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
262 episodes
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
Giving Sunday 2025
This morning serves as a sort of State of the Union as we celebrate what God has built over the last five years at Kindred Church and the financial challenges we face looking toward the future. We believe giving is an expression of faith. We ex...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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47:31
Rediscover. Reimagine. Rebuild.
We open our new home at The Simon in Louisville by pausing to discuss the current state of the world and our country before examining the root of human darkness in the story of Cain and Abel. What can change the trajectory we are on? Jesus and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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33:35
Things No One Tells You About a Church Plant
Instead of a traditional message, Zack and Lindsey talk about "Things No One Tells You About A Church Plant" as they reflect over the last five years and some of the hidden beauty in what God has brought together at Kindred. Their discussion is...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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38:33
Wasted Time
In a culture of optimization, what are we to make of seasons that disrupt our productivity and our sense of momentum and achievement? What antidote is there for the fear of wasted time or the sting of regret as we experience disappointment and ...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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24:38
In With the Out Crowd
We close our study of the book of Colossians by taking a look at Paul’s last challenge to us: care and compassion for the outsider. Using our values of “Selfless” and “Sincere,” how can we take our theology and make it a practical way of living...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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29:19
Reimagining Submission, Obedience, & Service
Today we approach a difficult passage around submission, obedience, and servitude. Paul's directives to households have long been used to subjugate women, overburden men, silence children, and excuse the corruption of power. Though, what if the...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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45:24
Rejection is Redirection
We’re taking a short break from our study of Colossians as we navigate this unique and challenging moment in the life of our church. Displaced and still searching for our next home, it would be easy to let discouragement and disappointment stea...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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26:08
The Other Side of the Coin
When we talk about simple grace (see "A Simple Kind of Life"), a natural question develops – how , then, are we supposed to live – and what about all of the behaviors that Paul talks about over and over again? Don’t they matter? Great question ...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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41:18
A Simple Kind of Life
Colossians chapter 2 is Paul at his best – cautioning the Colossian church (and us today) about the influence of teachers that infiltrate Christian circles with the intention of confusing people, furthering strange agendas, or making personal p...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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33:12
Almost Forgot This Was the Whole Point
Today we begin our look at the book of Colossians, an ancient letter written to an ancient people trying to make sense of the way of Jesus among a diverse and spiritually confused culture. Being woven together is a powerful vision for the meani...
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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37:53
Lord, Have Mercy
In the final week of our Jonah series, we are confronted with God's mercy and justice. How can both be true? This seeming incompatibility was the source of Jonah's rage, bitterness, and self-righteousness. As Jonah is brought face to face with ...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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32:10
Can People Really Change?
Jonah is about more than a man being swallowed by a mystical giant fish. It is about complex themes like mercy, hate, and redemption. It’s about the parts of our heart bent toward judgement and self-righteousness and our own fallibility. It beg...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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28:11
Jonah: Who is Your Enemy?
In the story of Jonah, we get the familiar tale of a man swallowed by a giant fish - but before we get there, we start by looking at why it happened. It centers on the idea of the places that we love and the people that we sometimes loathe. As ...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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32:40