The Local Church Podcast

All week long on TLC+, we're taking part in a Week of Gratitude. For Day 3, Brent talks with Tracy Wilson Gibson, an expert on gratitude, about one way to actually give gratitude on Thanksgiving Day. Here's a practice you can do around your tables — whatever they look like. This episode is great to listen to as you're preparing your meal or getting some fresh air.About 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.

DateNovember 22, 2020SynopsisWe wrap up our Family Portrait series with a call to action and realize that if we’re asking questions about who’s a sheep and who’s a goat, we’re missing the point.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 25:31–46Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2021 initiative, click here.

DateNovember 15, 2020SynopsisIt’s week three of our Family Portrait series, and this week is all about sibling rivalry, offering ourselves fully, not holding back... and Ted Lasso.ReferencesScripture: Genesis 4:1–16Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2021 initiative, click here.

DateNovember 8, 2020SynopsisDuke intern, Rajeev Tiwari, brings the good news in the second week of our “Family Portrait” series.ReferencesScripture: Luke 8:43–48Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2021 initiative, click here.

DateNovember 1, 2020SynopsisIt’s week one of our new sermon series, “Family Portrait: Snapshots of Life in God’s Family.” We’re looking at what it means to be a part of the family of God and considering how Jesus redefines our understanding of family.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 12:46–50; Romans 5:1–5Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2021 initiative, click here.

DateOctober 25, 2020SynopsisIt’s week two of our two-part series on generosity and stewardship: Everybody In. This week, Brent shares about Everybody In as a call to worship and the impact of a yes. Also inside: Hear stories from friends at The Local Church sharing about what this community has meant to them.ReferencesScripture: [John 1:43-46](URL here)Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2021 initiative, click here.

Rev. Charles Mathews, pastor of Union Grove AMEZ Church in Bear Creek, NC, and Rev. Brent Levy, pastor of The Local Church in Pittsboro, NC are coming together for a conversation about race, friendship, and other hard things. Together, they'll explore the responsibility of the church toward anti-racism, what the Bible says about reconciliation, and consider how we move forward as followers of Jesus.

DateOctober 18, 2020SynopsisIt’s the first of our two-part series on Everybody In. This week: IdentityReferencesScripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12–27; 1 Thessalonians 2:9–13, 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, give online here.

DateOctober 11, 2020SynopsisWe wrap our series on the means of grace with a week on Holy Communion.ReferencesScripture: John 6:24–35Intro/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, give online here.

DateOctober 4, 2020SynopsisDuke Intern, Jordan Czichos, brings the good news this week in the fourth installment of our fall sermon series, "This Is (Still) Fine." It's all about community.ReferencesScripture: Psalm 133; Matthew 18:18–20Intro/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, give online here.