Collective Church Podcast

Pastor Casey preaches from Luke 18, where Jesus tells us not to lose heart. More than just an encouragement, Christ gives us an unexpected story and challenge for days to come.

Pastor Casey leads us through Moses' request for God's glory and what that means for our own cathedrals.

Elijah displays a heart of expectancy -- fully dependent in prayer on God to bring the rain. Pastor Isaac explains how to navigate spiritual drought and disappointment by cultivating expectancy through waiting on God in prayer and believing his promises.

King Saul does all of right spiritual activites, but with a heart removed. Pastor Casey leads us through our second talk in seeking to make our heart a cathedral to God's glory. We will learn from Saul in contrast to David in what it means to have a heart that is after God's own.

We desire people to have a thirst for the living God, to have our hearts made into cathedrals for His praise. Pastor Casey breaks down Psalm 63, and what it means to crave God in a dry and weary land.

We arrive at the final moments of Jonah's commission and witness how the book ends in the most unorthodox of ways. It is here we witness God's final question and Jonah's first answer.

After the revival of Nineveh, our reluctant prophet has a meltdown. In Jonah 4, Pastor Casey Fritz opens the word to unravel the fury of a bitter prophet, and what that means for how we relate to God when He works outside our wants.

Pastor Isaac Brickner takes us through Jonah 3:1-10, where Jonah gives the worst sermon ever.

Pastor Casey dissects Jonah's prayer inside the great fish. It's here we see not only the heart of the rebel prophet but also of our God.

Jonah is eaten alive by a fish appointed by God. It's here he encounters the goodness of the Lord in the darkness. Pastor Casey leads us through the beginning stages of Jonah's obedience and repentance.

Pastor Casey Fritz takes us through Jonah 1:4-16 where Jonah runs from the presence of the Lord. We look at what it means when God sends storms our way and their purpose in our lives.

Pastor Casey Fritz introduces the wild and pertinent story of Jonah. God calls His people to obedience...whether we understand it or not.

Pastor Casey Fritz ends the book of Malachi by calling us to remember where we have been as a church, where our hope lies, and how God's instructions for the Israelites still apply strongly to us today.

Pastor Isaac Brickner takes us through Malachi 3:13-18 showing us that those who repent and endure times of confusion will experience renewal and tremendous blessing from God.

Pastor Lorenzo leads us through Malachi 3:8-12 and God’s accusation against Israel that they were robbing him.

Pastor Ryan Smith's departing sermon from the book of Luke.

Pastor Casey takes us through the fifth dispute in Malachi 3:1-7 where God calls for His people to return to Him.

Pastor Casey brings us to the fourth dispute within Malachi and how God is wearied by the Israelites complaints, priestly corruption, and unchecked sin. And yet, the Father’s heart brings much light to such darkness.

Pastor Ryan Smith unpacks the third dispute of the book of Malachi, as God lays before his people the evidence of their complacent worship before naming the essence of this kind of worship in some of the sharpest words of the book.

Pastor Casey Fritz takes us to the 2nd dispute against God within the book of Malachi. As God asks where His honor, fear and the peoples full hearted offering is.

Pastor Casey Fritz starts our new series through the heavy and timely book of Malachi. It opens with God’s most important message to His people, “I have loved you.”

Lead Pastor Lorenzo Smith shares a very important message about the future of Collective Church.

Continuing from last week, Pastor Ryan Smith follows the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 on how the people of Jesus are meant to live as we await the return of Jesus.

As we progress through Paul's letter, 1 Thessalonians, we arrive at Paul's next area of guidance: the Christian hope and the anticipated return of Jesus. Pastor Ryan Smith examines 4:13-18, often clouded by confusion and debate, but full of comfort and encouragement.

The Apostle Paul presses the church in Thessolanica forward in love, but turns the direction toward the church. Pastor Casey Fritz follows Paul's instruction for brothers and sisters to love in unexpected and disruptive ways. (4:9-12)

Continuing from last week, Pastor Ryan Smith follows as the Apostle Paul develops a vision for the culture of the church and its relationship to sexuality. (4:7-8)

Pastor Ryan Smith continues in 1 Thessalonians as the Apostle Paul guides the church deeper into God's will, specifically in the area of their sexuality. (4:3-6)

Pastor Ryan Smith picks back up in our series in the letter of 1 Thessalonians, where the Apostle Paul transitions to providing guidance for the church on how to live. In the short introduction to this section (4:1-2), Paul summarizes all that is to come by calling them to "Please God."

On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Ryan Smith teaches the incredible invitation to come and see, the command to go and tell, and the freedom to not fear.

King Jesus marches into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, detonating His final days. Pastor Casey Fritz leads up through the procession inviting us to see and receive the King as He is.

As we reach the halfway point of 1 Thessalonians, Pastor Ryan teaches on Paul's prayer in 3:11-13 as a guide and paradigm for our own prayers, specifically that we would become ordinary saints.

Pastor Ryan looks at 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10 as Paul recounts the renewed courage, life, and joy he received in the middle of his distress and pressures through the surprising avenue of his encouragement of others.

Pastor Ryan takes us into 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5 where Paul details some of the forms of pressure common to followers of Jesus. While discomfort is a feeling that most of us avoid, this passage invites us to receive and anticipate tension as how we participate in the story of Jesus.

Pastor Casey walks us through 1 Thessalonians 2:17-20 where Paul expresses some of the richest words written between pastor and people. It's riddled with heart, warning, and surprising conclusions for our faith.

As we continue in our series in 1 Thessalonians, Pastor Ryan Smith unpacks three marks of a model faith: receiving the word of God, welcoming the authority of God, and the willingness to suffer for it.

Pastor Ryan Smith continues our series in 1 Thessalonians by looking at Paul's description of the motive, method, and mission of a model pastor.

Pastor Ryan Smith begins our new series in 1 Thessalonians examining Paul's celebration of this early local church as an opportunity to consider what makes up a vibrant church.

We introduce our new incoming teaching pastor with a pastor's panel discussion and look at how God calls and uses different people to accomplish His work.

As we continue in our series, "Seek First" Pastor Ryan Smith looks at the story of Philip in Acts 8 and the surprising places a purposeful pursuit of God can lead us.

We continue to explore the priority of seeking God with Pastor Isaac, focusing on the implications of God as the Creator, and what it means to belong to him.

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.

Pastor Ryan Smith closes out our Advent series by looking at the meaning of Christmas in John 1:14-18.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.