500 episodes listed below
Sunday preaching with congregational warmth.
Applewood Community Church Podcast is a sermon-centered record of worship, shaped by biblical reading, pastoral reflection, and spoken prayer. Episodes move from familiar church-family warmth into close attention to Jesus, discipleship, suffering, resurrection hope, and daily surrender.
PRESS PLAY
Applewood Community Church Podcast is a sermon and worship archive from an Evangelical Covenant church community. It carries the texture of gathered church life. Episodes begin with greetings, seasonal references, prayer, and the kind of practical detail that places the teaching inside a real congregation. Palm branches get delivered. Technology feels awkward but useful. People answer questions from the room or online. Then the message settles into Scripture. Recent episodes work through passages from John, Luke, Hebrews, and the letters of John, drawing out themes of resurrection, endurance, discipleship, and the love of the Father shown through Jesus. The pacing is pastoral rather than performative. A sermon may pause over one verse, repeat it, and ask the congregation to think before moving on. Short moments of humor sit beside serious reflections on suffering, fear, death, sin, and self-surrender. The show often frames Christian faith as both gift and demand. Believers are described as adopted children, saints, and people being made more like Jesus through the Holy Spirit’s work. Easter and Palm Sunday episodes carry particular weight, returning to Christ as risen, reigning, and present amid uncertainty. Pandemic-era excerpts emphasize comfort without pretending that confusion disappears. Other messages press toward intergenerational encouragement, mentoring, mission, sacrifice, and daily faithfulness. The podcast is not a conversational panel or a topical interview show. It is church preaching preserved in audio form, complete with prayers, Scripture readings, congregational warmth, and occasional named voices from the community. Its best fit is for listeners who value biblical exposition with a personal, reflective, worship-service feel. It also works for those interested in how one church speaks about resurrection hope, spiritual formation, and communal endurance over many seasons. The appeal is its steadiness. Applewood’s feed presents faith as something practiced together, tested in ordinary hardship, and continually reoriented toward Jesus.
Made for: For Christian listeners who want Scripture-centered preaching, worship-service context, and pastoral reflection on discipleship, resurrection, suffering, and spiritual growth. It especially suits those comfortable with Evangelical Covenant language and church-family rhythms.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the full texture of worship intact: prayer, seasonal church life, congregational responses, and sermons that move patiently from lived moments into biblical teaching. Its distinctiveness is less production style than rootedness in one community’s repeated return to Jesus, Scripture, and formation.
An Evangelical Covenant Church
A coffin-shaped immortality bus becomes your on-ramp to Hebrews, perseverance, and self-surrender.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm sermon on remaining in divine love becomes a communal call to self-surrender, self-sacrifice, and witness.
The episode turns Jesus' command to remain in his love into a reflective look at what God's people might become in a divided world. Worship begins with a song that draws the speaker toward the prayer, "may your kingdom come," then broadens into images of difference, joy,…
A blunt Lenten sermon uses Hebrews and mortality to push past transhumanist dreams.
This sermon turns transhumanist ambition into a sharp Lenten contrast. It opens with Zoltan Istyan, his coffin-shaped RV, and his so-called immortality bus, then pivots toward Ash Wednesday and Hebrews to press a plain point: death is not something to outrun, but something faith…
God's goodness, John's warnings, and church life give the sermon its shape.
This sermon begins with a hard question about God's goodness when life does not feel good, then moves into John's warnings about the end, deception, and the Antichrist.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A pastor introduces the Eastertide season and shares a story about a Sunday school class including a child with Down syndrome.
A pastor delivers an Easter sermon celebrating the resurrection of Christ and its meaning for life.
The pastor opens by contrasting Zoltan Istvan's transhumanist quest for immortality with the Christian acknowledgment of mortality on Ash Wednesday.
A sermon from Applewood Community Church explores the biblical concept of the Antichrist through 1 John.
Applewood Community Church pastor examines John 15:1-9 and argues that “remain in my love,” not frantic religious activity, is the foundation of fruitful living.
Justin uses Mark 11, Micah 6:8, and Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey to connect Christian humility with mercy and justice.
The Applewood Community Church preacher begins a John 15 series by arguing that Ordinary Time follows Pentecost but is not spiritually ordinary because the Holy Spirit indwells Jesus’ followers.
Applewood Community Church's Pentecost sermon compares the Aswan High Dam's released power with the Holy Spirit's mission beyond Israel.
Pastor Guy closes Applewood Community Church Podcast’s series on Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances during Eastertide, the 50-day period before Pentecost.
A Palm Sunday sermon from Applewood Community Church, discussing the joy of delivering palm branches and finding comfort in God during the pandemic.
A pastor reads and expounds on Luke 8:40-56, focusing on Jesus' power and faith while waiting.