Warm sermons with a clear call.
TFHNY is a sermon-centered feed shaped by direct biblical teaching, testimony, and church-room response. Its messages move quickly from Scripture into daily obedience, asking what resurrection, prayer, faithfulness, and Christian community should change in a person’s actual life.
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TFHNY presents the message stream of The Father’s House in Rochester, New York. It is a church podcast first. The episodes capture sermons, testimony-shaped teaching, and the occasional panel conversation with the immediacy of a Sunday room still in motion. Recent messages return again and again to one pressure point: Christian faith should become visible in trust, prayer, obedience, and community. The language is plain, but the stakes are high. Easter becomes more than a historic celebration; it becomes a summons to come alive and place full trust in the risen Christ. Palm Sunday is treated as a warning about how quickly public praise can become rejection. The Life After Death series leans into discipleship with unusual directness, asking what following Jesus costs when feelings, habits, theology, and personal plans resist surrender. The Anchored series gives the feed one of its clearest motifs. Faith is pictured as rootedness, not passivity. Trust in God is described through drought, pressure, finances, classroom registration, and the memory of a tuition bill that seemed impossible until it was not. Prayer is not treated as ornament. It is the place where weakness, distraction, and need are named before God. Community receives the same practical treatment. In the panel episode, stories of loneliness, friendship, father figures, single parenthood, pride, comfort, and post-COVID isolation turn church community from an idea into a costly practice. The strongest copybook phrase for the show might be decision. It keeps asking for one. The teaching is warm and pastoral, but it does not drift into vague encouragement. Listeners hear Scripture quoted, repeated, and pressed into everyday life with little distance between doctrine and application. The result is a feed for people who want contemporary church preaching that feels relational, urgent, and grounded in the rhythms of a local congregation.
Made for: TFHNY is for listeners who want contemporary Christian preaching rooted in Scripture, testimony, prayer, and direct application. It especially suits people drawn to local-church teaching that challenges as much as it encourages.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its mix of response urgency and everyday specificity. Sermons move from resurrection, discipleship, or faithfulness into tuition bills, loneliness, ambition, comfort, and the real cost of community.
Messages from Pierre and Marlize du Plessis, lead pastors of The Father's House in Rochester, NY. -- New episodes weekly! Here at TFH, we are building a house of faith that empowers people to live out the mission of Jesus. We believe that through the local church people can know God, find freedom, discover their purpose and make a difference. For more information about The Father's House, please visit www.tfhny.org or you may follow us on instagram @tfhny.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
TFHNY makes Christian discipleship practical through scripture, personal stories, communal testimony, and direct calls to trust, surrender, and participate.
TFHNY turns church teaching from Pierre and Marlize du Plessis and other pastors into direct, application-minded sermons. Scripture sets the frame, then ordinary stories carry the argument: a tuition bill becomes a lesson in trusting God, a suitcase weighted with bricks…
A $6,000 tuition bill becomes a faith story for the moment your own plan runs out.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An Easter sermon asks where listeners place their trust in light of the resurrection.
What does Easter ask of someone who already knows the story? The preacher brings the resurrection into the present with his refrain, "It's time to come alive." He speaks to visitors and familiar listeners alike, asking them to consider where they place their trust and what they…
A steady sermon on trusting God's faithfulness when obedience comes before the answer.
Anchored In Faithfulness treats Jeremiah 17:7 as a clear call to trust God when pressure makes panic feel near. The sermon defines faithfulness through reliability and consistency, then keeps returning to the tree planted by water: a picture of confidence rooted deeply enough…
A church panel traces community from spiritual calling to the uncomfortable yes that lets people belong.
Community is framed here as a spiritual calling that asks something real of people: comfort, pride, ego, and the instinct to handle life alone.
A concrete, warm sermon about the baggage that keeps personal missions from making room for biblical community.
Made for Community continues as Josh asks what biblical community is meant to look like, rooting the answer in the belief that God is communal and that humanity was made in his image.
A sermon turns Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3 into a call for Spirit-powered, communal love.
Anchored in Love treats Paul's prayer for the Ephesians as something meant to be prayed, not just admired. The sermon moves through Ephesians 3 with a clear pastoral aim: strength through the Spirit, Christ dwelling in the heart, a life rooted in love, and a fuller grasp of how…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Josh says Made for Community - Part 4 turns John 17 into a claim that the church is meant to glorify God together so the world may know.
A pastor introduces a new sermon series called 'Dust and Diamonds,' encouraging the congregation to engage actively with the message and scripture.
Pierre du Plessis delivers a sermon titled 'Anchored In Love - Week 5', focusing on Ephesians 3:14-21.
A sermon on being anchored in the Word of God, emphasizing that God reveals Himself through His word and that all creation depends on it.
A sermon on communion as an interactive, participatory service, emphasizing the importance of presence and connection over mobile devices.
Stephanie discusses how worship is a continuous lifestyle of loving God, not just a Sunday activity.
A pastor encourages church members to join small groups despite past negative experiences, using humor and personal stories to emphasize the importance of godly fellowship.
CJ launches the new series "Life After Death" as a call to discipleship, not just belief, and says Luke 9:23 requires believers to deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Jesus.
TFHNY’s “Easter Service” centers on the claim that Jesus’ resurrection changes what Christians believe, trust, and do.
A sermon reflecting on the dramatic shift from Jesus being hailed as king on Palm Sunday to being crucified on Good Friday.
A pastor delivers a sermon on the importance of being anchored in prayer, emphasizing reliance on God amidst life's distractions.
A speaker reflects on a sermon series about being anchored in God's faithfulness, emphasizing the need to return to the beginning as the series concludes.
Cj Cody centers "Anchored in His Faithfulness" on Jeremiah 17:7 and Hebrews 10:23-39, tying confidence to "the one who is faithful" rather than personal strength.
The Father's House panel "Anchored In Community pt.2" centers on community as a call from God, with CJ, Deke, Jeremy, Kim, and Jenny sharing personal stories.