Local faith, formation, and resurrection life.
Resurrection South Austin is a church-rooted feed of sermons, formation previews, and conversational updates from the life of Rez. Its episodes move between Scripture, formation classes, St. Francis Fest, personal testimony, and the ordinary work of becoming a Christian community in Austin.
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Resurrection South Austin presents the life of Rez through sermons, formation previews, event conversations, and personal testimony. The feed has a local-church texture rather than a studio-polished sheen. That is part of its identity. Episodes can begin with a joke about bad podcast names, a messy restart, or a friendly aside, then turn toward liturgy, mission, repentance, resurrection, or the work of building community. The sermon episodes are often anchored in a biblical scene. Easter is treated not as a familiar celebration, but as a moment of fear and bewilderment for Mary Magdalene and the other Mary at the tomb. A reflection on Jesus sending the 72 becomes a meditation on leaving a loved community, moving to Austin, and trusting God amid risk. A Lenten message about leaving things behind connects military-family moves, reputation, identity, Nicodemus, Abram, and the uncontrollable movement of the Spirit. The conversational episodes show another side of the same church life. St. Francis Fest becomes a way to talk about Francis, Clair, blessing animals, neighborhood hospitality, front porch events, Anglican rosaries, local businesses, and the practical work behind a public celebration. Fall formation previews connect adult formation, student formation, liturgy, mission, and the desire to shape Christian imagination. A conversation with Deacon Scott moves through church belonging, New Orleans, Austin, worthiness, and listening for God. The tone is warm and candid. It is often funny. It is also willing to name fear, uncertainty, church hurt, pride, and the cost of change without turning those themes into spectacle. The show is best understood as a window into a Christian community trying to practice what it teaches. It is not mainly a lecture series. It is a record of sermons, conversations, plans, and stories that orbit the same question: how people are formed into a shared life of faith.
Made for: For listeners interested in Christian formation, church life, sermons, and candid conversations from a neighborhood congregation in Austin. It will especially fit people who like theology tied to grief, belonging, mission, liturgy, and practical community events.
What sets it apart: The show pairs sermon reflection with informal behind-the-scenes church conversations, so doctrine, personal story, and neighborhood practice stay connected. Its charm comes from the mix of theological seriousness and unpolished local warmth.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear, pastoral sermon on the identities people carry into faith, and what it may cost to release one.
Leaving a familiar self behind gives this episode its central spiritual tension. The host grounds that theme in a childhood shaped by military moves, with life repeatedly packed into boxes, flights to unknown places, and the quiet work of starting over.
A loose, welcoming formation preview becomes a thoughtful look at how liturgy shapes participation in God's work.
Res Life's formation-course preview treats the start of a new class season as more than a calendar reset. It frames adult formation, family ministry, youth, and a class on liturgy and the mission of God around a larger question: how a church learns to inhabit the faith it…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Father Ryan, Melissa Gray, and Sean preview Resurrection South Austin's fall formation courses, starting September 7th.
Resurrection South Austin’s “Get to Know Deacon Scott” introduces Scott Madison before his first sermon at Resurrection and traces his lifelong Episcopalian identity, church service, radio career, and call to ordained ministry.
Resurrection South Austin’s “St.
The host reflects on the shame and guilt of still having Christmas decorations up during Lent, using it as a metaphor for the things we choose not to see in our lives.
The speaker, drawing from personal experience as a military kid, explores the theme of leaving behind identities and belongings to follow God's call.
A reflection on the Easter story, focusing on the disciples' fear and the unexpected miracle of the resurrection.
A military kid describes moving every three years and leaving behind a familiar identity rather than merely a house or town.
John the Baptist recognizes Jesus as the Messiah only after seeing the Spirit descend and remain on him.
A Halloween celebration in South Austin leads the preacher from threatened SNAP benefits to a church raising nearly $3,000 in two days.
Melissa Flanagan and Father Ryan discuss the upcoming St.
A preview of upcoming fall formation classes at a church, featuring hosts and coordinators discussing adult and student programs starting September 7th.
Father Shawn McCain Tirres reflects on the story of Jesus sending the 72 disciples with nothing, relating it to his own experience of moving his family to start a church in Austin.