The Orchard Church Podcast: Recent Episodes
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All of us want to be blessed by God in the new year. So, how do we receive his blessing? What combination of things do we have to manage in order to be blessed by Him?
Why is it so hard for us to dismount the treadmill of hopelessness? Why do we THINK we are winning, when in fact we are going nowhere?
What is it like to live on the “treadmill of hopelessness?” So many of us do, and are frustrated about it, but we can’t seem to change? Why?
Pastor Jason Turner helps us rediscover the hope that Christ brings us even when our situations feel overwhelmingly stressful.
Special Guest Maina Mwaura has been through a dramatic upheaval in his life this year, and he had to learn the hard way that saying “hello” to God’s plan for the next chapter of his life required him to say “goodbye” to things he was holding on to.
This purpose statement of Jesus is, I believe, closest to his heart. Is it close to mine?
Jesus states something about himself that seems to be the opposite of everything else he says about himself. Did Jesus lose sight of his purpose for a minute?
Can you imagine sitting right across the dinner table from Jesus, yet not recognizing who he really is? It might sound like a bad dream, but it is exactly what happened to the disciples. Is it important that the main thing Jesus reveals about God is the most important thing that you need to experience His abundance?
Parenting can be difficult. How do you know if you are doing it right? Youth Pastor Jason Turner walks us through a Biblical perspective on parenting.
The question isn’t whether our culture is changing rapidly or not… The question is, what does it mean, and how do we navigate it?
Daniel, the believer in an unbeliever culture, was able to stand as a Godly man of integrity for the vast majority of his life. How could he do that? Can you?
How did our culture turn so sharply against God and His principles? It wasn’t by accident! Nope, there is a clear strategy that America has undertaken to get us right where we are. What is that strategy, and how can knowing it help me navigate a non-believer culture?
God works in Esther’s life in much the same way He works in ours… But it may not be the way you think.
Esther, who has quickly become comfortable in her royal surroundings, has every reason not to act when her people need her. That is when her uncle, Mordecai, shakes her to the core with a critical message that she needed to hear.
Am I comfortable in my surroundings? Have I grown tone-deaf to the clear need of God’s people around me? Do I need a wake up call from Mordecai, also?
If your doctor told you that you had a lurking, potentially lethal heart condition, you would want to know all you could about it. You and your family would want to treat your illness no matter what the cost. In today’s exploration of the story of Esther, we will discover the hidden and lethal heart condition that we all carry.
Sometimes are circumstances are so overwhelming, and God doesn’t even seem to care. We need to see Him do the miracle in our life, but He doesn’t even seem to show up. Why is that? How does God work? What is God up to behind the “seen” in my life?
It is easy to see the good that this world has to offer, but God wants to show us something better… He wants us to see HIM. Youth Pastor Jason Turner asks why you would want to see anything else?
So, I hear it all the time.. “I believe in God and all that, but I just don’t see the need to be in church.” Is that right? Why should I bother with church, especially when church doesn’t seem to bother with me?
We have spent most of the summer investing heavily into the next generation. What are we doing, and why are we doing that?
Tithing seems to have become a controversial subject in recent days. Are New Testament believers required by God to maintain this Old Covenant mandate?
The church has sent mixed messages over the years about how we view gay people. What does God’s Word really say about this?
Our teenagers just got back from an amazing week at CAMP! They were blessed, and you will be too.
Forgiveness is really easy to talk about, but it is very hard for us to walk it out. Youth Pastor Jason Turner has a personal, powerful testimony about forgiveness that could change the way you forgive in your own life.
In a culture of death and darkness, The Word of God is living and active, and it pierces through all that and straight into the core of our beings. What can it do to you?
With divorce being so prevalent today, is God simply out of step with our culture, or is there something deeper going on?
Does God have two different personalities? Is he schizophrenic? What is the deal with His Old Testament personality vs. His New Testament personality?
Almost everyone has experienced the loss of a loved one, and all of us want to be comforted and reassured that we will see them once again in heaven. Yet, the Scripture is just a little vague on this point. Maybe we’re asking the wrong question.. Maybe instead of worrying about knowing my loved ones in haven, I should worry about being known in heaven?