Artisan Church Podcast

In our next WSMF message, Zachary Foster shares about his sobriety journey for National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Awareness Month. Speaker: Zachary Foster Part of the series “Work of the People (What's Saving My Faith): What's Saving My Faith”

Making healthy, thoughtful choices can help us protect fragile parts of us that require boundaries.  But what if those boundaries are crossed?  What if we outgrow these boundaries? Pastor Jae investigates how daily work can help us navigate a way out of circular mazes. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

Many of us experience fractured relationships. No matter where blame belongs, we can often feel “lost” on what our complicated relationships can look like in the future.  Pastor Jae explores how accepting little losses every day can direct us to finding something unexpected. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

One of the challenges of applying Jesus's teaching to our modern lives (such as trying to negotiate pain that comes from people we love) is that we struggle with who we are in his stories. We will investigate the Parable of the Good Samaritan, considering the possibility that for once, we are not the hero in the story. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

Join us as author, speaker, and comedian Brit Barron kicks off our Do You Still Talk to Grandma series, where we’ll reflect on the difficult negotiation work of striving to find a way forward without allowing differences with family members to entrap us in Cancel Culture ideologies. Speaker: Brit Barron Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

So much of our spiritual life revolves around believing in things that are not yet apparent to us.  Pastor Jae explores how through Abraham’s story we can glimpse God’s plan to move treasure from a garden to a city, and how we’re all part of the moving crew. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

What the Bible really has to say about the meaning of our life on earth might surprise you. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

Reading Scripture across cultures and millenia is not easy work.  Our own inner world can quickly become knotted as we seek simple answers to complex questions.  Pastor Jae focuses on Luke 11 as a way to point to the power of prayer as a way to navigate some discontinuities in our spirituality. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

In a special Pride Month edition of "What's Saving My Faith," Penny Sterling shares about how action saved (and is saving) her faith. Speaker: Penny Sterling Part of the series “Work of the People (What's Saving My Faith): What's Saving My Faith”

The metaphor of bearing fruit is one of the most powerful images of the Christian life in all of scripture. What does it mean for faithful followers to bear fruit in body, stock, and soil? How can we bear fruit in every good work? Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

On his way to Jerusalem with his disciples, Jesus interacts with several people: some who oppose him, some who want to follow him halfheartedly. His responses to these individuals are hard to understand. We will explore these interactions together, placing ourselves into the story. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

Pastor Jae explores that while Jesus does inaugurate his kingdom on earth, daily discipline is needed to help us discover where, as Frederich Buecner says, our “deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

On Trinity Sunday, we reflect on one of the deepest theological mysteries of the Christian faith, but ultimately—as always—we return to the Law of Love. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

An Artisan Church tradition: Pentecost readings from the Bible in many languages, plus devotional reflections from several different Artisan members! Speaker: Various Part of the series “Ordinary Time”

Prayer is one of the main access roads to our spiritual life, but for many it presents daily challenges.  As we prepare for the Pentecost, we dust off our prayer life in order to stay awake to the presence of God’s activity in our lives. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Eastertide”

When Jesus gives a new commandment, it is not complicated.  It is, however, challenging.  Calling others to love one another, Jesus reorders how we relate to others, God, and ourselves. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Eastertide”

Julia shares a story of what's saving her faith. Speaker: Julia Detmer Part of the series “Work of the People (What's Saving My Faith): What's Saving My Faith”

From the time of Jesus's earthly ministry, there have been questions about his intention and purpose in the world. We should not be surprised to find that these questions persist in our day (and into our visions of the last days), but it does leave us with a choice: which version of Jesus will shape our choices, our attitudes, and our interactions with our world? Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Eastertide”

Life on our High Horses leads us further and further from Jesus.  When we dismount from our strengths and live from our actual selves that’s the place where God can meet us. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Eastertide”

As the disciples sought to live out the Gospel in their world, they received both threats and peace. Their choice, and ours: how to respond in the way of Jesus, the “firstborn from the dead.” Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Eastertide”