Liberty City Podcast

Are we simply teaching our children how to behave, or are we helping them become people who know and follow Jesus?

In Part 4 of The Family, Pastor Tim Brannon explores God’s purpose for the next generation through Deuteronomy 6:4–9. Children need more than rules, protection, and opportunities for success. They need hearts shaped by Christ, authentic examples of faith, and preparation for a lifetime of following Him.

Our responsibility is not merely to raise well-behaved children, but to help prepare a generation that knows God and carries His purposes forward.

Liberty City Methodist Church | October 25, 2026

In Part 3 of The Family series, Pastor Tim Brannon explores the God-given identity, value, and purpose of women. Drawing from Scripture, this message reminds us that a woman’s worth is established by her Creator, not by cultural expectations, relationships, or accomplishments.

Discover how God calls women to steward their gifts, embrace their responsibilities, and exercise faithful influence within the family, the church, and society. Whatever the season of life, every woman has dignity, purpose, and a meaningful place in God’s work.

Liberty City Methodist Church | October 18, 2026

What does it mean to become the man God calls you to be? Drawing from 1 Corinthians 16:13–14, Pastor Tim Brannon explores God’s call for men. Whether married or single, younger or older, a father or someone without children, every man has a life that matters and responsibilities entrusted to him. Through practical biblical teaching, this message challenges men to lead. Discover how following Jesus shapes faithful leadership—and take one concrete step toward the responsibility God is calling you to accept.

Liberty City Methodist Church | October 11, 2026

Everybody has a family story—some filled with treasured memories, others marked by pain, and most carrying a little of both. But to understand what God intends for our families, we have to look beyond our experiences and ask: What did He have in mind from the beginning?

In this opening message of The Family series, Pastor Tim Brannon explores Genesis 1–2 to show that family originated with God. Through marriage, relationships between generations, and the ordinary moments of life, God works to form us and pass faith to those coming behind us.

Whatever your family’s story, its broken places are not beyond God’s grace. We cannot change everything that was handed to us, but we can decide what we hand forward. This message invites us to surrender our homes to the Lord and intentionally follow His ways: “As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Liberty City Methodist Church | October 4, 2026

What time is it? Not according to the clock, but according to the moment God has given us.

In this urgent message from Romans 13:11–12, Pastor Tim Brannon challenges the Church to wake up, make the most of every opportunity, and stop postponing what God has called us to do. We cannot recover yesterday, and we cannot spend tomorrow. We have today.

It is time to wake up. It is time to grow up. It is time to redeem the time. It is time to do the work. It is time to preach the gospel. It is time to BE THE CHURCH.

The King is coming. So Church—what are we waiting for?

Liberty City Methodist Church | September 27, 2026

What if Jesus never intended the Church to spend its life hiding behind its walls, waiting for the world to come inside?

When Jesus declared, “I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,” He wasn’t describing a Church barely holding on. He was announcing an advancing Kingdom.

In the final message of THE CHURCH series, Pastor Tim Brannon returns to Caesarea Philippi to uncover the force behind Jesus’ words. What did “church” mean to those who first heard it? What are the “keys of the Kingdom”? What does it actually mean to bind and loose? And what changes when we understand the Church not simply as a place we attend, but as a people gathered, authorized, empowered and sent by the King?

The Church was never called merely to occupy a building. We gather to be sent. The gates of hell are not advancing against us—they are the gates.

Church, it’s time to move. It’s time to go. It’s time to advance.

Liberty City Methodist Church | September 13, 2026

Why is Jesus building His Church? In Part 5 of The Church, Pastor Tim Brannon explores the purpose behind Jesus’ words, “I will build my church.” The Church does not exist merely to gather, grow, or preserve an institution. We are a people called to live under the reign of King Jesus and make His Kingdom visible in the world. Discover what it means to pray—and live—“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Liberty City Methodist Church | September 6, 2026

When Jesus said, “I will build my church,” He made it clear that the Church was never intended to be merely a human project. But if Jesus is the Builder, what is He actually building—and what does our part in that work look like?

In this continuation of The Church — Part 3: The Builder, Pastor Tim Brannon takes us deeper into Jesus’ words in Matthew 16 and challenges some of the ways we commonly think about church, growth, success, and our own place in what God is doing.

What happens when we stop asking Jesus to bless what we are building and begin surrendering ourselves to what He is building?

Join us as we continue discovering what it means for Jesus to say, “I will build my church.”

Liberty City Methodist Church | August 30, 2026

What if some of what we call “building the Church” is actually getting in the way of what Jesus is building?

In Matthew 16:18, Jesus makes a declaration that changes how we understand the Church: “I will build my church.” He is the Builder. The Church belongs to Him. And if He is the Builder, then He—not our traditions, preferences, personalities, strategies, or definitions of success—determines the blueprint.

We can build crowds, programs, platforms, institutions, and even successful churches by every measurable standard. But are we building something for Jesus, or are we actually participating in what Jesus is building?

In Part 3 of The Church, Pastor Tim Brannon challenges us to relinquish ownership of something that was never ours and rediscover what it means to trust the Builder, follow His blueprint, and become the Church Jesus intends to build.

Liberty City Methodist Church | August 23, 2026

In Part 2 of The Church series, Pastor Tim Brannon continues through Matthew 16 by moving from the revelation of who Jesus is to the question of what we are building our lives upon.

Peter’s confession—“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God”—was not the end of his journey; it was the beginning. In the same way, recognizing Jesus is only the beginning of discipleship. Revelation must become foundation. It is not enough to believe the right things about Jesus; our lives must be ordered around His lordship.

Drawing from Matthew 7:24–27, Pastor Tim examines Jesus’ picture of two houses facing the same storm. The difference was not what they encountered, but what they were built upon. Storms, shaking, loss, disappointment, success, cultural change, and transition eventually reveal the strength of every foundation.

The same is true of the Church. A church can be built around personalities, traditions, programs, preferences, trends, or institutions and still miss the only foundation that can endure. Paul declares, “No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

Everything depends on what you build upon.

Jesus must be more than part of our lives and more than part of the Church. He must be the foundation beneath everything—our identity, relationships, values, decisions, mission, worship, theology, and future. We never graduate from Jesus. There is nothing deeper than Christ. We only go deeper into Him. The question is not simply, “What are you building?” The deeper question is, “What are you building it on?”

Liberty City Methodist Church | August 16, 2026