Just Classic Jesus: Satire? Or just Sunday morning in America?

Send us a textBefore you get to the manger, before the angels and the shepherds and the Christmas cards with the glowing baby Jesus… you have to meet his family. And the truth is, his family is nothing like the polished nativity sets we put in church lobbies.In this episode, we take a hard, honest look at the lineage of Christ — a family tree overflowing with scandal, trauma, exploitation, infidelity, murder, refugees, widows, immigrants, corrupt leaders, victims of injustice, survivors of sexual harm, and people who were counted out by everyone except God. The genealogy of Jesus reads less like a sacred scroll and more like a reality show gone off the rails. And that is exactly the point.Because before scripture gives us the gift of Jesus, it gives us the reminder of where he came from: the broken, the messy, the unexpected, the unqualified, the ones society tried to erase. This is God saying to all of us who feel disqualified, ashamed of our past, or uncertain about our story: You belong here. Your story matters. And none of it disqualifies you from being part of something miraculous.If you’ve ever wondered whether your family history, your mistakes, your identity, your trauma, or your lineage somehow puts you outside of God’s plan, this conversation will breathe hope back into your bones.Because the Christmas story doesn’t begin with perfection.It begins with people like us.#RedemptiveStories#GenealogyOfGrace#JesusFamilyTree#YouBelong#ChurchReimagined#UnexpectedMessiah#FaithThatIncludes#GodUsesEveryone#HopeForEveryStory#UnqualifiedButChosen#HealingIsHoly#YourStoryMatters#FromTraumaToRedemption#RewriteTheNarrative#EveryFamilyHasAStory Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textThere’s a plan to divide us. You can feel it in the air, in the news, in the way we size each other up without even knowing it. But what if the real strategy behind all this tension isn’t political at all? What if the root of our cultural anxiety is spiritual – and ancient?In this episode, we dig deep into the scriptural critique of scarcity, the lie that convinces us there’s not enoughcompassion, not enough belonging, not enough safety, not enough God… and therefore not enough room for one another. We walk through Jesus’ parable of the rich fool, the Greek roots of anxiety that literally mean “to divide,” the radical justice of the Torah, the generosity of the early church, and the explosive truth behind Jubilee.This isn’t about charity. It isn’t about politics. It’s about waking up to the way fear is weaponized to turn neighbors into threats, blessings into competition, and survival into a justification for harm.And it’s about reclaiming a better path – one rooted in abundance, shared dignity, and the courage to say: Not on our watch. People first.If you’ve ever felt pulled into the game of who deserves what, who belongs and who doesn’t, or wondered why fear seems to spread faster than truth, this episode will remind you of the deeper story running through scripture. A story that calls us back to abundance, dignity, and the simple belief that there really is enough for all of us.#AbundanceOverFear#PeopleFirst#FaithAndJustice#GospelOfEnough#SpiritualDeconstruction#JesusAndJustice#ScarcityMindset#ChurchReimagined#PodcastReels#PodcastClips#ViralMessage#TikTokPreacher#ReconstructedFaith Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textWhat do you do when hope feels more dangerous than despairWhen every time you believed for something good, life proved you wrongWhen your nervous system has learned to flinch at the very idea of hopeIn this raw and tender message, Pastor Dan Minor continues his exploration of reconstruction after spiritual trauma and asks a question few churches ever dare to ask:How do you hope again when hope is the very thing that once hurt youUsing a viral Facebook post about unexpected political civility as a launchpad, Dan uncovers the emotional and spiritual pattern so many of us live inControlled hopelessness...not despairnot joyjust spiritual airplane modea state where hope feels too risky and neutrality feels safer than faithThis episode walks us through:• How disappointment rewires our nervous system• Why deconstruction was the easy part• Why reconstruction requires courage, softness, and risk• Why every miracle in Scripture starts with someone daring to hope• Resistance to hope after church trauma• The tiny moments of hope that rebuild a life• What Scripture teaches about hope after exhaustionfrom Abraham hoping against hopeto the bleeding woman risking belief one more timeto the disciples on the Emmaus road saying “We had hoped”to Peter lowering his nets after catching nothingto the priests stepping into the river before it partedDan argues that:When we stop hoping, we stop healingWhen we stop healing, we stop changingAnd where there is no change, there is no resurrectionIf your heart has learned to brace for disappointment, if you have lived in the rubble of deconstruction, if you are afraid to trust anything that looks like faith, this episode is for you.Not to force hopeNot to fake hopeBut to offer you one tiny, sacred moment of itMaybe that is all resurrection needs to start.#ProgressiveChristian#Deconstruction#Exvangelical#ChurchHurt#Reconstruction#SpiritualHealing#InclusiveChurch#AffirmingChurch#QueerAffirming#FaithAfterReligion Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textIn this deeply moving and provocative episode of The Harvest Sarasota Podcast, guest speaker Stan Mitchell challenges centuries of inherited theology by reframing the story of Eve not as the origin of sin but as the beginning of shame. With tenderness, wit, and piercing insight, Stan invites listeners to see Genesis 3 through new eyes: what if humanity’s greatest fall wasn’t disobedience but disconnection from our own belovedness?Through a powerful retelling of Eve’s story and a hauntingly beautiful story about his daughter, Stan exposes how shame, not sin, remains the true barrier between us and the divine. This conversation will unsettle, heal, and ultimately reawaken your sense of inherent worth.Listen in and rediscover a gospel that heals rather than condemns, a gospel where we were never truly separated from Love.#HarvestSarasota #StanMitchell #Podcast #FaithDeconstructed #Genesis3 #HealingFromShame #SpiritualGrowth #Belovedness #GraceNotGuilt #TheGospelOfLove Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textJesus didn’t hoard the loaves and fishes. He didn’t eat in front of the hungry to “teach self-reliance.”But if you look at how our nation treats refugees, immigrants, and the poor, you might think that story was in the Bible.In this fiery and heartfelt message, Pastor Dan Minor takes aim at the gospel of self-preservation, the theology that baptizes greed, weaponizes scarcity, and calls fear faith.From Sarasota to the southern border, from the parable of the rich fool to the sin of Sodom, this episode confronts the brutal truth: we have turned protecting our interests into a religion and called it holy.Dan calls the church back to its real calling, radical hospitality, open tables, and enough for everyone. Because every miracle of bread is God saying it again and again:“There is enough.”This isn’t politics. It’s the gospel.And the gospel still feeds people.#HarvestSarasota #TheGospelOfEnough #JesusDidntHoard #FaithNotFear #LoveOverScarcity #ProgressiveChristianity #HospitalityIsHoly #EnoughForEveryone #TheRealSinOfSodom #RadicalWelcome #InclusiveFaith #JusticeIsGospel #FeedThePeople #HeardAndHealed Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textWe’ve named the harm. We’ve pulled down the old house. Now it’s time to plant again.In this follow-up to “The Seeds Were Good, The Soil Was Sick,” Pastor Dan wrestles with two haunting lines from Spencer LaJoye’s song “Plowshare Prayer”:“I pray that you are heard. I pray that this works.”This episode is for anyone who’s ever whispered that same prayer while stepping into something new — hoping this time will be different.Here, faith looks less like certainty and more like courage. It’s dipping your toes into rushing water before it parts. It’s casting your net again after years of disappointment. It’s believing that the soil of love, inclusion, and honesty can grow what the soil of fear and shame never could.#HarvestSarasota #IPrayThatThisWorks #HeardAndHealed #FaithAfterDeconstruction #NewSoilNewFaith #LoveOverFear #InclusiveChurch #GoAllIn #ReconstructTheGood #FromHarmToHealing #SpencerLaJoye #PlowsharePrayer #BetterSoil Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textWe have named the harm. We have pulled the old house down. Now what?This week, Pastor Dan invites us to do something daring: not just vent about what broke us, but remember what blessed us. Prayer that felt human; worship that felt alive; communion that felt like belonging; community that felt like family. Maybe the problem was not the seed; maybe the problem was the soil.What if we replant the best of our evangelical past in better soil: love instead of fear, inclusion instead of gatekeeping, generosity instead of manipulation? Not a return to what was, but a reconstruction of what was good.If you are tired of living on the demolition site, this episode will hand you blueprints and set a table.#HarvestSarasota #ReconstructTheGood #HolyNostalgia #FromHarmToHealing #SeedsNotShame #BetterSoil #FaithInCommunity #TablesNotWalls #InclusiveChurch #LoveOverFear #DeconstructionAndReconstruction #BelongingTogether Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textTired of the Disney version of Jesus? Same. This message rips the glitter off the Feeding of the 5,000 and asks a dangerous question: what if the miracle wasn’t supernatural bread popping out of thin air but people finally stopping the hoard and sharing what they had?Pastor Dan pushes us from miracle watching to community building. Scarcity isolates. Fear blames. But faith sets a table. Maybe the sign wasn’t bread multiplying. It was hearts multiplying. If you’re done waiting for someone else to fix it, this episode will push you lovingly into action.Listen and then bring your lunch and feed somebody.#HarvestSarasota #FromScarcityToCommunity #FeedTheCrowd #FaithInAction #LoveLooksLikeSharing #KingdomEconomy #TablesNotWalls #EverydayMiracles #BelongingThroughGenerosity #DoWhatJesusDid Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textPastor Dan calls out a Christianity that looks more like empire than the Gospel. It’s raw, uncomfortable, and exactly what we need to hear.If your version of Jesus blesses your politics, your comfort, and your outrage—but never asks you to love your enemies—you’re following anybody but Jesus.From the pulpit of Harvest Sarasota, this message dismantles the idols of power, nationalism, and comfort that have hijacked the name of Christ. It’s not left or right—it’s the radical, inconvenient way of the cross.Be warned: this one might wreck your assumptions, but it could also save your faith.#HarvestSarasota #FollowingJesus #NotPolitics #TheWayOfTheCross #DeconstructToRebuild #JesusOverEmpire #LoveYourEnemies #FaithThatCosts #BoldChurch #UncomfortableTruth Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative

Send us a textWhat happens when the most familiar prayer in Christianity gets flipped on its head? Pastor Dan Minor takes Harvest Sarasota into a raw, communal breakdown of the Lord’s Prayer—line by line, through a radical lens that challenges nationalism, patriarchy, elitism, and exclusion.This isn’t the “safe” Sunday School version. This is prayer as uprising. This is dismantling “my Father” to embrace “our Father,” even if it includes the refugee, the addict, the outcast, and the enemy. It’s hallowing God’s name by refusing to let it be hijacked by war, greed, or political power. It’s asking what justice looks like when it collides with empires, and whether heaven on earth means dismantling racism, sexism, and homophobia right now—not someday in the clouds.#PrayerAsUprising #ProgressiveFaith #Lord’sPrayerUncensored #HolyDisruption #JesusOverEmpire #FaithWithoutWalls #HarvestSarasota #DanMinor Harvest is a fully affirming, inclusive (including the LGBTQ+ community) progressive Christian church located in Sarasota, Florida.Follow us on Social Media:Instagram - Instagram.com/harvestsarasotaFacebook - Facebook.com/harvestsarasotaTikTok CLICK HEREDONATE to support our podcast HERERecorded live at Harvest Church in Sarasota by Michael Thomas Regina and Stephen Lehman of Boardtown Creative