The Local Church Podcast

DateFebruary 23, 2020SynopsisOur ministerial intern from Duke Divinity, Maggie Thomas, wraps our sermon series called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new. This week, we’re exploring the Transfiguration.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 17:1–9Intro/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.

DateFebruary 16, 2020SynopsisWe continue our sermon series called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new. This week, we’re considering what it really means to be blessed.ReferencesScripture: Genesis 12:1–3; Matthew 5:1–12Intro/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.

DateFebruary 9, 2020SynopsisWe continue our sermon series called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new. This week, we’re considering Jesus’ invitation to come and see and exploring our purpose to become more like him.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 28:16–20; John 1:35–46Intro/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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateFebruary 2, 2020SynopsisWe continue our sermon series called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new. This week, we're talking about prayer, alignment, paying attention, and how we see the world.ReferencesScripture: Luke 11:1–13; Romans 12:1–2Intro/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.

DateJanuary 26, 2020SynopsisWe continue our new sermon series this week called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new. This week, Jay Horton brought the good news. Jay is a student at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia.ReferencesScripture: Psalm 30; Mark 2:1–12Intro/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.

DateJanuary 19, 2020SynopsisWe begin a new sermon series this week called Upcycle: How God Takes Our Junk and Makes it Better. It’s about the ways we experience conversion through our journeys of life and faith and how God is making all things new.ReferencesScripture: John 2:1-11 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 2020 initiative, click here.

DateJanuary 12, 2020SynopsisIt’s Baptism of the Lord Sunday, and we’re talking about names we're given, names we've been called, names that describe us, and the name that defines us.ReferencesScripture: Matthew 3:13–17Intro/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.

DateJanuary 5, 2020SynopsisIt’s Epiphany Sunday, and we’re talking about light and darkness and light in darkness and what the story of the three wise men tells us about God’s kingdom.ReferencesScripture: John 1:1–5, 10–18; Matthew 2:1–12Intro/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.

DateTuesday, December 24, 2019SynopsisThe Local Church celebrated the birth of Christ — the moment loves comes local — at The Barn of Chapel Hill. The service featured a spontaneous Christmas pageant, Christmas carols that help tell the story, Holy Communion, and singing by candlelight. Here’s the brief homily for the evening.ReferencesScripture: Isaiah 9:2-7; Luke 2:1-20Intro/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.To make your commitment to The Local Church through our Everybody In 2020 initiative, click here.

DateSunday, December 22, 2019SynopsisAdvent is a season to stop and listen and watch and wait. But there are some things that God cannot wait for. During this season, we're exploring the things that can't wait — that require action and movement now — even as we wait for the coming of the Christ child and the arrival of God's promised day.Week 4: Love Can't WaitReferencesScripture: Matthew 1:18–25Intro/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.