Serious church teaching with devotional weight.
All Souls, Wheaton gathers measured sermons and adult-formation teaching around the central claims of Christian faith. Its recent episodes move from Holy Week and Easter preaching into sustained reflection on baptism, union with Christ, sin, faith, and sanctification.
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All Souls, Wheaton is a substantial archive of Christian preaching and adult formation. Its center of gravity is theological, liturgical, and devotional. Recent episodes move through Holy Week and Easter with unusual patience, treating the resurrection, the cross, baptism, faith, and union with Christ as connected realities rather than isolated themes. The pace is steady. Sermons tend to begin from Scripture and then press into doctrine, moral implication, and prayer. Formation sessions feel more conversational, with handouts, participant responses, and classroom prompts shaping the movement of the hour. The show is comfortable with church language. It speaks of sin, sanctification, grace, resurrection, baptismal identity, and the old self in Adam without flattening those terms into slogans. There is also a strong liturgical texture, especially in the repeated use of collects and references to the Book of Common Prayer. Holy Week episodes carry a grave emotional weight. Good Friday centers on the suffering of Christ and the question of why the cross matters. Palm Sunday reflects on the instability of the sinful heart and the crowd's rejection of Jesus. Easter preaching turns toward resurrection as authorization and empowerment for self-sacrificial love. The Easter Vigil teaching is attentive to symbols, especially where liturgy communicates what explanation alone cannot. The Union with Christ sessions keep returning to Romans 6, baptism, being dead to sin, and life in Christ. Some moments are plainly instructional. Others are more exhortive, asking how belief becomes faith, how doctrine becomes endurance, and how Christian identity reshapes ordinary resistance to sin. The result is a show for listeners who want sustained church teaching rather than quick inspiration. It rewards attention and patience. Its best moments make theology feel consequential, not abstract.
Made for: Best for Christians, theology students, and churchgoers who want patient sermon and formation audio rooted in Scripture, prayer, and doctrine. It especially suits listeners drawn to Holy Week, baptismal theology, and reflective moral application.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the blend of preaching and classroom-style formation: liturgy, doctrine, Scripture, and personal exhortation remain tightly connected. The tone is grave and careful, with enough conversational texture to keep the teaching grounded.
This archive includes an unfiltered account of the homiletical record of this parish. Sermons and education session recordings may not all reflect the parish at present, but they represent moments on our journey as sinful people seeking the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture, liturgy, and congregational discussion meet in teaching that connects Anglican doctrine with prayer, worship, and daily Christian formation.
All Souls, Wheaton moves between pulpit sermons and participatory formation sessions, keeping scripture, the Book of Common Prayer, and the church calendar in close conversation.
Barabbas is not just somebody else's bad decision; Palm Sunday asks about yours.
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Romans 6 is presented as a prayerful account of baptism, union with Christ, and daily dependence on grace.
The piece holds Romans 6 as a lived conversation about baptism, belonging, and dying to sin, and it keeps union with Christ, sanctification, the old self, and the new self steadily in view.
A Resurrection sermon presents Easter as authority for lives of self-giving love.
Easter is framed here as a question of authority: the resurrection validates Jesus' way of self-giving love and calls followers into the same life for others.
Palm Sunday's whiplash, traced through sin, Barabbas, and baptism.
The sermon draws strength from the sharp turn between hosannas and the cry to crucify him, using Jeremiah's warning about the deceitful heart to keep the focus on sin rather than sentiment. Holy Week becomes the place where that truth can no longer stay abstract.
A grounded baptism study linking Easter liturgy, Romans 6, and shared identity in Christ.
This single-episode review follows a teaching on union with Christ as it turns from being crucified with Christ to baptism. Set just before Easter, the lesson draws its shape from the Book of Common Prayer, especially the four traditional baptismal days.
A patient, careful reflection on new creation, sanctification, and being in Christ.
Union with Christ stays with the line, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation," without shrinking its mystery into something tidy. The episode sets Paul beside Ephesians' vision of the church and the manifold wisdom of God, then asks what new creation means for believers…
A grave Palm Sunday sermon turns the crowd's fickleness into a searching meditation on sin, the cross, and baptism.
Palm Sunday is treated as a study in the heart's sudden reversals, moving from hosannas to the cry to crucify him. The sharpest turn comes through Isaiah's language, where "we hid, as it were, our faces" pulls the congregation into the charge instead of leaving the crowd safely…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
David Szomor delivers a Palm Sunday sermon exploring the tension between human sin and divine love through the lens of Isaiah 53.
Jim Leonard leads a parish education session on 2 Corinthians 5:17, exploring the mystery of becoming a new creation in Christ.
Father Rob Lewis says Jesus’ two-brother parable turns on an inward change: the son who first says no later works, while the son who says yes does not.
Aaron Hill’s All Souls, Wheaton talk argues that creation’s beauty reflects God and deserves attention in its own right.
At All Souls, Wheaton, David Szomor interprets Jesus's seed-and-soil parable through the claim that preaching is the ordinary vehicle for God's word.
The session opens with a collect from the prayer book, page 674.
This episode reflects on the Gospel story of Doubting Thomas during Easter, exploring themes of faith and doubt among the disciples in the resurrection narratives.
Father James Arcadi argues on Easter Sunday that Jesus Christ's resurrection validates his teaching of self-sacrificial love.
Father James Arcadi discusses the profound symbolism in the Easter Vigil liturgy, emphasizing how symbols convey deeper meanings beyond words and the delicate balance between explaining them and letting them speak for themselves.
This Good Friday episode explores the profound suffering of Jesus Christ during his crucifixion, examining its physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions through theological perspectives.
The sermon opens with prayer and Palm Sunday’s abrupt shift from hosanna to crucify him.
All Souls, Wheaton uses Romans 6, Ferguson's baptism chapter, and the Book of Common Prayer pages 160, 168, and 582 to connect baptism with death, burial, resurrection, and belonging.
This episode explores the theme of Union with Christ through a discussion on how believers can know God loves them, based on faith and divine promises.
This episode is a Bible study session focusing on 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 9-21, exploring Paul's reflections on death and practical applications for Christians.
This episode continues a series on Union with Christ by focusing on Romans 5:12-21, connecting it to Sinclair Ferguson's book and previous sessions for a deep theological discussion.
This episode explores the theological concept of union with Christ through a single verse about being a new creation, emphasizing its mysterious nature and connection to Paul's teachings in Ephesians.
This episode introduces a series on union with Christ, beginning with a prayer from Julian Norwich and prompting listeners to reflect on how they describe their faith or religious identity.