Knox Presbyterian Church Podcast

Is Jesus enough—or do we keep trying to add something to the gospel? We begin our new series, No Other Gospel, with Paul’s passionate opening to Galatians and a warning rooted in love: adding to the good news can change it into something else entirely. Discover why Christ’s saving work needs no improvement—and why holding fast to that truth still matters today.
Galatians 1:1-9
Rev. Dr. David Bruner

The Bible can offer wisdom, understanding, and light for the path ahead—but it was never meant merely to sit unopened on a shelf or be studied as a collection of interesting ideas. In the final message of our Better Together series, we explore why reading Scripture is central to the Christian faith, how we can learn to listen for God’s voice through its pages, and why the Bible becomes especially powerful when we read and apply it together. Because Scripture doesn’t simply teach us about Jesus—it draws us toward him, until the living Word finds us, speaks to us, and takes hold of our lives.
Psalm 119, John 14:26
Rev. Becca Bruner & Debbie Sanders

When life hurts, one of the first things suffering can take from us is the sense that we’re not alone. But God never intended his people to face life’s hardest moments by themselves. In the second message of our Better Together series, we explore what it means to be a church that truly cares for one another—a church that shows up, reminds hurting people that God is present, and watches for the ways he is already at work. Because sometimes the clearest sign of God’s love is a prayer, a card, a visit, or a faithful friend who simply refuses to let us suffer alone.
James 5:13-16

We were never meant to do life—or faith—alone. But in a culture where isolation is increasingly common, genuine community can be difficult to find and even harder to prioritize. In the first message of our three-week series, Better Together, we explore what it really means to gather in Jesus’ name, why life-changing faith often grows when we move out of rows and into circles, and what becomes possible when we share life, Scripture, prayer, service, forgiveness, and sacrifice with one another. Because when two or three gather in his name, Jesus promises to show up—and when Jesus shows up, he can do what only he can do.

Think about the people who helped shape your faith.
Maybe it was a parent or grandparent.
A Sunday school teacher.
A pastor.
A friend who sat beside you during a difficult season.
Or maybe it was someone whose name you've nearly forgotten, but whose kindness showed you something about the character of God.
Faith was never meant to be something we figure out entirely on our own.
Psalm 145 describes one generation telling another about who God is and what God has done. Stories are shared. Wisdom is passed down. Burdens are carried together. And somewhere along the way, the people teaching us about faith discover that they're still learning too.
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we'll explore God's promise to form us through a community where young and old belong to one another—and where every generation has something to give and something to receive.
Because sometimes the most important story of faith you share may become part of someone else's story too.
Scripture: Psalm 145:1-7
Guest Preacher: Leslie Hanscom

How do you know if you're growing in your faith?
Maybe you know more Scripture than you used to.
Maybe you pray more often.
Maybe you serve, give generously, attend church, or understand things about God that once seemed completely foreign.
Those are all good things.
But the Apostle Paul gives us a much more uncomfortable test.
Are you becoming more loving?
Not more sentimental.
Not simply nicer to people you already like.
More patient. More gracious. Less interested in keeping score. More willing to seek someone else's good—even when it's inconvenient, even when you disagree, and even when you don't particularly feel like it.
In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul reminds us that we can possess extraordinary gifts, remarkable faith, and incredible knowledge and still miss something absolutely essential.
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we'll explore God's promise to form us into people who love—and why the greatest evidence of a life being transformed by Christ might not be what we know or what we accomplish.
It might be how we love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Our world is full of rivers.
Not just the ones you can see on a map.
The rivers between neighbors.
Between generations.
Between political parties.
Between races.
Between families who no longer speak.
Between people convinced that the other side is the problem.
The book of Revelation offers a very different picture.
Not a river that separates people...
But a river flowing from the throne of God, bringing life, healing, and restoration to the nations.
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we'll discover that God's vision for the future isn't simply about where we're going someday. It's about who we're becoming right now as we learn to live as people of reconciliation, hope, and new creation.
Scripture: Revelation 21:1-7, 22:1-7
Guest Preacher: Rev. Eric Heinekamp

Have you ever wondered if God forgot his promises?
Maybe you wouldn't say it out loud.
But you've thought it.
You read that God has good plans for his people.
Then life takes a turn you never saw coming.
The prayer isn't answered.
The hurt doesn't go away.
The loss becomes permanent.
And suddenly you're left wondering whether God's plan and your reality belong in the same story.
The people who first heard Jeremiah's words asked those same questions.
They had lost their homes, their future, and nearly all hope that life would ever return to normal.
Yet it was to them—not before the exile, but in the middle of it—that God said, "I know the plans I have for you."
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we'll explore a promise that is far bigger than a comfortable life. We'll discover that God's plan isn't simply to rescue us from every hardship, but to redeem every part of our story as he makes all things new.

Think back to one of the hardest seasons of your life.
What carried you through it?
Was it your own strength?
Your determination?
Your circumstances finally improving?
Or was it something deeper?
One of the remarkable things about following Jesus is that Christians don't claim hardship is an illusion. We don't pretend pain isn't real. Scripture speaks honestly about loss, fear, sickness, uncertainty, and death.
But it also makes a remarkable promise:
That the hardest thing you face will never be the strongest thing in your life.
Because when the waters rise and the fire burns, God does not promise to watch from a distance.
He promises to be with his people.
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we're exploring a promise that has carried God's people for generations: whatever we walk through, we never walk through it alone.
Isaiah 43:1-7

If you ask a new parent what they're most afraid of, you'll probably hear a long list.
What if I miss something?
What if I make the wrong decision?
What if I fail them?
Those questions don't disappear when our children grow up.
In fact, they seem to follow us through every stage of life.
What if the diagnosis comes back?
What if I lose someone I love?
What if everything falls apart?
The Christian faith doesn't pretend those questions aren't real.
Instead, it answers them with a promise.
Not the promise that nothing bad will ever happen.
But the promise that whatever comes, we will not face it alone.
Today, as we continue our Yes & Amen series, we look at the night Jesus shared one final meal with his disciples—and the remarkable gift he left behind: a people who would continue to be his hands, his feet, and his presence in a hurting world.
Guest: Rev. Lara Musser-Gritter