Radiant Church Visalia
Religion & Spirituality
About
Radiant Church exists to behold Jesus and put his brilliance on display. Based in Visalia, California, our podcast explores what it looks like to live a gospel-centered life in the modern world. Join us for weekly sermons as we live obedient to the Word of God, surrendered to the Spirit of God, and devoted to the mission of God. Whether you’re a long-time believer or just curious about Jesus, there’s a place for you here. Visit us at: www.radiantvisalia.com
Episodes
- Exodus: God Goes Camping
This episode examines the fifth commandment to honor parents and discusses the Tabernacle as God dwelling with His people. It draws parallels between the Tabernacle, Jesus, and believers as the current dwelling place of God, looking forwar…
- Exodus: The Giving of Goat Hair
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia, "Exodus: The Giving of Goat Hair," explores stewardship and generosity, emphasizing that giving is a heart issue and an act of worship. It discusses the purpose of the Tabernacle and principles of b…
- Exodus: The Ten Words
This episode of Radiant Church Visalia discusses the Ten Commandments, reframing them as the "Ten Words" which guide a life of relationship with God. It emphasizes that the first four words, focusing on prioritizing God, proper worship, ho…
- Exodus: The Gift of the Law
This sermon examines Exodus 20, where the Law is introduced, challenging modern negative perceptions. It argues the Law is a gift providing true freedom through boundaries, correcting the myth of two different Gods in the Old and New Testa…
- Easter in Exodus
This sermon connects the Exodus narrative to the Resurrection, highlighting Old Testament symbols like the burning bush and the Passover lamb as foreshadowing Jesus Christ. It encourages listeners to recognize divine intervention in their…
- Exodus: Coming Full Circle to the Foot of the Mountain
This sermon reflects on Moses
- Eden Podcast - 2: Into the Light - Exposing the Enemy's Lies
Episode 2 of the Eden Podcast, 'Into the Light,' addresses spiritual deception by contrasting God's loving voice with the enemy's lies. It explores confession and repentance as paths to freedom from shame and isolation, encouraging listene…
- Eden Podcast - 3: Hearing the Father - Creativity, Beauty, and The True Voice of God
This episode discusses discerning God's voice, contrasting its life-giving clarity with the enemy's destructive confusion. It emphasizes partnership with God as co-creators, reflecting His beauty, and finding ultimate restoration in Christ.
- Eden Podcast - 1: Unveiling the Garden - Reclaiming Identity & Worth
This episode of Eden Podcast, recorded live, explores humanity's origin story from Genesis 1-3, focusing on God's creative power, the meaning of being made "very good," and the impact of sin and shame. It discusses God's pursuit of humanit…
- Exodus: What To Do When You Face a Battle
This sermon discusses the paradoxical nature of the wilderness, a place of both danger and divine revelation, using the Israelites' battle against the Amalekites as an example. It emphasizes that God uses trials to strengthen faith, requir…
- Exodus: How to Avoid Burnout
This sermon discusses Exodus 18 to address leadership, delegation, and burnout. It outlines biblical principles for managing responsibilities, recognizing personal limitations, and prioritizing character and family over unsustainable work…
- The Value of Connecting Small
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia emphasizes the importance of "connecting small" in small groups for spiritual formation and maturity. It highlights how these groups provide an essential environment for discipleship, learning throug…
- Exodus: Why We Live in the Wilderness
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia, part of the "Exodus" series, focuses on the "wilderness season" of the Christian life. It examines Deuteronomy 8 to explain God's purpose for this difficult "in-between" time, emphasizing lessons in…
- Exodus: How to Make It in the Wilderness
This sermon uses the Israelites' wilderness journey as a metaphor for the Christian life, highlighting its paradoxical nature as a place of both danger and divine intimacy. It emphasizes that faith is refined through testing and that cling…
- Exodus: Remembering the Stories
This sermon examines the "dark night of the soul" using Psalm 77 and the Exodus story, highlighting the honesty of lament, the reality of divine silence, the importance of remembrance, and the ultimate rescue found in the Gospel.
- For Better or For Worse: A Marriage Workshop
This episode features Dr. Dan and Kathie Jarrell from Western Seminary discussing marriage. The workshop aims to help couples cultivate their marriage to thrive through challenges and good times.
- Becoming a People of Substance | My Job Depends on Ag
Dr. Dan Jarrell challenges listeners to live a life of substance by engaging with sacred things rather than treating them as commodities. He critiques technological culture for prioritizing efficiency over engagement, using biblical exampl…
- Staying Where You're Planted | My Job Depends on Ag
This sermon, part of the "My Job Depends on Ag" series, emphasizes the importance of stability and rootedness in the Christian life, using agricultural metaphors. It argues that staying planted in a place, community, and calling is essenti…
- Work and Wait Like the Farmer | My Job Depends on Ag
This sermon uses the analogy of a farmer from James 5:7-11 to explore the spiritual discipline of waiting. It emphasizes that waiting on God is an active, expectant posture, crucial for developing patience, overcoming entitlement, and nurt…
- Rootedness | My Job Depends on Ag
This sermon explores spiritual growth using agriculture as a metaphor, highlighting the need to prioritize our inner life and connection to God (the root) over external achievements (the fruit). It encourages tending to our hearts, as they…
- Agriculture in the Faith | My Job Depends on Ag
This sermon uses agriculture as a metaphor for spiritual growth, likening it to a slow, intentional process rather than an instant event. It highlights the importance of tending to one's spiritual
- God Our Home | Part 3: Homecoming
This sermon concludes the "God Our Home" series, explaining how Jesus overcomes barriers to our intimacy with God, such as disobedience and shame. It emphasizes that Christmas signifies God dwelling with His people, empowered by Jesus' sac…
- God Our Home | Part 2: Homeless
This sermon, "God Our Home: Part 2 - Homeless," discusses the constant reality of God's presence, the biblical theme of "Emmanuel," and the barriers that prevent intimacy with God. It highlights seven obstacles like disobedience, shame, an…
- God Our Home | Part 1: Homesick
This sermon explores the holiday homesickness as a spiritual longing for God's permanent presence, tracing His dwelling with humanity from Eden through Jesus and the Church to the New Creation. Believers are called to cultivate God's prese…
- Exodus: Traditions in the Faith
This sermon connects the sacraments of baptism and communion to the Exodus story, viewing them as divine institutions commanded by Jesus and prefigured in the Old Testament. Baptism is linked to the Red Sea crossing, symbolizing leaving th…
- Exodus: What's Up With That?
This sermon examines the Ten Plagues in Exodus, explaining them as God's revelation of Himself, a fulfillment of promises, and judgment on oppression. It addresses the severity of the plagues by exploring God's glory, patience, and His unw…
- Exodus: The Ten Plagues Part Two
This sermon explores the final five plagues of Egypt from Exodus 9-11, discussing God's judgment on Egyptian deities and the connection to future end-times events in Revelation. It also reflects on the urgency of life in light of final per…
- Exodus: The Ten Plagues Part One
This sermon analyzes the Ten Plagues from Exodus, presenting them not as random acts but as deliberate revelations of God's power. The plagues served to demonstrate Yahweh's superiority over Egyptian deities, enact patient judgment, and ul…
- Exodus: But God...
This sermon explores Exodus 5 and 6, emphasizing perseverance through opposition, drawing parallels to a global gathering and revival reports. It highlights God's "I WILL" promises revealed through His character, contrasting with the Israe…
- Exodus: Who is God?
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia delves into the question "Who are you, God?" based on Exodus 3:13-15. It explores the significance of God revealing Himself as "I AM WHO I AM" (YHWH) and how this divine name is ultimately and most c…
- Exodus: Who Am I?
This sermon examines the question "Who am I?" using Moses's experience at the burning bush. It contrasts societal answers to insecurity with God's response, "I will be with you," emphasizing His presence as the antidote to shame and inadeq…
- Exodus: Chapter Two
This sermon on Exodus Chapter Two explores God's sovereign rescue of Moses, highlighting that deliverance is a move of God, not human effort. It uses Moses's life as a parallel to spiritual growth, emphasizing the need to shed self-relianc…
- Exodus: Chapter One
This sermon on Exodus Chapter One examines Israel's presence in Egypt as an act of obedience and discusses the unnamed Pharaoh as a symbol of evil. It highlights the midwives Shiphrah and Puah as examples of true greatness through faith an…
- Exodus: Jesus in Exodus
This sermon explores the Book of Exodus as a key pattern for understanding Jesus, highlighting His appearances throughout the Old Testament and His fulfillment of the Exodus narrative as the Greater Moses, leading a current, cosmic Exodus…
- Exodus: The Melody of Exodus
This episode introduces a new series diving into the Book of Exodus, presented as the Bible's foundational deliverance archetype. It explains how the Exodus story influences the entire biblical narrative and is essential for understanding…
- The AI Podcast
The Radiant Church Podcast features a discussion on artificial intelligence, technology, and their relationship with faith. Guests define AI, explore its promises and perils through a biblical lens, and examine the ethical costs and implic…
- Proverbs: Work
This episode from Radiant Church Visalia discusses the biblical significance of work, drawing from the Book of Proverbs. Elder Ken explains that God is a worker and humans are made to work, finding purpose and provision through labor. The…
- Coming to church on time matters
This episode covers Radiant Church Visalia's "State of the Union," detailing the realities of being a sending church, the community's Sunday rhythms including Bible teaching on Exodus and worship, and emphasizing the importance of member r…
- Proverbs: Priorities
This episode of Radiant Church Visalia discusses priorities, emphasizing the importance of nurturing one's heart over focusing solely on tasks. Key takeaways include prioritizing God's wisdom, embracing humility, and pursuing integrity, al…
- Proverbs: Wealth
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia
- Proverbs: Trust
In this sermon from Radiant Church Visalia, guest speaker Tiffany Aicklen explores the Book of Proverbs' teachings on trust, emphasizing God's desire for partnership with honest and integral people. The message covers the importance of int…
- Proverbs: Listening
This episode from Radiant Church Visalia focuses on the theme of listening as presented in the Book of Proverbs. It highlights that God is always speaking and calls us to listen for wisdom and instruction. The episode connects listening to…
- Proverbs: The Poor
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia explores the Book of Proverbs
- Proverbs: Justice
Matt Flummer teaches on justice in the Proverbs series, contrasting biblical and secular views. The episode defines justice, discusses its presence and absence in Proverbs, emphasizes corporate and individual responsibility, and links just…
- Proverbs: Lust & Temptation
In this sermon, Glenn Power discusses Proverbs chapter 5, focusing on the book's warnings against immorality and lust, and contrasting them with God's positive view of sexuality within marriage.
- Proverbs: Words
This sermon from Radiant Church Visalia, featuring Mike Young, discusses the power of words based on the Book of Proverbs. It emphasizes that words have the ability to bring life or death, reflect the speaker's heart, and can be used const…
- Proverbs: Dealing with Fools
This episode discusses the categories of people described in Proverbs: the simple, the wise, and the fool. It details the characteristics of a fool, such as being self-righteous, quarrelsome, and resistant to correction, and warns against…
- Proverbs: Fear of the Lord
This episode delves into the fear of the Lord, using Jesus' teachings in Matthew 10, wisdom from Proverbs, and David's experiences in Psalms. It explains that this reverence for God is the beginning of wisdom and can free individuals from…
- Proverbs: The Pursuit of Wisdom
This episode kicks off a summer series on the Book of Proverbs, emphasizing the urgency and practical value of seeking wisdom. It highlights that biblical wisdom applies to all life areas and defines the characteristics of a wise person, c…
- Broken for Blessing
This message from Radiant Church Visalia, titled "Broken for Blessing," draws from John 6:1-15, 35 and Mark 8:5-7. It explores five dynamics of Christ's multiplication: the life found in the message, the necessity of sacrifice, anointed ad…