Santa Monica Nazarene Church

By Church of the Nazarene

Weekly sermons from Santa Monica Church of the Nazarene in Santa Monica, CA.... more

5

33 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about Santa Monica Nazarene Church:

How many episodes does Santa Monica Nazarene Church have?

The podcast currently has 352 episodes available.

Santa Monica Nazarene Church episodes:

March 31, 2022 03.02.2022 - To Wear the Ashes - Matthew 6:1-6; 16-21
In this sermon (on Zoom) we look at the themes of Ash Wednesday from Matthew’s gospel, which is pray, fast, and give; and what it means to wear the ashes as a resistance against death’s reign.
...more
17min
March 01, 2022 02.27.2022 - From Listening to Silence to Speaking - Luke 9:28-36
In this sermon we talk about the transfiguration of Jesus, unpacking many of the layers of Scripture embedded into this story. We end by looking at the instruction to listen to Jesus, the disciple's response of silence, and how speaking begins in silence.
...more
30min
February 24, 2022 02.20.2022 - Holding Space for One Another - Matthew 18:1-10
In this sermon we talk about what it means not to be a stumbling block, that is, a person who gets in the way of someone's path to God. We talk about the church as a social body where power is inverted (the lowly are lifted up and the mighty are brought down); where the marginalized and neglected are seen, and heard, and redeemed; and where accountability and forgiveness are practiced.
...more
29min
February 18, 2022 02.13.2022 - Absurd Generosity - Luke 6:27-38
In this sermon we explore a bit about the first century context in which Jesus spoke these words and how absurd they would have been. We consider what it means to give this kind of radical and gracious treatment to everyone.
...more
28min
February 09, 2022 02.06.2022 - Blessings, Woes, and Losing Our Grip (in a good way) - Luke 6: 17-26
In this sermon we look at some hard-hitting words about of Jesus about blessings and woes. We put them into the context of Jesus’ jubilee proclamation, which is nothing less than a total reset of the social order. We see them in terms of empire versus God’s kingdom and how God is calling us to lose our grip on the way things are so that we might embrace what will be (thanks Barbara Brown Taylor for that last line).
...more
23min
February 02, 2022 01.30.2022 - “The World is a Reed Flute and God Does Breathe Through It, Sing” - Luke 5:1-11
In this sermon (given on Zoom) we slow down one of the fishing stories in the gospels in order to see the various human emotions and experiences involved. We attach words like futility, discouragement, empty, trust, persistence, resilience, abundance, calling, discipleship, and connection. We consider what it means to slow down and pay attention in order to see God breathing in all things.
...more
26min
January 27, 2022 01.23.2022 - The Gospel is Hard - Luke 4:14-30
In this sermon (given on Zoom) we focus on the reactions of the crowd to Jesus’ inaugural sermon. Embracing him at first, they eventually try to throw him off a cliff after he explains his message. We consider how the gospel disrupts our expectations and calls into a better way.
...more
22min
January 12, 2022 01.09.2022 - “But No Longer At Ease Here, In The Old Dispensation" - Matthew 2:1-12
In this sermon we look at the story of the magi through a poem by T.S. Elliot called “Journey of the Magi”. Elliot reflects on the magi as a metaphor for the journey that we all must go on in order to experience Christ. We consider what it means to die to Herod’s world in order to be reborn in light of Christ. We see Epiphany as summarized in the line that we are “but no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation."

...more
29min
January 05, 2022 01.02.2022 - Holiness Revealed - Acts 1:6-14
In this sermon guest speaker Andrew Soria takes us into Acts 1 and to this notion that part of what Epiphany means is that God's holiness has been revealed and what that means for us as the church.
...more
42min
December 29, 2021 12.26.2021 - Jesus, the Divine and Human One- Luke 2:39-52
In this sermon we linger in the season of Christmas in order to ponder what it means to confess, with the help of an ancient creed that we actually read word for word, that God is revealed in Christ, humanity and divinity together.
...more
23min

FAQs about Santa Monica Nazarene Church:

How many episodes does Santa Monica Nazarene Church have?

The podcast currently has 352 episodes available.