14:15-26 - Clint Leavitt
What if the power we need for a transformed life isn't something we have to manufacture, but something we simply need to position ourselves to receive? This exploration of John 14:15-26 invites us into one of Christianity's most profound promises: the gift of the Holy Spirit as our ever-present...
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Last Words | Stake Your Life On The Right Thing - John 14:1-14 - Clint Leavitt
We live in a world where trouble surrounds us on every side—betrayal, loss, grief, uncertainty, and the ever-present reality of our own mortality. The question isn't whether we'll face trouble, but what we'll stake our lives to when trouble comes. This message draws us into Jesus' final hours…
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Ash Wednesday 2026
Ash Wednesday 2026 by Midtown Presbyterian Church
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Encountering Jesus | Resurrecter - John 11:18-44 - Clint Leavitt
This 7th week of our ENcountering Jesus series, we meditate on John 11, where we encounter one of the most powerful narratives in Scripture: the raising of Lazarus. But this isn't just a story about a miracle—it's an invitation to bring our honest grief directly to Jesus. Mary and Martha both cry...
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Encountering Jesus | Eye-Opener - John 9:1-7, 35-38 - Caleb Shocklie
What do we see when we encounter suffering, brokenness, or Jesus himself? One of our beloved mission partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, Caleb Shocklie, takes us on an exploration of John 9 invites us into the transformative moment when Jesus heals a man born blind—but it's about so much more than...
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Encountering Jesus | Gracious - John 8:1-11 - Clint Leavitt
We live in a culture obsessed with condemnation, where one mistake can become a permanent identity and where social media turns us all into stone-throwers. Yet the story of the woman caught in adultery in John 8 reveals something revolutionary about the character of Jesus: he is both perfectly…
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Encountering Jesus | Provider - John 6:1-14, 25-35 - Bob Simmons
This week, our dear friend Bob Simmons takes us into one of the most beloved miracles in Scripture—the feeding of the 5,000—but reveals a profound truth we often miss: Jesus wasn't just addressing physical hunger that day. The context matters deeply here. The disciples had just returned from an...
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Encountering Jesus | Savior - John 3:1-21 - Gayle Parker
This week's message takes us into one of the most profound conversations in Scripture: Jesus meeting with Nicodemus under the cover of night. Here was a man who thought he knew everything about God—a religious leader, a Pharisee, someone steeped in moral living and theological knowledge. Yet…
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Encountering Jesus | Zealous For Righteousness - John 2:1-25 - Clint Leavitt
We've all created a version of Jesus that fits comfortably in our pockets—a Jesus who affirms what we already believe, who never challenges our assumptions, who exists primarily to serve our preferences. But John chapter 2 shatters these tiny versions by presenting us with the Lord of both wine…
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Encountering Jesus | Lamb of God Who Takes Away The Sins of the World - John 1:19-34 - Clint Leavitt
Midtown is bringing in the New Year with a walk through the Gospel of John, inviting us to encounter Jesus as He truly is. In a world obsessed with self-definition, John shows us a different way—an identity rooted not in performance or approval, but in Christ himself. Through John the Baptist’s...
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Midtown Presbyterian Story Sunday 2025
On this final Sunday of 2025, Midtown pauses to breathe and remember that each of us has a role to play in God’s Kingdom as the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. Through three testimonial interviews with members of our community, Clint invites us to see that our connections—on Sunday mornings...
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Joy to the World | Joy To The World - John 1:12-14 - Clint Leavitt
In this final Sunday of Advent leading up to Christmas, we often find ourselves longing for something transcendent—a magic we can't quite name. We decorate our homes, attend services, and soak in the warm feelings, but if we're honest, these things alone never quite satisfy the deeper ache in our...
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Joy to the World | The Joy Of Receiving Him - John 1:10-13 - Luke Parker
In our 3rd week of Advent this year, Luke Parker poses a profound question: why do we settle for two-dimensional lives when we were created for so much more? Using the powerful image of a deflated basketball—still recognizable but unable to fulfill its purpose—we're invited to examine our own...
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Joy to the World | The Joy of Enlightenment - John 1:6-9 - Renea Smith
This second week of Advent, Renea Smith leads us in considering what it means to be light-bearers in a world still waiting for Christ's return. Drawing from John 1:6-9, we encounter John the Baptist not primarily as a baptizer, but as a witness—someone whose entire existence pointed away from...
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At Midtown Presbyterian Church, we value honest questions and genuine community, working alongside one another as we discover more about what it means to follow Jesus in the modern world, and in Phoenix. You are welcome here.Listen to our teachings in this podcast to follow us, and be sure to join us Sunday mornings; visit thespringmidtown.org to learn more.
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