

Collective Church Podcast
Collective Church
This audio podcast features talks given at Collective Church, a church on LA’s Westside. We are a community following Jesus and seeking to reach, teach, and equip others to do the same. Our desire is to become a healthy and multiplying expression of Christ’s church in each of the 23 neighborhoods that make up the Westside of Los Angeles. Visit us online at www.collectivechurch.com.
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Jan 16, 2022 • 40min
Light Up His Face
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27; Psalm 80; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, 4:6
Pastor Ryan Smith continues our series, "Blessed" in the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:22-27. If you were to picture Jesus looking at you, what face would he be making? Disappointment? Anger? Apathy? In the third pillar of the blessed life, we are invited to contemplate the shining or smiling face of God. What would it mean for us live out of God's acceptance and delight? And how do we get the assurance that he feels that way about it?

Jan 9, 2022 • 41min
Keep You
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27; Psalm 121
Pastor Ryan Smith looks at what it means for God to "keep us" in the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:22-27. As we enter into the uncertainty of a new year, what confidence does God's keeping bring?
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Jan 2, 2022 • 24min
Blessed: Series Intro
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27
Pastor Isaac opens our new series on the Priestly blessing looking at what it means to be blessed and to be a blessing to others.

Dec 20, 2021 • 34min
Simeon and Anna‘s Love
From the series "The Songs of Christmas". Luke 2:21-38
Most Christmas nativities and pictures include all the major players: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, and the wise men, but not a whole lot about Simeon and Anna. Pastor Ryan walks us through their part of the story here in the final talk in our Christmas series.
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Dec 12, 2021 • 40min
The Shepherd‘s Peace
From the series "The Songs of Christmas". Luke 2:1-29
Pastor Ryan Smith continues in our "Songs of Christmas" series as we consider the Angels' song in Luke 2:1-29. What is this peace proclaimed by the heavenly host, who is it for, and how do we find it?
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Dec 5, 2021 • 52min
Zechariah‘s Hope
From the series "The Songs of Christmas". Luke 1:57-80
Pastor Isaac Brickner continues our "Songs of Christmas" series by looking at the song of John the Baptist's father in Luke 1:57-80. In the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, we're able to see ourselves and our struggle with hopelessness, and in Zechariah's song: the source of hope for our lives and the difference hope makes.

Nov 28, 2021 • 48min
Mary‘s Joy
From the series "The Songs of Christmas". Luke 1:26-56
This week we kick off our next series, Songs of Christmas as we look to opening chapters of Luke's Gospel. Pastor Ryan Smith looks at Mary's Song in Luke 1:26-56 and the joy found in God's Gracious Reversal of our present world order through the birth of Jesus. This song challenges our assumptions of who Mary was and what what Christmas is all about.
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Nov 22, 2021 • 59min
With Words, Pt.2
From the series "Wisdom's Way". Proverbs 13:20, 18:21, 16:24, 27:5–6, 9, 17
As we close out our fall series in the book of Proverbs, Pastor Ryan Smith looks at Proverbs 13:20, 18:21, 16:24, 27:5–6, 9, 17 as both a continuation of the previous week's teaching on Wisdom's Way with Words, but also as a fitting conclusion for those of us wondering, "How do we continue on Wisdom's Way?"
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Nov 14, 2021 • 49min
With Words, Pt.1
From the series "Wisdom's Way" with Pastor Isaac Brickner. Proverbs 12:13-23, 18:2-21; James 3:1-12

Nov 7, 2021 • 46min
With Wealth
From the series "Wisdom's Way". Proverbs 11:24-28, 30:7-9
Few things in our lives seemingly have as much impact and get as much of our attention as our wealth, but what is Wisdom's Way with our money? As we continue in our series in Proverbs, Pastor Ryan Smith shows us how our wealth gives away our way as we look at Proverbs 11:24-28; 30:7-9.
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