Eternity Church PodCast

About Eternity Church PodCast

Biblically-based teachings from services held at Eternity Church where we are gathering the nations to worship and imitate Christ. Come worship with us Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at 1200 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond VA 23227 http://www.eternitychurch.org/

Publisher

Eternity Church

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Aug 2023

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

114 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   September 20, 2026 - Mission Engagement Series 2026 (03)

   A Sunday morning sermon, scripture reading, testimony, and song by Mike Zello and ther Beauty For Ashes Ministry Team. In the New Testament, we find another letter to the church in Corinth. These people, filled with the Spirit and passionate about God’s call on their lives, were nevertheless struggling to live out their faith in ways pleasing to the Lord. They were rankled by Paul’s apostleship and his frequent sufferings. They had “a better way” in mind, one in which they could serve the Lord in ways that seemed right to them. Despite all their Spirit-empowerment and commission as a kingdom of priests, they failed to understand how the work of Christ’s kingdom comes through humility and weakness (2 Corinthians 1.9; 4.7; 11.30). While others around them boasted in their strength and lorded over people with violent power (2 Corinthians 1.24; Matthew 20.25-26), God’s kingdom of priests was to follow in the way of King Jesus, who, “though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8.9). These verses reveal how hard it was for the early Church to feel the solid ground of Christ the King’s foundation beneath them. The Corinthians’ struggle helps us better identify with God’s kingdom of priests in the Old Testament, who repeatedly failed to fulfill their high calling to bear God’s blessing to all nations. Seven times—a meaningful number of times—the author of Judges repeats how the Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes (Judges 2.11; 3.7, 12; 4.1; 6.1; 10.6; 13.1). Why did they fail so consistently and so miserably? Because they forgot God was their true king (1 Samuel 8.7). Unlike the neighboring peoples with their Baal worship, viceroys, and minor monarchs, the people of Israel were a kingdom brought into the Promised Land by the Lord God, their eternal King (Numbers 23.21). But like the Corinthians after them, and—too often—like you and me, the people lived their lives as if “there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17.6; 21.25). Choosing to live this way, we not only affect the way we live under the Lord’s blessing for ourselves, but also the lives of those around us who have yet to know the name of King Jesus.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   September 13, 2026 - Mission Engagement Series 2026 (02)

   A Sunday morning sermon by a visiting missionary. In the New Testament, we find another letter to the church in Corinth. These people, filled with the Spirit and passionate about God’s call on their lives, were nevertheless struggling to live out their faith in ways pleasing to the Lord. They were rankled by Paul’s apostleship and his frequent sufferings. They had “a better way” in mind, one in which they could serve the Lord in ways that seemed right to them. Despite all their Spirit-empowerment and commission as a kingdom of priests, they failed to understand how the work of Christ’s kingdom comes through humility and weakness (2 Corinthians 1.9; 4.7; 11.30). While others around them boasted in their strength and lorded over people with violent power (2 Corinthians 1.24; Matthew 20.25-26), God’s kingdom of priests was to follow in the way of King Jesus, who, “though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8.9). These verses reveal how hard it was for the early Church to feel the solid ground of Christ the King’s foundation beneath them. The Corinthians’ struggle helps us better identify with God’s kingdom of priests in the Old Testament, who repeatedly failed to fulfill their high calling to bear God’s blessing to all nations. Seven times—a meaningful number of times—the author of Judges repeats how the Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes (Judges 2.11; 3.7, 12; 4.1; 6.1; 10.6; 13.1). Why did they fail so consistently and so miserably? Because they forgot God was their true king (1 Samuel 8.7). Unlike the neighboring peoples with their Baal worship, viceroys, and minor monarchs, the people of Israel were a kingdom brought into the Promised Land by the Lord God, their eternal King (Numbers 23.21). But like the Corinthians after them, and—too often—like you and me, the people lived their lives as if “there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17.6; 21.25). Choosing to live this way, we not only affect the way we live under the Lord’s blessing for ourselves, but also the lives of those around us who have yet to know the name of King Jesus.

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   September 6, 2026 - Mission Engagement Series 2026 (01)

   A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. Have you ever felt the ground shift beneath your feet? I’ve shared before about a time when I was home on the island, sitting with my Dad in the living room, when I felt the earth shake beneath my feet. Not only my feet. I felt it in my core. So did the recliner. So did the house! It was as if the entire island was shaken! And it was. Mount Cameroon, a few miles away across the channel of ocean between us, erupted. The ground shifted. The next day, we went to the church in Ela Nguema, facing Cameroon and we watched the fiery lava flow into the sea, staining the rising steam with reds and oranges. I remember being in awe of what we saw, and also a little unsettled because our island is part of the same volcanic chain. This must have been how God’s people felt as Joshua led them through the Jordan River, into the land promised to them (Joshua 1.2). Like their parents who were left in the wilderness, these men, women, and children passed through on dry ground into a land given to them at the crossroads of the world. Imagine what it must have been like for Joshua when the Lord told him—in the season when the Jordan’s banks were overflowing—to tell the priests to go stand in the river, carrying the Ark of the Covenant, and watch as the waters stopped flowing and “stood up in a heap” (3.13). The rushing river folded up on itself, the crashing waters stacked up as the priests entered and stood on miraculously dry ground (3.17). One by one the people entered God’s promise. One by one, the ground of their personal experience with God shifted. They were stepping into the Promise of God’s Mission, for themselves and for all nations! This Sunday we are stepping into those same waters, believing the Lord is leading us as His kingdom of priests into a deeper understanding of who He is and who we are in Him (Exodus 19.6; 1 Peter 2.9). Friend, I don’t want to be left in the wilderness. I want to enter on dry ground Into the Promise, and I want us to go together.

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