In the series, we dive into letting go of perfection in exchange for being imperfect, vulnerable and, yes, worthy of God’s love and belonging just as we are. As Christians, we found a lot of resounding themes within the wisdom of this book, and connected it to our life of faith. During this 5 week series, gain insight as to how you can better value yourself as a beloved child of God, let go of what you think you’re supposed to be, and embrace who you really are in God’s eyes. Come on this journe...
Oct 19, 2022•21 min•Season 3Ep. 31
In the series, we dive into letting go of perfection in exchange for being imperfect, vulnerable and, yes, worthy of God’s love and belonging just as we are. As Christians, we found a lot of resounding themes within the wisdom of this book, and connected it to our life of faith. Over the next 5 weeks, gain insight as to how you can better value yourself as a beloved child of God, let go of what you think you’re supposed to be, and embrace who you really are in God’s eyes. Come on this journey wi...
Oct 12, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 30
In the series, we dive into letting go of perfection in exchange for being imperfect, vulnerable and, yes, worthy of God’s love and belonging just as we are. As Christians, we found a lot of resounding themes within the wisdom of this book, and connected it to our life of faith. Over the next 5 weeks, gain insight as to how you can better value yourself as a beloved child of God, let go of what you think you’re supposed to be, and embrace who you really are in God’s eyes. Come on this journey wi...
Oct 05, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Meditation and prayer needs to be part of our daily spiritual practice. I hope this meditation helps you center, balance, and provides respite for a busy life! Create time for yourself with: prayer meditation reading the bible having quiet time Blessings and love. Support the show Support us here: https://www.bpcusa.org/financial-ministry/ BPC Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrentwoodPresbyterianChurch...
Sep 29, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Dr. Baker received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Master of Divinity in Theology from Fuller Seminary, and has received a Certificate in Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He is licensed as a Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist in California, and has served as an ordained minister. Dr. Baker is the Executive Director of the La Vie Christian Counseling Centers with offices in Pasadena and Santa Monica, which have been servi...
Sep 21, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 27
About Rabbi Michael Gotlieb Michael has taught at the School of Christian Learning and shares Thanksgiving Service with BPC. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1990 where he also earned his Masters Degree in Jewish Studies. He completed his rabbinic internship at Columbia University. Before coming to KM, he served a congregation in North County San Diego for 5 years. In addition to his congregational activities, Rabbi Gotlieb has served as president of the Rabbinical Assembly ...
Sep 14, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 26
The Rev. Dr. Tom Tewell has been a friend of our church and teacher of the School of Christian Learning. We get to know him even better with his conversation with Lora East. About Tom: The Rev. Dr. Tom Tewell has loved being pastor of multiple congregations during his fifty years in pastoral ministry, but in this current chapter of life, he thoroughly enjoys being a pastor to pastors, a guest preacher, a consultant to churches…and, most of all, a husband, dad, and granddad. During his years in p...
Sep 08, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Lora had a chance to sit down with a few of our teachers from the School of Christian Learning and talk about what inspired them to join ministry and so much more. Great interviews are coming, including today's! About Dr. Christopher: Dr. Smith-Christopher (he prefers simply "Daniel") is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University with specialization in Old Testament Studies and Theology. He is the author of several books, including Micah: A Commentary (The Old Testament Libr...
Aug 31, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 24
In today's podcast, you will learn how to breathe in joy and gratitude and breathe out anxiety. Our guest today is Megan Gillespie the interim Music Director at Brentwood Presbyterian Church. Here are todays topics. Enjoy: Gratitude list – begin/end each day with a gratitude list – prayer & meditation God/Higher Power/Universe – I pray each being listening to my words has a better understanding of themselves, their beauty, and their worthiness. Breathing exercises: 6-3-12-3 – anxiety reducer...
Aug 24, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 23
About Megan: Megan or Miss Megan, as students like to call her, has run her private studio for over 10 years. Megan is inclusive, prompt, open, patient, empathetic, and leads lessons with a lot of humor. In her work with YoungArts and the Music Center, she is passionate in her support of educational and scholarship programs created to encourage talented young people pursuing careers in the arts. Miss Megan’s students range from complete beginners to performers who desire careers in the arts or h...
Aug 18, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Our beautiful Worship Arts Director, Katheryne Levin is retiring from Brentwood and we are so grateful for all she has done to make our music FAB for 23 years. She will be moving home and leaving Los Angeles and her last day is August 28th. How will we go on without her magic? It won't be easy. We love her and her legacy. Katheryne is a singer, musician, artist and leader. Her heart and soul is on display at every event at BPC and she transforms the music to a theatrical experience and TV show e...
Aug 10, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 21
About Dean: Dean Choi is the Associate Youth Director at BPC. He is currently a pastoral Candidate in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and identifies as a First-Generation, Transnational, Korean Male Adoptee. Before coming to LA, Dean assisted in college access work for two years in the inner city of Chicago Public High Schools as a College Advisor and four years working on the college side advising first-generation, low income, and minority students build communities through leadership training...
Aug 03, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 20
About our Guest: Rev. Rachel Penmore is the campus minister of UKirk at the University of TN. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida she grew in the Presbyterian church, and received her B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Queens University in Charlotte, NC and her M.Div from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. Rachel has served in many different ministry contexts including Yellowstone National Park, Travis Airforce Base, a Trauma 1 hospital, and the traditional church. She is...
Jul 20, 2022•43 min•Season 3Ep. 19
About Sarah: Sarah Emanuel, one of BPC's School of Christian Learning teachers, holds a PhD with Distinction in Biblical Studies, with a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, from Drew University’s Graduate Division of Religion. She received her M.A. in Religion from Wake Forest University, a graduate certificate in Ancient Jewish-Christian Encounters from Tel Aviv University International, and a B.A. in English and Liberal Studies from the University of Delaware, where she was ind...
Jul 07, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Enjoy this 10 minute meditation to allow you to feel closer to God and to manifest your best life. Each morning, have time for silence with God and with yourself. Ask yourself for what are most grateful ? How will you make this day great? What do you wish to manifest in your life? Take time for yourself, and have an abundantly beautiful life...anything is possible, with God. Please consider supporting our show - https://www.bpcusa.org/financial-ministry/ Support the show Support us here: https:/...
Jul 01, 2022•15 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Reverend Dave Carpenter talks about one of his favorite sinner saints, St. Francis. St. Francis of Assisi , Italian San Francesco d’Assisi , baptized Giovanni , renamed Francesco , in full Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone , (born 1181/82, Assisi, duchy of Spoleto [Italy]—died October 3, 1226, Assisi; canonized July 16, 1228; feast day October 4), founder of the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor (Ordo Fratrum Minorum), the women’s Order of St. Clare (the Poor Clares), and the lay Third Order...
Jun 15, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Our Youth Director, Dean Choi, shares his sinner saint for the BPC Sermon Series and a bit about himself. We are excited to have him share his perspective and his light. Ephrem the Syrian wasn't originally part of the book from Karen Wright Marsh, but we find out the relevance to the book, the sermon series and how this sinner saint is part of church history. Check out this article on our guest, Karen Wright Marsh - https://pres-outlook.org/2021/01/mentoring-with-the-communion-of-the-saints/ Lin...
Jun 08, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Join Guest Pastor, Rev. Dr. Tom Tewell speak on Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth was an African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, Truth preached about abolitionism and equal rights for all. She became known for a speech with the famous refrain, "Ain't I a Woman?" that she was said to have delivered at a women's convention in Ohio in 1851, although accounts of that speech (...
Jun 01, 2022•35 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Join Janice McQueen Ward, Worship Eder and Instrumental Director, as she interviews Reverend Dr. Tom Tewell, Reverend Dave Carpenter and Associate Pastor Lora East. Our pastors share their story and journey of faith, as well as why they chose the "saint and sinner" for their topics during the Sermon Series based on the book, Vintage Saints and Sinners. This is an episode you do NOT want to miss. Check out this article on our guest, Karen Wright Marsh - https://pres-outlook.org/2021/01/mentoring-...
May 24, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Rev. Lora East speaks briefly with Karen Wright Marsh on Howard Thurman. The Sermon Series continues with the Saints and Sinners theme with a beautiful sermon about the author and leader. Here are some facts about Howard Thurman: Howard Washington Thurman (November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader. As a prominent religious figure, he played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentie...
May 18, 2022•29 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Reverend Dave Carpenter preaches about Mother Teresa, a true saint! Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Little is known about her early life, but at a young age, she felt a calling to be a nun and serve through helping the poor. At the age of 18, she was given permission to join a group of nuns in Ireland. After a few months of training, with the Sisters of Loreto, she was then given permission to travel to India. She took her formal religious vows...
May 11, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Reverend Dave Carpenter speaks on CS Lewis and how his work and life inspired so many! About CS Lewis (Wikipedia): Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian . He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University ( Magdalen College , 1925–1954) and Cambridge University ( Magdalene College , 1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia , but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such ...
May 04, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Join our Associate Pastor Lora East as she interviews Karen Wright Marsh, the author of the book that inspired our Sermon Series from early 2022. This podcast series will highlight 6 Christians that impacted many with their journey. We will also interview the pastors from our church and learn how they chose their vintage saint, and why and how they were called to the ministry. About Karen Wright Marsh Karen Wright Marsh is executive director and cofounder of Theological Horizons, a university mi...
Apr 27, 2022•52 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Luke 24:1-12 Unsubscribe to find new growth and resurrection. Letting go of what no longer serves you allows you to receive in NEW beginnings. Enter into the next 50 days of Eastertide. The Resurrection of Jesus 24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling...
Apr 20, 2022•8 min•Season 3Ep. 8
John 13:21-32 NRSV Jesus Foretells His Betrayal 21 After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, “Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. 23 One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—was reclining next to him; 24 Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?” 26 Jesus answered, “It is the one ...
Apr 13, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Gospel John 12:1-8 NRSV Mary Anoints Jesus 12 Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him...
Apr 06, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Loving your Enemies Luke 6: 32-36 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.[ a ] Your reward will be great, and you will be child...
Mar 30, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Luke 13:6-9 NRSV The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree 6 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. 7 So he said to the gardener, ‘See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?’ 8 He replied, ‘Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, well and good; b...
Mar 23, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Psalm 27 NRSV 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold[ a ] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall. 3 Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident. 4 One thing I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty o...
Mar 16, 2022•9 min•Season 3Ep. 3
We are 1 week in the Lenten Season. What have you let go so that new growth can happen? Growth and faith help us during the season of Lent. Today we will ponder what tempts us ? Luke 4:1-13 KJV Satan Tempts Jesus 1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. 3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son...
Mar 09, 2022•10 min•Season 3Ep. 2
