Faith Church Indy
639 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTogether, the people of Faith seek to connect with God, each other, and our needy world. Through biblical preaching and teaching, passionate worship, deep friendships, and a focus on loving and serving, our mission is to declare the glory of God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
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Cut for Time: The Commissioning
April 11, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBPastor Joey and Claire talk about creating a "lifestyle" of evangelism and what that practically looks like.
The Commissioning | Acts 12:25-13:3
April 09, 2024 03:45 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MBWe’re back in Acts! After taking off for Lent, we’re picking the story back up where we left off. The church has faced trials from without and conflicts from within, followers of Jesus have been scattered across the known world, and the center of missionary activity in the Church has shifted from Jerusalem to Antioch. And it’s in Antioch that the Holy Spirit shows up, calling out two of the best teachers to start traveling to spread the gospel and plant churches among non-Jewish people. Join ...
Easter Sunday Service
April 02, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes - 28.8 MBCelebrating our risen savior, Jesus! We conclude our study of Lamentations and are renewed by the good news of the gospel.
Good Friday Service
April 02, 2024 03:00 - 17 minutes - 20.6 MBOur annual Good Friday service, remembering the death of our savior.
Restore Us To Yourself, O Lord
March 27, 2024 17:00 - 30 minutes - 34.7 MBFor the first time, the suffering people speak for themselves, but there’s no “closure” – just the first steps beyond suffering in silence towards perspective and hope. How does this final poem help us identify and express our suffering? What hope is there in “raw” prayers like the one offered in Lamentations 5? Join us as we cry out “Restore us to yourself, O God.”
Cut for Time: Restore Us To Yourself, O Lord
March 27, 2024 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBWe chat about how the book of Lamentations ends and our desire for resolution.
Cut for Time: Exile No Longer
March 21, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBPastor Joey covers what he had to cut for time on Sunday and we talk more about recognizing anniversaries of losses.
Exile No Longer
March 18, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBAfter the preacher’s call to prayer and his modeling of confession and repentance, we would expect the congregation to respond with their own voice, putting their grief, their guilt, and their grievance into their own prayer. But they need time, so the preacher re-narrates the siege and fall of Jerusalem, brining past pain into the light. He’s not just indulging in maudlin memories, he’s bringing the time for dwelling on the past to a close. It’s time to look to the future in hope of what God...
Cut for Time: Pray Like This...
March 13, 2024 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBPastor Joey shares his favorite "sad books" or biographies on grief to help give us language to grieve in the same way.
Pray Like This...
March 13, 2024 03:00 - 33 minutes - 38.4 MBAfter sharing his own personal reflections from his past experiences of grief, the pastor becomes preacher, shifting into sermon mode. He wants to help the congregation take responsibility for their unfaithfulness, so he models a prayer of repentance they can use. His own experience, and his own prayers, become the pattern in which the congregation can learn to express their guilt and their anger to God, in their own words. Join us as we learn to “Pray Like This…” from Lamentations 3:25-66.
Cut for Time: The Wounded Healer
March 06, 2024 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBPastor Jeff shares how he has been preparing for this series in his own time and gives an overview of our care ministry at Faith Church and how you can get the help that you need.
The Wounded Healer
March 04, 2024 16:00 - 29 minutes - 34.1 MBAt the center of Lamentations, the focus and the structure shift. The narrator recounts his personal experience of suffering – what if felt like, and what his suffering seemed to tell him about God. But for the first time there’s hope – the narrator also remembers God’s kindness, love, and faithfulness, and he becomes a source of hope for others. It’s a patten we can emulate in our suffering. Join us as we look at “The Wounded Healer” from Lamentations 3:1-33.
Cut for Time: The Wrecked and the Wrecker
February 28, 2024 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBPastor Jeff and Claire are joined by Karl Pohl, Director of Worship to answer questions about new songs that are introduced this Lenten season.
The Wrecked and The Wrecker
February 26, 2024 19:00 - 31 minutes - 35.7 MBIt’s one thing to suffer hurts, losses, and griefs – but what do we do when it feels like God is the one who’s caused the pain? Where do we turn? Join us as we explore how lament helps give voice to our pain in “The Wrecked and the Wrecker” from Lamentations 2.
Cut for Time: How Lonely Sits the City
February 21, 2024 17:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBPastor Joey shares background on the book of Lamentations because he had to cut it from the sermon and answers questions from our congregation.
How Lonely Sits the City
February 19, 2024 16:00 - 33 minutes - 38.1 MBIn a world beset by griefs, how do followers of Jesus learn to faithfully and appropriately bring these griefs to God? Or are we being unfaithful when we tell God we hurt? Is God big enough to handle our pain? These questions and more are at the core of our Lenten series through Lamentations. Join us as we begin the healing process of rehearsing our griefs before God, as study Lamentations 1:1-22, “How Lonely Sits the City.”
Ash Wednesday Service 2024
February 16, 2024 17:00 - 14 minutes - 17.1 MBStart this year’s Lenten season with a service of prayer, humility, and the reminder of our frailty and need of a savior.
Cut for Time: The Blasphemy
February 14, 2024 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBPastor Joey just preached the final sermon of this Acts sub-series so he wraps it up for us as we transtion into the season of Lent and studying Lamentations.
The Blasphemy | Acts 12:20-24
February 12, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBAt first glance, this story seems unnecessary. Herod Agrippa has only just come on the scene, and already Luke narrates his demise? But there are fascinating contrasts between this story and the previous one—most interestingly, contrasting how the Church responds to Herod’s oppression and how the people of Tyre and Sidon respond. Ultimately, Herod’s power is nothing compared to God’s, and the Church continues to flourish in spite of opposition. So join us as we study “The Blasphemy” from Acts...
Cut for Time: The Deliverance
February 07, 2024 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBPastor Joey answered rapid fire questions while under a time crunch for recording, and, of course, did a great job. Listen in to hear what others from our congregation are asking!
The Deliverance | Acts 12:1-19
February 05, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes - 40 MBAfter following the action to Antioch, this week we’re back in Jerusalem. Public sentiment has turned against the Jesus Movement, and local authorities aren’t above capitalizing on public opinion to bolster their own political ambitions. With one apostle killed and another imprisoned, is the church in Jerusalem about to be destroyed? What will God do next to rescue his people? Find out as we explore “The Deliverance” in Acts 12:1-19!
Cut For Time: The Church
January 31, 2024 17:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBPastor Jeff speaks on the encouragement we can receive from Barnabus and learn more about the church in Antioch.
The Church | Acts 11:19-30
January 30, 2024 04:00 - 33 minutes - 38.1 MBThe good news of Messiah Jesus has spread beyond Jewish believers to the Gentiles, and now to the birth of a cross-cultural, multi-ethnic church in Antioch. That congregation becomes the center of gospel expansion to the Roman world. Why? What makes them so unique and important that we can learn from? Join us as we look at “The Church” from Acts 11:19-30.
Cut for Time: The Report
January 24, 2024 15:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBJeff and Claire stumble on new insight to the passage while having their conversation on the passage Acts 11:1-18.
The Report | Acts 11:1-18
January 23, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes - 39.8 MBWe hear again that God welcomes Gentiles into the community of his people. Why does this offend the Jewish believers? What convinces them that God has done something they need to accept and adjust to? And what does that have to do with us? Join us this Sunday as we look at “The Report” from Acts 11:1-18.
Cut for Time: The Gentiles
January 18, 2024 01:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBCut for Time is back from the holiday break! On Sunday, Pastor Joey promised he'd cover a few things he didn't have time to deep dive, such as speaking in tongues. Listen to his thoughts about the topic and more about what he didn't get to include in this episode!
The Gentiles | Acts 10:34-48
January 15, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBWhen last we looked at the adventures of the early church, we were with Peter in Caesarea, on the coast, after he experienced a revelatory vision from God teaching him that no one is outside the reach of God’s grace. Immediately after, messengers from a Roman soldier named Cornelius showed up, saying Cornelius too had received a vision with instructions to get Peter! How does the story end? Find out as the church expands to “The Gentiles” in Acts 10:34-48!
Comfort One Another
January 08, 2024 19:00 - 29 minutes - 33.4 MBWhen the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica about the return of Jesus in 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18, he didn’t bring up that particular teaching just because he thought it was a good topic for them to brush up on—he brought it up because belief in the return of Jesus is a profound comfort to us when we are facing loss and grief. This weekend we’ll suspend resuming our Acts series to spend Sunday morning finding comfort, that we may not grieve as those without hope.
Redeeming the Woman at the Well
December 31, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this one-week break between Advent and the new year, we’re going to shift gears for a bit and study one of the best-known stories from Jesus’s life: his conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s Well near Sychar. As we peel back the layers of history and culture, we’ll come to see this interaction with fresh eyes and to find out how we, too, can engage with people who don’t know Jesus. Join us this weekend for “Redeeming the Woman at the Well” from John 4:5-30, 39!
Why Celebrate?
December 26, 2023 02:00 - 31 minutes - 36.2 MBThis time of year we hear all kinds of messages telling us to “get in the holiday spirit” and enjoy “the hap-happiest time of the year.” Christmas comes with all kinds of hopes, desires, and expectations. Does it ever seem forced – maybe even overwhelming – with the cold weather, long nights, and everything we’re supposed to do and feel? Join us as we answer “Why Celebrate?” from Luke 2:1-14.
Why Jesus?
December 26, 2023 02:00 - 16 minutes - 18.7 MBWhy the name "Jesus?" What does it mean to us and how does knowing it make us respond differently to our savior on Christmas? By listening or watching, we love that you've joined us in celebration and worship during our Christmas Eve service!
Why the Virgin Birth?
December 19, 2023 02:00 - 33 minutes - 37.9 MBIt’s almost Christmas! And this week, we’re tackling our third big question of our “Why Christmas?” series, “Why the Virgin Birth?” There’s been a lot of confusion around this teaching over the centuries, so this week, we’re going to go back to the basics. Does it matter that Jesus was born supernaturally, without a father involved? How does this teaching relate to our salvation? And does it matter that the rest of the New Testament doesn’t really mention it? We’ll dig into all of that and mo...
Why the incarnation?
December 11, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 40.4 MB“Emmanuel,” one of the names given to Jesus, means “God with us.” But what does it mean for God to be with us, and for him to be with us in the person of Jesus? That’s the teaching called the “Incarnation,” and it is foundational to everything we believe about Christmas. But did Christmas have to happen this way? Join us for “Why the Incarnation?” from Luke 1:26-35!
Why do we need a savior?
December 04, 2023 05:45 - 26 minutes - 30.8 MBAs the calendar turns to December and our hearts turn toward Christmas, we are diving into our advent series “Why Christmas?” to take a theological look at our deep need for a savior and the gift of grace that is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The first question we’ll be taking a look at is “Why do we need a savior?” Join us as we study Luke 1:5-17 and unpack the story of creation and the hope that exists in Jesus despite our broken situation.
Cut for Time: The Visions
November 29, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBListen to find out which question stumped Joey this week (is that a first on Cut for Time?!) and a few other responses to questions from listeners!
The Visions | Acts 10:1-33
November 28, 2023 03:00 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MBIt’s finally happening, and yet it still comes as a shock. From this end of the story, we know it was inevitable that the good news of the kingdom would extend beyond the Jewish people. But Peter didn’t see it coming. Join us for “The Visions” from Acts 10:1-33, as we see God preparing two very different men to discover that Jesus makes them brothers.
Cut for Time: The Healings
November 22, 2023 16:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this episdoe of Cut for Time, Joey encourages us to put this sermon into practice, and do the hard work of reflection by using our sermon discussion questions as a starting point.
The Healings | Acts 9:32-43
November 21, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes - 50 MBHaving finished with the story of Saul (at least to this point), Luke shifts his focus back to Peter. We find Peter on a pastoral tour of little churches in little towns north of Jerusalem, preaching and ministering the good news of the kingdom of God in Messiah Jesus. Healing—and even a resurrection!—follow, as the risen and exalted Jesus is at work bringing new life to his people. And that’s not all, as Peter will soon find himself deep in a new controversy in the near future when a promine...
Cut for Time: The Reuinon
November 15, 2023 18:00 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBWhat's the difference between reconciliation and forgiveness? And what was going on between Paul and the other disciples? Jeff unpacks it all in this week's episode of Cut for Time.
The Reunion | Acts 9:26-31
November 13, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBSaul returns to Jerusalem for the most difficult reunion ever - he wants to join the group he was trying to kill, but that group wants nothing to do with him, and the group he used to be part of wants to kill him. How is God going to work in all that mess and what will come from it? Join us this Sunday as we look at "The Reunion" from Acts 9:26-31.
Cut for Time: The Escape
November 08, 2023 16:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBIt's a long episode with a lot of questions... Pastor Joey explores the theories around the three year gap he mentioned in his sermon and much more!
The Escape | Acts 9:19-25
November 07, 2023 03:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBThough viewed with suspicion, Saul immediately begins explaining how everything he had hoped and dreamed for the people of Israel had been fulfilled in Jesus, the Messiah. And in what will become a pattern in his ministry, he almost immediately starts to cause trouble. Join us for “The Escape” from Acts 9:19-25, as we dig into the less-than-auspicious beginnings of this great missionary’s ministry!
Cut for Time: The Conversion
November 01, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBPastor Joey gets a chance to cover what he cut from Sunday's sermon and we chat about the "shift" in the EvangelismShift program.
The Conversion | Acts 9:10-19a
October 31, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBIs this the most dramatic conversion in the entire New Testament? Maybe...it's certainly the conversion with the most dramatic impact. But that was part of the plan from the beginning, as God had a plan for Saul that would send him to the ends of the earth, living and witnessing to the life of Christ. Join us for the beginning of it all with "The Conversion" from Acts 9:10-19!
Cut for Time: The Persecutor
October 27, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBPastor Jeff shares what he needed to cut from his sermon and unpacks what it means for Jesus to identify with believers.
GO Time Interview: Doug Leatherman
October 27, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBWe are releasing podcast interviews with our missionaries prior to their GO Time weekend, so you can catch up with them before you see them at an event. The purpose of our podcast is to meet the missionaries and hear what they’re up to. They will also share a few ways you can be partnering with them in prayer. I encourage you to take time to pray for each missionary when the episode ends. Today’s episode features our missionary, Doug Leatherman. He are partnered with Cru and has two differen...
The Persecutor | Acts 9:1-9
October 24, 2023 03:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBSaul, the great persecutor of Jesus' followers, is literally knocked to the ground and blinded -- in order to help him see his blindness and heal his heart. What does Saul's story say to us about our need for Jesus and how God works through "severe mercy" in our lives? Join us as we look at "The Persecutor" from Acts 9:1-9.
Cut for Time: The Foreigner
October 18, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBPastor Bob Blahnik shares a few things that were cut from his sermon on Sunday and we talk more about Life2Life evangelism opportunities. Special Guest: Bob Blahnik.
The Foreigner | Acts 8:26-40
October 17, 2023 01:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MBSo far in our study of Acts, we’ve seen the gospel shared with large groups but now, Luke shares the accounts of conversion of three individuals: a foreigner from Ethiopia, Saul, and Cornelius. These passages remind us of the need for us to look for ways to share our faith in Christ with our families, our friends, and the world around us. We are all called to “go and make disciples,” but sharing our faith with others is becoming harder to do in the world we live in. This Sunday, we will be re...
The Power | Acts 8:9-25
October 10, 2023 02:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBLuke has shown us God’s amazing power at work to heal, save, deliver, and change lives. Wouldn’t it be great if we could direct God’s miraculous power ourselves? But is God’s power the kind of thing we can control and manage? Join us this Sunday as we look at “The Power” from Acts 8:9-25.