Local Gig Harbor Church Podcast: Recent Episodes
Local Church
Sunday messages and occasional midweek reflections from Local Church created to help us slow down and ponder the words of Jesus together throughout our week. Local Church is committed to learning to be with Jesus together in Gig Harbor and Port Orchard. To learn more visit www.localchurchgh.com
Men we need to take care of our temple by allowing it to rest. He gives to his beloved sleep. We are humans with limits and are not machines.
Jesus is The Way. The Way to life, to manhood, to meaning and purpose. The way matters. The means and not just the end matters in the Jesus journey as he is the means and the end.
A brief appendix on the Ready, AIM, Fire episode. Before you flush that unrealistic goal down the toilet see if you can reevaluate and restructure that goal to make it realistic!
What are your goals for 2024? How will you reach them. We get practical with how to set and reach your goals.
You have an enemy that wants to destroy you. Stand and resist him and join King Jesus who longs to give you life and life abundant!!
Men of God are humble beast. It is through our incredible origin story that we get to live in the paradox of humility and confidence. Listen to learn how to grow into a humble beast in 2024.
Manhood that is real and lasting all starts with God. He is the source and navigating a life of meaning without him is a sure way to get lost. Set your mind on God and his goodness to grow a strong and healthy mind.
Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of God, what it is like, how it is everywhere and the promise that it will rise!!!
Can we purchase peace? If not, where can we find it? Jesus shares how to find true and lasting peace. Guiding our souls to a place of relaxation and rejoicing.
Jesus teaches on fear and courage, counterfeits and authentic. Our friend Michael Bouterse preached this one.
We reflect on the blessing of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and how these are ultimately found in Jesus.
We get to pray to a good Father and share our troubles, desires and ask for his house to grow!
The harvest is plenty but the laborers are few. Plenty of people need Jesus. Who will help people meet, know and follow Jesus?
It is good news that we are not God. It is better news that Jesus is God. We discuss how Jesus makes a way for us even when we do not deserve it.
Are you the greatest? Am I the greatest? Why do we want to know and what does Jesus have to say to this consuming question?
We look at the glory of Jesus, finding places to pray and how to get through the ups and downs of life on mission.
What are you building? What are you building on? Who are you building with? Jesus invites us to build things that last with him!
Jesus invites us into a culture of graciousness over grievance, forgiveness over judgement. A community that is quick to confess, quick to forgive and quick to invite.
He is Risen! We look at life lived believing the promises of God. What would have changed had the disciples trusted and remembered that Jesus would rise again?
We look at the teachings of Jesus, including this radical call to love out enemies and love in a way that makes know sense to the world.
Jesus uses hyperbole, satire and truth to shatter our religious boxes and invite us into the Kingdom of Heaven. We look at the famous beattitudes and what they might say to us today.
We look at the end of Luke 5 and beginning of Luke 6. Jesus burst through man-made religion with scandalous love and invites regular people not the religious elite to join his movement. The church is a Jesus movement and you are invited to be the local church!!!
We continue our exploration of Luke and look at the deeply spiritual habit of eating. How both feasting and fasting are used by Jesus to be and make disciples.
Our friend Bill Dupenthaler shares from Luke, Mark and John on the call to not just "follow Jesus" but to commit to being his disciple! Learn from Jesus how to be and make disciples!
Jesus invites us to drop everything and follow him. To have our whole lives oriented around being with Jesus, being changed by Jesus and helping others to be with and follow Jesus.
Jesus has all authority and power over the spiritual realm and even the demons know it. His presence makes the darkness flee!
Jake preaching on the book of Luke and the power of habit in the life of Jesus. How did healthy habits play a part in the life of Jesus and how can it shape and play a role in our life as we learn to live the Jesus lifestyle together.
Rebuilding whats broken together with Jesus. Taking action to spread love, truth and freedom one step at a time.
A biblical view of loss. How to grieve healthily and join Jesus in redeeming brokenness!
James leaves us with a call to prayer. A servant pray's with a servant's heart. We are not the master but the servant.
James instructs us in how we can use money to love people instead of using people to love money.
Serving Jesus and bringing about the Kingdom of heaven with words of love and encouragement.
James invites to not just say we believe in Jesus but to live a Jesus lifestyle filled with good works that demonstrates our love and faith in Jesus.
At the start of chapter 2 James encourages us to love like Jesus loves, a love that shows no partiality.
Being not just hearers of the word but doers of the word. Moving from Christian consumerism to participating in the lie and way of Jesus. Joining Jesus in bringing light, love, healing and hope to our world.
We are servants and we serve by listening to God and to others. We get to be a community that loves well by listening well.
James warns the church that sin leads to death. We must be proactive in fighting sin and not sitting on our heels!
We look at the second part of James 1:1. How can we grow as content servants dispersed throughout a consumeristic world?
A simple reflection on the first verse of the book of James. Why the brother of Jesus finds his identity in being a servant over even being the biological brother of Jesus.
We trust in Jesus alone. Church is to be all about Jesus. Not about programs, numbers, buildings or social media followers. It is all about Jesus alone. Simply Jesus.
Jesus grows his Kingdom not by force, violence, marketing tricks or winning arguments but by loving invitation. He invites us to find life, joy and hope in him and to join him in living an invitational lifestyle.
As we learn to abide in the love of Jesus together we are transformed by his perfect love. We get to be a people motivated and led by love in a world that can fall into hate. Jesus loves us.
The story of how Jesus is an even better Moses. He leads us out of slavery and into an eternal promise land!!!
We continue our Advent series as we reflect on the beauty of Jesus being both our promised Shepherd and our promised King. He is the Shepherd King!!!
We continue in Psalm 119 and reflect on how we must look to Jesus and the word of God for guidance in the midst of confusing times.
We continue our reflection on Psalm 119 and learn how to look to Jesus in the dark seasons of life.
Psalm 119 continued as the Psalmist longs to learn the way of heaven and to walk in that way.
A look at Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the bible and a stunning love poem written by the Psalmist to the scriptures.
Jesus is the true and just judge. And all who witness his final judgment will praise him.
Even in the midst of some of the craziest and freakiest passages of scripture we see a God who loves, comforts and shelters his people with his loving presence.
Jesus is worthy. He defeats sin, satan and death through sacrificial love. All creation, all of God's people, all of the angelic hosts praise Jesus the one who is worthy!!!
A surprisingly encouraging chapter as Jesus reveals the motivation for his harsh words of correction and warning and extends an invitation to deep community to even the most rebellious of churches.
We look at the first 4 letters to the 7 churches found in Revelation 7. Encouragement, correction, warning and reward. These letters from Jesus are a gift for us today. They can be confusing at first glance but as we look at the context of the church and city in this time there are some beautiful and helpful insights that can guide us today.
We start our journey through Revelation and remember that the Big Idea of this book is the comfort, presence, promises and power of Jesus. This apocalyptic, prophetic letter to the church is an encouragement today. We also learn what the word apocalypse means.... and it might not be what you think.
Also, here are some links to further your study of Revelation.
Three helpful videos by the Bible Project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvVVcYD-0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpnIrbq2bKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDX4tUdj1Y
A study by Richard Bauckam https://www.amazon.com/Theology-Book-Revelation-New-Testament/dp/0521356911
A book on the poetic imagery of Revelation by Eugene Peterson https://www.amazon.com/Reversed-Thunder-Revelation-Praying-Imagination/dp/0060665033
What does it mean to be a disciple? A Jesus follower. And how does baptism symbolize and celebrate this? This is the second part of our two-part series on baptism.
Part 1 of a 2 part series on baptism. Old had gone, the new has come. What does it mean that we are new creation's in Christ? And how does baptism reflect this truth?
God has a purpose and a calling for your life. Your unique ministry gets to be a gift to you and a gift to others as you join Jesus in bringing light, love, healing and hope in the world.
A vision for a deeply relational church and the cultural realities that hinder this vision.
A reflection on the sweetness and power of gracious words. A picture of the type of community that can be formed when we speak with love and grace to one another.