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"The Altar-native Sermon" is a weekly podcast that reimagines worship through scripture, reflection, and sound.
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🎧 Season 3, Episode 7 — What We Leave Behind (opens the original)
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Paul knows this is goodbye. In Acts 20, he gathers the elders from Ephesus and looks backward and forward at the same time. He remembers the work they have done together, acknowledges the difficulties ahead, and reminds them that the ministry was never supposed to depend entirely upon him. Then comes the hard part: letting go. This week on The Altarnative Sermon , Rev. Dr. Jeffery Kanode and Adam Herrick talk about finishing your part of the race, handing responsibility to somebody else, and the
🎧 Season 3, Episode 6 — Have You Received the Update? (opens the original)
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Paul arrives in Ephesus and meets a group of believers who seem to be running slightly outdated software. They know John’s baptism—but when Paul asks whether they received the Holy Spirit, their response is essentially, “The Holy what now?” In Acts 19:1–10, faith gets an update. Paul fills in what’s missing, the Holy Spirit moves, and the message begins spreading throughout the region. This week, we’re talking about what happens when God disrupts the version of faith we thought was complete.
🎧 Season 3, Episode 5 — Gods Everywhere, God Unknown (opens the original)
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Paul walks into Athens and finds a city overflowing with religion. Temples. Idols. Altars. Gods for seemingly everything — including one altar dedicated simply “TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.” Instead of condemning the Athenians for what they don’t know, Paul starts with what they do know. He speaks their language, quotes their poets, and uses their own culture to introduce them to the God who cannot be contained in a temple or reduced to an idol. This week on The Altarnative Sermon , Rev. Dr. Jeffery Kanod
🎧 Season 3, Episode 4 — Jailhouse Rock (opens the original)
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Paul and Silas have managed to get themselves into trouble again. After freeing an enslaved woman from the spirit her owners were exploiting for profit, Paul and Silas are dragged before the authorities, beaten, chained, and thrown into the deepest part of a Philippian prison. So what do they do? They sing. At midnight, an earthquake shakes the prison to its foundations. Doors fly open. Chains fall loose. But the biggest surprise isn't that the prisoners can leave. It's that they don't . This we
🎧 Season 3, Episode 3 — Chains, Doors & Stolen Glory (opens the original)
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Acts 15 begins with a seemingly simple claim: some believers from Judea tell the Gentile Christians in Antioch that unless they are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, they cannot be saved. Paul and Barnabas strongly disagree. The dispute becomes significant enough that they travel to Jerusalem to meet with the apostles and elders. There, the Church does something important: **it argues.** Not every disagreement is evidence that the Church is broken. Sometimes disagreement is what happens
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