Border City Church Podcast, Detroit, MI

In this message, Rodney preaches on how we can live daily with God's peace. He explains that living in God's peace comes from living from an identity of being in Christ. The main passage that he spoke from is Philippians 4, where it says that when we give God our anxieties and worries, He gives us peace that surpasses all understanding.

Posture of a King - Steve Martel - 11-23-25 by Border City Church

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about how we can spiritually wage war against the enemy. Many of the battles that we face are actually spiritual ones, although we sometimes tend to approach them naturally. The main passage was Ephesian 6:10-17, which talks about the Armor of God.

In this message, Minda preaches about how being equipped by five fold gifts causes us to mature as followers of Jesus. She challenged us to position ourselves to receive from equipping gifts, to lean into maturity, to love people from our local church body, and to know where and how we are working in the Church body and outside the body.

This is the second message in a series about the apostolic gifts from Ephesians 4. In this message, Paul Nichols teaches about how each of the 5 apostolic gifts equip us. He explains that we need posture ourselves to receive from these gifts so that we can be receive revelation of Jesus, which is what Jesus is building His Church upon.

In this message, Paul Nichols teaches about the Ephesians 4, Five Fold, Apostolic Equipping Gifts. He explains that Jesus gave these gifts to His Church to equip them to be mature and to do His works. He emphasizes that the aim of the gifts is Jesus' Church being a collective dwelling place of God.

In this track, Steve preaches on being the light of Jesus. He talks about how we are called to keep the light on all the time. We need to contend to see spiritual fruit in our lives. We need to have boldness to confront sin in our lives and the lives of others. We need to contend for seeing masses of people coming to know Jesus. We need to fight against spiritual drowsiness.

In this message, Jess preaches on how we can walk in wisdom. She explains that we should know the times that we live in, live with an urgency to preach the gospel, understand what Gods Will is, make it our aim to please God, trust Him over ourselves, and allow the Holy Spirit to renew our minds.

In this message, Steve Martel preaches about Imitating God. He explains that in order to imitate God, we have to follow Jesus as our pattern, and know our identity as a child of God.

In this message, Bob preaches about living a Spirit Filled life. He explains that we are to be led and controlled by the Spirit and not by our own fleshly desires or the ways of this world.

In this message, Minda teaches about how Esau was willing to forsake his birthright and inheritance for a meal to satisfy his natural need of hunger in his weariness. We can be the same way by giving up on our birthright in Jesus' Kingdom, and the inheritance and purpose He has for us because we get tired and weary. We are called to get the rest we need and value our spiritual needs above our natural needs, continuing to press into Jesus in the face of weariness so that we do not lose our spiritual inheritance or fall out of the raise altogether.

In this message, Paul speaks on having Godly grief. He teaches that Godly grief is feeling bad about anything in our life that separates us from Jesus, and actually repenting and changing, turning our hearts to Jesus. Godly grief and true repentance, decidedly being in the same "spiritual room" as Jesus, results in the glory of God manifesting in and through us.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about the path to manifesting and experiencing Gods glory. We experience Gods glory by turning our hearts to Him and encountering His presence.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about being the Glorious Church that Jesus has called us to be. The Glorious Church lives in purity, keeps itself pure, is already pure and is sent to the impure.

In this message, Jody Romero preaches on living fueled for the harvest of winning lost souls for Jesus. He talks about the importance of authentic vulnerability and honesty with Jesus and how Jesus will meet us in that place and change our lives. He also speaks about how it is our "food" or "fuel" to do the Kingdom work of our Father in Heaven to reach people.

In this message, Anton Keyter shared some prophetic senses and words that he was feeling on his heart for BCC. They were primarily concerning occupying the "Promise land" that God has called all of us to in our lives.

In this message Peter preaches about living a Spirit-Filled life. He talks about what it means to be filled with the Spirit, shares some personal experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and what happens when we live a life of being filled with the Holy Spirit.

In this message, Paul teaches about how we as believers are biblically supposed to prophecy and speak in tongues. He talks about how tongues is both for personal and corporate edification and prophecy is divine revelation that we discern from God for the edification of others.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about being filled with the Holy Spirit as the disciples of Jesus were on the day of Pentecost. He shares that we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be able to discern Gods word and His call. The Holy Spirit is a part of the Godhead that we are called to experience.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about living a life walking in The Spirit. He explains that living under the law is not the answer, and neither is living a lewd life filled with sin, but rather living a life by The Spirit, being justified and sanctified by Jesus Christ.

In this message, Werner teaches us about the Holy Spirit in our lives. We have to have the Holy Spirit in order to have relationship with Jesus, and therefore learning about hearing from and knowing the Holy Spirit is imperative to our faith.

In this message, Minda Nichols walks us through the closing of the Apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. In it, we see practical and fundamental instructions on how we as Christians are called to live together as a church family.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about how we as believers in God are called to respond to His Hesed (which describes the nature of who He is). He walks us through some scriptural commands and examples of how to live in response to God and His Word.

In this message, Paul preaches about some of the main meanings of the Hebrew word "Hesed", and how they reveal the character of God to us. He mentions some Old Testament examples, and then some new Testament examples talking about Jesus.

In this message, Paul teaches about how we can discover Jesus through the Bible. He talks about how as we develop in our spiritual walk, we should be growing in our experiential understanding of different aspects of Gods character. He ends off with 5 helpful steps to help us in our Bible readings.

In this message, John David preaches about how the Kingdom of Heaven has come to us. We do not have to be perfect people because Jesus paid the penalty for our sin so that we could live in His Kingdom with Him. On top of this, when we are members of the Kingdom of God, we are commissioned to go and bring the Kingdom to those who do not yet have it.

In this message, Rodney Lloyd teaches from Galatians 6 about loads that God has called us to carry and how those can become burdens when we are living in sin. He also talks about how we are called to be gentle and patient with others and their burdens, bearing it with them.

In this message Paul preaches about how we can operate in the presence and power of God by His grace. He teaches that we have to look to Jesus and have Him be our foundation, operate and do life with a local church community, and make way for God to do what He wants to do in our lives by removing obstructions and humbling ourselves.

In this message, Paul preaches about how we walk with Jesus by His power and grace. He specifically hones in on we can sense His desires, look for Gods will, and be open to anything He is calling us to.

In this message, Steve Martel talks about how when we die to ourselves and follow Jesus, we see fruitfulness in our lives. He talks about how we have been called to surrender control of our lives, choose obedience to Jesus over comfort, lose unhealthy attachment to the things of this world, and face hardships with courage.

Paul Nichols preaches about the significance of homes in ministry and spreading the gospel. He takes a look at how Jesus met with people in their homes and impacted people in their everyday lives.

In this message, Peter gives us a description of who Jesus is and what His mission statement is. He then teaches on how we can be with Jesus, and how to posture our hearts in relationship to Him.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about doing our best in our natural places of work, managing our time well, using our finances effectively for the Kingdom, and giving generously.

What's Love Got To Do With It? - Bob Steenbergh - 02-02-25 by Border City Church

Paul Nichols preaches about how we are called to honor God with our possessions and increase, making Him the highest priority of our budgets. He speaks about how we should desire to increase in our wisdom and understanding concerning finances, and we should strive to be the best that we can be in the areas God has called us to.

Paul Nichols preaches about how Gods power is shown towards those who believe in Him. Gods power to both see breakthrough in our personal lives, and to see a manifestation of His power and presence through our lives to others, so that they may also encounter God.

Rodney Lloyd preaches about how we have been sent into the world by Jesus to witness of Him. He talks about how when we step out in obedience to Jesus, there will be opposition from the enemy, but we need to persevere, walking out our salvation in relationship with Jesus.

Rodney Lloyd preaches about the pitfall that Christians can fall into where we claim we believe in Jesus and follow Him, but it is not actually demonstrated through our lives. He explains that in order to make sure what we have is authentic, we need to deny our own fleshly desires, take up our cross on a daily basis, and follow Jesus.

Paul preaches about the challenging situation that Jesus was born into. He talks about how Jesus impacts our lives and brings life into situations that may seem impossibly challenging to us if we will just have faith and obey Him.

Paul preaches about how we have been called to bear fruit by obeying Jesus in faith. He talks about how Jesus will call us to sacrifice the things in our lives that we tend to hold onto, but Jesus promises us that as we live for His Kingdom, the aftermath of our obedience will be better than it was before.

In this message, Steve Sudworth teaches about how we should relate to God in prayer. The main passage of scripture he preaches from is Matthew 6, where Jesus taught His disciples how they should pray.

In this message Paul talks about how the mission of the Church is to go into the world and bring the truth and power of the Kingdom of Heaven to those who do not have it. He emphasized that as we truly follow Jesus, it results in being sent out to do what Jesus does.

Minda Nichols shares a prophetic picture for the church from Judges 1&3. She taught on how God wants to give us springs of His Holy Spirit to bring fruitfulness to our lives and the work He has called us to. He makes our lives an oasis in the desert and teaches us victory.

In this message, Paul Nichols talks about Jesus' vision for His Kingdom. He preaches about the Parable of the Wheat and Tares, where Jesus teaches that we as His disciples are sown as seeds, that we may mature in our faith and bear fruit, revealing Jesus to others.

In this message, Peter Nichols preaches about how Jesus and His truth sets us free. He taught about how we are called to live out this freedom by walking with Jesus, and testify of this freedom and our relationship with Jesus to see Jesus' Kingdom spread.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about Jesus' Kingdom coming to earth. He taught about how this happens through complete surrender of our hearts to Jesus, building our lives upon revelation of who Jesus is, and sharing that revelation with others.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches about prayer. Jesus taught us to pray that His Kingdom would come to earth, and that we should pray the will of God which has been revealed to us as His disciples.

In this message, Bob Steenbergh preaches about the joy of serving the Lord. He talks about having joy in the Lord in trials and tribulations, and how joy is a primary characteristic of our King Jesus.

In this message, Paul Nichols preaches out of Matthew 22, where Jesus teaches about The Parable of the Wedding Feast. In it, we hear about how Jesus invites all of us into His Kingdom, and how all who are apart of His Kingdom are commissioned to go invite others.

In this message, Rodney Lloyd teaches us about the importance of living for Gods purposes, above our own, as well as living to leave a legacy with eternal significance.

The Kingdom of Heaven - Part 9 - Paul Nichols - 09/22/24 by Border City Church