Lively Bible teaching with pastoral fire.
Zion Christian Fellowship brings church teaching into podcast form with direct Bible exposition, stories, and room-level humor. Recent episodes move through Acts, guest preaching, declarations, grace for Gentiles, and practical trust in God’s will.
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Zion Christian Fellowship is a sermon-centered Christian feed with the feel of a full room still in the recording. It is warm and conversational, but rarely loose. The speakers tend to begin with scripture, widen into story or illustration, and then return to a direct pastoral claim. Recent episodes are especially anchored in the Book of Acts. Pastor Jim Baker traces Paul, Barnabas, Gentile believers, church conflict, grace, missionary return visits, and the surprisingly ordinary ways God’s will may be followed. Short lines land hard. Longer explanations loop back until the point is unmistakable. The show is comfortable with charismatic language, including the Holy Spirit, miracles, declarations, supernatural life, and blessing. It also takes church culture seriously. One Acts message addresses political and religious reactions inside the body of Christ, rejecting guilty-by-association thinking while naming the need to stay on what it calls the kingdom side. Guest episodes widen the sound without changing the basic posture. Steve Backlund is introduced with affection and playful titles around hope, breakthrough, transformation, affirmation, and declaration. Wendy Backlund moves quickly from a joke about decorations and declarations into Abraham as a story of natural life meeting supernatural promise. Dave Jones uses Song of Songs, wedding-banquet imagery, and table language to press the case that Christ’s invitation is more important than every excuse. Pastor Mary Baker brings an openly personal, funny start before setting up a message about taking heed and receiving. The feed suits people who like sermons that explain, repeat, exhort, and apply. It is not detached commentary. It is Bible study as pastoral momentum, where grace, God’s will, supernatural life, and the presence of God are treated as things to be lived, not merely understood.
Made for: For Christians who want sermon-style Bible teaching that is warm, charismatic, and practical. It especially suits listeners drawn to Acts, grace, declarations, the Holy Spirit, and following God’s will.
What sets it apart: The show blends verse-by-verse teaching with a live-church immediacy: jokes, correction, blessing, and repeated exhortation all stay tied to scripture. Its center of gravity is not commentary about faith, but faith pressed into decisions, desires, and communal life.
Mission: To transform and equip people to supernaturally demonstrate God's kingdom in their sphere of influence. We have two campuses in the Columbus OH area located in Powell & Pickerington neighborhoods.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Biblical context, congregational life and charismatic practice meet in sermons that consistently turn interpretation toward prayer, community and personal response.
Zion Christian Fellowship records church preaching with the room left audible: congregational prompts, announcements, altar invitations and prayer all sit alongside the sermon.
Acts arrives with Mishnah whips and George Costanza energy, then asks what your faith looks like together.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm sermon on divine love, misplaced excuses, and the welcome found at Christ's table.
This single-episode review follows a sermon that treats the Song of Songs as a picture of God's love for his people, then shifts to Jesus' wedding-banquet parable and its troubling parade of excuses.
A practical sermon on the community God uses to draw faith out of isolation and into shared life.
The episode puts everyday ministry work next to its supernatural hope, moving from a short-term mission trip and the work of Mike and Lori to wells, hospital care, and staff being raised up at Field of Dreams.
A grounded sermon on Paul, Gentile fellowship, and the cost of acting outside inherited boundaries.
The episode treats the gap between conviction and action as a real social burden, following Paul through the pressure points of Pharisee identity, family strain, and fellowship with Gentiles.
A sermon on political and religious influence, mistaken identity, hospitality, and the call to live with God.
Pastor Jim's study considers how people learn to live with God when political and religious pressures begin shaping their response. He starts with Jesus' warning about the leaven of Herod and the Pharisees, treating both as habits of thought before connecting them to ministry…
A warm, repetitive sermon that frames God's goodness as a test of faith across doctrine, politics, and ministry.
The sermon centers on a plain but resonant claim: God's goodness is the trait by which God most closely identifies himself. The preacher opens by inviting people to name something good from the past week or two, then grounds the idea in a lunch conversation with a theologically…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Jim Baker continues a sermon series on the Book of Acts, focusing on Acts 14.
Pastor Sean O'Rourke delivers a sermon titled 'A Good God' at Zion Christian Fellowship.
Jim Baker opens with his two years of failed table tennis tournaments, including an 11-0 loss to his top-10-ranked coach playing with a clipboard, to illustrate imitation versus participation.
Pastor Jim Baker teaches Acts 15 at Zion Christian Fellowship, where Pharisee-background believers insist Gentiles 'cannot be saved' unless circumcised.
Steve Backlund, speaking at Zion Christian Fellowship on 3/29/26, teaches "five healthy ways to transform your mind" based on Romans 12:2.
Guest speaker Wendy Backlund shares a message on Abraham's story as a model for supernatural blessing and declarations.
Pastor Jim Baker continues a verse-by-verse study of Acts, discussing how God's will is often simpler and more natural than expected, using Paul and Barnabas's decision to revisit churches as an example.
Dave Jones teaches from Song of Songs 2:4, Matthew 22:2, Luke 7:36, and John 2:1 to argue that Scripture repeatedly frames God’s presence as a banquet table.
Pastor Jim Baker warns against the political and religious spirits in the church, using the metaphor of leaven from the Gospels, and cautions against guilty by association judgments.
Pastor Mary Baker delivers a sermon titled 'Take Heed' at a church service, sharing personal anecdotes and spiritual insights.
A church service introduction with technical difficulties, a blessing for Mama Dora, and a setup for guest Bobby Conner.
Zion Christian Fellowship's "The World Takes & The Kingdom Partakes" centers on Sean O'Rourke's case that Genesis 2:18 and Hebrews 10:24-25 reject isolation.
Pastor Jim Baker tells a story about a bat in a family's home to illustrate the importance of warning loved ones about danger.
Pastor Jim Baker uses Acts 11 and Acts 13 to argue that Saul spent 10 to 12 hidden years in Tarsus before Barnabas brought him to Antioch.
A pastor discusses the meaning and significance of water baptism, emphasizing it as more than a public declaration but a holy sacrament.
Pastor Jim Baker introduces upcoming small groups focused on marriage, family, and finances, with leaders sharing details about a Love After Marriage home group.