FCC Bentonville & WaterWay
246 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe sermon podcast of First Christian Church and WaterWay of Bentonville, Arkansas. We are a Disciples of Christ congregation with 2 locations and 4 worship services (8am Praise Service and 11am Traditional Worship at FCC, 9am and 10am Coffeehouse Worship at WaterWay).
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Sacred in the Secular - Finding the Sacred in the Secular
June 05, 2016 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBThis summer we are focusing on how movies and music can give us insight into God and our lives of faith. This introduction to our series challenges the idea that there is a divide between the sacred and the secular. There is also a lot of awesome music from our worship band!
Better Together - Honor One Another
May 08, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBScripture points out again and again that comparing yourself to others has a negative impact. Except for one place. In Romans 12, the Apostle Paul instructs us to outdo one another in showing honor.
Better Together - Offer Hospitality to One Another
May 01, 2016 04:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBBetween serving and loving is hospitality. How do we welcome the stranger into our homes, our churches, our community? What does Scripture say about hospitality? Actually, it says quite a bit!
Better Together - Accept One Another
April 24, 2016 04:00 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBWe continue this morning in our series "Better Together" in which we are looking into passages in Scripture that center around the phrase "one another". in Romans 15, Paul tells the churches in Rome to "accept one another, just as Christ has accepted you." What might this look like in our own context?
Better Together - Forgive One Another
April 17, 2016 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBWe talk a lot about forgiveness at FCC & WaterWay because Scripture talks a lot about forgiveness. Today, Don brings together Jesus, Stephen, and Lyle Lovett!
Better Together - Encourage One Another
April 10, 2016 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBIn our second Sunday of this series, Don teaches about the importance of encouragement and how it is vital to our lives in faith and community.
Better Together - Serve One Another
April 03, 2016 04:00 - 22 minutes - 10.6 MBWe begin a new sermon series called "Better Together". Throughout this series we will be studying passages in the New Testament with the phrase 'one another'. Today, the sermon is kicking off our "Plan Be" Sunday in which we worship and then go out into the community to serve!
Marked by Prayer - A Prayer of Passion
March 20, 2016 04:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBWe like to think of God Almighty, who is powerful and awesome and shows strength. Yet, there's something that constantly gets in the way of that image of God: the cross of Christ. It might sound like foolishness, and it's definitely a stumbling block for some people, but God's power is made perfect in...weakness
Marked by Prayer - The Purpose of Prayer
March 13, 2016 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBThis week we read through the story of the fig tree in Mark 11. It's a weird story and really hard to understand. But what if Jesus is teaching the disciples to give up all the 'stuff' and surrender to their relationship with God?
Marked by Prayer - A Prayer of Purification
March 06, 2016 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MBTalking about change is a difficult thing, especially with the ways in which the church has used it as a weapon against people. Yet, changing our lives is something that Jesus talks a lot about. This morning we look at the story of the Rich Man in Mark 10 and wrestle with what it means for change and for our prayer lives.
Marked by Prayer - The Provision of Prayer
February 28, 2016 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBIn this sermon Peggy wrestles with the story of the feeding of the 5,000 in Mark chapter 6.
Marked by Prayer - The Power of Prayer
February 21, 2016 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBDoes God listen when we pray? What is going on when we keep praying for something specific but it seems God never addresses it? What if, prayer is not something we do to God, but something we do with God?
Marked by Prayer - A Place of Prayer
February 14, 2016 05:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBWe begin a new series called "Marked by Prayer". During this series we will be reading through the Gospel of Mark and learning about the importance of prayer. In this first message, we notice that Jesus is always going off by himself to pray. What's going on with that?
Transformed - Transforming Hardened into Pardoned
January 31, 2016 05:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBWe love to talk about how God has forgiven us. It really is an amazing thing that can change our lives. But Scripture also speaks to the necessity of us forgiving others. Really, if we refuse to live into forgiveness, we can not fully live into the love of God.
Transformed - Transforming Pace into Peace
January 24, 2016 05:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBThere's a lot of conversation about the church changing in our current society and culture. One of the biggest changes that we don't speak about enough is that we are so....busy. What if our busyness is keeping us from fully following Christ?
Transformed - Transforming Pain into Gain
January 17, 2016 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBLife is hard. There's just no way around it. Often it overwhelms us; sometimes it even makes us doubt God. The Apostle Paul, however, took pride in his troubles and problems. How can that be? Paul knew that God was good and that race, while difficult, was worth running.
Transformed - Transforming Scared into Sacred
January 10, 2016 05:00 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBWe live in a world that is paralyzed by fear. Everywhere we look, everything we read, seems to be trying to instill fear into us. Yet, over and over again, Scripture says that the counter to fear is faith.
Transformed - Transforming Crappy into Happy
January 03, 2016 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBWe start a brand new sermon series this week called "Transformed: Small Changes that Make a Big Difference" In our first week, we focus on the way we approach life, our attitude. If we have certain attitudes, attitudes that Paul writes a lot about, we can transform crappy into happy!
Did We Miss It?
December 27, 2015 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBThe Sunday after Christmas is always an amazing time to think about the whole story of the birth of Jesus and how it affects us and how we let it affect us.
The Giver - The Giver of Love
December 20, 2015 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBThe story of Christmas is ultimately a story of God's love for the world!
The Giver - The Giver of Joy
December 13, 2015 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBMusic has a profound effect on our lives. Today in worship we were joined by the Chamber Orchestra from Bentonville High School. They provided an amazing backdrop as we talked about the joy that Christ brings into the world.
The Giver - The Giver of Hope
December 06, 2015 05:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBWe are entering into the Advent and Christmas season of the year. Move through the story of the preparation for the birth of Jesus using the movie "The Giver" that came out earlier this year.
Let's Eat - A Seat at the Table
November 29, 2015 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBOur disgust, that we talked about the week before, doesn't just apply to foods we eat. Disgust gets applied to people. To protect ourselves, we put barriers and boundaries to block off the disgusting. But this thing keeps getting in the way: Jesus.
Let's Eat - Food on the Table
November 22, 2015 05:00 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBIt's the week of Thanksgiving and food is on everyone's minds. There are the foods that we like and then there are the foods we are disgusted by. Why are there some foods that just gross us out? And why does Scripture talk so much about food? Cody dives into the story of Peter in Acts 10 and how we are reminded of God's grace in the meals we eat.
FAQ - What's up with Sin and Salvation?
November 15, 2015 05:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBIn the final sermon in our FAQ series, Don tackles the big issues of sin and salvation. God created us to be what? If Jesus comes to save, what are we being saved from? What's the problem? And what's the solution?
FAQ - What the Devil is up with Satan
November 08, 2015 05:00 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MBIn the second of our Faith and Questions series, Don engages questions that have come up regarding Satan, Lucifer, the devil, and evil in general.
FAQ - What's up with the Rapture and the End of the World
November 01, 2015 04:00 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MBIn a new sermon series entitled "Faith and Questions," Don tackles big questions that various people in the congregation have sent in over the past month. In this sermon, he specifically engages all the fuss that people make over the rapture, and how little biblical evidence there is for such a thing. Don also dives in to the Book of Revelation and the best approach to reading such an interesting book.
Hunger Games - A Hunger for 'The Banquet'
October 25, 2015 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBThe world constantly tells us that there is not enough, what we could call a theology of scarcity. But in God's kingdom, there is abundance, more than enough for all. Jesus, and the prophet Isaiah, both use the image of a grand banquet to describe God's kingdom. Don shares his most profound Jesus moment, the moment that showed him what this all could actually look like.
Hunger Games - A Hunger for Self-Sacrifice
October 18, 2015 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBWe have a deep longing for joy in our lives, but the only way to reach that joy, the only way to experience more life in our life is to go against the grain and give. Jesus shows the way to joy is through self-sacrifice.
Hunger Games - A Hunger for Freedom
October 11, 2015 04:00 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBDon is joined by Katie Hicks, who is about to leave for Cambodia to work with Hope for Justice, an organization that works to free and rehabilitate young girls who have been trafficked into sex slavery. Where does Scripture speak to us in the midst of such difficult things going on in our world?
Hunger Games - A Hunger for Hope
October 07, 2015 04:00 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBThe Old Testament tells us about this idea of Jubilee when all of Israel was reset... Debts were forgiven, slaves and servants were set free, land was returned to its original owner. A crazy and radical idea. So radical most biblical historians don't think it ever actually happened. How could this radical idea of Jubilee shape our lives today?
Hunger Games - A Hunger for 'Breadth'
September 27, 2015 04:00 - 39 minutes - 18 MBThe US is one of the most diverse countries in the history of the world, but do we live into that diversity? In the third sermon of this series, Don wrestles with recent studies that show we isolate ourselves from those who do not think, look, act, or speak the same as we do. What does this means for the kingdom of God that Jesus is always talking about?
Hunger Games - A Hunger for 'Daily Bread'
September 20, 2015 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBIn the second sermon of this series, Don explores the meaning behind Jesus's instruction to pray 'give us this day, our daily bread' and how that connects with the story of manna in the Book of Exodus. What do these passages mean in light of our obsession with food in our culture?
Hunger Games - Our Hunger for More
September 13, 2015 04:00 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBIn this first message of a new series, Don explores the biblical topic of justice and it's connection to the Old Testament vision of Shalom and Jesus' vision of the Kingdom of God. He ends with a Hunger Games Challenge to all of us, to allow God access to our excess in order to make a difference in the world. The sermon begins with a brief clip from the first Hunger Games movie.
Dissin the Bible - The Word in the words
September 06, 2015 04:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this message, Cody reminds us that the Word of God is actually Jesus Christ, not the words we read on a page. Scripture points us to something greater than itself
Dissin the Bible - Discipled by Jesus
August 30, 2015 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBHow did Jesus read Scripture? Did he keep a literal reading of the Bible? Did he challenge anything that was written in the Old Testament? In this message, Don points out times Jesus quoted Scripture and what he kept and changed!
Dissin the Bible - Disarming Scripture's Violence
August 23, 2015 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBIn this message, Don brings up passages in the Bible that condone violence and genocide. How do we take the Bible seriously when it says things that are so against love?
Dissin the Bible - Disputing Literalism
August 16, 2015 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBIn this message Don tackles the heart of this series - the need to interpret scripture in a non-literal way.
Dissin the Bible - From Disbelief to Discovery
August 09, 2015 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this opening sermon of a series on biblical interpretation, Don discusses the point of scripture as an invitation into conversation and relationship with the Living God who still speaks today.
The Book of James - Keep Going
August 02, 2015 04:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBIn the midst of all the chaos, suffering, and destruction going on in the world, it's easy to wonder about God and whether this life of faith is worth it. James reminds us that the God we follow is good and that the world we long for is possible!
The Book of James - Say What?
July 26, 2015 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MBWords matter. And more often than not, the words we say cause way more problems than solutions. James challenges us to be quick to listen and slow to speak. What would that look like in our current context?
The Book of James - Pay Attention
July 19, 2015 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBThroughout Scripture, from the prophets, to Jesus, to James, we are challenged to rethink the ways we use our resources
The Book of James - Do Work
July 12, 2015 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBThe first sermon in a series focusing on the Book of James. By reading James, we are challenged to do more than just 'believe' in God, but to carry out our beliefs with actions in the world!
Moving Forward Together: Homosexuality, Marriage Equality, & the Bible
July 05, 2015 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBAn in-depth discussion of all of the pertinent passages regarding the complex issue of homosexuality and marriage equality, with personal reflections and interpretations from a more progressive point of view.
Modern Family - Love is a Verb
April 26, 2015 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBThe second message in our 'Modern Family' series, talking about love & relationships. Each message in this series was introduced by a short clip from the Modern Family TV show.
Modern Family - It's Not Who It's How
April 19, 2015 04:00 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MBIn the first message from our 'Modern Family' series, we talk about biblical marriage & relationship being defined not by the specifics of WHO is in relationship, but HOW they relate to one another - with unconditional love. Each message in this series begins with a brief clip from the Modern Family TV show.