South Bend City Church

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 ongoing work of SBCC by giving at: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 what keeps you listening at: info@southbendcitychurch.com. You can also support the ongoing work of SBCC by giving at: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 the ongoing work of SBCC by giving at: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 at: info@southbendcitychurch.com. You can also support the ongoing work of SBCC by giving at: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 you in the midst of your grief right now? If you'd like to share with us, please call 574-387-2151 and share a response to one of those questions. Then, on Thursday, April 23, we'll include some of your messages in our Open Floor episode.  _____ We also released our 2019 annual report this week, and you can find it online here. If you have any questions about the information in the report, contact our executive pastor, Matt Graybill, at matt@southbendcitychurch.com. _____ 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 kee

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 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.  

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, 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 Maundy Thursday preachers by calling 574-387-2151 and sharing  one clear picture of forgiveness or love that you have seen in your life. ----- 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are

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 world in this unsettled time, let us know what you did and how it went. Return to some practices this week: prayer, meditation, almsgiving, the examen, or another favorite. Let us know how that goes. ----- 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Ben

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 end of this week's episode (and future episodes while our gatherings are suspended), you'll hear some questions for response. Call 574-387-2151 and leave a voicemail response. Then, on Thursday, April 2, we'll release an [OPEN FLOOR] episode featuring your responses. Here are those questions:  Consider how you can create some beauty or goodness for the world in this unsettled time, let us know what you did and how it went. Return to some practices this week: prayer, meditation, almsgiving, the examen, or another favorite. Let us know how that goes. ----- If you’re a part of the growing digital SBCC community, w

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 gatherings are suspended), you'll hear some questions for response. Call 574-387-2151 and leave a voicemail response. Then, on Thursday, Mar 26, we'll release an [OPEN FLOOR] episode featuring your responses.  How are you doing with all the COVID-19 disruptions? What's been especially difficult with everything going on? What's helping you adapt to this unexpected season? How are you coping? Where in your relationships have you seen holiness as a communal project? Where have you known the presence of God in the space between people? Who in your life has helped you grow in holiness, wholeness, or being present to the p

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?  ----- 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible

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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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@southbendcitychurch.com. You can also support the ongoing work of SBCC by giving at: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

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 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

Jason Miller - In the conclusion of our series about spiritual growth, we considered the challenge of being a community for people in different places or stages of faith. It’s a conversation for our church, but also any marriage, family, or friendship where people are growing in their own ways. Philippians 2 ----- 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

Shannan Martin - This week we heard from author Shannan Martin on the power of living close to the ground and close to our neighbors, following Jesus by loving the people and places in our ordinary, every day lives. She closed our gatherings with this moving benediction: May you go out into this cold day warmed by the fire in your own bones. May you come to see walking shoes, soup spoons, mini vans, and wrinkled hands as worthy tools for the kingdom. May you crave low places—the messy, the boring, the overlooked, the complicated. May you grow comfortable with grit in your teeth. May you see God’s presence in the moon, God’s glory in the clouds, and God’s goodness in the faces around you. And may you find your shelter in the untamable garden of community, God’s kingdom on earth, right where you are planted. Grace and peace be with you. ----- 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

Jason Miller - In the past few days, our community has faced some pressing questions about faith, politics, and the kind of church we want to be. Our lead pastor took a quick break from our current series - The Anatomy of Spiritual (R)Evolution - to address some of those questions this week. _____ 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: southbendcitychurch.com/give. Just select the “podcast” option from the drop-down menu to let us know how you’re participating in the life of SBCC. South Bend City Church is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All donations are tax-deductible.