Wesley at FSU & TSC
The home for sermons and audio content from Wesley Foundation at FSU & TCC, a college campus ministry serving in Tallahassee, FL serving the campuses of Florida State University and Tallahassee State College. Rev. Bryant Manning serves as the Pastor and Executive Director of Wesley at FSU & TSC and delivers weekly sermons at our Sunday Services.
Episodes
75 episodes
Senior Sunday | Sunday Service | April 19, 2026
Today we celebrate our seniors who are moving on to the next, big, bold stage in their lives and we hear from four seniors about the importance of Wesley and pass down their wisdom, stories, and gratitude to the younger generations of Wesley st...
"Healing Peace" | Sunday Service | April 12, 2026
This week we explore John's story about the disciples scared and scarred in the room, in fear, and the peace Jesus brings them and us.
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EASTERFEST 2026 || M E R C Y R I S I N G
Join us for this year's Easter sermon titled "Mercy Rising" as we read the Easter story and hear about the good news of Mercy disrupting the status quo in our own lives and bringing good and new life through God's amazing and undeserved goodnes...
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Palm Sunday "Right, But Not"|| Sunday Service || March 29, 2026
On Palm Sunday, the crowd gets Jesus’s identity right but misses his mission, praising a King they expect to seize power while he rides in humbly toward the cross. This week's message invites all of us to ask whether we will still cry “Hosanna”...
"Journey to the Cross :: The Judas in Us" by Howie Ashley | Sunday Service | March 8, 2026
Thank you for listening!This week Howie Ashley, Wesley senior from Tallahassee State College gives a message about Judas’ betrayal and the surprising ways we see ourselves in that story when disappointment pushes us to take control. Thro...
"Journey to the Cross :: Passion Predictions" | Sunday Service | March 1, 2026
In this week's message from our Journey to the Cross series, we follow Jesus’ three passion predictions in Mark 8–10 and hear his upside-down call: deny yourself, take up your cross, and trade the world’s ladder for the way of humble service.&n...
"Journey to the Cross :: Fractured Friendship" | Sunday Service | February 22, 2026
In this sermon, we look at the Last Supper and how Jesus shared a meal with his disciples; even Judas, who would betray him. Hopefully this week it can serve as a reminder that real friendship isn't about keeping score or cutting people off whe...
"Awakened to Grace :: Sabbath" | Sunday Service | February 15, 2026
In a world that glorifies hustle and defines us by our output, Sabbath is an act of holy resistance. This week's sermon confronts the lie that rest is earned, exposing how our busyness, escapism, and fear of surrender keep us from entering the ...
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"Awakened to Grace :: Fasting" | Sunday Service | February 8, 2026
What if the thing we need most isn't another strategy, but a sacred pause? In this message, we explore Acts 13:1–3 and discover how the early church didn't leap into mission, they fasted first. They worshiped, they waited, and in that holy stil...
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"Awakened to Grace :: Silence" | Sunday Service | February 1, 2026
When the noise won't stop and exhaustion sets in, where do we turn? In this week's message, we journey with the prophet Elijah into the cave: a place of fatigue, doubt, and divine encounter. Join us as we talk about why God doesn't ...
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"Awakened to Grace :: Scripture" | Sunday Service | January 18, 2026
In this week's "Awakened to Grace," we talk about Scripture, explore the ancient Shema prayer from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and how grace begins with listening to God. This message challenges us to keep Scripture close not as obligation, but as a comp...
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"Awakened to Grace :: Prayer" | Sunday Service | January 11, 2026
Awakened to Grace :: PrayerPrayer often feels awkward, boring, or intimidating but what if prayer isn’t about saying the right words or trying harder to get God’s attention?In this week's message, we begin a new series call...
"Living Witness" | Easterfest 2025 | April 20, 2025
The FSU campus has had a difficult week. Come hear a bit of hope with us, a story of Mary's darkness being overcome by the voice of a risen Savior.
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"The Whole Journey" | Palm/Passion Sunday | Sunday Service | April 13, 2025
This week we look at the journey of Christ toward the cross, using the metaphor of Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" and its crescendo as a way to see Jesus's journey to the cross as a giant crescendo of what God has been doing in our world since the ve...
"Pay Attention" | Sunday Service | April 6, 2025
In this week's exploration of John 12:1-8, we discover how Mary's deep attentiveness to Jesus reveals the transformative power of truly seeing others. We need to be reminded that when we ground ourselves in Christ and pay attention to those aro...
"Love Crosses Thresholds" | Sunday Service | March 30, 2025
This morning's sermon covers the story of The Prodigal Son, in which we discover two sons who are lost and still received love from the Father, as we receive love from God. Love takes decision-making, who are you choosing to love today just as ...
"The Other Half" | Sunday Service | March 23, 2025
In today's podcast we discuss Jesus's warning to us, a broken people, about a need for repentance and then his parable about grace from the gardener who will always give us another opportunity to grow, whether or not we bear fruit.
"Stop Performing" // Ash Wednesday // Rev. Bryant Manning // March 5, 2025
Tonight's sermon discusses the reality of performing in our lives, the places in which it's too unhealthy, and the places in our spiritual lives where God is calling us to stop performing our spirituality in person and focus on our need for God...
"I'm Here" | Sunday Service | March 2, 2025
In this week's sermon, we explore how God responds to our cries of pain and suffering with God's unwavering presence and action. We hope it reminds us that crying out to God is not a sign of weakness but an act of faith, and that even in our da...
"Slow Down" | Sunday Service | February 23, 2025
In this week's message about slowing down and trusting God's timing, we explore Jesus' teachings from Matthew 6 about seeking first God's kingdom and letting tomorrow worry about itself. Through personal stories about parenting and the chaos of...
"Prayer" // Late Night Worship // Brooke Self // February 19, 2025
Brooke Self, senior, shares with us a message form Philippians 4 where we're invited to search our prayer lives and strengthen that part of our spiritual walk.
"Flip The Script" | Sunday Service | February 16, 2025
Sorry for the late update due to technical difficulties!Drawing from Luke 6:17-26, today's sermon examines Jesus' counter-cultural message of blessing for the poor, hungry, and marginalized.
"You Have Been Called" | Sunday Service | February 9, 2025
In today's sermon on Luke 5:1-11, we explore how God's calling often builds upon our existing skills and experiences while pushing us beyond our comfort zones in order to call us.Through the story of Jesus calling the first disciples, we...
"Distracted" | Sunday Service | February 2, 2025
Dive in with us on Luke 4:21-30, where we explore how modern distractions parallel the challenges Jesus faced in his hometown. The distractions we talk about: popularity, assumptions, and limited thinking. Hopefully together we'll discover prac...
"Jubilee" | Sunday Service | January 26, 2025
This Sunday, dive with us into the revolutionary concept of Jubilee as Jesus declares himself the embodiment of this ancient practice of restoration and freedom in his hometown synagogue. Rev. Bryant Manning unpacks how this message of economic...
