The Way Church KC
Weekly sermons from The Way Church KC, a community of misfits & saints in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, KS. We exist to follow the Way of Jesus & push back darkness — together. Gospel-centered, Scripture-fed, Spirit-led preaching for everyone: the broken, the searching, and those who never thought church was for them. Join us Sundays at 10:30 AM or visit thewaykc.church.
Episodes
41 episodes
Exhibit A | Acts 21:37-22:21
Paul stands on the steps of the Roman barracks, faces the crowd that just tried to kill him, and tells them his story — how the man who once hunted down followers of Jesus met Him on the road to Damascus and was never the same. In "Exhibit A," ...
When Doing Right Goes Wrong | Acts 21:15-36
Paul does everything right — he humbles himself and lays down his own freedom for the sake of unity in the church — and it still blows up in his face. He's dragged out of the temple by a mob that got the story wrong. In this message...
Let the Will of the Lord Be Done | Acts 21:1-14
Everyone who loved Paul told him not to go to Jerusalem. They weren't wrong about the cost — the Spirit had already said chains were waiting. They were wrong about the conclusion. In Acts 21, Zach walks us through a room full of weeping friends...
When The Shepherd Leaves | Acts 20:17-38
Paul stands on a beach in Miletus and says goodbye to the elders he loves, knowing he will never see their faces again. It is the only place in Acts where we get to listen in as Paul talks to a church he planted. And what he hands them on the w...
Signs of Life | Acts 20:1-16
In Acts 20, Luke tucks a resurrection right into the middle of a travel journal. A young man named Eutychus fades during Paul's long, late-night message, slips off a third-story windowsill, and dies — and then God raises him back to life. It's ...
You Can't Use the Name, You Have to Follow It | Acts 19:11-41
In Ephesus, some tried to use the name of Jesus like a magic formula — and it backfired. Pastor Zach walks through the story of the seven sons of Sceva and the citywide scroll-burning that followed to make one point plain: Jesus cannot be used,...
The Whole Way | Acts 18:23-19:10
Apollos was gifted but unfinished. Twelve disciples in Ephesus were sincere but incomplete — they had not even heard of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Zach traces the story of Acts 18:23-19:10 to show what happens when Jesus, by his Spirit, brings peo...
When the Lord says "Don't Be Afraid" | Acts 18:1-22
Paul arrives in Corinth discouraged, and the Lord meets him in a vision with four words that change everything: "I am with you." Pastor Zach walks through Acts 18:1-22 to show that the same Jesus who was forsaken on the cross so we would never ...
The God You're Looking For | Acts 17:16-34
Paul walks into Athens, a city full of idols, and instead of condemning it from a distance, he engages it — reasoning in the synagogue, debating in the marketplace, and finally standing before the philosophers at the Areopagus to preach the God...
The World Turned Upside Down | Acts 17:1-15
When Paul and Silas hit Thessalonica, they did not bring an army or a political platform — they brought a crucified and risen King, and the city got turned upside down. Zach walks through what it looks like to bow to the true King, examine the ...
When God Shakes the Prison | Acts 16:25-40
When the foundations shake and the doors fly open, Paul and Silas stay — and a jailer who asked "what must I do to be saved?" finds the answer that still holds today: believe in the Lord Jesus. In Acts 16:25-40, we see how God meets us in suffe...
The Gospel Confronts Darkness | Acts 16:16-24
In Philippi, a slave girl bound by a spirit of divination gets set free in the name of Jesus — and the gospel exposes just how many chains the rest of the city is still wearing. Zach walks through Paul and Silas' encounter in the marketplace an...
When God Opens Hearts | Acts 16:11-15
Paul crosses into Europe for the first time and finds not a synagogue but a small prayer gathering by a river in Philippi. There God opens the heart of a businesswoman named Lydia to respond to the gospel — a reminder that changed hearts,...
When God Directs The Way | Acts 15:36-16:10
Paul and Barnabas part ways over a hard disagreement, and God brings a whole new team together — Silas, then young Timothy. But it’s a closed door in Asia and a vision of a man in Macedonia begging for help that finally shows Paul w...
A Church Strengthened by Grace | Acts 15:22-35
The Jerusalem council settles the biggest question the early church ever faced: are you saved by grace alone, or grace plus something else? Once that gospel clarity lands, the letter to Antioch shows what a healthy church actually looks like &m...
Nothing Extra | Acts 15:1-21
The Jerusalem council faced a big question: do new believers have to become culturally Jewish before they can belong to Jesus? Acts 15 settles it once and for all—salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, with not...
The Mission of Christ Advances | Acts 14:19-28
Paul and Barnabas were stoned and left for dead in Lystra—then got up and kept preaching. Acts 14 shows us the rhythm of real gospel mission: suffering, strengthening, and celebrating what God has done. The mission of Christ does not stop...
Turn From The Things of This World | Acts 14:1-18
In Lystra, the crowds tried to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods—and their response was to point everyone straight back to the living God. Acts 14 confronts us with a simple, hard question: what are the vain things we chase instead of Him...
This Message is For You | Acts 13:13-52
Paul steps into the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia and delivers a sermon that traces the whole story of Israel to its point: Jesus. This message walks through Acts 13:13-52, where Paul makes clear that the good news was never meant to be hoard...
Set Apart To Be Sent Out | Acts 13:1-12
Before Paul and Barnabas ever set foot on the mission field, the church at Antioch had to do something first: worship, fast, and listen. This message walks through Acts 13:1-12, the moment the Holy Spirit sets apart two ordinary men for an extr...
Chain Breaking Freedom | Acts 12
Peter is chained between two guards, awaiting execution, and the church does the only thing it can do: pray. This message walks through Acts 12, the night an angel breaks Peter out of prison, and the tyrant Herod who falls right after. Chains b...
The Spirit Builds a Barrier Breaking Church | Acts 11
What does it mean to belong to a church that only Christ could imagine? In Acts 11, the Spirit knocks down the walls we build between us and calls the Antioch church to sacrificial love, not self-interest. This is a message about how the gospel...
Follow Where God Leads | Acts 10:34-48
What does it look like to follow God even when it leads you somewhere unexpected? In Acts 10:34-48, Peter learns that the gospel is for everyone, not just people who look and live like him — and the Holy Spirit falls on people he never ex...
The Gospel Breaks Down Barriers | Acts 10:1-33
What do you do with the walls between people — the labels, the lunch-table lines, the "us" and "them"? In Acts 10, God brings together a Roman centurion and a Jewish fisherman who never should have shared a table, and shows us that the gospel o...
Resurrection Power | Acts 9:32-43
What does the resurrection of Jesus mean for your Monday morning? In Acts 9, Peter speaks a simple word — "Jesus Christ heals you" — and a paralyzed man walks; he prays, and a beloved disciple named Tabitha is raised to life. In this message, P...