The Garden is a church in San Antonio’s Medical Center that has come together to pursue Christ’s calling to be his body and to testify in the unique communities here to Christ’s life and love. This podcast hosts our sermons, captured weekly from our Sunday worship gatherings.
Latest episodes
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31 min
Part 10 | True Love Waits
Each of us knows the sting of failed promises. In the wake of disappointment, it can become easy to grow skeptical of the dependency of others. What are we to make then of a God wh…
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54 min
Part 9 | How Can You Be Sure?
Doubt has been the burden of many followers of God throughout history. Some view doubt as the antithesis of faith, but when we look at the stories of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar, we…
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59 min
Part 8 | The National Anthem
What does it mean to be righteous? Our Genesis series, For Glory and For Good, continues with the covenant promise to Abraham, which helps us see that God’s people are not defined…
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57 min
Part 7 | Follow Me Around
What does it mean to be called by God? In contemporary culture, “calling” has come to mean something like a mix of “passion and skillset and purpose,” but in the Bible, the calling…
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50 min
Partner Sunday | How to Persevere
Four Sundays a year, we invite a friend and ministry partner to discuss one of The Garden's four core values, which are really values for every believer and community in Christ. Th…
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59 min
Part 6 | House of Cards
Pastor Caleb continues For Glory and For Good with a look at one of the most infamous episodes in the Book of Genesis. In constructing a high tower at the center of their city, the…
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53 min
Part 5 | High and Dry
Our series For Glory and For Good moves to another key figure in the book of Genesis. When it becomes clear humanity is irreparably corrupted by its sinful pursuits, bringing the e…
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38 min
Part 4 | All I Need
Pastoral Resident Nate Garza continues For Glory and for Good with a consideration of work and rest – and more deeply, purpose and fulfillment. After Adam and Eve’s sinful decision…
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56 min
Part 3 | Let Down
Our series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, continues with the first instance of sin in history and its awful fallout. Adam and Eve are tempted to leave God’s c…
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59 min
Part 2 | Where I End and You Begin
Pastor Caleb continues our series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, with a question asked in the account of creation that has remained central to humanity since…
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50 min
Part 1 | Everything In Its Right Place
We kick off a new series through the book of Genesis, For Glory and for Good, with a look at the beginning of the world. As Pastor Caleb shows, though much has been made of interpr…
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45 min
Part 8 | The Family Tree
Pastor Caleb closes our discipleship series, Walking Home, with a look at community. As we see the first church established in the book of Acts, we find in the Gospel's proclamatio…
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28 min
Part 7 | The Ground and the Growth
Our good friend Amanda Gallegos joins us for our Walking Home series with a look at what happens when we live our lives by the rhythm of communion. Jesus' promise to his disciples…
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41 min
Part 6 | Hungering, Healing, Helping
As our series Walking Home continues, we move from the subject of pain to the subject of healing. Taking a look at Luke 9, Pastor Caleb considers what it means for disciples to kno…
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41 min
Part 5 | In the Bleeding and the Blessing
Pastor Caleb continues our series Walking Home with a look at the prayer life of a disciple. Throughout Scripture we see the people of God come to Him with boldness and honesty thr…
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47 min
Part 4 | Perfect Makes Practice
Our series on discipleship, Walking Home, continues with a look at what it means to practice our faith. Pastor Caleb turns to the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. Wha…
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35 min
Part 3 | Transforming Love
Pastoral Resident Nate Garza continues our series on discipleship, Walking Home, considering the topic of transformation. What does it mean to be made new? When the Spirit works in…
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55 min
Part 2 | Caught and Released
Continuing our series on discipleship, Walking Home, Pastor Caleb looks at the other side of following Jesus. Looking at Luke chapter five, we see in Jesus' call to Peter and to Le…
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58 min
Part 1 | What Do You See?
We begin a new series on discipleship, Walking Home, with a look at Jesus' invitation to follow after him, given to his disciples in the Gospel of John: "Come and see." His call he…
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34 min
Part 6 | One Peace at a Time
Our series through Jesus’ Beatitudes continues with a look at God’s promise to the peacemakers. Pastoral Resident Nate Garza shares the meaning of Jesus’ statement by walking us th…