Sermons with a whole-life altar call.
Antioch, The Apostolic Church presents sermon audio from a congregation-centered setting, with messages that move from Bible text into practical spiritual appeal. The tone is warm, direct, and altar-facing, often pressing ordinary choices toward deeper surrender.
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Antioch, The Apostolic Church is a sermon feed rooted in worship and congregational preaching. Its episodes sound less like studio productions than services captured in motion. A message may begin with people standing, singing, welcoming guests, acknowledging online viewers, or settling back into church after weather and schedule interruptions. That room-level texture is part of the show’s character. The preaching then turns steadily toward scripture and response. David Wright’s sampled messages circle around forgiveness, purpose, pleasure, communion, and the need to choose Jesus above competing desires. He often works by contrast, setting the surface appeal of pleasure against the deeper demand of purpose, then returning to familiar examples until the point lands. A store checkout line, Olympic training, missed services, or a practical note about communion can become a way into spiritual discipline. Glynn Middleton brings a looser illustration style, using a baseball image to describe the way Jesus unsettles people who think they have him figured out. Dan MacLeod’s message on surrender is more declarative and sweeping, moving from church unity to Abraham’s costly obedience and the claim that God wants the whole life. Across the sampled episodes, the theology is practical and demanding. Faith is treated as worship, obedience, sacrifice, and desire reordered around Jesus. The tone is warm, but it is not casual. It asks for decisions. It repeats key phrases because repetition is part of the persuasion. Listeners hear scripture quoted, explained, illustrated, and pressed into the present tense. The show suits people who want sermon audio with the immediacy of a live service: prayerful, exhortative, sometimes humorous, and consistently aimed at surrender.
Made for: Suited to listeners seeking Christian preaching, scripture-centered exhortation, and service audio that keeps the feel of a live congregation. It will especially fit those drawn to sermons about surrender, worship, and daily obedience.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the texture of church in the recording: worship transitions, asides, congregational energy, and messages that move from Bible text into direct spiritual appeal. Its strength is not polish, but conviction carried through patient, repeated application.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Church-service preaching turns scripture, rapture teaching, and questions of sacrifice into direct tests of daily purpose and availability.
Antioch, The Apostolic Church records preaching with the full texture of a church service still around it. Mike Yu approaches eschatology through questions about the rapture, then redirects attention from predicting its timing toward present responsibility.
The Safeway checkout line might question your priorities if you've been letting pleasure call the shots.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A live sermon turns Abraham's costly obedience into a direct call to surrender beyond Sunday.
This single-episode review frames a live sermon on surrender through Abraham, Isaac, and the cost of worship. The focus stays on Abraham's long-awaited promise and his willingness to obey, with Hebrews 11:19 giving the sermon its resurrection-shaped logic.
A sermon about purpose, disciplined sacrifice, and the desire that keeps returning to Jesus.
The sermon sets pleasure below purpose, using the question from Matthew 19 about eternal life to press toward a deeper desire for Jesus. Its momentum grows as it moves into Paul's picture of the runner and fighter, then draws on Olympic sacrifice to make spiritual discipline…
An end-times talk that puts readiness, duty, and neighbor love ahead of speculation.
Ready For The Rapture follows Mike Yu as he keeps the focus on what the rapture means for the church and what duty comes before it. It starts with greetings and a birthday mention for Bishop Bright on February 20, then settles into the Bible study question that keeps returning…
A communion sermon about being available when God calls.
The message begins with communion and settles into a steady appeal for availability: God is looking for people who can answer when the need arrives, not only people who decide what they are willing to give.
A sermon turns a Safeway checkout line into a test of what desire is allowed to lead.
Pleasure and purpose are set against each other as a matter of priority, and the sermon grounds that tension in the speaker's own sense of duty at the pulpit.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The speaker shares a personal story about burning carmels while worshiping in her kitchen, illustrating how God meets women in ministry in everyday moments.
This episode uses a baseball pitching metaphor to describe how Jesus' teachings and actions can surprise and challenge believers, emphasizing his unpredictable spiritual nature.
The speaker shares a personal story about how a spiritual experience while cooking caramels led to a burned batch, illustrating how God meets people in everyday moments and speaks through worship.
The sermon begins with uncertainty.
A pastor preaches on Matthew 19's story of the rich young ruler who walks away from Jesus rather than sell his possessions, building a sermon titled 'Purpose Over Pleasure.' He quotes Charles Spurgeon's warning that a person can have so much of this world that they miss the next, then draws parallels to Olympic athletes like Matt Dawson, who had part of a finger amputated ahead of the Paris 2024 Games.
On the first Sunday of 2026 at Antioch, The Apostolic Church, Dan MacLeod preaches Genesis 12, Genesis 17, Genesis 18, and Genesis 22 as a case for surrender.
A preacher reflects on the uncertainty of his sermon topic and welcomes the congregation back after a break due to cold weather.
A pastor reflects on his past reluctance to announce communion in advance and decides to change this practice to help faithful members who watch services remotely prepare and participate.
A speaker shares a personal spiritual experience where they felt led by the Lord to discuss forgiveness during a Bible study session, transitioning from planned topics to this new focus.
A speaker uses a baseball pitching metaphor to describe how Jesus keeps people spiritually baffled with unexpected challenges.
A pastor leads a church congregation in worship and expresses gratitude for the unity of believers across diverse backgrounds.
The speaker opens by diving right into the word about the rapture.
The sermon opens on communion.