Pastor Casey Flynn joins to discuss the importance of a healthy prayer life, his journey of renewing his own prayer life and how to renew your own. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

This week Oleh Korol from Steiger Ukraine joins the podcast to share an update on the missionary efforts in Ukraine, how the war has affected their ministry and the importance of continuing to share the gospel. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Bryan Haville joins the podcast to discuss his role as deacon and how we can rethink what worship is and how that impacts the way we worship on Sundays. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Pastor Spencer Bernard joins the podcast to discuss his role as the Lead Teaching Pastor and overseer of the Sunday Service Experience at Hometown. Is the Sunday service for the visitor or the member? How do you go about putting together a sermon? Should we be preaching expository or topical style? Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Pastors Deacon Ales and Jim Bosholm join the podcast to discuss the importance and challenges of running a successful kids ministry, their roles in it and why it is one of our Divine Focus ministries at Hometown. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Tom McManus joins the podcast to discuss the importance of teen ministry at Hometown, his new role as deacon and how we go about discipling our youth. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Pastor Kitt Guerrier joins to talk about his new role overseeing leadership development at Hometown, why this is something so important to us and what the fundamentals of good leadership is. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Pastors Jeff Groen and Mike Langlois join the podcast to talk about one area of our Divine Focus as a church: Small Groups. Over the last few years, we have narrowed down our church's focus into 5 specific ministries to become more effective in carrying out our mission to make healthy disciples who passionately love Jesus and authentically love people. Pastors Jeff and Mike oversee one of those five; small groups. They join to share more about their role, the importance of small groups and wh...

This week we break down the final chapter of Colossians and look back on the message of Paul's letter as a whole. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

This week we continue our journey through the Letter of Colossians. Paul begins to move away from the behaviors and attitudes that we need to avoid and into the behaviors and attitudes we must adopt. How do we live out the new nature in Christ? How do we express that new nature? How does that new nature affect our relationships? Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

This week we continue into chapter 3 of the Letter to the Colossians as Paul begins to describe what the transformed life of a Christian should look like beginning with putting our old life to death. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

This week we continue our journey through the Letter of Colossians unpacking Paul's warning to beware of false teachings. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

We continue our journey through the letter of Colossians discussing the suffering of Paul and the mystery of the gospel. What does it mean for Paul to “complete in his flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body?” Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

As we continue our study through the book of Colossians, we unpack Paul's poetic description of the identity and supremacy of Christ and what that means for us today. Understanding Eternal Security: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5ebae0906778cb4708ca1cc0/63c2b44c6a006244a70e3b35_Eternal%20Security%20A.pdf Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

We continue our study through the Book of Colossians breaking down Paul's intercessory prayer for the church in Colosse in Col 1:9-14 including what it means to discern God's will, what fruit we are looking for, why endurance and gratitude matter and the theme of redemption and rescue. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com

Today, we are starting a new series going through the letter of Colossians. This last Sunday as a church we began a new sermon series called Colossians: A Blueprint for Faith that Lasts where we will be going through the letter of Colossians over the next 8 weeks learning about how to build a foundation on the gospel that sets us up for a life of faith that endures. And so, what we are going to do on this podcast is go through the letter alongside the sermon series from a more Bible study app...

ColossiansA BLUEPRINT FOR FAITH THAT LASTS A lot of people start strong in their faith—but not everyone finishes well. What makes the difference? In the book of Colossians, Paul gives us a blueprint for building a spiritual life that’s rooted in truth, fueled by grace, and centered on Christ. This 8-week series is for anyone who’s started walking with Jesus and wants to keep growing stronger. We’ll learn how to stay grounded when life shakes us, pray with purpose, let go of old habits, and l...

Today we are continuing our look ahead to MTOC which is our annual local mission trip that we do as a church. And in preparation for that we wanted to have a few conversations centered around outreach and sharing our faith. And so joining us for this to help us get ready for this is Pastor Rob. Today will be the second in a two part conversation where we first looked at 10 lies that people believe that prevent them from sharing their faith which was last week’s episode. This week we wil...

Today we are continuing our look ahead to MTOC which is our annual local mission trip that we do as a church. And in preparation for that we wanted to have a few conversations centered around outreach and sharing our faith. And so joining us for the next couple of weeks to help us get ready for this is Pastor Rob. Today will be the first in a two part conversation where we first look at 10 lies that people believe that prevent them from sharing their faith. Contact us at podcast@h...

About two months ago, we sent a team to Milan, Italy to work alongside our mission partners at Le Refugio church led by Pastor Frank Apisa and his wife Pam as well as missionaries, Justin and Amanda Lehtonen, who moved to Milan several years ago to help build the church and bring the gospel to the people of Italy. This week, we have assembled all 9 members from that trip to share some reflections and lessons learned from our time in Italy. Contact us at podcast@hometownchurch.com