Life Together

Pastor Mike is joined by original founding GBC member, Dave Martin, to discuss helpful and practical ways to get the most out of our weekly Sunday gatherings.

Pastors Mike and Todd continue our podcast series on the distinctives of GBC. These are further conversations on the sermon series we did this past summer (https://www.greshambible.org/sermons/series/gbc-distinctives). This is our fourth distinctive which reads:

Jesus consistently taught that His kingdom was utterly different than this world. He showed us how the least in the kingdom is the greatest; how the humble and broken are the ones who can enter; that those who humble themselves will be exalted and those who exalt themselves will be humbled. We recognize that this teaching can sound nice, but is completely against our original nature and the value systems of this world. But, we are committed to being a community that grows in humility as we witness the example of Christ's humility and experience the transforming benefits of His humility in the gospel (Philippians 2:1-11).

Pastors Mike and Todd, and producer Jordan get us ready for GBC's annual week of prayer and fasting which will be from February 19-25. We hope that you join us in taking the week to focus even more on our dependence on God. You can find this week's prayer guide and other approaches for how to pray and fast on our website here: https://www.greshambible.org/prayer-fasting

Pastors Mike and Todd continue our podcast series on the distinctives of GBC. These are further conversations on the sermon series we did this past summer (https://www.greshambible.org/sermons/series/gbc-distinctives). This is our third distinctive which reads:

We are a gospel-centered church. The driving belief we have is that everyone needs the gospel, but that belief always begins with me (1 Timothy 1:15). Every believer needs the gospel on a moment by moment basis. We need to be reminded of God's grace, His unending love, and our new status before Him in Christ. Only when the gospel is truly good news to us, will we ever be positioned well to give it to others who desperately need it as well (1 Corinthians 15:1-6).

Pastors Mike and Todd preview the upcoming GBC EDU class, "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made." This class will begin on 1/21/2024 and will run for 7-8 weeks before church service from 9:00-9:45am. You can still register through our website.

Pastor Mike has on Stacy Mathews, Kerri Bryant, and Summer Hermann to talk about Christmas traditions their families do and ideas for all of GBC, no matter how your family looks, to keep the focus on Christ during the Christmas season.

With the coming of the advent season, Pastors Mike and Todd spend some time talking about favorite Christmas traditions and the importance of the incarnation to our theology and also how it impacts us as we live our lives.

Books Mentioned:

"Jotham's Journey" by Arnold Ytreeide

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson

"The Virgin Birth of Christ" by J. Gresham Machen

Pastors Mike and Todd continue our podcast series on the distinctives of GBC. These are further conversations on the sermon series we did this past summer (https://www.greshambible.org/sermons/series/gbc-distinctives). This is our second distinctive which reads:

We are a church that prays because we depend on God. Prayer is our shameless admission that we can do nothing without Him. Therefore, prayer is not merely a transition point in our lives and activities, nor is it the cherry on top; prayer is the beginning, middle, and end of our work. If we desire for God to work in ways that cannot be merely attributed to our efforts, then we must be a people on our knees (Ephesians 6:18, James 5:13, 1 John 5:14).

Books mentioned:

"Praying the Bible" by Donald Whitney

"A Praying Church" by Paul Miller

"Praying with Paul" by D.A. Caron

"Prayer" by Tim Keller

"The Valley of Vision" by Arthur Bennett

We're back with Season 4 of the podcast! On this episode, Pastor Mike Dahl gets to visit with Gresham Bible Church's founding pastor, Vergil Brown. They talk about how Vergil was called to ministry, the story of GBC starting, what he's doing now at Redemption Church in Portland, and hear encouragement for us as a growing church.