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October 28 How to Use Your Faith
What does it look like to put your faith into practice? In How to Use Your Faith, we explore Micah 6:8 and its clear call to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.
This message invites us to move beyond simply knowing what is right and begin living it out—treating others with fairness, responding with compassion, and depending on God rather than our own understanding. These three commitments give everyday faith a practical direction, shaping how we respond to injustice, extend kindness, and approach our relationship with God.
Faith is not just something we profess. It is something we practice through the choices we make and the way we treat people.
Scripture: Micah 6:8 Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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50 min
October 21 Why Biblical Community Matters
In Why Biblical Community Matters, we explore God’s design for believers to live connected, supported, and growing together. Biblical community is more than casual fellowship—it is shared life: people carrying responsibility, pursuing spiritual maturity, and following Jesus side by side.
This message shows how healthy community sharpens us in our struggles, gives us a tribe in trouble, and brings comfort and provision in seasons of pain. Through the examples of Moses and Jethro, Abram and his household, and the comfort described in 2 Corinthians, we see that God often meets practical and emotional needs through people who are willing to stay present.
Healthy community does not happen accidentally. It grows as we devote ourselves to Jesus, pursue people intentionally, live authentically, counsel biblically, admonish faithfully, and engage together in God’s mission.
Scripture: Proverbs 27:17; Exodus 18:13–18; Genesis 14:14; 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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29 min
October 14 An Invitation into Transformation
In An Invitation into Transformation, we follow the risen Jesus as He meets three people in the aftermath of the resurrection: Mary Magdalene in her desperation, Thomas in his doubt, and Peter in his failure.
Mary comes to the tomb grieving and searching, only to discover that Jesus knows her by name. Thomas struggles to believe until Jesus meets him with peace and an invitation to faith. Peter, who had denied Jesus, is restored and recommissioned to care for Christ’s people.
This message reminds us that no matter where we find ourselves—desperate, doubtful, ashamed, or wounded—the resurrection of Jesus offers more than forgiveness. It offers transformation. The risen Christ still meets people personally, restores what has been broken, and calls them into a new purpose.
Scripture: John 20–21 Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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September 30 How to Become Spiritually Alive
What does it mean to be spiritually alive? In How to Become Spiritually Alive, we walk through Ephesians 2:1–10 and see the stunning contrast between who we were apart from Christ and what God has done for us by His grace.
This message explains that apart from Jesus, we are not spiritually sick but spiritually dead—walking in trespasses and sins, shaped by the world, the flesh, and the powers of darkness. But the turning point of the passage is two powerful words: But God. Because He is rich in mercy, great in love, overflowing in kindness, and full of grace, God makes dead people alive together with Christ.
Ephesians 2 reminds us that salvation is not something we achieve through effort, morality, or religious works. It is the gift of God, received by faith, and it leads to a new life of purpose as His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He prepared beforehand.
Scripture: Ephesians 2:1–10. Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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46 min
September 28 Pray for Open Eyes
In Pray for Open Eyes, we walk through Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1:15–23 and see what it means to pray for others with spiritual depth and gospel clarity. Rather than praying only for circumstances to change, Paul teaches us to pray that people would know Christ more fully and have the eyes of their hearts opened to who He is and what He has given them.
This message focuses on two life-shaping requests: pray for the knowledge of Christ, and pray for eyes to be enlightened. As our spiritual vision is opened, we begin to see three unshakable realities more clearly—the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power toward those who believe.
That power is the very power God worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, seated Him above every authority, and made Him head over all things for the church. This passage invites us to pray in Jesus’ name with confidence, knowing that the risen Christ rules with all authority and fills His body with His fullness.
Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–23 Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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56 min
September 02 How to Help Someone Who is Hurting
When someone is hurting, our words can either bring comfort or cause more pain. In this message from the book of Job, we explore the difference between being cynical, critical, and truly present with people in their suffering.
Job’s wife responded to his pain with despair, while his friends initially offered something meaningful: they came close, wept with him, and sat in silence because his grief was so great. But later, their assumptions and accusations added to Job’s burden. This message offers a practical, biblical path for helping those who hurt: be close, be humble, refrain from quick answers, reframe suffering with truth and hope, and pray.
Sometimes the most faithful response is not having the perfect explanation—it is loving someone well in the middle of their pain.
Scripture: Job 2:9–13; Job 22:4–5; Job 32:6–9; Job 33:14–30; Job 36:15.
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44 min
August 26 How to Lament
In How to Lament, we walk through Psalm 22 and learn a biblical pattern for bringing pain to God. This message shows that lament is not unbelief, but honest faith that turns to God quickly, complains honestly, asks boldly, and ultimately trusts God’s victory.
Starting with the cry, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”, this sermon explores how Scripture gives language for grief, abandonment, and suffering without hiding the pain. Psalm 22 shows us that even in anguish, we can keep speaking to God, remember who He is, and ask Him to act with confidence and hope.
This episode traces four practical movements of lament: turn to God quickly, complain honestly, ask boldly, and trust God’s victory. If you are walking through sorrow, confusion, spiritual dryness, or deep distress, this message offers a biblical way to pray through pain without losing hope.
Scripture: Psalm 22:1–2, 6–7, 16–17, 11, 19–21, 21–22, 27. Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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48 min
August 19 My Unwanted Demanding Friend | Learning to Lament with Job
In this message, My Unwanted Demanding Friend, we look at the book of Job and the painful reality that suffering makes demands on us. Pain must be felt, shared, and brought honestly before God—not hidden behind easy answers or spiritual clichés.
Through Job’s story, this episode explores four hard but necessary responses to suffering: feel pain, accept reality, voice emotion, and expect God. If you have ever wrestled with grief, confusion, silence, or disappointment with God, this message shows how lament can become a pathway to deeper honesty, deeper healing, and deeper hope.
Scripture highlights include Job 2, Job 13, Job 16, Job 19, Job 30, Job 38, and Job 42.
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55 min
July 24 Good 4 U: Are They Good for You?
In this message we continue our series, Good 4 U, by seeing what the Word says about how to choose the relationships in your life. 💕
Are they good for you? Most importantly, where are they spending eternity? 2 Corinthians 6 tells us to not be unequally yoked. This means asking if you’re both going in the same direction at the same pace–eternally and missionally. We must also see how they overcome temptation. Are they fleeing from temptation, or leading you into it? Have they been open and honest, in biblical community, and able to clearly define the relationship? Lastly, we can check if they are developing character. Do they have a repentant heart, striving to become more Christ-like and exemplifying the fruits of the Spirit?
When you are deciding who to be in relationship with, remember:
Are they GOOD for you?
Going to heaven
Overcoming temptation
Open and honest
Developing character
Each week, Paradigm sermons are posted on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts! 📱
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Paradigm is a weekly gathering of Kansas City college and 20s-30s young adults who desire to see Jesus made known throughout the city! Want to come & see? Email us at [email protected] to give us a heads up so we can greet you, or just show up any Tuesday night at 7pm to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a relaxing environment, hear messages relevant to college and young professionals, and build relationships with other young adults. Subscribe to the ParadigmKC podcast and YouTube, follow us on Instagram & Facebook, find our location, and learn more at http://paradigmkc.com/. Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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53 min
July 16 Good 4 U: Covenant Love
Last night we kicked off our brand new series, Good 4 U! 💕 Pastor Chris Hinkley taught on the meaning of covenant love, and what that means for us as followers of Christ.
A covenant is a binding, God-pledged commitment rooted in love, mercy, and grace. Covenant love is always only Jesus. Marriage is designed and defined by God–it’s sacrificial, submitted, and only separated by death. The covenant of marriage should be a reflection of Christ’s love for the church. God’s covenant also demands a response. We are not perfect, and when we mess up, Jesus has already taken our place on the cross.
If we desire godly dating and marriage, we must first have a solid understanding of Christ’s example of covenant love.
Each week, Paradigm sermons are posted on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts! 📱
https://www.bible.com/events/49636717
Paradigm is a weekly gathering of Kansas City college and 20s-30s young adults who desire to see Jesus made known throughout the city! Want to come & see? Email us at [email protected] to give us a heads up so we can greet you, or just show up any Tuesday night at 7pm to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a relaxing environment, hear messages relevant to college and young professionals, and build relationships with other young adults. Subscribe to the ParadigmKC podcast and YouTube, follow us on Instagram & Facebook, find our location, and learn more at http://paradigmkc.com/. Find a location, watch this week's message, or learn how to take
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45 min