Storyline Church Podcast

Pastor JT begins a series on the heart behind church planting. We see in 1 Thessalonians 1 that we as individuals and as a church are called to multiply as a result of discipleship. We strive to be a church that makes disciples, resulting in the good news of the gospel going out.

Pastor JT and our elders walk us through practicing the Lord's Prayer. We took time to praise God, repent from sin, ask for our needs, and yield to His will.

Pastor JT continues walking through the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6. We see that God desires that we rely on Him for both our big, cosmic ache as well as our daily needs. He calls us to seek him in the present, asking for our physical and spiritual needs that only Christ can satisfy. 

Dr. Jonathan Pennington resumes in Matthew 6 and our series on prayer. Asking for God's kingdom to come is asking God's truth, goodness, and beauty to break into the disappointment, brokenness, and darkness on earth. We pray with hope, looking forward to when God will bring restoration through His complete reign in earth.

Pastor JT continues our series on prayer from Matthew 6. As Jesus modeled, prayer begins with praise, acknowledging who God is. We lift our eyes to the only One who is always worthy of our praise.

Pastor JT concludes our series in Philippians, reminding us that we are in Christ. For those who believe, we are now saints, secure in Christ. We live continually by grace, participating as part of the family of God.

Pastor JT exhorts us to gospel partnership from Philippians 4. We see as Paul continues his mission, he invites the Philippians to partner with him and is grateful for their obedience. However, even in the invitation, he knows that Christ will strengthen him for the mission by His presence.

Greg Stier encourages us to be radical like Jesus from Matthew 9. Here we see what Jesus saw, felt, imagined, prayed, and did to love everyone around him. We are called to imitate his love, empowered by his Spirit within us.

Logan Talamas shows us how the Proverbs teach us to be wise with our speech. Our words are powerful, so it is important to be slow to speak. Wise speech is honest, honoring, and helpful. This kind of speech can only overflow from us when we are filled with the wisdom of God.

Mac Matthews teaches from Proverbs 7, where we see God's design for sexuality is good, but we disregard it to our own destruction. Our flourishing comes when we treasure wisdom, tread carefully, and can fully see how it ends.

Pastor JT celebrates men this Father's Day as he shows the value and purpose given to all men from Genesis 2. We see man's worth is not in what he does, but Who he belongs to. From this foundation, he is given a place, vocation, and authority to represent God in his rule and relationships.

Beau Hughes encourages us from Psalm 42 and 43. The Psalmist, sick of heart, cries out to God in the midst of exile and depression. Yet our feelings do not have the final word. He models how to question our feelings while admonishing our souls to hope in God.

Pastor JT teaches from our anchor text in Genesis 1 showing how we as image bearers are both physical and spiritual. This complex dichotomy means that we were created to be limited (body) yet from divine origin (soul). We experience the brokenness of both, but one day Jesus will come again to fully renew us, both body and soul.

Josh Navey continued in our series on Human Flourishing by showing our relationship with work & rest from Genesis 2. Being made in the image of God, all of humanity is made to work. Still, we are called to resist the pull of self-sufficiency by practicing rest, remembering that we live in the sufficiency of Someone else's work.