

The Local Church Podcast
The Local Church
This is the home of The Local Church Podcast. Featuring sermons from our Sunday Liturgy, interviews, and more, we hope this audio affirms you, anchors you, and empowers you to love where you are. The Local Church is an unapologetically inclusive,Jesus-centered faith community.
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Oct 3, 2021 • 24min
Sermon: TBD 3: With & For
DateOctober 3, 2021SynopsisWe continue our new series: TBD: A Series About Us digging into the second two core values of The Local Church. It’s who we are because it’s who God is.ReferencesScripture: Acts 9:10-20Intro/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.

Sep 26, 2021 • 24min
Sermon: TBD 2: Bold & Inclusive
DateSeptember 26, 2021SynopsisWe continue our new series: TBD: A Series About Us digging into the first two core values of The Local Church. It’s who we are because it’s who God is.ReferencesScripture: Ruth 1:1–18Intro/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.

Sep 12, 2021 • 26min
Sermon: "Knowledge is Power" is a Lie
DateSeptember 12, 2021SynopsisA story about a lesson from Brent's driver's ed instructor that brings new understanding to Jesus' teaching to his disciples about what it means to be the Messiah.ReferencesScripture: Mark 8:27–38Intro/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.

Sep 5, 2021 • 18min
Sermon: Jesus Gets Up
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.

Aug 29, 2021 • 37min
Sermon: A Conversation with Rev. John Rogers
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.

Aug 22, 2021 • 18min
Sermon: A Letter to Students
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.

Aug 15, 2021 • 25min
Sermon: Camp Local 5 - Home
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.

Aug 8, 2021 • 20min
Sermon: Camp Local 4 - The Mountain Top
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.

Aug 1, 2021 • 25min
Sermon: Camp Local 3 - Shenanigans
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.

Jul 25, 2021 • 23min
Sermon: Camp Local 2 - Arriving at Camp
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.


