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This is the official podcast of Southstone Church in Katy, TX! Our vision is simple: Reaching People, Building Lives. For more information, visit us at southstonechurch.com

Whether it's your marriage, your family, your workplace, or your church, what we all deeply want is unity, and there are real spiritual forces working against it every single day. In this message, guest speaker Kendrick Vinar walks through three practical ways to cultivate unity in the relationships around you: extend mercy by not giving people what they deserve, give grace by giving people what they don't deserve, and speak life by using the power of your words to bless instead of curse. The world will know Jesus when His people walk in complete unity, and that starts with one relationship at a time. Pick one, get determined, and watch what God does.

God is a generational God, and every giant you slay in your lifetime is one your children will never have to face. In this Father's Day message, we close out our Built series by looking at how God builds His church and His people generationally, using the story of David and Goliath to show us what it looks like to fight not just for yourself but for the generations behind you. Through five smooth stones, we explore what it means to love God, love your wife, love your kids, love the house of God, and make the greatest impact for Jesus with your life. Inheritance is what you leave for someone, but legacy is what you leave in them.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships, and your destiny is tied to the people you are tied to. In this message, we explore how God builds His church and builds us personally through relationships, starting with the truth that God Himself is relational and He hardwired that same need into every one of us. Revelation comes through relationship with God and with others, and the Kingdom advances the same way: person to person, ligament to ligament, disciple making disciples. Find your people and watch what God does.

There is a big difference between knowing something and actually experiencing it, and that gap is the difference between information and revelation. In this first message of a three-part series, we explore how God builds His church and builds us personally through revelation, the kind of encounter with Him that leaves you ruined for anything else. From Abraham to Moses to Paul, every moment that changed everything in scripture started with God revealing Himself to someone. The question is not just what you know about God but when is the last time He revealed something to you personally.

In John 6, Jesus says something so difficult that the crowd leaves, then the core leaves, and He is left asking a handful of people if they are leaving too. In this message, we explore what happens when Jesus does not give us what we want, or when following Him comes at a real cost, and how we respond in those moments reveals everything about the kind of faith we actually have. Peter's answer to Jesus cuts through the noise: recognize Him as Lord and remind yourself of everything you have already seen Him do. When you consider your options, where else would you go?

In the in-between moments of life, when Jesus has ascended but the power has not yet arrived, what do you do? In this final message of the Transitions series, we look at the ten days between Jesus ascending to heaven and the day of Pentecost, and what the disciples teach us about holding on to God's promises through patience and prayer. Walking with Christ was never meant to be a walk of just trying harder, it is a walk of power beyond ourselves, and that power is available to anyone who simply asks. Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to those who ask, so just ask.

Life has a way of throwing transitions at us that we never saw coming, and in those moments the question is not whether the storm is real but where we anchor ourselves when it hits. In this message, Pastor Marco walks through the story of Job and what it looks like to find stability not through optimism but through certain hope rooted in God's word. We unpack four reasons to hold onto hope when life feels hopeless: God will never abandon you, His power is greater than any problem, and He is working everything into His plan even when it does not look like it. No matter what you have lost or what you are walking through, if it is not good then God is not done.

This Mother's Day, we celebrate the women whose faith holds families together even when the promise seems impossible and the wait feels too long. In this message, we look at Sarah, the woman Scripture calls the Mother of Faith, and what her journey through barrenness, doubt, and breakthrough has to teach us about trusting God in the hardest seasons. Through her story we learn three powerful lessons: God's timing is perfect, your plan does not compare to His promise, and nothing is impossible for God. Wherever you are today, if God made you a promise, He will fulfill it.

Life's biggest transitions, whether a graduation, a new season, a loss, or an unexpected change, can leave us feeling unsettled, but just because life is uncertain does not mean we have to be. In this message, we open a brand new series by looking at Abraham's story and what God does in the 100 years of transition between who Abram was and who God called him to be. Through his journey, we discover that God uses the in-between to define our identity, develop our character, reorder our priorities, and deepen our dependence on Him. You are not lost in your transition. God is doing His deepest work right there.

One of the most important shifts in parenting is realizing you are not just raising kids, you are raising adults. In this message, we walk through five practical principles for raising godly children, from being the example they need to see, to prioritizing the house of God, to spending intentional time that gives you the loudest voice in their lives. No perfect parenting formula exists, but when you lead with faith, stay consistent, and speak into their potential, you are giving your kids the greatest gift they will ever receive.