Artisan Church Podcast

Members of the Artisan community share the major shifts they experienced as they transitioned from childhood faith to an adult faith. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Sunday School 2.0”

How do we know what we believe as we age? Pastor Jae explores how the stories we loved best as children create deep imprints in our understanding of God and how encountering those stories evolves as we do. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Sunday School 2.0”

Many children who’ve grown up in church have been taught to see themselves through shame and fear. Together we’ll consider what changes when we believe we are actually good inside, and how that shift makes space for true community, restoration, and flourishing. Speaker: Pastor Jessie Brajcki Part of the series “Sunday School 2.0”

Joseph. Daniel. Noah. Moses. Even Jesus himself! Many of us learned of these heroes of the faith as cute, cartoonish characters—sort of a biblical Sesame Street. But few of us really learned the broader arc of the Bible's stories, and without this, we will struggle to apply these mysterious ancient texts to our modern lives. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Sunday School 2.0”

In our next WSMF message, Zachary Foster shares about his sobriety journey for National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Awareness Month. Speaker: Zachary Foster Part of the series “Work of the People (What's Saving My Faith): What's Saving My Faith”

Making healthy, thoughtful choices can help us protect fragile parts of us that require boundaries.  But what if those boundaries are crossed?  What if we outgrow these boundaries? Pastor Jae investigates how daily work can help us navigate a way out of circular mazes. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

Many of us experience fractured relationships. No matter where blame belongs, we can often feel “lost” on what our complicated relationships can look like in the future.  Pastor Jae explores how accepting little losses every day can direct us to finding something unexpected. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

One of the challenges of applying Jesus's teaching to our modern lives (such as trying to negotiate pain that comes from people we love) is that we struggle with who we are in his stories. We will investigate the Parable of the Good Samaritan, considering the possibility that for once, we are not the hero in the story. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

Join us as author, speaker, and comedian Brit Barron kicks off our Do You Still Talk to Grandma series, where we’ll reflect on the difficult negotiation work of striving to find a way forward without allowing differences with family members to entrap us in Cancel Culture ideologies. Speaker: Brit Barron Part of the series “Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives are the Ones We Love”

So much of our spiritual life revolves around believing in things that are not yet apparent to us.  Pastor Jae explores how through Abraham’s story we can glimpse God’s plan to move treasure from a garden to a city, and how we’re all part of the moving crew. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

What the Bible really has to say about the meaning of our life on earth might surprise you. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

Reading Scripture across cultures and millenia is not easy work.  Our own inner world can quickly become knotted as we seek simple answers to complex questions.  Pastor Jae focuses on Luke 11 as a way to point to the power of prayer as a way to navigate some discontinuities in our spirituality. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

In a special Pride Month edition of "What's Saving My Faith," Penny Sterling shares about how action saved (and is saving) her faith. Speaker: Penny Sterling Part of the series “Work of the People (What's Saving My Faith): What's Saving My Faith”

The metaphor of bearing fruit is one of the most powerful images of the Christian life in all of scripture. What does it mean for faithful followers to bear fruit in body, stock, and soil? How can we bear fruit in every good work? Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

On his way to Jerusalem with his disciples, Jesus interacts with several people: some who oppose him, some who want to follow him halfheartedly. His responses to these individuals are hard to understand. We will explore these interactions together, placing ourselves into the story. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

Pastor Jae explores that while Jesus does inaugurate his kingdom on earth, daily discipline is needed to help us discover where, as Frederich Buecner says, our “deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

On Trinity Sunday, we reflect on one of the deepest theological mysteries of the Christian faith, but ultimately—as always—we return to the Law of Love. Speaker: Pastor Scott Austin Part of the series “Ordinary Time: No holidays. No feast days. Just "normal."”

An Artisan Church tradition: Pentecost readings from the Bible in many languages, plus devotional reflections from several different Artisan members! Speaker: Various Part of the series “Ordinary Time”

Prayer is one of the main access roads to our spiritual life, but for many it presents daily challenges.  As we prepare for the Pentecost, we dust off our prayer life in order to stay awake to the presence of God’s activity in our lives. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Eastertide”

When Jesus gives a new commandment, it is not complicated.  It is, however, challenging.  Calling others to love one another, Jesus reorders how we relate to others, God, and ourselves. Speaker: Pastor Jae Newman Part of the series “Eastertide”