Kindred Church
Welcome to the Kindred Church podcast! You'll get to hear the staff discuss updates on launch plans, how you can get involved, and conversations that'll challenge you, encourage you, and inspire you towards a deeper relationship with God and others.
Episodes
274 episodes
The First Move
In every relationship, someone has to make the first move. Our relationship with Jesus is really no different. Today we revisit a famous passage about a man named Zacchaeus, exploring how Jesus made the first move and what this encounter foresh...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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33:17
I Won't Grow Up
Growing up is all about developing independence. From the time we are born, each new milestone brings us closer to self-reliance. Today's passage makes us wonder, does our emphasis on independence from the very start of our lives make dependenc...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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31:24
In the Rearview Mirror
Even in the days Jesus walked the earth, there were those looking at the chaos of the world, making predictions about the end-times, and wishing victory would be won by political and military might. Jesus speaks of a different kind of Kingdom. ...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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27:48
The Lost Are Not a Lost Cause
This morning we revisit the famous three parables Jesus told about the lost; a lost sheep, a lost coin, and a lost son. Interestingly, these stories weren't told to the lost...they were told to the Pharisees, the religious elite outraged he was...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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33:50
The False Summit
Jesus analogizes life with him to a narrow door or path. This specific image is meant to communicate two things to us: 1) Walking through that door into his presence, is like being invited to a banquet prepared for us. It's open to the lowly,&n...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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27:45
Why Bad Things Happen to Good People
Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to good people? When Jesus was asked this question, he responded by inviting people to think differently about the present moment because no one knows what the future will hold. We tend to dwell on t...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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29:28
The Secret to a Meaningful Life
Jesus warns you can't measure someone's life by the things they own, though we often spend our whole lives in pursuit of more. Jesus warns it is foolish to only live for yourself, though we often spend our lives self-absorbed. Jesus' words to u...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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31:08
A Lament for Minneapolis
We deliberately pause from our regular rhythm of service to respond to the current events unfolding in Minneapolis and the national conflict rippling throughout our country. Lindsey provides a guided lament for our collective grief then Zack le...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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28:51
A Hypocrite's Guide to Sincerity
Jesus reminds his friends we are all susceptible to hypocrisy. It's the kind of poison that corrupts our souls. It makes us callous to the compassion of Jesus, judgmental of those desperate for care and, and closes us off from love. Today we ex...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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32:50
Living in Stories
We were made for storytelling. Stories are what shape us, they live in our bones and ring in our ears and color our imaginations. Today we reimagine a famous passage about two sisters, about devotion, and about the most important thing in life....
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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31:06
Go and Do Likewise
In a cultural moment where hatred, viciousness, and violence are being stoked, celebrated, and encouraged the parable of the Good Samaritan challenges us to redefine who we call our neighbors. This story invites us to reimagine what it looks li...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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30:27
You Are (Not) Enough
Many of the resolutions and aspirations set this time of year are born out of a place of not enough, and the general tone around January sounds like striving, and pushing, and straining. Is there another way to approach the new year that doesn'...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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25:24
Beholding
Many of us approach the end of this season feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and defeated from the endless tug of war on our attention the holidays seem to demand. We believe Christmas has something to say to our striving, something to offer our ...
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Season 5
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Episode 47
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19:52
Joy-Baiting
It's Week 3 of Advent: Joy. We explore Zechariah's song in Luke 1 as a means to understanding the path of Joy that the Christmas story lays out for us. Zechariah's own darkness and uncertainty left him waiting for a breakthrough. As we each wai...
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Season 5
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Episode 46
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26:33
A Revolution of the Heart
Peace is something we all crave, but it often feels elusive and short-lived. This week's passage invites us to reimagine peace not as a sense of calm or tranquility, but as a revolution of the heart and an invitation to the humble way of Jesus ...
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Season 5
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Episode 45
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28:16
The LORD Remembers
This is our first week in our Advent series as we anticipate the coming of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas. Waiting tends to bring out the worst in us. It makes us anxious, irritable, and mean. Advent invites us to reimagine our waiting – it off...
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Season 5
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Episode 44
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37:55
Jesus is Not an Optimist
Hope is a paradox. It's the unrelenting belief that your current reality is not the end of the story and the bravery to acknowledge with uncompromising honesty that this part of the story we're in now is horrible. Without facing the ugly facts,...
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Season 5
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Episode 43
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37:27
A Light That Never Goes Out
Jesus was the king of speaking in metaphors. Today, we explore what soil and light have to do with being his followers - being hearers and doers of the Word of God. Jesus' invitation to live in the light challenges us to consider the many ways ...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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29:38
Yeah, But What About That One Verse...?
Luke gives special mention to the women among Jesus' ministry team here at the beginning of chapter 8. Passages like this one, among others, are crucial for understanding the affirmation of women in leadership and the role Jesus intended for wo...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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29:59
More Awkward Dinner Parties
This week’s passage features an awkward dinner party when an uninvited guest makes makes her way there. We explore the significance of the table for each of the characters in our story. The way of Jesus proposes the table is a place of transfor...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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33:55
Everything Will Change
Jesus ushers in the Upside Down Kingdom where he tells us the broken and poor are close to God and the seemingly well off or rich are missing it. Leveraging the ideas of threshold moments and hindsight realization, Jesus is taking his disciples...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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29:32
You Still Might Drown
We continue our study of Luke by exploring the calling of Peter and Matthew – two men who were rejected by mainstream culture, but were exactly the kind of people Jesus was looking for to build his team. Peter's boat filling with fish to the po...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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29:22
How Do I Find God?
This is a question people have been asking for centuries … How do I find God? Where should I go to find Him? Where can I go to be with God? Throughout time and across culture and continents, the divine has this sort of pull on the human heart…g...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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30:08
The Fight to Stay Human
We begin our journey through the book of Luke today with the moment Jesus is inaugurated into public life and ministry. His baptism and his temptation in the wilderness are an intentional and purposed preparation. We explore the battle for Jesu...
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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35:42