

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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Feb 27, 2022 • 41min
The Tyranny of Time
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
The Deconstructor examines how time is not a resource we possess to spend, save, or waste. Time is a current and we have no control over its turns. In light of this, we need to humble ourselves and receive each season as it comes and trust that the end of time is moving toward resurrection.
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Feb 20, 2022 • 43min
Chasing After Wind
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:26
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Feb 13, 2022 • 48min
In the Land of Smoke & Mirrors
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Pastor Ryan Smith begins our next series, Smoke & Mirrors: Deconstructing Los Angeles with the Book of Ecclesiastes. Los Angeles is a city where nothing is lasting, significant or satisfying. Rather, it's all "smoke and mirrors." How can we find a life of substance in our lives "under the sun?"
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Feb 6, 2022 • 57min
Give You Peace
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27; Ephesians 2:11-22
Pastor Isaac Brickner closes out "Blessed" our series in the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:22-27, looking at the final pillar of the blessed life: receiving and making peace. When you think of peace, what sort of images come to mind? Most likely it's the absence or acceptance of conflict and chaos. In the Bible, peace is a larger idea the includes the presence of something greater, something God has made for us and now makes through us.

Jan 30, 2022 • 54min
Lift Up His Face
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27; Psalm 4
As we continue in our "Blessed" series in the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:22-27, Pastor Ryan Smith teaches on the blessing of God "lifting up his countenance upon you." What in the world does that even mean?! And in our age of digital distraction, could undivided attention be one of the greatest gifts we could receive from God and give to others?
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Jan 24, 2022 • 44min
Gracious to You
From the series "Blessed". Numbers 6:22-27; Ephesians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Ephesians 1:7; Exodus 34:6-7
Pastor & Professor Dr. Gerry Breshears from Grace Community Church & Western Seminary in Portland joins us for a look at the grace of God as we continue in our "Blessed" series.

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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