Grace Church Elk Grove
The podcast of Grace Church Elk Grove, in Elk Grove, California.
Episodes
On this Palm Sunday, we look at Jesus’ triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem as the people put down palm branches and welcome with shouts of Hosanna. First, we’ll look at why they welcomed Him so readily. Then we’ll consider three different aspects of his triumphal entry that are crucially important for us today living as we do in a time when inmates run the asylum. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 24th...
Jesus gave up His rights and surrendered Himself in faith. Faith that on the other side of giving Himself over there would be joy. For the joy set before Him, Jesus endured the cross. The joy of seeing the Father glorified, the joy of resurrection life, and the joy of you and I sharing with Him in that resurrection life. This is how we are to live too—surrendering our lives for the glory of the Father and for others to share in thi...
Christ deferred all His interests to the Father, and His interests were to get glory by saving us. Thus, true discipleship means deferring our interests to our neighbors for their good and God’s glory. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 10th, 2024 to learn more.
In these troubled times—for God’s glory and our good—never treat even the best of things that are passing away as though they are ultimate and eternal. We should be drenched in God’s Word, and be informed by God’s Word in all things, and then apply Christ’s commands to all of life. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 3rd, 2024 to learn more.
Because God indwells His people, we are to remain wherever we are. The question we look at this week is how do we remain? When you are united with Christ, you literally bring God with you wherever you go. Wherever you are, whatever your occupation, genre, marital status, personality ... God put you there, to were you as His mask to push His grace into the world there—for His glory. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon o...
Defer to the interests of your spouse, for that is the path to glory. It is good to remain single. Marriage is not the highest level of existence—after all, Jesus was single. But not all are gifted for singleness. I you burn with passion than it is better if you marry. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on February 18th, 2024 to learn more.
In God we are find the blessing that we are prone to search for everywhere else. We are told by the world and our own brain that to surrender is death. To surrender our bodies to God is to die. To surrender or sexual identities to God is to give up all that we are. When in fact, on the other side of that is blessing. Beyond measure. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on February 11th, 2024 to learn more about the role ...
In this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on February 4th, 2024, Pastor teaches on the 3 pillars of truth from 1 Corinthians 6 that deliver us from sexual sin. Sex is powerful and can easily become a master over us. The question is, “What masters us?” Listen to learn more.
It’s not Christian to only say, “Can I do this?” Christianity says, “Though I can do this—though it is permissible—will this help or hurt those around me?” If we don’t ask this, we may very well be right and totally wrong at the same time. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 28th, 2024 to learn more.
There are lots of times in our lives where Jesus calls us to do the hard thing. As we live between the cross and the empty tomb and the day of Christ’s return—as we live in faith in that day and hope in this day—it gives us grace to live today according to the commands of Christ. Our future is that we will judge the angels. The church now is a training ground and a test site for the life that we will lead then. We learn to and we d...
The Word, fellowship, and prayer are the core of Christianity throughout the ages everywhere for all times. To be devoted to something means to energetically give yourself over to or to persist over time in that thing. The early church devoted themselves to the prayers. They were devoted to them—dependent upon God in it—undivided as prayed, and all the while they were directed in their praying by God. Listen to this episode from Pa...
The central point of worship is enjoyment of God. Whatever you enjoy most in life will be the thing that shapes you most. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed's sermon on January 7, 2024 to learn more.
When anyone is in Christ, they are welcomed into the community of the Trinity. They are welcomed into what is truly truth, goodness, and beauty, because that is what God is Himself. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on December 31st, 2023 to learn more.
God is love; and God disciplines His children because He loves us. One way He does this—disciplines us—is through His children acting in love. Love is doing the Words of God with sacrificial affection toward God and neighbor. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on December 17th, 2023 to learn more.
Sin is like a volcano; power and destructive in and of itself. Sin carries its own punishment—its own sin and its own grief. And yet it can also have an effect on the whole world. When grievous, unrepentant sin is found in the church, that person should be cast out – so that they will repent and return to God. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on December 10th, 2023 to learn more.
There are 5 ways to battle divisiveness. First, look for evidences of God’s grace in others—not its absences. Second, keep on hand at all times on Jesus Christ—and Him crucified. Third, remember this way of salvation is foolish according to man’s wisdom, and that is by God’s design. Fourth, remember that we all occupy a humble position in relation to God. And fifth, return to your fathers, from whom you have received all, and imita...
There are two massive ditches that Christians are prone to fall into; the pride of man and the fear of man. In this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on November 26th, 2023, Pastor teaches from Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth to reveal the antidote to this problem. Listen to learn more.
What good will it do to get to the end of time and learn you were harder on yourself that God is? And want good will it do to go through life and realizing at the end of your life that you were much easier on yourself than God is? Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on November 12, 2023 to learn more.
The Gospel questions every society—every people—it enters; every family, every club, every state, every community. It questions it and the wisdom of Jesus undercuts all of it. God did not send Jesus to affirm what we already love but to question it, undercut it, and transform it. We are all—right now—God’s temple. If we knew this then we wouldn’t be acting at the same time robed in Christian pity and naked self-interest. To learn m...
What really grieves the Holy Spirit is not the big-ticket items but, bitterness, wrath, anger, and clamor. Underlying all of that is the wisdom of man and not the “foolishness of God.” By this no one can boast that we brought anything but our need to our salvation. To learn more, listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on Oct. 29, 2023.
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