Grace Extended Podcast

We know you’ve been patiently awaiting our 4th episode in our Fruit of the Spirit series! This week, Steve and Pastor Aaron discuss how trusting in God, the Holy Spirit, gives us the ability to wait and endure difficult times.

This week we welcome Jenna & Stevens DeJesus to the podcast. Jenna & Stevens serve on the leadership team of Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship at Yale University and are missionaries supported by Grace Church.

Our world seeks peace and we long for peace in our lives and relationships. How does the Holy Spirit work perfect peace in our lives and within our church? This week Steve and Pastor Aaron discuss the peace that passes all understanding - God's peace, brought to you by the Holy Spirit.

Are Christians just supposed to be happy all the time? What is the key to having joy in the midst of suffering? This week Steve and Pastor Aaron unpack Joy as an outworking of the Holy Spirit and what the Bible tells us true joy looks like.

Love comes first when Paul lists the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the Letter to the Galatian church. This week, Steve and Pastor Aaron discuss what love looks like and how the Spirit enables the work of love in our lives as followers of Jesus.

This week, we are introducing a new series of episodes on Fruit of the Spirit. Before we dive in, Steve and Pastor Aaron take a step back to ask, who is the Holy Spirit, anyway? Listen as they discuss who the Holy Spirit is, what He does, and why He is often the misunderstood or forgotten person of the Trinity. Also an insider’s perspective on getting your COVID reopening haircut.

Jeff Graves is the current Associate Pastor at Grace Church and is retiring at the end of this month. We wanted to take some time to sit down with Jeff and discuss his memories, ministry highlights, and hopes for the future.

This week, we welcome Pastor Scottye Halloway to the podcast to discuss racial reconciliation and what we, as Christians, can do about it. He had powerful messages for us and we hope you are encouraged and challenged by it! Pastor Scottye is the President of Mendenhall Ministries in Mendenhall, Mississippi.

We invite you to take a posture of learning and listening during this unfortunate time in our country where the conversation about racism has reached a fever pitch. In this episode, we offer resources by Black Christian leaders who we want to learn more from regarding the systemic racial injustice in America. We look forward to listening to Pastor Scottye Halloway, a Grace Church ministry partner and director of Mendenhall Ministries, for Part II in the coming days. Stay tuned!

Why is preaching so important to the weekly Christian gathering? This week, Steve and Pastor Aaron discuss how faithfully heralding God's message impacts the faith of believers and non-believers. Also, we find out if either of our hosts know anything about each other's hobbies, at all!