Connect Church Longview Podcast
Welcome to the Connect Church Longview podcast—your go-to source for uplifting messages, real-life insights, and Spirit-filled discussions rooted in God’s Word. Each episode is designed to help you grow closer to Jesus, find authentic community, and strengthen your faith for everyday life. As Scripture reminds us: “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ” (Romans 10:17 NLT). Tune in weekly and discover how we’re connecting people to Christ and each other in Longview, Texas, and beyond.
Episodes
116 episodes
Dangerous Religion
Some of the most dangerous moments in faith look “successful” from the outside. We can serve, give, sing, quote Scripture, and still be carrying a heart that won’t surrender. That’s why we go straight into Romans 2:17–29 and ask the uncomfortab...
God Judges The Heart
If you’ve ever thought, “At least I’m not as bad as them,” Romans 2 has a way of turning the spotlight back where it belongs. We keep walking through our Romans series and land on a hard, freeing truth: God judges the heart. Not the polish. Not...
Without Excuse
Romans 1 doesn’t let us hide behind excuses, and that’s exactly why we needed this conversation. We start with a simple challenge: when you walk outside, look up. Creation is not just background noise, it’s testimony. The earth and sky, the ord...
A Burden for the Gospel
If the gospel feels light to you, it probably isn’t shaping you yet. We lean into Romans 1:8-15 and follow Paul’s surprising starting point: gratitude, constant prayer, and a real longing to strengthen people he hasn’t even met. That simple ord...
Unashamed
Freedom is easy to enjoy and even easier to forget. We start by honoring our veterans and military families, then we shift into Romans 1:16 to 17 with a message that refuses to stay comfortable: the gospel of Jesus Christ is not something we “a...
Called, Set Apart, Assigned
If you’ve ever felt worn out trying to do “Christian things” while still feeling unsure of who you are, Romans 1:1–7 puts the pieces back in the right order. We start a slow, verse-by-verse walk through the Book of Romans and land on a simple f...
Be Kind. Rewind.
A church can have the right words, the right routines, and still be missing the one thing that makes it shine: love. We open Revelation 2:4–5 and let it confront us with a hard question God asks his own people: when did you stop loving me and l...
Overcoming Temptation
Temptation doesn’t usually kick the front door down. It whispers, it inches closer, and it waits for the moment you’re tired, lonely, offended, or confident you can handle it. We dig into a simple but demanding idea: if we choose first, we don’...
Take It Back
Joshua 24:15 doesn’t leave room for a half-hearted faith. When the line is “choose today whom you will serve,” excuses get exposed fast, especially the subtle ones that look spiritual on Sunday but collapse under real life pressure. We take tha...
The Power Of Consistency
Your life doesn’t usually fall apart from one big decision. It drifts from a hundred small ones you repeat without thinking. We get real about that drift by starting where Paul starts in Romans 7: the confusing gap between who we want to be and...
No One Is Good
“No one is good” sounds like a slap until you hear it the way Jesus meant it. We talk through why that line is actually a doorway out of shame, out of religious pressure, and out of the exhausting need to prove we belong. When only God is the s...
When You Stop Holding Back
The culture trains us to accumulate, protect, and chase the next thing, but Jesus says something that cuts straight across our instincts: it is more blessed to give than to receive. We take that line from Acts 20:35 and put it under pressure, n...
What Is Faith?
One word keeps showing up when faith is under pressure: yet. When we say “I can’t,” “it won’t change,” or “God won’t move,” we quietly lock our future to our current feelings. We push back on that mindset with a simple but demanding invitation:...
Pointless Christianity
Something is off when we can talk about God, show up to church, and still feel hollow inside. We dig into that tension with a message titled “Pointless Christianity,” starting with Jeremiah’s confession that God’s word burns like fire in his bo...
Shut Up And Dig!
Some problems don’t go away because you “tried harder” this week. They come back because you only trimmed what you could see. We lean into a challenging, hope-filled message built around James 4:8 and a simple but uncomfortable idea: if the fru...
One Word That Will Change Your Life
One word can reveal what you’re really building with your life, and it isn’t “successful” or “influential” or even “happy.” We’re talking about faithfulness, the kind that holds steady when the doctor’s report hits, when relationships strain, a...
When You Want to Give Up
Quitting rarely starts with a big decision. It starts with getting tired, getting isolated, and quietly letting your faith go stale. We get honest about that moment when you realize the enemy has been working closer to home than you expected, e...
Let's Get Involved - The Covenant Phase
You can be busy, religious, and well-intentioned and still be completely distracted from the one thing that matters most: a real relationship with God. We go straight at the pride we all carry and the silent belief that if we just do enough goo...
Internal Voices
Your thoughts are not harmless background noise. They can steal your joy, drain your peace, and reshape your identity until you start living like the lie is true. We go straight to the heart of spiritual warfare in the mind, using 2 Corinthians...
Let's Get Involved - The Dating Phase
Chains don’t politely loosen over time they break when we finally let God take the lead. We start with a brutally honest look at bondage and freedom, using smoking as a real-world example of how shame hides in plain sight and why surrender crea...
Voices
Noise has a way of sounding like normal life until you realize it’s steering your soul. We’re living in a constant stream of opinions, alerts, headlines, and “just one more scroll,” and it’s quietly training us to react instead of listen. This ...
My Cup is Empty
Your life can look “fine” on the outside while you’re running on empty inside. We talk about what changes when you stop trying to muscle through anxiety, despair, and temptation with your own strength and start drawing from God’s unlimited reso...
Shut up And Dance
Joy is not a mood, it’s a lifeline and when it disappears, strength goes with it. We start with John 15: Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, and apart from him we can do nothing. That connection is not poetic, it’s practical: it shapes what...