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.

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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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A guided Sign of the Cross meditation for Week 2 of Reenchanted.

This week we're exploring what it means to repent of intellectualism and believe in embodiment — the idea that faith isn't only something you think, but something you live in your actual body. This practice is one small way to close that gap.

Using the ancient movement of the Sign of the Cross, we move through the mind, the heart, the past, and the future — slowly, with breath, with honesty. No performance required.

Find a comfortable seat, place your feet on the floor, and let yourself be led.

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March 1, 2026

In our second week of the Reenchanted series, we talk about ditching the intellectual armor that keeps us isolated and stuck in "knowing" all the right answers. Stop trying to think your way to God, and start learning how to feel your way back to the wild, messy, embodied life you were meant to live. It’s time to repent of certainty and let your finite, beautiful body be the place where divine grace actually meets you.

Scripture: John 3:1–17

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This is the Week 1 grounding practice for Reenchanted: A Series for Lent on Believing Again — a Lenten series from The Local Church.

This week's practice is called A List of Mysteries. It's a simple guided meditation designed to help you slow down and practice sitting with what you cannot explain—not as a failure of understanding, but as an act of faith.

Take a walk while you listen if you're able. Or find a quiet place to sit and let your imagination do the moving.

This practice pairs with Week 1 of the Reenchanted series, where we explore Matthew 4:1–11 and what it means to repent from certainty and believe in simply believing again.

February 22, 2026

In this sermon, we explore the tension between our modern obsession with certainty and the ancient invitation to walk by faith. Using the story of Jesus in the wilderness, we see how the tempter’s demand for proof is a trap designed to replace intimacy with control. True reenchantment isn't found in five-star guarantees or "crystal stairs," but in the dark corners where we finally stop demanding data and start reaching for a hand to hold. If you’ve been waiting for a sign before you’re willing to believe, this is an invitation to loosen your grip, embrace the mystery, and find the new life that only begins in the dark.

Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11

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