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This week Phil concludes our series through the book of Mark. The resurrection of Christ.
This week as we continue in our journey through the Gospel of Mark, Phil teaches on the arrest of Jesus and trial before the Sanhedrin.
This week as we continue our series through the book of Mark, Phil teaches on the garden of Gethsemane
This week Phil continues our series through the book of Mark. Jesus and His disciples preparing for the Last Supper.
This week Jack continues our series in Mark. Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple.
This weeks Chelsea continues our series through the book of Mark. Jesus teaches in the temple courts.
This week Phil continues our series in the book of Mark. What is the greatest commandment?
This week Jack continues our series in Mark. Jesus is asked about paying taxes to Caesar and the Sadducees ask Him about the Resurrection.
This week Chelsea continues our series in Mark, when Jesus curses the fig tree and clears the temple.
This week in the Gospel of Mark, Phil teaches about Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
This week in the book of Mark, Tanner walks us through the story of Jesus healing Blind Bartimaeus.
This week Phil continues our series in Mark chapter 10. Jesus blesses the little children, and the rich young ruler.
This week Jack walks us through Ephesians 2. Because of God's grace, we are able to find home in Christ, grow together as a family of believers, and live out our God-given purpose.
This week Jack continues our series in the gospel of Mark - Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of God?
This week Phil walks through Peter's declaration about Jesus, and Jesus predicting his death.
This week we find Jesus answering the question of what it is that truly makes a person defiled.
This week Tanner Woody, a member of the Fold Teaching Team, walks us through two familiar stories from the life of Jesus.
This week we look at what seems like a side bar in the life of Jesus that covers the death of John the Baptist. The recording pics up right after the scripture reading and prayer.
This week we look to a story of Jesus seemingly interrupted in his mission by an unclean woman.
This week our counselor on staff, Chelsea Arrington, walks us through the second half of Mark chapter 3.
This week we dive into Jesus teaching on the Sabbath and what it means for his followers to embrace the life-giving practice today without slipping into legalism.
**Because of some technical issues this recording starts about 5 minutes into the teaching.
What do we do when following Jesus disrupts our worldview? That's the question we seek to answer today from the book of Mark.
What is the mission of Jesus in the world and how does that affect our physical illness? the answer to that question is what we find in Mark 2 this week.
This week Tanner Woody takes us through Jesus' early miracles and his distinct display of compassion.
This week we look at Mark's introduction, describing to us who Jesus is and what he came to do.
Who wrote the book of Mark and what exactly is a "Gospel" anyway? As we prepare to study the book of Mark throughout the rest of the year, we begin by addressing these important questions.
What does it mean to live in real freedom? That's the question we seek to answer from Romans 6 this resurrection day.
This week Phil Vander Ploeg closes out our series by sharing his journey of learning to see the redemptive work of Jesus in his life.
This week CJ and Chelsea had the privilege of sitting down with Nathan and Katy Carlton to hear their story of finding home in Christ within the community of The Fold.
Finding purpose means embracing our role as ambassadors of the kingdom of God, but what exactly does the life of an ambassador look like? This week we turn to 2 Corinthians 5 to answer this question.
What is the Christian relationship with resources? How is stewardship both a formational practice and a freedom practice? This week we dive into the deep end to look at the overarching narrative of resources in scripture.
We each have unique gifts entrusted to us by the Lord. This week we look to 1 Corinthians 12 to see how those gifts operate in the church.
What does it mean to live in deep community and "find family" as a church? That's the question we seek an answer to today in Colossians 3. This teaching includes an interview with our staff counselor Chelsea Arrington.
This week Tanner Woody returns from a break from the teaching team to speak on Matthew 28:16-20, the "great commission."
This week we make the switch from "finding home" to "finding family" with the claim that "finding family" means that we are "growing disciples."
As we near the end of the first section of our "We Are" series we come to the story of the Good Samaritan and argue that finding home in Jesus means being inviting neighbors to the world around us.
This week we look to Hebrews 10 to see why we being committed gatherers and corporate worshipers is crucial to finding home.
In our second week examining the first of our vision statements "find home," we propose that finding home in Jesus means that we are people of scripture. Rather than a typical sermon, this week we participated in a creative bible study exercise as a community.
This week we begin a new series entitled "We Are." Over the next few months we are deeply examining what it means to "find home, find family, and find purpose." We began with the principle that people who find home in Jesus are praying people.
In the second week of the Advent season we look to Isaiah 40 to ask where our peace comes from.
This is the second part of our conversation with Rev Stegall. We hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as we enjoyed having the conversation!
This week we look to Isaiah 64 to inform our perspective on the first word of advent: hope.
As we come to the beginning of the advent season we remember that it is a sacred thing to celebrate the goodness of God and the goodness of the life he has given us.
This week CJ and Chelsea had the privilege of interviewing Rev Alan Stegall. Alan is a former pastor and lifelong prayer warrior who has seen God move in powerful ways throughout his life and ministry in response to concerted intercessory prayer. Alan has a storehouse of wisdom to share on the topic and we can't wait for you to hear it!
This week we had the privilege of hearing from Jonathan Sherbet, the Executive pastor of Vision Alignment and Discipleship at Boiling Springs First Baptist Church, of which the Fold is a campus.
This week, in between our fall and advent series, we pause to come to the communion table considering how we live our lives prepared for the coming of Jesus.
To close out our series on the communal nature of the church we hosted a discussion with Stephen Bledsoe, one of our Fold Groups ministers; Chelsea Arrington, our staff counselor; and Delaney Robinson, our children's minister on the various ways that community is crucial for our lives as followers of Jesus.
In our second to last week of the "Y'all" series we ask questions about the future of the church and the vocation of the church in the world.
What is the posture of the church towards those who are outside of the community? That's the question we seek to answer from Acts chapter 8 this week.
This week we examine what a biblical marriage is and what the role of a marriage is within the relational network of the church.
This week we had the privilege of hearing from Chelsea Arrington, our counselor on the ministry team, on what is the source of our personal, individual identity.
As we enter into our fall series called "y'all" we spend the first week answering a basic question about what the church is.
This week we were blessed to have Joel Thrasher, Missions Strategy Leader of the Greenville Baptist Association, share with us on living life on mission.
This week CJ interviewed Chelsea Arrington, who is the counselor on the Fold Ministry team and at Highlands Family Counseling in Greenville, about the interplay between our spiritual and emotional health.
Our summer on spiritual disciplines concludes with a conversation about confession as a corporate spiritual discipline based on Daniel 9.
This episode is the second half of a conversation about the value of developing an inner life through spiritual disciplines. If you haven't listened to last week's episode then we'd highly recommend going back to get caught up before you jump into this one.
This week we focused on the personal practice of confession as a spiritual discipline by examining the analogy of light and darkness used by John in 1 John 1:5-10.
This week we took a break from our series on Spiritual Disciplines to spend the morning receiving communion together.
In our 3rd episode on spiritual disciplines Heath and I (CJ) begin a conversation about the need to develop a healthy inner life.
This week we dive into something that is less commonly embraced as a spiritual discipline, but just as core to our understanding of God, ourselves, and scripture as any other: creativity.
In what way is scripture a communal spiritual discipline? We turn to Deuteronomy 6 to examine this question.
We're diving back into the conversation about spiritual disciplines. If you haven't listened to the last episode we would highly recommend looking back at week 1 of this series because this conversation picks up right where we left off in the middle of our interview with Heath.
This week Heath Williams teaches us about and leads us through scripture as a personal spiritual discipline.
This week we're opening a discussion that is in line with our current teaching series at The Fold. We're diving deep into spiritual disciplines. We believe that this is a crucial topic for our formation as followers of Jesus. We hope you'll jump in the deep end with us as we take in this often over looked topic.
Today our teaching a conversation between CJ and Rev Phil Vander Ploeg about the spiritual discipline of tithing.
We close out our series on hypocrisy by looking at practical ways we can take steps to remove sinful patterns from our lives.
This Sunday we began our 2 weeks on the discipline of giving. We started with the corporate discipline of generosity by looking at Acts 2.
In week 2 of our summer in the spiritual disciplines we ask what it means for mission to be a communal spiritual discipline.
This week we continue the conversation on family relationships, boundaries, honor, and emotional/spiritual health.
This week Jonathan Sherbert, Executive Pastor of Boiling Springs First Baptist Church, teaches about service as a formative spiritual discipline.
This week we dive into the complicated reality of our families and how we walk in the honoring way of Jesus even in the difficulty of real family life.
In preparation for our summer studying the spiritual disciplines we examine how change takes place in our lives and what the journey of faith often looks like for a follower of Jesus.
This week we hear from Chelsea Arrington, counselor at the Fold and Highlands Family Counseling, as well as member of our teaching team. She brings us to the last week of our Lowborn series looking at the last moments of Jesus' life.
This week we're continuing the conversation about hypocrisy by examining the 4th commandment and taking a deeper look at exhaustion, burnout, rest, and Sabbath.
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A new podcast is dropping into the Fold feed every other week. This podcast is here to take a deeper look at things relevant to our community. These might be deeper dives into sermon content, getting practical tools from a counselor, or having a conversation about creativity with one of the many artists inside and outside of our church family.
Pour yourself some coffee (or tea) or hit the drive through at your local shop and listen in on the conversation.
This week we look to the prophecies of Isaiah to see how the message of Jesus and the work of Jesus challenge our self perception.
This week we remember the lion who turned out to be the lamb in the sacred moment of communion.
A new podcast is dropping into the Fold feed every other week. This podcast is here to take a deeper look at thing relevant to our community. These might be deeper dives into sermon content, getting practical tools from a counselor, or having a conversation about creativity with one of the many artists inside and outside of our church family.
Pour yourself some coffee (or tea) or hit the drive through at your local shop and listen in on the conversation.
*This audio quality of this recording is different than our usual podcast due to technical issues with our software. Shout out to our tech team for getting a recording for us!
This week we look at a complicated story from Genesis 22 to see how our expectations clash with the true character of God.
In this series we're looking throughout the story of scripture to see how Jesus consistently subverts our expectations of what a king should be. We start the series in Genesis 3.
What are the results of coveting and how does resurrection free us from the need to covet? This is the question we seek to answer on this Easter Sunday.
This week one of our worship ministers and lead team members, Jack Spearman, taught on the ethic against lies.
What are the implications of the ethic against stealing, and on what is this ethic founded? These are the questions we seek to answer this week.
What are the implications of the commandment to not murder? This week we see that it's more complicated than we might have imagined.
This week Chelsea Arrington, our licensed counselor from our ministry team, joins the teaching team to share about the role of honoring our father and mother in the ethic of the kingdom.
What does is mean to "take the Lord's name in vain"? That is the question that we seek to answer in this weeks sermon.
What is the true nature of God’s command against constructing an imagine to worship? That’s the question we dive into this week.
We start our series in the 10 Commandments by looking at the first 3 verses of Exodus 20.
We closed out our time in Acts 10 by examining the purpose given to Cornelius in the work of the Holy Spirit.
Our second week in Acts 10 has us examining what it means to be family with our enemies.
This week we began a 3 week mini series in the story of Peter and the roman Centurion Cornelius in Acts chapter 10.
*due to recording issues audio quality is different in this episode
As we conclude our advent series we take a detailed look at the consecration of Jesus in the temple in Jerusalem.
This week we read the traditional Christmas passage in Luke 2 as Phil Vander Ploeg shows us how complex and beautiful the story of Christmas truly is.
As we walk through the story of the birth of Jesus we remember that these short years in history are the climactic scenes in all of our stories.
This week Jack Spearman, one of our worship ministers, led us through the beginning of the book of Colossians.
This week Tanner Woody, a member of our teaching team, took us on a deep dive into the book of Haggai.
Ecclesiastes points us to the thing all of our stories are longing for: the hope of Jesus.
This week guest speaker David Walker, from Grace Church in Atlanta, spoke to us from the story of the woman at the well in John 4.
In our 4th week of our Storied Season Heath Williams leads us through the story of Elijah in the wilderness.
In week 3 of our Storied seaon Phil Vander Ploeg teaches about the redemption of God through the book of Ruth.
LJ Wood, our Fold Groups minister, leads us through the story of Saul and David from 1 Samuel 24.
Our storied season has begun, and we've launched into this series by examining the story of the crossing of the Jordan river from Joshua 4.
This week we heard from Jack Spearman, one of our worship ministers, a fresh perspective on a familiar story.
As we continue in Luke 14 we find arguably the most offensive statement that Jesus makes in the Gospels.
As we continue following the lectionary we discuss the principles of obedience from Isaiah 58.
We examine the first chapter of Hosea and discuss punishment, consequences, and change.
This week we start a summer of resting and engaging with the global church by preaching from the lectionary. You can see the designated passages for each week here: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/lections.php?year=C&season=Season%20after%20Pentecost
In our last week of Kingdom Lifestyle, Phil Vander Ploeg from the teaching team at The Fold, shows us the multifaceted concept of stewardship in the life of the kingdom.
This week, LJ Wood, our fold groups minister shows us the value of community in a true kingdom lifestyle.
How is confession and repentance crucial to a kingdom life? That's the question we answer this week.
In Romans 12 Paul gives us not only instructions on how to live, but a beautiful guide to experiencing the transformation of the Gospel.
In Jesus' parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25 we find the expectation for life lived in the reality of Jesus' kingdom and his coming.
To launch our new series on the lifestyle of God's kingdom we look at a story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16.
This week we had the privilege of being led in worship and in teaching my Jack and Caroline Spearman, our worship ministers. They spent time unpacking the idea of worship as a personal and corporate act.
This Easter we take at a look at what the resurrection of Jesus means for our daily lives as Jesus followers.
We pick up the story of the last supper with Jesus revealing that Judas will betray him.
As we move towards Easter we are spending 3 weeks studying the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples.
This week we set aside time to remember what the cross of Jesus means as we take communion.
This week Phil Vander Ploeg wraps up the life of Joseph and we see what God was doing in the meanwhile.
This week we see how Joseph's history affects his present reality as he's promoted in Egypt.
Week 3 of our meanwhile series is a close examination of the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.
This week we introduce the themes and characters that will shape our study of the life of Joseph. We wrestle with the question "who's story is my life telling?"
This week we’re led in a time of reflection and communion by Tanner Woody, our youth minister, as we look forward to 2022.
The final week of our series in the book of Acts, and the final Sunday in the year of the kingdom, we look at the posture of believers to outsiders and those different than us.
This week we examine the story of the conversion of Saul and the disciple who ministered to him.
We interrupted our Fire & Wind series to celebrate the sacred moment of communion as a family.
This week we look at the first resistance the church experienced in their proclamation of the Gospel and how we should respond to those who resist us.
This week LJ, one of our Fold Groups ministers here at the Fold, walked us through Acts 3 and what happens when we embrace the messiness of life.
This week Phil Vander Ploeg took us through Acts 2:42-47 and showed us what a life aware of God - in his greatness and his nearness - and aware of one another looks like.
This week we look at the first sermon ever preached in the history of the church and remember what is the message of the church to the world.
This week we were blessed to hear from Joel Thrasher from the Greenville Baptist Association.
Week 2 of our Fire & Wind series dives into the coming of the Holy Spirit in the public initiation of the church.
This week we begin a new series studying the founding of the church in the book of Acts.
This week we set aside time to discuss the scripture that birthed the Fold and be reminded of who God has called us to be as a community.
This week we finished up our Elephant Hunting series with a final discussion of how follows of Jesus should deal with division in the world and in the church. Make sure to tune in next week for Fold Sunday!
This week we had the privilege of hearing a message from Dr. Hank Williams from Boiling Springs First Baptist.
This week we took time to hear from a panel of leaders in our community as they answer questions based on the topics we've dealt with thus far in our series.
This Sunday Phil Vander Ploeg led us through a kingdom perspective on race, inviting us into a life that shows the love of Jesus in the chaos and division of the world around us.
Tanner, the youth minister at The Fold, deals with the topic of Mental Health from the story of Elijah
In week 2 of our "elephant hunting" series we deal with the topic every loves to hear about in church: money. We see that God's instruction about money is for our good and our fulfillment not for his benefit.
In the first week of our series dealing with the "elephants in the room" in our culture we address the topic of "social media."