Best Creativewriting Podcasts (2025)

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121 | The crucial element is not panicking with Sulari Gentill, author of 'Five Found Dead' 45:32

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When bestselling author Sulari Gentill was diagnosed with stage four cancer, she decided to write the ending she wanted. In episode 121, she joins James and Ashley to discuss her seventeenth novel, Five Found Dead, which features a main character riding the Orient Express to celebrate his recent cancer recovery – and who ends up solving several mur…

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From Reserved to Ravishing: Writing Spicy Scenes that Feel True to You, with guest HR Cole (EP196) 1:03:40

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Main Topic: From Reserved to Ravishing: Writing Spicy Scenes That Still Feel True to You (with guest HR Cole) PATREON: Thank you to our existing patrons for believing in our work offline and here in the podcast. Become a patron of the arts at Patreon.com/valerieihsan for books, writing instruction, coaching, and planning. Also, the Planner Plays an…

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#288 - Daredevil’s Gray Morality and Emotional Hooks: Storytelling Insights for Writers 1:03:49

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Welcome to Episode 288 of the Spun Today Podcast with Tony Ortiz, where creativity takes the spotlight and storytelling is always at the heart of the conversation. In this episode, Tony dives deep into the writing brilliance of the Daredevil TV series, exploring seasons one through four and unearthing valuable insights every writer and creative can…

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP514 - Interview with Annika Martin (Classic Replay) 1:10:28

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Writing bestselling romance with incredible character chemistry is something that NYT Bestseller Annika Martin excels in. Annika, who also publishes romantic suspense as Carolyn Crane, has seen incredible success writing two books a year (on average) and publishing wide. This is a classic replay episode (originally recorded in 2021) where Annika re…

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The Book You Were Born to Write: Legacy Crafting, Part 3 of 3 (Ep195) 16:40

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Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates): (Valerie): hard stuff at home (sharing that with my patrons, and a little on social media) (Erick): What are you reading? Valerie: Just finished: Austin Kleon's Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad Creative Act (Rick Rubin) and Anne Abel's new book High Hopes (out in September .. She'l…

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP513 - Interview with Anya Mora: Writing Through Tough Times 1:02:20

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When the going gets tough, it can be really hard to get (or keep) going. Today's episode has empathetic and practical advice from the incredible Anya Mora about working through life challenges, recovering from burnout, trusting your instincts and dealing with things that often throw us “off course” from our author life. About Anya Anya Mora is the …

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The Book You Were Born to Write: Where Ego Meets Soul, Part 2 of 3 (Ep194) 17:22

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Main Topic: Today’s episode is all about Ego Meeting Soul (the inner vs outer world of writing) In our last episode of the mini podcast series The Book You Were Born to Write, we listened for the first whispers of the book inside you. We honored that quiet knowing — the call to finally write the book that’s been circling your spirit. And today… we’…

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120 | If society collapses, head to the beach with Michelle Prak, author of 'Barren Cape' 33:46

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In episode 120, bestselling author Michelle Prak discusses how she set her latest thriller against the backdrop of Australia’s housing crisis and why she writes flawed, sometimes rash characters. She also reflects on how growing up in a lower socio-economic home influenced her love of reading and her ambition to be a writer, and also how it delayed…

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP512 - Manifesting Success with Renee Rose (Classic Replay) 56:54

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You're worth it and your work is worth it. 15-time USA Today bestselling romance author Renee Rose is passionate about helping other authors find and maintain an abundance mindset to catapult their careers and create their best future. She employs energetic tools and techniques to help her clients clear resistance and money blocks, access their inn…

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#287 – Creative Accountability, AI Tools for Writers, Insights from Ta-Nehisi Coates and More! (Free Writing Session) 51:34

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Welcome back to the Spun Today podcast! In this episode, Tony Ortiz dives deep into the creative process, taking you behind the scenes of his own writing journey. This is a special “free writing session” episode, where Tony shares his candid writing stats—celebrating the progress, confronting the setbacks, and reflecting on what it really takes to …

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The Way of Generosity 44:16

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July 21, 2025 God calls us to the way of generosity and Dan Kent shows how this call is much larger than a set of rules for how we use our money. It’s about recognizing the story of the world versus the story of God. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-way-of-generosity/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Au…

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The Way of Empathy 46:03

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July 1, 2025 In this sermon, Dan Kent challenges us to enter into the way of empathy, which he says is crucial to our ability to connect with others by sharing in their feelings. It is a way exemplified by Jesus as he entered into the common human condition so that he might know what we experience from the inside. More Resources: https://whchurch.o…

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Crescendo of Hope 42:21

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June 10, 2025 Our world surrounds us with despair and darkness, and we long for a place of hope. Dan ties this reality into Revelation 8 and 9, where the trumpet judgments bring destruction to the earth. He looks for and finds hope in the midst of the destruction, showing us how we can find hope even at the crescendo of chaos. More Resources: https…

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Light Chasers 39:14

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May 7, 2025 This sermon by Dan Kent helps us understand the meaning of repentance and why it is so crucial to our walk with Jesus. In it, we discover how we misunderstand what repentance is and see how repentance is a path to true freedom. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/light-chasers/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.…

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Inner Exodus 45:17

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March 25, 2025 We need spiritual disciplines which will shape us so that we can live in love toward ourselves. Fasting is such a discipline because it detoxes our dependence upon food and other pleasures, enabling us to receive what is actually fulfilling and whole. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/inner-exodus/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KS…

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Salvation Belongs to Our God 39:53

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February 10, 2025 In this sermon, Dan Kent helps us understand the meaning of the proclamation “salvation belongs to our God.” While we might assume salvation is about personal sin and guilt, Dan demonstrates that it is much more extensive than that. He shows us that salvation is centered around God’s work to establish the rightful King of all crea…

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Waiting with Anna 42:23

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December 8, 2024 This sermon examines the story of Anna when she met the child Jesus in the temple. Dan Kent highlights how she waited for the Messiah for decades and the importance of waiting on God to act in our lives and release his gifts through us. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/waiting-with-anna/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOU…

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Crowns not Crutches 39:12

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November 25, 2024 At the start of the Book of Revelation the angel tells John: “Do not be afraid.” Then the angel proceeds to affront John with a terrifying series of visions. How could John NOT be afraid? What’s going on here? Dan talks about how having different objectives at our centers makes us more or less vulnerable to fear. More Resources: h…

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Let Your Gentleness Show 42:01

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September 2, 2024 Why does Paul tell us to “Let your gentleness be evident to all”? How does showing gentleness empower us, make us immune to propaganda, and give us spiritual stability? Join Dan as he engages this powerful fruit of the Spirit. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/let-your-gentleness-show/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTU…

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The Heart of Worship 38:39

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June 14, 2024 What if we don’t like heaven? Why does worship in heaven seem so torturous? In this sermon on Revelation chapter 4, Dan looks at the symbolism of the throne room and discusses allegiance as the heart of worship. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-heart-of-worship/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube…

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The Problem with Palm Sunday 36:51

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March 25, 2024 How did the crowds go from laying down Palm Branches and calling Jesus king to screaming “Crucify Him!” in just a few short days? The answer to this question, I believe, affects us all. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-problem-with-palm-sunday/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKe…

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Sheep Among Wolves 45:14

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January 23, 2024 In this sermon Dan speculates on the “love” Jesus claimed the Ephesians had “forsaken” in Revelation 2:4. After praising their orthodoxy, Jesus criticizes their lack of love. Dan argues that, perhaps, they defended orthodoxy at the cost of love. That is, they loved ideology over people. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/s…

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The Gift of God’s Grace 36:40

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December 18, 2023 In this sermon Dan show how God’s DELIGHT in us grounds God’s grace for us. Not only that, DELIGHT grounds agape love. God invites us to live into his delight for us, and to then learn to show delight in God, ourselves, and each other. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-gift-of-gods-grace/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAn…

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Rolling Stones 44:26

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October 23, 2023 If you are a follower of Jesus, God considers you a priest. Did you know that? If not, consider this your ordination and your orientation into the most meaningful vocation possible. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/rolling-stones/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GO…

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A Living Faith 39:36

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October 2, 2023 Many read Revelation as a predictor of the future. This turns God into a fixed, wooden object who does not actually relate to a living creation. But this book was never meant to be read this way. Instead, it points to a LIVING GOD who reigns over a LIVING CREATION and calls us into a LIVING FAITH. God invites us to participate in th…

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Antifragile Faith 35:57

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September 4, 2023 Many people orient their lives around the pursuit of happiness. But this inevitably leads to a fragile faith. But when we put the pursuit of Christlikeness at the center of what we want out of life, we increasingly develop an antifragile faith. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/antifragile-faith/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3K…

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Don’t Look Back 39:56

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August 1, 2023 The Apostle Paul wrote that he does one thing: forget what is behind and press ahead to the goal to win the prize of God. In this sermon, Dan Kent explains what it means to forget the past and press on toward God. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/dont-look-back/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.co…

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Raveling Truth 40:24

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July 18, 2023 This sermon provides a recap of the Unraveling Truth series, as Dan walks us through four elements of the series: Truth, God, Jesus and the Bible. He explains how these elements are related to each other and how they have implications for how we think and do day-to-day life. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/raveling-truth/ …

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Good Teacher 42:27

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July 5, 2023 In this sermon, Dan Kent asks the question, was Jesus a good teacher? He uses the story of the rich young ruler, who called Jesus “good teacher,” and Jesus’s response to help us see how the questions this man brought to Jesus hindered his ability to receive what Jesus taught, and in the same way today, our questions limit us. More Reso…

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Was Jesus “Crazy”? 37:49

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May 27, 2023 This sermon addresses the question of whether or not Jesus was of a sound mind, and then claims that the only sane human to have ever lived was Jesus, and what the implications of that are. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/was-jesus-crazy/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISI…

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Miracles & Microscopes 40:57

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February 27, 2023 Dan Kent shows us how faith & science can work together and complement one another. He then offers the “Unity of Consciousness” argument, then shows how the miracle of the self can ground our personhood, our dignity, our equality, and the wide range of amazing teachings of the Bible, like: prayer, immortality, free will, the Holy …

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One With Authority 42:23

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January 12, 2023 Jesus spoke with authority, but what does this authority mean for today when we tend to distrust authority figures? Dan addresses why acting on Jesus’s teaching is so crucial to actually understanding what Jesus said. Jesus’s teachings are not merely facts we believe. They are deep truths we can only fully know when we live them ou…

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The Joy of God’s Judgment 42:19

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October 14, 2024 In Revelation 6:9-10 the martyrs call out for justice, asking how long will they have to wait for God to make things right. This speaks to our common longing for justice as we live in the space where Jesus has conquered Satan, yet we wait on justice to be fully realized. This sermon shows how we live in this space. More Resources: …

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The Absurdity of Loneliness 41:50

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December 20, 2022 Why didn’t Jesus leave us any of his own writings? The answer to this may shine a light on the profound loneliness crisis the world is experiencing… More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-absurdity-of-loneliness/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https://…

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SPA Girls Podcast - EP511 - Reader Events - Tips For Authors Attending 54:58

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Wendy, Cheryl and Trudi are off to RARE Melbourne in October 2025 and busy organising ALL the things! So this episode we share all our BEST TIPS (merchandise sourcing, what works, what doesn’t), table set up, what to wear, how to approach reader events, how many books to take (or offer on preorder) and how to calm the nerves / talk to strangers (ha…

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Destination: Known 37:38

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December 20, 2022 We hunger for a bigger meaning than the world can possibly provide. In this sermon, Dan shows how only God can give us a “meant to be” that satisfies. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/destination-known BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https://spoti.fi/…

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The Path is a Person 43:00

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November 15, 2022 What does it mean to say “the way is relational” and “the path is a person”? In this sermon, Dan looks at the profound conclusion to the Sermon on the Mount. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-path-is-a-person BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https:/…

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A Different Kind of Fire 41:17

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July 4, 2022 The world wants you to burn with RAGE. God wants us to burn with a different kind of fire: Agape Love. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/a-different-kind-of-fire/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https://spoti.fi/3LVxImd WEBSITE: https://thatdankent.com FACE…

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Ep 47 Part 3: Biblical Themes in Sinners 15:23

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In Part 3 of our SMART analysis of Sinners, we explore the film’s theology through the lens of scripture in our Touch of The Word segment. We draw on Bible passages—from Saul and the medium of Endor to the temptations of Jesus—to unpack the spiritual themes woven throughout the movie. Our discussion highlights how the Bible treats witchcraft, artis…

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Ep 47 Part 2: Unity vs. Uniformity in Sinners 38:31

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In Part 2 of our SMART Analysis of Sinners, we dive into the film’s intended audience and challenge listeners to rethink its deeper messages. This powerful episode explores how the film speaks directly to viewers, particularly those from marginalized communities, with its bold historical, spiritual, and artistic themes. We unpack the complex portra…

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Ep 47 Part 1: Is Art Dangerous? What Sinners Really Shows Us 30:47

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In Part 1 of our three-part SMART Analysis of Sinners, we explore the film’s gripping story and the powerful message at its core. Centered on Sammy, a gifted musician navigating a world that both reveres and exploits his talent, we discuss how the film challenges us to think about the purpose and risks of using our gifts. We dive into how music con…

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The Book You Were Born to Write: Hearing the Call, Part 1 of 3 (Ep193) 18:25

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Today’s episode is all about Hearing the Call. That moment when the idea of writing a book stops being a far-off fantasy... and starts feeling like destiny. You might not feel ready. You might not know what you want to say yet. But if you're listening to this right now — I have a hunch that something is stirring. That stirring? That’s your soul whi…

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The Absurdity of Judgement 39:40

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June 2, 2022 We live in a system in which everyone judges themselves and each other and creates a hierarchy of those above and below them. Jesus came to confront and blow this system apart. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-absurdity-of-judgment/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING …

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Life is Hard. We are Strong. God is Good. 43:27

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May 7, 2022 How do we become the kind of person who heeds Jesus’ words on not worrying about our life? Dan Kent answers this question with three basic truths that can change how we face worrisome situations. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/life-is-hard-we-are-strong-god-is-good/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube…

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What Are You Looking At? 45:36

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March 13, 2022 Jesus taught us that what we see is shaped by how our eyes are trained to see the world. If our eye is bad, our sight will be corrupted. We need good eyes to see the world rightly. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/what-are-you-looking-at/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRIS…

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Beyond the Mirror 36:08

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December 26, 2021 Our understanding of God is often controlled by our projections upon him. How, then, do we actually attain a more accurate picture of who he actually his? This sermon seeks to address this question by helping us think through our experiences of parenting and how those experiences influence our view of God’s nature. More Resources:…

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When You Fast 45:48

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November 14, 2021 What is fasting? Why should we do it? What does Jesus say about fasting? In this sermon, Dan Kent explores these questions, and wrestles with the practical implications of fasting in our world that is overcome by the pursuit of pleasure. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/when-you-fast/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTU…

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The “Perfect” Sermon 43:16

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August 2, 2021 In this sermon, Dan Kent addresses what it means to be perfect, as Jesus instructed in Matthew 5:48. The answer may surprise you. More Resources: https://whchurch.org/sermon/the-perfect-sermon/ BOOKS: https://bit.ly/3KSJAnp YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorDanKent SURPRISING GOD PODCAST: https://spoti.fi/3LVxImd WEBSITE: https…