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This audio podcast features talks given at Collective Church, a church on LA’s Westside. We are a community following Jesus and seeking to reach, teach, and equip others to do the same. Our desire is to become a healthy and multiplying expression of Christ’s church in each of the 23 neighborhoods that make up the Westside of Los Angeles. Visit us online at www.collectivechurch.com.
Episodes
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 4:6-8
As Paul looks back on his life, he invites Timothy and us to look forward at ours as the fourth way of endurance. Pastor Isaac Brickner looks into 2 Timothy 4:6-8 and the invitation to reverse-engineer our lives.
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
Sunday Jul 24, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 3:10-17
Turning into the final movement of Paul's second letter to Timothy, the Apostle begins to provide practical instructions for constructing a life of endurance. As Pastor Ryan Smith unpacks 2 Timothy 3:10-17, we find the strength for endurance which comes as we remember those who have faithfully gone before us and receive the Scriptures as God's formational tool for our endurance.
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 3:1-9
When we consider the greatest obstacles to an enduring faith, our propensity is to list out genuine but largely external barriers. However, in 2 Timothy 3:1-9 Pastor Ryan Smith looks at Paul's warning to Timothy of the great obstacles which arise from within our hearts and church community.
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 2:14-26
As we continue in our series, "Endure," Pastor Ryan Smith looks at 2 Timothy 2:14-26 and the obstacles to our endurance. In this passage, Paul details a particular false teaching present in Ephesus which provides us with an opportunity to consider our own perception of Jesus and the Gospel. Are we enduring in right belief – orthodoxy? Or have we swerved from the truth?
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 2:1-7
Pastor Ryan Smith continues in our summer series, "Endure" by looking at 2 Timothy 2:1-7 and the purpose, pattern, and power of both faithful pastors and faithful church communities.
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 1:8-18
Pastor Isaac Brickner continues our summer series, "Endure: The Letter of 2 Timothy." How can we be sure that all the challenges we endure as followers of Jesus are meaningful? Paul offers his young protege Timothy a paradigm shift for understanding suffering so he won't give up even as everyone around him seems to be.
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
From the series "Endure". 2 Timothy 1:1-7
Guest Pastor Mike Portland from Reality LA joins us as we kick off our summer series: "Endure: The Letter of 2 Timothy." In the opening of the Apostle Paul's final letter, we find both an invitation and instruction in the way of a resilient faith.
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". 1 Thessalonians 1:1-7
Pastor Ryan Smith closes out our "Peculiar" series on the six distinctives of the early Church looking at 1 Thessalonians 1:1-7 and the peculiar way of Resilient Hope. Despite suffering and struggles the earliest Christians had a hope which weathered it all. As we live our lives in an increasingly chaotic and chaotic age, how can we recapture this final distinctive?
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". 1 Corinthians 6:12-7:9
As we continue in our "Peculiar" series on the six distinctives of the early church, Pastor Ryan Smith teaches on 1 Corinthians 6:12–7:9 and the Sexual Revolution the first Christians led. In an age like ours that believed sex and our bodies were about rights, appetites, and were insignificant, the Ethics of Easter brought a declaration of the cosmic significance of each person's body and every disciple's sexuality.