Grace Church Elk Grove

Grace Church Elk Grove

The podcast of Grace Church Elk Grove, in Elk Grove, California.

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October 8, 2025 31 mins

This week we begin a new four-week series on missions. Missions has been often misunderstood and sometimes corrupted in the past, and yet our forefathers went far and sacrificed much for the spread of the gospel. We want to walk faithfully in their footsteps yet never repeating their errors. We want to follow our ascended Lord wherever he leads.

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This week will be our final look at Christ in the Old Testament. We will finish on the most important passage, the famous Isaiah 53. I hope it is known to you. If not, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with it before Sunday. There are too many riches for us to consider all of them in one sitting. This is why many people consider this section of Isaiah the "New Testament in the Old Testament" - where God's work i...

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September 24, 2025 29 mins

The texts we are considering this week are a thread through Scripture that teach us several things at once: how Christ is portrayed in the Old Testament; how Christ has a massive bearing on the events of the Old Testament; and how God is nourishing us to salvation. The big lesson is that we neglect these gifts to our peril. God gives His gifts so that His children would enjoy them fully, not leave them on the shelf to rot.

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This week our nation learned about two monumental deaths: the horrific, unprovoked murder of Iryna Zarutska and then just yesterday, the assassination of Christian apologist Charlie Kirk. As the president said, these are dark times. What we do in such times is dependent on *what story we think we are living in.* For instance, if we think we are living in a nihilistic J.G. Ballard story with no good ending, we will become fatalistic...

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We will consider another way that Christ is in the Old Testament.It begins mysteriously, with the story of Melchizedek, and yet it ends with something very clear and solid: having "full assurance" in our faith. Full assurance! Whatever capacity we have to be assured that, when we meet our Maker, we will be with Him forever, that cup of assurance can be filled to the brim. This is really, really good news. Listen to this e...

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Today we consider another passage that reveals Christ in the Old Testament. In the wreckage of The Fall, with all of its shame and regret, God promises hope. That one day Eve's seed would come and crush the head of the dragon. Praise God that our dragon crusher has come, and he is still on the move!

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on August 31st, 2025 to learn more.

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This is the start of a new Christ in the Old Testament series. The Bible is a whole, one story, all of it pointing to one person: Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. So, it is no wonder that we see the Old Testament and the New point forward or backward to him. This series will look at specifically how the Bible looks forward to Jesus. We will begin this week with Jesus' own words, as he teaches Nicodemus precisely how this ...

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August 13, 2025 35 mins

We are looking at Psalm 30 today. The heading says that it’s for the dedication of the temple. But there is much more to the story. The background begins in 1 Chronicles 20. 

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on August 10th, 2025 to learn more.

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Sometimes the Scriptures are to be studied, the way you study for a class. But there are other times when we are not to so much study but INHABIT a text. We are to let it swirl around us, capture our imaginations, and let it take us to the heavens or a foreign land that we’ve never known. 

Such is Psalm 29 - it’s not here for us to completely get our arms around it, but to let it take us to a place and a perspective we’ve never know...

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Many times, our greatest enemy as believers is ourselves. Fredrick Nietzsche made these words famous. He was a pagan, but all truth is God's truth, so even pagans can speak truth. Faith is faith when it is hard to trust. But when it is hard to trust, we often work against ourselves in letting our minds move to complete submission and trust in God.

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We all face fear, because we all have enemies. These enemies come in three flavors: the world, our flesh and the devil enemies from this world, in the form of temptations, and disasters and people who hate us; our own flesh, in the form of wrong desires and illness and weakness; and spiritual powers directly, in the form of the devil and his servants.

This enmity did not start with communism or Darwinism or Islam. It started in the ...

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We don’t know the occasion, but we can make educated guesses. The end of Judges - which was when David was born - records for us that the people of Israel had become no different in their sin than Sodom and Gomorrah.

Thus David’s life was not that different from Lot’s - they were both surrounded on all sides by really wicked people. Not just the nations - the Jews themselves. But David was a man after GOD’s own heart, which put him at...

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July 9, 2025 36 mins

Can a Christian be PATRIOTIC? For many today, the answer is NO. But if so, SHOULD a Christian be patriotic? And if that’s true, then what should that patriotism LOOK like? 

These are the questions I want to answer from Scripture today. 

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on July 6, 2025 to learn more.

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This Psalm is very hard to outline. It’s all over the place - one second David asks God to protect him from his enemies; the next he is asking God to forgive him his sin; the next he is asking God to protect him, because of his integrity.

The reason for this is that this Psalm is HUMAN. There really was a David. He really was hounded by treacherous enemies who really wanted to kill him and his family and wipe his name off the face o...

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This is the riddle that every religion throughout all time has tried to answer. A riddle SOLVED by the psalm in front of us today. Who can stand before God, accepted, welcomed, approved? Verse 4 He who is two things: RIGHTEOUS and TRUE.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on June 22, 2025 to learn more.

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June 19, 2025 37 mins

All that we need we have in Jesus Christ. A deeper look at the 23rd Psalm.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Mike’s sermon on June 15th, 2025 to learn more.

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Sometimes the perspectives of the Old Testament feel so foreign to us, and maybe a little embarrassing. For instance, in Psalm 21 today, the candid, unvarnished talk of vanquishing enemies. After all we are Americans, living in 2025, enlightened by college degrees, with no enemies left. Haven’t WE have progressed beyond all that?

But we must interrogate that embarrassment. For I am convinced one reason why we live in a time of chaos...

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May 21, 2025 15 mins

Today I want to briefly give three truths we must remember BEFORE we set ourselves to our tasks in life. Three remembrances we must sink our feet down into, in order to be rightly grounded, in our work. Now, I’m going to talk like an uncle to our graduates and near-graduates, but really, I’m talking to all of us. For God has already prepared work for ALL of us to do.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May 18th to lea...

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Today we are considering HOW we get STRONG, and why we MUST be strong.

We are in a COSMIC battle, against enemy forces that are seen and unseen. So Paul in Ephesians 6 COMMANDS us to be strong. This is no time to pet and cuddle and luxuriate in our weaknesses. 

But that does not mean God REMOVES our weaknesses. Instead, as God said to Paul, “My power is made perfect in weakness.” 

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May...

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The question today is HOW do we get OFF the beach and begin surfing? For it is so easy to HEAR an excellent sermon about that, as we did last week, and then . . . Nothing changes.

As a brother mentioned to me this week, of all our modern sins, perhaps ACEDIA is our deepest. The worst sins are the ones we do not know we have, which is why we don’t know what that word means. It means “sloth”, but more like an emasculated inability to ...

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