GracePoint Kitsap Podcast

• This Series: Have you ever thought to yourself or even said out loud, “What in the world were they thinking?” Sadly, many people play Russian Roulette with their choices all the while hoping the timeless principle of “sowing and reaping” won’t apply to them.

 

• This Week: Speaking before thinking always comes back to bite us.

Key Phrase: “Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent.” Proverbs 17:28

• This Series: Have you ever thought to yourself or even said out loud, “What in the world were they thinking?” Sadly, many people play Russian Roulette with their choices all the while hoping the timeless principle of “sowing and reaping” won’t apply to them.

 

• This Week: Infidelity is some kind of stupid. It had better be the best sex ever because it could end up costing you everything you hold dear.

 

Key Phrase: “He followed her like an ox going to the slaughter.” Proverbs 7:22

• This Series: Have you ever thought to yourself or even said out loud, “What in the world were they thinking?” Sadly, many people play Russian Roulette with their choices all the while hoping the timeless principle of “sowing and reaping” won’t apply to them.

• This Week: Guardrails are a system designed to keep vehicles from straying into dangerous or off-limit areas. They are always placed in the safety zone and never in the danger zone. While we understand their need for vehicles, there are other areas of our life where we need guardrails to protect us from doing major damage in our life. When we ignore God's guardrails, we experience a very painful type of stupid. Barry will give us examples of warning indicators that go off when we are flirting with stupidity. Foolish people don't live carefully nor do they consider the consequences before making dumb decisions. Wise people, however, see the guardrails and make corrections immediately.

Key phrase: “For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths.” Proverbs 5:21

• This Series: Have you ever thought to yourself or even said out loud, “What in the world were they thinking?” Sadly, many people play Russian Roulette with their choices all the while hoping the timeless principle of “sowing and reaping” won’t apply to them.

• This Week: Spending money we don’t have is one of the classic forms of foolishness.

Key Phrase: “If you lack means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you.” Proverbs 22:27

• This Series: Have you ever thought to yourself or even said out loud, “What in the world were they thinking?” Sadly, many people play Russian Roulette with their choices all the while hoping the timeless principle of “sowing and reaping” won’t apply to them.

 

• This Week: You can’t teach a fool much because they are not interested in learning. However, a wise person is humble with a desire to learn.

Key Phrase: “Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: We finished out this HORIZON CHALLENGE with these two passages of commitment to the Lord. May we see God work at GracePoint more than ever before. May He increase our faith. And more importantly, may God receive all the glory He deserves!

 

Key Phrase: “May your hearts be fully committed to the Lord our God…” 1 Kings 8:61

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: God is a test-giving God. Why? Because His tests reveal our faith and the condition of our heart. The two primary ways that God tests us is in our trust and obedience. The most practical test of our faith and heart is how we honor God with our finances. It takes faith to give FIRST. It doesn’t take faith to give LAST.

 

Key Phrase: “Remember how the Lord your God led you…to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart.” Deuteronomy 8:2

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: As sinners, we are hardwired to have an inward focus. It comes natural to us. However, it requires work and a steadfast effort to have an outward focus on other people. Every church has a gravitational pull towards becoming an inward-focused church. This will eventually cause a church to die. This was never God’s design. It is estimated that 75 percent of churchgoers go to church for the first time because someone invited them.

Key Phrase: “The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother… and he brought him to Jesus.” John 1:41,42

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: Initiative is a powerful word with an impactful definition. God took initiative in loving and saving us. We need to take initiative in our response to Him. So, what are you asking God to do? What are you imagining God to do? For whose glory are you asking? The Horizon Initiative can only be accomplished if we take a step of faith and ask God to do what only He can do!

 

Key Phrase: “To Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power…” Ephesians 3:20

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: God understands there are lots of important things in our life. However, God deserves and desires to be the FIRST PRIORITY in our lives, our homes, our relationships, and our finances. God blesses us when we do. God withholds blessings when we don’t.

 

Key Phrase: “…so that in everything He might have supremacy.” Colossians 1:18