Jesus' Enduring Questions - Why Are You So Afraid?
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Release Date: 03/02/2026
Out of Egypt - Send Someone Else
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: Send Someone Else - Pastor Donnell T. Wyche - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: This Sunday we come back to the burning bush, because Moses is still standing there, and he is still talking. Five times Moses tells God no. Last week Hannah walked us through the first two objections, "Who am I?" and "What is your name?", and God answered both with presence: I will be with you, I am who I am. In Exodus 4:1-17 we get the last three. They won't believe me. I have never been eloquent. Please send someone else. And God does not argue with him. God asks...
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Out of Egypt - The Burning Bush
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: The Burning Bush - Pastor Hannah Witte - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: What if the questions “Who am I?” and “Where do I belong?” are ultimately answered not by what we accomplish, what others think of us, or where we come from, but by the God who comes to us and calls us by name? In Exodus 3, Moses encounters the God who sees his people's suffering, speaks into his identity, promises His presence, and invites him to participate in God’s work of liberation and redemption. Like Moses, we may feel disoriented, inadequate, or unsure of...
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Out of Egypt - Getting Egypt Out of Moses
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: Getting Egypt Out of Moses - Pastor Donnell T. Wyche - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: This Sunday we come to Moses. Not the baby in the basket and not the man at the burning bush, but the man in between, who sees something and does not know what to do with what he has seen. Exodus 2:11-25 is built on one verb, to see. Moses watches his people at their hard labor, sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, looks this way and that, and kills the man. Pharaoh spent a generation teaching Egypt not to see the Hebrews as human, and Moses sees through it. The...
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Out of Egypt: Part 3
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: Part 3 - Jonathan Hurshman - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: Jonathan Hurshman brilliantly walks us through Acts 6:1-7, exploring how the ways of Pharaoh are still showing up thousands of years later in how the church takes care of its most vulnerable. He points out how giving power away to the least powerful brought some of the most powerful, the priests, into the community of Jesus followers. The apostles defy Pharaoh's ways by sharing power, refusing to separate, and charting a course of mutuality. Following Jesus is indeed the good life, but...
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Out of Egypt: Who Will You Fear?
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: Who Will You Fear - Pastor Hannah Witte - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: In Exodus 1:15-2:10, we meet women who refuse to let fear determine who they obey, what they see, or how they live—and through their faithfulness, God protects life and moves his story forward. We, too, are invited to become people whose deepest allegiance is to Christ, so that the fears, powers, and pressures around us no longer get to decide who we become. Freedom is not the absence of fear; it is becoming so close to Jesus and so immersed in his way of seeing the world...
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Out of Egypt: Introduction
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Out of Egypt: Introduction - Rev. Donnell T. Wyche - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: This sermon opens the fall series Out of Egypt, in which we read Exodus alongside Acts. Exodus is the story of God freeing a people from empire and teaching them to trust; Acts is the story of that same God pouring out the Spirit and forming a new family that crosses every border. Why tell the story of a people held in captivity? Because getting out of Egypt is one thing; getting Egypt out of you is the work of a lifetime. Pharaoh, who is never named in the story, represents...
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Waking Up: Our Vision
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Waking Up: Our Vision - Pastor Hannah Witte - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: What happens when we move through life—or even our faith—on autopilot? What does it cost us? Others? In Ephesians, we’re invited to wake up to God’s presence and the beautiful vision God has been unfolding for centuries: a people being transformed by Jesus, learning to belong to one another across differences, and living with freedom, joy, and boundless generosity. Pastor Hannah explores how we can move from simply going through the motions to becoming more awake to what God...
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Prodigal: The Merciful Father
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Prodigal: The Merciful Father - Pastor Donnell T. Wyche - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: After three weeks with the younger son and the older son, this sermon turns to the one character in the parable who never gets a name: the Father. The sons are the mirrors; the Father is the point. Jesus tells this story, along with the lost sheep and the lost coin, in answer to the Pharisees’ complaint that he welcomes sinners. They say exclude the lost; Jesus reveals a Father whose heart is a picture of pursuit, with a party thrown at the end. And if “prodigal”...
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Prodigal: The Older Son
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Prodigal: The Older Son - Pastor Hannah White - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: In the second week of our Prodigal series, we step into the story from the perspective of the older son. While the younger son’s rebellion is loud and obvious, the older son’s lostness is quieter—comparison, jealousy, entitlement, and a transactional relationship with his father. Jesus reveals that both sons have misunderstood their father's nature, and both are invited home by a father whose love cannot be earned. The father’s words to the older son—“My son, you are...
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Prodigal: The Younger Son
Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast
Prodigal: The Younger Son - Martha Balmer - . Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - Summary: Martha Balmer kicks off our three part series sitting in the story of the Prodigal Son, focusing on the experience of the youngest son. Martha brilliantly highlights how the greater the distance one is from God, the more profound the experience of God’s mercy, love, and grace upon return—and consequently the greater one's security in that love, not to mention the greater the love, gratefulness, joy that wells up for God. When entitlement has no place in our hearts, then everything...
info_outlineJesus' Enduring Questions - Why Are You So Afraid? - Martha Balmer - a2cc.org. Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - vimeo.com/annarborcommunitychurch
Summary:
This season, we are centering our life together around the questions of Jesus—questions that do not trap or shame, but restore and renew. When Jesus turns to his first disciples and asks, “Why are you so afraid?”, he invites them to be really honest about their inner world, that they might become free from fear and full of faith. We believe discipleship begins there: not in performance, but in honesty. Instead of rushing to answers, we are learning to let Jesus’ questions work on us, exposing what drives us beneath the surface and inviting us into a deeper and truer faith.