The Local Church Podcast

DateSeptember 5, 2021SynopsisThis week, interim creative partner for in-person worship, Rajeev Tiwari, preaches a word of comfort and hope when the ocean of a world feels like it's raging.ReferencesScripture: Mark 4:35-42Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateAugust 29, 2021SynopsisThis week, Brent welcomes friend and colleague Rev. John Rogers, director of Peterson House. Peterson House is a gathering place where the doors are open for friends to come together in hospitality to read the Bible alongside people from different Christian traditions, honoring the lens of one another, benefiting from shared reading, and giving way to the text speaking for itself.ReferencesScripture: James 1:17–27Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateAugust 22, 2021SynopsisWe mark the return to school (and some for the first time!) with a back-to-school-centered message. Brent channels his inner Paul and offers a pastoral epistle to all students.ReferencesScripture: Ephesians 6:10-20Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateAugust 15, 2021SynopsisIt’s Week 5 of Camp Local, and this week, we're thinking about all of the ways this experience has changed us and how we have returned home... but different.ReferencesScripture: Exodus 3:1–15Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateAugust 8, 2021SynopsisIt’s Week 4 of Camp Local, and this week, we’re ascending the mountain top, imagining that it's the night before we have to leave – and we're reflecting and wondering together what new perspectives we might see from up here.ReferencesScripture: Mark 8:22–26Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateAugust 1, 2021SynopsisIt’s Week 3 of Camp Local, and this week, we’re telling more stories of the everyday ordinary moments in the Bible that represent some everyday ordinary moments during a week of camp. And in all of it, it’s an invitation to open yourself to joy.ReferencesScripture: Acts 20:9–12; John 21:1–14; Luke 5:17-20Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateJuly 25, 2021SynopsisAlicia, one of our Duke interns, shares this week about the first night at camp with stories of her own around the campfire.ReferencesScripture: Mark 1:12–13Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateJuly 18, 2021SynopsisIt’s week one of Camp Local — our series (and so much more) of restoration, renewal, Sabbath, and play. This week, we’re preparing to go.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 11:28–30Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateJuly 11, 2021SynopsisThis week, Brent shares about what Loki and the Apostle Paul have in common and what it might mean to resist the pull back to normal and disrupt the “sacred” timeline.ReferencesScripture: Ephesians 1:3–14Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.

DateJuly 4, 2021SynopsisIt’s the fifth and final week of our “Um, Actually…” series about common misconceptions in our journeys of life and faith. This week, Brent tackles the age old question, "Was America founded as a Christian nation?"ReferencesScripture: Matthew 5:1–16Intro/Outro Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot SessionsAbout The Local ChurchFor more information about The Local Church, visit our website. We're also posting good stuff on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear it. Email Brent at brent@thelocalchurchpbo.org.To invest in what God's doing through The Local Church and help support these podcasting efforts and this movement of God's love, give online here.