
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
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Episodes
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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
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
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
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
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
Faith in the Dark
Mar 6, 2026·18m - 7
Transformed (Part 5): Sticking with Jesus
Hidden gemMid 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
Transformed (Part 4): You Can't Do It Alone
Feb 20, 2026·20m - 9
Transformed (Part 3): God’s Story, Our Story
Hidden gemMidCity 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
Keeping the Dream Alive
Hidden gemMid-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
Transformed (Part 2): God-Power, Not Willpower
Jan 23, 2026·20m - 12
Transformed (Part 1): First Things First
Jan 16, 2026·23m - 13
An Epiphany that Leads to Worship
Jan 9, 2026·20m - 14
The Gift of Repentance
Dec 12, 2025·21m - 15
Give All You Can
Dec 5, 2025·22m - 16
Save All You Can
Nov 21, 2025·25m - 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
Heirs of Salvation
A sermon on Ephesians 1:11-23 about the inheritance believers have in Christ.
Nov 7, 2025·20m - 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
Until All Things Are Made Right
Oct 24, 2025·21m - 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
A Better Way (Part 6) | Hope that Holds On
Oct 10, 2025·18m - 23
A Better Way (Part 5) | Humility that Values Others
Oct 3, 2025·18m - 24
A Better Way (Part 4) | Peace that Heals Division
Sep 26, 2025·18m - 25
A Better Way (Part 3) | Empathy that Acts
Sep 19, 2025·18m - 26
A Better Way (Part 2) | Love Devoted to Good
Sep 12, 2025·19m - 27
A Better Way (Part 1) | Faith that Transforms
Sep 5, 2025·20m - 28
So Much More than Our Mistakes
May 2, 2025·18m - 29
Where Do You See Jesus?
Apr 28, 2025·21m - 30
He is Risen... Just as He Said
Apr 21, 2025·17m - 31
What Would You Do With a Whole New Life?
Apr 7, 2025·17m - 32
Seeing God Through Jesus’ Eyes
Mar 28, 2025·22m - 33
A Life of Purpose, Love . . . and Urgency
Mar 21, 2025·19m - 34
Finding Refuge in a Troubled World
Mar 14, 2025·19m - 35
Life's Most Urgent Question
Mar 7, 2025·20m - 36
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 6) | Living the Way
Feb 21, 2025·27m - 37
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 5) | Dreams Really Do Come True
Feb 14, 2025·20m - 38
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 4) | The Path of Victory
Feb 7, 2025·20m - 39
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 3) | A Battle Worth Fighting
Jan 31, 2025·29m - 40
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 2) | The Truth to Guide Us
Jan 19, 2025·21m - 41
Does Jesus Still Matter? (Part 1) | We Are Not Alone
Jan 12, 2025·18m - 42
Following God Signs
Jan 3, 2025·20m - 43
Blessed are You...Women
Dec 13, 2024·16m - 44
Repent! And Other Good News
Dec 6, 2024·17m - 45
The Last Noel: The Promise Fulfilled
Nov 29, 2024·16m - 46
So the World Will Know (Part 3) | No Greater Purpose
Nov 22, 2024·17m - 47
So the World Will Know (Part 2) | One Heart, One Mission
Nov 15, 2024·14m - 48
So the World Will Know (Part 1) | Shining the Light
Nov 8, 2024·16m - 49
How to Love Your Neighbor (Part 3) | Tell the Truth
Nov 1, 2024·22m - 50
How to Love Your Neighbor (Part 2) | Care For the Hurting and Vulnerable
Oct 25, 2024·20m