St. John's Franklin Podcast

Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “A Teaching, Learning Community” for The Third Sunday After Epiphany on January 25, 2015. During the season of Epiphany, we are focusing on the vision and mission of St. John's. In this third sermon in the series, I discuss the second of three aspects of our common life together as a church that help us live into an alternative vision of human flourishing: We are a teaching, learning communityWe flourish in our life, work and relationships as we grow in the wisdom and understanding provided by the Scriptures. A PDF version of our Vision Statement can be downloaded here.

 

The Third Sunday After Epiphany 

Jonah 3:1-5,10 

Psalm 62:6-14

1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Mark 1:14-20

Direct download: Vision_Wisdom.mp3
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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “A Liturgical, Worshipping Community” for The Second Sunday After Epiphany on January 18, 2015. During the season of Epiphany, we are focusing on the vision and mission of St. John's. In this second sermon in the series, I discuss the first of three aspects of our common life together as a church that help us live into an alternative vision of human flourishing: We are a liturgical, worshipping communityA PDF version of our vision Statement can be downloaded here.

 

For this service, we did a spoken Eucharist, a service without music. This provided a window into how the liturgy guides our worship, and the role of music in our worship at St. John’s.

 

The Second Sunday After Epiphany 

1 Samuel 3:1-10 

Psalm 139:1-5,12-17

1 corinthians 6:12-20

John 1:43-51

Direct download: Vision_Worship.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00am CDT

Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “The Gospel Is Central” based on Mark 1:4-11 for The Baptism of the Lord on January 11, 2015. During the season of Epiphany, we are focusing on the vision and mission of St. John's. In this first sermon in the series, I discuss our commitment to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ the center of our life together. We believe the Gospel is the key to human flourishing.

 

A PDF version of our vision Statement can be downloaded here.

 

The Baptism of the Lord 

Genesis 1:1-5 

Psalm 29

Acts 19:1-7

Mark 1:4-11

Direct download: GospelisCentral.mp3
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Kenny Benge preached a sermon entitled “Stuff Matters” based on John 1:1-18 for The First Sunday after Christmas on December 28, 2014. The meaning of the Incarnation is that God cares decisively for real people in real places…and the stuff of Creation that make up those places.

 

The First Sunday after Christmas 

Isaiah 61:10-62:3 

Psalm 148

Galatians 3:23-27,4:4-7
John 1:1-18

Direct download: StuffMatters.mp3
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