South Bend City Church

Ryan Yazel - We continue in 1 Corinthians 13 as we see there's more to a chapter often just reserved for weddings. This week, as we examine the middle of both the chapter and epistle, we see Paul correcting a couple of ways people misunderstand love in community. ___ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us...

Ryan Yazel - This week we turn our attention to 1 Corinthians 13 as we see there's more to a chapter often just reserved for weddings. Over the next 3 weeks we will track Paul's advice to the young church in Corinth as they figure out how to keep moving forward together. We begin by looking at verses 1-3 and some of the divisions that are creeping up in the Corinthian community. _____ If you’re a...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This is the final teaching in the series, with a calling to bravery and prayer. ___ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found u...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This week's teaching considers the challenge to abandon perfection and embrace the pursuit, or as we often say it at SBCC, practices, not performances. _____ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community,...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This week's teaching wrestles with how faith can matter when the world is breaking. ___ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you fou...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This week's teaching considers two different visions of unity and the example of Christ who gave up his privilege. If you'd like to watch, rather than just listen, you can view this teaching film  here .  ___ If yo...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This week's teaching explores the real meaning of Gospel and Christ as realities that relativize the pursuits of the ego, and as mandates for the pursuit of justice in a world that is aching with the pain of racial...

Jason Miller - During COVID-19, we’re turning to the text of Philippians for a new teaching series meant to help us consider the possibility of God that meets us in this difficult time. This week, Jason introduces the letter and teaches Philippians 1:1-11. Beginning this week, you can also watch these teachings on Vimeo - find this week's here.   ___ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC co...

Dr. Jessica Hughes - In the weeks after Easter, we're finding ourselves in stories of Jesus from the Gospels. This week we consider His interaction with Peter in John 21.  ___ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and what keeps you listening at: info@southbendcitychurch.com. You can also support the ongo...

Melissa Marley Bonnichsen - This Mother's Day, Melissa Marley Bonnichsen helps us consider the experience of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Melissa is the director of leadership formation at Notre Dame's Center for Social Concern and a member of the SBCC family. _____ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and...

Ryan Yazel with Michael Yoder - In the weeks after Easter, we're finding ourselves in stories of Jesus from the Gospels. This week we return to some of the Sermon on the Mount.  _____ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and what keeps you listening at: info@southbendcitychurch.com. You can also support...

Jason Miller - In the weeks after Easter, we're finding ourselves in stories of Jesus from the Gospels. This week it's the story of a paralyzed man whose friends bring him to Jesus for healing, which is for all of us who find ourselves carrying burdens of empathy and compassion, and feeling some of the helplessness that comes with those burdens. Mark 2:1-12 and Matthew 9:8 _____ If you’re a part o...

While our gatherings are suspended due to COVID-19, we’re bringing one of our most cherished practices to the podcast: the open floor. This episode features responses to Beth Graybill's April 19 teaching about Jesus and our grief.  ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and what keeps you listening a...

Beth Graybill - In the weeks after Easter, we're finding ourselves in stories of Jesus from the Gospels. This week, Beth Graybill takes us into Luke 24. At the end of Beth's teaching, she asks these questions for our Open Floor: How are you making meaning in the midst of your grief? What practices, old or new, do you find comforting and healing in this season? How has Jesus made himself real to yo...

This Easter, we're celebrating resurrection in our homes, socially distant but together in spirit as our world faces COVID-19. We've released a special Easter 2020 film, shot in Studebaker 112, that you can view anytime here: https://vimeo.com/406564098 . This podcast episode features the teaching from that film. He is risen! _____ If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love...

While our gatherings are suspended due to COVID-19, we’re bringing one of our most cherished practices to the podcast: the open floor. This is a special Holy Week episode, and we asked the members of South Bend City Church to be our preachers by talking to us about how they have known or experienced Love or Forgiveness in their lives.  ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community,...

Jason Miller - On Palm Sunday, Jesus wept for the city that didn't know what makes for peace. And in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we're finding out that the world we've built is broken in more ways than we realized.  This week, we'll release another [OPEN FLOOR] episode on Thursday, but since it's Holy Week, it'll be a special Maundy Thursday Open Floor. We'd like you to be one of our Maund...

While our gatherings are suspended due to COVID-19, we’re bringing one of our most cherished practices to the podcast: the open floor. This episode features responses to our March 29 teaching on holiness, picking up the theme “set apart” and asking ourselves “for what purpose?” and “to what extent?” The prompts offered for response were:  Consider how you can create some beauty or goodness for the...

Ryan Yazel - Matthew 8, Matthew 5:13-16  As we continue our lenten series on holiness, we pick up the theme "set apart" and begin to ask ourselves "for what purpose?" and "to what extent?" The church has taken many approaches through the centuries, regarding how distant or engaged it has been with the world around it, with some approaches looking more like the example of Jesus than others. At the...

While our gatherings are suspended due to COVID-19, we're bringing one of our most cherished practices to the podcast: the open floor. This episode features responses to our March 22nd teaching on holiness as a communal project, along with a general check-in on how people are coping with everything surrounding the pandemic. 

Jason Miller - In this unexpected moment of social distancing and quarantines, we're considering the power of holiness as a communal project. It's not just a private, personal thing. It's an "us" thing. In that spirit, we're also bringing one of our favorite features from our in-person gatherings to the podcast -- the open floor. At the end of this week's episode (and future episodes while our gat...

Jason Miller - Our in person gatherings are suspended in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, but we're continuing our Lent teaching series on holiness. You might have heard the word holy defined as being "set apart", but that raises all sorts of questions. Set apart from what? For what? And what could it possibly mean when God is described as set apart, if God also fills everything everywhere? ...

Jason Miller - This week we explored holiness as being present to the presence of God. Ephesians 5, Matthew 25, Matthew 5, Galatians 3 ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and what keeps you listening at: info@southbendcitychurch.com . You can also support the ongoing work of SBCC by giving at:  so...

Jason Miller - During Lent this year, we'll be considering the problems and power of holiness. This pre-lent introduction raises some questions about the word "holy" and sets a trajectory for our journey through this season. ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note letting us know how you found us and what keeps you listening at: info...

Jason Miller and Josh McManaway - Bonus episode! In the last week of our series on The Anatomy of Spiritual (R)Evolution, we looked briefly at the kenosis hymn in Philippians 2. In this conversation, Jason talks with SBCC community member and theologian Josh McManaway for a deeper dive into the meaning of the hymn. ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, we’d love to hear fro...