The Local Church Podcast

DateJuly 5, 2020SynopsisIt’s Part 4 of our “Are We There Yet?” choose-your-own-adventure summer sermon series, and this week, William Kendust shares about holy boldness, divine resistance, and doing the things that give you chills...ReferencesScripture: Exodus 1:6–21Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateJune 28, 2020SynopsisWe continue our choose your own adventure summer sermon series, Are We There Yet, by exploring the superpower of listening well — and thinking about why we do it.ReferencesScripture: Genesis 16:1–16; James 1:19–21Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

Episode NotesIn this episode, Brent talks with Karinda Roebuck and Stephanie Terry from Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE) about the organization's work of education and action to dismantle racism and how anti-racist work best happens locally and in the context of relationship.This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.You can learn more about CORE and get involved on their Facebook Page here.Intro/Outro Music: "Wingspan" 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.

DateJune 21, 2020SynopsisIt’s week two of our brand new choose-your-own-adventure sermon series, and we’re taking a road trip together! This week, Brent talks about the importance of connection and how we weren't made to be alone.ReferencesScripture: Revelation 7:9–12; Matthew 14:22–33Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateJune 14, 2020SynopsisIt’s the first week of a brand new choose-your-own-adventure sermon series, and we’re taking a road trip together! This week, Brent talks about where we’re headed. Next, you get to decide how we get there.ReferencesScripture: Revelation 21:1–6Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateJune 7, 2020SynopsisDuke Intern, Zari Wilson, offers a sermon for Trinity Sunday about how the Holy Spirit works to bring about restoration.ReferencesScripture: 2 Corinthians 13:11–13Intro/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, give online here.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2020 initiative, click here.

DateMay 31, 2020SynopsisIt is Pentecost Sunday which is a disorienting and de-centering experience, one that also shows us another side to the Holy Spirit. And this side meets us in our present reality amidst Covid-19, racism, white supremacy, and protests. What might the Spirit be stirring up in you? How will you carry the breath of God into the world?ReferencesScripture: Acts 2:1–21Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateMay 24, 2020SynopsisOn this Ascension Sunday, Jesus starts working from home and we consider the move from looking up to stepping out as witnesses of what God is doing.ReferencesScripture: Acts 1:1–11; Luke 24:44–53Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateMay 17, 2020SynopsisIt’s week four of our sermon series, “The New Normal,” and Brent shares about the third-quarter phenomenon, considers how we might be feeling orphaned, and to whom, exactly, the Spirit is advocating.ReferencesScripture: John 14:15–21Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

Episode NotesIn this episode, Zachary Horner, who asks questions for a living, interviews Brent Levy, pastor of The Local Church, about how the times are changing and what it's like to be a pastor in the midst of a global pandemic. This conversation was recorded during Holy Week on April 6, 2020.Connect with Zach at on Twitter here, and you can subscribe to the Chatham News+Record here.Intro/Outro Music: "Wingspan" 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.