web02.fireside.fm Sat, 02 May 2026 14:53:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Impact Church Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Denyyourself” https://impactchurch.fireside.fm/tags/denyyourself Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 The Impact Church Podcast features weekly messages from Impact Church in Arizona, led by Pastor Travis Hearn. Each episode is designed to help you grow in your faith, experience real freedom, and live out God’s purpose for your life. Impact Church is a life-giving church committed to seeing lives transformed through the power of Jesus Christ. Through biblical teaching, practical truth, and Spirit-led messages, this podcast exists to encourage you, challenge you, and equip you to make an impact wherever you go. Whether you are new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, the Impact Church Podcast is a place to find hope, clarity, and direction for everyday life. To learn more about Impact Church, visit impactchurch.com or download the Impact Church AZ app. en-us episodic Weekly messages from Impact Church designed to help you grow in faith and live in freedom. Impact Church The Impact Church Podcast features weekly messages from Impact Church in Arizona, led by Pastor Travis Hearn. Each episode is designed to help you grow in your faith, experience real freedom, and live out God’s purpose for your life. Impact Church is a life-giving church committed to seeing lives transformed through the power of Jesus Christ. Through biblical teaching, practical truth, and Spirit-led messages, this podcast exists to encourage you, challenge you, and equip you to make an impact wherever you go. Whether you are new to faith or have followed Jesus for years, the Impact Church Podcast is a place to find hope, clarity, and direction for everyday life. To learn more about Impact Church, visit impactchurch.com or download the Impact Church AZ app. no Impact Church, Impact Church AZ, Pastor Travis Hearn, Christian podcast, church podcast, weekly sermons, Bible teaching, faith podcast, Christian sermons, freedom in Christ, Christian encouragement, biblical teaching, Arizona church, Phoenix church, non-denominational church, Jesus-centered teaching, spiritual growth, purpose and calling, Christian leadership, Sunday sermons Impact Church creative.department@impactchurch.com Episode 165: The Road To The Cross Part 1: Follow Me https://impactchurch.fireside.fm/165 f96f061e-8551-4b69-b400-6f1b12955738 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Impact Church 165 The Road To The Cross Part 1: Follow Me full Impact Church This sermon explains that truly following Jesus means surrendering your life—denying yourself, carrying your cross daily, and choosing obedience over comfort. 48:11 no Many people like the idea of Jesus, but struggle with what it actually means to follow Him. In Luke 9, Jesus makes a bold statement: if anyone wants to follow Him, they must deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Him. This message challenges the modern idea of comfortable faith and reveals the true cost—and the true freedom—of discipleship. Understanding what it means to surrender your life to Christ can change everything about how you live, decide, and walk with God. In this sermon, Pastor Travis Hearn of Impact Church teaches what Jesus really meant when He said, “Follow Me,” and why discipleship requires more than belief—it requires surrender. In this sermon, you’ll learn: Why calling yourself a Christian is different from truly following Jesus How “but first” excuses quietly delay obedience to God What Jesus meant by denying yourself and carrying your cross daily Why the greatest enemy of surrender is often postponement How losing your life for Christ leads to true spiritual freedom Jesus never asked people to simply admire Him—He invited them to follow Him. The road to the cross is not comfortable, but it is transformative. When pride dies, when self steps down, and when Christ takes the center of your life, resurrection power begins to reshape who you are. FollowJesus, ChristianDiscipleship, TakeUpYourCross, DenyYourself, CostOfDiscipleship Many people like the idea of Jesus, but struggle with what it actually means to follow Him. In Luke 9, Jesus makes a bold statement: if anyone wants to follow Him, they must deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow Him. This message challenges the modern idea of comfortable faith and reveals the true cost—and the true freedom—of discipleship. Understanding what it means to surrender your life to Christ can change everything about how you live, decide, and walk with God.

In this sermon, Pastor Travis Hearn of Impact Church teaches what Jesus really meant when He said, “Follow Me,” and why discipleship requires more than belief—it requires surrender.

In this sermon, you’ll learn:

Why calling yourself a Christian is different from truly following Jesus

How “but first” excuses quietly delay obedience to God

What Jesus meant by denying yourself and carrying your cross daily

Why the greatest enemy of surrender is often postponement

How losing your life for Christ leads to true spiritual freedom

Jesus never asked people to simply admire Him—He invited them to follow Him. The road to the cross is not comfortable, but it is transformative. When pride dies, when self steps down, and when Christ takes the center of your life, resurrection power begins to reshape who you are.

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In this sermon, Pastor Travis Hearn of Impact Church teaches what Jesus really meant when He said, “Follow Me,” and why discipleship requires more than belief—it requires surrender.

In this sermon, you’ll learn:

Why calling yourself a Christian is different from truly following Jesus

How “but first” excuses quietly delay obedience to God

What Jesus meant by denying yourself and carrying your cross daily

Why the greatest enemy of surrender is often postponement

How losing your life for Christ leads to true spiritual freedom

Jesus never asked people to simply admire Him—He invited them to follow Him. The road to the cross is not comfortable, but it is transformative. When pride dies, when self steps down, and when Christ takes the center of your life, resurrection power begins to reshape who you are.

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