The Living Word Church Podcast

PastorJosh explores Matthew 26:1–16, contrasting the plotting religious leaders, the complacent disciples, Judas’s betrayal, and the woman who anoints Jesus with costly perfume.
The sermon challenges listeners to move from distant, utilitarian faith to a worship that faces the cross directly, offering everything in response to Christ’s sacrificial love.

This episode explores Luke 9:51–56 and the journey of Jesus toward Jerusalem, showing how our personal stories collide with God’s story through the encounters with Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus.
Blending biblical parallels, Pastor Josh's own salvation story, and an invitation to “set your face” toward a new life, the message calls listeners to choose faith, healing, and transformation this Easter season.

This episode walks through the Exodus story—Passover, the Red Sea crossing, and the journey to Mount Sinai—highlighting the contrast between Pharaoh’s cruelty and God’s mercy, rescue, and provision.It also examines the crisis of waiting, the golden calf as a sign of impatience and doubt, and the call to trust that God is always working for the good of those who wait for Him.

Mark 5:21–43 recounts two interwoven miracles: Jairus, a synagogue leader, pleads with Jesus to heal his dying 12‑year‑old daughter, and a woman with a 12‑year bleeding condition is healed when she touches Jesus’ cloak. Jesus honors the woman’s faith, tells Jairus to “just believe,” and raises the girl from death with the words “Talitha kum.” These stories show God’s faithful power meeting human trust, even amid fear and doubt.

This episode explores the Bible's redemption story, tracing how God prepares a place for His people—from Jacob and Joseph in Egypt, through the Exodus and David's kingdom, to Jesus as the living Tabernacle. It contrasts survival-mode settlements with God’s promised place, urging listeners to seek God’s presence, purpose, and the Holy Spirit to operate in the place He has prepared.

This sermon explores the book of Ruth as a portrait of biblical redemption: not merely forgiveness, but being bought back into belonging through God's loyal love (chesed).
Through Naomi’s loss, Ruth’s steadfast commitment, and Boaz’s redeeming action, Pastor Josh traces how ordinary faithfulness becomes God’s means of provision and restoration.
The message shows how personal acts of loyalty and kindness participate in God’s larger rescue story — leading from a small family to the line of David and ultimately to Jesus — and calls listeners to live out that redeeming love today.

This episode explores 1 Peter 2:4–12 and Psalm 127 (with Psalm 128), showing how believers are "living stones"—temples where heaven and earth intersect. It connects the Psalms' prayers to present faith, the vocation of work as worship, and the comfort that God builds, guards, and remains faithful across generations.
Through reflections on parenting, anxiety, and baby dedications, the message encourages trusting God’s partnership in building lives and passing on faith, finding rest and purpose in the reality of God’s presence today.

This sermon explores the Advent theme of peace, focusing on Isaiah 9 and the title "Prince of Peace" (Sar Shalom). It contrasts the violent, fearful world of Jesus' birth with his humble, sacrificial life and explains peace as wholeness, not merely the absence of trouble.
Through Scripture, personal stories of grief and gratitude, and practical challenges, Paster Amy invites listeners to live out Christlike peace by showing kindness, generosity, prayer, and sacrificial love during the Christmas season and beyond.

This episode explores Isaiah 8:19–9:7 and the Advent message: don’t seek spirits or empty optimism but inquire of God. It traces Israel’s dark fear, the prophetic promise of a coming light in Galilee, and the birth of a child called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Drawing on stories from Stockdale to Bonhoeffer, the sermon distinguishes Christian hope from naive optimism, describing hope as waiting with expectation in God’s fulfilled and yet-to-be-completed promise, and calling listeners to live as carriers of light in the in-between.

This episode recounts Joshua 3–4: the priests carrying the covenant step into the Jordan, the waters part, and twelve stones are set up as a memorial at Gilgal to teach future generations.
Interwoven is a Pastor Josh's personal testimony about the 38-year story of Living Word Church — humble beginnings in garages and libraries, community-building, and how those "stones" of memory reveal Gods faithfulness and inspire courage to move forward.