The Harvest Sarasota: Sermons for Deconstructing and Challenging Traditional Faith with Pastor Dan Minor

Dan Minor
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Welcome to the Harvest Sarasota Sermon Podcast with Pastor Dan Minor, where we embrace an affirming, progressive faith that speaks to today's challenges with hope, compassion, and inclusivity. Each episode invites you to explore timeless biblical truths in fresh, relevant ways, guiding you to deepen your spiritual journey while celebrating the diversity of God's love for all people. Whether you're seeking encouragement, growth, or a deeper connection with your faith, Pastor Dan's messages offer thought-provoking insights that inspire action, foster community, and uplift the soul. Join us and experience a faith rooted in love, justice, and transformation.

  1. 4d ago

    Church Hurt, Deconstruction, and Hope

    Send us Fan Mail “What if God is not waiting at the end of our deconstruction with a test, but with a lantern?” In this honest and hopeful message, Dan Minor speaks directly to the complicated journey of faith deconstruction, church hurt, and what it means to find something worth keeping in the ruins. Rather than framing deconstruction as destruction or abandonment, Dan invites us to consider a deeper possibility: redemption. Through the stories of Adam and Eve, Jacob, and Jesus cleansing the temple, this message explores how our theology, spirituality, and sacred community can be reimagined through a healthier lens. Not everything from our past needs to be rebuilt. Not everything needs to be thrown away. Some things need to be redeemed. Listen in for a message about shame, pursuit, spiritual searching, religious harm, and the God who meets us in the ruins with light. #HarvestSarasota #HarvestSarasotaPodcast #DanMinor #FaithDeconstruction #Deconstruction #FaithAfterDeconstruction #ChurchHurt #ReligiousTrauma #SpiritualHealing #ProgressiveChristianity #InclusiveChurch #FaithJourney #Redemption #Theology #Spirituality #SacredCommunity #ChurchRenewal #JesusAndJustice #HealingAndHope #GodInTheRuins Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    40 min

  2. Jun 16

    Rev. Dr. Erin Edwards: Pride, Humility, and the Way of Jesus

    Send us Fan Mail “Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is moving into what the Spirit is trying to do right now.” In this bold and deeply moving message, Rev. Dr. Erin Edwards brings humor, honesty, and holy fire to a conversation about Pride, humility, justice, and what it really means to follow Jesus. Preaching during Pride Month, Rev. Dr. Edwards challenges the idea that humility means shrinking, hiding, or becoming less than who God created us to be. Instead, she calls us into a deeper kind of courage: knowing we are beloved, walking humbly with God, serving without needing recognition, and becoming a church where healing, restoration, and transformation are actually possible. With stories from her own life, her family, and Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, this message asks a powerful question: What could happen if we were proud of who we are, but humble enough to let God keep changing us? Listen in for a message about belovedness, service, Pride Month, and the kind of humility that can change a church, a community, and a life. Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    42 min

  3. Jun 10

    Human Ammunition

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when religion stops seeing people as people and starts using them as ammunition? In this sermon, Pastor Dan uses the story of the woman caught in adultery to confront one of the cruelest habits of modern Christianity: turning vulnerable people into talking points, culture-war targets, and proof texts for someone else’s agenda. But Jesus refuses to play that game. When the religious crowd drags a woman into the center to make a point, Jesus sees what they refuse to see: a human being. Not a prop. Not a scandal. Not a sermon illustration. Not ammunition. This message is a call back to the heart of Jesus, a Jesus who stands between the accused and the accusers, between the vulnerable and the stones, between the person being used and the people using them. Because if people cannot find mercy, grace, and hope in our communities, whatever else we are defending, we are not defending it in the way of Jesus. #HarvestSarasota #HumanAmmunition #ProgressiveChristianity #PastorDan #InclusiveChurch #FaithWithoutFear #John8 #JesusAndMercy #PeopleAreNotProps #StopDehumanizingPeople #LGBTQAffirmingChurch #ImmigrantJustice #ReligiousTrauma #FaithAfterHarm #MercyOverMorality #CultureWarChristianity #Deconstruction #Exvangelical #JesusNotEmpire #NoMoreStones #LoveYourNeighbor #ProgressiveFaith Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    40 min

  4. Jun 1

    Jesus Saves...the Party

    Send us Fan Mail What if Jesus was bad at starting a religion because he was never trying to build a machine? In this sermon, Pastor Dan Minor reminds us that Jesus did not come with a five-year plan, a brand strategy, a headquarters, or a hustle-culture blueprint. He came with twelve friends. He came with dinners, stories, weddings, walks, children, bread, wine, and the unhurried work of connection. At Harvest Sarasota, we are not trying to build a church that runs people over in the name of results. We are trying to follow the way of Jesus, where belonging comes before mission, connection comes before service, and people matter more than efficiency. Because things can grow and still be unhealthy. Things can work and still wound people. Things can look impressive and still have nothing to do with Christ. The kingdom of God is not a machine. It is a table. It is a community. It is the slow, sacred work of being with God and with one another. #HarvestSarasota #PastorDanMinor #ProgressiveChristianity #ProgressiveFaith #InclusiveChurch #JesusSavesTheParty #ConnectionBeforeMission #PeopleOverResults #TheWayOfJesus #FaithCommunity #BelongingBeforeBelieving #ChurchIsNotAMachine #EfficiencyIsNotFaithfulness #JesusAndCommunity #TableNotMachine #SlowFaith #SpiritualCommunity #SarasotaChurch Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    38 min

  5. Jun 1

    Pentecost Sunday for the Deconstructed: Guest Stan Mitchell

    Send us Fan Mail In this Pentecost Sunday sermon, Pastor Stan Mitchell invites us into one of the most tender and disruptive moments in the resurrection story: Jesus telling Mary Magdalene, “Don’t hold on to me.” For anyone who has ever lost the Jesus they once knew, this message offers a startling word of hope. Maybe losing an old understanding of Christ is not the failure of faith. Maybe it is faith growing up. Maybe Jesus is always lovingly uncurling our fingers from the version of him we have clung to, not because he is leaving us, but because Spirit is leading us into a larger, freer, more inclusive revelation of who Christ is. Pentecost reminds us that Jesus does not ask to be preserved in the past. He keeps returning in new ways, expanding our consciousness, disrupting our certainty, and inviting us to stop clinging so tightly to what we have known, so we can receive what love is revealing next. #HarvestSarasota #PastorStanMitchell #ProgressiveChristianity #Pentecost #Eastertide #Deconstruction #FaithAfterCertainty #StillChristian #StillPentecostal #MaryMagdalene #ResurrectionHope #InclusiveChurch #LGBTQAffirmingChurch #SpiritualReconstruction #TheChristWhoReturns #ProgressiveFaith #FaithJourney #GodCallsYourName Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    17 min

  6. May 14

    We Go Together: Part 2

    Send us Fan Mail In this Mother’s Day sermon, Pastor Dan Minor continues the conversation around the 99 and the one, asking what love looks like when it refuses to stay comfortable. With humor, honesty, and a deeply pastoral challenge, this message reframes community as something active: noticing who is missing, moving toward pain, refusing disconnection, and becoming the kind of people who go with Jesus to the margins. Because when Jesus goes searching, love does not just make room. Love makes joy. #PastorDanMinor #HarvestSarasota #SermonPodcast #TheLostSheep #Luke15 #MothersDaySermon #LoveMoves #InclusiveChurch #ProgressiveChristianity #Belonging #FaithInAction #TheMarginsAreHolyGround #CommunityHealing #DisconnectionIsAnIllusion #LovePaysAttention Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    38 min

  7. May 14

    We Go Together: Where is the 99? Part 1

    Send us Fan Mail What if the story of the 99 and the one isn’t just about a lost sheep coming home, but about whether the 99 have become the kind of community anyone would want to return to? In this sermon, Pastor Dan Minor reimagines repentance not as shame, humiliation, or moral failure, but as metanoia, a change of mind, a reorientation toward belonging, joy, and love. This message challenges the church to ask harder questions: Who has been pushed to the margins? Who left because they felt unsafe? And what would it look like for the 99 to repent too? #PastorDanMinor #DanMinor #HarvestSarasota #SermonPodcast #ProgressiveChristianity #RethinkingRepentance #TheLostSheep #Luke15 #Belonging #InclusiveChurch #FaithDeconstruction #Metanoia #ChurchHurt #LoveChangesEverything #GraceOverShame Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    35 min

  8. Apr 21

    Blessed Are the Uncomfortable!

    Send us Fan Mail What if the version of Jesus we’ve been following… is the version that costs us the least? What if we’ve gotten so comfortable, so certain, so in control… that we literally can’t see the parts of Jesus that challenge us anymore? In this message, Dan Minor takes aim at a hard truth: the Church didn’t lose the Bible— we lost the lens to read it. From the Beatitudes to the rich young ruler, from refugee camps to American Christianity, this sermon pulls no punches: Why “blessed are the poor” doesn’t work from the topHow certainty can replace truth and control can replace faithWhy the biggest barrier to following Jesus might be… what you’re not willing to loseAnd the one question Jesus keeps asking that we keep avoiding: Who is this not working for?This isn’t safe. It’s not polished. And it’s definitely not comfortable. But it might be the clearest invitation you’ve heard in a long time to actually follow Jesus. Support the show Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida. Follow us on Social Media: Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasota Facebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasota TikTok CLICK HERE DONATE to support our podcast HERE Recorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

    40 min
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Welcome to the Harvest Sarasota Sermon Podcast with Pastor Dan Minor, where we embrace an affirming, progressive faith that speaks to today's challenges with hope, compassion, and inclusivity. Each episode invites you to explore timeless biblical truths in fresh, relevant ways, guiding you to deepen your spiritual journey while celebrating the diversity of God's love for all people. Whether you're seeking encouragement, growth, or a deeper connection with your faith, Pastor Dan's messages offer thought-provoking insights that inspire action, foster community, and uplift the soul. Join us and experience a faith rooted in love, justice, and transformation.

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