Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

We’ve been looking at the mountain of claims and the evidence for Jesus the son of God, Israel’s Messiah. We conclude this week by looking at what could be considered Jesus’ boldest claim of all and what it means for your life.

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 continue to explore the impact of when Jesus’ followers begin to realize who He really was: God’s Son and Israel's Messiah. 

The ultimate proof that Jesus is Lord is His resurrection from the dead, never to die again. No other figure in history even claims to have conquered death.

All life decisions require an element of faith, and the same is true with a relationship with God through Jesus. How much faith? Enough to trust and follow Him instead of yourself, others, or the culture at large. 

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.

Have you ever had a high in your life that was immediately followed by a low? Jesus would demonstrate that He was the Messiah by humbling Himself and being obedient to death on a cross, and then rising from the dead.

In these unusual times, our hope should never stray far from the call of Jesus on our lives. He is worthy of that level of trust. 

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.

Jesus is at a hinge point in His ministry. He has taught, healed, and shown His miraculous power, but His disciples ask about His identity.

Who do you say Jesus is? In a world that is confused about Jesus yet more attracted to Him than ever, our ability to answer this question clearly and with solid reasoning is key for this week of the challenge. 

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.

For Week 4 of our New Testament Challenge, we’ll continue to focus on knowing Jesus.

You can never really begin the process of knowing yourself until you start the process of knowing God. Jesus is the living picture of God the Father. He is God in the flesh. If we truly know Him, we truly know God. 

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’ve been looking each day at how extraordinary Jesus is because of His teaching and miracles. We end the week by looking at how extraordinary Jesus is because of how He loved people. The irresistible revolution of Jesus was not about the love of power but about the power of love. 

There is only one King who went out and laid down His life for His subjects, showing His extraordinary 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.

Jesus gave the disciples a test: Do you believe I can be involved in your stuff, in your lives, in our needs?

When life is tough, when the odds are against you, and you feel like there is no way out, count your resources and then allow Him to work only He can.

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.

Whenever Jesus taught, people were in awe. In all three stories in Luke 15, we learn timeless truths God wants us to internalize: When the lost is found, rejoice! 

God loves you so much that instead of condemning you for wandering away, He takes the initiative and seeking you out. 

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.

Today, we are going to look at how Jesus’ teaching was like nothing that had been heard before. In Luke 15, He tells three powerful little stories to communicate to these religious leaders why He was associating with scandalous, non-believing, sinful, irreligious, spiritually unconnected people.

Absorb His teaching into your soul, trust in His power, and be captivated with His 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.

For Week 3 of our New Testament Challenge, we are going to explore how Jesus shows Himself to be extraordinary in ways that compel people even to this day.

Jesus engaged His listeners by speaking in graphic stories with compelling imagery people of the time could understand.

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.