Plainspoken sermons with urgent biblical application.
Harvest New Beginnings Podcast carries weekly church messages with a plainspoken, urgent preaching style. Pastor Scott Poling often moves from biblical passages into everyday scenes, using games, gym advice, relationships, business ethics, and grief to press toward practical obedience.
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Harvest New Beginnings Podcast is a weekly audio sermon feed from Harvest New Beginnings Church in Oswego, Illinois. The format is straightforward: a preached message, a biblical text, a set of vivid illustrations, and a closing invitation to respond in faith. Recent episodes show a clear pattern. A familiar scene opens the door. A Jenga tower explains why the resurrection is essential. A song by the Byrds leads into Ecclesiastes and the seasons of life. A stranger giving advice at the gym becomes a test case for humility, correction, and wisdom. A discussion of lying moves from statistics and business deception to Proverbs and final judgment. The show is not detached or academic. It is urgent, conversational, and built for listeners who expect preaching to press on real choices. Pastor Scott Poling is the main named voice in the recent messages, and his sermons often repeat a central phrase until it becomes the takeaway. The rhythm can be brisk. Short appeals sit beside longer chains of biblical examples, especially when a message is building toward repentance, comfort, or moral clarity. The emotional range is wider than the forceful delivery might suggest. One sermon lingers over weeping, death, homesickness, family loss, and the way Jesus enters human sorrow. Another turns toward laughter and the return of joy. The Proverbs messages focus on wise counsel, honest speech, self-deception, friendship, and the danger of listening only to oneself. The resurrection sermon frames Christian faith around Jesus rising from the grave, interceding for believers, and answering accusation. A guest message from Pastor Mickey Farlow uses the naming of children and family memories as an entry point into Genesis. Across the feed, everyday objects are rarely just objects. They become spiritual analogies aimed at conscience, comfort, and obedience. The show is best for people seeking church-centered biblical preaching with clear convictions, practical examples, and repeated gospel appeals.
Made for: For Christians and churchgoers who want direct, scripture-centered preaching tied to ordinary decisions, grief, relationships, work, and faith. It also suits seekers comfortable with explicitly evangelical invitations to repentance and trust in Jesus.
What sets it apart: The feed stands out for turning everyday scenes into tightly argued sermon illustrations without losing momentum. Its recent messages combine plain speech, strong moral stakes, emotional candor, and repeated gospel invitations.
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A Jenga tower becomes your case for why the resurrection cannot be the loose block.
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A direct sermon built around "Turn, Turn, Turn" and the seasons of grief, joy, and trust.
Harvest New Beginnings uses "Turn, Turn, Turn" as a plainspoken way into seasons, sorrow, joy, and the need to treat time with care. Pastor Scott Poling opens with the song and builds a sermon around trusting God's timing instead of fighting it.
A forceful case that the resurrection is the block everything else rests on.
This sermon argues that the resurrection of Jesus is the load-bearing point of Christianity. With a Jenga image to show what is at stake, it moves steadily from the empty grave to accusation, condemnation, intercession, and bold prayer, keeping its focus on one claim throughout.
A gym story and Proverbs teaching on counsel, humility, and the risk of trusting only your own thoughts.
Scott Poling opens with a gym story about a young man on a pec deck machine and a stranger who steps in with better form. From there, the sermon turns to Proverbs on counsel, friendship, and the danger of relying on self-counsel, pressing the point that outside advice can keep a…
A blunt sermon on how lying moves through ordinary life and ends in judgment.
Harvest New Beginnings opens with a 2024 study from Professor Tony Doken Morgan of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, then broadens into a firm look at how lying works its way into everyday life.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
The guest pastor of Soteria Church presents Harvest New Beginnings Podcast’s “More Than One Basket” on Ecclesiastes 11:1-10, arguing that mortality should shape how people live now.
Pastor Scott Poling opens a new series by tying "Turn, Turn, Turn" to Solomon's ancient words about time.
Pastor Scott Poling says the resurrection is not a side issue but the whole thing.
Pastor Scott Poling opens with a gym story.
Pastor Scott Poling opens with a blunt claim: lies are everywhere.