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This is a podcast about God, faith, and real life. We share sermons from our weekly worship service. Occasionally, we share interviews and other conversations that help us explore what it means to follow Jesus. Kindred Church is an inclusive community that helps people take their next steps in response to God’s unconditional love. We’re particularly committed to the excluded, ignored, and questioning. Check us out, all are welcome!
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
What we believe about a person shapes our relationship with that person. The same is true for our relationship with God. Our beliefs about God shape how we to talk to God, how we feel about God, and how we respond to God in our lives. So our beliefs matter. Today we’ll begin a series exploring an ancient statement of Christian faith called the Apostle’s Creed. We’ll use the Creed to help us reflect on some foundational Christian beliefs and how they shape our relationship with God. Wherever you are on your faith journey, join us for this first part of the series and discover why God is already closer to you than you might think.
The Apostles’ Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead, and buried;
the third day he rose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic [meaning ‘universal’] church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
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Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
For many of us, the hustle is nonstop. Our culture pushes us to measure our own value in terms of what we can accomplish and what we can acquire. So we tend to work as if our self-worth is on the line, afraid of what will happen if we ever slow down. But it doesn’t have to be that way! In our sermon today, we’ll see that God designed work to have limits, freeing us to find our true identity in the relationship we cultivate with God. Join us for this final part of our series, “God at Work at Work.”
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Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Whatever ‘work’ looks like in your life, many of us find that work is often frustrating. Whether it’s because we’re overworked, underutilized, underappreciated, underpaid, ill-equipped, or just beset by challenging circumstances, frustrations with work abound. And in some cases those frustrations can become quite destructive. So in today’s sermon, we’ll explore how our faith can help us to handle our work-related frustrations in ways that are healthy and life-giving. Join us as we continue our series, “God at Work at Work.”
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Sunday Feb 05, 2023
Sunday Feb 05, 2023
It’s easy for us to approach our work as just a financial necessity and not much more. But there’s a growing sense in our society that work should be about ‘something more’ than just a paycheck. In today’s sermon, we’ll see that God not only affirms this desire for ‘something more,’ but God also shows us what that ‘something more’ is meant to be. So whatever ‘work’ looks like in your life, join us for this exploration of the real purpose of work as we kick off our new series, ‘God at Work at Work.’
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Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Sunday Jan 29, 2023
Many of us were taught that the faith God requires of us is a kind of ‘blind faith’ that leaves little room for questions. So when our life experience inevitably raises new questions of faith, we can feel deeply unsettled and distant from God. But in today’s sermon we’ll see that Jesus invites his followers, not to narrow-minded ‘blind faith,’ but to a journey of faith in which questions and new discoveries lead to deeper understanding. Join us for this final part of our series ‘Where is God?’ and learn how your questions of faith may be leading you closer to God.
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Sunday Jan 22, 2023
Sunday Jan 22, 2023
When we’re going through struggles in any arena of life, it can sometimes be difficult to feel God’s presence. In fact, our struggles themselves can sometimes feel like evidence of God’s absence from us. In today’s sermon, we’ll learn about a famous biblical figure who felt exactly the same way. And we’ll discover how he was able to find God, to trust God, and to lean on God, even through a season of serious struggle. Join us as we continue our series, ‘Where is God?’
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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
We all face different forms of rejection in life, which can be painful. Many of us have faced rejection in the church, which is especially painful. Sadly, many churches have a habit of rejecting people who are different, sometimes citing Scripture for justification. But in today’s sermon we’ll see how Jesus’ original followers took a powerful stand against that painful message of rejection and set a precedent of radically expansive embrace. Join us as we continue our series, ‘Where is God?’
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Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Something about modern life leaves many of us weighed down by a constant feeling of exhaustion. And even when we do everything the world tells us to do to relieve our exhaustion, it’s often still there. So what are we missing? In today’s sermon we’ll explore one often-overlooked source of our exhaustion and we’ll learn how to find a deeper, truer rest. Join us for this first part of our series, ‘Where is God…?’
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Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Many of us live with a lot of fear, and for good reason. We’re often confronted with frightening realities. And yet, right in the middle of the Christmas story, we’re told, “Don’t be afraid!” So tonight we’re exploring the good news of Christmas and how it really can overcome all our fears.
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Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
One mystery at the heart of the Christmas story is that God comes to be with us as one of us–that is, as a human person with a body. This flies in the face of our typical assumption that ‘being spiritual’ or ‘getting closer to God’ has nothing to do with our bodies. Christmas reveals to us that God doesn’t just love our souls, but God loves our bodies as well. This has important implications for how we relate to our bodies, how we treat others, and how we experience the presence of God. We’ll explore some of these implications in today’s sermon. Join us as we wrap up our series, ‘Honest Advent.’
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