Mission Saint James
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About this podcast
Sermons of the preaching ministry at Mission Saint James Anglican Fellowship in Jackson, Tennessee
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- The Front Door: Relational Hospitality · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 42What is hospitality? Why does the Bible speak so often about welcoming the strangers in our lives? This week, we look at our fourth core values at Mission Saint James: Relational…
- The Foundation: Biblical Orthodoxy · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 39This week we begin a 6-part series on our Core Values at Mission Saint James. Using the metaphor of a house, Fr. Ben Williams shares what matters most as we seek to be a place…
- I Will Build My Church · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 38What is the Church and why is it important? Can’t I be a Christian even if I don’t “go to church?” These are common questions we ask when we look around at the state of the…
- Grafted In · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 37What is baptism? Why do Anglicans call it a sacrament? Why do Anglicans baptize infants? This week, we celebrate the baptism of one of our own! Baptism is our entrance into the…
- Losing Control · 22 min · Season 4 Episode 36What happens when you lose control? Do you step further into the chaos or do you panic and succumb to fear and doubt? What if you weren’t meant to have control? How do we live…
- God’s Merciful Compassion · 18 min · Season 4 Episode 35What is true compassion and why is it so important to the Christian life? When Jesus looks upon the crowd of 5,000, He has compassion on them. The compassion of Jesus leads to…
- Start Small · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 34What is the Kingdom of God? Where can we find it? Jesus’ parables describe God’s Kingdom, but don't explicitly define it. As His parables suggest, the kingdom seems small…
- Wheat & Weeds · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 33Why is it so difficult to live the Christian life? Why is it so difficult to live life in general? Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s because the devil has sown weeds…
- Good Soil · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 32Why is it that so many people fall away from the faith? Is it a matter of rebellion? Laziness? Deception? Jesus’ answer to this question is soil. This week, Fr. Ben Williams…
- Prisoners of Hope · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 31If Christians carry within them the hope of the world, how do we share that hope? This week, Fr. Ben Williams concludes our 5-week series on the Hope of the World. The rest that…
- Selling Out · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 30What do you value so much that you are willing to forsake everything else to gain? What are you willing to sell out for? This is the question that Jesus challenges us with this…
- Resident Aliens · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 29Does it ever feel like you’re not at home where you are? Like you live in one place, but were made for another? This week, we continue our series on the Hope of the World with…
- Getting Our House in Order · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 28What is most important to you? How do you order your life so that the main thing stays the main thing. In our second week of a series titled, The Hope of the World, Fr. Ben leads…
- Two Places at Once · 19 min · Season 4 Episode 27Have you ever experienced two worlds colliding? Your friends may see you in a different light than your family sees you. When those worlds collide, it can be awkward. This week…
- Friendship with Christ · 24 min · Season 4 Episode 23What does it mean to be a friend? What does it mean to be a friend with Jesus? These questions are at the heart of this week’s sermon on John 15:12-17. Jesus says, “You are my…
- Nourished on the Word · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 22Where do you go for nourishment? When you feel dry, thirsty, and hungry, do you reach for something that truly nourishes you, or do you simply grasp for something that will tide…
- Hearing Voices · 18 min · Season 4 Episode 21How many voices do you hear each day? Which voices do you listen to the most? Who do those voices belong to? In John 10, Jesus calls himself the Good Shepherd and states that his…
- Now You See Him, Now You Don’t · 17 min · Season 4 Episode 20Do you ever feel like Jesus is there one minute and seems to disappear the next? Such times can lead us into a season of doubt and unbelief. The Apostle Thomas struggled with…
- Ambivalence · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 18Why is it that Christians can praise God one minute and turn their backs on Him the next? For this Palm Sunday message, Fr. Ben Williams suggests that this happens because we are…
- The Whole Point · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 17Why is there so much suffering in the world? If God is so good, why is there so much death? These are some of the most vexing challenges to the Christian faith. However, in the…
