Scripture pressed into city life.
Apostles Houston is a sermon feed shaped by close biblical reading and practical Christian formation. Its recent messages move from Holy Week and resurrection hope to work, wealth, culture, and the spiritual pressures of life in Houston.
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Apostles Houston presents Christian preaching in a measured but urgent editorial frame. The episodes are sermons, not conversations. They tend to begin with a passage, a prayer, or a concrete moment in congregational life, then widen into a sustained argument about discipleship. Recent messages spend significant time in Matthew, especially the final movements of Jesus' life. Palm Sunday is treated not as pageantry alone, but as an enacted entrance into a story already charged with expectation. The crucifixion sermons hold grief and humiliation in view without rushing past them. The resurrection sermons turn on astonishment, fear, hope, and the testimony of Mary Magdalene and the other Mary. Again and again, Jesus is presented as a king who does not match ordinary assumptions about power. That theological question gives the show much of its force. It asks how ancient claims about Jesus reshape daily life. A later series on work carries that same approach into work, money, skill, culture, and the city. The speaker resists the idea that faith belongs only to worship, prayer, and private morality. Work is treated as a place where character matters, but also where the quality of the actual task matters. Isaiah's farming images become a way to talk about craft, judgment, and learning the grain of a vocation. Deuteronomy becomes a warning about prosperity, pride, generosity, and spiritual amnesia. Revelation becomes a way to think about culture as both beautiful and broken. The Houston setting is not decorative; city life, work, wealth, worship, and neighbor-love keep returning as practical concerns. The style is accessible but substantial. It suits listeners who want sermons that reason from scripture, name real temptations, and carry Christian doctrine into ordinary responsibilities.
Made for: For Christian listeners who want sermon-length teaching with close attention to biblical texts and practical application. It especially suits people thinking about work, wealth, worship, culture, grief, and discipleship in city life.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the bridge between careful passage-by-passage preaching and concrete modern examples, especially around work and city life. The sermons do not treat work as a side topic; they treat it as a central field of Christian faithfulness.
Welcome to the Apostles Houston sermon podcast. We are a community following Jesus in Houston. We gather weekly in the Heights and serve the greater Houston area. For more info, visit us online at www.apostleshouston.org
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture-led sermons connect Christian belief to work, wealth, uncertainty and the habits that sustain faith.
Apostles Houston turns sermons into careful bridges between biblical texts and ordinary working life. Its sustained series on work moves through purpose, wealth, culture, wisdom, rest and suffering, asking how Christian faith bears on Monday's responsibilities.
Monday's spreadsheets get invited into church if your faith tends to clock out after Sunday.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded sermon on wealth, memory, and generosity as resistance to spiritual forgetfulness.
Apostles Houston's sermon on work and wealth turns on a plain but searching question: what happens when money makes people forget the source of ability, opportunity, and prosperity?
Isaiah's farming wisdom becomes a grounded case for treating the work itself as service to God.
The episode frames work as something Christian faith should shape from the inside, not as a separate compartment beside worship, prayer, and spiritual life.
A clear sermon review on Monday work as part of the Christian call to love God and neighbor.
This single-episode review follows a sermon that challenges the divide between Sunday worship and weekday work. It frames ordinary labor as something that matters to God, then sets work and culture inside humanity's calling.
A sermon that frames work as a way to love God, neighbors, and the city.
This review presents work as part of life with God, placing ordinary labor within the larger call to love God, love neighbors, and contribute to the city.
A direct sermon on Revelation 22, judgment, repentance, and the habits of enduring faith.
Revelation 22 becomes a sermon about readiness, framed by John's letter to pressured Christians and focused on the habits that help faith endure.
Mary's response to Gabriel shapes a patient sermon on waiting, questioning, and keeping God's word close.
Advent waiting becomes the pressure point in this Apostles Houston sermon, as Eric Mingle turns to Luke 1 and Mary's startled encounter with Gabriel.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Eric Mingle of Apostles Houston preaches on Luke 1:26-38, focusing on Mary's encounter with the angel Gabriel during Advent.
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Apostles Houston's sermon on James 1:19-21 names two ingredients for receiving God's word: listening and repenting.
A sermon exploring the resurrection narrative in Matthew 28, contrasting earthly and heavenly kingdoms, and calling listeners to live for God's glory in Houston.
Apostles Houston’s Easter sermon on Matthew 28 presents Jesus’ resurrection as heaven invading earth and overturning powers that appeared ultimate, including Rome, Pilate, the sealed tomb, and death.
Apostles Houston’s sermon on Matthew 26:57–27:66 asks what kind of king accepts mockery and crucifixion rather than saving himself.
A sermon exploring the nature of Jesus as a different kind of king during Holy Week, focusing on Matthew 26:17-56.
A sermon on the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem from Matthew 21:1-11, exploring its meaning and significance.
This sermon from Apostles Houston closes a multi-week series on faith and work by turning to Deuteronomy 6:4-15 and the topic of money.
Apostles Houston's sermon on Isaiah 28:23-29 and Colossians 3:23-24 argues that work itself matters to God, beyond merely surviving, succeeding, or behaving ethically at work.
Genesis 1:28 is treated as the Bible's first command to humans: subdue the earth and have dominion, not just worship on Sunday.
Apostles Houston's sermon "Work: For the Glory of God and the Joy of the City - Work And Purpose (Eph.
A sermon on Matthew 1:18-25 exploring the meaning of 'God with us' as the heart of Christianity.
A sermon analyzing Matthew's genealogy of Jesus, emphasizing its counter-cultural message against racial purity and idolatry.
A sermon exploring the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:1-17 as a backstory that reveals God's coherent plan from creation to a king who sacrifices himself.
A sermon exploring Exodus 3-4, focusing on God's call to Moses and the revelation of His presence and mission to deliver Israel.
A sermon from Apostles Houston continuing a series through Revelation, focusing on the judgment of the great prostitute and the beast in chapter 17.