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Iowa City Church Podcast

Welcome to the Iowa City Church sermon and teaching page.  We know that life can be confusing, and sometime just plain hard.  We believe the best way to live life comes through following Jesus.  These lessons and sermons are designed to be a resource to help you on that journey.  We hope you find them helpful!

Apr 26, 2022

If you've ever gone white water rafting, you know it can be a very intimidating experience, especially the first time.  A raging Rocky Mountain river is no joke!  It's fast, cold and dangerous.  The only way to navigate such a place is with a guide.

The rafting guides are expertly trained in their craft.  They have...


Apr 22, 2022

Two years ago I was able to travel to Israel and visit a number of significant places we read about in the Bible.  On my last day in Jerusalem, our group visited the Garden Tomb site (pictured below).  It's the place which best matches the description given to us in John's gospel as to where the body of Jesus...


Apr 11, 2022

Have you ever had one of those days when you just aren't feeling it?  You need to go to the gym, but the flannel sheets feel so much better, so you snuggle down and hit snooze.  It's time to go to work, but you're just not feeling it, so you call in sick.  Or maybe it's Sunday morning.  You should go to the worship...


Apr 4, 2022

In January I was visiting my son Alex in Colorado.  Being the adventurous type, he wanted to take me on a hike in the mountains.  Of course, who was I to turn down a fun alpine excursion?  It happened to be snowing a bit, but after a few miles of driving we found a trail to ascend.
Everything started off wonderfully, it...


Apr 2, 2022

Sometimes teachers ask their students to do difficult, strange, even unorthodox things.  In the cult classic movie Karate Kid (and current reboot, Cobra Kai) we meet a gangly NJ teenager named Daniel LaRusso, transplanted to Southern California.  He's trying to fit it, but of course there are the bullies, in this case a...