Measured sermons with doctrinal weight.
The Field Church is a sermon-centered Christianity feed built around close readings of Scripture. Recent messages move through Luke, John, Ephesians, Matthew, and Job with a firm emphasis on repentance, obedience, resurrection hope, prayer, money, work, and the authority of God's Word.
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The Field Church is a large archive of Christian sermon teaching built around Scripture, exposition, and direct application. Its center of gravity is the opened Bible. Episodes commonly begin with a named passage, a message title, and a request for people to follow along in the text before the sermon begins to move. The format is steady and highly organized. Recent messages spend long stretches in Luke 16, John 20, John 1, Ephesians 6, Matthew 6, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and other biblical passages, using cross-references to reinforce the main point. The style is formal, but not distant. It speaks with the urgency of church preaching, where interpretation is expected to lead toward repentance, trust, obedience, worship, and changed conduct. The series on The Deafening Effect of Money treats wealth as a spiritual danger, pressing giving, honest work, contentment, and the warning that money cannot save. That theme is practical and severe. The Resurrection Sunday message Jesus Overcomes turns to John 20 and presents the empty tomb as the ground of peace, purpose, proof, promise, and final victory over sin and death. Blinded to the Light works from John's language of light and darkness, emphasizing Christ as life, revelation, and the one rejected by a sinful world. The Christian's Work Relationships series brings Ephesians 6 into the workplace, stressing sincere obedience, authority, wholehearted service, and the knowledge that God sees everything. Praying with Praise returns to the Lord's Prayer and treats prayer as a formed commitment to God's name, kingdom, will, provision, forgiveness, and deliverance. The preaching often restates its argument in parallel phrases. It also uses rhetorical questions as pivots. There is little banter, little guest energy, and little attempt to soften the claims of the text. Listeners looking for casual religious conversation may find it demanding. Listeners looking for sustained expository sermons will find a clear pattern: read the passage, explain the passage, press the conscience, and close in prayer.
Made for: For listeners who prefer formal, Scripture-first Christian teaching, especially those drawn to expository sermons that connect biblical doctrine with repentance, prayer, work, giving, and daily obedience.
What sets it apart: The feed stands apart through its sustained sermon structure: long biblical passages, repeated thesis statements, cross-references, and practical exhortation delivered with little conversational looseness or guest-driven drift.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical teaching becomes concrete guidance on suffering, church unity, work, money, repentance, and hope.
The Field Church moves through biblical passages at pulpit pace, pairing close textual explanation with direct instruction for Christian life. These sermons regularly begin with a sustained reading, work through particular verses, and end in prayer.
Four Sundays on five verses: your work questions get more than a motivational sticky note.
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A sober reading of Luke 16 that frames money as a test of spiritual attention.
Money is treated here first as a spiritual danger, not merely a financial concern. Returning to Luke 16:19-31 for the final part of the teaching, the host keeps the rich man in torment beside Lazarus, the poor man carried to Abraham's bosom, and presses the warning that wealth…
A John 20 sermon connecting the empty tomb with the believer's hope over sin and death.
The Field Church's Resurrection Sunday sermon traces John 20 through Mary Magdalene's sorrow at the empty tomb, her assumption that the body has been taken, and the race of Peter and the other disciple to see, believe, and return home.
A scripture-led sermon follows Christ as light through repentance, new life, and public witness.
John's picture of light meeting darkness anchors this sermon on Christ's identity, humanity's rejection of him, and the life offered through belief. Starting with John 1:1-13, the preacher follows the Gospel's language of the Word, life, and light across related passages.
A steady Ephesians 6 sermon on work relationships under God's searching knowledge.
This final sermon in the series takes up a hard pastoral question: how should Christian obedience shape work relationships when every motive stands before God?
A searching sermon on whether workplace obedience comes from an undivided heart or a convincing outward performance.
This verse-by-verse sermon on Ephesians 6:5-9 treats workplace obedience as a question of inward allegiance. Moving from the passage's instructions to slaves and masters into modern employment, it asks what Christians bring to their jobs: eye service and divided loyalties, or…
A sober 1 Peter sermon that leaves room for grief while calling faith to endure.
Chad Wiles turns to 1 Peter 4:12-19 with a steady focus on the command not to be surprised by the fiery trial. The sermon gives that charge a humane weight: sorrow and grief are not treated as failures of faith, yet suffering is not allowed to define God's love or dislodge…
A steady walk through Ephesians 4 on the demanding grace of bearing with fellow believers in love.
Ephesians 4:1-6 is treated as a close, practical study of unity inside the church. The sermon rests on Paul’s call to bear with one another in love, then keeps pressing that phrase until it feels less like a familiar virtue and more like a daily test of fellowship.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A sermon on Ephesians 6:1-3 teaching children to obey and honor their parents for blessing and long life.
A pastor preaches on Ephesians 4:1-6, focusing on the call to 'bear with one another in love' as part of a worthy walk.
Pastor Chad Wiles of The Field Church delivers a sermon titled 'A Practical Theology of Suffering, Finding Purpose in Pain,' based on 1 Peter 4:12-19.
A sermon on Ephesians 6:1-3, teaching that children's obedience and honor to parents leads to blessing, contrasted with a tragic example of rebellion.
A sermon on praying for God's will to be done, focusing on Matthew 6:10 within the Lord's Prayer.
The Field Church's "The Deafening Effect of Money, Pt.
["The Field Church sermon \"Jesus Overcomes\" argues that self-help, prosperity, therapy, and activist versions of \"overcoming\" all miss Jesus in John 20.", "Mary Magdalene, Simon Peter, and the other disciple move through the empty tomb scene, where folded linens and a rolled-away stone lead to belief before full understanding.", "The message ties Mary\u2019s recognition of Jesus, Thomas\u2019 request for nail marks, and Jesus\u2019 repeated \"peace be with you\" to the claim that the resurrection is proof the cross was accepted.", "The closing turn to John 17 says the living Christ still prays for believers\u2019 perseverance, protection, joy, unity, and future glory."]
The Field Church's 'Blinded to the Light' sermon opens with John 1:1-13 and frames Jesus as the eternal Word whose life is the light of men.
A pastor continues a sermon series on the spiritual dangers of money, using Luke 16 as the text.
A pastor introduces a two-part sermon series on the deafening effect of money, focusing on practical giving and previewing Luke 16.
This fourth and final installment of 'The Christian's Work Relationships' series completes the exposition of Ephesians 6:5-9, focusing on the 'why' of obedience and shifting to Paul's commands to employers (masters).
In this third installment of a sermon series on Ephesians 6:5-9, the pastor preaches from a verse addressing slaves and masters, applying it to modern Christian workplace relationships.
A sermon on the Lord's Prayer emphasizing the importance of praise in prayer.
A sermon focusing on the phrase 'Your will be done' from the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:10.