The Neighborhood Podcast
This is a podcast of Guilford Park Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, North Carolina featuring guests from both inside the church and the surrounding community. Hosted by Rev. Dr. Stephen M. Fearing, Head of Staff.
Episodes
127 episodes
"How A Kingdom Forgets" (August 16, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 2 Kings 17:1-23One bad day rarely explains a collapse. We start with a real-world glitch, a Sunday livestream where the audio fails, then move into a far heavier breakdown: the fall of I...
"Turning Battlefields into Banquets" (August 9, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 2 Kings 6:8-23A king makes war plans in private, yet every move gets exposed and every ambush fails. That tension kicks off a startling passage from 2 Kings 6 where Elisha seems to know ...
A Service of Witness to the Resurrection (Joseph Thomas Brown)
“Hi, neighbor.” That small, steady greeting opens a much bigger story: the life of Joseph Thomas Brown, a Marine, Vietnam veteran, commissioned lay pastor, husband, father, and friend who served with quiet strength. We gather in a mixture of gr...
A Service of Witness to the Resurrection (Beverly Carr Key)
A single word can change how you survive grief. When Psalm 23 says goodness and mercy “follow” you, it comforts, but when you hear the older, stronger sense of the verb, “pursue,” it becomes a declaration that God’s love is not passive. It hunt...
"There Was a Girl..." (August 2, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 2 Kings 5:1-4, 9-14A powerful commander shows up in the Bible with everything that signals success: reputation, victories, and royal favor. Then the story quietly reveals his real depend...
"The Mantle and the Question" (July 26, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 2 Kings 2:1-15Someone leaves, and the room gets quiet in a way you can feel in your chest. We start with prayer and a reading from 2 Kings 2:1–15, then step into the story of Elijah and ...
"Mind Your Business" (July 19, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Edyth PotterText: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43The fastest way to lose your peace is to take on a job that was never yours: sorting people into “good” and “bad.” We open with Romans 8 and its raw honesty about suffering,...
Service of Witness to the Resurrection (E.B. Taylor)
Elizabeth Bruce Taylor of Greensboro, NC, age 67, passed away at home on July 5, 2026. Known as E.B. since childhood, she lived a life blessed with a wide circle of family and friends.Born in Kingsport, TN, to Robert and Janie Bruce, E.B...
"Grow Where You Are Planted" (July 12, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Edyth PotterTexts: Romans 8:1-11 & Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23What if the pressure to “make something of yourself” is exactly what keeps you from becoming who God already designed you to be? We start with Romans 8 an...
"The Paradox of Being Human" (July 5, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Edyth PotterTexts: Romans 7:15-25a & Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30You ever feel like you’re carrying two lives inside one body: the person you want to be and the person you see in the mirror? We start with Paul’s blu...
"What Are You Doing Here?" (June 28, 2026 Sermon)
Text: 1 Kings 19:1-18Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingFaith fatigue can sneak up on you right after you’ve done something brave. You fight for what is right, you try to love your neighbor, you try to follow Jesus with your wh...
"The God Who Shows Up" (June 21, 2026 Sermon)
Text: 1 Kings 18:20-40Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingA drought that will not break. A nation hedging its bets. A prophet who refuses to let the crowd hide behind silence. We sit with 1 Kings 18 and the unforgettable showdow...
"The Voices We Heed" (June 14, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 1 Kings 12:1-17A single bad listening decision can split a community, a workplace, even a nation. We open with 1 Kings 12 and the moment Rehoboam steps into power, hears a desperate plea...
"Can God Really Dwell on Earth?" (June 7, 2026 Sermon)
Text: 1 Kings 8:22-30Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingGod might meet us in a breathtaking sanctuary, but that does not mean God lives there. We open with 1 Kings 8:22–30, Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication, and sit with the surpr...
"A Listening Heart" (May 31, 2026 Sermon)
Text: 1 Kings 3:3-15Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingGod gives Solomon a blank check, and the most surprising part is how little Solomon asks for. We start with the raw backstory behind 1 Kings: David’s decline, a household a...
"We Didn't Start the Fire" (May 24, 2026 Sermon)
Fire spreads, rules tighten, and Moses refuses to panic.We’re preaching Pentecost through a story many people skip: Numbers 11 and the unexpected prophets Eldad and Medad. Moses is exhausted from carrying the weight of leadership in the...
Hear Better, Live Better
If you’ve ever said “I can hear you, I just can’t understand you,” you’re not alone and you’re not imagining it. We talk with Dr. Eneida Agolli, senior audiologist with AudioNova, about why hearing loss is often gradual, why families notice it ...
"Steady As We Go" (May 17, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Philippians 4:1-9A Dave Matthews Band lyric open a door into one of the most quoted and most misunderstood passages in the Bible: Philippians 4. “Stand firm” can sound like stubbornness,...
"Loss and Gain" (May 10, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Philippians 3If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right and still falling behind, you’re not alone and you’re not broken. We’re talking about the hidden “ledger” so many of u...
Mission Sunday And The Gift Of Service
Guest Speaker: Joe Thompson, Interfaith Housing InitiativeAffordable housing isn’t a buzzword when you’re short 14,000 units, and it’s not solved by good intentions alone. We take Mission Sunday seriously by linking Scripture’s call to s...
"Jesus Shows Us the Way Down" (April 26, 2026 Sermon)
Text: Philippians 2Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingWe spend so much of our lives trying to get to the top and we’re taught to call that “success.” More followers, more money, more influence, more control. But Philippians 2 c...
"Saving Eutychus" (April 19, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Acts 20:7-12Someone really does fall asleep during a sermon in the Bible, and it’s not just a quirky story. We start with Eutychus in Acts 20 and sit with the uncomfortable truth behind ...
"Joy That Can't Be Chained" (April 12, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Philippians 1Joy is easy to talk about when life is calm. It’s harder to trust when the bills stack up, the news cycle stays violent, and your own energy feels gone. We turn to Philippia...
"The Good News Is...Alive in the World" (April 5, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Matthew 28:1-10Easter starts at a tomb, but it doesn’t stay there. We open with prayer and Matthew’s resurrection story, then sit with a line from Mary Oliver that changes the frame: Eas...