Mid City Church SermonCast

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Pastoral Scripture for honest hope.

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Mid City Church SermonCast is a church sermon feed shaped by Scripture, lived experience, and practical encouragement. Its messages move from Gospel texts into questions of despair, identity, justice, perseverance, and the character of God.

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About Mid City Church SermonCast

Mid City Church SermonCast is a Christian sermon feed from Mid City Church with a warm, direct style of biblical teaching. It favors plain language over churchy performance. Recent episodes move through Matthew and John, with Easter and Lent providing much of the theological center. Resurrection is treated as a living promise, not only a past event. The sermons return to people standing at the edge of despair: Judas, Job, Hannah, Jonah, Paul, a friend struggling with alcohol abuse, and modern listeners facing shame or exhaustion. The speaker does not rush past pain. Instead, the messages tend to hold hard realities beside the claim that God is still making life new. That gives the show its shape. A sermon about Judas becomes a meditation on despair and unfinished stories. An Easter message frames the empty tomb as both soul-saving and world-saving. A Palm Sunday sermon asks what God is really like when God's name has been used to wound, control, or stir fear. A teaching from John 9 turns light into a double image: beauty that shines and truth that exposes. The Lent material focuses on belovedness, identity, and the ways people live under constant scoring systems. The Transformed series emphasizes perseverance, not as grim duty, but as attachment to the beauty of Jesus and the world of love, joy, and peace he announces. The show also makes room for public grief. In response to a shooting, a sermon turns toward a dream, justice, equality, and the work of imagining a better world before acting toward it. The pacing is gentle but emphatic. Personal stories sit beside Scripture, and familiar images such as rainbows, beaches, flashlights, exercise routines, and school grades make theological claims easier to grasp. Mid City Church SermonCast suits listeners who want Christian teaching that is emotionally candid, socially aware, and centered on hope without pretending everything is already healed.

Made for: For Christians and spiritually curious listeners who want accessible sermon teaching grounded in Gospel texts, emotional honesty, and practical discipleship. It especially suits those drawn to messages about resurrection, identity, justice, and healing after religious hurt.

What sets it apart: The show pairs traditional sermon structure with unusually direct attention to despair, shame, addiction, violence, and misuse of God's name. Its strongest moments connect resurrection theology to everyday endurance and moral imagination.

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Mid City Church | Baton Rouge, LA | Rev. Brady Whitton | Follow us on social media @MidCityChurchBR | www.MidCity.Church

Easter and resurrectionGospel of MatthewGospel of Johndespair and hopebelovedness and identitypersevering in faithjustice and equalityreligious harm

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Stay: God Is Not Finished Yet

    A sermon exploring Judas's betrayal and repentance, emphasizing that God's plan is not thwarted by human failure.

    Apr 17, 2026·22m
  2. 2

    The "So What" of Easter

    A sermon exploring the resurrection story from Matthew 28, emphasizing its significance as a soul-saving and world-saving event.

    Apr 10, 2026·17m·1 clip
  3. 3

    What in the Name of God?

    A sermon exploring how God's name has been misused to justify harm, and what Jesus' triumphal entry reveals about God's true nature.

    Apr 3, 2026·17m·1 clip
  4. 4

    Light for the Blind

    The Mid City Church SermonCast takes John 9, where Jesus says "I am the light of the world," and reads the healing of a man born blind through the image of light that is beautiful but also "exposes the truth." The speaker rejects the idea that God caused the blindness for Jesus to heal, and reads Jesus' answer as "stop looking for blame" and ask what good God wants to do.

    Mar 20, 2026·22m·1 clip
  5. 5

    Built on Belovedness

    A sermon exploring the power of being called 'beloved' during Lent, contrasting worldly performance metrics with divine identity.

    Mar 13, 2026·21m
  6. 6

    Faith in the Dark

    Mar 6, 2026·18m
  7. 7

    Transformed (Part 5): Sticking with Jesus

    Hidden gem

    Mid City Church SermonCast closes the “Transformed” series by arguing that perseverance with Jesus grows from grace and love rather than willpower.

    Feb 27, 2026·21m·1 clip
  8. 8

    Transformed (Part 4): You Can't Do It Alone

    Feb 20, 2026·20m
  9. 9

    Transformed (Part 3): God’s Story, Our Story

    Hidden gem

    MidCity SermonCast’s “Transformed (Part 3): God’s Story, Our Story” argues that 2 Corinthians 5:16–21 is not a self-help formula but a story of reconciliation from God.

    Feb 6, 2026·23m·1 clip
  10. 10

    Keeping the Dream Alive

    Hidden gem

    Mid-City Church SermonCast pauses the "Transform" series after the Minneapolis shooting to revisit Martin Luther King Jr.'s "dream" through Micah 6:8, Isaiah, Amos, Mary, and Revelation 21.

    Jan 30, 2026·21m·1 clip
  11. 11

    Transformed (Part 2): God-Power, Not Willpower

    Jan 23, 2026·20m
  12. 12

    Transformed (Part 1): First Things First

    Jan 16, 2026·23m
  13. 13

    An Epiphany that Leads to Worship

    Jan 9, 2026·20m
  14. 14

    The Gift of Repentance

    Dec 12, 2025·21m
  15. 15

    Give All You Can

    Dec 5, 2025·22m
  16. 16

    Save All You Can

    Nov 21, 2025·25m
  17. 17

    Earn All You Can

    A sermon exploring John Wesley's wisdom on earning, saving, and giving as a way to serve God and neighbors.

    Nov 14, 2025·25m
  18. 18

    Heirs of Salvation

    A sermon on Ephesians 1:11-23 about the inheritance believers have in Christ.

    Nov 7, 2025·20m
  19. 19

    God Rewrites the Scorecard

    A sermon unpacking the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector, showing how Jesus flips religious norms and emphasizes humility and grace over self-righteousness.

    Oct 31, 2025·22m
  20. 20

    Until All Things Are Made Right

    Oct 24, 2025·21m
  21. 21

    Is Your Jesus Big Enough?

    A sermon exploring the story of Jesus healing ten lepers, focusing on the question of who Jesus is and the importance of gratitude and faith.

    Oct 17, 2025·22m
  22. 22

    A Better Way (Part 6) | Hope that Holds On

    Oct 10, 2025·18m
  23. 23

    A Better Way (Part 5) | Humility that Values Others

    Oct 3, 2025·18m
  24. 24

    A Better Way (Part 4) | Peace that Heals Division

    Sep 26, 2025·18m
  25. 25

    A Better Way (Part 3) | Empathy that Acts

    Sep 19, 2025·18m
  26. 26

    A Better Way (Part 2) | Love Devoted to Good

    Sep 12, 2025·19m
  27. 27

    A Better Way (Part 1) | Faith that Transforms

    Sep 5, 2025·20m
  28. 28

    So Much More than Our Mistakes

    May 2, 2025·18m
  29. 29

    Where Do You See Jesus?

    Apr 28, 2025·21m
  30. 30

    He is Risen... Just as He Said

    Apr 21, 2025·17m
  31. 31

    What Would You Do With a Whole New Life?

    Apr 7, 2025·17m
  32. 32

    Seeing God Through Jesus’ Eyes

    Mar 28, 2025·22m
  33. 33

    A Life of Purpose, Love . . . and Urgency

    Mar 21, 2025·19m
  34. 34

    Finding Refuge in a Troubled World

    Mar 14, 2025·19m
  35. 35

    Life's Most Urgent Question

    Mar 7, 2025·20m
  36. 36

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 6) | Living the Way

    Feb 21, 2025·27m
  37. 37

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 5) | Dreams Really Do Come True

    Feb 14, 2025·20m
  38. 38

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 4) | The Path of Victory

    Feb 7, 2025·20m
  39. 39

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 3) | A Battle Worth Fighting

    Jan 31, 2025·29m
  40. 40

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 2) | The Truth to Guide Us

    Jan 19, 2025·21m
  41. 41

    Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 1) | We Are Not Alone

    Jan 12, 2025·18m
  42. 42

    Following God Signs

    Jan 3, 2025·20m
  43. 43

    Blessed are You...Women

    Dec 13, 2024·16m
  44. 44

    Repent! And Other Good News

    Dec 6, 2024·17m
  45. 45

    The Last Noel: The Promise Fulfilled

    Nov 29, 2024·16m
  46. 46

    So the World Will Know (Part 3) | No Greater Purpose

    Nov 22, 2024·17m
  47. 47

    So the World Will Know (Part 2) | One Heart, One Mission

    Nov 15, 2024·14m
  48. 48

    So the World Will Know (Part 1) | Shining the Light

    Nov 8, 2024·16m
  49. 49

    How to Love Your Neighbor (Part 3) | Tell the Truth

    Nov 1, 2024·22m
  50. 50

    How to Love Your Neighbor (Part 2) | Care For the Hurting and Vulnerable

    Oct 25, 2024·20m