A steady sermon on suffering, promise, and God's faithfulness.
Oppressed but Not Forgotten treats Exodus as both warning and comfort, using Abraham's promises to frame Pharaoh's effort to wipe out Israel's sons before the story has even settled in.

Ballycullen Community Church
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Patient Scripture, pressed into life.
Ballycullen Community Church is a sermon feed built around close reading of biblical passages. Its teaching is pastoral and argumentative, pressing questions about grace, resurrection, generosity, baptism, suffering, and Christian witness toward practical faith.
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Ballycullen Community Church is a sermon feed shaped by patient biblical exposition. It is not a chat format. The recent teaching moves through named passages and themes with the cadence of a sermon, asking what Scripture says before turning toward what that means for belief, assurance, obedience, and endurance. The tone is warm, but the questions are weighty. Episodes consider the resurrection of Jesus as the ground for trust, hope after death, and confidence that life has meaning because the work of salvation is finished. Another strand begins Exodus, setting Israel's oppression under Pharaoh inside the larger promises running from Genesis toward Moses. The suffering is treated plainly. The sermons ask where God is when circumstances seem brutal, while still returning to the claim that God keeps promises and remains with his people. Shorter thematic series address Christian generosity and witness. Money is handled with direct moral pressure, but also with an insistence that giving is not the whole identity of the church's preaching. Witness is framed through Paul's language of ambassadors for Christ, with attention to dignity, fear of the Lord, reconciliation, and responsibility. The Grace First, Obedience Follows material gives the show its strongest recurring thread. It moves from Old Testament promises through Ezekiel, Deuteronomy, Luke, and John, arguing that grace is not opposed to changed living but comes before it and makes it possible. The teaching is willing to slow down for doctrinal disputes. Baptism, the new birth, communion, the Eucharist, sacrifice, and the work of the Spirit are all treated as questions to be answered from the text rather than from religious habit alone. Everyday illustrations appear, but they serve the argument. The show suits listeners who want structured Christian preaching that explains its route through the Bible, repeats central claims until they are clear, and moves from doctrine to conscience without sounding theatrical. It is earnest, scripture-saturated, and openly confessional. Its center of gravity is reassurance through biblical certainty: God speaks, Jesus saves, the Spirit changes, and suffering does not have the final word.
Made for: For Christians and spiritually curious listeners who want careful sermon teaching rooted in biblical passages rather than conversational commentary. It especially suits people thinking through doubt, grace, obedience, suffering, and the claims of Jesus.
What sets it apart: The show stands out for its text-first, whole-Bible connections and its willingness to answer doctrinal questions slowly. It keeps returning from abstract theology to direct pastoral application.
Listen to a sermon which is normally from a book of the bible, normally we do series of the whole book in the bible and other times during the year we do topical sermons.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ballycullen Community Church delivers text-led sermons on grace, obedience, suffering, trust, and Jesus.
Ballycullen Community Church sits on the sermon side of Religion & Spirituality. The sampled audio stays close to open Bibles, careful passage work, and direct congregational application.
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A steady sermon on suffering, promise, and God's faithfulness.
Oppressed but Not Forgotten treats Exodus as both warning and comfort, using Abraham's promises to frame Pharaoh's effort to wipe out Israel's sons before the story has even settled in.
John 3 is read as grace before obedience, with baptism measured against the chapter itself.
John 3 is presented as a case for grace first and obedience after, keeping new birth and the Spirit's work at the center. It opens by linking a hard week to 9/11 memories, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo, then steers that…
Ezekiel 36, the new covenant, and a careful argument over communion.
Grace in the prophets centers Ezekiel 36 and keeps returning to the same claim: grace comes first, obedience follows, and the new covenant promises come through Jesus' once-for-all sacrifice.
A restaurant story turns into a clear warning about what takes first place in the heart.
This message starts with a restaurant story about paying extra for time and convenience, using Google reviews, Yelp, and takeaway to set up a question that feels close to ordinary life: what happens when Jesus asks for more than preference?

Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.




This episode addresses common doubts and questions about Christianity, particularly focusing on belief in Jesus' resurrection and forgiveness of sins, especially in the context of Easter.
The sermon starts by insisting that all of God's Word belongs to the listener, then sets Exodus after Genesis as the next step in the same covenant story.
This episode is a sermon exploring the joy of radical generosity, contrasting it with human stinginess and using biblical references to encourage a transformative approach to giving.
This episode explores the concept of being an ambassador for Christ, drawing parallels to a diplomatic incident between China and Japan to highlight the importance of representing God with dignity and wisdom through a ministry of reconciliation.
This episode explores the apparent contradiction between salvation by grace alone and living a disciplined Christian life through biblical teachings.
This episode explores how God's grace precedes obedience, focusing on biblical promises fulfilled in Jesus through a sermon analyzing Deuteronomy 8 and Luke 4.
The sermon begins with John 3 open.
The sermon keeps Ezekiel 36 open and treats it as the last Old Testament stop before heading into the New Testament for a few weeks to see grace first and obedience after.
Ballycullen Community Church's sermon "Grace in a King" examines 2 Samuel 7, where David wants to replace the ark's tent with a permanent temple while God promises to establish David's family line.
The sermon begins with a restaurant choice.
This episode explores Jesus' parable of the persistent widow and unjust judge to teach about the importance of continual prayer and faith in God's loving response.
This episode uses a medical analogy of receiving a serious diagnosis despite feeling healthy to illustrate a spiritual or personal problem that needs urgent attention.
This episode is a reading and reflection on Psalm 51, focusing on David's prayer for mercy and forgiveness after his sin with Bathsheba.
This episode uses a medical analogy to warn about spiritual hypocrisy in the church, comparing it to a serious internal condition that requires urgent attention despite outward appearances of health.