After Sunday | A Calvary Baptist Church Podcast

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Every Sunday a sermon ends and a conversation begins.This is that conversation.Welcome to After Sunday — the podcast where Pastor John Hester and Pastor Andrew sit down after the weekend message and keep talking. No scripts. No formal presentation. Just two pastors who love the Word, love their church, and love the honest conversation that happens when Sunday morning is over and the real talking can begin.This week they are sitting with the first sermon of the Homebound series — No Map Needed from John 14:1–14.It is a passage most people think they know. I am the way the truth and the life. It shows up on bumper stickers and coffee mugs and church lobby walls. But Pastor John and Pastor Andrew are convinced that familiarity has flattened one of the most staggering declarations Jesus ever made — and this conversation is their attempt to give it back its full weight.In this episode:— Why Thomas is actually the most courageous person in the upper room and what his honesty gives the

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What Is Unleashed: The Holy Spirit's Invisible Work in Witnessing
11d ago
What's really your job when it comes to sharing Jesus? John unpacks John 16:815 and shows why the Holy Spirit's convicting workand your witnessaren't what you think they are. The breakthrough: your job is just to scatter the seed.Watch at: https://youtu.be/Rwaywooq0XI
What Must be Released | Episode 16 | After Sunday
25d ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after a message from John 16:1-7What Must Be Released. Jesus tells His disciples that persecution is coming, rejection is inevitable, and His physical presence is leaving. But He also tells them something that changes everything: the Holy Spirit will come, and His indwelling is not inferior to Christ's presenceit's superior. This episode unpacks what it means to stop demanding visible proof of God's power and to start trusting the unseen work of His Spirit. We explore the three releases we must makeof visible proof, of social acceptance, and of
Episode 15 | After Sunday | When God Goes Silent and You Don't Know Why
1mo ago
In this episode, Will and Andrew sit down after a guest sermon from Matthew 15:21-28When God Is Silent. The message followed a Canaanite woman who had every reason to stay away from Jesus and every reason to leave when he did not answer her. She stayed anyway. She worshiped before the healing came, with no guarantee it was coming. This episode unpacks what that kind of persistence looks like in real life, how to worship when God seems quiet, and the hard question the sermon raised but did not fully answer: how do you tell the difference between God's silence as a test and God's silence as some
What Happens When You Actually Speak Up for Christ | After Sunday Ep. 14 | Calvary Baptist
1mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew wrap up John 15 with sermon 3 of the At Home in the Vine series -- The Cost of the Vineyard: Bearing Witness in a Hostile World. The sermon did not pull any punches. Jesus warned his disciples that the world would hate themnot might, wouldand the question is whether that warning has made us more careful or more silent. They dig into the Stephen illustration from Acts 6 and 7, talk through what it means that Saul was standing in the crowd, and take on the hard questions: how do you witness in a post-Christian culture, how long do you keep going after repe
You Can't Have the Benefits Without the Friendship | After Sunday | Episode 13
1mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after sermon 2 of the At Home in the Vine series -- At Home: God's Real Friendship from John 15:12-17. Jesus does not just call his disciples followers. He calls them friends. But real friendship with him comes with termslove one another, keep my commands, lay down your life. They walk through the difference between a servant who works in ignorance and a friend who shares in Christ's confidence, and then spend time with Samsona man divinely chosen, genuinely close to God, and slowly destroyed by years of treating God's commands as optionala conv
Abide -- What It Actually Means on a Tuesday | Episode 12 | After Sunday
1mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew kick off a brand-new seriesAt Home in the Vinewith sermon 1 from John 15:1-11. The big idea is straightforward but cuts deep: your spiritual home is not built on performance. It is found by abiding in Christ, where his love is already complete, and his joy becomes full. They talk through what performance-based Christianity actually looks like in everyday life, why obedience is not the price of love, what home looks like, and what the difference is between abiding and just doing nothing. A practical and honest episode for anyone who has ever felt spiritua
Received — Not Tolerated | After Sunday | Episode 11
2mo ago
In this episode of the After Sunday podcast, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after a Father's Day sermon from Romans 15:57. A lot of people have learned not to expect much from a church not because they stopped believing, but because they have been judged, talked about, and welcomed on the surface while being frozen out beneath the surface. This episode is for those people. They talk through what it actually means to receive someone versus tolerating them, why preferences quietly become walls, what the prodigal's father shows us about how a church is supposed to greet people, and where the rea
Is Your Church Actually Safe? | After Sunday | Episode 10
2mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew tackle sermon 4 of the Better Together series -- Better Together When We Bear One Another's Burdens. They open with a listener question that cuts to the heart of why so many people are leaving churches today: How do you create a culture where sharing a prayer request is actually safe and leads to genuine care rather than community gossip? From there, the conversation moves into Galatians 6 and Romans 15the obligation of the strong to bear the burdens of the weak, what pride and self-pleasure do to a burden-bearing church, and what the Suffering Servant o
Who Is Supposed to Mentor You — and Who Are You Supposed to Be Mentoring? | After Sunday | Episode 9
2mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after sermon 3 of the Better Together series -- Better Together When We Learn from One Another. The text is Titus 2 and the big idea is straightforward: Calvary Baptist is better together when each generation lives out its God-given calling and actively seeks to form the generations that follow. They talk through the Elijah and Elisha illustration, what it actually looks like to disciple someone without a formal program, and what the specific words in Titus 2 really mean for each generation -- including whether grave means dead in the grave. Spo
He Knew What Was Coming - and He Still Broke the Bread
2mo ago
After Sunday - A Calvary Baptist Church Podcast | Episode 8 - This week on After Sunday, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after a special Family Worship Sunday that included both a baptism and the Lord's Supper. The sermon came from 1 Corinthians 10 and 11 and landed on one of the most overlooked details in the institution of the Lord's Supperthat the words "delivered" and "betrayed" share the same Greek root. On the night Jesus was handed over to his enemies, he handed us something. This episode unpacks what the table means, why it belongs to the whole church, and what it looks like to approac
After Sunday | Ep. 7 — Real Love Turns Outward
3mo ago
What does it actually take to put someone else first? Not just feel like it actually do it? In this episode of After Sunday, Pastor John and Andrew unpack Sunday's message from Romans 12:913 and Philippians 2:14. The sermon landed on one word that most people skip right past in that passage preferring and built an entire case for why genuine, outward-turned love is not something you manufacture by trying harder. It is something only God's grace can produce. If you have ever wondered why the church sometimes feels just as self-focused as everywhere else, this conversation is worth your time.Wat
After Sunday | Ep. 6 — God Put You Here. So Did Everyone Else.
3mo ago
In this episode, Pastor John and Andrew sit down after Sunday's message "Better Together Than Apart" from 1 Corinthians 12:1220. The sermon didn't pull any punches and neither does this conversation. They dig into the generational tension that shows up in almost every church, why the real enemy isn't diversity but immaturity, and what it looks like to stop vying for the church you prefer and start functioning as the body God designed. Plus this week's prompt: one practical move you can make toward someone from a different generation before Sunday rolls around again.Watch at: https://youtu.be/O
The Horizon of Home | Episode 5
3mo ago
Homebound: Finding Your Way in a World of Chaos - There is a moment in every storm when the questions change. You stop asking when will this end and start asking something that cuts much deeper: Does God know what I am going through? And if He does, does He truly care? The disciples asked that question on the worst night of their lives. Judas had already slipped into the dark. The cross was hours away. Everything they had staked their lives on was about to be taken from them. And Jesus looked at broken men sitting in the shadow of catastrophe and gave them not a feeling but three anchors stron
After Sunday | Episode 4 — "The Guide for the Journey" | John 14:25–27 | Homebound Series
3mo ago
On the night before the cross, Jesus sat in the upper room with steady hands and gave His disciples everything they would ever need to stand unafraid in a world of chaos. A Guide who would never leave them. A peace the world couldn't match. And a command that was only possible because of what He had already secured. In this episode of After Sunday, Pastor John is joined by Associate Pastor of Worship Will for a conversation that goes deeper into John 14:2527 unpacking two questions Sunday's sermon raised but didn't fully resolve: If Christ has already transferred His peace to every believer, w
After Sunday | Calvary Baptist Church | The Beauty of Humility
4mo ago
Humility is one of those things we know we need but quietly hope God doesn't ask too much of us. In this episode of After Sunday, we sit down to unpack last Sunday's message on the beauty of humility and we're starting with two questions submitted by listeners that the sermon left wide open. Is it possible to pursue humility for the wrong reasons? And if you struggle with pride and arrogance, what does working on that actually look like practically, day to day without just going silent or bottling it up? We dig into both of those, walk through what Scripture says about what pride really costs
What Does It Actually Look Like to Follow Jesus? | After Sunday
4mo ago
What does it actually look like to follow Jesus not just on Sunday, but on Monday morning when the chaos is real, and the road is hard? This week on After Sunday, Pastor John Hester and Pastor Andrew sit down to go deeper into Sunday's message The Map of Obedience from John 14:1524. This is not a recap. It is a conversation between two pastors who believe the sermon is the beginning of the work, not the end of it. They talk about the gap most believers know too well the space between loving Jesus and living like it. They unpack one of the most stunning connections in the Gospel of John a singl
After Sunday — No Map Needed
4mo ago
Homebound Series, Sermon 1 — John 14:1–14 - Every Sunday a sermon ends and a conversation begins. This is that conversation. Pastor John Hester and Pastor Andrew sit down after the weekend message and keep talking. No scripts. No performance. Just two pastors who love the Word, love their church, and love the honest conversation that happens when Sunday morning is over and the real talking can begin. This week they dig into the first sermon of the Homebound series No Map Needed from John 14:114.Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-XADOp8dE&t=1210s

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