Covenant Podcast
Covenant Podcast features weekly teaching and content from Covenant Church. Each episode shares sermons, messages, and practical insights rooted in Christian faith. The show is designed to encourage listeners and help them grow in their understanding of Scripture. It is produced by Covenant Church for its congregation and a wider audience.
Episodes
The Holy Ghost - The Creative Spirit
All throughout Scripture, we find that the Holy Spirit is the person of the trinity through which the desires of the Father, spoken through the Son, are creatively established. From the creation of the heavens and the earth, to the creation of Adam, to the re-creation of mankind, the Holy Spirit is powerfully at work to bring life.
The Holy Ghost - Three in One
The doctrine of the trinity and divinity of the Holy Spirit are necessary for a proper understanding of Christian faith and practice. There is one God, existing in three persons, the Holy Spirit is God.
Hidden Glory - Seeing Clearly
Peter is wrapping up this section by talking about the completeness of God’s victory for the believer in Jesus Christ. In the end, all angels and rulers and authorities will be put under his feet, and so we can expect to share in that same victory.
Hidden Glory - Be Subject to Your Master
Servants be subject, regardless of the justice of your position. Do this out of your faith in God, knowing that enduring suffering is a part of life and Christ himself shows us how. How can I endure this unjust treatment and suffering? I look to Christ. He suffered for me, so that my sins could be forgiven and I could die to sin and live to righteousness. Wounds can actually bring about healing. T
Hidden Glory - Belief In Action
Christians are called to live out a different type of life than the culture around us. We are blessed by God when we bless others. We get to share in the blessings of our faith by sharing with others how to find the ultimate blessing, a new life in Christ.
Hidden Glory - Be Subject to your Husband
Today’s topic of wives being subject to their husbands is challenging, to women who do not have godly husbands. But, take heart! You can woo your husband to Christ by your godly character and conduct. Ultimately, the goal should be to adorn yourself with the type of inner beauty that is pleasing to Christ.
Hidden Glory - Be Subject to Your Government
Although it is hard, we can submit to our governing authorities, knowing that God has instituted and limited their powers. Thankfully, even though we may face injustice in this life, we serve a perfect king whose authority will cause every knee to bow on the day of the Lord.
Hidden Glory - Your Life is the Argument
Peter reminds believers that because they belong to Christ, they should live differently in a world that is not their home. They are called to take the battle against sin seriously and live honorable lives in front of others so their lives may point to Jesus.
Legacy Initiative - Living Sacrifices
Give to the 2026 Legacy Initiative: https://covenantchurch.us/legacy2026 Legacy Initiative If you want to get somewhere, you need a plan and you need to pay attention that you’re heading in the right direction! We want to be intentional about reaching our city, and the world, with the hope of Jesus Christ. Good intentions aren’t enough, we need a plan and we need to pay attention to where we are h
Legacy Initiative - God or Money?
We need to continually determine which kingdom we are going to pursue. Jesus tells us we cannot serve both God and wealth. Part of learning to live in the kingdom of God is learning to be generous out of our trust in God and our confidence in his provision.
Legacy Initiative 2026 - Invest in People
We want to leave a legacy for the Gospel here in Grove City. We want to plant churches, and reach people for Christ, but discipleship and investing in people must be our most important investment.
Glory is Coming - Under Construction
God is demonstrating that in Christ all the OT prophecies are being fulfilled, not in Israel but in the Church of Jesus Christ. Because of that, we see our privileged status as believers.
Glory Is Coming - The Pursuit of Holiness
If we’re to be holy as Christ commands, we must learn to think rightly and act wisely while being sustained by the right motivations. In this passage, Peter addresses how we are to work toward becoming more like Christ in the land of exile.
Glory Is Coming - Inside Out
The salvation that Christ gives results in an inner change that affects the outward life. By drinking deeply of the Word of God we will begin to see real change in our lives and affections.
Glory Is Coming - Past, Present & Future
God’s plan of salvation has been revealed to us believers from start to finish. Although we live in the present, the truth of past prophecies builds confidence for our future inheritance.
Glory Is Coming - Tested Faith
Life involves trials, even for those who are beloved of God. We can have joy, even in our trials. All of this life’s trials are temporary, since this life is short and we can be sure that God will use them to accomplish his purposes. Don’t be surprised by trials, instead understand that they are revealing to you the quality of your faith. More importantly, the power of the one in whom you believe,
Glory Is Coming - Our Inheritance
We are exiles in a foreign land, but we have every reason to bless God! Through Jesus’ death and resurrection we are born again. We now have a hope waiting for us that this world cannot touch.
Glory Is Coming - Modern Misfits
The apostle Peter writes a book to a group of churches in modern day Turkey. In it, he reminds them that even though they are exiles in this world, that they are also chosen by God.
Connected - A Biblical Approach to Sex
Sex is a part of God’s plan for the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman. Sex unites two people, both body and soul, and so we must be careful to keep it within the bounds of marriage. In marriage sex should be frequent, patient, and giving.
Connected - Houston, We Have A Problem
Problems exist within any marriage. At the heart of a great number of marriage problems are an unwillingness to prioritize your spouse, commit to loving them as they change throughout life, and trusting God’s good plan in submission and servant leadership.
Connected - Myths of Singleness
Because Christ is ultimate, singleness is not a problem to fix, a season to waste, or a sign that someone is incomplete. Whether singleness lasts a season or a lifetime, our identity, fulfillment, intimacy, purpose, and hope are ultimately found in Jesus, not in a relationship status.
Connected - Necessary Conflict
Marriage is meant to be sanctifying. As two people come together in honest and loyal friendship and commitment, they help one another toward the common goal of the upward call of sanctification.
Connected - Love is Only A Feeling
A marriage commitment is based on a Biblical understanding of love. Love is not a feeling, but an action. Marriage is a lifelong commitment to act in a loving way toward another person.
Connected - Suffocating Self-Centeredness
When we have the Holy Spirit, we are enabled to submit to one another in marriage and eschew self-centeredness as the cancer to healthy marriage that it is.
Connected - Oh, So Lonely!
There are good reasons for getting married, but one core reason that is often overlooked in today’s society is companionship. We are meant to marry our best friend.
Connected - Marriage Matters
Marriage is not well understood in our culture or in our churches today. God has a design and a desire for marriage, it is something the God has created and it is something that God defines. If we don’t understand the design, or don’t recognize that God created and regulates marriage, we will end up struggling in our marriages or missing out completely.
Broken Saviors - We Need Jesus
When a nation or a people forsake the Lord, collapse is inevitable. We are in need of a King whose reign will never fail: we have one, His name is Jesus.
Broken Saviors - When Good Intentions Go Wrong
Judges 17–18 shows how sincere worship can still be false when it’s shaped by our preferences instead of God’s truth. Micah creates a version of worship that looks spiritual but is ultimately self-made, turning his relationship with God into something transactional and controllable. In the end, what he built fails him, revealing that anything we elevate above God will eventually collapse and leave
Broken Saviors - Strength Without Surrender
God raised Samson with a clear calling and incredible strength, yet his story shows how a person can be outwardly gifted but inwardly drifting from God. Instead of following the Lord’s direction, Samson repeatedly pursued what was right in his own eyes, allowing small compromises to pull him further from obedience. His life warns us that spiritual strength doesn’t come from our abilities, but from
Broken Saviors - Trust God, Not Your Idols
Judges 10-11 explores Israel's repeated cycle of idolatry — abandoning God to serve false gods like Molech and Chemosh — and God's response of tough love followed by compassion when they genuinely repented. The core message is that idolatry means seeking from other things what only God can provide, and true repentance requires destroying those idols, not just setting them aside. The story
Broken Saviors - When Sin Collapses Under Its Own Weight
Judges 9 marks a dark turning point in Israel’s history as the familiar cycle of sin, repentance, and deliverance collapses. Abimelech, Gideon’s illegitimate son, seizes power through manipulation and violence, and when faithful leadership steps aside, Israel crowns a bramble instead. The result is destruction for both the king and the people who chose him, revealing how tolerated sin grows heavie
Broken Saviors - The Dangers of Success
In this message, we follow Gideon’s story to see how starting well and finishing well aren’t the same—especially after success. Gideon trusted God in weakness, but after victory he began relying on himself, chasing recognition, and building a “replacement” for dependence on the Lord. This is a warning about the spiritual danger of success and an invitation to return to prayer, accountability, and
Broken Saviors - God is Big Enough
Judges 6–7 shows Israel caught in a cycle of spiritual decline, hardship, and crying out to God. The message highlights how faith can fade across generations, and how God uses unlikely people like Gideon to bring deliverance. Even when God’s plans seem confusing or impossible, He confirms His calling and proves His power. The takeaway: trust God—He is faithful, big enough, and His plans are always
Broken Saviors - Obedience That Points to God
God alone deserves the praise that results from a life of faith in practice.. We should live with a mindset of obedience and faith, recognizing that we’re not alone as we follow. God goes before, God works His will, and we give Him praise.
Broken Saviors - An Extraordinary God with Extraordinary Ways
God is not as predictable as we often seem to make Him out to be. He is sovereign over all; and that includes sin, evil, and suffering. God will stop at nothing to redeem His people, and works in mysterious ways to accomplish that goal. He is always seeking our trust, and will work in the necessary ways to foster our dependance on Him.
Broken Saviors - When God Becomes Optional
Judges 2 show God’s people slowly drift from Him through partial obedience, forgetting He is Lord across generations, yet are relentlessly pursued by a faithful, rescuing God.
Broken Saviors - Spiritual Maturity
As Christians, we have been saved and given an inheritance that we will experience more and more as we’re sanctified by the Holy Spirit, grown to emulate Christ, and work to mature in their faith.
Broken Saviors - Abject Failure
This sermon will be laying out the series, bringing in past context, talking about the purpose behind Judges and examining the reality of what happened to the people of Israel when they made it into “the promised land”.
Peace Through Sacrifice
If we are willing to follow basic obedience to Christ by pursuing financial, relational, and spiritual peace, we can have more overall peace in our lives and more effectively point others to Him in our efforts to seek and save the lost.
Season of Peace - Peace for a broken world
The peace of God starts in an individual as they receive Jesus Christ as their Lord. But, the peace of God is meant to spread from the individual to a broken world.
Season of Peace - Peace for an Anxious Mind
Sometimes, the greatest battles we face are the battles within our minds. Jesus, through His finished work of the cross, offers peace there too. Instead of waiting for that peace to come, there are practical steps we can take to cultivate the peace our minds crave.
Season of Peace - Peace for a Wandering Heart
God created a world at peace, but we broke that peace between us and God through sin. Jesus wants to restore peace and keep our wandering hearts at peace, but we have to set our minds on Him.
21 Days of Prayer - Prayer and Fasting
Fasting with prayer has been a Christian practice since Jesus came. People fasted and prayed in the OT. Jesus fasted and prayed. The apostles and early church fasted and prayed and God expected that we would fast and pray. Fasting helps to subdue our flesh so that we are more alive in the spirit. Fasting helps to prepare us for deeper and more powerful prayer. Fasting helps us to break the bonds o
21 Days of Prayer - You Have to Remove Roadblocks
If we aren’t receiving answers to our prayers, there are things that we can look toward that the Bible says may be hindering us getting an answer. Perhaps we are praying wrongly by not asking, asking with wrong motives or asking for things outside of God’s will. Perhaps we have been ignoring God’s word and neglecting the poor, disobeying Him, or dishonoring our spouse. Maybe there is sin in our li
In The I Rejoice - Rejoice in Partnership
As this epistle to the Philippians concludes, Paul reflects on a great partnership and reminds us of God’s economy and an eternal perspective on giving.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice in Contentment
We have the ability as believers to strengthen the faith of others through our love of Christ. Although others strengthen our faith, it is Christ alone that brings true contentment. No matter what life throws at us, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice in the God of Peace
What you think about matters. If you’re constantly thinking about your mistakes, your failings, and the shame from your past you’ll stay stuck in the past. If you’re constantly thinking about your fears and anxieties for the future, you will stay stuck in the present. If you allow your mind to dwell on sinful things and go down corrupted paths, you will be miserable.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice In The Peace of God
Paul is pleading with two co-laborers in the gospel to settle their differences and live at peace. He gives some wisdom on how we can live at peace instead of anxious and worried lives.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice in Citizenship
Paul tells the believers that they should follow his example, and the example of other believers in Philippi. We must learn to keep our eyes on those who follow Jesus, imitate their example of faithfulness and remember that we are citizens of heaven not earth.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice In Pressing On
Paul reminds us that salvation is the starting line, not the finish line, and true maturity means recognizing we still have more growing to do. Like a runner pressing toward the goal, we must forget past failures and successes and keep straining forward toward deeper fellowship with Christ. And since the race is too hard to run alone, God gave us the church so we can press on together until we rea
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice in Relationship
Paul concludes this thought with a flurry of personal mission statements. He summarizes his life’s mission: to know God and experience the power of a life with Christ through participating in his sufferings. It’s all worth it because he will someday be with Christ.
Rejoice in Righteousness
Paul reflects on all of his pedigree and achievements and declares that none are good places for his confidence. In fact, he throws them all away in order to be found righteous in Christ.
In That I Rejoice - Rejoice The Lord
We are told to rejoice and Paul finds no problem repeating that over and over. We have reasons to rejoice! We must watch out for the dogs, evildoers and mutilators of the flesh. But we can tell we are from God if we worship in the Spirit, Glory in Christ, and place our confidence in God.
Proclaimed - Faithful Friendship
What would it look like to use what God has placed in our hearts and hands to serve those around us?
Unwavering Witness - Legacy Initiative 2025
God often glorifies himself with small groups of faithful people. The disciples were some of the 500 people who were witnesses to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We too are called to be witnesses in our generation.
Bold Action - Legacy Initiative 2025
King David knew that God wanted to use him for His glory, but he faced time in the wilderness. There, a group of 400 loyal and dedicated men joined him and together they changed Israel for God’s glory. There is real power when “I” becomes “We”. We Build This Together. We Invest in Life Change. With 400 dedicated men God changed the course of Israel’s history.
Legacy Initiative 2025 - Fearful Obedience
God chooses to accomplish his purposes in His own ways. He sometimes uses small groups of dedicated and obedient people to accomplish great feats for His glory. Even fear-filled obedience is useful to God.
Proclaimed - Work It Out
Although we are saved (justified) by Christ, we still have to learn to live in the new reality (sanctification). If we hold onto Christ, we will shine like stars in the sky, drawing others toward the feet of Jesus.
Proclaimed - Every Knee Will Bow
We see the example that we as believers are meant to emulate in the humility of Christ. We should look to him as our example, learn from him as our guide, and lift him up as our Lord.
Proclaimed - Strength In Unity
God is reminding the Philippian church of the importance of maintaining unity by recalling to their mind what He has done. He encourages them to fight to be of one mind and mission and watch out for things that cause division.
Christ Is - How to Live a Worthy Life
In order to live a life worthy of the Gospel, we must have the Gospel. Then we can respond to the world with grace that transforms.
Christ Is - My Confidence
As the Apostle Paul reflects on his current situation, he is reminded of his imprisonment as well as his deliverance. He is filled with confidence as he exclaims that life or death - either works just fine for him because he has Jesus.
Christ Is - Advancing
We see that the thing that matters most to Paul is that the Gospel is advancing. He’s not bitter about his past, he’s rejoicing that in every way the Gospel is being proclaimed through his current circumstances.
Christ IS - Creating Joyful Partnerships
A remembrance of the Philippian church brings prayers of thankfulness and joy to Paul’s lips. What could do that? A gospel partnership! We long to be a part of something bigger and more meaningful than our own lives and goals - Jesus provides that for us with his mission. Great partnerships share the same values and same mission - Gospel partnerships involve people with a shared submission to Chri
Christ Is - Love Like Jesus
Paul writes to the Philippians from prison, not with shame, but with joy and deep affection, showing us what Jesus-shaped love really looks like. He challenges us to pray for more than comfort—for spiritual growth, discernment, and fruit that lasts. This passage calls us to love like Jesus, pray like it matters, and live lives that actually reflect His transformation in us.
Christ Is - To & From
Paul & Timothy are writing to a church that Paul helped to start back 10 years ago. He’s acknowledging their status as saints and we are calling to remembrance the genesis of their relationship together.
To Seek & Save - Make a Difference
God did not create you in his image in order for you to pray a prayer, duck behind a wall and wait for eternity. You were created by God to go into all the world as an ambassador of God - taking on the spiritual forces of the enemy, pushing back the darkness and calling to any and all who will listen to come to God for life. You were made to make a difference.
To Seek and Save - Discover Your Purpose
God designed you to be a member of a local church. We want you to be a member here at Covenant Church.
To Seek and Save - Grow In Community
To Seek and Save - Know God
We are a church that exists to seek & save the lost. We want to have the same heart of the Father to help people come to Know God for the first time and bring our friends to meet Jesus too. We also want to come to Know God more deeply and worship in Spirit & in truth.
Jesus Is King - Easter 2025
Waiting is a part of life. But, there is no reason to wait to accept Jesus’ free offer of salvation. He is inviting everyone to place their faith in him for the forgiveness of sins and receive salvation.
Good News - Share Your Story
We are all commanded to be witnesses for Christ, and no amount of excuses will change that. God has given you a story to tell - be ready and willing to share about how your life has been changed by Christ.
Good News - “Inconvenient” Care
People aren’t an inconvenience, they are the point! If we are willing to interrupt our day to care for people, like Jesus did, we will demonstrate to people that we care. That care helps us to win them to ourselves, our group, and eventually Christ.
Good News - Prayer Evangelism
We all need to evangelize, but we don’t know how. When God entrusts a job to us, he empowers us to do that job. Prayer is an integral part of evangelism. If we want to see people come to know Christ we need to start praying for them persistently.
Good News - Come and SEE Jesus
There is a real need for people who are evangelists. The idea of this first sermon in the series will be to impress upon people the need to reach others with the message of the Gospel. There could be opportunity to share your testimony, talk about the needs that you’ve seen through your mission work, etc.
Promise & Progress - Guidelines & Goodbyes
As Joshua nears the end of his life, the author of the book of Joshua focuses on 3 different goodbyes. He says goodbye to the promise keeping clans. He says goodbye to the future elders and leaders who will lead the people and encourages them all to continue to follow God after Joshua is dead.
Promise & Progress - Slow and Steady
Progress may be slow and may be hard to see, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening. As Israel finds itself 10 years after the conquest begins, it is now time to look at the land before it - subdued and ready to be taken. A new period of transition begins as each tribe begins to receive their inheritance.
Promise & Progress - Intentionality & Inheritance
God has blessed Israel with his promises, with progress, and now there is the looming prospect of peace as each tribe begins to take their own inheritance. As each tribe is given their allotment of the land, we are reminded of God’s detailed care for his people, and the fact that we must still grab a hold of our inheritance.
Promise & Progress - Promise and Patience
Waiting on God's promises can be challenging, especially in a culture that expects instant results, but His timing is always perfect. In Joshua 13-14, we see that while Israel had experienced great victories, the work of possessing the land was not yet complete, requiring patience and faithfulness. Caleb's story teaches us that waiting doesn’t mean passivity; rather, it’s an opportunity to
Promise & Progress - Mistakes & Miracles
The people of Israel are going to experience the consequences of not following God, they may have been surprised, but God isn’t. God takes their setback and turns it into victory, in miraculous and incredible ways. Joshua prays for God’s intervention, and the sovereign God over creation intervenes in order to destroy the Amorites and glorify his name.
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