Midway Christian Church Sermon Podcast

“Treasures in Heaven” Matthew 6: 169-34, June 29, 2025 

Stop worrying about things you cannot control. Focus on what you can do. Focus on how you feel and process those emotions. Focus on your actions and words. Focus on how you respond, It is that last part which draws me back to this text again and again…as Jesus disciples, we are called to focus on how we respond. It is not that Jesus is ignoring the injustices of hunger and pove...

“We Wish to See Jesus” John 12: 20-21b; Proverbs 29: 19, June 22, 2025

Guest preacher, Rev. Phil Case, brings us today's sermon:

"We Wish to See Jesus"

John 12: 20-21b; Proverbs 29: 19

Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was there from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

Where there is no vision the people perish, but blessed...

“We Have This Hope” Romans 5: 1-5, June 15, 2025 

We can rejoice in the midst of the suffering, in the midst of our suffering. Not because we are in denial. Rather it is because we know suffering cannot quash our hope. It cannot quash our joy. It cannot dim the promises of God that are given to us by our God who loves us more than we will ever know.

"Whe Have This Hope"

Romans 5: 1-5

Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, MidwayChristia...

Today is Pentecost Sunday. In keeping with tradition, Historic Second Christian and Midway Christian churches gather together for worship. This year, we worshipped at Historic Second and the sermon was provided by Pastor Heather McColl of Midway Christian.

“Fruits of the Spirit” Acts 2:1-4; Galatians 5: 16-26, June 8, 2025

Often, we limit our celebration of Pentecost to one day. Yet Pentecost is a reminder, a celebration that the Hol...

Part 6: Fifty Days of Easter, June 1, 2025 

At its core, our text for this morning is about identity and how that identity shapes our practices of faith. We need to remember that the early Church was not Christian; Jesus didn’t come to start a new religion. So many people within the early Church were Jewish. They were simply known as Christ followers but it wasn’t a new religion. They still practiced the Jewish religious traditions ...

Part 5: Fifty Days of Easter, May 25, 2025 

This strange story of the Ethiopian eunuch could haveeasily laid out a rigid dogma of belief which the early church was supposed to follow. This story could have easily set the course for practice which would have shaped the Church for generations to come. Instead, it offers a glimpse into an encounter where the Holy Spirit is present. It offers us an invitation to share the faith through ...

Part 4: Fifty Days of Easter, May 18, 2025 

Stephen’s story reminds us of the challenges of discipleship, things we often tend to forget or ignore. It shows us that we are called to testify in all things and through all things to God’s love. It also reminds us to not forget that Christ was crucified for speaking truth to love and grace, and as his disciples, we cannot expect different treatment.

"Stephen's Witness"

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Part 3: Fifty Days of Easter, May 11, 2025 

Through the story of the walk to Emmaus, the author of Luke is reminding us, as ones who follow a Risen Savior, the very core of our faith is the knowledge, the understanding, the promise given to us by a God who loves us more than we could ever imagine. At the very core of our faith is the promise that death does not have the last word. Where the world sees an ending, as people of faith, ...

Part 2: Fifty Days of Easter, May 4, 2025 

In our text for this morning, having denied Christ three times, Peter is given a chance for reconciliation. But I would argue that the author of our text extends that chance to us as well. We are given an opportunity to embrace our call to listen and follow Jesus in this new reality and to show we love Jesus by feeding Jesus’ sheep, by tending his lambs. Like Peter, like the disciples, we a...

Part 1: Fifty Days of Easter, April 27, 2025 

The Appalachian region is deeply rooted in customs that have been handed down for generations. “Planting by the signs,” a practice predicated on the belief that moon phases and astrological signs exert a powerful influence on the growth and well-being of crops, is deemed superstitious by some but has been considered essential to gardeners and farmers for centuries and is still in use tod...

Part 7: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, April 20, 2025

How do you make the Easter story new again? Haven’t we heard it all before? These are the questions I ask myself, to which I reply: I don’t. We don’t. And that is the point. It is the same story we tell again and again because it IS the same story again and again. What changes is us as Jesus’ disciples. Every time we encounter this story, it remains the same, the promise re...

Part 6: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, April 13, 2025

“[Like the people of Jerusalem,] we are in a time when we need to draw on courage to call into question the structures that uphold systems of oppression. We are in a time when we need to subvert the powerful and protect the vulnerable. The crowds close in on Jesus. Some lift their hands in praise, others point accusingly. I hope this image serves as a reminder to call upon ...

Part 5: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, April 6, 2025

Too often we use so much of our energy trying to maintain the past or present, that we no longer have the strength to embrace the future. It is never about forgetting what was. It is about honoring the path which brought us here and knowing that the path does not, cannot, go in only in one directon. Rather, the path will have twists and turns, unexpected valleys and mountain...

Part 4: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, March 30, 2025

What if God’s love and redeeming grace was our repeated refrain, our way of life, our way of understanding who we are, our way of seeing the world, our way of seeing every single person? Just imagine if we lived our lives in response to God’s love and redeeming grace instead of trying to earn it.

"God Loves First"

Ephesians 2: 1-10

Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway ...

Part 3: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, March 23, 2025

As people of faith, again and again we are shown the way; a way which overturns tables; a way which brings down walls; a way which creates community and connection between us all. As people of faith, again and again we are shown the way; a way which this world calls foolish; a way which defies our understanding; a way which is sometimes disruptive and uncomfortable.

"We...

Part 2: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, March 16, 2025

“The Lenten journey calls us to examine the things in which our hearts are invested, recognizing that we often insert our voices into the silence of God. Lent invites us to listen to God’s wisdom for us and truly see who Jesus is, not just who we have created him to be.”

"We Are Called to Listen"

Mark 8: 31-9: 8

Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY

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Part 1: Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain, March 9, 2025

The story of God’s covenant following the Great Flood reminds us that, again and again, God meets us. God meets us and promises to stay with us. “This story reminds us to hope, to believe that even in the midst of the storms, a new tomorrow awaits” us. We hold to this hope because we know God meets us where we are…in the broken, the hurt, in the chaos after the flood. “God m...

Part 6: Messages From 7the Gospel of Luke, March 2, 2025

It is God’s word, it is God’s wisdom which gives us the strength, gives us the courage to become people of love and grace, to live in a way which reflects the Beloved Community in all we do and say."A House Without A Foundation"

Luke 6: 39-49

Rev. Dr. Heather W. McColl, Midway Christian Church, Midway KY

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Part 5: Messages From the Gospel of Luke, February 23, 2025

God shows grace, God shows mercy, God shows love to the just and the unjust. Luke tells us that we are to act in ways, speak in ways which reflect the character of God in all things and through all things because “God is kind to ungrateful and wicked people. Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.”

"Behaving as God's Children"

Luke 6: 27-38

Rev. Dr...