What does loving like Jesus actually look like in everyday life? It can start with something as practical as praying for someone who hurt you or listening to someone whose experiences and beliefs are different from your own. Today we'll discover simple ways to move toward people instead of away from them and return to the challenge of Micah 6:8: act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. Who could you choose to love differently today?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Loving someone doesn't require agreeing with everything they believe. When Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan, He deliberately made someone His audience despised the hero. In doing so, He challenged their assumptions about who deserved compassion and what it really means to be a neighbor. Today we'll explore how truth and grace can coexist and why our disposition toward people matters just as much as our position on an issue. Who is hardest for you to love right now?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Compassion is easy when it doesn't cost us anything. But the Good Samaritan didn't simply notice someone hurting. He stopped, gave his time, spent his money, sacrificed his comfort, and cared for someone he had every cultural reason to avoid. Today we'll discover why loving our neighbor requires more than good intentions and what can happen when we're willing to be interrupted by someone else's need. Who might God be asking you to stop and notice?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

It's easy to love people who think like us. The real challenge comes when Jesus asks us to love the people we'd rather avoid. In the story of the Good Samaritan, one man's simple question, "Who is my neighbor?" reveals how easily we create boundaries around who deserves our compassion. Today we'll discover how Jesus challenges those boundaries and invites us to examine the people we've decided are hardest to love. Who have you quietly given yourself permission not to love?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Loving people sounds simple until we have to love someone who thinks, believes, or lives differently than we do. In Micah 6:8, we're given a powerful picture of what love in action looks like: act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. Today we'll explore why all three matter and what happens when we leave one of them out. Which part comes naturally to you, and which one might God be asking you to grow in?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

People are paying attention to more than what we say. They're watching how we handle pressure, how we treat others, and whether our lives reflect what we say we believe. As we finish our time in 1 Peter 2, we'll discover why influence isn't about living perfectly. It's about consistently allowing our identity, our story, and our everyday choices to point people toward Jesus. Your life is already telling a story. What are the people around you seeing?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

Talking about faith doesn't require a sermon, and being bold doesn't mean being obnoxious. Sometimes one honest sentence is enough to open the door to a meaningful conversation. Today we'll discover how to share our faith briefly and boldly while also recognizing that our words need to be supported by the way we live. Following Jesus won't always be easy, but the struggles we face don't mean we're failing. They may be evidence that we're faithfully fighting a battle that matters.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

You don't have to know everything about the Bible to tell someone what Jesus has done in your life. In John 9, a man who had been healed couldn't answer every theological question thrown at him, but he knew one thing: he had been blind, and now he could see. Today we'll discover how honesty, humility, and a simple personal story can have a greater impact than having all the right answers. Your story doesn't have to be dramatic. It just has to be true.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

You don't need a platform, position, or special title to have an impact. In 1 Peter 2:9, we're called a chosen people and a royal priesthood, with direct access to God through Jesus and a purpose that extends into everyday life. Today we'll discover why your workplace, neighborhood, family, and friendships can become the very places where God uses you to influence others. Your mission field may be closer than you think.

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

We all want our lives to make a difference, but lasting influence doesn't begin with what we accomplish. It begins with knowing who we are. In 1 Peter 2, we're reminded that God has chosen us, set us apart, and called us out of darkness into His wonderful light. Today we'll discover why understanding our identity is the starting point for living with purpose and influencing the people around us. Before asking what you're supposed to do, do you know who God says you are?

Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by Eastside’s conviction that God’s grace is for everyone, each episode invites you to discover God’s presence and activity in your life.