The Garden Church – Sunday Teachings
by The Garden Church · 357 episodes
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The Garden Church (formerly Reality Church Boston) is a community of everyday people on a journey to be shaped by and share Jesus’ love in Boston and beyond. Follow along for our weekly Sunday teachings.
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27 min
Life in the Light | Who Dis?
Teacher: Caleb McCoy Text: 1 John 4:1-6 Caleb asks a question we all face daily: with this many voices in our feeds, pulpits, and headlines, who do we actually listen to? John’s an…
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30 min
Life in the Light | A Bigger Love
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 John 2:12–17 In this sermon from 1 John 2:12–17, Pastor Josh reminds us that John's warning about "the world" isn't a ban on wanting things. Rather, th…
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34 min
Life in the Light | Proof of Life
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 John 2:3–10 How do you know your faith is real? In this sermon from 1 John 2, Pastor Josh suggests that the answer doesn't lie in how hard you believe…
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36 min
Life in the Light | Nothing Left to Hide
Teacher: Mandi Paszek Text: 1 John 1:8–2:2 We all default to justifying, minimizing, or ignoring what's wrong in us, but in the Gospels, Jesus meets sinners with welcome instead of…
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32 min
Life in the Light | Close Enough to Touch
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 John 1:1–7 How do we know our faith is the real thing? John's answer in 1 John 1 cuts against our instinct to reduce faith to one piece—being moral, kn…
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28 min
Be My Witness | A Beautiful Life
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 Peter 2:9–12 and 3:15–16 In the final sermon of the Be My Witness series, Pastor Josh asks a question that's easy to dodge: when people look at our liv…
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31 min
Be My Witness | Share The Good News
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 2 Corinthians 5:14–21 We tend to treat faith like a favorite ice cream flavor—true for me, maybe not for you—but Paul calls us ambassadors, people entrus…
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33 min
Be My Witness | Partner With The Holy Spirit
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Acts 8:26–39 In this sermon from Acts 8, Pastor Josh makes a counterintuitive case: witness begins not with talking, but with listening. Long before we e…
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38 min
Be My Witness | Practice Hospitality
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Luke 19:1–10 In this sermon from Luke 19, Pastor Josh argues that what keeps us from sharing good news usually isn't the awkwardness of faith — it's the…
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39 min
Be My Witness | Begin With Love
Teacher: Mandi Paszek Text: Acts 1:8; John 4We begin the Be My Witness series with love. In this sermon, Mandi asks why being a witness so often feels like being a used-car salesma…
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23 min
Psalms For The Wholehearted | A World Alive With Praise
Teacher: Damaris Taylor Text: Psalm 103 Damaris Taylor closes our psalms series with a reciting of the reasons to praise — not a mood we manufacture, but a response to what God has…
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30 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | Worship That Makes Things Right
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Psalm 146:5-10 In this sermon from Psalm 146, Pastor Josh traces the difference between the princes who can't save us — politicians, portfolios, five-yea…
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30 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | What to Do With Anger
Teacher: Maggie Austen Text: Psalm 10:1-2, 12-17 In this sermon from Psalm 10, Maggie Austen names two lies most of us believe about anger — that it isn't safe, or that it isn't ev…
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32 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | Joy Without Pretending
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Psalm 126:1-6 In this sermon from Psalm 126, Pastor Josh asks how joy can survive when life feels dry and our prayers go unanswered. The psalm is a song…
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33 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | The Grace of Lament
Teacher: Mandi Paszek Text: Psalm 42:1-11 In this sermon from Psalm 42, Mandi makes the case that lament—bringing our real grief honestly to God—isn't the opposite of faith but a d…
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27 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | Borrowed Words
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Psalm 86:1-7 Psalm 86 reads as one of the most personal prayers in Scripture, yet it's almost entirely borrowed. It's a patchwork of older psalms and the…
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26 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | We Sing Together
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Psalm 122:1-4 In this sermon from Psalm 122, Pastor Josh makes a quiet but unsettling claim: faith is deeply personal, but it was never meant to be priva…
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22 min
Psalms for the Wholehearted | Come Into the Light
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Psalm 139:1-6, 23-24 Psalm 139 claims that God sees and knows us completely—but is being fully seen good news, or a threat? In Josh's first sermon of the…
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39 min
Faithful in Babylon | Ordinary, Habitual Faithfulness
Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: Daniel 6:10–16 Pastor Josh wrapped up the Faithful in Babylon series with the story of Daniel in the lion's den. In this iconic tale, we see that small,…
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36 min
Faithful in Babylon | The Truth About Power
Teacher: Mandi Paszek Text: Daniel 5:13–30 In this sermon from Daniel 5, Mandi reads the fall of Belshazzar as more than a history lesson—it's a mirror. When Daniel refuses the kin…