Word of Life Church Podcast

Word of Life Church Podcast

Word of Life Church with Pastor Brian Zahnd

  • 34 minutes 17 seconds
    "All Will Be Thrown Down"

    In his Olivet Discourse Jesus predicted that the Temple would be destroyed, saying “all will be thrown down.” This came to pass a generation later when the Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem. But if Jesus’ words are words that “will not pass away,” what do these words say to us today, these words that—“all will be thrown down”?

    17 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 36 minutes 44 seconds
    My Soul Waits for the Lord

    Psalm 130 invites us to wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Our souls wait for the Lord because there are no quick and easy paths on the road to spiritual formation. Waiting is inevitable. Waiting is baked into this ancient Christian faith we have received. Instead of a hurried dash through a department story, the Christian life is more like a slow walk down a wooded trail. The Christian life is a slow walk interrupted by moments of grandeur. Most of our days are spent waiting patiently on God. But we don't wait alone. God the Holy Spirit gives us faith, hope, and love to empower us in our waiting.

    10 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 35 minutes 8 seconds
    A Tale Told By An Idiot

    Let nothing disturb you

    Let nothing frighten you

    All things are passing away

    God never changes

    Patience obtains all things

    Whoever has God lacks nothing

    God alone suffices

    –Teresa of Ávila

    3 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 30 minutes 15 seconds
    Being Bartimaeus

    In Mark's Gospel bar-Timaeus (son of Timaeus) is the only person Jesus healed who is given a name. The blind beggar bar-Timaeus is also the first person in Mark's Gospel to identify Jesus as the Son of David. So who is Timaeus and why does it matter?

    27 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 30 minutes 52 seconds
    The Uncontainable Christ

    The problem that James and John and the rest of disciples had, was that they thought Jesus could be contained in their own ambitions and agendas; that Jesus could be contained in the systems and political structures of the world they already knew. But they were wrong. They were wrong because Jesus is the uncontainable Christ.

    20 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 31 minutes 50 seconds
    The Faith of Abraham

    The faith of Abraham is a pilgrim faith that confesses the kingdoms of this world are all transitory and passing away, and that the only eternal kingdom is the kingdom of the heavens, where Jesus Christ reigns at the right hand of God.

    13 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 37 minutes 43 seconds
    Riders In the Chariot

    Philip the Evangelist rode in a chariot with the Ethiopian Eunuch on the Gaza Road two thousand years ago. Brian Zahnd road on a train with Yu in Paris on the day Derrida died. The two stories are not entirely different.

    6 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 34 minutes 28 seconds
    Recalled To Life

    No matter what cripples us, no matter what issues we have, no matter how many dark spirits afflict us, Jesus is the one who recalls us to life.

    29 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 35 minutes 59 seconds
    Live Like A Narnian

    In The Chronicles of Narnia, Puddleglum tells the underworld witch, "I'm on Aslan's side even if there is no Aslan. I'm going to live like a Narnian even if there isn't any Narnia." In this story C.S. Lewis is doing more than telling a children's fantasy, he is portraying what it means to "walk by faith."

    22 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 34 minutes 38 seconds
    Bread in the Hands of Jesus

    Bread on the table is ordinary, but bread in the hands of Jesus becomes extraordinary. Bread in Jesus' hands during the Passover meal became an extension of Jesus’ very flesh. During Jesus' teaching ministry, bread became a feast for 5,000 people. During a meal with two disciples in Emmaus, bread became a revelation of Jesus in their midst. And we are like bread. Jesus takes us, blesses us, breaks us, and gives us to the world making our lives extraordinary.

    15 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 40 minutes 9 seconds
    Wounded Healers

    This sermon explores the transformative work of Christ to give us beauty for ashes and bring healing to our woundedness. As Henry Nouwen states: "Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers."

    8 September 2024, 10:00 am
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