Pursuing God with Dave and Gene

Deep down most of us want to be generous, but the biggest obstacle is not greed but fear. We don’t trust in God to take care of us, so we hold on too tightly to what we have. Today Gene challenges us to consider the reason God has gifted us with so much.

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 Gene discusses the subject of money and our fear regarding never having enough. Our financial fears reveal where we’ve put our hope and where we’ve put our faith. There are just two options: Either we’re going to put our hope in wealth/money or we’re going to put our hope in 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.

2,000 years ago Paul instructed his protégé Timothy to “Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God. (1 Timothy 6:17 NIV) Today Gene challenges us with the question: where is your hope?

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.

In today’s episode, Gene talks about the importance of giving back to God what is already His. Here are the words of Jesus, “Give, and it will be given to you…a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap.”

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.

What do you think is the best way to live life? To live with a mindset that your bag is cursed with holes or, to live with the mindset that your basket is blessed by God.  Which mindset walks by faith?  Which one walks in fear? Which mindset will have God’s blessing? Which mindset does your Enemy, the Devil, want you to live with?

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.

Rich people are plagued by discontentment. The more a person has, the more they want. Today Gene warns us: if God ever blesses you and if you ever get rich, your appetite for stuff is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

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 Gene asks the question, “What is rich?” Most wealthy people live in denial. They would say, “I’m not rich.” The truth is, If you make $45k total household income a year, YOU ARE IN THE TOP 1% of the wage earners in the world!

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’s grace can set you free from a lifetime of sin. No matter what is in our past, grace is greater than our sin. In today’s episode Gene urges us to examine our hearts and say ‘Yes’ to God’s offer of free grace and the forgiveness of sin through faith in Jesus Christ.

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 you say ‘yes’ to God’s offer of grace through Jesus, you get so much more that you don’t deserve. Gene reminds us that when we experience God’s amazing grace, we become His child - His workmanship. We become God’s friend. We are His masterpiece. Because of grace, we become God’s vessel shaped by His skilled hands for His purposes.  

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.

Many of us think we have to earn God’s approval through our actions. But God wants us to know his grace, mercy, and forgiveness that is a free gift because of Jesus’ death. We don’t have to earn it or deserve it.

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.