The Local Church

Where you go, I'll go. Where you stay, I'll stay.

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Homecoming is a series on how to be human, tracing the questions we ask on our way home. In this sermon, we head to Jacob's well, where there's no going back, but there is a way forward and a God who meets us right where we are.

This week in our series Homecoming: A Series on How to Be Human, we look at what happens when going back means facing things we left behind. In this sermon, we talk about why conflict is so hard to avoid and even harder to sit with. Jacob spent twenty years running from the brother he cheated, but he eventually had to stop running, wrestle with his own past, and show up. True repair doesn’t mean pretending nothing happened—it means trusting that God meets us right in the middle of the mess.

Scripture is full of people going home—and it rarely goes as they had expected or hoped.

Artist, writer, and creative Scott Erickson joins The Local Church as guest preacher.

In this sermon, we find ourselves at a threshold place. Behind us, a season that's ending; ahead, a wilderness of school mornings and full calendars — and in between, a moment we will almost certainly rush past. Israel didn't. They stopped and sang. Maybe we should, too.

We’re wrapping up The Gospel According to Ted Lasso with one of Ted’s most famous bits of wisdom: “Be a goldfish.” But in this sermon, we talk about why shaking it off can be so hard—and wonder what happens when we discover that God isn’t keeping score on us, either.

This week, for a special Back-to-School service, kids model Jesus' curiosity by asking Brent anything.

In this first installment of our end-of-summer series, The Gospel According to Ted Lasso, we're holding memorable wisdom from the pitch in one hand and scripture in the other. In this sermon, we push back against the cultural scripts and algorithms that profit off our hopelessness. And with Ted's help, we discover that to believe isn't about blind optimism or burying our doubts; it is a stubborn posture of trust that dares to meet an exhausted world with grace. Step into the holy relief of a God who never grades your theology and meets you right in the mess.