Church is Messy

Mar 05 2025 98 ep. 36 mins 5
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Church is messy podcast recorded at Autumn Ridge Church in Rochester, MN

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Church Is Messy: Bonus Episode - Answering Your Questions

Mar 05 2025 36 mins  
This episode is focused solely on answering your questions. We've received four very different questions and today we're putting out this bonus episode to answer them.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro00:50 Question 1 - In Galatians 2 Paul specifically says gentiles don't need to be circumcised after following Christ - but yet he directs Timothy to get circumcised (Acts 1

Church Is Messy: Galatians - Fluency or Gibberish

Mar 05 2025 36 mins  
In this episode Rick and Svea dig really deep into gospel fluency vs gospel gibberish. The gospel isn't just trusting Jesus for salvation, it's trusting Jesus for and with the rest of your life.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro00:57 Garrison Keillor and fake spring.02:29 "You foolish Galatians..."04:49 The Christian life is NOT trusting Jesus for salvation and then livin

Church Is Messy: Galatians - Undivided

Feb 24 2025 38 mins  
In week two of our Galatians study Rick and Svea discuss conflict, the freedom we have in Jesus, and gospel fluency.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:40 Answering your questions: Does Galatians give a hierarchy of how we should relate to other people?07:16 Galatians chapter 2.09:33 Addressing conflict with other Jesus followers.15:53 The intersection of conflict, freed

Church Is Messy: Galatians - Make It Count

Feb 19 2025 37 mins  
As we kick of our new series on the book of Galatians, Rick and Svea discuss false gospels and answer a listener question.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro03:23 Whose approval are you seeking?06:37 An example of appropriate and missing the gospel.10:03 The specific problems the Galatian church faced - adding to the gospel.14:10 We're all trying to reflect Jesus, not each

Church Is Messy: The Lion's Share - Why Is our Church so Expensive?

Feb 06 2025 30 mins  
We're putting a bow on The Lion's Share series. Today we scrutinize our own church and discuss our ministry method.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:06 Turning the focus on how Autumn Ridge handles money. Being transparent.03:29 Where is the organization: more than enough, just enough, less than enough? Our strategy.10:58 Year-end giving.12:46 Why this timing (January)

Church Is Messy: The Lion's Share - Faithful and Generous

Jan 29 2025 26 mins  
Today Rick and Svea talk about their own struggles with greed and simplicity and the New Testament framework of faithful giving and generous giving.Bible passages referenced in today's episode:1 Timothy 6:17-19; 1 Corinthians 9:13-14; 2 Corinthians 8:1-5Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:13 This message pushed Rick to wrestle down his own contentment.03:56 Simplicity: a

Church is Messy: The Lion's Share - the False Promise of the Prosperity Gospel

Jan 25 2025 41 mins  
Today Rick and Svea dig deep into the essence of the prosperity gospel, it falsehoods, and the various expressions of the prosperity gospel.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:47 Intro to the prosperity gospel.02:50 The real essence of the prosperity gospel.03:42 Live Q&A after most Saturday services (when Rick preaches).04:22 From the Q&A session last weekend: w

Church Is Messy: The Lion's Share - More than Enough

Jan 15 2025 32 mins  
In the first half of the episode Rick and Svea share where their vulnerabilities lie regarding money. In the second half they dig into contentment.Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:12 Rick's history with Football.04:25 Rick and Svea wrestle through how calendars and money demonstrate who or what has our hearts.07:05 Svea talks about being vulnerable to finding security

Church Is Messy: The Lion's Share - Just Enough

Jan 08 2025 38 mins  
In this episode, Rick and Svea unpack some of the ideas behind "Just Enough."Topics Discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro00:27 Review of 202404:45 The Lion's Share.07:37 The tension and awkwardness of a money message series.08:20 Wanting for people not from people.12:53 Resisting the temptation to sit the series out.15:00 The topics this series will cover.16:07 Just enough.18:23 Do

Church Is Messy: Jonah Week 6 - Unrelenting Grace

Nov 06 2024 33 mins  
Rick and Svea close out Jonah talking about traps, windows and mirrors, God's judgement in the Old Testament, and how we can apply the themes of Jonah to life after elections (this episode was recorded on Election Day, 2024). Ultimately, it boils down to this week's sermon topic: Unrelenting Grace.Topics discussed in this Episode:00:00 Intro01:22 Election Day banter.02:46 A pastora