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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.
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Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Pastor Ryan Smith begins our first series of the year, "Seek First," by looking at Psalm 27 and considering how an undistracted pursuit of God is the only basis for a life of confidence amid the uncertainty and unknowns of the coming year.
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Sunday Dec 17, 2023
Pastor Ryan Smith closes out our Advent series by looking at the meaning of Christmas in John 1:14-18.
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
As we continue our Advent series, Pastor Ryan Smith examines John 1:10-13 and the connection between our sense of identity and our failure to recognize Jesus'.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Pastor Ryan Smith begins our Advent series in John's Prologue. In a season that often trends toward sentimentality and nostalgia, Advent brings us to take an honest assessment of the darkness within our world and ourselves, so we might truly receive the news of the true light coming into the world.
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
In the conclusion of our series "Teach us to Pray," Pastor Ryan Smith dives into the sixth and final movement of the Lord's Prayer: deliverance. While we often pray to be saved from difficult or hard circumstances, this closing line of the Lord's Prayer brings us into the greater need of our lives and stands as a closing pledge of our faithfulness to our faithful Father in Heaven.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
As we move through our current series "Teach us to Pray," Pastor Ryan Smith looks at the fifth movement of prayer: confession and forgiveness that overflows.
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
For our fourth week in "Teach us to Pray," Pastor Isaac Brickner considers the fourth movement of prayer: petition and asking God for our needs.
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
In our third week of "Teach us to Pray," Pastor Ryan Smith looks over the third movement of the Lord's Prayer: intercession for Kingdom of Heaven and our surrender to will of God.
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
As we continue in our series "Teach us to Pray," Pastor Ryan Smith looks at the second movement of the Lord's Prayer: adoration and honoring God as holy.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
As we begin our new series 'Teach Us To Pray' with Pastor Ryan Smith, we explore the Lord's Prayer as Jesus' six-movement paradigm to guide us into a deeper life of prayer. To pray like Jesus, we are taught to begin with the contemplation of God as our Father in Heaven.