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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

If you've ever found yourself reacting in ways that don't line up with who you want to be, the answer may not be a lack of faith or discipline. There may be something deeper going on in your soul. In this message, guest speaker Pastor Steve Robinson draws from the life of Moses and his own personal journey to help us understand what trauma actually is, how unprocessed pain quietly shapes our reactions over time, and why triggers don't have to define us. Healing is possible, your brain can be renewed, and the pain of your past does not have to have the final word.

On this Fourth of July weekend, we celebrate our country's freedom, but the bigger question is whether we are truly free on the inside. In this message, Pastor Ryan Herzog unpacks John 8 and the difference between being free on paper and being free indeed in Christ, exploring how sin functions not just as a bad habit but as a master that quietly holds us back without us even noticing. Just like a parking brake left on, many of us are pressing hard on the gas but dragging something along that is keeping us from the full life God has for us. Christ did not just free us from sin so we could sit still. He freed us so we could live with purpose, and nothing in all of creation can separate us from that freedom.

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.