Grace Church Elk Grove
The podcast of Grace Church Elk Grove, in Elk Grove, California.
Episodes
It was as if, when Jesus looked into Lazarus’ tomb, He looked into every tomb and grave and said, “No more!” Those who are in Christ—who believe in Christ—are sealed with His Spirit. Jesus’ Spirit serves as our down payment that we will walk in His exodus and re-enter Eden one day. Learn more in this episode from the sermon by Pastor Jed give on July 16, 2023.
Psalm 23 is of all of life, not just the end of life. The reason is what David says in verse 6. David—and we—can look into the future with great confidence. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on July 9, 2023 to learn more.
Autonomy begets envy begets immorality. God is never more like God than when He is showing mercy. God is slow to anger, but His on a hair-trigger to show mercy. People everywhere are suppressing truth about God, though His attributes are right before our eyes. Instead of receiving our lives as a gift from God, we insanely push down truth about Him, so with all our PHDs and fancy titles, we become fools. Listen to this episode from ...
There is a danger in the blessings we receive from God. We are prone to defect from the Comforter, and live just for the comforts. We are finding now, in this generation, that kind of life doesn’t pay off. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on June 11, 2023.
In today’s episode David comes to the central point of Psalm 23 where he exalts in his Good Shepherd. This Good Shepherd makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. And in all of this He restores my soul. David says this to himself, to God’s people, and to the whole world. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May, 21, 2023.
Jesus died for all the ways we have thirsted for things, followed our own devices, and to dirty mud puddles and feted waters of this world. He died to forgive us of all of those sins. Then He was raised from the dead to secure new life for us. Then He ascended to the Father’s right hand. When He ascended, He poured out His Spirit to His people so we thirst no more. Learn more in this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May 14, 2023...
The local church is a platoon barracks—for the soldiers of the Lord—and a field hospital. It’s where we recharge again to go back out into the fight. And it’s where we come back to to heal from our wounds from the fight. Learn more in this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May 7, 2023.
Up to this point in our study of Psalm 23, David, the king who knows he is a sheep, has been extoling the greatness of his shepherd. Now, in this verse, the image of the shepherd changes from a Lord who reigns over him with a rod and staff to comfort him—from a shepherd to a host. Just at the moment when we might expect this strong shepherd to go to war against all the evils and enemies, He unexpected prepares a meal for David. Lis...
We are shepherded by someone or something. It’s not a matter of whether we are shepherded but to what end? Find out about this Good Shepherd who makes His sheep lie down in green pastors in the episode by Pastor Jed from April 30, 2023.
Trouble is part of our story. When trouble there is always the fact lack. Trouble brings lack—we want. Why so much trouble? How do I process this? What do we do with the lack that I fear I will experience? Yet David say, “I shall not want.” That is the great challenge of faith. If YHWH is this God, why do we suffer as we do, and what should we do about it. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on April 23, to learn more.
...Psalm 23 describes God’s care for His people so simply and so beautifully. David wrote this, not because he was expecting to die, but because by the shepherding of God he expected to live. There is a dying that lead to life and a life that leads to dying. Living as our own shepherd leads to death. We need to live under the Good Shepherd. Everyone is shepherded by someone or something. The question is, Who is your shepherd? Learn mo...
True righteousness is not found by following any law. It is a gift found in God alone. It is not enough to have faith. It must rest in Jesus. Learn more in this Easter episode from Pastor Jed given on April 9, 2023.
Joy was the superpower of the early church. Today, the church is conserved with being “seeker sensitive”—with tailoring our worship to that few people in the population who are interest in consuming a spiritual good or service. However, the thing that is winsome and attractive to every group, in every culture, in every generation, across all time is a people really having fun. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on Marc...
In this sermon given by Pastor Jed on March 12, 2023, he asks God to have His way with our hearts. We need eyes of our hearts to see the hope to which we are called. It is that hope we need to transform us from being slaves fear. That hope can free us by faith. God builds courage in us with a vision of the future rewards in Him. Listen to learn more.
What does God what from our worship? In today’s episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 5, 2023. Jed looks at the what worship is really about and what it is not about. Then he offers some practical ways to do worship properly. Listen to learn more.
So often, we as the modern church look “out there” for ways to fix what is wrong in our world. But what we find is not authentic. But we’ve already been given the solutions by our Father. The body of Christ is to always be part of a building project. Learn the who, when, where, and why, in this sermon by Pastor Jed given on February 26, 2023.
The household—as defined by God—is the basic building block for society. Pastor Jed in his sermon on February 19, 2023, drilled down on the practical ways that we (especially fathers) can build their household in order to rebuild our society as God intended. Listen now to learn more.
In today’s episode, Pastor Jed drills down on the importance of our Christians households in this chaotic world. He start with the command: “If you want to rebuild civilization, start with your own house.” Listen to this message for the sermon on February 12, 2023.
Return to the fundamentals of Christianity with these three keys: Remember, repent, and recover. To learn more about going back to the foundations of who we are as Christians, listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on February 5, 2023.
We should be immovable. Why? First, because God is steadfast and immovable. Second, because of threats. Evil will not roll over and take their downfall without a fight. Learn more about why and how we fight—stand firm—as Christians in this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 29, 2023.
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