The Local Christendom Podcast with Aaron Ventura

Blameless & Barren Sunday, December 7th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 1:1–25

O Father, we thank You for the miracle of grace, that takes away the reproach of our sins. Teach us now to believe more firmly the testimony of Your Word, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Well, if you have ever wondered what the longest book in the New Testament is, you just heard the first 25 verses of it...

Foolish Questions, Heretics, and Winter Plans Sunday, November 30th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 3:8–15

O Father, we thank You for this precious letter, that you inspired the Apostle Paul to write to Titus, and which You have preserved for the church’s benefit, so that we hearing it today, 2,000 years later, might learn from the church in Crete, that we might discern what Your unchangeable will is for ...

A Complete Salvation Sunday, November 23rd, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 3:1–8

Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and lovingkindesses, for they have been ever of old. Lead us now in thy truth, and teach us, for You are the God of our strength, and for You we have waited all the day. We ask now for Your Holy Spirit, through Christ Jesus our Lord, One God forever, Amen.

In Matthew 5:5, th...

Saving Our Former Selves Sunday, November 16th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 3:1–8

Lord God Almighty, our heart and our flesh cries out for You the living God. And so flood our souls now with a fresh awareness of Your mercy. Grant that in hearing Your Word preached we may taste and know the sweetness of salvation, the salvation You have wrought for us in Christ, for the glory of the Trinity, One God For...

From Grace to Grace to Grace Sunday, November 9th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 2:11-15

Father, we praise You for the grace You have given through Your Only Begotten Son. We thank You for sending the Holy Spirit into our hearts, the same Spirit who authored and breathed forth the Holy Scriptures, and through which we are taught and led to eternal life. Please renew now our faith and joy in knowing You, ...

Young Men & Servants Sunday, October 19th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 2:6-10

O Father, we hate vain thoughts, but Thy law do we love. Before You afflicted us we went astray, but now being corrected by Your discipline, we do keep Your word with a whole heart. So teach us now Thy statutes, Thy testimonies, which are our delight. Through Christ Jesus our Lord who reigns together with the Holy Spirit,...

Holy Women – Pt. 3 Sunday, October 12th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 2:1-5

O Father adorn our soul with gladness, make our lives to mirror the life of Jesus, who from love for You, laid down His life for us. Conform us now to the image of Your Son, as we hear his word preached, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

A few weeks ago, in our first sermon on Holy Women, we asked the questions...

Holy Women – Pt. 2 Sunday, September 28th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 2:4-5

O God of grace, to whom all majesty belongs, bestow upon us now the warmth and radiance of thy heavenly light. Send forth the brightness of thy Spirit into our dark and frigid souls, revive in us again the roaring fires of charity, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

When a girl is young and unmarried, she has ...

Holy Women – Pt. 1 Sunday, September 21st, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:15–2:10

O Father of all goodness, fountain of all life, pour forth now Thy Holy Spirit into our hearts, fill us up again with love for heaven and heavenly things, that we may attain to that vision of You in the age to come, through Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.

Do you know what a beautiful soul looks like? Do you know...

The Aged Men Sunday, September 14th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 2:1-2

Father, we thank for your Son and our Savior the Lord Jesus, true God and true man, who in his humanity adorned his teaching with perfect living, and has taught us by word and deed how to please You. And so help us O Father by the same Holy Spirit in which Your Son walked. For we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

This mor...

Purity Cult Sunday, September 7th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:15

O Lord, Who may abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Only he who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. So grant us now such truth, such justice, such uprightness of faith, so that with pure hands and a clean heart, we may ascend into thy loving presence, and find rest there f...

Liars, Evil Beasts, Slow Bellies Sunday, August31st, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5–16

Father, we thank You for your living word, that is a hammer, a fire, a two-edged sword against evil, and also a healing balm to comfort our wounded soul. Give us each now what we most need from Your word, whether conviction or consolation or both, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

For four consecut...

What A Bishop Must Be – Pt. 4 Sunday, August 24th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5-14

Father, we thank You for Your Son, who is true man and true God, the way, the truth, and the life eternal. Grant us now to value Truth more than all the fleeting and deceitful riches of this world, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

For the last three weeks we have been answering the question, “What a...

What A Bishop Must Be – Pt. 3 Sunday, August17th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5-9

Father, we thank you for the power of Your word, which is as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Please cleanse us, please renew our purity and chastity as saints, so that we may become as holy temples wherein you walk and dwell forever. Grant us Your Holy Spirit now, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

What A Bishop Must Be – Pt. 2 Sunday, August 10th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5-9

Father, we thank you for your Son Christ Jesus, our Chief Shepherd and the Supreme Bishop of our souls. Thank you for the example of Christ, through which we are taught how to pattern our own lives, so that we may arrive safely into the harbor of your heavenly kingdom. Help us now by your Holy Spirit, for we ask this i...

What A Bishop Must Be – Pt. 1 Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5-9

Father, we thank you for our fathers and mothers in the faith. Those who begat spiritual life into us by telling us the truth, that we are sinners, that we need Jesus, and that Jesus loves to forgive and transform sinners into saints. And so holy Savior, make us to aspire now to imitate the lives of the faithful, especi...

Everything Beautiful Saturday, July 19th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Ecclesiastes 3:1–11

Father, we thank you for the life of your servant Ron Vernon. We thank you for giving him a long life, a life within the church, a life amongst friends, a life of seeking to follow Jesus, even unto death. We thank you for the promise of Revelation 14:13, which says, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence...

What is a Presbyterian? Sunday, July 13th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:5

Father, we thank you for this letter of the Apostle Paul to Titus, through which we are taught the truths necessary for our salvation, and the kind of life we must live if we would see the kingdom of heaven. We ask for your blessing now as we hear this word preached, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

After the ...

How To Govern The Church Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Titus 1:1–5

Father, we thank you for manifesting your Word through preaching, and as we now hear Your Word proclaimed, we ask that you would subdue us by Your sweet mercy, rule us by your awesome power, and teach us by Your Holy Spirit of Truth, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

If you have ever tried to plant a garden,...