{"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":"Freed | Lies - Tim Brown","slug":"freed-lies-tim-brown","published_at":"2026-05-04T19:41:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880/freed-lies-tim-brown","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-of-the-city-new-york-203880","url":"https://cotcnyc.libsyn.com/freed-lies-tim-brown","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cotcnyc/05.03_DT_Pod_1.mp3?dest-id=527009","summary":"This Sunday, Pastor Tim continued our FREED series with a teaching on freedom from lies, drawing from John 8:31–47. He opened with a confession that many of us could relate to: New York has trained us to believe that freedom is always one system away, and if we are not careful, that same restless optimization spills into our spiritual lives too. Pastor Tim argued that the problem is not that we haven't tried hard enough. It's that beneath every sin pattern is a lie we have been carrying so long it feels inseparable from who we are, and no amount of effort will ever reach it. Jesus does not come to help us manage that lie. He comes to replace it with something stronger: Himself, the truth that became a person, who walks up to the lie that has been running your life and extinguishes it. The condition He places on that freedom is not more effort but abiding, remaining in His word long enough for the truth to do its deep work underneath.","meta_description":"This Sunday, Pastor Tim continued our FREED series with a teaching on freedom from lies, drawing from John 8:31–47. He opened with a confession that many…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2825,"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/freed-lies-tim-brown/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/freed-lies-tim-brown.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}