Community is essential for survival and has an impact on our joy. When we have a small group of like-minded people, we experience the joy of answered prayer. The same holds true when we share our sorrows with others. When we find others who show us unconditional acceptance, we know we can rely on them when a crisis hits us. Gene reminds us in today’s episode that we were created to do life with others.

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.

There’s a proverb that says, ‘Shared joy is a double joy and shared sorrow is half a sorrow.’ The Apostle Paul says it this way, ‘rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.’ When we live in connection and in community, life is better. In today’s episode, Gene encourages us to share our lives with good friends. Transformational power happens when we live in community together.

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 we’re stuck in a bland, predictable life that leads to nowhere, it is easy to become discouraged and to feel caged. Today Gene tells us that we have a God-given destiny, but we need to be intentional about taking God’s hand and letting Him lead us.God is still looking today for people longing for spiritual adventures with God. Will you listen to His voice and say, ‘Yes, I will obey your leading.’

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 God calls us on a faith adventure, He gives us a deadline. After building the ark, God told Noah it was time to enter the ark. Gene shows us in today’s episode that Noah had a choice to enter the open door of the ark. He and his family went through the door, and God kept them safe from the rains and the flood. A door of opportunity doesn’t stay open forever. We must walk through the open door by faith while the door is open.

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 do something God calls you to do, you will have criticism from others. Noah’s detractors criticized him for 125 years while he built the ark. Today Gene challenges us to persevere with God when others don’t understand. He encourages us to ignore the detractors, trust God, and do what you know He is calling you to do.

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.

By faith, Noah obeyed God and built a huge boat, even though he was over 500 miles from the nearest body of water. But he believed God even though it didn’t make sense. Gene encourages us to believe God when it seems like a positive outcome seems impossible. Sometimes we must wait for God’s timing when we’re on a faith adventure. We must trust, even when we don’t 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.

Statistics show that people who are bored are more likely to die young. In today’s episode Gene challenges us to stop going through the motions of Christianity and to experience the exhilaration of stepping out in faith. Noah accepted God’s command to build an ark when people had never experienced rain. How can we walk by faith like Noah?

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 look around us and see all the needs, we can feel overwhelmed. We may wonder if our little bit will make a difference. It is less about what we can give or do, and more about opening up our hearts and hands and seeing what God can do with our little bit. In today’s episode, Gene encourages those who are hurting to seek the One who won’t leave us lying by the side of the road, broken and beaten, like the man in the story of the good Samaritan.

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 surrounded by hurting people who need us to provide a trauma center. Trauma centers are built with open hearts and open hands. In today’s episode, Gene encourages us to open our hearts and break down our prejudices to care for people we haven’t met and sacrifice for people who can never pay us back.

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 encourages us to genuinely love our neighbors. In this self-absorbed world, we may be too worried about our own needs to care for the needs of others. But those in spiritual darkness need us to provide a trauma center. It is said that kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear. We can unleash compassion to those around us, providing a trauma center for the hurting.

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.