University Presbyterian Church Austin
Progressive PC(USA) congregation in the heart of the Austin west campus neighborhood. Rooted in worship, growing through education and service, connecting to campus and community.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2020
Break Open
In water from a rock, tablets on the ground, tearing apart the sea, ripping the heavens open, in the temple curtain making way for new people to enter God's Kingdom: God has never stopped breaking Go…
00:19:31 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Everything She Had
The real challenge of stewardship is that some of your support will go to things you may never see. The widow gives everything she has to the church that should be, and could be, and will be, for God…
00:20:54 |
Mon 12 Nov 2018
UPC Weekly UPcast Episode 5 for November 11, 2018
Matt, Krystal, and John share what's coming up this weekend in this 5 minute minicast.
00:04:28 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
Patching Up
Job's story doesn't end the way we'd like it. And yet Job has faith, despite all of it. Faith doesn't repair the cracks, provide the answers, or put the world back together. At best, it’s a patch j…
00:17:28 |
Mon 05 Nov 2018
UPC Weekly UPcast Episode 4 for November 4, 2018
Matt, Krystal, and John share what's coming up this weekend in this 5 minutes minicast.
00:03:41 |
Wed 31 Oct 2018
The Whirlwind
What can we learn from the storm? This country is in the grip of a hatred that can absolutely consume us. At some point we must move in a different direction.
Reformation Sunday, October 28, 2018, th…
00:17:49 |
Mon 29 Oct 2018
UPC Weekly UPcast Episode 3 for October 28, 2018
Matt, Krystal, and John share what's coming up this weekend in this 5 minute minicast. Music by https://www.soundcloud.com/ikson
00:04:51 |
Wed 24 Oct 2018
The Right to Face Your Accuser
Job wants to be angry with God. But what he’s really scared of is being known. Once he starts to think about it, he realizes that maybe he’s not ready for that kind of intimacy. It’s not wrong to be …
00:19:01 |
Mon 22 Oct 2018
UPC Weekly UPcast, Episode 2 October 21, 2018
Matt, Krystal, and John share what's coming up this weekend in this 5-minute minicast.
00:04:54 |
Tue 16 Oct 2018
What Job Always Did
The question embedded in the introduction to Job is not just “Why do bad things happen to good people?” The question is, "What happens when the universe itself doesn’t play by the rules? What is this…
00:21:33 |
Mon 15 Oct 2018
Weekly UPcast Volume 1 October 14, 2018
Matt, Krystal, and John tell you what's coming up at University Presbyterian Church Austin this weekend.
00:04:23 |
Wed 10 Oct 2018
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All are welcome at Christ's table, without exception. It fills us to bursting with the joy of celebrating all that is good, just, beautiful, and hopeful. But don’t think for a moment that all this a…
00:20:35 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
As We Forgive Our Debtors
Forgiveness isn’t a virtue in and of itself, but goes hand in hand with grace and truth. It’s a God-given tool that we use for the building-up of God’s kingdom. It flows from people with power to tho…
00:22:01 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
Greatest of All Time
As the disciples argue over who is the greatest, Jesus makes the disciples - and us - pay attention to a child, perhaps a servant or slave serving the meal, who no one noticed until Jesus pointed the…
00:15:45 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
Who Do You Say That I Am?
The truth is I’m not sure the church has figured Jesus out at all. And if the church is truly supposed to be the body of Jesus Christ in the world then the question, "Who do you say that I am?" is an…
00:16:37 |
Mon 17 Sep 2018
Rubber Bandwidth
The unnamed woman is passionately doing the hard work of advocacy. When Jesus snaps, she responds with empathy; seeing this situation from Jesus’ perspective. She picks up the rubber band of Jesus' h…
00:20:05 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Still Hungry
In John’s Gospel, the crowd has been bingeing on bread and fish, as far as the eye can see. Jesus sees them stuffing themselves with food that perishes. Jesus knows they are hungry for something else…
00:17:29 |
Mon 03 Sep 2018
Gathering the Fragments
When Jesus tells the lakeside crowd to gather up the pieces, they understand the reference to manna in the wilderness But Jesus isn't just talking about daily rations, or God’s abundance. Jesus insi…
00:17:00 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
The Song that Never Ends
Mark says “they fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid,” full stop. All of a sudden, Mark doesn’t have any more words, lik…
00:13:40 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
These Saving Words
Staring at these holy words in this holy book, we ask the question the church has been asking itself for 2,000 years,"How is this story saving us?" It’s a great question, but perhaps it’s not the fir…
01:00:00 |
Mon 13 Aug 2018
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