Episodes
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Church Explained: Week 2-Why We Grow Up
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 4:11-16 NLT Our Spiritual Growth isn't about information. it's about transformation.
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Church Explained: Week 1-Why We Gather
Scripture Reading: Hebrews 12: 18-24 (MSG) You are joining something already in progress. Not only here, but you're joining thousands upon thousands of angels already singing.
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Lean On Me: Week 6-Love That Redeems
Scripture Reading: Ruth 4 God is the master artist of broken pieces. Redeeming God-the master Artist of broken pieces-thank you for redeeming my brokenness through my relationship with Jesus. May I see the picture you are creating.
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Lean On Me: Week 5- Love That Risks
Scripture Reading: Ruth 3: 1-5 -Desperate circumstances don't require desperate compromises -Desperate doesn't mean powerless -Doing what you can doesn't mean you control what happens next
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Lean On Me: Week 4-Love That Notices
Scripture Reading: Ruth 2: 1-13 We all need someone to lean on.
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Lean On Me: Week 3-Love That Stays When You're Empty
Scripture Reading: Ruth 1:19-22 Suffering never changes our identity as God's children.
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A Sunday of More
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21, NLT Jordyn shares her testimony.
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Lean On Me: Week 2-Love That Stays
Scripture Reading: Ruth 1:1-18 Once you know that God loves you that way, the rest of your life becomes laser-focused on two things: growing into greater and greater awareness of God's love for us, and letting that overflow into our love for others.
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Lean On Me: Week 1-Nobody Makes It Alone
Scripture Reading: Judges 21:25 Ecclesiastes 4:8-12 God redeems us through relationship.
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Prayer is as Easy as P.R.A.Y.-Walworth County Fair 2026
Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:4-7 P-Praise R-Repent A-Ask Y-Yield
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When God Calls, God Equips--Spiritual Gifts
The church isn't a place we spectate. The church is the pace we share our God given gifts. Imagine saying, "God I'm available. Show me where you want me to use my spiritual gifts you've given me"
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Kenya Sunday 2026
The 3 Good News Kenya Pillars: *Discipleship *Sponsorship *Education Be Praying for the Okoth family this week
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Come Up For Air
Scripture Reading: Matthew 11:28-30 Rest is nothing something we do, it's something we're given Come up for air, and come to the water.
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Beneath the Surface: Week 8-A Way of Life
Scripture Reading: Acts 2:42-47 We need a rule of life-a plan-a trellis for Christ to be formed in us. So we can follow the invitation from Jesus to abide in him in the everyday moments of our lives. Are we being formed by accident, or are we intentionally arranging our lives around Jesus? This…
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Beneath the Surface: Week 7-The Measure of Maturity
Scripture Reading: Luke 10:25-37 Becoming a certain type of person who is a loving neighbor and not one who seeks to define who their neighbors are. Because = How we love like Jesus is to be our stand measure of maturity.
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Beneath the Surface: Week 6-Daily Office & Sabbath
"If the devil can't make you sin, he'll make you busy"-Corrie ten Boom This week, don't try to do everything. Choose one small practice, one intentional pause, one sabbath moment and see what God might do.
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Fed By the Same Hand-Pet Blessing Sunday
Scripture Reading: Psalm 104:24-30 Ruach- breath, wind, Spirit, all the same word. The breath in your dog and a bee, and the breath in your lungs came out of the same mouth. And the God who made something out of dust once can do it again. One breath. One hand. One Father.
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Beneath the Surface: Week 5-Surrendering to Your Limits
Scripture Reading: Matthew 26:36-44 We can approach our own suffering like Jesus in three ways: 1. Pay attention 2. Surrender 3. Let our humility birth something new
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Beneath the Surface: Week 4- Journey through the Wall - Letting Go of Power and Control
Scripture Reading: Genesis 22:1-14 The Good Life = the way things are supposed to be
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Beneath the Surface: Week 3-Going Back to Go Forward
Scripture Reading: Genesis 37 Your past does not have to be your future. Being a Christian is not about being an improved version of yourself, but about being made new. Jesus may be in your heart, but grandpa is in your bones.
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Father in the Storm-Outdoor Worship/Father's Day
Scripture Reading: Psalm 46:1-11 To be still is to say yes to the invitation. Be stilled by God.
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Beneath the Surface: Week 2-Know Yourself That You May Know God
Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 17:26-45 Our self-awareness is intricately related to our relationship with God
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Beneath the Surface: Week 1-Human Doing vs. Human Being
Scripture Reading; 1 Samuel 15:7-24 This is what it means to stop being a human doing and come home to being a human being beloved, beneath the surface, all the way down
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Stories of MORE-Reveal Sunday
Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:1-4(MSG) We are Children of God. That is true wealth. That is what Christ traded heaven to give you. Forever.
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Spring @ St. John's: Week 3-Pentecost
Scripture Reading: Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost is God choosing us, all of us exactly as we are, without qualification Pentecost is God saying it doesn't matter if you think you're enough, because you're enough for God Your calling is based on God's empowerment, not your own perfection,
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Spring @ St. John's: Week 2-Walking the Road with Jesus
Scripture Reading: Luke 24:13-35 How are you creating space to experience the living Jesus? Jesus is on the road with you.
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Spring @ St. John's: Week 1-Mother's Day Legacy of Love
Scripture Reading: Philippians 2:19-24 A legacy of love and faith always begins with someone else. And the chain doesn't end with us. Who has Carried You? and who are you carrying now?
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More: Week 4-Extending Christ's Love:-A Commitment to MORE Sunday
Scripture Reading: Luke 10:35-40
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More: Week 3-Reaching Across Generations
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 What Story do You want your life to tell? What story do you want St. John's to continue to tell to those beyond us?
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More: Week 2-Opening Our Lives
Scripture Reading: Luke 14:15-24 Formative Questions: What consistently distracts you from paying attention to when God might be doing in those around you? Where, how, and why do you say "later" to things that actually matter most from God's prospective? God's desire is to have his table full as...
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More: Week 1-Making Room for God
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 We are getting on our knees, both of them and asking him not to let us miss what he's already doing.
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Easter Sunday 2026: Empty Faith
Scripture Reading: John 20:1-2 He knows your name, and by calling you by name he gives us a new name, daughters and sons of the Father, My Father and your Father. My God and Your God. He is Risen! He is is Risen indeed!
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Turn: Week 6-Turn From Sin's Power--->Turn Toward the Crucified King
Scripture Reading: John 19:16b-22 So with Jesus in our lives--we are free from the curse--the power of the enemy. Meaning we have the power--the ability--the grace to resist our temptations toward sinning.
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Turn: Week 5-Drop Your Keys
Scripture Reading: John 19:1-16a Would you rather hold onto the keys--the weight, the responsibility, the fear--or put then down at the foot of the cross and follow Jesus?
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Turn: Week 4-Back & Forth
Scripture Reading: John 18:28-40 What is truth? It's a direction, and it's a person. It's Jesus. "The cross is the moment when the power of evil did its worst and was defeated by the stronger power of God's love"~N.T. Wright
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Turn: Week 3-Turn From Self-Reliance----> Toward Grace
Scripture Reading: John 18:12-27 Because grace is the ongoing presence and empowerment of God Himself, actively working in us and through us so that we can live the life God is giving us to live. But what if, what if we turn and live in the flow of God's Grace?
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Turn: Week 2-Holiness Not Hygiene
Scripture Reading: John 13:1-17 (MSG) The Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" Let him was the place you think disqualifies you. Because the place you think makes you unusable might be the very place where he meets you with love
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Turn: Week 1-Turn from fear Toward Life
Scripture Reading: Jon 11:1-44 Jesus calls us out of fear and into life---will you follow?
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Come and See: Week 8-The Man Born Blind
Scripture Reading: John 9:1-41 You are God's Masterpiece
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Come and See: Week 7-Bread and Water
Scripture Reading: John 4:46-54 Faith begins not when we add Jesus to everything else we trust--but when we finally let go of the things we've trusted instead of him.
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Come and See: Week 6-Bread and Water
Scripture Reading: John 4-6 John 6:35-40 You are enough.
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Come and See: Week 5-Born Before We're Ready
Scripture Reading: John 3: 1-17 Jesus said: You want to see the Kingdom of God? You need to align yourself to be born again in me. Being drawn to Jesus. For God so love the world...That is how new life begins.
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Come and See: Week 4-From Flipping Tables to Setting a Table
Scripture Reading: John 2:13-25 This week's invitation isn't "Go flip tables", it is: Come and see the table Jesus has set for you and me. Stop building walls where his grace has torn them down, and live like grace cost everything to God-and is free for us.
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Come and See: Week 3-Wedding at Cana
Scripture Reading: John 2:5-11 John's invitation to open our hands to the transforming generosity of Jesus
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Come and See: Week 2-Come and See
Scripture Reading: John 1:35-51 *Following Jesus doesn't begin with routine; it begins with a relationship *Following Jesus doesn't begin with "Come and do," it begins with "Come and See" *Following Jesus doesn't begin with a habit. It begins with a reward.
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Come and See: Week 1-A Voice in the Wilderness
Scripture Reading: John 1:19-34 John invites us to experience life with Jesus
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Christmas Eve 2025
Christmas Eve 2025 by St. John's Church Podcast
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Advent 2025: The Waiting Room Week 3: The Trust Before the Love
Scripture Reading: Matthew 1:18-25 Waiting is trusting that God's love is already working.
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Advent 2025: The Waiting Room Week 2-The Leap Before the Joy
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:39-45 Because Joy is the serious business of heaven. And Christmas is when heaven comes to us
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Advent 2025: The Waiting Room Week 1-The Calm Before The Hope
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:5-25 In the waiting room, God turns our fear into faith, and faith turns into rejoicing.
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