What Do You Fear? Week 3 — Even in Our Fear, We Are Called Forward
Release Date: 12/14/2025
A Time To Tell the Truth and Get Moving
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A Time to Tell the Truth A reflection on faith, grief, and moral responsibility In a season marked by loss, confusion, and deep questions about who we are becoming, Rev. Andrew Shipley offers a long-form reflection grounded in Scripture, theology, and pastoral care. This episode invites listeners to slow down and consider how faith speaks into moments of communal pain—how truth, lament, and responsibility have always been part of the biblical story, and why silence has consequences for our spiritual health. Rather than quick answers or hot takes, this conversation makes space for grief,...
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Will We Protect the Vulnerable
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WEEK 3 — Will We Protect the Vulnerable? Who Evil Always Asks Us to Sacrifice Every system reveals its true values by who it protects—and who it doesn’t. In this episode, Rev. Andrew Shipley explores the painful but necessary question of how religious communities have sacrificed the vulnerable in the name of strength, unity, and survival. Grounded in theology, history, and lived experience, this conversation names how scapegoating functions in churches—and why protection is not optional in the way of Jesus. With clarity and compassion, this episode challenges the myth that faith...
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Will We Tell the Truth?
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WEEK 3 — Will We Protect the Vulnerable? Who Evil Always Asks Us to Sacrifice Every system reveals its true values by who it protects—and who it doesn’t. In this episode, Rev. Andrew Shipley explores the painful but necessary question of how religious communities have sacrificed the vulnerable in the name of strength, unity, and survival. Grounded in theology, history, and lived experience, this conversation names how scapegoating functions in churches—and why protection is not optional in the way of Jesus. With clarity and compassion, this episode challenges the myth that faith...
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Why Should We Be Timid In 2026?
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Why Should We Be Timid in 2026? A Sermon from Missiongathering Every new year, we’re told to be reasonable. To lower our expectations. To ask for less. To make ourselves smaller in the name of “what’s possible.” But the gospel has never been timid. In this sermon, Why Should We Be Timid in 2026?, Rev. Andrew Graham Shipley challenges the quiet pressure to shrink our hopes, soften our convictions, and settle for survival instead of transformation. Drawing on scripture, lived experience, and the witness of a bold, justice-seeking faith, this message invites us to imagine a church—and a...
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What Do You Fear Part 5: Good News Is Louder Than Fear
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Good News Is Louder Than Fear Fear shouts. It dominates headlines, algorithms, and conversations. It tells us the world is ending and we are powerless to stop it. But the gospel has always insisted on something else. In this final sermon of the What Do You Fear? series, we proclaim a truth that feels almost scandalous in anxious times: good news is louder than fear. Not because fear isn’t real—but because it isn’t ultimate. From shepherds in occupied fields to communities under modern empire, God keeps breaking into history with a promise stronger than despair. This episode names the...
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What Do You Fear Week 4: When You Are Afraid Give Me Your Hand
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When You Are Afraid, Take My Hand Fear has a way of making us feel alone. Like we’re the only ones trembling. Like everyone else has it figured out. But Scripture tells a different story. In this week’s episode of What Do You Fear?, Ministry Intern Travelle Brown-Young joins us as we sit with a God who does not shame our fear, rush us through it, or demand bravery on command. Instead, God draws near. God reaches out. God says, “Take my hand.” This sermon explores what it means to trust a God who meets us in our fear—not after it’s gone—and how faith is often less about...
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What Do You Fear? Week 3 — Even in Our Fear, We Are Called Forward
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Week 3 — Even in Our Fear, We Are Called Forward Mary, Jeremiah, and so many of our ancestors were afraid—and still, God called them forward. This week we look at the holy courage that doesn’t erase fear but moves with it. We explore the quiet, daily, trembling “yes” that becomes the birthplace of God’s future in us.
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What Do You Fear? Week 2 — When We’re Running Out of Hope, God Is at Work
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Week 2 — When We’re Running Out of Hope, God Is at Work There are seasons when we feel spent—when our prayers feel unanswered, when the world feels too heavy, when hope feels like a candle burning down to its last flame. This week we remember that God is often most at work when we see it least. Jesus answers John’s doubts not with theory but with transformation already unfolding in the world.
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"What Do You Fear?" an Advent Series "In the time of Herod, we long for God to break in.
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Week 1 — In the Time of Herod, We Long for God to Break In Fear is not new. In the time of Herod, the world was ruled by violence, intimidation, and empire. And yet—that is exactly where God chose to enter the story. This week we explore what it means to long for God’s breakthrough in our own age of upheaval, and how Advent teaches us to expect divine disruption in the very places fear tries to reign.
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New Wine For New Skins: Becoming Good Ancestors
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What if our discipleship was measured not by this Sunday, but by the next century? In “Becoming Good Ancestors,” Pastor Andrew invites us to think beyond our timelines—planting trees we’ll never sit under, telling truer stories, and building structures that protect the vulnerable after we’re gone. Drawing on scripture, movement history, and Missiongathering’s long-horizon vision, we explore practical ways to live generationally: budgets that bless future neighbors, buildings that serve community needs, leadership that shares power, and habits that heal instead of harm. If you’ve...
info_outlineWeek 3 — Even in Our Fear, We Are Called Forward
Mary, Jeremiah, and so many of our ancestors were afraid—and still, God called them forward.
This week we look at the holy courage that doesn’t erase fear but moves with it. We explore the quiet, daily, trembling “yes” that becomes the birthplace of God’s future in us.