Jim Ellis
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Welcome to the Bismarck Community Church sermon podcast! Through these weekly sermons, we hope you will recognize our love for the gospel of Jesus Christ, our desire to go deeper in relationship with our community, and our intention to live our lives out in mission.We are so glad you are here to listen to these sermons, but we would love for you to join us in person. We meet weekly at 10am for worship service at 1617 Michigan Avenue in Bismarck, North Dakota. Hope to see you here!!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical reading meets candid congregational preaching, with theology consistently carried into relationships, shared life, and practical Christian conduct.
Bismarck Community Church Sermon Podcast follows biblical letters closely, then carries their language into ordinary congregational life. The host's work through Colossians repeatedly connects Paul's teaching on love, prayer, gracious speech, and remembrance with choices made in…
A cowboy hat detour leads you into Colossians' harder questions about power and self-giving love.
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A careful Colossians sermon that makes agape the lens for power, home, and daily life.
The episode places Colossians in the ordinary friction of home, power, and responsibility, and it keeps agape in view as the lens that changes how the passage lands.
A steady sermon on memory, suffering, and living with Jesus' return in view.
This sermon stays with one small phrase in Colossians, "remember my chains," and lets it do several jobs at once: recalling Paul, facing hardship honestly, and keeping hold of the hope that Jesus will return, perhaps in our lifetime and perhaps not.
Prayer, witness, and gracious speech hold the sermon together.
This sermon settles into Colossians and keeps prayer, wisdom toward outsiders, and gracious speech in the same frame, which gives the passage a clear communal shape. The theme holds best when those parts stay linked rather than treated as separate duties.
A warm Colossians 3 sermon that treats love as a shared way of life, not just a feeling.
This sermon opens with a playful run at cowboy hats, belt buckles, and bolo ties before moving into Colossians 3 and the call to love. Its clearest strength is the steady reminder that those who have received Jesus in faith are being asked to live a shared way of life: seeking…
A patient sermon on Philemon that centers persuasion, love, and the move from useless to useful.
This sermon reads Philemon as a study in reconciliation, showing how Paul sets appeal against command and places love, not coercion, at the center.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This sermon explores Paul's letter to Philemon, focusing on the appeal for Philemon to accept his runaway slave Onesimus as a beloved brother.
This sermon from Bismarck Community Church concludes a series on the book of Colossians, focusing on Colossians 4:2-6.
Pastor Jim concludes a sermon series on Colossians by focusing on Paul's final verse: 'Remember my chains.' He opens with personal stories about forgetting God's faithfulness, like a child's medical scare.
A hard text comes back around.
Pastor delivers a sermon titled 'Put On Love' from the series 'Colossians: Joy In the Mystery'.
A pastor introduces a sermon series on Jesus's triumphal entry by showing maps of Israel and reading from the Gospels.
A sermon podcast episode reading and reflecting on Matthew 22:38-40 about the greatest commandments.