All Church - Sermons

All Church - Sermons is the preaching feed of All Church, and its recent recordings are grouped in named, multi-week series. Several titles carry a week number, so a listener can follow one argument from week to week. Footsteps of Christ is the clearest example. The series rests on one claim, stated plainly to the congregation: Jesus did not end up on the cross by accident but moved toward Jerusalem with clear intention, knowing why he was going. The transfiguration message dwells on Peter's offer to build three tents, one each for Moses, Elijah and Jesus. It reads that offer as a mistake people still make, filing Jesus alongside other prophets and great teachers. The Lazarus message stops on a verse the room is told not to miss. It argues that Jesus stayed two days longer out of love for Martha, her sister and Lazarus, and it is careful to add that none of this makes death good. The Palm Sunday message, which was also a Baptism Sunday, treats the entry into Jerusalem as a scene of foreknowledge and intent, from the donkey and its owner to the cloaks spread on the colt. It then sorts the reactions into numbered responses for anyone taking notes, starting with a crowd that celebrated the king it wanted rather than the king it got. At Easter the argument turns from story to evidence. Faith, that message says, is more than reasoning but never less, and people who examine the resurrection and conclude it happened are well within the bounds of rational thought. Mary Magdalene becomes part of the case: in a culture that gave women little standing, nobody spreading a myth would have made women the first to tell it. Fruitful Deserts takes a different line and names the stretches when life feels like wilderness: a diagnosis, an unexpected career change, a mind or heart carrying too much. Follow Me turns to the Gospels, to the moments when Jesus approached people and asked them to follow him. The register is warm and conversational, with jokes about the clocks changing and about who will actually come to the 8:15. Several recordings end in prayer, some of it for people carrying grief. Church life is part of the listen too. A third gathering is announced because the rooms are full, volunteers are thanked for parking hundreds of cars at a celebration of life service, and people wearing lanyards wait in the lobby to pray with anyone who asks. Pastor Andy and Pastor John are both named in the recordings. The best place to start is Footsteps of Christ, heard in order through Easter, since later weeks refer back to earlier ones.