Sinopsis
Podcast for Hays Christian Church. Pastor Kevin M. Daniels.
Episodios
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The Garden: Luke 8:4-8
25/06/2025 Duración: 22minBetty Rupp takes us to Luke 8:4-8, in which Jesus delivers the Parable of the Sower. The Word of God is a seed that is sown, but cannot bear fruit unless received by those with good hearts who retain it and persevere through life’s trials. For God to grow this seed in us, we weed out troubles in our hearts by praying for perseverance and discernment.
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Trinity Sunday (The Trinitarian God Saves): Titus 3:3-7
20/06/2025 Duración: 19minThis Trinity Sunday, Pastor Cana opens to Titus 3:3-7, in which Titus is being prepared to minister to the people of Crete and he is reminded that the Good News of Jesus has the power to create new humanity in the lives of the people. It is through God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit that we are saved.
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Pentecost (The Miracle of Understanding): Acts 2:1-21
13/06/2025 Duración: 20minThis Pentecost, Pastor Cana opens to Acts 2:1-21, which describes the Holy Spirit descending upon the crowd to grant gifts for them to go out into the world and multiply God’s church. The Holy Spirit’s work in the early church was to bring about miracles of understanding, so we rejoice.
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Ascension Sunday (What Comes Next?): Acts 1:1-12
06/06/2025 Duración: 23minPastor Cana takes us through Acts 1:1-12, where the apostles witness Jesus’ ascension to heaven 40 days after the resurrection. They wonder what is next, but Jesus reminds them, as well as us, that our role is to return, wait, and witness.
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Separate (God's Love in Christ): Romans 8:31-39
30/05/2025 Duración: 21minPastor Cana opens to Romans 8:31-39, where Paul covers the theme of no separation from Christ’s love. Nothing, which ever has been or ever could be, can separate us from Christ’s love. We are called to recenter on the powerful, matchless love of Christ.
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Christians Who Changed the World: Paul Farmer
23/05/2025 Duración: 27minMatthew 25:31-46 reminds us to treat the disadvantaged in society as we would treat Jesus. Joanne Tramel, keeping tradition to highlight historic Christians, points to the example set by Paul Farmer (1959-2022). Farmer was a medical anthropologist and physician who worked and advocated for impoverished patients, largely in Haiti and the U.S.
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Living Stones: 1 Peter 2:1-7
14/05/2025 Duración: 16min1 Peter 2:1-7 speaks on Christian identity to the young church and dealing with the feeling of instability. Jesus is the foundational stone for the House of God. We seek refuge in the foundation of Jesus, to be built on Him.
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Holy Fear: 1 Peter 1:13-21
09/05/2025 Duración: 19min1 Peter 1:13-21 speaks on what holy fear is and Pastor Cana expresses that because of God’s holiness, grace, and justice, believers should have holy fear of God. When we repackage our idea of fear of God, it transforms into something better.
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Vindicate Me, O God!: Psalm 26
01/05/2025 Duración: 18minPsalm 26 focuses on the topic of vindication and Pastor Cana points out ways we feel the need for proof of our innocence. God is the only one who can vindicate us when we are wrongly blamed or shamed. Therefore, we are encouraged to pray boldly for vindication to the only true judge, our God.
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I AM (Part 7): The Resurrection and the Life
25/04/2025 Duración: 20minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series concludes in John 11:17-27, in which Jesus arrives in Bethany following the death of Lazarus and meets with Martha to give her comfort and hope. Those who live and believe in Jesus will never die. Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.
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I AM (Part 6): The True Vine
16/04/2025 Duración: 23minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series picks up in John 15:1-9, in which Jesus illustrates in a clearly explained metaphor how the vine grower (the Father) tends the true vine (Jesus), nurturing the fruit-bearing branches (abiding in Christ) and pruning the dead branches (that which prevents abiding). Jesus, the true vine, gives us reason to praise and bears fruit in us. We only need to remain with the Vine.
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I AM (Part 5): The Way, the Truth, and the Life
09/04/2025 Duración: 19minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series picks up in John 14:1-7, in which Jesus addresses His disciples at the Last Supper with crucial final parts of His teaching. Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life guides and provides for us. We as believers already know the Way, the Truth, and the Life though knowing Jesus.
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I AM (Part 4): The Good Shepherd
04/04/2025 Duración: 16minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series picks up in John 10:11-18, in which Jesus provides the metaphor of a good shepherd caring for and protecting his sheep to relay His purpose and God’s heart. The Good Shepherd is selfless, powerful, conscious, and determined. Jesus as the Good Shepherd helps us see the ways Jesus protects us in love.
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I AM (Part 3): The Door
26/03/2025 Duración: 21minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series picks up in John 10:1-10, which follows Jesus healing a blind man on the Sabbath. The man testifies of the miracle and refuses to incriminate his Savior to the religious leaders. In our text, Jesus declares that He is the door (or gate) that invites us into a flourishing life. He is the only door that matters.
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I AM (Part 2): The Light of the World
21/03/2025 Duración: 26minPastor Cana’s Lenten sermon series picks up in John 8:12-20, where Jesus proves to the religious leaders of the temple that He is the light of the world, using their own legal arguments. When we feel that we are walking without support, Jesus, the light of the world, is a trustworthy guide for us.
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I AM (Part 1): The Bread of Life
12/03/2025 Duración: 22minPastor Cana begins the Lenten sermon series in John 6:35-40, where a crowd who had witnessed Jesus feed 5,000 approach Him again, but Jesus tells them that they should not focus on physical bread, but true bread from heaven. He tells them that He is the bread of life and promises eternal sustenance. In this we learn that Jesus is sufficient, essential, and accessible for us in life and life eternal.
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Hannah in the Temple: 1 Samuel 1:9-18, 2:9-10
06/03/2025 Duración: 22minIn 1 Samuel 1:9-18, Hannah prays in the temple, begging to be blessed with a son, and promises to give him to God’s service. The priest Eli, after mistakenly scolding her, gives her a blessing. Following in 1 Samuel 2:9-10, when she keeps her promise and places her son, Samuel, with the priest, she prays again in praise. Pastor Cana expresses that with God, our misunderstood prayers of desperation can me turned into praise.
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Gideon's Call: Judges 6:11-17
28/02/2025 Duración: 22minPastor Cana opens to Judges 6:11-17, where God calls Gideon to save the Israelites from oppression under the Midianites. God does not need you to be brave, important, impressive, or strong. God only needs you to say yes to His calling. Come see God’s calling in your life and the lives of others, regardless of qualification.
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Welcome: Psalm 81
19/02/2025 Duración: 21minPastor Cana introduces Psalm 81, which sees the author reflecting honestly on the challenges of sin, submitting to God, consequences, and God’s readiness to welcome us. Though our sin always brings consequences, submission allows us to be ready to receive God’s welcome.
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Newness of Life: Romans 6:1-11
13/02/2025 Duración: 18minRomans 6:1-11 lays out for the new Christians why continuing in sin is not the way to prove God’s power. Pastor Cana Moore elaborates that Jesus’ death offers us freedom from sin and raises us into new life. With this promise of new life, we are tasked with abandoning our old ways for the better freedom in Christ.