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
283 episodes
1 Timothy: Women in Leadership
Does Scripture really say women shouldn't teach or hold positions of authority? How do we interpret Paul's instructions here in light of the Biblical precedent for women in leadership across the Old & New Testaments? Together we explore the...
1 Timothy: A Pure Heart + A Sincere Faith
In this introduction to 1 Timothy we explore a few of the subtle distortions to the Christian faith the people of Paul's day were in danger of believing and how they are still relevant for us today. Masterfully peeling away all the layers of no...
Esther: The Monster Fight
Why do people so often seem to become the thing that they started out despising? Maybe a tougher question: why do we? As Esther closes, we see the Jewish people, fresh off of the Great Reversal, begin to treat their enemies just as the...
Esther: Pay It Forward
Zack: I was trapped recently in one of those coffee drive-thru lines where the car in front of you paid for your order. The happy barista informed me of the good news and pleaded that I would continue the hour-long trend. My $3 coffee became a ...
Esther: Expect the Unexpected
Most of us don’t tolerate uncertainty or the unexpected very well. The unknown tends to make us want to question God. Though what if we could learn to treat the unexpected not as a deviation from God’s character or proof of his distance, but as...
Esther: For Such a Time As This
If God is in control, do my choices really matter? As our story develops we find ourselves caught in this mysterious tension, wrestling with the relationship between God’s provision and our participation. When we neglect one or the other, we ei...
Esther: Obedience, Power, + Pain
We kick off the book of Esther by re-evaluating the startling story that we see in the first few chapters. What do we say in the face of abusive power? How do we make sense of times when God seems absent? Esther has a lot to say about things pa...
Scars: Easter 2026
Scars tell a story, they are the evidence of our past and remind us that we've been marked by what has happened to us but still, we survived. As we celebrate the story of Easter, we are comforted by the central role Jesus' scars play in his res...
The Stones Cry Out
Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. It marks the beginning of the end of Jesus' time on earth as he enters the city and marches toward his inevitable death. This famous scene features two remarkable symbols - palm branches signify...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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'...
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 ...
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...
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 ...