Grace Church Elk Grove
The podcast of Grace Church Elk Grove, in Elk Grove, California.
Episodes
The resurrection will not fit into any neat, sentimental holiday box. We see this, not only by looking at the specific details of the story, but also by considering the FEEL, the atmosphere of the story.
The atmosphere crackles with something alien - as if something outside the system has invaded our world - something greater - something you can put in Coke commercial. Thus the writers do not hesitate to include the very real errors...
The grace of God, given in love, creates both BLESSINGS and CURSES.
This has always been the way of God. God works through COVENANTS in the world. A covenant is a solemn agreement or arrangement between two parties. And God’s great covenant is one of grace. Grace is an undeserved GIFT. The gift of WELCOME. After all, with every sin, God is the one most offended. So it is a gift for any of us to be welcomed by Him.
So this is a mass...
As Paul concludes his first letter to the Corinthians, we must remember how it started: it was all about Christ crucified. Which means this entire letter has been about LOVE. For Christ is the standard, the very definition of love.
Love is not something we define for ourselves. Love is GIVEN and must be received. Love was given in a real MAN; it came with a whip; and it was poured out in bread and wine, in a body broken and blood s...
Work for God that is EFFECTIVE is also very INEFFICIENT. To be EFFECTIVE means you do what you set out to do. But to be INEFFICIENT is to do it more slowly than you could.
Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 30, 2025 to learn more.
If civilization is like Legos, then it’s built around the same three basic kinds of pieces. There is the large, flat piece that you build everything on top of - that’s like the church. Then there are the three-by-three or four-by-four bricks that are the heart of every Lego build - this is like the family. And lastly you have the unique, more rare pieces that finish the project and keep it together - this is like the government.
To...
Sometimes, there are supernatural and glorious things going on behind seemingly mundane situations.
In the same way, the passage before us this morning at first glance appears to be just a side note about a procedural question, about how to handle the collection of money. But behind these mundane procedures, there are battles for
God’s glory,
And truth about how God has constructed His world to be PROSPEROUS, and how God’s own INTEGRI...
What we trust and hope in determines who we are today.
Thus Paul brackets his letter with two bookends: at the beginning, Christ crucified. Now he ends the letter with the second bookend - the resurrection.
All our obedience to his commands in between is then powered by faith in the first bookend, and hope in the second.
Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 9th, 2025 to learn more.
This morning Paul continues his teaching on the resurrection, still dealing with skepticism. It’s voiced in v. 35: “Well, if there IS a resurrection, then what kind of BODY would you have?”
If asked open to the resurrection, that question is just fine. But the question is asked with skepticism, with a MATERIALISTIC assumption. Materialism is the philosophy so common then and now that says that the only things that are possible are...
In the text before us, Paul wants us to REALIZE three truths about the resurrection, especially if we say there is NO resurrection. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on Feb. 23, 2025 to learn more.
In the following passages, Paul gives us four realities that those 21 men pinned their confidence on. Four ways that Christ is FIRST. These four FIRSTS are not just theological concepts that stay up in the clouds.
They turn the world upside down, today. Let’s look at each, considering its importance as we go.
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul is completing his teaching about Christ and Him crucified, with teaching on RESURRECTION - the belief that people who are dead and gone can be raised from the earth to new, physical life. Which is often the hardest part of the gospel to believe. For us, and for some Corinthians, who said that the whole concept of resurrection was a myth, an impossibility. So Paul previously gave us EVIDENCE of the resurrec...
Today where we consider what’s happening in our church, and the opportunities and obstacles before us.
And what’s happening now is nothing less than REVIVAL. GOD is on the move, out there, in the culture, and in HERE, at Grace.
Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on Feb. 2, 2025 to learn more.
Paul has saved his final charge of gunpowder for ONE thing: the resurrection. This is because the resurrection of the dead is our POWER to fulfill God’s commission. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 26, 2025 to learn more.
Throughout 1 Corinthians, Paul has had ONE thing on his mind: Christ crucified. He established that right up front, and then he applied it in many ways: with leaders, in conflict, in marriage, in lawsuits, in sexual ethics . . .
But today he gives us the HOW.
HOW to do this?
Paul’s answer is: grace.
Listen to the episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 19, 2025 to learn more.
The thing that is of first importance, Paul has been telling us in 1 Corinthians 15:3, is “Christ crucified.” Of first importance WHERE and WHEN, you ask?
Christ and him crucified - this good news raises us from the dead, and therefore TRANSFORMS everything.
We’re going to take one more look at how the coming of Christ can and must shape us for the year ahead. Jesus came at Christmas to die and be raised at Easter, in order to give us His Spirit at Pentecost. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed's sermon on January 5th, 2025 to learn more.
Knowing how something works brings not only greater appreciation and understanding, but also greater efficiency of use
Romans 6:1–2 ESV
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Listen to this episode for Pastor Mike's sermon on Dec. 29th to learn more.
Today we are still in 1 Corinthians, but in the spirit of the season, we are taking a break from our series in 1 Corinthians, and considering a simple but profound way that all of a church should and must be shaped by Christmas.
Jesus is Immanuel - God who dwells among us, God in the flesh, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of Mary, on Christmas.
At Christmas, God dwells WITH US.
For our JOY. As the angels proclaim in Luke 2:10 th...
Today we consider a simple by profound way that a church – our church – should and must be shaped by Christmas. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on December 15th to learn more.
In today's episode, Pastor Jed tackles what is for some a hard passage, women's place in Sunday worship. Take time to listen to God's heart for order, that has nothing to do with respect and value--but an order of command for all to flourish.
This to this episode from December 8, 2024 to learn more.
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