Latest Messiahyl Podcast Episodes
We Can Work It Out - Gospel Rocks
Love God • Love One Another - April 14, 2024 02:21 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIs the church (at large) a sinking ship? Will the church as we know it survive for 20 more years? It may not endure as we know it, but it WILL thrive according to God's plan. Form this perspective we can be assured that God will work it out. Our job is to embrace the newness.#LoveOthers #GodsWay ...
Follow Jesus Not Rules - Follow Me
Love God • Love One Another - March 17, 2024 13:04 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJesus doesn't ask for a resumes or qualifications to follow him, he simply asks for a willingness to follow: to trust, to learn, to love, to be transformed. It is sometimes messy, sometimes imperfect, but it is real. Following Jesus is being open to the unexpected, the uncomfortable, and the cha...
Count the Cost - Follow Me
Love God • Love One Another - March 10, 2024 04:36 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGrace is free, but it is not cheap. The type of grace we receive from God was very costly and its precious value must be understood to be appreciated. Jesus gave his life for us. Count the cost and act accordingly. We show our gratitude as we strive to live obediently (as best we can) following J...
Seeking the Good - Follow Me
Love God • Love One Another - February 18, 2024 14:14 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat kind of a follower are you? Online, first impressions make a big difference. This is the same reason Jesus was so popular when he came to the world. Jesus had many raving followers and, in the end, overwhelming critics. The people of the world didn't understand why Jesus came. They wanted s...
Level the Playing Field
Love God • Love One Another - February 11, 2024 05:01 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLike a Super Bowl team thrives on cooperation and coordination, we flourish when we work together as followers of Christ to live with compassion and mercy for others...and work together to create a truly just world for all people both near and far. #SuperBowl #Cooperation #messiahyl
Remembering Who We Are and Whose We Are - Rest of the Year
Love God • Love One Another - February 04, 2024 14:16 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAre you a great worrier? Worry prevents us from experiencing God—who is actively working in the present to help us. Worry sucks the vitality, energy, and joy required to live lives of loving service and compassionate action toward others. Lean in to the radical grace of God. This will shift our ...
What God Has Promised - Rest of the Year
Love God • Love One Another - January 28, 2024 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhy did the people of Israel spend forty years in the dessert before "entering the rest" of the promised land? They were afraid to go in! Do we refuse to enter into the rest that God promised? We must recognize that grace and rest don't depend on our effort. Stop, wait, and pay attention...to see...
Letting My Soul Catch Up with My Body - Rest of the Year
Love God • Love One Another - January 21, 2024 14:06 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMost people can appreciate and respect the commandment "Do not murder." Another commandment a few before it, though, is likewise important but much tougher to keep. "Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy." God demonstrated rest after the work of creation and God knows his creations...including us...
Easy and Light - Rest of the Year
Love God • Love One Another - January 14, 2024 04:59 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKnowledge and grit are not all it takes to make things go better. A focus on what God asks us to do is a promised path to peace and satisfaction. Living God's values relieves us from the burden of busyness, expectations, regulations, and rigor...religious or otherwise. Take the yoke of Jesus for...
Light of Christ
Love God • Love One Another - January 07, 2024 04:08 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter the Christmas hoopla, it can be easy let Epiphany slip by. Just as the foreign magi searched out baby Jesus, we, too are all on a quest for something far greater than ourself. They discovered, as we learn, everyone is welcome in the presence of the Lord. We are one family! In truth, we are...
Prepare the Way - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child
Love God • Love One Another - December 17, 2023 14:01 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we hear a new angle on the advent story—which begins in the desert. Historically, a place of struggle and uncertainty (then and now), the desert near Israel and the area of the Jordan River was ground-zero for God's greatest news for mankind. Prepare the way! That means: scrub the steps, be...
Coming on the Clouds - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child
Love God • Love One Another - December 10, 2023 04:40 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBe ready, be alert...is not a fear-based faith. Jesus is the light of the world and God's transformative presence can be found in the waiting and expectancy within our current situation. Advent is a time to stay focused and be active in our love for God and others. #Attentive #BringLove #SpillThe...
Celebrating Ministry Together - Hope 4 Kids
Love God • Love One Another - December 03, 2023 14:24 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGlory to God and thanks to Messiah for our ministry together! "But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-15) No matter what our age, backg...
Christ the King Sunday - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child
Love God • Love One Another - November 25, 2023 21:27 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWho is your shepherd? Who tends to you when you are weak, lost, or in trouble? Ancient kings were in charge of their people this way. However, many kings wandered from this calling and brought judgement and calamity on themselves and their people. Connecting the old and new testament, Jesus is th...
Mission of God
Love God • Love One Another - November 19, 2023 13:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow do we practice love in our lives? Do we limit love to the confines of our hearts and minds or do we extend it to our relationships, communities, and beyond. Uganda is one of many places where we demonstrate love through actions. We are surrounded by a world in need. Embody Christ by becoming...
Elijah and the Widow - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child
Love God • Love One Another - November 10, 2023 15:17 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGod's provision is everlasting...proven, by example, in the old testament through care for widows and in the NT as Jesus demonstrates care for the poor, needy, and the downtrodden. Jesus is the new covenant that gifts us all grace, mercy, hope, and love everlasting. #DoLikewise #CareForOthers #me...
Hear O Israel - The Cradle that Holds the Christ Child
Love God • Love One Another - November 05, 2023 05:12 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFree people need guidelines, principles, and advice to live well. What posture is needed to hear the Lord? The Bible (old and new testaments) point to the answer: Jesus. Follow him with an extravagant, committed, undivided love including conscience, heart, essence, soul, and vitality (might or s...
Reformation Today
Love God • Love One Another - October 29, 2023 13:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Reformation was a pivotal moment in the protestant church. Even as an anniversary could commemorate what happened some time ago we take a moment today to once ago listen to the words of Jesus seeking wisdom and inspiration for our own journey into a more inclusive, compassionate, and grace-f...
Build Your House on the Rock
Love God • Love One Another - October 22, 2023 13:29 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJesus teaches us the many blessings of the acts of faithfulness. Invited to live aligned and trusting in Him, we find ourself on solid ground. In coastal California, we eyewitness how the wise build their house on a foundation of rock rather than sand. This concept is worldwide universal to build...
French Fries
Love God • Love One Another - October 15, 2023 13:02 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWould you be generous enough to share a french fry with someone who bought them for you? This simple story and analogy is a means for understanding our relationship to God—the provider of all things related to our life...including french fries. Generosity is a cheerful act of worship, thanksgivin...
Mercy, Mercy, Me - Upside Down
Love God • Love One Another - October 08, 2023 13:17 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOf course, you can choose to be anything you want!...choose truthful, compassionate, and merciful. Learning to live that way isn't an overnight transformation; rather a lifelong intention. Mercy "received" is the state of our condition. Thanks be to God for this grace!...and the reciprocal chance...
Hunger and Thirst - Upside Down
Love God • Love One Another - October 01, 2023 13:31 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAre you living the good life?...experiencing the good life is found while learning to live by God's values. The kingdom of heaven is not just a place after death; it is also on earth when we do God's will. When we hunger and thirst for God's righteousness (wanting to have things right) we discove...
Humility is Not Weakness - Upside Down
Love God • Love One Another - September 24, 2023 12:31 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat are you looking for in life? listening for in a leader? Is meekness top of list? Jesus wants us to question the prevailing cultural narrative that equates power and control with success. He wants us to realize there is an alternative to the pursuit of dominance and power, pride and arrogance...
Blessed Be - Upside Down
Love God • Love One Another - September 17, 2023 04:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe list of people who are blessed (poor in spirit, mourning, meek, insulted, persecuted, and lied about) seems opposite what our society and culture might call "blessed." Jesus teaching in the Sermon on the Mount seems UPSIDE DOWN. Thankfully, it is not contrary, but it takes a new worldview to ...
Power of the Past and Hope for the Future
Love God • Love One Another - September 10, 2023 13:20 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCelebrating 60 years of loving God and loving one another, we look forward to the future with hope! We will never change the world by going to church, we will only change the world by being the church. We must embrace a transformative mindset to adapt to the issues of today and serve others in me...
What Good Will It Do?
Love God • Love One Another - September 03, 2023 03:58 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStriving to see things from a divine point of view helps us gain perspective. We can "get it" in one moment and then totally miss the bigger opportunity God is curating. We can get distracted easily by striving to win the game of life. What will it do to gain the whole world and lose your soul? L...
Greater Freedom
Love God • Love One Another - August 28, 2023 03:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOur society elevates toxic pride and self-sufficiency. The pull is substantial! Trusting in God is "easier said, than done." Casting our anxieties on the Lord is not a sign of weakness; rather, this act of acknowledging a need for help and receiving grace is the very practice that brings peace to...
Holy Humor
Love God • Love One Another - August 20, 2023 13:04 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLaughter is a beautiful and universal language that brings joy into our life. (Ecc 3:4) Our capacity to feel deeply and empathize with others is a gift from God...and the very nature of God. Holy humor is good medicine and balm for our souls. Laughter brings a shared camaraderie and we should pra...
Love My Enemies? - Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Selfie
Love God • Love One Another - August 13, 2023 01:35 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn a world crying out for transformation, the key is loving those who God loves—seeing every person as a fellow bearer of God's image—even those who personally oppose or align themselves against us or God. Radical grace received helps us stand in the gap and strive for alignment with God's moral ...
What Does My Neighbor Look Like - Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Selfie
Love God • Love One Another - August 06, 2023 13:06 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow open and aware are your eyes and heart for the needs of others? The Christian imperative is to live-out love for others. We are saved by a faith that integrates good works to serve Jesus. We serve Jesus by serving others...who are are one and the same! #Neighbors #LoveOverFear #messiahyl
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