Grace Church Elk Grove

There is a danger in the blessings we receive from God. We are prone to defect from the Comforter, and live just for the comforts. We are finding now, in this generation, that kind of life doesn’t pay off. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on June 11, 2023.

In today’s episode David comes to the central point of Psalm 23 where he exalts in his Good Shepherd. This Good Shepherd makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. And in all of this He restores my soul. David says this to himself, to God’s people, and to the whole world. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May, 21, 2023.

Jesus died for all the ways we have thirsted for things, followed our own devices, and to dirty mud puddles and feted waters of this world. He died to forgive us of all of those sins. Then He was raised from the dead to secure new life for us. Then He ascended to the Father’s right hand. When He ascended, He poured out His Spirit to His people so we thirst no more. Learn more in this episode from...

The local church is a platoon barracks—for the soldiers of the Lord—and a field hospital. It’s where we recharge again to go back out into the fight. And it’s where we come back to to heal from our wounds from the fight. Learn more in this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on May 7, 2023.

Up to this point in our study of Psalm 23, David, the king who knows he is a sheep, has been extoling the greatness of his shepherd. Now, in this verse, the image of the shepherd changes from a Lord who reigns over him with a rod and staff to comfort him—from a shepherd to a host. Just at the moment when we might expect this strong shepherd to go to war against all the evils and enemies, He unexpe...

We are shepherded by someone or something. It’s not a matter of whether we are shepherded but to what end? Find out about this Good Shepherd who makes His sheep lie down in green pastors in the episode by Pastor Jed from April 30, 2023.

Trouble is part of our story. When trouble there is always the fact lack. Trouble brings lack—we want. Why so much trouble? How do I process this? What do we do with the lack that I fear I will experience? Yet David say, “I shall not want.” That is the great challenge of faith. If YHWH is this God, why do we suffer as we do, and what should we do about it. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s...

Psalm 23 describes God’s care for His people so simply and so beautifully. David wrote this, not because he was expecting to die, but because by the shepherding of God he expected to live. There is a dying that lead to life and a life that leads to dying. Living as our own shepherd leads to death. We need to live under the Good Shepherd. Everyone is shepherded by someone or something. The question...

True righteousness is not found by following any law. It is a gift found in God alone. It is not enough to have faith. It must rest in Jesus. Learn more in this Easter episode from Pastor Jed given on April 9, 2023.

Joy was the superpower of the early church. Today, the church is conserved with being “seeker sensitive”—with tailoring our worship to that few people in the population who are interest in consuming a spiritual good or service. However, the thing that is winsome and attractive to every group, in every culture, in every generation, across all time is a people really having fun. Listen to this episo...

In this sermon given by Pastor Jed on March 12, 2023, he asks God to have His way with our hearts. We need eyes of our hearts to see the hope to which we are called. It is that hope we need to transform us from being slaves fear. That hope can free us by faith. God builds courage in us with a vision of the future rewards in Him. Listen to learn more.

What does God what from our worship? In today’s episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on March 5, 2023. Jed looks at the what worship is really about and what it is not about. Then he offers some practical ways to do worship properly. Listen to learn more.

So often, we as the modern church look “out there” for ways to fix what is wrong in our world. But what we find is not authentic. But we’ve already been given the solutions by our Father. The body of Christ is to always be part of a building project. Learn the who, when, where, and why, in this sermon by Pastor Jed given on February 26, 2023.

The household—as defined by God—is the basic building block for society. Pastor Jed in his sermon on February 19, 2023, drilled down on the practical ways that we (especially fathers) can build their household in order to rebuild our society as God intended. Listen now to learn more.

In today’s episode, Pastor Jed drills down on the importance of our Christians households in this chaotic world. He start with the command: “If you want to rebuild civilization, start with your own house.” Listen to this message for the sermon on February 12, 2023.

Return to the fundamentals of Christianity with these three keys: Remember, repent, and recover. To learn more about going back to the foundations of who we are as Christians, listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on February 5, 2023.

We should be immovable. Why? First, because God is steadfast and immovable. Second, because of threats. Evil will not roll over and take their downfall without a fight. Learn more about why and how we fight—stand firm—as Christians in this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 29, 2023.

We too often think too highly of ourselves. We presume that we already have every capability within us to do what God wants us to do. We just need better tactics, better technologies, better preacher, better church. When in reality, what we need most often is a heart that has been enlarged by God. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on January 22, 2023.

Christians are the salt of the earth, and God call us to fix what’s broken in our world. It’s time to get our hands dirty and build and rebuild what’s been torn down. We need to get to it because time is short. And it’s time to consider if we are working at the right things—those things that attract the eye of God and His hand of blessing. Listen to learn more in this episode from Pastor Jed’s ser...

The point of Christmas is that Jesus might live (God incarnate) among us. But the point of Jesus living among us is that He would go to the cross as the perfect sacrifice an die for us and the forgiveness of our sins, But the point of the cross was that His might be raised from the dead—beating death forever—in our place. The point of the resurrection is the ascension. Learn more from these crucia...

When Jesus left the earth, it was the end of His mission of the here, but it was also just the beginning. His conquest of the nations began then. In this passage preached on by Pastor Jed on January 1, 2023, Jesus give His disciples His mission plan for that conquest. Listen to this episode to learn more.

Christmas is all about peace. So Jesus came, and Christmas was the beach-head, and the cross was the mortal blow, but now God works by His Spirit—Jesus continues His dragon crushing work though His people. Listen to learn more in the this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on Christmas Day, 2022.

In the passages discussed today, we look at the goal of what God is doing. What is the goal that Jesus has for you? The goal of everything that we are doing in our churches? The goal of everything that we are doing in our families? The goal of our nation? It has to do with knowledge. We have to first understand what is the role of knowledge in this great goal. The goal is living in Jesus’ resurrec...

We must look at Christ’s resurrection again, because, if it’s true (and we believe that it is) then it should break history in half. And it has. The calendar stops and starts on this event. Even more than this, it should cast a light over everything—literally everything. The resurrection of Jesus is such a unique event in all of human history, that it leaves nothing in a neutral middle ground. Eve...

In this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on December 4, 2022, he looks at the final blow to Jesus, the final descent into Jesus’ humility—the burial of His body. Christians rightly emphasis His death on a cross as the central moment in all of history and all our eternal destinies. But that doesn’t mean that the events surrounding the cross have no meaning. In fact, we neglect the events like the b...