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FAQs about LifeSpring Community Church - Talks Online:How many episodes does LifeSpring Community Church - Talks Online have?The podcast currently has 266 episodes available.
May 26, 20244. Because of the Beauty of the Mysteries - AudioWe live in a time of great questioning about the soul of Christian faith. In this message Pastor Fran unpacks how Jesus engaged fully with our humanity rather than steering us back into a narrow religious framework for life....more28minPlay
May 19, 20243. Because Jesus is More Than the Modern Christian Package - AudioIn this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about how Jesus is more than the modern Christian package which he illustrates by distinguishing the difference between Christ, the Church and Christianity. He then encourages an honest and self reflective journey of the heart towards restoration and towards the life of freedom and wholeness....more35minPlay
May 12, 20242. Because Wrestling with the Bible Didn't Shipwreck Me - AudioThese days more people are getting honest about the variety of things found in the Bible, and it's causing some people to abandon it. Today Pastor Fran unpacks some things we've been taught about the Bible, and how Jesus spoke about it in a way that allows us to accept the Bible as it is, love it even more, and let it point us to the finding of real life....more31minPlay
May 05, 20241. Because Deep Still Calls to Deep - AudioIn this sermon, Pastor Fran talks about why he is still a Christian - even with the past events of questionable church credibility. When we come out into the deep with Jesus, our faith can remain unshaken - no matter the past or present hurt of churches who have lost the plot....more31minPlay
April 21, 20248. Emerging from the Darkness - AudioIn this sermon, Pastor Fran touches on how we as humans tend to make identities for ourselves and wear our failures that shroud us in so much darkness. Because of Jesus, our identity is recreated and we don't have to wear our failures. We cling to hope that God is restoring all things in due time....more42minPlay
April 14, 20247. Love is Stronger than Death - AudioIn today's message, Pastor Fran explores what it means that we have become one with Christ in his death, and consequently one with him and his resurrection. He also touches on the fascinating way the early Christians spoke about how God tricked death and the devil by getting them to swallow Christ and bring him inside their walls... and that they never saw coming what happened after that....more29minPlay
April 07, 20246. Understanding the Sacrifice of Jesus Differently - AudioAlthough we see Jesus sacrifice as the ultimate sacrifice, we've been taught to understand it in the same terms as the whole archaic concept of sacrifice. But in this sermon, Pastor Fran debunks that and shows that the Cross exposes all our scapegoating of other people and calls for an end to that, and to the new way of love....more30minPlay
April 01, 20245. Easter and the Escape from Darkness - AudioIn this Easter sermon, Pastor Fran explores how Jesus, when he appeared to the disciples, invited them out of the darkness of fear, grudges, and retribution, and into a new world where forgiveness, reconciliation, and love reign....more35minPlay
March 24, 20244. The Sacrifice of Jesus and the Desires of God - AudioIn this message Pastor Fran talks about how we have tended to frame Jesus' death as a sacrifice of appeasement, and shows how the writer of the New Testament letter of Hebrews actually frames Jesus' sacrifice as the end of that whole way of thinking and as a better kind of sacrifice that is more transforming for us as human beings....more31minPlay
March 17, 20243. The Cross that Judges the Darkness - Audio In today's message Pastor Fran teaches how the Cross is God's judgment on the way we humans use coercive power and dominate one another, but far from being a judgment of wrath, it is an exposure by love, meant to lead us to an awakening to love. ...more33minPlay
FAQs about LifeSpring Community Church - Talks Online:How many episodes does LifeSpring Community Church - Talks Online have?The podcast currently has 266 episodes available.