Plainspoken sermons for costly discipleship.
Tulip Church Podcast presents Sunday sermons rooted in passages from Matthew, John, Luke, and Romans. Its teaching moves slowly from the biblical scene to ordinary discipleship, asking what sacrifice, resurrection, faith, and proximity to outsiders mean in daily life.
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Tulip Church Podcast is a sermon feed with a plainly pastoral center. Its episodes preserve Sunday morning teachings rather than remaking them into studio essays. The result feels immediate. A speaker opens a Bible, names the passage, circles around a question, and works outward from there. Recent messages spend time in Matthew 8, John 19, Luke 19, Romans 5, and Romans 12. The recurring concern is discipleship that costs something. Jeff Rockey’s messages on living sacrifice return again and again to Paul’s call to offer the body as a living sacrifice, treating that phrase not as religious decoration but as a daily surrender. The language is accessible. The pressure is real. Another thread studies Jesus and uncleanness, especially the way Jesus gives time and attention to outsiders, the untouchable, and the avoided without becoming fearful or distant. Those sermons make the ancient purity questions feel immediate: who gets avoided, who gets seen, and what love risks. Resurrection Sunday widens the frame, using Romans 5 to talk about Christ’s sacrifice after the congregation has already staged and sung through the resurrection story. Mark Thomas’s Luke 19 sermon takes a different angle, asking where someone might stand in the crowd as Jesus enters Jerusalem as king. The show is strongest when it stays close to a single image and lets it gather force: a divided crowd, a costly sacrifice, an unclean person approaching Jesus, a believer slowly disappearing so Christ can be seen. It is not highly produced. That is part of its identity. The value comes from patient biblical explanation, candid self-correction, church texture, and a steady push toward lived obedience.
Made for: For Christians who want conversational biblical teaching with direct application to faith, obedience, family, approval, and everyday sacrifice. It especially suits listeners comfortable with Sunday-sermon pacing and repeated reflection on a single passage.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the live-room patience of a church: Scripture is read, retold, questioned, and applied until the central image becomes hard to dodge. The feed favors pastoral persistence over polish.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Passage-led sermons connect sacrifice, celebration and care for outsiders with the daily practice of following Jesus.
Tulip Church Podcast carries Sunday-morning sermons from Jeff Rockey and Cole Thompson into an audio feed, keeping biblical passages close to ordinary decisions.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A patient sermon about Jesus moving toward the overlooked.
Tulip Church stays in Matthew 8 and keeps returning to Jesus' willingness to move toward people others treated as unclean. The strongest stretch comes when the sermon slows down the centurion's approach and Peter's mother-in-law being noticed; that plain retelling gives the…
A direct sermon on surrender, sacrifice, and putting Jesus first.
Pastor Jeff Rockey keeps the focus on a hard message: Jesus must increase, and the self must decrease. The sermon treats sacrifice as something lived out in daily choices, then lingers on the strain that comes when family ties and public pushback do not settle neatly.
A steady sermon that makes sacrifice feel costly and immediate again.
This sermon takes a familiar Christian idea and slows it down until it feels a little unfamiliar again: a living sacrifice, explained through Lent, Paul, and the old logic of the Old Testament.
A plainspoken sermon about asking Jesus for Jesus, not just relief.
Cole Thompson centers the sermon on one searching question: what people are really asking Jesus for. He starts in the wilderness as a hard middle place, then brings it back to ordinary pressure like bills and relationships, where relief is easier to ask for than Christ.
A calm sermon that treats celebration as a discipline, not a mood.
Jeff Rockey presents celebration as something God intended for people, not a decorative extra to faith. He ties that idea to Leviticus 23 and to familiar church practices such as baptism, communion, Advent, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, and Pentecost, all of which serve as steady…
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He teaches from Matthew 8 about Jesus moving toward people others label unclean.
This sermon explores the significance of Jesus' healing acts and the story of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus after the crucifixion, emphasizing the ongoing importance of the resurrection.
This sermon explores the transformative impact of Jesus' resurrection, focusing on Romans 5 to explain the significance of Christ's sacrifice for believers.
This sermon explores the question of who you would be in the crowd when Jesus entered Jerusalem as king, using Luke 19:28 as a starting point to reflect on using your gifts and your relationship with God.
This sermon explores the concept of being a living sacrifice as described in Romans 12, focusing on surrendering personal will to reflect Jesus Christ more fully in one's life.
This sermon emphasizes making Christ the central obsession in life to reflect Jesus through personal and congregational actions.
Pastor Jeff Rockey teaches on living sacrifice and the call to let Christ increase while the self decreases.
Pastor Jeff Rocky starts with a joke about his sleepy voice and then heads straight into Lent.
Cole Thompson opens with the Israelites.
Pastor Jeff Rocky closes a series on spiritual disciplines by centering celebration.
Cole Thompson delivers a sermon using Genesis 25 to discuss making spiritual choices between immediate gratification and better things, starting with the story of Esau and lentil soup.
This sermon explores Jesus' attendance at a banquet hosted by Simon the Pharisee in Luke chapter 7, examining the social dynamics and types of guests invited to such events.
Pastor Jeff Rockey discusses the significance of meals in Jesus' day as social and community events that required time and preparation.
Pastor Jeff Rockey delivers a sermon on stewardship, using the metaphor of ships to discuss how Christians should actively manage their resources according to biblical principles from 2 Corinthians 9.
This sermon explores fellowship as a spiritual practice that moves believers forward in their faith, connecting it to Mother's Day and emphasizing its role in active Christian living.