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Sunday Sermons

Sunday Sermons

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 Welcome to Sunday Sermons – your midweek connection to what matters most. Each episode features the sermon from our Sunday gathering at Ashland City Church of Christ, offering you a chance to catch up, reflect deeper, or share the message with someone who needs it. We know life gets busy. Whether you were chasing toddlers during the sermon, out of town, or just want to listen again without the distractions, this podcast is for you. Expect biblical teaching, honest reflection, and practical encouragement—always rooted in Scripture, always pointing to Jesus. No pews, no pressure—just real messages for real life, delivered straight to your headphones. New episodes drop every week.Copyright Ashland City Church of Christ Spiritualità
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  • Villains - Herod Agrippa

    Villains - Herod Agrippa
    Sep 6 2026
    Herod Agrippa was a man who knew how to work a room. The grandson of Herod the Great, he was educated in Rome among the elite, and he spent his life leveraging charm, wealth, and political savvy to climb to the top. The Jewish people admired him and believed he honored God, but beneath the surface he was self-serving and violent. When he saw that persecuting the church won him favor with the crowd, he had the apostle James executed and threw Peter in prison. His motivation was not conviction. It was convenience. He was a people pleaser with power, and that made him dangerous. The church's response to this crisis is one of the most instructive moments in the entire book of Acts. With James dead and Peter in chains, they gathered and prayed. Not as a last resort, but as their most confident and powerful act. God answered in a way no one could have engineered. An angel appeared in Peter's cell, the chains fell from his hands, and he walked past guards and through an iron gate that opened on its own. When Peter arrived at the house where the church was praying, they were so shocked they could barely believe it was him. They had prayed for something miraculous, and when the miracle arrived, they were genuinely stunned. It is a humbling and honest picture of faith. The chapter ends with a sharp contrast. Agrippa, standing before a crowd that called him a god, accepted the praise that belonged only to God and was immediately struck down. After all the violence, the scheming, and the flattery, the final word belongs to God: the word of God increased and multiplied. The lesson for believers today is clear. Powerful people will always exist who oppose the truth, and the temptation to fear them or place excessive hope in them is real. But Jesus is the King of kings, and His kingdom is not threatened by any election, any ruler, or any crisis. That confidence changes how we pray, how we respond to fear, and where we place our trust.
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    32 min
  • A Cheaper Perfume

    A Cheaper Perfume
    Aug 30 2026
    In the final days before His crucifixion, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper, sharing a meal with people who had personally experienced His power. Martha was serving. Lazarus, recently raised from the dead, was present. And Mary, their sister, walked in carrying an alabaster flask of pure spikenard, a perfume worth roughly a year's wages, and poured the entire thing over Jesus. She also anointed His feet and wiped them with her hair, an act considered scandalous in that culture. The response from those at the table was sharp criticism. But Jesus silenced them and called what she had done beautiful, using the Greek word kalos. He then made a promise that has echoed across two thousand years: wherever the gospel is proclaimed, what she did would be remembered. And here we are, still talking about her. Every person in that room represents a category we can recognize today. Some were expressive, celebrating what Jesus had done for them. Some were expulsive, criticizing and trying to shut down genuine devotion. And Mary was excessive, giving everything without hesitation, without concern for her reputation, and without expecting anything in return. The honest question is which category we fall into. Have we settled for a cheaper perfume in how we think about the church, how we handle Scripture, how we support missionaries, how we invest in our marriages and families, or how we order our personal priorities? Genuine passion for Jesus looks like Mary's act. It is costly, wholehearted, and beautiful. The invitation is to identify one area where we have quietly pulled back and make a deliberate decision to pour out something valuable as an act of devotion to Him.
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    35 min
  • Who Are We To Stand In God's Way?

    Who Are We To Stand In God's Way?
    Aug 23 2026
    One of the oldest struggles in the Christian faith is not just believing the Gospel, but living it out across the lines we draw between ourselves and others. The story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 11 is not ancient history locked away in the past. It is a mirror held up to every generation of believers. Luke tells this story multiple times in Acts, and that repetition is intentional. The Holy Spirit saw fit to have it told again and again because it addresses something deeply embedded in human nature: our tendency to draw lines, build walls, and decide who belongs and who does not. The circumcision party in Acts 11 represents a group of Christians who insisted that following Jesus was not enough. They required others to adopt their cultural and ethnic practices as well, adding to the Gospel in a way that Paul would later call a heresy. This was not just a first-century problem. For 2,000 years, people have been told that to truly belong, they must not only follow Jesus but also look, speak, and live like a particular group. That is a burden the Gospel was never meant to place on anyone. God's vision for His kingdom has always been multilingual, multiethnic, and multinational. This is not a modern social agenda layered onto Christianity. It is the mission of God from the very beginning, as Paul makes clear in Ephesians 1 when he describes God's plan to bring everything together under the authority of Christ. Peter's encounter with Cornelius forced him to confront the distinctions he had been making, not just about food, but about people. God told him directly to stop calling common what He had made clean. And Peter's honest response was that he had argued with God, pushed back, and resisted, because he had once stood exactly where his critics stood. But God changed his mind, and that same invitation is extended to us. We can stand in God's way actively, by openly refusing to fellowship with those who are different, or passively, by quietly opting out and letting others carry the work of reconciliation. Both postures carry consequences, and the most immediate one is missing the joy of what God is doing. Time does not heal the wounds caused by racism, slavery, or division. A wound left untreated does not simply get better on its own. But Jesus can heal what time cannot. When walls come down and people come together across lines of race and culture, that is not the passage of time doing the work. That is the Spirit of God, and He deserves the credit. God's reconciliation project calls for participants, not spectators. The fruit of the Spirit described in Galatians 5 is not just for personal benefit. It is the means by which God does His reconciling work through His people. Participation looks like getting to know neighbors who look or speak differently, refusing to stay comfortable in a circle that only looks like you, and choosing to love the people around you at work, at school, and in your community. God is glorified when His people are unified across every line the world uses to divide. That unity is not just a nice feeling. It is a testimony to the power of the Gospel, and God's mission will be accomplished with or without our cooperation. The only question is whether we will be part of it.
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    29 min
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