Save The Cowboy

By Kevin WeatherbyReligion & Spirituality Christianity

Save The Cowboy episodes

August 02First Time: When You Did Nothing Wrong | Week 3 | Save the Cowboy
Bucked off, breath knocked out, and trampled... when you did nothing wrong. A cowboy church sermon on how to get back on.
Kevin Weatherby closes out the First Time? series with the first time life knocks you flat when you did everything right: the Big Lake barrel racing wreck, the world championship that got away, and the bronc riding that same day. Seven tips a cowboy uses to get back on.
In this message:
Getting bucked off when you did nothing wrong
Seven tips to get back on, from "it'll quit hurting in a minute" to "show-ups, not show-offs"
The wreck is never the end of the story
Scripture: Psalm 34:18-19, Proverbs 24:16, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1213062706
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
36 min
July 26First Time: No One's Ever Ready the First Time | Week 2 | Save the Cowboy
You keep waiting to feel ready. The hard call, the fresh start, the leap of faith. A cowboy church sermon for the working man who's figured out ready never comes.
Kevin Weatherby picks the First Time? series back up at the ranch: being ready is an emotion, being equipped is a leap of faith. From Romans 8:28 to Ephesians 4:11-12, this is about the God who wasted none of your story and has been preparing and equipping you the whole climb.
In this message:
Why no one is ever ready the first time, and why that was never the question
What God has already done with every mistake, wrong turn, and hard day you've had
Prepared, equipped, and the leap of faith onto the fingerhold
Scripture: Romans 8:28, Ephesians 4:11-12, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 5:7
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1211188516
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
43 min
July 19First Time: The Edge of the Impossible | Week 1 | Save the Cowboy
When life backs you up to the edge of what you can't do, the trial was never the cliff itself. It's the choice you make standing at the edge of it. A cowboy church sermon for working men who have been there.
Kevin Weatherby opens the First Time? series with the trials that corner a man, and the God who meets him in them. From the prophet Elijah, worn down to nothing right after the biggest win of his life, to the still small voice that got him back on his feet, this is about trusting God when the ground runs out from under you.
In this message:
What a trial really is, and why it isn't the impossible thing standing in front of you
Elijah at his lowest, and the still small voice that moved him again
How to trust God and take the next step when you are at the edge
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:12, 1 Kings 19, John 10:27-28, John 14:6, James 1:12
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1209276546
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
38 min
July 12Come to Me: Day One With Jesus | Week 3 | Save the Cowboy
You don't have to have it all figured out to come to Jesus. Week 3 closes the Come to Me series on the easy yoke, and the plain truth that green isn't your problem, green is your ticket in.
From Matthew 11:28-30, Kevin lands the series on what your first day with Jesus actually looks like: walking in green, knowing nothing, and getting taken in anyway. He tells his own first morning green on the San Pedro, and the town kid who read electric meters and asked for a cowboy job every month until he finally got the nod.
In this message:
The excuses that keep a man circling the gate instead of walking through it
A yoke that's cut to fit and built for two, He carries the load with you
God doesn't grade your misses. He cares that you threw the loop
Your day one, and how to tell Him so in your own words
Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1207164668
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
45 min
July 05Come to Me: It's Simple. We Make It Hard. | Week 2 | Save the Cowboy
Jesus says, "Come to me." And we say, "But I can't..." Jesus' whole invitation is three words, no qualifications, no fine print. So why do we keep making it hard?
Week 2 of Come to Me rides through the parable of the Great Big BBQ in Luke 14, where every empty chair at the supper had a good-sounding excuse behind it: I bought some land, I bought five teams of oxen, I just got married. Kevin picks up the jet-ski cliffhanger from last week and lays out the excuses we still send back to God today.
In this message:
The instruction manual nobody reads, and what Jesus' instruction manual requires before you come to Him (nothing)
Why we won't come to Jesus: I'm covered up, I've got to work, there's something more important
You're not covered up. You're drowning.
A good excuse is still a no, and once the supper starts, you're either in or you're out
Scripture: Luke 14:15-24, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 14:30-31, Romans 8:32, Matthew 6:33
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1205256409
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
30 min
June 28Come to Me: Worn Smooth Out | Week 1 | Save the Cowboy
You can get worn smooth out. Tired down to the rivets. And the first three words out of Jesus' mouth in Matthew 11 are the ones most folks skip right past on the way to the famous part: "Come to me."
This week Kevin opens a brand new series, Come to Me (Week 1 of 3), and rides straight into the loads we keep packing on our own backs, loads God always meant to carry.
In this message:
Why the first three words of Matthew 11:28 matter more than the rest of the verse
The burdens we keep hauling that were never ours to carry
What "come to me" actually means when you are worn out
A lake, a dog named Bane, and a Sunday night that ran long
Scripture: Matthew 11:28-30
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full message: vimeo.com/1205295714
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
26 min
June 21Seven: Roles of Godly Men (Guest: Shea Hall) | Save the Cowboy
A Father's Day message from guest preacher Shea Hall at Save the Cowboy, while Kevin was away.
In this message:
What it really means that being a dad is "amazing"
The roles a godly man is called to carry
Putting everything behind the cross and following Him
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk, the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
57 min
June 15The Story of God: How the Bible Ends — and You're In It | Week 10 | Save the Cowboy
We've been ten weeks riding through the whole story of God, and this is where the trail comes out: not at a tombstone, but at a wedding and a city. Kevin opens in 1 Thessalonians 4 — the Lord coming down with a shout, the trumpet of God sounding the gather, and the dead in Christ rising first — then rides on into Revelation, where two books get opened: the book of everything you've ever done, and the book of life. One of those is the only one that matters.
This is the ending most folks never get told: the story doesn't quit at the grave. It ends with the marriage of the Lamb, a new city coming down, and God Himself wiping every tear off your face with His own hand. And if your name's in the book of life, you're not reading about somebody else's story — you're in it.
In this message:
Why the loss we feel at a graveside was never meant to be the last word
1 Thessalonians 4 — the shout, the archangel's voice, the trumpet, and the dead in Christ rising first
The two books of Revelation — the book of deeds and the book of life — and which one decides everything
A wedding, a city, and no more tears: how the Bible actually ends
The free invitation — "let the one who's thirsty come and drink from the windmill of life for free"
Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4; Revelation 20–22 (NLT)
Grab this week's free 5-day Bible study at savethecowboy.org.
Watch the full sermon on YouTube: @savethecowboy
Read the Bible in plain cowboy talk — the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Give to the ministry: savethecowboy.org
A sick pen for sinners, not a show ring for saints.
51 min
June 08The Story of God: The Secret God Let Out | Week 9 | Save the Cowboy
Paul calls it a mystery — but a mystery in the Bible ain't a riddle you solve. It's a secret God kept until it was time to let it out. Ten years ago Kevin spent ten days in a communist country bringing home his two boys, Jake and Jace Ray — and that adoption is the closest picture there is of the secret God finally told in Ephesians 3: outsiders brought all the way in, full family, full rights, full inheritance.
In this message:
Ten days behind the curtain — what adopting Jake and Jace Ray shows about how God adopts us
Why a Bible "mystery" isn't a puzzle to crack — it's a secret now told
The bride Christ died for: "Adam slept that Eve might be made; Christ died that the church might be born" (Augustine)
Peter's confession — and what Jesus actually built his church on
The only worry worth having: is your name in the book of life?
Scripture: Ephesians 3 (NLT)
Watch the full sermon on YouTube: @KevinWeatherby
Read the Word in your language — the Simplified Cowboy Version: simplifiedcowboyversion.com
Ride with the Long X Ranch Cowboys: lxranch.org
Help keep the gate open: savethecowboy.org
Save the Cowboy — straight-up cowboy gospel out of Kiowa, Colorado. No frills. Just the truth.
41 min
June 03The Story of God: Why You Can't See What's Right Beside You | Week 8 | Save the Cowboy
Picture a cowboy riding away from you — tall in the saddle, but his shoulders are down and his jaw is set, the weight of the world on him. He’s leaving the place where his dream died. That’s two men on the road to Emmaus, three days after the cross… and the risen Jesus rides up alongside them, and they don’t know it’s Him.
In Week 8 of The Story of God, Kevin Weatherby opens Luke 24 and walks the whole arc of Scripture the way Jesus did on that seven-mile road — Genesis 22, Isaiah 61, and Psalm 22 — landing on the one truth that changes everything: you don’t have to see it to believe it, but you’ve got to believe it before you’ll ever see it.
In this message:
Why God shut their eyes on purpose, and what that says about the seasons you can’t see Him working
How Abraham, Isaac, and “the Lord will provide” (Jehovah Jireh) were pointing at the cross 2,000 years early
What Isaiah 61 says Jesus came to do — and what Psalm 22 says it cost Him
The one thing the blood of Christ will not cover
Why faith means saddling up and riding the way God said before you can see where the trail goes
Scripture: Luke 24:13–45 · Genesis 22:8 · Isaiah 61:1–2 · Luke 4:21 · Psalm 22:1 · 1 Corinthians 15:20 (NLT; Psalm 22 NIV)
Grab the free 5-day Bible study, “Jesus in the Old Testament”: download here. Watch the full sermon on YouTube @KevinWeatherby. Read the Simplified Cowboy Version at simplifiedcowboyversion.com. Ride for the brand with the Long X Ranch Cowboys at lxranch.org. Give at savethecowboy.org.
Save the Cowboy — meat and taters Gospel. No frills. Just the truth. Kiowa, Colorado.
42 min

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Save the Cowboy is the cowboy church podcast for people who like their gospel straight and their stories funny. Pastor Kevin Weatherby preaches the Bible the way a good cowboy spins a yarn — honest, humorous, and hitting right where it counts. His blend of ranch-and-rodeo humor with rock-solid Biblical truth has reached millions around the world and made Save the Cowboy one of the most recognized names in cowboy ministry.