A Camera Roll Examen for Week 4 of Reenchanted.

This week we're exploring what it means to repent of nostalgia and believe in possibility—the idea that God isn't only present in what has already happened, but is actively at work in what's unfolding right now. This practice is one small way to train your eyes to see it.

Using your phone's camera roll as a prayer tool, we scroll back through the last month of ordinary life and look for grace we didn't engineer. Moments we captured because something surprised us. Evidence that God was moving before we had words for it.

Reenchanted: A Series for Lent on Believing Again | The Local Church, Sundays at 10am at Woods Charter School

March 15, 2026

In this sermon, we ask what we might be missing when we get stuck pining for the past. Nostalgia is seductive—it feels like home—but it can blind us to what God is doing right now. We explore how the man born blind models a different way: not reaching backward, but saying hello to here. Part of our series Reenchanted: A Series for Lent on Believing Again. The past isn't a destination. It's evidence.

Scripture: John 9:1–41

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March 8, 2026

In this sermon, part of our Lenten series Reenchanted: A Series for Lent on Believing Again, we follow Jesus to Jacob's well — where he crosses every line his world drew to sit with a Samaritan woman his culture told him to avoid. We explore how our habit of sorting the world into clean categories — insider and outsider, worthy and unworthy — is the fast track to disenchantment, and how Jesus moves straight through every border not to condemn, but to liberate. Turns out, the best biscuits — and the best of us — rise higher when we're touching.

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