The Local Church

Homecoming is a series on how to be human, tracing the questions we ask on our way home. In this sermon, we head to Jacob's well, where there's no going back, but there is a way forward and a God who meets us right where we are.

This week in our series Homecoming: A Series on How to Be Human, we look at what happens when going back means facing things we left behind. In this sermon, we talk about why conflict is so hard to avoid and even harder to sit with. Jacob spent twenty years running from the brother he cheated, but he eventually had to stop running, wrestle with his own past, and show up. True repair doesn’t mean pretending nothing happened—it means trusting that God meets us right in the middle of the mess.

Scripture is full of people going home—and it rarely goes as they had expected or hoped.

Artist, writer, and creative Scott Erickson joins The Local Church as guest preacher.

In this sermon, we find ourselves at a threshold place. Behind us, a season that's ending; ahead, a wilderness of school mornings and full calendars — and in between, a moment we will almost certainly rush past. Israel didn't. They stopped and sang. Maybe we should, too.