Austin Mustard Seed Sermons

Shane leads us through the lectionary text for Palm Sunday. The text for this Sunday was Luke 22:14-23:56. The post Sermon (2019.04.14) Shane Blackshear appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Mason Parva leads us through the text for the 5th Sunday of Lent. This week we read John 12:1-8 and mason gave us good insight into how we can orient our lives towards the Divine, within and in our world. The post Sermon (04.07.2019) Mason Parva appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Madelynn Marlow leads us through the story of the Prodigal Son, for the fourth week of Lent. The post The Prodigal Son appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

This week Shane leads us through Luke 13:1-9, the lectionary text for the third week of Lent. The post Repent or Perish (2019.03.24) Shane Blackshear appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April guides us through the lectionary text for the 1st Sunday of Lent. Due to some sickness, we ended up walking through the second week of Lent last week, and the 1st this week. The text for this week was Luke 4:1-13. The post Sermon (03.17.2019) April Karli appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Daniel leads us through a guided meditation for the 1st week of Lent. Due to some last minute changes we ended up using the lectionary text for the second week of Lent rather than the 1st. Stay tuned for next week as we will come back to the original lectionary text for the 1st week of Lent. Text for this … Read More → The post 2019.03.12 Daniel Read appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

This week we recapped our Guiding Values Series. Ashley, Shane, and April discussed the how our guiding values will shape our future of our community. The post Guiding Values Review appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

This week Shane concluded our Guiding Values series by teaching about Wholeness. At Austin Mustard Seed we believe that God is in the process of restoring our lives, those around us, and all creation to shalom, or wholeness. Whether through spiritual disciplines, practicing mercy, creation care, offering forgiveness, or encouraging wholeness, our pain is transformed. We become bearers of the … Read More → The post Wholeness appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April Karli continues our discussion on our Guiding Values with a sermon on Hospitality. At Austin Mustard Seed we believe that flowing out of Jesus’s desire that we welcome the stranger, we humbly seek to invite others, being open to receive from and give to everyone. We open our hearts, homes, and church to the lonely, those on the margins, as … Read More → The post Hospitality appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April Karli continues our discussion on our Guiding Values with a sermon on Community. At Austin Mustard Seed we believe that  Our connection to one another comes from our identity as members of God’s family. We come together around our common mission to partner with God in the making of all things new. We find joy in our differences, celebrate unity without … Read More → The post Community appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April Karli continues the discussion on our Guiding Values with a sermon on Generosity. At Austin Mustard Seed we believe that  All that we have is a gift from God. We respond to God’s generosity to us by joyfully offering all of our resources back to God. Our time, abilities, money, and property are stewarded generously and sacrificially.  Out of … Read More → The post Generosity appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Today marks the beginning of a series where we will unfold our communities guiding values. April Karli starts off the series with a discussion on transformation. Transformation: We engage in spiritual practices that followers of Jesus have done for centuries. Through discipleship, we seek to encounter God together in new ways for the purpose of becoming mature apprentices of Jesus. Sermon … Read More → The post Transformation appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April Karli does a Q&A with Shane Blackshear on women in ministry. This interview is a follow up to the previous sermon discussing women throughout the history of the church. April tells the story of God’s ministerial calling on her life. The post Q&A with April K. appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

At Mustard Seed we believe that gifting, not gender, qualifies a person for pastoral teaching, leading, and speaking. As April Karli steps into the role of Pastor, Shane speaks about why we as a community ordain women into pastoral leadership and ministry. Book Resources The Blue Parakeet -Scott McKnight Emboldened: A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry -Tara Beth Leach … Read More → The post Women In Ministry (2019.01.06) appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Andrea guides us through the lectionary text of Habakkuk for the first sunday of Advent. Habakkuk 1:1-7; 2:1-4; 3:[3b-6], 17-19 The post Sermon (2018.12.02) Andrea Lucado appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

This Sunday David Sunde was our guest speaker. He spoke about savoring God’s love and presence in the context of Deuteronomy 6:4-9. The post Sermon (2018.11.25) David Sunde appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

In our sermon this Sunday Madelynn Marlow walks us through the story of Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel.  From the story of Hannah we learn to pray vulnerably and hope boldly. Looking at the world through this lens of bold hope and vulnerable prayer connects us with the hopes of others. In this sermon, we examined our own … Read More → The post Sermon (2018.11.18) Madelynn Marlow appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

Mary Whitehurst from David Chapel opened the scriptures with us this past Sunday. She shared with us from from Pslams 23. The post Sermon (2018.11.11) Mary Whitehurst appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

This Sunday, Chris Morton shared about the importance of memory for our life, legacy and culture from Deuteronomy 6:1-12. 1These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may … Read More → The post Sermon (2018.1.4) Chris Morton: Deuteronomy 6 appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.

April Karli asked us to consider why we sometimes don’t want to express our desires. The things we long for are often deeply buried inside us, and there are a number of reasons we are afraid to admit them. But Jesus invites is to come to him with our longings. Can we learn to trust Jesus to meet our deepest … Read More → The post Sermon (2018.10.29) Mark 10:46-52 appeared first on Austin Mustard Seed.