Send us a text Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guest: Sara Schuer On today’s episode, Taylor sits down with Sara Schuer to discuss Advent. A season of hope, waiting, and anticipation as we prepared for the joy of Christmas. If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lexchurch.com and we would love to answer your …

Send us a text Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guest: Daniel Wrenn On today’s episode, Taylor sits down with Daniel Wrenn to discuss our past sermon series “Stewardship: Generosity Revolution”. We give because God first gave to us—His love, His grace, and ultimately, His Son. Generosity is a response to understanding how deeply we’ve bee…

Send us a text Host: Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guest: Dr. John Huang On today’s episode, Taylor sits down with Dr. John Huang to discuss our past sermon series “Practicing The Way”. “How do we be with Jesus? How do we become like Him? How do we do as He did? If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lexchu…

Send us a text Host: Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guest: Financial Director | Kate Burton On today’s episode, Taylor continues the series on “perspective of the church” and he brings in Kate Burton, the Financial Manager of Centenary Church to talk about how to navigate the complexities of financial management, but also staying true t…

Send us a text Host: Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guest: Director of Ministries for I Am Third | James Jaeger On today’s episode, Taylor continues the series on “perspective of the church” and bring in James Jaeger, the Director of Ministries for I Am Third. How can a sports ministry foster community? And how can it inspire personal g…

Send us a text Host: Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Guests: Associate Head of School | Lindsey Stone Associate Head of School | Kathryn Peavler On today’s episode, Taylor continues the series on “perspective of the church” and we bring the administration team from The Centenary School and we talk about the church from the perspective of…

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Centenary Students On today’s episode, Taylor continues the series on “perspective of the church” and he brings in a few of our female students to answer the questions “what’s good? bad? And what does community mean to them?” If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to u…

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Coordinator of Newcomer Ministries | Chris Harrison On today’s episode Taylor continues the topic on "perspectives" of the church. We invited Chris Harrison, our Coordinator of Newcomer Ministries to come talk about the church from the perspective of a newcomer. What does it feel like…

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Production Director | Jacob Turner On today’s episode Taylor continues the topic on "perspectives" of the church. We invited Jacob Turner who is our Production Director here at Centenary Church. We talk about the church from a behind the scenes perspective. How does technology and soc…

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Centenary Students On today’s episode Taylor takes the podcast on the road as he is with the high school students at camp in Knoxville,TN. He has conversation with a few our students and gets their perspective on “what is the church” to them. If you have some questions yourself, feel …

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon Pastor of Prayer and Care | Zach Davis On today’s episode Taylor brings in Zach Davis, our Pastor of Prayer and Care, and they talk about Nehemiah chapter 3. An incredible chapter, not at first glance though, but you as the church are being called and equipped to build the kingdom of …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode James and Taylor ask the question “does helping hurt?” Can the church do more harm than good when helping those in need? How far is too far? If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lexchurch.com and we would l…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode James and Taylor talk about grief. Our community here at Centenary Church has experienced a lot of grief recently and if your community hasn’t, it will. The goal of this conversation is to not only navigate, but allow it to lead you to a…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode James and Taylor talk about a vision that has been placed James’ heart that he has been sharing with groups of people and now wants to bring YOU in the conversation. If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lex…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode James and Taylor continue on the topic of Spiritual Warfare. How do you recognize it? How do you deal with it? How do you fight through it? Through this conversation they will be sharing stories and practical ways to do these things. If …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode James brings in Taylor Bacon to start a two-part series on the topic, Spiritual Warfare. Today you will hear stories on witnessing these types of things to how Christians how to be we be aware with this other realm that’s working in our …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James gives an update on what is going on in Centenary Church and then we take it back to a past episode called "Why We Left the UMC" If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lexchurch.com and we would lo…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer continue talking about things that are controlling us, keeping us from being everything that God is making our lives into being. This week’s topic is on doubt and while doubt isn’t a sin, it has the capabilities t…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer for next couple weeks will be talking about real obstacles that we face as Christians and Christ followers. This week they talk about fear and how do we stop letting fear, anger, bitterness, doubt control our live…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer talk continue on last week's conversation. How do we make Easter not just one day a year? How do we as Christians live into that 365 days? What does it mean to live a life of growth as we've been given this new li…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer reflect on a few questions, that you can ask yourselves as well, on this past year and how God has been moving in your life. If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us at www.Lexchurch.com and we…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer we extend the conversation of last week question “What is Truth?” and we ask the question this week “Can We Trust God?”. How do we know He cares for us in the biggest portions of our lives to the smallest portions…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer answer the question “What Is Truth?” How truth is supposed to guide us and what are suppose to do with it when we understand something. Is truth really just about answers? Or is it understanding our place in the u…

Send us a text Hosts- Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios Pastor of Family Ministries | Taylor Bacon On today’s episode Spencer is joined by Taylor Bacon to discuss different elements of the David and Goliath story. If you are walking through a space where you need some encouragement, life is kicking you down, or how do we really prep …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer are joined by Zach Davis and Taylor Bacon to talk about friendship and relationships and how to go about those in a godly way. What are we suppose to engage with when it comes to friendships and challenges. If you…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer talk about worship and majority of church goers know worship as songs you sing before we listen to the sermon on Sunday mornings, but the Bible talks about worship being an entire life style. It is the make up of …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer finish up the conversation they started last week on the "spiritual realm" and "spiritual warfare". They started the conversation on what it means to live between these two worlds and this week they talk about how…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer are starting a conversation on spiritual warfare. There are things and a world ,where God resides and lives that we know as Heaven, that is happening around our world today. If you have some questions yourself, fe…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer are finishing up their talk on realness and we are talking on leadership. As Christians we are called to be leader whether that be at: home, small group, work place, friendship, or wherever God is calling you and …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer continue talking about authenticity and vulnerability as Christ follower while living in a culture that has everything to do for being fake. How we were raised influenced and impacted our lives and once we knew Ch…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer talk about what it means to be a real Christ-Follower. How do you walk in authenticity and vulnerability as a person, but as well as a Christian. If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us and we…

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Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Multi Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios On today’s episode James and Spencer talk about fresh starts. Sometimes we think we need to wait for a whole new year to have a fresh start, but with God it’s daily. Through Him we can have these do overs and fresh starts. If you have some questions …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Guest | Stormie Omartien On today’s episode, Stormie Omartien shares her experience and insight around the power of prayer and overcoming fear in the present age. If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to us and we would love to answer your questions! Want to connect with Centenary …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries | Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk Christmas. If we aren't careful Christianity becomes this small part of Christmas like it is for the rest of society. This weeks discussion is to encourage you and give a bit of incite and how to …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries | Spencer Barrios Guests | Garrett Fahrbach and Stacy Baker In this episode James and Spencer chat with two good friends of theirs, Stacy Baker and Garrett Fahrbach, on being a Christian in a secular work environment. Being a christian in this kind of e…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams In this episode James talks about something many people struggle with during the Christmas Holiday, and that is depression. You've heard the saying "It's the most wonderful time of the years". We’ve heard that over and over again through the years and for many reasons it is. But for some who’ve exp…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries | Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk about something that's coming up at Centenary Church called "Generosity Revolution". When we think of the word generosity we usually just think of it as giving to an organization or church. But we…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries | Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk about a question everyone always ask themselves, " is this the end times?". Over history many people have tried to read the times to figure out when Jesus is coming back. Even though it's good to …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk about consumerism. How consumer culture has effected how we view our place in the world with God and other people. We need to be aware of it because in such contradiction to Biblical life and the s…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk about “Church Hopping”. If you have never heard this term before it is a term used for someone who does not desire to settle at a specific church based on what suits their needs. What causes church…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer continue the two part conversation from last week on fear. Fear, Robots(A.I.) and Relationships. We know from the Bible we are created to do life with one another. In our culture we seem to be more isol…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer start a two part conversation on the subject of fear. Fear is an aspect to human life that can be helpful, but also heavily destructive. Today we are going to go through how the Bible sees fear and it c…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer talk about something that everyone has dealt with in life and that is church hurt. If you live life around other people you are bound to get hurt as well as hurt someone else. If you have some questions…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer finish up the series on the book of James. James doesn’t end the book in the typical “Paul” like way, but he gives a couple more directions that are relevant to the world today. If you have some questio…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer continue the series on the book of James. Do you ever play spin the bottle with God? Ever choose something else to give your affection to that’s not God? If you have some questions yourself, feel to rea…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer continue the series on the book of James. Do you ever have a hard time taming the tongue? Ever wonder what it’s like when you cross the dark side of communication? If you have some questions yourself, f…

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer continue the series on the book of James. Have you ever felt that God is after performance? Do you think you need to get things right to get to the good place? If you have some questions yourself, feel …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer start a new series going over the book of James. What are we really striving for as Christians? Doing the right things and hoping for the best? If you have some questions yourself, feel to reach out to …

Send us a text Hosts- Lead Pastor | James Williams Pastor of Community and Multi-Site Ministries| Spencer Barrios In this episode James and Spencer finish up going through the series “Acts”. What makes an Acts Church? Is it what the church does? Is it what the church believes? OR is it even deeper than that? If you have some questions yourself, fee…