Plainspoken sermons for lived faith.
Sojourn Church (Perry, GA) is a sermon-centered feed of biblical teaching from a local Georgia church. Its episodes connect passages from John, Romans, 1 Peter, Colossians, and Hebrews to forgiveness, hospitality, encouragement, resurrection, digital habits, and life together.
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Sojourn Church (Perry, GA) carries the feel of a local church pulpit rather than a studio-built religion show. Its center is biblical teaching, but the entry points are deliberately ordinary. A message on John 3:16 begins with football signs, eye black, shopping bags, and the strange public life of famous Bible verses. An Easter sermon uses a news story about illness to show the difference between facts that stay distant and truth that becomes personal. A sermon on hospitality starts with the social unease of walking into a crowded room and not knowing where to sit. That pattern gives the show its shape. It moves from recognizable life into Scripture, then back into daily practice. Recent passages include John 3, Romans 6, 1 Peter 4, Colossians 3, and Hebrews 10. The vocabulary is evangelical and pastoral, but the pacing is conversational. There is humor, but it usually serves a point. There is emotion, too, especially in reflections on grief, care, prayer, and church members carrying one another. The “One Another” series gives the feed a strong communal thread. Love, encouragement, hospitality, bearing with others, and forgiveness are treated as concrete habits rather than slogans. The Q&A episodes add a second mode. Pastor Richard, Pastor Jason, and Pastor Josh talk through questions raised by sermons, including introverts and extroverts in church gatherings, digital detox practices, and the hard distinction between forgiving someone and reconciling with someone. Those conversations can get weighty. They stay pastoral, not academic. The digital detox material gives the show a contemporary edge, linking phone addiction, social media, family choices, and spiritual attention. The strongest episodes combine biblical exposition with plain admission that people make church life both rich and difficult. Sojourn Church suits listeners looking for Christian teaching that is grounded in specific passages, attentive to local community, and willing to name awkward or painful parts of discipleship.
Made for: For Christians and churchgoers who want accessible biblical teaching tied to daily relationships, family rhythms, grief, forgiveness, and local church life. It also suits listeners exploring evangelical preaching with a practical, conversational register.
What sets it apart: The show pairs sermon exposition with Q&A conversations that revisit real questions. Its strongest moments turn ordinary scenes into concrete spiritual application without losing the local-church texture.
This is the Sojourn Church sermon podcast. We are located in Perry, GA. Our mission is to see the gospel transform everything around us: ourselves, our families, our church, our city, and the world.
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A birth-certificate analogy frames a pastoral sermon on new birth, inward renewal, and the limits of self-reform.
A birth certificate gives the sermon its organizing image: it marks when, where, and to whom someone was born, without listing achievement, and it grants access to the rights of belonging.
A direct sermon on stubborn sin, patient grace, and daily repentance.
This sermon takes Matthew 21:33-46 as a warning about stubborn sin meeting patient grace, and it starts with a childhood fire story that lands the point fast.
A sharp sermon on mercy, debt, and forgiving others from the heart.
This sermon begins with a blunt truth about conflict: people can be both the best part of life and the hardest part of it. From there, it ties that tension to the church's digital detox and the One Another series, moving steadily from love and encouragement into forgiveness.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This sermon from Sojourn Church in Perry, GA, focuses on Colossians 3:12-17, specifically verses about bearing with and forgiving one another.
Pastor Richard opens with a personal story about setting a fire and lying as a child, paralleling the denial in Jesus' Parable of the Tenants from Matthew 21:33-46.
A pastor announces a Service of Lament and thanks a substitute preacher, then begins a sermon on the Christmas story from Matthew 2:13-15 about Jesus' flight to Egypt.
A sermon on Matthew 2:1-12, contrasting the Magi's worship of Jesus with the indifference of those who should have recognized Him.
At Sojourn Church's Compassion Sunday, the pastor reads Luke 10:25–37 and presents the Good Samaritan as a model who sees, feels, and acts.
Jason of Sojourn Church examines Jesus’ statement “I am the light of the world” in John 8:12–30 and organizes the passage around three claims about Jesus’ identity.
Sojourn Church's sermon on John 7:37-52 connects American prosperity, $18.8 trillion in household debt, loneliness, and isolation with the biblical image of thirst.
Sojourn Church pastor Jason examines John 7:1-36 through four questions about Jesus's strategy, credentials, identity, and destiny.
Pastor Josh and Pastor Jason of the Sojourn Q&A podcast discuss Jason’s long-running doubt, including questions about prayer, the Trinity, God’s uncreated nature, and Jesus’s death for many people.
A sermon exploring the meaning and context of John 3:16-21, emphasizing God's love and the choice between light and darkness.
A sermon connecting the resurrection of Jesus to believers' new life, using the analogy of a flesh-eating bacteria to illustrate how sin affects us personally and how grace transforms us.
A sermon on the power of hospitality based on 1 Peter 4:7-11, illustrated with personal stories.
Pastors discuss the transactional and non-transactional aspects of forgiveness, exploring whether forgiveness requires repentance and how to forgive those who have committed serious moral crimes without acknowledgment.
A pastor discusses the challenges and joys of dealing with people, introducing a sermon on bearing with and forgiving one another from Colossians 3:12-17 as part of a series on biblical community.
Pastors Richard, Jason, and Josh discuss their church's digital detox and answer questions about introverts, extroverts, and the love of God in a Q&A podcast.
Pastor thanks the congregation for their support after a personal loss and introduces the digital detox theme of 'discover' while continuing the 'one another' sermon series.
Jason of Sojourn Church uses a birth certificate to distinguish being born from earning credentials, applying the analogy to Jesus's statement in John 3:1-15 that people must be born again.
A sermon exploring why God cares about sexual morality, based on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, and introducing a new series on gender, sexuality, and the gospel.