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Day1 Weekly Podcast episodes

October 10, 2023 Something to Take Home from Church
Sometimes people will complain to their pastors, “Don’t give us a bunch of big ideas and fancy theology in your sermons. Make them practical. Come down out of the clouds and give us something in a sermon we can hold onto and take home with us from church!” Well, in today’s Bible story that’s exactly what a man named Aaron did. He gave the people something they could hold onto and take home from church all right— an idol, a golden calf. What that story has to say to us today may challenge us, even upset us, but it is a word we need to hear.
32 min
October 03, 2023 One Crazy Gardener
Whether it’s the multinationals gobbling up family farms or even our own tendency to wall ourselves off from our neighbors, this is just not sustainable. Isaiah warns that the land will become unproductive and hard. In God’s economy, there is a direct relationship in how social intimacy leads to interrelationship and cooperation which in turn results in productivity.
33 min
September 26, 2023 Sour Grapes
In our time and place, the three areas that Ezekiel highlights are probably worth reflecting on. These three topics of economics, of sexuality, and of religion are the ones that we make the greatest efforts to avoid in any polite conversation...
34 min
September 19, 2023 The Very Rev. Samuel Candler: God Is Not Fair!
"God does not promise that all will be fair, according to whatever structure of fairness that we have in mind." —The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler
33 min
September 12, 2023 Rev. Nathan E. Kirkpatrick: When the Story Gets Rewritten
Rev. Nathan E. Kirkpatrick says, "When the familiar story is changed – we are changed too. And that may be the best story of them all."
32 min
September 05, 2023 Kenneth Carter: A Generous Orthodoxy for the Healing of the Church
Bishop Ken Carter says, when we are generous, we are not closed off from each other; this is for our good. When we are orthodox, we are in a right relationship with God; this is our salvation. And this is the church's mission that is spacious, adventurous, and unafraid.
40 min
August 29, 2023 Joanna Adams: The Complaint Department
In Joanna Adams's sermon on Jeremiah 15, she says, here's a good question prophets can help us answer: What is breaking hearts today? Prophets know and they would tell us what needs to be fixed if we would only listen.
36 min
August 22, 2023 Anna Carter Florence: Expecting Cornelius
Anna Carter Florence says Acts 10 shows us that no matter how hard and fast the rules, God likes to change things up at a moment's notice. God likes to do a new thing, just to keep things lively and the people hopping, while amazing grace pours down.
35 min
August 15, 2023 Winnie Varghese: Lord, Help Me
Winnie Varghese asks, what if we put our resources to work for those possessed by demons today - the demons of sickness, of violence, of working children, of hunger...?
30 min
August 08, 2023 Charley Reeb: Do You Want the Truth?
In his sermon, Dr. Charley Reeb asks what a Christian looks like. "Could it be that a real follower of Jesus is one who, well, looks like Jesus? Could it be when faced with a moment of truth, a follower of Jesus will listen to his voice and be obedient, even if it costs them?"
30 min

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