Live-room sermons with Scripture at the center.
Captivate Podcast is a sermon feed built around messages from Captivate Church. The tone moves from casual jokes and church-family updates into direct teaching on Romans, James, Revelation, baptism, faith, forgiveness, and Jesus.
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Captivate Podcast collects sermon messages from Captivate Church, giving the feed the feel of a seat in the room rather than a studio table. The openings are warm and human. A message may begin with a golf joke, Easter attendance, a parking aside, or a story about childhood chatter before turning toward Scripture. The teaching is direct. Recent episodes spend time in Romans, James, and Revelation, moving from baptism and resurrection to faith, forgiveness, judgment, wisdom, and the struggle to change. Jesus remains the gravitational center. Easter is framed around the resurrection as the foundation of belief, while baptism is presented as a public response to grace already at work. The Romans messages press against scorekeeping, boasting, and the idea that religion is a wage-based system. The James episodes take a slower teaching posture, including close attention to teachers, speech, wisdom, and the weight of handling Scripture in front of a church. Revelation receives a long-form treatment that explains visions, seals, judgment, heaven, and the new creation without pretending the material is easy. The style is energetic but not slick. It can be funny, then serious within a breath. It can celebrate large numbers of decisions and baptisms, then pull back to insist that God does not need human effort but still includes people in his work. That combination gives the show much of its personality. It values plain speech, congregational momentum, and biblical explanation. Listeners hear names including Wes, Zach Taylor, Wayne Kinde, and Shawn Stone, though the feed is defined more by church teaching than by a host format. The show suits people who want sermons that make practical appeals without abandoning textual detail. It also suits churchgoers catching up on messages from Captivate Church. The experience is devotional, pastoral, and sometimes emotionally urgent.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian sermon teaching rooted in Romans, James, Revelation, baptism, Easter, and practical faith. It also fits Captivate Church attendees who want to revisit messages.
What sets it apart: The feed keeps the texture of a live congregation: jokes, applause, spontaneous baptism energy, and direct appeals remain intact. Its strongest moments pair casual approachability with extended Bible explanation.
Whether you missed service or just want to hear the sermon again, feel free to listen when and wherever you want.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Romans 4 sermon that turns scorekeeping into a searching reflection on faith, boasting, and rest.
Romans 4 is framed as a sermon about the human habit of keeping score. The host moves from sports results and Little League questions into business quotas, career achievement, church size, preaching, and political causes, tracing how quickly accomplishment can start to feel like…
A buoyant church sermon connects Romans' gospel to the ordinary people asked to live it.
This sermon opens a study of Romans by tying it to the congregation's earlier time in John and Acts, then broadens the view to the ordinary disciples who helped carry Jesus' movement forward.
A lively Easter sermon finds divine steadiness in prophecy, embarrassment, and the cross.
This Easter service sermon centers on a steadying claim: Jesus' death belongs to a divine plan, and no part of a person's life catches him off guard.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Weston Stutz returns from break to continue a sermon series on the book of Acts, challenging listeners to move beyond self-centered faith.
Wayne Kinde introduces Revelation chapter 10 by reviewing the non-chronological structure of the book and the seven seal judgments from chapter 6.
Weston Stutz of Captivate Church begins a sermon series on the Book of Romans, titled 'A Home Away From Home'.
A Bible study on Revelation chapter 7, emphasizing that the book is not in chronological order and explaining the four distinct visions.
Pastor Zach Taylor shares a humorous anecdote about raising kids in San Diego and introduces a sermon on Acts 22.
Wayne Kinde teaches on Revelation 21, describing John's vision of a new heaven and new earth where sin and death are gone.
Weston Stutz delivers an Easter sermon titled 'The Prince +1' at Captivate Church, focusing on Jesus's resurrection and relatability.
Pastor Weston Stutz celebrates Easter results and introduces Baptism Sunday, emphasizing God's inclusion of people in His work.
Pastor Wes delivers an Easter sermon celebrating Jesus' resurrection and its foundational importance for faith.
A pastor discusses James 3:13-18, contrasting earthly and heavenly wisdom, and highlights Jesus' constant forgiveness on the cross.
Zachary Taylor shares a childhood story about his parents' psychological tactics to stop his chattiness, introducing a sermon on Romans 7 and the struggle for change.
Wayne Kinde opens James chapter 3 with the warning that teachers receive "a stricter judgment," then walks through James's images of a horse's bit, a ship's rudder, and a forest fire.
Shawn Stone's sermon on Romans 4 argues that Abraham was counted righteous through faith rather than works, despite a life that included failures involving Sarah and Hagar.
Pastor Wayne Kinde closes his three-week study of partiality in James 2:1-13 by giving three reasons not to show favoritism: believers are family, they are changed people, and partiality is a sin and a trespass.
Weston Stutz of Captivate Church preaches Romans 3 under the title "Look And Lean," reading Paul's single-sentence passage (verses 23-26) as the foundation of the gospel.
Wayne Kinde's Chapter & Verse series reaches James 2:5-13 in Part 8, where he says James spends nearly a full chapter on favoritism even though it "feels very minor." He reads verse 5, "Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom," as a "hinge verse" that closes the gold-ring-versus-filthy-clothes example and opens a new argument.