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
138 episodes
Poverty Is Not Just A Paycheck (October 11, 2026 Sunday School Discussion)
Poverty doesn’t look like one problem and it doesn’t have one clean fix. We start our group book study of Poverty, by America by challenging the most common shortcut definition of poverty as simply “not enough money” and instead tracing it as a...
"Called to More: a Tale of Two Feasts" (October 11, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingTexts: Exodus 32:1-14 & Matthew 22:1-14A wedding invitation turns into a city on fire. A camp cookout turns into a golden calf. If that sounds like whiplash, you’re hearing the same tensio...
"Called to More: Tenants of a Shared Vineyard" (October 4, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: Matthew 21:33-46A preschooler asks, “Do you own the church?” and suddenly a famous Bible story stops being abstract. We take Jesus’ Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Matthew 21:33–46) out o...
Rethinking The Good Samaritan (September 27, 2026 Sermon feat. David LaMotte)
Special Guest Preacher: David LaMotteThe Good Samaritan might be the most quoted story in Christianity and also one of the most misunderstood. We sit down with singer-songwriter, speaker, and au...
Creative Nonviolence And Joyful Resistance In Hard Times (September 27, 2026 Podcast feat. David LaMotte)
Special Guest: David LaMotteSomething is off in the gut, and we can feel it. Sitting down live with songwriter and activist David LaMotte, we start with “splengnitzomai,” a Greek word for compas...
From Hero Stories To Real World Movements (September 26, 2026 David LaMotte Keynote)
Guest Speaker: David LaMotteWe’ve all seen the plot: a crisis hits, a special person shows up, dramatic action saves the day, and everyone else claps. David LaMotte argues that story is not jus...
"Called to More: the God Who Isn't Fair" (September 20, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingTexts: Jonah 3:10-4:11God’s generosity can be the most comforting thing in the world until it shows up for someone we think doesn’t deserve it. We start with Jonah watching Nineveh get mercy a...
Hymns Of Love And The Cross (September 13, 2026 Hymn Sing)
A hymn gets stuck in your head and suddenly you are humming your way through the day, whether you meant to or not. We lean into that idea and ask a surprising question: what if that looping melody is actually a form of prayer, a lived version o...
"Called to More: Free to Give" (September 13, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingTexts: Exodus 14:19-31 & Matthew 18:21-35A sea splits, an army panics, and a cloud becomes both darkness and light. We start with Exodus 14 because it paints the clearest picture of what G...
"The Last Page Isn't The End" (August 30, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingTexts: 2 Kings 25When the world feels like a fire hose to the face, it’s tempting to numb out, romanticize the past, or assume nothing can change. We start with the raw Scripture of 2 Kings 25...
"Lost and Found" (August 23, 2026 Sermon)
Preaching: Rev. Dr. Stephen M. FearingText: 2 Kings 22:1-13; 23:1-4, 24-27A book goes missing in God’s own house and when it turns up, it changes everything. We sit with the story of King Josiah from 2 Kings 22–23, where a routine...
"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...