Roots Church Sermon Podcast

About Roots Church Sermon Podcast

Roots is an intentionally multiethnic community of misfits on a mission, finding identity in Jesus. We consider ourselves “misfits” because many of us have felt like we didn’t fit in other settings—always too much or not enough. Many of us asked too many questions, or didn’t conform to cultural norms. When we look to the scriptures, however, we see Jesus taking misfits and forming them into a new people with a new passion and a new purpose. It’s in Jesus’s Kingdom where we belong; in following Jesus we find our most important identity. Roots is a church community that gathers in the Hamline-Midway, Frogtown, and historic Rondo neighborhoods of St. Paul, MN. When we talk about “church,” we’re not talking about a building. Rather, we’re talking about a people, a community that is seeking God, learning how to be guided by the Holy Spirit, and experiencing new life in Christ. We have been meeting since 2014. We would love for you to join us for a worship gathering or small group some time!

Publisher

Roots Church

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2018

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

113 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Trauma, Healing, and Spiritual Formation

   How are we wired by what we’ve experienced? And how do we understand that wiring? In this message, Corey Magstadt explores the ways trauma wires our brains and therefore our lives. Corey helps us reframe that wiring, so we can be grateful that our bodies kept us safe the best way they knew how. Now that we’re no longer in danger, how can we learn new pathways toward healing and wholeness? Corey introduces us to three practices that are examples of how we can begin the process of healing.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Executive Function Variability & Belonging

   What does faithfulness look like and who gets to decide? This week, our friend Ricky Grant Jr. joins us to continue our Wired series. Ricky is a former church planter and doctoral researcher exploring how organizations, including faith communities, can better welcome people with executive function variability: the many different ways our minds plan, focus, remember, and follow through. Speaking from his own experience, Ricky shares what it’s like to belong to faith communities that expected everyone to fit a single mold of faithfulness. He invites us to imagine a different kind of church, one that honors the diverse ways God has wired us and makes its path to belonging clear and accessible for all.

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Scattering the Suite Nothings of the Penthouse

   What if the minds we’ve been taught to call “different” are exactly how God intended to show up in the world? Dr. Gary F. Green II, professor at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, joined us to reframe neurodiversity not as a deficit to be managed but as neuro-brilliance to be celebrated. He invited us to see the full range of human minds as part of the image of God, and to become a community where every kind of wiring is welcomed, honored, and needed. Listen in, and consider how your own wiring, and your neighbor’s, might be a gift.

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