The Local Christendom Podcast with Aaron Ventura

The Song of Simeon Sunday, January 18th, 2026 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 2:21–40

O Father grant that we like Simeon, may now take up Christ into our arms by faith. That we may behold the light of his perfect humanity, the radiance of His divinity, and receive in ourselves the consolation of Israel, and having received this consolation, to then depart in peace, entering that blessed rest of the undivided Tri...

The Newborn King Sunday, January 11th, 2026 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 2:1–20

O Father our soul blesses You for the birth of Your only-begotten Son. Grant that we like Mary may keep and ponder these things within our heart, and that we like the shepherds may return to our labors tomorrow, glorifying and praising You for all we have seen and heard. Bless now the preaching of these good tidings of great joy w...

Benedictus Sunday, January 4th, 2026 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 1:68–80

O Father, we thank You that in this world that is full of broken promises, You are the God who cannot lie. You are the God who always keeps His Word, who always keeps covenant, and who loves to show mercy to those who desire peace. Grant us Your peace now and forever, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

In the year 110 A...

The State of the Church 2026 Sunday, December 28th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 1:57–80

O Father we thank for Your Son, and we thank You for all those people who like John the Baptist, pointed us to Christ in whom alone is salvation and the remission of our sins. Grant that we also might grow and wax strong in the spirit, by the hearing of Your Word preached, for we ask this in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Magnificat Sunday, December 21st, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 1:39–56

O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, teach our soul to magnify You, teach our spirit to rejoice in God our savior. For you have done for us great things, and holy is Your name, and so teach us to hallow that name, both now and forever, and Amen.

In Luke 1:4, we are told that the purpose of Luke’s gospel is, so that...

The Handmaid of the Lord Sunday, December 14th, 2025 Christ Covenant Church – Centralia, WA Luke 1:26–38

O God Our Father, nothing is impossible with You. And so grant that new life may spring forth in our hearts even now, a life of faith formed by love, which alone is pleasing to You and profitable for our salvation. Grant Thy Holy Spirit to overshadow us, even as it overshadowed the virgin, so that Christ may be perfectly...

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...