{"podcast":{"title":"Church of the City New York","slug":"church-of-the-city-new-york-203880","podcast_index_feed_id":203880,"rss_url":"https://cotcnyc.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://church.nyc","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/4/2/7/8427d4f1cead436e16c3140a3186d450/.podcastartworkArtboard_1.jpeg","author":"COTC NYC","episode_count":535,"summary":"Welcome to the Church of the City Podcast. Church of the City New York is a church community passionate about making disciples who \"practice the way of Jesus together for the renewal of the city.\" We believe in the authority and power of the scriptures to shape our communal life and practice, as we seek to teach God's word with clarity and conviction. Most of the teaching in our community is done by Pastor Jon Tyson and our teaching team. We have both morning and evening services and meet in the heart of Manhattan. For more information visit: churchofthecitynyc.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-15T08:19:40.482051+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880"},"episode":{"title":"FOLLOW | Resist - Raegan Griffith","slug":"follow-resist-raegan-griffith","published_at":"2026-07-06T17:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880/follow-resist-raegan-griffith","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880","url":"https://cotcnyc.libsyn.com/follow-resist-raegan-griffith","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cotcnyc/UES_07.04_Raegan-RX10Co_01-01.mp3?dest-id=527009","summary":"This week, Pastor Raegan continued our FOLLOW series by teaching from Jesus' temptation in the wilderness in Matt. 4:1–11. If apprenticeship to Jesus means learning His way of life, then it also means learning how to resist what pulls us away from Him. Looking at Jesus' three temptations in the wilderness, Pastor Raegan explored the ways the enemy still works today—drawing us toward comfort over dependence on God, cynicism over trust, and God's gifts apart from God Himself. At the heart of the message was the question, What is your ultimate prize? If anything other than intimacy with God becomes our highest pursuit, temptation will always have something to offer us. But when God Himself is the prize, even the wilderness can become a place where our faith is refined and our love for Him grows deeper.","meta_description":"This week, Pastor Raegan continued our FOLLOW series by teaching from Jesus' temptation in the wilderness in Matt. 4:1–11. If apprenticeship to Jesus mean…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2587,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880/episodes/follow-resist-raegan-griffith/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880/follow-resist-raegan-griffith.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}