Divine Discovery

This sermon is a continuation of a series and is focused on Acts 16 ... this is the story of Paul and his fellow travelers going back to Jerusalem and regroup before continuing God's work.

Will Jones, one of the pastors at Germantown Presbyterian Church, with the Divine Discovery Podcast and This Week's sermon that you'll listen to is one that is part of an intriguing study of the Book of Acts that we're doing here at GPC. This particular reading has to do with two different healings.

The book of acts from sort of a 30,000 foot level to talk about how God sort of mysteriously moves in ways that surprise us and in ways that we can't anticipate and in the very end we get very practical and talk about what this passage means for us as Christians in our daily lives. 

 Hello and welcome to our Germantown Presbyterian Church podcast that we call Divine Discovery. Rev. Will Jones, one of the pastors at GPC, preaches this sermon, which is based on Acts chapter nine, and it's the story of the conversion of Saul into Paul. Who we know as one of the great major figures of the New Testament.

Will Jones, the  pastor of Germantown Presbyterian Church, sermon on the GPC Divine Discoveries podcast. This sermon that you're listening to now is called The Surprising Acts of God, and it was preached on April the 27th. This passage that it's based on is Acts 5, verses 12 through 32. It's a long passage, but it's a passage that talks about the disciples and what they went through and how they were changed in some very good and very surprising ways on account of the resurrection. 

Will Jones, one of the pastors at Germantown Presbyterian Church, thank you for listening to this sermon that took place on Easter Sunday, and the title is God on the Move into the Tomb and Back. All throughout the season of Lent, we were looking at God on the move as Christ was moving from the north in Galilee all the way down to Jerusalem and the things that he encountered along the way. And then, of course, went to Jerusalem where he suffered, where he was crucified, and then he moved into the tomb. But even more importantly than that, he moved out. And so this sermon looks at all the different emotions that took place on that morning.

This episode is a sermon from Will Jones, the pastor of Germantown Presbyterian Church,  You're about to listen to a sermon about one of the most famous parables that Jesus ever told, the parable of the prodigal son.

Although it is really about the Father. It's about the Father's grace and love toward not just the son who wanders away into the far country, but also the son who stays right at home. And Jesus is trying to teach us something very important in this parable, something for all believers about who we are and God's call and God's claim on our lives. 

This episode Pastor Mike Lyle speaks about God on the Move to Pour ... For the poor. We're gonna spend some time in the Gospel of John in the 12th chapter, starting with a first verse and going to verse eight, and we're gonna be in this rather strange story where Jesus is anointed for his burial with perfume before he has passed away. As we continue the lenten season.  We hope this story has incredible significance for us in our journey of faith today. 

This week's podcast of Germantown Presbyterian Church, Divine Discovery, we talk about a time in Jesus's life where he is on his way to Jerusalem from Galilee, and he has a group of followers going with him, and he tells them some important lessons as he is traveling on the way. And what he finds in today's lesson is an opportunity to remind his disciples and all of those followers that they need to repent. But he does so by drawing on two historical circumstances that have happened recently in the life of Jerusalem that no doubt all the people would have heard about. 

In this sermon delivered on March 9, 2025, Rev. Dr. Will Jones reflects on one of the hardest scripture lessons in the New Testament, the story of Jesus being led by the Spirit into the desert wilderness to be tested and tempted, as told in Luke 4:1-13.

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Thank you for listening to this episode of Divine Discovery, a production of Germantown Presbyterian Church in Germantown, TN. We are a connecting, growing, caring, and sharing church community. If you live in, or are traveling through, the Germantown, TN area, we invite you to visit our church campus located at 2363 Germantown Road South to worship, connect with one of our small groups, or join us for one of our many events. More information may be found on our social media pages.

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In this sermon delivered on February 9, 2025, Rev. Mike Lyle rests in the scripture reading from Luke 5:1-11 when Jesus directs Peter and others, who have been unsuccessfully fishing all night, to sail their boat out into deep water where the load of caught fish stresses their nets.

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Thank you for listening to this episode of Divine Discovery, a production of Germantown Presbyterian Church in Germantown, TN. We are a connecting, growing, caring, and sharing church community. If you live in, or are traveling through, the Germantown, TN area, we invite you to visit our church campus located at 2363 Germantown Road South to worship, connect with one of our small groups, or join us for one of our many events. More information may be found on our social media pages.

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Discover more about Germantown Presbyterian Church at:

Website: https://germantownpres.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GermantownPres

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/germantownpres/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GermantownPresTN