Cheyenne Hills Podcast

WHOA! Pastor Galen's sermon talked about hearing what God has to say to us and being able to pay attention when He speaks in order to experience the Peace Jesus himself left us. Pastor Karsten and producer Kasey take it from there this week diving deeper into what it looks like to experience the Peace Paul is speaking of in Galatians 5:22-23 when describing the Fruit of the Spirit, and what Christ promised to leave with us in John 14:27. In the passage in John's gospel, Jesus said he'd leave us His peace, but "not as the world gives do I give to you." So what in our world do we confuse with the Peace we're expecting from our relationship with God and Christ? Karsten also gives us an applicable formula that fits with Philippians 4:6.

Relevant Scriptures:

Galatians 5:22-23

John 14:27

Philippians 4:5-6

Isaiah 26:3

Peace is a word that can seem vague, but Pastor Galen unpacks the kind of Peace God has to offer as we continue through our Jukebox series about the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians chapter 5.

Pastor Karsten spoke on patience this week in our ongoing series based on the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5:22-23. We go deeper into building our patience muscles, and unpack a word that Paul uses a LOT in his letter to Galatia: circumcision. It means a lot more than just the ritual act itself.

Relevant Scripture:

Galatians 2: 7

Galatians 2: 11-16

Matthew 5: 17-19

We'd encourage everyone to read all of Galatians since we'll be talking about it for another 6 weeks!

We continue this series covering the Fruit of the Spirit, but in the order of their choosing (thus the title Jukebox). This week, Pastor Karsten covers patience.

Wait? What?! The sermon was about joy, so how did we get talking about crucifying things? Well when you hang with Keith — just like getting real with Paul's words — you're going to have to face the hard part if you want to truly get the joy. Right after Paul lists the Fruit we'll see as a result of walking in the Spirit, he reminds us that "those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified" their sinful nature, and the passions and desires that go with it. So what can we built into our processes and habits in life to regularly inspect that we're producing fruit, and our flesh is nailed securely to the cross?

It's Keith Kautz turn this week to hit the ol' Fruit of the Spirit jukebox, and his pick this week happened to be the next on the list in Galatians 5: 22, and that's JOY! Keith sets up the whole reason Paul is talking bout fruit in the first place before hitting a topic that seems easy to talk about, but has a lot of big questions attached. Like, is God joyful? How do we have joy when things in life are truly hard? Join us for this week's sermon and find out what the judge thinks!

Another week of a little different format. This time Kieth Kautz visiting the studio with producer Kasey Orr to talk more about Galatians 5 and the fruit of the Spirit. Keith helps lay the groundwork for why Paul is even talking about fruit in the first place! And why is the simple conjunction "but" so important when we flip to Galatians 5:22 in our Bible?

This week Pastor Karsten and producer Kasey Orr dive deeper into the first sermon of the new series featuring the Fruit of the Spirit. In God's love for us, He took risks showing us grace through Christ, especially when we have a habit of accepting that gift... and then turning around and cheapening it by using that freedom "to satisfy our sinful nature." [Galatians 5:13 NLT]

Instead, how can we show the world how truly big God's grace is?

Relevant Scriptures:

Genesis 1: 28

Galatians 5: 13-26

1 Corinthians 13: 3-8

Luke 7:36-48

We kick off our Jukebox series featuring the fruit of the spirit with the first mentioned by Paul in the Galations 5:22-23 passage — love. Paul states in 1 Corinthians the importance and complexity of love, and Pastor Galen adds that one of the most important parts of love is RISK. God takes a risk in love by granting us free will; we take a risk in loving and worshipping God; and finally we take risks when entering in the bond of marriage here on earth as well.

One of the themes that connect resent sermon messages and the upcoming series is "fruitfulness." Between recounting an adventure of a trip to the east coast, Pastor Galen and producer Kasey Orr discuss the nature of the "works of the flesh" versus the "fruit of the Spirit" as described in Galatians chapter 5. They talk about the connections between the freedom Pastor Karsten talked about last week, and this continuing battle between the flesh and Spirit.