Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

Today is the last day of the New Testament Challenge. 

The Bible has a lot to say about what heaven will be, but heaven is still beyond our wildest imagination.

We were made for heaven, and when we get there, we will truly be home. 

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 are exploring heaven and all God has planned for those who trust Him. We’ve been discovering how heaven is a place of joy and laughter. 

Hell is not going to be parties, friends, or fun and games for eternity; it’ll be eternal separation from God and others. Heaven, on the other hand, is anything but a boring place. Everything good in this life that we see now, will be perfect in the unseen life to come. It will be better than you could ever imagine.

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.

As we continue to learn about the Kingdom of Heaven, we’ll read from Revelation. 

Heaven will be a place of love, relationships, intellectual growth, discovery, rewards, exploration, productivity, and accomplishment. 

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.

As we wrap up the New Testament Challenge, we will review what heaven is like. 

There are so many unanswered questions on earth. But heaven is a place of relational reunions and exciting learnings.

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.

This is the last week of the New Testament Challenge. Can you believe it?

The New Testament ends with an unspeakably glorious vision of the future: the Kingdom of Heaven coming to earth, or as some theologians have put it, heaven and earth coming back together again. That’s not just good news, that’s great news. 

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.

When Paul made it to the end of his life, he wrote a last lecture from his prison cell. His last piece of words are keep pouring! 

2,000 years later, we are still talking about Paul. What do you think your legacy will be? 

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 are reading Paul’s “last lecture” to Timothy this week. After Paul says to keep on no matter what, he says keep reading. 

All scripture is God breathed; our lives, and our families, and our careers, and our kids, and our futures, and our finances need this book's teaching and rebuking and correcting and training in righteousness. The Bible contains guidance for living your life. 

Paul also says keep sharing. Paul tells Timothy to preach the Word, to keep telling people about Jesus. Never miss the opportunity.

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 are reviewing the latter part of the apostle Paul’s life. 

After he is arrested in Jerusalem, one of the governors holds him at a place along the Mediterranean known as Caesarea by the sea. Paul ends up being held there for 2 years. This is where he gives his last lecture. 

First, Paul says to keep on. Don't quit. Keep enduring. No matter how difficult circumstances get, with Jesus’ help, we can keep on. 

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 are focusing on the apostle Paul this week. Initially, Paul was a committed Jew who persecuted Christians, and later became a follower of Jesus, maybe becoming the greatest proponent of Jesus and Christianity in history. In nearly every city Paul went, he would start a revival, a riot, or both, because he was so passionate about Jesus. 

When was the last time you just talked to someone about Jesus and what He means to your life? People may argue with you about Jesus, but they won't argue with you about your story, because your story is your story. 

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.

This week we will look at Paul’s last lecture, which is found in Timothy 2. 

Paul knew he was going to die. God had warned Him; the Spirit had told him. He knew he would make a final journey to Rome, and that would be it.

Would you know just the right thing to say in your final moments?

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.