Podcasts by Wesley Foundation at MSU

Woman at the Well (ft. Sam Wadsworth) from 2023-10-24T21:07:35

Worship teaching from October 17, 2023 brought by guest preacher Sam Wadsworth, Associate Pastor at Heritage Church Hattiesburg.

John 10:10 from 2023-10-24T20:59

Teaching from October 3, 2023 on John 10

The Book of Philippians: A Worship Study Pt 4 from 2023-10-24T20:33:14

Week 4 of delving into the book of Philippians.

Phil 4.23 / NLT: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit

>> The grace of Jesus + your spirit = hea...

The Book of Philippians: A Worship Study Pt. 3 from 2023-09-11T20:55:31

Week 3 of delving into the book of Philippians.

Joy = grace recognized

Rejoice = being glad because the grace you recognize

The genius of God's way is that he designed ...

The Book of Philippians: A Worship Study Pt. 2 (ft. Will Rambo) from 2023-09-11T20:28:47

A look into what we are keeping locked away from God and letting him in through the lens of Philippians Chapter 2 with guest preacher Will Rambo for the Orchard Tupelo.

The Book of Philippians: A Worship Study Pt. 1 from 2023-09-11T19:49:39

1.) We want God to speak to us through his word.

2.) We want to learn to feed ourselves spiritually and to fall more in love with his word.

Rooted Retreat, prt. 4 from 2023-05-05T04:11:21

Colossians 2:7 — Join in the conversations that happened at Rooted Retreat in February! This episode includes Night 2 of worship by Black Voices Gospel Choir of MSU, Billy Stone, and teaching by...

Rooted, prt. 3 from 2023-05-05T04:06:57

Colossians 2:7 — Join in the conversations that happened at Rooted Retreat in February! This episode includes Night 2 of Seed Talks by Caroline Philips, Olivia Moore, and Wes Schrickel. 

Rooted Retreat, prt. 2 from 2023-05-05T04:03:45

Colossians 2:7 — Join in the conversations that happened at Rooted Retreat in February! This episode includes Night 1 of worship by Billy Stone and teaching by Leanne Burris.

Rooted Retreat, prt. 1 from 2023-05-05T04:00:24

Colossians 2:7 --- Join in the conversations that happened at Rooted Retreat in February! This episode includes Night 1 of Seed Talks by Rocky Shack, John Foster, and Paulette Buford-James.

Coming Home from 2023-05-05T02:14:57

We're all searching for a home. Somewhere we are known and belong to above all others. So how do we find it? We'll be looking into John 14 and what Jesus has to say about how we can come...

Awakened Life, prt. 3 from 2023-05-05T01:49:57

Prayer - "Your prayer life is at its best not when you're praying about big things occasionally but when you're praying about small things continually. At its best, prayer is a livi...

Awakened Life, prt. 2 from 2023-05-05T01:44:09

Worship happens when, through giving all we have to God, we meet Him in our hearts. Jesus says in John 4 that we are able to worship Him in Spirit and truth - but what exactly does that mean? Li...

Awakened Life, prt. 1 from 2023-05-05T01:34:57

"Throughout history, God has moved in mighty ways in particular seasons. You might know of these times as times of awakening. We believe it is His desire to do that again through our emergi...

Triggered Terms of Our Time, prt. 3 from 2023-03-03T16:09:52

Gaslighting is a term you hear in the context of relationships. It's an action taken against someone - so how does that happen? And what can we do to stop it?

Triggered Terms of Our Time, prt. 2 from 2023-02-27T18:58:39

We’re unpacking two more terms of our time loaded with meaning and impact—truth and toxic. One we might want to pump the brakes on, and the other needs to be applied liberally.

Triggered Terms of Our Time, prt. 1 from 2023-02-27T18:41:57

Whether it was in a light conversation with a friend or printed on a book cover, you’re probably familiar with the term ‘triggered.’ It’s become a common descriptor of the state of being for us ...

Increase & Decrease from 2023-02-27T18:32:16

John the Baptist is famous for saying, “Jesus must increase, and I must decrease.” The Message gives a fresh take on these words: “This is the assigned moment for Jesus to move to the center, wh...

Abide & Abound, prt. 3 from 2023-02-08T22:57:13

Luke 3-4, When college feels so much like a wilderness, how can we survive it and even thrive in it like Jesus did when he spent time in his own wilderness? The quick answer is found in what hap...

Abide & Abound, prt. 2 from 2023-02-08T22:17:55

2 Corinthians 9 - so you've been abiding, but what does it mean to abound? What exactly is it that's abounding? And who's doing it?

Abide & Abound from 2023-01-23T03:26:51

Two verses [John 15.5 & 2 Cor 9.8] and two words can make all the difference in the way 2023 plays out. Two simple words – in the right order. So which is it? Is it abound & abide? Or ab...

Christmas Worship from 2022-12-08T16:44:36

Christmas Worship '22

Hevel, prt. 4 from 2022-12-08T16:03:52

Is it all hevel? Or is there more to the story?

Hevel, prt. 2 from 2022-11-09T16:44:43

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11. Hevel is our current reality, but it doesn't have to be our destiny. What if it's true that we're made for beauty and eternity instead of meaninglessness? 

Hevel, prt. 1 from 2022-11-08T15:13:39

A study of Ecclesiastes-Where can we find joy in a world filled with uncertainty? 

Kingdom Focused-God's Not Done from 2022-10-24T15:01:17

John 20:19-22 "When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among the...

Kingdom Focused-priority, understanding, growth, & attributes. from 2022-10-10T22:53:57

From the very start of his ministry, Jesus is clear about his focus. Jesus is obsessed with, focused on, oriented around the huge idea of the Kingdom of God. When we follow Jesus, his f...

With Jesus from 2022-09-19T18:39:40

Mark 3:13-15 With Jesus. Jesus radically wants to be with you. His love for you knows no boundaries and his desire for a relationship with you has no limits. Jesus comes to be with you so you ca...

Into the Unknown...Be Strong and Courageous from 2022-04-29T15:57:43

Has God ever called you to something that you've never done before?  It can be intimidating because the unknown is scary.   It can feel overwhelming because you may doubt yourself...

Made For More (Wholeness), prt. 3 from 2022-04-28T17:01:22

Isaiah 59:8 paints us well by saying, "They don't know where to find peace."  Though this was written about a different people group, Isaiah's words speak to the landscape of our culture to...

Made For More (Relationships), prt. 2 from 2022-04-27T22:33:06

Made for more: relationships.  One area of life where we often experience less than we're made for is our relationships.  All kinds of relationships, from family and friends to romance...

Made For More (meaning), prt. 1 from 2022-04-27T21:17:15

Made For More: Meaning, Connection and Wholeness.  We long for more because we're made for more.  the Bible describes us human creatures as being made in the image of God.  That e...

Resolute Discipleship from 2022-04-27T20:56:52

Two big ideas from Luke 9.51-62:
1/ Jesus was stubbornly determined to do his mission for our good. 
2/ Jesus calls us to follow him with the same kind of resolute determination. &n...

Rooted in Love from 2022-04-27T19:51:35

Do you ever feel scattered kind of like tumbleweed? The nature of a tumbleweed is that it gets blown all over the place and it's not rooted in anything.  In Colossians 2, Paul gives us five...

Extravagant Love Calls Us To Love Extravagantly from 2022-02-10T16:26:24

What does extravagant love look like? How does knowing that we are extravagantly loved call us to love extravagantly?  

Bold Goals, prt. 2 from 2022-02-10T16:02:45

What makes a bold goal bold is not that it’s your daring attempt to be your best version of yourself. We’ve tried that before, right? What makes a bold goal so bold is that it’s God’s audacious ...

Bold Goals, prt. 1 from 2022-02-10T15:57:27

We’re coming up on our two-year Coronaversary. We’ve been limping along, locked-down, living our least life now, struggling through grief and sickness, and dealing with quarantine and isolation....

The Epiphany of the Faithful (Jonathan Franz) from 2022-01-19T18:07:02

Come to know and see Jesus for who he is in our waiting and the consolation of a hope well placed

Waiting from 2021-12-13T22:36:36

“Waiting on God” while placing hope in Him instead of in what we are waiting for.

How To Pray, prt. 4 from 2021-11-10T17:36:53

Pause. Rejoice. Ask. Yield. Our teaching series on How To Pray wraps up with a look at what it means to yield or surrender to God in prayer. One way to put it is "He must increase, and I must de...

How To Pray, prt. 3 from 2021-11-02T14:27:44

At Worship,  we're in the middle of a teaching series on prayer based on the Lord's Prayer and the acronym P.R.A.Y. -- Pause. Rejoice. Ask. Yield.  This week, we're talking a...

How To Pray, prt. 2 from 2021-11-02T14:24:55

I’ve come to the conclusion that most people’s biggest problem with prayer is God.  They envisage him scowling, always disapproving, needing to be placated or persuaded in prayer." But Jesu...

How To Pray, prt. 1 from 2021-10-14T17:19:01

Keep it simple, keep it real, and keep it up.  That's pretty good advice about how to pray.

Be Still from 2021-10-12T21:59:23

We all have our go-to set of answers to the question “how are you doing?” One answer that we like a lot: “busy.” 

How are you doing? Busy. 

We are doing busy? Is that eve...

Finding Hope To Get Through It When It's Hard To Get Over It from 2021-10-12T21:47:24

"Our hope isn't necessarily that good will eventually come, but that good is already happening.  Our hope isn't that God will one day work in our lives, but that he is already working."&nbs...

A World Full Of Priests is God's Dream! from 2021-09-16T18:41:05

Hugh wraps up our "Worship" series on a teaching from 1 Peter!

Worship Through Singing from 2021-09-03T16:26:30

This week at Worship, Katie teaches the beauty of worship through singing.

Worship with Your Life from 2021-09-01T22:00:59

When it comes to worship, we have two basic options: Attend worship or embody worship. Guess which one Romans 12.1-2 cheers us on to choose!?!

Grace Upon Grace from 2021-09-01T21:40:58

This week at Worship, Hugh speaks on what grace upon grace means from John 1:16.

The Socially UN-distanced Miracles of Jesus, prt. 4 from 2021-04-23T19:28:47

The faith-and-action of four friends was the catalyst for Jesus’ miracle of healing and forgiving a paralyzed man. The faith-and-action of the four friends challenges us to live a thriving life ...

The Socially UN-distanced Miracles of Jesus, prt. 3 from 2021-04-23T18:12:49

When life crowds in with all its pressures, there is still room for us to creep up behind Jesus — if that’s all we feel we can do — and reach out to touch him, in that odd mixture of fear and fa...

The Socially UN-distanced Miracles of Jesus, prt. 2 from 2021-04-23T16:21:08

Two deaths…two socially un-distanced touches…two miracles…two lives restored…and an invitation to you to leave death behind and to live like God made you to live. This week at Thrive -- How Jesu...

The Socially UN-distanced Miracles of Jesus, prt. 1 from 2021-04-23T16:08:30

Jesus wouldn’t have been very good at social distancing in a pandemic! Isolation and separation would’ve hit him hard. Physical distancing would not have come easily to Jesus. The story of Jesus...

God's Will and God's Ways - Sovereignty in the Wake of Suffering (Katie Heckel) from 2021-03-19T18:42:40

You’ve probably heard or said some of these sayings before, often within tragedy and hardship as a way of grasping for meaning behind suffering. Sayings like:
“Everything happens for a reas...

God's Will and God's Ways - Decisions (Hugh Griffith) from 2021-02-23T17:45:11

Decisions.  Doesn't it sometimes feel like college life is just one decision after another... Summer plans, major change, class scheduling, a new involvement on campus, relationsh...

God's Will and God's Ways - Calling (Hugh Griffith) from 2021-02-22T21:19:06

What do I want to do with my life?  Or maybe the better question is, What does my life want to do with me?  This week at Thrive, we're starting a three-week series on God's will by tal...

Intimacy, prt 2: Self-Awareness (Katie Heckel) from 2021-02-22T21:12:45

In the Bible, a lack of awareness is often compared to blindness. And blindness is often portrayed as a central obstacle to intimacy with God and others. So how does God help us with our blindne...

Intimacy: God Listens (prt. 1) - Katie Heckel from 2021-02-04T18:37:43

Would intimacy be a word you would use to describe your relationships?  What about with God?  One way to summarize the Bible’s story is this: It is the story of God’s hunger for intima...

Live Loved (1 John, prt. 3) - Hugh Griffith from 2021-02-04T18:33:08

Living loved is one continuous experience that starts with being loved by God.  Then living loved trusts the love that sent Jesus to solve our estrangement and our eternity issues. And then...

Live Light (1 John prt.2) - Hugh Griffith from 2021-02-04T18:17:28

The Gospel of John makes an amazing claim about Jesus: “His LIFE brings LIGHT to everyone.” [Jn1.3] How’d you like for your life to be warmed and brightened by the light of Jesus? That’s the tru...

Live (1 John prt. 1) - Hugh Griffith from 2021-02-04T18:08:19

This week at Thrive, Hugh kicks off our series in 1 John. He speaks on how Jesus is life breaking it down into four parts: 1). Jesus is the Word of life, 2). Jesus defines life, 3). Jesus existe...

Groaning and Hoping: Freedom (Pat Ward) from 2020-11-06T02:39:48

This week at Thrive, our good friend and Wesley alumnus, Pat Ward, teaches on finding freedom in our groaning. Pat says, “Being free and living free are two different things.”  Pat dis...

Groaning and Hoping: Brokenness (Katie Heckel) from 2020-10-21T19:32:30

We all carry the baggage of being broken.  We’re broken people living in a broken world making broken decisions and responding to our brokenness with brokenness.  So there’s a ...