New York church messages with devotional urgency.
FOUNT presents church messages shaped by scripture, worship, and everyday New York texture. The tone moves from warm room banter to serious reflection on Jesus, fear, repentance, presence, and trust.
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FOUNT collects Christian messages from Fount NYC, with the sound of a church community still present around the teaching. The episodes do not feel detached from the room. They carry announcements, laughter, worship references, Easter energy, Bible-page instructions, and the texture of settings from Times Square to Brooklyn, Manhattan, Hell’s Kitchen, and Fount Studios. The format is familiar church teaching, but the register is warm and immediate. Short jokes open space. Then the message gets serious. Recent episodes move through John 20, Luke 19, Genesis 16 and 21, Isaiah 43, and the resurrection story, using scripture as the frame for reflection. Trust is a central concern. So are fear, repentance, judgment, rejection, love, and the sense of being seen by God. One message imagines a new season for Fount Studios, contrasting worldly success with God’s glory flowing into the surrounding streets. Another Easter message moves from light room humor into prayer and resurrection hope. A Palm Sunday teaching follows Jesus toward Jerusalem and considers what obedience looks like when the Lord asks for something. The show also makes room for vulnerable spiritual interiority, including the shock of seeing one’s own sin and the fear that love might be withdrawn. In Genesis reflections on Hagar, the emphasis falls on a God who sees and hears people in difficult places. Advent and Christmas episodes bring family, children, presence, hope, commercial celebration, and deeper longing into view. FOUNT suits listeners who want contemporary Christian preaching that is emotionally direct without being stiff. It is devotional, communal, and practical. The strongest moments come when ordinary church life becomes a doorway into questions people carry quietly: Does God see this? Is love still present? What happens in the wilderness? How does faith become trust?
Made for: FOUNT is for listeners seeking contemporary Christian teaching shaped by scripture, prayer, worship, and candid reflection on inner life. It especially fits people drawn to church-based messages about trust, resurrection, spiritual growth, and God’s presence in difficult seasons.
What sets it apart: The show pairs New York church energy with emotionally direct application, moving naturally from local room details and humor into scripture-heavy reflection. Its recent messages keep returning to formation under pressure rather than treating faith as inspiration alone.
At Fount Church, our vision is Jesus Christ, our reality is freedom, our mission is people, and our cause is love. Join us this Sunday online, find out more at fount.nyc
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Hagar's desert flight becomes a searching sermon about being seen, heard, and called back.
Fount turns Hagar's flight through the desert into a sober meditation on El Roy, the God who sees, and on the difficult grace of being seen clearly enough to be sent back.
A blunt Matthew 15 sermon about mercy, hunger, and why scraps are not the same as bread.
The Fount NYC message keeps close to Matthew 15, tracing Jesus withdrawing to Tyre and Sidon, the Canaanite woman crying for mercy, the disciples wanting her sent away, and Jesus answering with the line about the children's bread and the dogs.
An Easter sermon that turns Mary's grief into a direct call to meet the risen Jesus.
Josh Kelsey begins with John 20 and keeps the focus on Mary's grief, the empty tomb, and the instant Jesus speaks her name. Isaiah 43:19 widens the frame, tying resurrection hope to lostness in a way that reaches both New York ambition and long church familiarity.
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 explores how prayer produces effective results by establishing that God gave humans dominion and free will, and that spirits rely on human partnership to manifest purposes on earth.
This episode reflects on the nature of joy in urban life, contrasting superficial happiness with deeper, lasting spiritual joy rooted in faith in Jesus.
This episode explores the topic of prayer from a Christian perspective, focusing on Jesus's teachings to help listeners grow in their faith and spiritual life.
A church podcast welcomes attendees, shares practical information about services and upcoming events, and expresses personal enthusiasm for Christmas while reflecting on its spiritual versus commercial aspects.
Pastor Josh Kelsey delivers an Easter sermon at Fount Church, exploring the resurrection through three biblical gardens.
A pastor at Fount Church preaches a sermon titled 'I'm Just Good With The Bread,' based on Matthew 15:21-28.
Martin Steel’s Fount NYC message uses Elijah and Elisha in 1 Kings and 2 Kings to explain spiritual formation across generations.
Pastor Martin Steel launches FOUNT's series “The Promise, The Power & The Purpose” with Ephesians 2:10, Jeremiah 29:11, and Jeremiah 1:5 as its central texts.
Pastor Olu of Fount NYC uses the 2010 catfish story involving 1,500 texts and 21 fake profiles to frame a sermon about spiritual deception and waiting on God.
Jude Omodon of Fount NYC examines waiting on God through David's Psalm 13, where David is anointed but pursued by Saul before becoming king.
Josh Kelsey explains how God's song can remain present while a person feels thirsty, overwhelmed, and unable to sing.
Joshua's priests stand in the flooded Jordan so Israel can cross with God's presence in the middle.
On FOUNT's Father's Day service, Josh Kelsey links Luke 17's seven-times-a-day forgiveness command to the disciples' request, "Increase our faith." He argues that Jesus gives them a mustard seed, meaning forgiveness starts with small available faith rather than greater personal capacity.
This episode encourages listeners to deepen their trust in God and experience spiritual transformation through faith in Jesus, set against the backdrop of a historic recording studio.
This episode is a sermon on Easter Sunday focusing on biblical passages from John 20 and Isaiah 43, emphasizing faith in Jesus and spiritual growth.
This episode explores Luke 19:28-44, focusing on Jesus's journey to Jerusalem, the parable of the ten minas, and the significance of the donkey as he approaches the Mount of Olives.
This episode explores the path of perfect love in following Jesus, addressing personal struggles with fear and sin in spiritual growth.
Mike Oaks introduces himself and his wife Tabby, shares a humorous anecdote about his voice during worship, and announces an Easter Sunday combined service at the Palladium Theater in Times Square.
FOUNT’s “The God Who Sees | Manhattan” centers on Hagar, an Egyptian slave mistreated by Sarai and encountered by God at a desert spring in Genesis 16.
This episode explores the power of God's presence in dark times, inspired by a child's drawing about feeling light when with his mother during Advent.