Gospel exposition with pastoral urgency.
First Christian Union - Sermons offers measured, text-centered preaching from a Christian pulpit. Recent messages follow Jesus toward the cross, resurrection, and return, turning Gospel scenes into direct reflection on doubt, obedience, repentance, forgiveness, and readiness.
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First Christian Union - Sermons is a formal, scripture-led sermon feed from a Christian congregation. The format is direct and pulpit-centered. Recent episodes gather under the Road to Victory series, following Jesus through the final movement toward the cross, the grave, the resurrection, and the promise of return. The show favors sustained explanation over conversational looseness. Passages from John, Matthew, Luke, and Mark are read as scenes with emotional weight, historical setting, theological consequence, and immediate moral pressure. Thomas is treated not as a caricature of unbelief, but as a person whose honest doubt waits for evidence and encounter. The tomb becomes a picture of grief changed by the risen Christ. The trial before religious leaders and Pilate becomes a study in truth, blindness, injustice, and divine purpose. The Last Supper scene lingers over grace offered in the shadow of betrayal. The broken flask and the retirement-home analogy press listeners to distinguish devotion from usefulness, control, or self-protection. The temple confrontation and the withered fig tree expose the danger of religious appearance without faithful substance. Matthew 24 and 25 bring urgency without sensationalism, asking less about speculation and more about readiness, love, and faithfulness. The preaching often opens with a vivid modern analogy, then narrows steadily into the biblical text. Its rhythm is patient but insistent. Questions are posed, answered, and pressed into personal application. The recurring destination is response: confession, repentance, baptism, forgiveness, prayer, public witness, and full surrender to Christ. The show suits listeners who want sermons that interpret Scripture as authoritative, emotionally serious, and practically demanding. Its strength is not novelty. Its strength is the steady movement from Gospel narrative to doctrine to lived obedience.
Made for: For Christians seeking formal sermon teaching grounded in Gospel texts, especially listeners drawn to resurrection theology, repentance, baptism, prayer, forgiveness, and daily obedience. It also suits sermon listeners who prefer a guided, church-service cadence over conversational religious commentary.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its long-form, scene-by-scene handling of Jesus's final week and resurrection appearances. It repeatedly connects biblical details to lived spiritual decisions without drifting into casual panel talk or broad inspirational generalities.
These are the sermons from First Christian Church in Union, MO. We pray that you are built up in Christ by listening to these teachings of the Word.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Biblical passages become concrete questions about sacrifice, obedience, forgiveness, readiness, and faithful action.
First Christian Union - Sermons moves from an opened Bible to a clear question about Christian conduct. The host works through passages from 1 Corinthians, Matthew, and Joshua, connecting their settings and imagery to sacrifice, obedience, readiness, forgiveness, and trust in…
A dead fig tree asks a live question: do your choices match your yes to God?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Thomas's eight-day wait shapes a sermon about doubt, grief and the call to believe.
Thomas misses the disciples' encounter with Jesus, then has to hear his friends describe what he did not see. The sermon stays with that awkward distance. A familiar scene of returning to a close group after something has changed makes his request for proof easy to understand.
A John 20 sermon that follows belief at the empty tomb through Mary's grief and witness.
A graveside scene gives this John 20 sermon its opening: the preacher asks listeners to imagine tending to someone they love after death. Peter and John then enter the empty tomb and examine the grave clothes.
A sermon on the cross that ties Jesus' abandonment and chosen suffering to the call for surrender.
This PlayNext review follows the final hours of Jesus' life through Matthew 26 and 27, moving from the Sanhedrin to Pilate and then to the cross.
A temple confrontation becomes a searching test of whether obedience moves beyond religious language.
Authority sits at the center of this review of a sermon that moves from Jesus overturning tables in the temple courts in Jerusalem to the leaders pressing him over who gave him the right.
A withered fig tree leads a sermon from religious appearances to prayer and forgiveness.
A fig tree dead at its roots gives the preacher an image to return to. He begins with a story about village facades meant to impress Catherine the Great, then moves to Jesus overturning tables and stopping activity in the temple.
A sermon frames Matthew's end-times warnings around the daily shape of readiness, stewardship, and love.
A 2018 emergency alert in Hawaii gives the sermon a vivid way into Matthew 24 and 25: people calling loved ones, praying, and looking for shelter as danger seemed near.
A practical sermon on Christian strength expressed through surrendering rightful claims for others.
Christian love is framed here as the willingness to give up a rightful claim for someone else’s good. The episode moves from Manuel Pinson’s sacrifice for his granddaughters to Paul’s refusal of payment while serving the church, then grounds that idea in everyday labor: teachers…
A plainspoken Joshua sermon about stepping into the Jordan by faith and remembering the God who made the crossing possible.
A flooded Jordan gives the sermon its central shape. Joshua 3-4 becomes a reflection on the moment God's people meet a barrier they cannot cross by ordinary means.
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 Joshua chapters 3-4, focusing on the Israelites crossing the flooded Jordan River into the promised land.
A sermon exploring the unique faith of a Roman centurion who asked Jesus for a personal miracle for his paralyzed servant, based on Matthew 8:10.
A sermon introduction using guitar repair expert Dan Erlewine as an analogy for Jesus' miracles, specifically focusing on Matthew chapter 9.
A reflection on the Christmas feeling and how it contrasts with Israel's historical expectations of the Messiah.
A sermon using the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse as an analogy for the instability that results from ignoring God's design in worship, focusing on 1 Corinthians 11:2-6.
This sermon from First Christian Church in Union, MO explores 1 Corinthians 9, focusing on the apostle Paul's decision to give up his rights for the gospel.
First Christian Union - Sermons centers on Paul's warning in 2 Corinthians 11 about a different Jesus, spirit, and gospel.
John 20:19–31 is used to frame Thomas as the disciple “who wasn’t there” when the risen Jesus appeared behind locked doors.
First Christian Union - Sermons centers on John 20 and Mary Magdalene’s trip to the empty tomb while it was still dark.
First Christian Union - Sermons frames Matthew 26:36–27:56 around three movements: the cup in Gethsemane, the court of betrayal and injustice, and the cross at Golgotha.
A sermon exploring how Jesus' table of grace confronts betrayal in Luke 22.
A sermon using the story of a nurse leaving a retirement home to serve in a dangerous clinic to illustrate the contrast between selfish management and selfless devotion, drawing from Mark 14.
This sermon from First Christian Union works through Matthew 21-23, examining three days of confrontation between Jesus and the religious leaders in Jerusalem's temple courts.
This First Christian Union sermon uses Mark 11:12-25 — the cursed fig tree sandwiching the temple cleansing — to argue that religious impressiveness without spiritual fruitfulness is not merely inadequate but is under God's judgment, illustrated throughout with the metaphor of a 'Potemkin village.' The preacher opens with the 1787 story of Prince Potemkin constructing fake village facades to impress Catherine the Great and asks what Jesus would find behind the facade of congregants' lives.
First Christian Union’s sermon on Matthew 24-25 uses the Hawaii false missile alert of January 13, 2018, and the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in AD 70 to frame Jesus’ teaching on “the road to victory.” The speaker says Jesus gives four commands—watch, wait, work, and welcome—while living between “the ruins and the return.” He ties Matthew 24:4-14 to false messiahs, wars, earthquakes, persecution, and the command that “this gospel of the kingdom” go to “all nations.” He then connects Matthew 25 to the ten virgins, the talents, and the final separation of sheep and goats.
A Father's Day sermon on becoming a man of integrity, using John Newton's transformation as an example.