Manhattan Church of Christ Podcast

Manhattan Church of Christ
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The weekly podcast of the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York City. The Manhattan Church of Christ is located in New York City and seeks to worship and Glorify God. We proclaim the message of Jesus Christ and study and follow the Bible. We seek to create a loving community of Christians and to serve people who are in need. Visit our website at www.manhattanchurch.org

Episodes

  1. Jul 5

    250 Years in Nation and Community

    In a sermon on 1 Peter 2:9-17, Dr. Tom Robinson speaks on the origin of the U.S. and how living as a Christian means balancing devotion to God and the rules of God with human laws and social systems. Tom looks at the Roman empire and its attitude towards Christians and pulls connections vitally relevant to the world today. Often, he pull of human society and human laws can clash with the teachings of the nation of God. Tom speaks on the importance of not letting the human nation pull you too far from the nation of God, but still do your duty to both, which includes leaders. No matter what your responsibility is to love others.

    56 min

  2. Jun 28

    Loving Our Neighbor in a Hostile Climate

    Sermon by Jason Isbell This week's sermon is on Luke 10:25–37, the parable of the Good Samaritan, paired with 2 Chronicles 28:1–15. Jesus answers the question "who is my neighbor" with a story that crosses deep lines of hatred and prejudice, and we pair it with a lesser-known Old Testament story where an entire nation, not just one person, chooses mercy toward people they had every right to despise. The sermon connects that ancient call to costly, collective mercy with the unease and hostility many of our neighbors are living with right now, here in this city and in our nation. It closes with a reading of Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "Kindness," which speaks to what it costs to actually learn mercy firsthand.

    33 min

  3. Jun 21

    God’s Community from Nation to Creation

    Sermon led by Dr. Tom Robinson on Father's Day focusing on how when the Church was growing the cultural differences in the churches popping up around the world there was initially some friction, but through Jesus it was overcome. Building off of his sermon on Pentecost, while people did all hear in different languages, there was always still the same meaning. Instead of those cultural differences between Jews and Greeks being what controlled people, Jesus and the Christian persecution that followed shortly after Jesus's death forced the disciples and other Christian-Jews to interact with Greek people. As a result, their preconceptions fell away as they realized each other were human, and many Greeks were converted to Christianity after the apostles spoke to them. Jesus coming changed the world from what it was before: there is no Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; they are all those anointed in Christ.

    44 min

  4. Jun 14

    The Ministry of Unfinished People

    Focusing on Lamentations 3:17-25, Carl Garrison talks about the irrational nature of ministry, and faith. The writer in Lamentations speaks about the pain of reality, but in the midst of that pain there is a hope and longing for God's mercy. There remains a desire for God even in the face of every reason to not believe and desire God, the irrational belief before evidence. The life of Jesus is exactly that: facing incredible pain and betrayal as a man, following the will of a God that He cannot see. The ministry comes in when others see the acceptance of the reality of pain and failure, but still not giving into despair and keeping their hope in God. Carl speaks about the difficulty of this in practice, and how preconceived bias about unhoused people, LGBTQ+, those who who not look or act like stereotypical churchgoers. Ministry is about compassion and mercy, doing for others what God has done for humanity, which begins with yourself. To become a minister to others means you have to be able to hear a person's trauma and not need to fix it, and to see a person as more than their pain. And as Jesus focused his ministry on those whose whose dignity has been overlooked and abused, ministry now is about the expansion of human dignity.

    31 min

  5. Jun 7

    Community of Faith – Community with God

    Sermon led by Dr. Tom Robinson on Acts 2:32-33, 36-47, speaking on how the Spirit of God is not discriminatingly dispensed but is poured out on everyone. The Spirit does not care about social class, gender, ethnicity, race, or any other Earthly structures. What matters to the Spirit and what brings people together is belief in Jesus and following His teachings.

    51 min

  6. Jun 4

    Bread of Life in a Wilderness

    Recieving the Bread of Life - Exodus 16, John 6

    45 min

  7. Jun 4

    A Community Without Barriers – Women in the NT and the Church Today

    by Dr. Thomas Robinson explores the role of women in the Bible and how they were treated in the early Christian communities, particularly focusing on Jesus’ interactions with women. It highlights how Jesus consistently broke cultural and societal norms by treating women with respect and dignity, allowing them to serve as his disciples and even become key witnesses to his resurrection.

    48 min

  8. May 31

    Beloved Community: Exiles in the Greatest City in the World

    None of us are here by accident. God planted us in the greatest, most complex, most intense cities in the world, and the call isn't to escape it, sanitize it, or be overwhelmed by the chaos. The call is to seek its welfare. To build, plant, invest, and pray. Even when the city doesn't share our values, even when the Jesus ethic creates friction with the surrounding culture, even when we only see each other on Sundays. The church isn't where we hide from the city. It's where we seek refuge from the "scatter" to encourage one another, lift each other up, and inspire each other to live out the message and values of Christ in the city we call home.

    37 min

  9. May 24

    A New Community of God’s Spirit

    Sermon led by Dr. Tom Robinson on Pentecost, comparing the Pentecost depicted in Acts 2 with Moses on Mount Sinai. In Exodus after the Pharaoh tried to stamp out Jewish culture when they were enslaved in Egypt, the Israelites received the Ten Commandments from God through Moses, which created an identity around the Israelites through those commandments. But in Acts, after Herod tried to do the same as the Pharaoh, what the disciples receive from God in Acts 2 is not limited to Jews. Instead, after Jesus's death, the countryside Galilean apostles, not the chief priests, spoke with the power of the Spirit in tongues, so all could understand. Christianity became a new community available to anyone through Jesus and the Spirit.

    51 min

  10. May 17

    Ancient Words, Modern Embodiments: Does our Reading Bring Freedom?

    In a sermon by Carl Garrison, he asks the question: What do we do with ancient words in a world where those same words have been used both to liberate and to oppress? In this message from Luke 4:16–30, John 5:39–40, Mark 2:27, and Matthew 7:24–27, Carl explores how Jesus engaged scripture, not as a rulebook to quote, but as a living argument to wrestle, embody, and risk. Jesus read the text through the bodies of the oppressed, bent it toward the margins, and got killed for it. Carl calls us to do the same: to ask not just whether we're reading correctly, but whether our reading is bringing freedom, or protecting the systems Jesus spent his life resisting.

    34 min
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The weekly podcast of the Manhattan Church of Christ in New York City. The Manhattan Church of Christ is located in New York City and seeks to worship and Glorify God. We proclaim the message of Jesus Christ and study and follow the Bible. We seek to create a loving community of Christians and to serve people who are in need. Visit our website at www.manhattanchurch.org

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