That's Grace Podcast

Having good relationships whether you are single, dating, or married are possible, it’s just that they don’t come naturally. Most of our relationships are contractual. Meaning as long as you do your part, I’ll do mine. But once we let someone down or someone hurts us we tend to end our commitment to that relationship. But that’s not how God’s relationships with us is. God has modeled a covenant relationship with us where He has promised that He will never fail you or abandon you! When we incorporate this type of covenant into our relationships and marriages, it can drastically make them better. Pastor Sean shares what a covenant relationship in marriage looks like and gives us 5 commitments God makes to us that we can apply to our marriages in order to make them above average.

We all want healthy, above-average relationships. Nobody hopes that their marriage will fall apart, that their kids will stop talking to them, or that their friends will ditch them. Honestly, we don’t even want our acquaintances to think too bad of us. This week, pastor Ken talks about how to have not your average love. Average love carries conditions, but not your average love works to be unconditional. Pastor Ken describes 3 aspects of God’s love and give 4 practical ways you can begin loving others better this week.

Everyone says that they want to be wise. Nobody hopes to make foolish decisions that will take their life in the wrong direction. But many people choose to ignore wisdom because honestly, it’s often the harder road to take. This week, Pastor Sean shows from book of Proverbs what the outcomes of making wise choices is and what the outcomes is for those who choose to be foolish. He also gives 3 critical decisions you must make if you are going to choose to pursue after wisdom.

This week in our Life Hack series, we are talking about the #1 thing that causes divorce in this country. It’s also the biggest reasons why we lose sleep, have arguments, and end up stressed out – it’s our money and debt. Money can make even the most sane people go nuts. We trade the majority of our waking hours every week for our money which is one reason why we hold onto it so tightly. Pastor Sean explores what the book of Proverbs says about wealth and poverty and gives us 4 steps that anyone can take towards experiencing financial freedom.

I’m pretty sure that most everyone would say that they want to be successful. There seems to be an inner burning desire in us all to be good at something. Some things people seem to be born good at, but other thing, we have to work really hard to be good at. But what does success actually look like? What kind of success is worth chasing after. In the second week our this series, Life Hacks, Pastor Sean takes a look at what the book of Proverbs says about success and what our role in it is. He also gives us 6 traits of a wise person that can help lead us towards living a successful life.

Ever wish you could have a ” do over” for some of the decisions you’ve made in life? At the time, it might have seemed like a good idea, but in hindsight you wonder what you were thinking? We all want to make good decisions in life, but many times the right answer just doesn’t seem clear. And where does God factor into these decisions? Is there a certain decision He would want you to make? In the first week of this series, Pastor Taylor looks at what the book of Proverbs says about decisions and gives 4 easy questions you can ask to help you make a wise choice.

Everybody gets stuck at one time or another. Maybe you got your car stuck in snow. Or you were stuck in an awkward conversation. Or maybe what you are stuck in is a little more serious. Maybe you’re stuck in debt or a bad relationship. The Christmas story happens right in the middle of Israel being stuck. They hadn’t heard from God in 400 years and it seemed like He no longer cared. If you find yourself in a similar place this Christmas, the Christmas story brings hope to you!

Have you ever stopped to wonder what God thought of you? Maybe you felt close to God at one point in your life, but now He feels distant. Or maybe you’ve always assumed that God doesn’t like you too much because of how life has gone. Or maybe because you know your past, you’ve assumed that God would want nothing to do with you. In the third week of this series, Pastor Ken focuses on the Angel’s appearance to the shepherds. They had their own reasons for feeling that God was upset with them, but this story brings hope to anyone who might feel this way.

We all care to some extent about what other people think. If your shoes match or you put on deodorant today, you care to some extent what other people think of you.  And there is nothing wrong with caring about what others think, UNLESS your desire to please others causes you to compromise what you know God would want you to do. This week, Pastor Sean looks at the Christmas story from the perspective of Joseph and how he was faced with the decision to please others or to please God.

If we’re honest, many of us are a little bit uncomfortable with God. Just like an awkward friend at work, you might be willing to be Facebook friends, but you probably own’t go to their Christmas party. Often, we treat God the same way. We want to know God, but we don’t want to get too close, otherwise we might have to change some things in our lives. In the first week of this series, Pastor Sean gives two main reasons why we often are afraid of God’s plan for our lives and shows from the Christmas story how the ruin of our plans, may just lead to finding our purpose in life.