//podcastplus.net/feed/from-foreside-community-church~23d3b8db God is Still Speaking Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:30:43 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fccpod234.mp3 Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-11The prophets tell us of a time when all will be welcomed to the fullness of home… when all the paths that lead to love will feel short and easy to find. How do we find these paths through life now, and even better, prepare the way for others deeper into the welcome ... Read more The post The Long or Short Way ‘Round appeared first on Foreside Community Church . Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:13:33 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fccpod234.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fccpod229.mp3 Scripture: Matthew 5:1-12As Jesus declares blessing over categories of folk who have known sorrow and challenge, we see in the saints of our lives the gift of those who find in their own pain or grief the calling to deeper love, connection, and hope. The post Saints, Blessed and Broken appeared first on Foreside Community Church . Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:20:20 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fccpod229.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod228.mp3 Scripture: Matthew 22:34-46In the wake of the recent shooting in Maine, we struggle with how to remember what is core to our experience and our purpose, so we return to Jesus’s Greatest Commandment(s). As we seek to more fully love God and love our neighbor as ourselves, how are we also being challenged to love ... Read more The post The Mirror: Beyond the Frame appeared first on Foreside Community Church . Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:10:44 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod228.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod227.mp3 Scripture: Philippians 4:1-9Remembering the diversity of leadership of the early church, we are all called to rejoice in gifts and talents that cannot be contained by a binary as we welcome Maine TransNet to share their work with us. Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:52:20 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod227.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod226.mp3 Scripture: Philippians 3:4b-14As we look to the image of Christ as a mirror that shows us who we can be, sometimes the hardest challenge is letting go the image of ourselves we had in the past. In a time in which ancient tensions are exploding in new violence, how can we release the past to ... Read more Sun, 15 Oct 2023 17:43:05 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fccpod226.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fccpod222.mp3 Scripture: Matthew 18:15-20Jesus shares ways of living in the tensions of community… are these only for emergencies? Or might we be called into a changing community that can engage those tensions and find creativity? Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:06:48 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fccpod222.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fccpod189.mp3 Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25In our Advent and Christmas stories, angels appear in unsettled times with songs of glory and the reminder to, “Be not afraid.” We are called to echo back that song of fearlessness in loving action… Sun, 11 Dec 2022 15:16:37 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fccpod189.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fccpod188.mp3 Scripture: Matthew 3:1-12John the Baptist comes proclaiming one who is to come. So often we have heard that cry as one that is coming to judge our spiritual “housekeeping.” Maybe, instead, the invitation is simply to find room for the Holy to be born in us… just as “In the Bleak Midwinter” invites us to ... Read more Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:45:48 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fccpod188.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/fccpod187.mp3 Scripture: Isaiah 2:1-5The carol by Christina Rosetti, In the Bleak Midwinter, begins with the world frozen, solid, and unchangeable. Yet Christ will come to this landscape. The prophet Isaiah invites us to imagine the earth itself reshaped according to God’s purpose and care. How can we hold onto a hope that might yet melt all ... Read more Sun, 27 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/fccpod187.mp3 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/fccpod186.mp3 Scripture: John 6:25-355,000 people who have been miraculously fed go seeking Jesus for the recipe for this miracle. Yet Jesus reminds us all that God’s miracle is in the gathering community in which the sharing of daily bread can sustain all. Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:58:11 +0000 https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/fccpod186.mp3