Grace-centered sermons from Santa Fe.
Christ Church Santa Fe is a sermon feed shaped by close readings of Matthew, James, and the gospel promises beneath them. Its messages move from biblical argument to ordinary life in Santa Fe, pressing against self-righteousness while returning again and again to mercy, belonging, and rest in Christ.
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Christ Church Santa Fe is a church sermon feed with a consistent pastoral center: Scripture read closely, applied personally, and brought back to the finished work of Jesus. The recent episodes spend significant time in Matthew 12 and nearby gospel themes. The preaching is not clipped into short devotional thoughts. It moves in long, spoken arcs, with prayer, explanation, illustration, challenge, and reassurance often braided together. The result feels like Sunday morning carried into audio form. Rev. Greg Schneeberger and Rev. John Standridge are the recurring named voices in its episodes, and both sermons represented here treat the biblical text as something that addresses exhausted, skeptical, religious, and wounded people at once. The show can be tender. It can also be blunt. Its sharpest words tend to land on self-righteousness, spiritual self-protection, and the habit of turning faith into moral bookkeeping. Matthew's stories of demons, Pharisees, Sabbath controversy, Jonah, healing, and Jesus as servant king become ways to talk about the human need for rescue rather than mere improvement. The sermons return often to a contrast between self-help and true help. They also return to the table as a place where grace is received rather than achieved. Local life matters here too. Santa Fe is not treated as background branding, but as the place where hearers return to work, family, vocation, friendship, and public witness. Humor appears in small bursts, from Google reviews to pastoral one-liners, but it usually serves a heavier point. The language assumes churchgoers may be tired of church language, even as it remains deeply Christian and doctrinal. Repeated phrases give the sermons momentum. Biblical images are allowed to sit for a while. The most distinctive emphasis is the refusal to let religion itself become the answer. Christ Church Santa Fe keeps pushing past tidied-up behavior toward new hearts, mercy, repentance, and rest in Christ. It is best for listeners who want expository preaching that is warm enough to invite and direct enough to confront.
Made for: Best for Christian listeners, churchgoers, and spiritually curious people who want substantial sermon teaching with pastoral warmth. It especially suits those drawn to gospel-centered exposition that speaks to doubt, exhaustion, pride, repentance, and everyday vocation.
What sets it apart: The show pairs close biblical argument with a direct critique of self-righteous religion. Its sermons keep moving from ancient texts to ordinary Santa Fe life, then back to Christ, mercy, and the table.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical teaching meets pastoral care in sermons that make doctrine practical without thinning out the text.
Christ Church Santa Fe brings close biblical reading into the shape of a church service, with sermons from Rev. Greg Schneeberger and Rev. John Standridge framed by prayer and ending at the communion table.
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A searching sermon on why moral tidiness cannot provide the security and belonging found in Christ.
Spiritual security means more here than putting one's moral house in order. Drawing on Jesus' image of an unclean spirit returning to a swept but empty home, the sermon separates outward reform from the freedom of a life occupied by Christ.
A direct sermon on Nicodemus, new birth, and the limits of religious performance.
The sermon follows Nicodemus as a devoted religious leader whose faith has settled into confidence in law, rule-keeping, and performance. It presses on the danger beneath that confidence: the idea that obedience can secure righteousness, preserve favor with God, or make God…
A sermon that reads Jonah as a sign pointing repentance, new life, and communion back to Jesus.
The sermon follows Jesus' sign of Jonah, treating Jonah's descent into the great fish, return alive, and preaching to Nineveh as a pattern that points to the Son of Man, repentance, and newness of life.
Matthew 12's servant king meets weariness, anxiety, and sin with the promise that God will make all things new.
Matthew 12 is treated as a portrait of Jesus, the servant king whose healings show his kingdom pressing into the present. The sermon links Isaiah 42 with familiar burdens: weakness, fatigue, anxiety, stress, and sin.
A Sabbath dispute opens into a clear sermon on self-righteousness, mercy, and dependence on Christ.
A Sabbath controversy opens into a probing review of self-righteousness, mercy, and the purpose of rest. The disputes over grain and the paralyzed hand frame Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath, then the sermon turns to the Pharisee and the tax collector: one offering a moral resume,…
A sermon on James that presses faith toward embodied love, obedience, and hope in Christ.
Faith without works gives this review its main pressure point, as Rev. Greg Schneeberger reads James against a narrowed faith made mostly of correct statements about Jesus.
A warm, searching sermon about the King who comes down to people who cannot climb their way to him.
Getting ready for the King of Glory begins with a familiar scramble: cleaning the house before dinner guests arrive. From that domestic comedy, the sermon draws a searching distinction between looking prepared and being right with God.
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 from Christ Church Santa Fe explores Psalm 24, focusing on God as the cosmic King.
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A sermon on Philippians 2 exploring the themes of Christ as the Son of God and believers as sons of God during Advent.
A sermon on Philippians focusing on Jesus Christ as a servant of sinners, with an illustration about a winsome Japanese man on Instagram.
A sermon on Philippians 2 focusing on Jesus Christ as a glorious Savior during Advent.
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A sermon prayer and introduction focusing on finding security and belonging in Jesus and his family.
A sermon on the resurrection of Christ and the call to be born again through faith.
A sermon introduction with prayer and a humorous anecdote about Google reviews for the church.
A sermon on Matthew 12:34-37 about how our words reveal the abundance of our hearts, emphasizing God's faithfulness and grace through Christ.
A sermon opening with prayer and introduction to a teaching on Matthew's Gospel, focusing on resting in Christ.
Greg Schneeberger preaches Matthew 12 at Christ Church Santa Fe, reading Isaiah 42 as the key promise behind Jesus' healing and withdrawal.
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A sermon on the relationship between faith and works, using the example of Rahab to illustrate that genuine faith produces action.
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