Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

Jesus eagerly waited to celebrate the Passover meal with his disciples in the upper room, despite knowing He would be betrayed and denied by his closest friends. But the upper room was a place of radical acceptance - for anyone and everyone who has sinned.

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.

During this last week of Jesus’ life, he experienced many finals - His final time with his disciples, His final meal, His final Passover. Let’s walk with Jesus through this last week.

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.

True freedom is found not in the absence of all restraints, but in a humble, genuine surrender to the leadership of Jesus in your life. He can set you free to grow, to love, to serve, and to become the kind of person He created you to be. That kind of freedom is available to everyone. 

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.

Friends, if you really want to have freedom and if you really want to have fun, and if you really want to have fulfillment in life, I challenge you to look carefully and deeply into what the Bible has to say about how much God is a giver.

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.

God penalizes those deserving of penalty, but He rewards those deserving reward. He is absolutely impartial and incapable of being corrupted. Hallelujah! That is the kind of God we serve!

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.

The late theologian R.C. Sproul wrote, “If God did not punish sin, He would not be just. And if He were not just, He would not be God.” We can take great comfort in knowing that God is just and ultimately will make things right.

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 told a parable in Matthew 21 that plays to our desire for justice. Listen this week for the powerful application of this 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.

It doesn’t matter what’s on your list of sins, everything you’ve done wrong has been nailed to the cross. When you surrender your life to Jesus, the One who endured the penalty of your sin, God is willing to have your entire debt paid in full by applying Jesus' death to your burden of past sins.

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.

On our own, our moral debt is so enormous that we are helpless and hopelessly unable to pay for what we owe. But God completely forgives us through Jesus and His death on the cross to pay that debt!

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 don’t have to ‘clean up our act’ in order to earn God’s love. The truth is God loved us before we ever loved Him. And that love sent Him to the cross on our behalf.

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.