Initial Insights - Weekly Bible Chat

Join Pastor Greg and Youth Director Emily Stecher as they talk about Moses and the parting of the Red Sea in Exodus 14. What does this story mean for God's people today? What does it tell us about the nature of God and how God wants to rescue, redeem and reconcile us?

It's not just an ancient story, it still has implications for God's people today.

Join Pastor Greg and Director of Discipleship Laura Fuller as they discuss Genesis 39, part of the "Joseph Novella" or as Greg likes to say, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."Learn about Greg's love of Andrew Lloyd Weber musicals and Laura's thoughts on power dynamics. They land on the importance of the repeated phrase "The Lord was with Joseph" and the promise that God is with us through the ups and downs of life.

Join Pastor Greg and Director of Discipleship Ministries Laura Fuller as they sit down and talk about Abram and Sarai's call story in Genesis 12. They back up a chapter and talk about the tower of Babel and then enjoy a wide-ranging conversation about how Abram responded to the voice of God telling him to go somewhere new at the ripe young age of 75! You will also learn about Laura's love of maps and geography and a little bit of info from one of Pastor Greg's Old Testament seminary professors.

Sit down with Pastor Greg and our new interim associate, Pastor Scott Peterson, as they have a wide-ranging conversation about the story of Noah and the Flood in Genesis 6-9. Learn about other flood narratives from other cultures and traditions and reflect with Greg and Scott on what this story in the Bible tells us about God and God's relationship with humanity. This is the passage that will be preached on for Sunday 9/13/26 and also what our children and youth will be studying in Sunday School that day.

Join Pastors Greg and Susan for a fun discussion about "feasting" on God's word as we study Acts 2 and the story of the early church sharing meals together.

Pastor Greg and Pastor Susan sit down in separate undisclosed locations to record this weeks edition of the Initial Insights podcast!Tune in to hear about Greg baking sourdough bread and about maps, perspective, and proportion, all it relates to the story of Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10 and the phrase "God shows no partiality."

Join Pastor Greg and Pastor Susan as they share a wide-ranging conversation about what translation of the bible they are using, how they interpret scripture, and then as they do a deep dive in to Ephesians 4. That is the scripture that will be preached on Sunday 8/23 as part of the sermon series "We are the church"

Join Pastor Greg and Pastor Susan as they discuss 1 Peter 2:1–10

Join Pastor Greg and Pastor Mark as they get to know each other and discuss the famous "love" passage from Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth.

Why did Paul write about love in this way and what does that mean for us and for the church? Greg and Mark discuss the implications of this passage that go well beyond a romantic scripture used for weddings.

Join Pastor Greg and Director of Discipleship Ministries, Laura Fuller, for Episode 3 of the Initial Insights podcast!

They are recording the podcast in Honduras where they are meeting with LGPC mission partner Agros International. Since Agros does sustainable agricultural development, it seemed fitting that Greg and Laura would talk about the parable of the sower in Matthew 13.