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ExtraChristy - Podcast

31 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Challenging and thoughtful messages of hope and humor recorded live.

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Retaining Sin

April 21, 2024 01:19

Retaining Sin Retaining Sin a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 10 AM Worship Service April 7, 2024 at St Peter’s Episcopal Church in Carson City, Nevada edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Acts 4:32-35 ⟡ 1 John 1:1-2:2 ⟡ John 20:19-31   Sermons also available free on iTunes Welcome to Mirror Easter. Last week, who was here last week? No one. Okay, a couple people. All right. ...

Finish

October 17, 2022 04:16

Finish Finish a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service October 9, 2022 via Zoom at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18    Sermons also available free on iTunes I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Fight, finish, and I’m going to go with fidelity because I c...

Defensive Weapons

September 19, 2022 17:54

Defensive Weapons Defensive Weapons a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service September 18, 2022 via Zoom at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 21:5-19   Sermons also available free on iTunes   Take a look at that cover of the bulletin. And I can see you on Zoom, whether you do it or not. There’s a beautiful temple ...

Believe

September 17, 2022 22:51

Believe Believe a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service August 14, 2022 at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 16:19-31    Sermons also available free on iTunes I want to talk to you about truth. And why we can’t believe it. Why we have so much trouble with it. Now, again, I must warn you in these times that if you ...

Barns

July 15, 2022 18:14 - 12.6 MB

Barns Barns a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service July 10, 2022 at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 12:13-21    Sermons also available free on iTunes   If greed is your politics, this is a political sermon. I hope it’s not a political sermon, and that greed is not your politics. Because you may think from the b...

Choices

June 30, 2022 16:46

Choices Choices a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service June 12,2022 at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 10:38-42    Sermons also available free on iTunes You know, it occurs to me that everybody is pro-choice, as long as it’s their choice. Everybody agree with me? I’m pro my choice all the time. It’s those other...

What Does It Mean?

May 14, 2022 15:50

What Does It Mean What Does It Mean a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 11 AM Worship Service May 8,2022 at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop,CA edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Acts 2:1-21   Sermons also available free on iTunes Right about below the middle there, you see that, all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” That’s Acts 2:12. ...

Straining to Forget

May 05, 2022 04:08

Straining to Forget Straining to Forget a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 9:30 AM Worship Service April 3,2022 at Lee Vining Presbyterian Church, Lee Vining,CA and given that same day at 11 AM at Valley Presbyterian Church, Bishop, California Both Services were via ZOOM™ edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Philippians 3:4b-14   Sermons also available free on iTunes “Morning, S...

Christmas Parking

December 05, 2021 17:30

 Making Room for Christmas People Christmas Parking a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at 9:30 AM Worship Service November 7,2021 at Christ Presbyterian Church in Gardnerville, Nevada I am wearing a mask so the deep breathing is not a sign of illness but a sign of caring for others. edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Luke 3:1-6   Sermons also available free on iTunes Well, it’s infr...

Going Out of Business

November 07, 2021 16:30

 Greater Service Springs from Lesser Certainity Going Out of Business a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at 9:30 AM Worship Service November 7,2021 at Christ Presbyterian Church in Gardnerville, Nevada I am wearing a mask so the deep breathing is not a sign of illness but a sign of caring for others. edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  John 18:33-37   Sermons also available free on i...

Hardness of Heart

October 03, 2021 21:49

 How Hearts Get Hard and Why In God’s Name It Matters Hardness of Heart a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at 10 AM Worship Service October 3, 2021 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Carson City. I am wearing a mask so the deep breathing is not a sign of illness but a sign of caring for others. edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Mark 10:2-16   Sermons also available free on iTunes I...

Hanlon's Razor

August 06, 2021 16:24

 We can search for miracle as well as we can find malice in others Hanlon’s Razor a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at Christ Presbyterian Church, Gardnerville, NV on August 1,2021 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. Ephesians 4:1-16 Sermons also available free on iTunes   One difference between a community and a cult is just that – difference. A community embraces it. A cult outlaws ...

Four Julys

July 16, 2021 23:12

A Fourth of July sermon about four Julys when us includes or excludes the other who don’t know their place.

Normal or Nomad

July 01, 2021 00:22

 God does call us to a Nomad not Normal life. Normal or Nomad a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Carson City, NV on June 6.2021 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. 1 Samuel 8:4-11, 16-20 Mark 3:20-35 Sermons also available free on iTunes Video versions (both masked and unbasked) are at the end of the text   We have all felt like Samuel.  No, I’m not ta...

One of Twelve

April 25, 2021 17:55

  How We Count People and Sin One of the Twelve a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at St Paul’s Lutheran Family, Carson City, NV on April 11.2021 John 20:19-31 Sermons also available free on iTunes One of the twelve. Did you catch that? There’s a lot going on in the scripture. But in the 24th verse, the first line of the second paragraph of the reading, we read this: “One of the twelve.” I caught my breath when I read that this year ...

Unity

February 09, 2021 20:23

For the Sake of the Gospel, for the good news to be good news, for Christianity to be a blessing and not a curse Paul tells us that and lives out a freedom and privilege that is not for him and his but for others, the wage slave, society’s outcasts, a Jews a religious minority-immigrants kicked out of Rome, the disabled. Losers by society standards that Paul calls us and shows us to use our power, our privilege, our birthrights to include. We are blessed so that others can win those blessings...

Bringing Forward What's Behind

August 30, 2020 18:18

  Bring what is valuable about the past into a new future Bringing Forward What’s Behind a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church parking lot on August 30, 2020 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions; all errors are mine.  Matthew 16:21-28   Sermons also available free on iTunes   Phone, glasses, Hearphones, and once my brother Tim.  That is the answer to the question, “What do you go back for?” ...

Stop the Shouting

August 20, 2020 16:39 - 10.4 MB

  How to Stop the Shouting Stop the Shouting a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church parking lot on August 16, 2020 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions; all errors are mine.  Matthew 15:21-28   Sermons also available free on iTunes   Looking for the way to make the shouting people go away…    Would someone please stop the shouting.  That’s what the disciples want.  They want the shouting to...

Well, It’s Blursday, the Upteenth of Meh…Again

July 20, 2020 00:39

  How to be faithful when days blur into weeks and months. Well, It’s Blursday, the Upteenth of Meh…Again a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from an empty sanctuary and full zoom on a laptop at St. John’s Presbyterian in Reno, Nevada lot on August 23, 2020. Originally given at Lee Vining/Bishop Zoom on July 19 Genesis 28:10-19a   Sermons also available free on iTunes  Looking for the way to be faithful in the world without gathering with the saints T...

Jesus Wept

March 06, 2020 19:00

Weeping with the whys of life with Jesus.

Dying in a Ditch...And Then It Gets Worse

July 28, 2019 17:00 - 11.8 MB

 Image by Shift and Sheriff from Pixabay What if the hated worthless one could save your life? Dying in A Ditch a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above to download a recording  Audio from Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church, on July 28, 2019 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions; all errors are mine.  Luke 10:25-37   Sermons also available free on iTunes   Ditch the name “Good Samaritan”. It’s not in the Bible. It’s just something w...

Cathedrals and Measles

May 05, 2019 17:00 - 14.5 MB

 Image by ian kelsall from Pixabay Leting Go of Sin and Personal Proof Cathedrals and Measles a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from Spanish Springs Presbyterian Church, on May 5, 2019 edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions; all errors are mine.  John 20-19-31   Sermons also available free on iTunes   Here’s something you didn’t know.  Thomas is the patron saint of Internet trolls.  It’s true.  It’s true....

Catch Me When I Fall

October 05, 2017 04:25 - 16 MB

 By Visitor7 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link What are we to do in life…and in firefighting. Catch Me When I Fall a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Micah 6:1-8 & Matthew 5:1-12   Sermons also available free on iTunes I don’t know if you remember the first time you heard the Beatitudes, especially...

Searching for Sunday

July 31, 2017 16:19 - 10.3 MB

    How to get alongside of the “nones” of religion and join them in humanity’s search for God. Searching for Sunday a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Reno, Nevada in July 2017, edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Acts 17:22-31 Sermons also available free on iTunes   Corn. So much corn. You cannot imagine how much corn there is in Indiana. You...

Soul Opportunity

November 14, 2016 16:01 - 17.5 MB

Rev. Sue Washburn writing in Presbyterians Today Sept/Oct 2016 p. 4 When the world goes dark, the faithful testify with their lives to the light of the world Soul Opportunity a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church on November 13, 2016, text below edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 21:5-19 Sermons also available free on iTunes Sometimes...

Got Any Change?

October 16, 2016 04:59 - 13.5 MB

Christy asks us to consider if people can really change. Got Any Change? a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church on October 2016, edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Acts 9:1-20 Sermons also available free on iTunes Can a person change?  George Wallace, four term governor of Alabama.  His first run was in 1963.  He started off his campaign by stan...

Neighbor Lives Matter

September 20, 2016 16:34

The extra white Christy is challenged by Black Lives Matter and other four word phrases Neighbor Lives Matter a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church on August 2016, edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.  Luke 10:25-37 Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes Who is my neighbor?  Four words.  Four words.  Who is my neighbor?  But I think you got a littl...

The Light of the World is Green

April 22, 2016 15:39

Think of things worthy of praise: Be an Encouraging Christian  Christy argues the Light of the World is Green not Red. Green Light Christians a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey Click the title above for a mp3 recording  Audio from South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church on April 17, 2016, edited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine.    Philippians 4:8-9 Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes Why do we need green lights on the traffic si...

How To Forgive

February 24, 2016 17:56

Photo by Steve Bidmead • Bedfordshire/England How to Forgive Christy helps us forgive with practical practices for forgiving: doing what Christ has done for us. How to Forgive a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey click the title above for an mp3 recording  Audio from South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church on February 21, 2016 Text version is from September 14, 2008 at Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church in Akron, Ohio  Matthew 18:21-35 Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes You...

Pointers and Retrievers

February 19, 2016 05:20

  Photo by Kevin Christopher Burke on Flickr.comPointers and Retrievers Christy takes salvation up a notch, from John 3:16 to 17 moving from me and mine to the world. Pointers and Retrievers a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey click the title above for a mp3 recording  Preached at South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church on February 14, 2016 Based on John 3:16-17   Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes The church has left the building.  Have you heard about this program?  They ha...

One Day or Day One

February 01, 2016 02:34

  One Day or Day One? Christy thinks resolutions and being resolute. Read on to learn how to be make any day a New Year’s Day One Day or Day One? a sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey click the title above for a mp3 recording  Preached at South Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church on January 3, 2016 Based on Genesis 1:1-5   Sermons also avaliable free on iTunes You don’t have to raise your hand or anything.  These are kind of rhetorical questions.  Have you ever been in a situation w...