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Pastor Jonathan’s Sermons
by jonathan althoff
Love has never been optional! [email protected] is my email [email protected] is my PayPal LookingUp.live is my video blog
Episodes
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The Day Someone Told Me - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. A single sentence can change the direction of a life: “Come and see.” That’s the invitation Jesus gives in John 1, and it’s the thread we pull all the way through this message as we ask one urgent question: what day did your story…
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The Day Someone Told Me - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Your life can change in a day, but it rarely starts with fireworks. We keep replaying the dramatic moments of faith like crossing seas, walls falling, prison doors opening, and prayers answered in ways we can’t explain. Yet the most...
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Crossroads - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can memorise Proverbs 3:5-6 and still feel stuck at the same crossroads, asking God for a map while your inner world stays loud, anxious, and bruised. We wrestle with a different idea of Christian guidance: God often deals with…
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Crossroads - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can love God and still feel stuck at a crossroads, begging for a sign while your mind spins with fear, second-guessing, and pressure to “get it right.” We start with Proverbs 3:5–6 and admit how easily we latch onto the promise…
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Change Happens - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Failure can feel like a verdict, but what if it is actually a turning point? We open with 2 Corinthians 3:18 and sit with Paul’s claim that real transformation happens as we behold the glory of the Lord and are changed by the Spirit....
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Change Happens - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. A closed door can feel like God rejecting you, when it might be God protecting you and forming you. We start with Jacob stepping into a new morning with a limp and a new name, then connect it to Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 3:18: we...
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Got Questions? - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. “Return… and I will be with you” sounds comforting until returning is risky, confusing, and costly. We open Genesis 31:3 and step into Jacob’s story at the exact moment obedience gets complicated: God gives a clear direction but not a...
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Got Questions? - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. “Just trust God” sounds strong until you’re the one staring at a door that just slammed shut. We talk about what happens when you genuinely believe God led you somewhere, but the path turns confusing, lonely, and expensive…
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Follow Me - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can memorize “Follow me” and still miss how radical it is. We tend to treat faith like a travel itinerary: show us the destination, spell out the risks, then we will decide. But Jesus reverses that logic. The Good Shepherd does…
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Follow Me - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can spend years thinking “follow Jesus” means constant movement, big decisions, and dramatic stories, then discover the real challenge is trust. We lean into John 10:27 where Jesus says, “My sheep hear my voice… and they follow…
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AND… - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. If the loudest voice in your life is exhaustion, anxiety, or the fear of getting it wrong, it’s easy to assume that voice is telling the truth about who you are. We push back on that assumption with one line of Scripture that refuses…
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AND… - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can be doing everything “right” and still feel like you are bracing for impact. We start with a simple image that gets uncomfortably accurate fast: the hats we learn to wear in our families. The strong one, the helper, the…
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Jesus Knows You - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The most unsettling words Jesus can say might be the most healing: “I know you.” Not the version you polish for people, not the version that performs, but the person behind the wall. We start with John 10:27 and a brutally honest…
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Jesus Knows You - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. There’s a moment most of us know too well: you hear yourself say something sharp, you overreact, you shut down, and later you wonder, Why did I do that? We start with Jesus’ words from John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice,” and ask a...
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Can You Hear ME? - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Your head can be loud even when the phone is off and the room is quiet. We start with John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice,” then get honest about what it feels like to be the sheep, trying to sort out which voice is Jesus and which...
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Can You Hear ME? - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Your life can be silent on the outside and still deafening on the inside. We start with Jesus’ words from John 10, “My sheep hear my voice,” then tell the honest truth: when anxiety spikes, bills hit, relationships sting, and your own...
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Lost in the Woods - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Lost doesn’t always look like failure. Sometimes it looks like normal life, one reasonable choice at a time, until you realise you’ve been walking in circles and you can’t tell north from south. We start with John 10:27, “My sheep…
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Lost in the Woods - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Lost doesn’t always look like a crisis. Sometimes it looks like “I’m fine” on the outside while you’re quietly circling the same fears, the same regrets, the same patterns on the inside. We open with John 10:27 and a blunt question…
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Everyone Is a Follower - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The hardest part of a big decision is not the lack of options, it is the flood of voices. Fear talks. Comfort talks. Old failures talk. Culture talks. Even our own understanding can sound convincing when we are tired, anxious, or...
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Everyone Is a Follower - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Some choices don’t just change your schedule, they change your story. When you think back to your biggest crossroads, what actually pushed you over the edge into a decision: logic, fear, counsel, a sentence someone once said, your own...
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Living Beyond Me - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Burnout has a way of feeling holy when you’ve called it “responsibility” for long enough. We open Matthew 11:28-30 and get painfully honest about the hidden loads we drag around every day: fear, shame, anxiety, bitterness, resentment,...
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Living Beyond Me - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Exhausted doesn’t always mean sleepy. Sometimes it means you’re carrying fear, shame, anxiety, resentment, or the constant need to prove yourself and you’ve been hauling it so long it feels normal. We sit with Jesus’ words in Matthew...
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The Burden of Christ - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Your life can look perfectly fine while your soul feels like it is dragging something heavy behind it. We open Matthew 11:28–30 and sit with Jesus’ invitation to the weary, the anxious, the ashamed, and the burned out: “Come to me……
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The Burden of Christ - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Some exhaustion isn’t about a busy calendar. It’s about what you’re carrying when no one can see it. We open with Matthew 11:28-30 and sit with Jesus’s promise of “rest for your souls” while getting honest about the hidden loads so…
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The Obstacle To Us
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The biggest threat to your church, your marriage, and your friendships is rarely a lack of resources. It is the quiet, constant return to me first. We open Philippians 2:1–8 and name “the greatest obstacle” with uncomfortable clarity:...
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The Obstacle to Us - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The hardest part of faith isn’t learning new ideas, it’s letting God rewire our default setting from me to us. We open Philippians 2 and face a painfully honest question: if God does his greatest work through a people, what keeps us...
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Beyond Me, But Not Beyond Us
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. If you’ve been trying to carry life like it’s a solo sport, this message confronts the myth of self-sufficiency with something better: belonging. Starting with Father’s Day, we name a truth every parent recognizes. Kids learn “mine”...
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Beyond Me, But Not Beyond Us
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The word “mine” comes naturally. “Help” and “we” usually take longer. On Father’s Day, we sit with a simple, disruptive truth: some things are beyond me, but they are not beyond us and what is beyond us is certainly not beyond God.…
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Recognition
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Waiting for a giant, dramatic calling can feel spiritual, but it can also keep us passive. We sit on our hands, hoping for a microphone, a title, or a once-in-a-lifetime assignment while the holiest work of our lives is already...
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Recognition
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Your life might already be the calling you keep asking God to reveal. We build this message around “recognition” and “commission” not as a launch into something flashy, but as a clear-eyed realization that God has already placed...
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Zoom Out
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Chains, tribulation, uncertainty, and still Paul says yes. We start with Acts 20 and sit with a question that refuses to stay theoretical: what do we do when following Jesus costs us comfort, control, and a carefully protected life?...
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Zoom Out
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Chains and tribulations were waiting for Paul and he still moved forward, not because he loved suffering, but because he refused to live small. That moment in Acts 20 sets up a challenging idea: many of us are not held back by…
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Vision That Moves
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. “Chains and tribulations await me, but none of these things move me.” Paul’s line in Acts 20 is a gut check for anyone trying to follow Jesus with real endurance. We take that same courage and bring it into everyday Christian...
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Endurance That Lasts
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. You can love Jesus, believe the calling is real, and still whisper, “I’m just tired.” That’s the moment we’re naming and confronting: the middle stretch where the vision hasn’t changed, but your energy has. Using Acts 20:22–24, we…
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A Bleedable Vision
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Chains, uncertainty, and pressure are guaranteed in life, so the real question is what keeps you moving when the cost gets real. We sit with Acts 20:22–24 and Paul’s fierce clarity: he walks forward knowing suffering awaits, yet he’s...
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Vision That Moves
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Chains and tribulations are not the kind of forecast most of us want, yet Paul walks straight toward Jerusalem with a clear aim: finish the race with joy and stay faithful to the ministry Jesus gives. We sit with Acts 20:22–24 and ask...
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Endurance In The Middle
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The most dangerous place for your faith isn’t the beginning, and it isn’t the big crisis moment. It’s the middle, when you’re still doing the right things but you feel tired, unseen, and unsure it matters. We talk straight about...
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A Bleedable Vision
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. A vision can feel inspiring right up until it asks something from you. We start with Paul in Acts 20:22–24, heading toward Jerusalem with no promises of comfort, only a steady warning of chains and tribulation and still he says, “none...
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Lead Your Life part 3 - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. How do you spend your time? Are your values running your days? The challenge today is to find out if what we think we care about really gets our focus or if distraction does. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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Lead Your Life part 3 - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Getting honest with ourselves is the focus of this third sermon. How do you spend your time? Is what you thought was important running your daily life? Support the show www.Turning180.com
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A Life That Can Be Led - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Second part in the lead your life series. A challenge is issued based on the first sermon with thought provoking questions to ponder. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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A Life That Can Be Led
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. If you’ve ever said “God, lead me” while quietly hoping He won’t change your plans, this message is for you. We sit with two anchoring Scriptures Acts 20:22–24 and John 10:27 and ask a single, uncomfortable question: can my life...
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What Moves You? - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. First sermon in the Lead Your Life series. It issues a challenge which will change your life if accepted. This series will not let you remain complacent. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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What Moves You? - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. We start the Lead Your Life sermon series with a powerful message and a challenge. Take the challenge seriously and your life will change. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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He Sends Us - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Easter 2026 message and last in the Send Forth series. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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He Sends Us - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. Easter morning service and last in the Send Forth series. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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He Sent Forth His Son - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. One of two sermons in the Send Forth series preached on Palm Sunday 2026. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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He Sent Forth His Son - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The first message in the Send Forth series was shared on Palm Sunday 2026. Support the show www.Turning180.com
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Keep the Fire - P
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The last message I share in the alignment series is very strong. We learn how to be a link in the chain of discipling and sending. Want to support the podcast? PayPal is [email protected] Support the show www.Turning180.com
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Keep the Fire - NL
Connect with me here in text… tell me where you are listening. The last message I share in the alignment series here at NL (New Liberty) is the best of the two, although P included different stories. This message is one you don’t want to miss. It’s about discipling and sending. We are a link in…
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Love has never been optional! [email protected] is my email [email protected] is my PayPal LookingUp.live is my video blog
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jonathan althoff
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Love has never been optional! [email protected] is my email [email protected] is my PayPal LookingUp.live is my video blog
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