The Harvest Sarasota: Sermons for Deconstructing and Challenging Traditional Faith with Pastor Dan Minor
Dan Minor
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Send us a text Before you get to the manger, before the angels and the shepherds and the Christmas cards with the glowing baby Jesus… you have to meet his family. And the truth is, his family is nothing like the polished nativity sets we put in church lobbies. In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at the lineage of Christ — a family tree overflowing with scandal, trauma, exploitation, infidelity, murder, refugees, widows, immigrants, corrupt leaders, victims of injustice, survivors of ...
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Send us a text Before you get to the manger, before the angels and the shepherds and the Christmas cards with the glowing baby Jesus… you have to meet his family. And the truth is, his family is nothing like the polished nativity sets we put in church lobbies. In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at the lineage of Christ — a family tree overflowing with scandal, trauma, exploitation, infidelity, murder, refugees, widows, immigrants, corrupt leaders, victims of injustice, survivors of ...
Send us a text Before you get to the manger, before the angels and the shepherds and the Christmas cards with the glowing baby Jesus… you have to meet his family. And the truth is, his family is nothing like the polished nativity sets we put in church lobbies. In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at the lineage of Christ — a family tree overflowing with scandal, trauma, exploitation, infidelity, murder, refugees, widows, immigrants, corrupt leaders, victims of injustice, survivors of ...
Send us a text There’s a plan to divide us. You can feel it in the air, in the news, in the way we size each other up without even knowing it. But what if the real strategy behind all this tension isn’t political at all? What if the root of our cultural anxiety is spiritual – and ancient? In this episode, we dig deep into the scriptural critique of scarcity, the lie that convinces us there’s not enoughcompassion, not enough belonging, not enough safety, not enough God… and therefore not enoug...
Send us a text What do you do when hope feels more dangerous than despair When every time you believed for something good, life proved you wrong When your nervous system has learned to flinch at the very idea of hope In this raw and tender message, Pastor Dan Minor continues his exploration of reconstruction after spiritual trauma and asks a question few churches ever dare to ask: How do you hope again when hope is the very thing that once hurt you Using a viral Facebook post about unexpected...
Send us a text In this deeply moving and provocative episode of The Harvest Sarasota Podcast, guest speaker Stan Mitchell challenges centuries of inherited theology by reframing the story of Eve not as the origin of sin but as the beginning of shame. With tenderness, wit, and piercing insight, Stan invites listeners to see Genesis 3 through new eyes: what if humanity’s greatest fall wasn’t disobedience but disconnection from our own belovedness? Through a powerful retelling of Eve’s story and...
Send us a text Jesus didn’t hoard the loaves and fishes. He didn’t eat in front of the hungry to “teach self-reliance.” But if you look at how our nation treats refugees, immigrants, and the poor, you might think that story was in the Bible. In this fiery and heartfelt message, Pastor Dan Minor takes aim at the gospel of self-preservation, the theology that baptizes greed, weaponizes scarcity, and calls fear faith. From Sarasota to the southern border, from the parable of the rich fool to the...
Send us a text We’ve named the harm. We’ve pulled down the old house. Now it’s time to plant again. In this follow-up to “The Seeds Were Good, The Soil Was Sick,” Pastor Dan wrestles with two haunting lines from Spencer LaJoye’s song “Plowshare Prayer”: “I pray that you are heard. I pray that this works.”This episode is for anyone who’s ever whispered that same prayer while stepping into something new — hoping this time will be different. Here, faith looks less like certainty and more like co...
Send us a text We have named the harm. We have pulled the old house down. Now what? This week, Pastor Dan invites us to do something daring: not just vent about what broke us, but remember what blessed us. Prayer that felt human; worship that felt alive; communion that felt like belonging; community that felt like family. Maybe the problem was not the seed; maybe the problem was the soil. What if we replant the best of our evangelical past in better soil: love instead of fear, inclusion inste...
Send us a text Tired of the Disney version of Jesus? Same. This message rips the glitter off the Feeding of the 5,000 and asks a dangerous question: what if the miracle wasn’t supernatural bread popping out of thin air but people finally stopping the hoard and sharing what they had? Pastor Dan pushes us from miracle watching to community building. Scarcity isolates. Fear blames. But faith sets a table. Maybe the sign wasn’t bread multiplying. It was hearts multiplying. If you’re done waiting ...
Send us a text Pastor Dan calls out a Christianity that looks more like empire than the Gospel. It’s raw, uncomfortable, and exactly what we need to hear. If your version of Jesus blesses your politics, your comfort, and your outrage—but never asks you to love your enemies—you’re following anybody but Jesus. From the pulpit of Harvest Sarasota, this message dismantles the idols of power, nationalism, and comfort that have hijacked the name of Christ. It’s not left or right—it’s the radical, i...
Send us a text What if “on earth as it is in heaven” isn’t a wish, it’s a mandate? In Part 2, Pastor Dan Minor pushes the Lord’s Prayer from kingdom longing to kingdom living. Daily bread becomes a direct challenge to scarcity and hoarding. Forgiveness moves from private piety to public liberation, canceling moral shame and calling out predatory systems. And “deliver us from evil” names the evil for what it is: dehumanizing ideologies and unjust structures that keep us divided and afraid. Thi...
Send us a text What happens when the most familiar prayer in Christianity gets flipped on its head? Pastor Dan Minor takes Harvest Sarasota into a raw, communal breakdown of the Lord’s Prayer—line by line, through a radical lens that challenges nationalism, patriarchy, elitism, and exclusion. This isn’t the “safe” Sunday School version. This is prayer as uprising. This is dismantling “my Father” to embrace “our Father,” even if it includes the refugee, the addict, the outcast, and the enemy. ...
Send us a text Last week we asked if we’ve misdiagnosed the human soul. This week we get practical. Pastor Dan unpacks how inherent union with God reshapes everyday life—moving us from defensiveness, scarcity, and exclusion to compassion, joy, and radical inclusion. If shame isolates and estranges, union restores dignity and brings us home to who we’ve always been. From Jesus standing with the marginalized to how we parent, argue, forgive, and show up for our city, this message shows what hap...
Send us a text What if the deepest wound in the human soul isn’t sin—but shame? In this stirring message, we dive into one of the most radical shifts in Christian thought in two thousand years: moving from a doctrine of inherent separation from God to a vision of inherent union with God. With raw honesty, the sermon wrestles with the Garden story, the cross, and the very heart of the gospel. What if salvation is not about clawing our way back to a God who left us, but awakening to the truth t...
Send us a text What happens when we stop begging for a seat at the table—and build our own instead? In this provocative and hope-filled conversation, Pastor Dan sits down with Brandan Robertson—pastor, activist, and author of Queer and Christian—to talk about what it means to move beyond fear-based religion into a faith rooted in love, liberation, and authenticity. From unpacking the infamous “clobber passages” to challenging the ways institutions weaponize scripture, Brandan invites us to im...
Send us a text What if uncertainty wasn’t a weakness in your faith but the very thing that makes it real? In this powerful episode, Pastor Dan invites us into a raw and honest conversation about growing up in rigid religious systems, the suffocating demand for certainty, and the guilt that comes when life doesn’t fit into neat boxes of right and wrong. Through humor, storytelling, and hard truths, we confront how fear of being “wrong” has divided families, harmed communities, and pushed many ...
Send us a text The Fast God Actually Chose We’ve been told fasting means giving up food for a set time to get closer to God. But in Isaiah 58, God says something very different—and far more disruptive. In this message, Pastor Dan reframes “fasting” as a radical commitment to justice, compassion, and action. This isn’t about religious rituals or empty traditions. It’s about breaking the chains of injustice, feeding the hungry, sheltering the unhoused, and refusing to stay silent when the vulne...
Send us a text Jesus Never Said “Good Luck With That, Poor People” What if revival looks like prenatal care and insulin access? What if the most miraculous thing we can do… is build a healthcare system that heals everyone? In this fire-filled sermon, Pastor Dan dismantles the narrow, harmful theology that’s told generations of Christians that real healing only happens with oil and hands-on prayer—and instead paints a stunning vision of what “greater things” might actually mean. Spoiler: It’s ...
Send us a text Will freedom feel like treason because war is all we know? What if the real treason is staying silent? In this bold, gut-honest sermon, Pastor Dan breaks open the toxic war narrative embedded in American evangelicalism—and calls it what it is: spiritual manipulation designed to control, divide, and dominate. 🔥 From pastors threatening kids who wear nail polish 🔥 To churches applauding violence from the pulpit 🔥 To ICE raids that go unchallenged by "Christian" leaders This messa...
Send us a text This week on Harvest Sarasota, Pastor Dan flips the script on one of Christianity’s most misused scriptures — the "narrow gate" in Matthew 7. From debunking hellfire guilt-trips to calling out modern-day Pharisees, this message challenges religious traditions that exclude, divide, and destroy. Discover why the true narrow way leads to justice, inclusion, and sacrificial love — and how weaponized religion may be the real path to destruction. If you’ve ever felt pushed out of chu...
Send us a text In this special Pride Month message at Harvest Sarasota, Colby Martin, author of Unclobber, invites listeners to reflect on what it means to belong at "the right kind of party." Through a blend of humor, personal insights, and profound biblical storytelling, Colby explores how diversity isn't just a preference—it’s a divine imperative. Sharing four powerful stories from scripture, Colby makes the case that the presence of diversity—in identities, backgrounds, and life experienc...
The Harvest Sarasota: Sermons for Deconstructing and Challenging Traditional Faith with Pastor Dan Minor
Send us a text Before you get to the manger, before the angels and the shepherds and the Christmas cards with the glowing baby Jesus… you have to meet his family. And the truth is, his family is nothing like the polished nativity sets we put in church lobbies. In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at the lineage of Christ — a family tree overflowing with scandal, trauma, exploitation, infidelity, murder, refugees, widows, immigrants, corrupt leaders, victims of injustice, survivors of ...
