AFW College Podcast

Prayer is an incredible gift that the Father has given us to partner with Him in His work in the world and to build our faith through fellowship with Him. In this sermon, Bailey Hinze shares about all the benefits of prayer and invites us into deeper experiences of the Lord through a lifestyle of prayer.

One of the key ways that we get to know God is as the gardener of our lives. He is a good gardener who leans down to us to prune just what is unfruitful so that we can bear much fruit. In this sermon, Ben invites us to lean into the gardener and thus experience more of Him as He lovingly prunes us.

If you want to learn more about how suffering is an invitation to experience more of God, look no further! Jordan is bringing you short encouragements every other week to accompany Ben's sermons that will help you take a closer look at key ways to know and experience God. Check out this first episode on suffering.

While we pursue more of God's presence in our lives, God is also pursuing us and uses an unlikely tool to do so: suffering. Trials and hardship are often the setting for some of our most significant experiences with the Father. In this message, Ben shares about his experiences with seasons of suffering and how he has experienced deeper connection with God because of it.

College Night Message 2/7/23 When God calls us to Himself, He also puts fatherly boundaries around us, not to limit us of good things, but to enable us to have more of His loving relationship. In this sermon, Ben explains how following God's boundaries can free you up to experience a full life with Him.

We all love to experience God in large worship gatherings surrounded by other believers, but there is special intimacy with God available to us privately in the secret place. This private time the Father is oftentimes where God refreshes our souls and delivers us from the situations we feel stuck in. Listen to Ben as he describes the wonders of the secret place and shares some spiritual practices to help you experience God there.

God's most valuable and most abundant resource in spreading His name around the world is His people. In this episode, Ben tells us some of the lessons he has learned from sharing his faith with others and gives us a helpful metaphor for doing it ourselves.

When we obey God and go on mission trips, we can set unhealthy expectations for how God will move that leads to discouragement. Instead, we should have the healthy expectation that God wants to move and be open to any way that He uses! In this episode of the AFW College Podcast, student Hailey Wagener explains how this healthy faith created the right conditions for God to do a work in her when she said yes to letting God work through her.

In this sermon from our February 2022 College Night, Ben Moss stirs our faith to believe that God is still a miracle working God. Working miracles is a part of His nature, so what do miracles look like today? And how can we live a life where we see more of them? Ben answers these questions and challenges us to ask God for big things in this College Night Sermon.

In this sermon from our January 2022 College Night service, Jordan Ramirez describes the three major aspects of a disciple's life and how to we can organize our lives around them. By consistently encountering God, being discipled in Jesus' ways, and then actively seeking others to share Him with, we grow in our own relationship with Jesus and partner with Him in His redemptive plan for the entire world.

Discipleship is the primary model that Jesus showed us for investing in one another to help them become the person God designed them to be. In this episode AFW College Ministry pastor Ben Moss explains why discipleship is so important, who you can be looking for to help become a better disciple of Jesus, and how it is you go about that. Antioch Discipleship App

Something changes about our walks with Jesus when we stop seeing ourselves as individual Christians and start devoting ourselves to being faithful members of the church. In this episode, college junior Alyson Cruz shares her story of falling in love with Christian community after devoting herself to LifeGroup.

In this episode, Jordan talks to college junior Colton Baggett about his recent experience with the miraculous power of God through physical healing and how it has changed his relationship with Jesus.

When it comes to the voice of God, the question is not about whether or not God is speaking. The correct question is "Are we listening?" In this episode, Antioch Fort Worth college pastor Ben Moss provides listeners with four practical ways to consecrate time to hear the voice of God.

In this episode, Jordan talks with junior TCU student Ryan Kirschner about how one encounter with Jesus in the midst of his personal darkness turned his life around and now allows him to live with purpose and confidence as a college student

In order for our faith to flourish in college, we have to understand our identity in Christ. We must resist who the world tries to tell us we are and instead accept who God has declared we are. And in the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15, God declares that we are His beloved children not because of what we have done but because of who He created us to be. In this fist sermon of a three-part series, college pastor Ben Moss tells us why it is significant that God clothes us in His robe of righteousness and how we can wear it in our daily lives. Scripture about righteousness for meditation: https://qrcgcustomers.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/account14918077/17706378_1.pdf?0.22548936967899225 Find out more about AFW College: https://linktr.ee/antiochfortworthcollege

Serving others is usually considered something you begin to do once you have developed a strong faith. In this episode, Jordan explains how serving others can actually be a spiritual exercise that develops our faith and produces greater humility.

One of the most underutilized spiritual disciplines in the 21st century is the discipline of fasting, which is giving up food for an amount of time in order to express your need for God. In this episode, guest teacher Isaiah Kinard explains why fasting is as valuable a practice in the 21st century as it was in the 1st, and how you can start gaining intimacy with the Lord through fasting today. Additional Resource - Christian Fasting: Biblical and Evangelical Perspectives by SH Matthews

We often think worship as something we do, when really it is who we are as God's people. God designed us to be natural worshippers, and in this episode of the AFW College Podcast, Ben explains the importance of living a worshipful life and expressing your love for Jesus in a way that is natural to you.

All too often we see our brothers and sisters fall away from their faith because of questions that they can't answer. Their doubts lead to shame, their shame leads to isolation, and isolation leads to never getting their questions answered. In this episode, Graydon discusses the value of questions and offers a healthy way to work them out in community.

When we talk about studying the Bible, we often think of it as us doing the research and putting in the cognitive work to become more knowledgeable Christians. But in this episode, Jordan reframes the very purpose of reading your Bible and explains why we shouldn't rely on our own strength to grow in our walks with Jesus, but God's strength. Alone with God packet: http://antiochcc.s3.amazonaws.com/web/Alone+with+God+Devotional+Guide.pdf

Since creation, God set aside intentional time to rest, and then He commanded His people to do the same. Today, God continues to desire that we take regular time to experience His rest. In this episode, college pastor Ben Moss describes the Biblical foundation of the Sabbath, his own joy-filled experience with it, and how listeners can get started today to experience more of God's nature. Extra Resource: Celebration of Discipline by Richard J Foster

For many of us, church has become a place we go on Sunday mornings or something we do with our friends and family, but what was God's original intent with the Church? What role did Jesus see the church playing in the world when He instituted it through His disciples? In this episode, Graydon Jones discusses what it means to be the church in every time and place through the many metaphors of the church given throughout scripture.

The spiritual gifts described in Romans 12 are known as the motivational gifts because they are used for our own motivation and the motivational gifts. They are also how the Spirit empowers us to continue the work of Jesus in the world today. Jordan Ramirez defines each spiritual gift and gives examples of how they operate before Ben gives some practical ways that you can discover and practice your spiritual gifts. Spiritual Gifts Test: https://spiritualgiftstest.com/

1 Corinthians 12 lists the gifts given to believers when the Holy Spirit manifests Himself in them. In this episode, Ben defines and briefly discusses the manifestational gifts of the Spirit and how they operate in the church today.

We all know that Jesus' death on the cross was necessary for us to be saved from sin, but why? Why did Jesus need to die in order for us to be saved? What actually happened on the cross that makes it so important to our lives? In this episode, Graydon Jones explains the different perspectives of the Cross throughout church history and offers a wholistic view of the Cross that better describes God's heart throughout all of scripture. Got questions? Email them to jordan@antiochfortworth.com to have them answered!

God's doesn't only speak to us for our own encouragement. He also speaks to us for the encouragement of others in what Scripture calls the spiritual gift of prophecy. In this episode, Ben lays out what we know about the gift based on Scripture and provides three principles to guide our practice of it.

AFW College Pastor Ben Moss continues his teaching on the active voice of God by providing three guiding principles about hearing God's voice as well as some practical way to start hearing Him.

Many of us were brought up knowing that the Bible is the word of God, but did you know that God continues to speak today? In this episode, AFW college pastor Ben Moss walks us through the scriptural basis for believing that God still speaks to us and explains why it is so important that we seek His voice today.

When we think about "The Gospel", we normally limit it to Jesus dying on the cross to heal our sin problem. While true, that approach offers a very limited view of the Gospel and leaves out thousands of years of history in which God was revealing Himself to us. In this episode of the AFW College Podcast, Graydon Jones walks us through the Bible - from Genesis to Revelation - to show how all of history is the story of God and how the entirety of scripture gives us a more beautiful picture of the Good News.

When it comes to the things that are most important to us, our natural tendency is to try to control it. However, we are not meant to control every aspect of our lives. In this sermon from Ben Moss, he talks about how we can trust God with every part of our lives and how that leads to a better relationship with Him.

In this student testimony, senior Ben Prock talks about overcoming doubts, experiencing two-way relationship with God, accepting God's grace, and witnessing miracles in the mission field.

Episode 1 of a series of deeper dives into some of the foundational topics of theology. Graydon Jones begins this series by emphasizing the importance of a world-view and God-view centered around the person of Jesus.

Ben finishes his series on dating by answering the five biggest questions young people have about dating and bringing our thoughts about dating back under the leadership of Jesus.

Part 1 of our series on Singling and Mingling! Ben unpacks why it is important to build up love and devotion during your single years. Awaken 2021 Info Packet: Awaken 2021 Information Packet (Final)-3.pdf

College junior Grace Vanderslice joins the podcast to discuss how Jesus gave her ultimate joy, truth, and community during times of trial as well as times of peace.

In this episode, Ben interviews AFW College legend Bo Prock about what it looks like to encounter Jesus in college and then continue pursuing a relationship with Him during your college years.

The new year is a time where you are dreaming big and setting goals for yourself. But in this episode we aren't talking about goals like losing weight or reading more books. We are talking about a vision for 2021 that comes from God and not from the world. Using the Parable of the Bags of Gold, Ben and Jordan discuss how we can be good stewards of Kingdom resources in the new year and use the gold that God has entrusted to us.

As college students search for God's calling on their lives, more stress is added as those around them get closer to their calling from God. It is easy to start comparing your calling to the callings of those around you. But because you are uniquely made, your calling must look different from everyone else's! In this episode, Ben and Jordan discuss how and why your calling is worth embracing.

During college, questions about your life-long calling weigh heavily on your mind. Students worry if they are studying the right thing, investing in the right areas, or heading in the right direction in order to fulfill God's calling on their lives. In this episode, college pastor Ben Moss helps students navigate the question of calling, giving them tactics to help identify God's plan for their lives while offering comforting truth to them as they wait for God to reveal their next steps. Spiritual Gifts Test - https://giftstest.com

Ben and Jordan talk about four practical ways that students can invite Jesus into their breaks and start seeing spiritual and relational victories won over break.

College breaks offer students unique opportunities and unique challenges in their walks with Jesus. During break, students are blessed with all the time in the world to pursue the Lord, but also face difficulties that come with being back in an old setting where old habits and mindsets created barriers in their relationship with God. In this episode, Ben shares how students can win their breaks for Jesus through the parable of the soils from Mark 4.