Neighborhood Church Podcast

There’s a frustrating gap between what we believe, what we intend to do, and what we actually do. We know we should sleep more, text less in anger, and let things go — and we keep doing the opposite anyway.

In Chapter 4 of Ephesians, we move from Paul’s big, cosmic language about what God is doing through Jesus to street level: what does it actually look like when Jesus starts changing how you react, speak, and treat people?

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We all want more. More money, more time, more success, more peace. And the strange thing is, we can actually get what we wanted — and still find ourselves wanting more.

In Chapter 3 of Ephesians, Dr. Gavin Adams explores Paul's prayer for the church at Ephesus and discovers Paul isn't praying for easier circumstances or more stuff. He's praying for something deeper: not more from Jesus, but more of Jesus.

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Is coming alive something you do, or something that has to happen to you? Can you build the good life, earn it, work toward it — or does it have to be given, if you're willing to receive it?

In Chapter 2 of Ephesians, Dustin Maddox walks through Paul's "but God" moment — the turn from dead in our own patterns to alive in Christ, by grace and not by works.

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Special Guest: Dustin Maddox.

Rome had the soldiers, the prisons, the emperor. Paul had chains. And from a prison cell, he wrote a letter claiming that Jesus was actually the one who defined ultimate power.

In Chapter 1 of Ephesians, we open a nearly 2,000-year-old letter written to a church in a city dominated by the massive Temple of Artemis and the authority of Rome ... and ask what Paul meant when he said God's plan was to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.

We're not allowed to see the future, and honestly, that's probably a mercy. But at the very end of the Bible, in a strange, image-heavy vision on the island of Patmos, John gets a glimpse of ultimate reality — and it looks nothing like what most of us are anxious about day to day.

In this message, Brian Ross walks through Revelation 22 and asks a simple but unsettling question: if what's ultimately real is so different from how we're living, what needs to change?

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Special Guest: Brian Ross.

Everybody looks at the same world. Not everybody sees the same thing. Walt Disney once stared at a pile of leftover dirt at Disneyland and saw a mountain — years before anyone else could see it too.

In the final week of Challenge Accepted, Forrest Jenan asks whether we can learn to see the world the way Jesus sees it — enemies as people to love, failure as a place for restoration, a cross as the doorway to resurrection.

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A 100-mph fastball reaches home plate in four-tenths of a second — too fast to think through. Hitters don't rise to that moment. They fall back on thousands of hours of repetition.

In Part 4 of Challenge Accepted, Forrest Jenan explores what it looks like to train before life comes at us fast — and why the habits Jesus practiced were never about proving how spiritual we are, but about becoming like him.

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We've built a world designed to make sure we never have to sit with discomfort for very long. Phones, Netflix, distraction on demand. But almost everything that actually grows us asks us to walk into something uncomfortable first.

In Part 3 of Challenge Accepted, Forrest Jenan tells the story of Esther — a young woman asked to risk everything without knowing the outcome — and asks what your next Brave Move might be.

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We've gotten really good at having people around us without letting anyone get close. We know how to answer "how are you?" without ever really answering it.

In Part 2 of Challenge Accepted, Forrest Jenan explores what Jesus meant by real relationships and why the way of Jesus was never meant to be walked alone.

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You already have a way... a way you handle conflict, chase success, treat people who disagree with you. You probably never chose it on purpose. It got handed to you, or you picked it up along the way.

In Part 1 of Challenge Accepted, we look at what it actually means when Jesus says "follow me" — not an invitation to a few good teachings, but an invitation to trade your road for his.

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