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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 May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". Genesis 1:26-31, Psalm 139:13-17, Proverbs 31:8-9
Pastor Ryan Smith continues in our latest series, "Peculiar: The People of God & the Ethics of Easter" by examining the early church's practical and holistic commitment to the sanctity of life. Though this took a myriad of forms – they were most known for their response to abortion, infanticide, and exposure. In a cultural moment where this issue is the center of attention, how can we think Christianly about the issues and embody a culture of life?
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". Romans 12:14–21, Romans 5:6-11, 1 Corinthians 13:4–7
As we continue in our "Peculiar" series recapturing the distinctives of the early Church, Pastor Ryan Smith examines what Romans called "obstinate foolishness." Though Christians were often excluded, criticized, persecuted, and even killed, they taught forgiveness, withheld retaliation, and loved their enemies. In this teaching we investigate this enemy-love, where it came from, and how we can carry it out today.
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". 1 John 3:16-18; 2 Corinthians 8:9
Pastor Ryan Smith continues in "Peculiar: The People of God & the Ethics of Easter" by looking at the radical charity and generosity of the early church, its basis in the heart of the Gospel, and practical steps for recapturing this distinctive.
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". Ephesians 2:11-22; Galatians 3:26-28
Pastor Ryan Smith continues in our latest series, "Peculiar: The People of God & the Ethics of Easter" by examining the diversity of the early Church. In a world which categorized and divided people into varying layers of value and privilege, the diversity and unity of Christians shook the world so much so that they were described as "anti-social atheists".
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
From the series "Peculiar". 1 Peter 2:9-12; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 28:16-20
Pastor Ryan Smith begins our new series, "Peculiar: The People of God and the Ethics of Easter." How can Christians not just survive, but thrive in a world that views them as stupid, irrelevant, and dangerous all at the same time? Is the Church and our church destined to a sort of subsistence-spirituality at best or is it possible there is a way forward? To find our way forward, we need to look back. The early church thrived and embarked in a communal mission shaped by the empty tomb of Easter.
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Reflecting on John 20:1-18, Pastor Ryan Smith investigates what it means to begin to realize the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:14
Pastor Ryan Smith closes out our spring series, "Smoke & Mirrors: Deconstructing Los Angeles with the Book of Ecclesiastes." What is the good life in the land of smoke and mirrors?
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 9:1-11:6
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 5:1-7, 8:2-17
As we continue in the book of Ecclesiastes, the Deconstructor shifts his attention to our relationship to God. Over our series so far, we've looked at the foolishness in believing humans can control time and tame nature. Pastor Ryan Smith unpacks the similar foolishness in believing we can control God and the proper posture for those who come before him as their Creator and King.
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
From the series "Smoke & Mirrors". Ecclesiastes 6:10-8:1
As we move into the back half of the book of Ecclesiastes, we begin to examine how we should live in a world and city where "all is vanity." Pastor Ryan Smith looks at the Deconstructor's offering of wisdom as the better way of life before ultimately finding that wisdom too is vanity, smoke and mirrors. The world is too chaotic, wisdom is too elusive, and the human heart too foolish. What are humans to do when the best we can find might be better, but still broken?