Pursuing God with Gene Appel

We continue to discuss when to consider fasting, looking at 3 more times. We hope you’ve given more attention and focus to God through prayer during this journey. 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 Go...

When it comes to focusing on prayer, fasting can really help. Today we discuss when to consider fasting, looking at 4 different times out of 10 that we’ll be exploring this 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 yo...

What is fasting? What are its benefits? How does it relate to biblical stories? We answer these questions in today’s podcast. 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 lif...

Fasting is intimately connected with prayer. In the Sermon on the Mount, after prayer, Jesus discusses fasting. While Jesus didn’t command fasting, He upheld the discipline. It was a common practice of His earliest followers.  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’...

To be more like Jesus, we have to follow his practices. That includes prayer…and fasting. In week three, we will explore fasting, a deep and ancient way of engaging with 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...

The Sabbath is a time to rest. We hope you can establish a day of rest for yourself each week, even if it’s not Saturday, to rest and pray. Praying on a Sabbath day can be a meaningful way to connect with God and reflect on your spiritual life. We offer tips on how to pray on your Sabbath day. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion....

We’ve reached the halfway point of 21 Days of Prayer! We offer more suggestions on prayers you can pray to God, with the challenge of trying prayer for 10 minutes. 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 G...

Today, we want to provide practical suggestions for enhancing your prayer life. We invite you to try any of them out as you’re able. 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 y...

Continuing from yesterday, we review more types of prayers. Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on their knees. We invite you to get to your knees in quiet to talk to 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 inv...

Jesus gives us a model for prayer. Today, we review types of prayers. These prayers cause things to happen on earth in wise, loving, and wonderful ways. 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 presen...

In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches some practical steps for how to approach God in prayer. Today we explore three pieces of advice for prayer. Take some time today to practice these with our Heavenly Father. 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, e...

Daily prayer is an important part of the faith journey. Today, we walk through prayer practices through the Gospel of Matthew to help prepare us for week 2. 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 pr...

David’s final bold prayer example is “Lead Me.” This is a prayer for those who are really serious about living with bold faith and want to go to the deep end. Your life’s journey can change after one lead-me prayer; are you ready? 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...

Using the story of David and Bathesheba, we discuss prayers of forgiveness. You can pray a bold “forgive-me” prayer, and God can take away your sin and guilt through the perfect blood of Jesus. You are only one prayer away from a completely different life.  Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped by...

Today’s prayer is one of personal growth: “Search Me.” This prayer involves opening ourselves up for correction from God; it allows us to be changed and transformed by Him. 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 d...

We often find ourselves facing situations and problems that seem overwhelming. Today, we continue looking at an example of David praying to God by asking for help and rescue. We will review how David’s honesty can be applied to our prayer life. 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 co...

Whether you are new to prayer or you already have prayer as a regular part of your life, this daily refresh will focus you in a way that will give momentum and energy to your spiritual life as you approach what’s next on the calendar for you. This week, we’ll be looking at the bold prayers of David, starting with asking for help. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, bui...

During the next 3 weeks, we’ll be more intentional about developing the habit of prayer by focusing on a different aspect of prayer each week. We want to inspire you to not be lukewarm, play-it-safe followers of Jesus, but people of faith who are bold and aren't afraid to praise and serve God boldly. As we see the depth of his prayers, we hope we will begin going places in our prayer life we&...

At a restaurant, you expect to be served and waited on. Sometimes we take that same attitude into church - serve me, feed me! But spiritual growth and spiritual progress occurs more in the kitchen than at the table. The book of Acts is our example of how the early church served each other - together. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash comp...

The early church as described in Acts 2 is an example of how to live in community with others. Church shouldn’t be a place where we go to ‘get’, but rather to discover how we can give and live with others. Church is a family, not a shopping mall. 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...

After Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples ate, prayed, and lived together. That’s how God has hard-wired us - to live in community with other believers. When we meet together, let us encourage one another and challenge each other. We don’t come to church to be entertained, but to worship the Lord together . Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleas...

The prison warden was overwhelmed by guilt when Paul, Silas, and the other prisoners didn’t immediately escape after the earthquake opened the prison doors. Earlier that day he’d shown no mercy when he beat Paul and Silas. Yet they stayed in the dungeon even when they had the chance to escape! The result was the complete conversion of the warden and his family. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is desi...

We live in a time of being consumed with ‘self.’ But there seems to be something missing. What if the way to a better ‘me’ is a better ‘we.’ We’re hard-wired by God to exist in community. This week we’ll explore how we are better 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 convict...

Why should you be baptized? Jesus set the example by Himself being baptized. He commands His followers to his example as an outward expression of an inward change. Baptism shows our death to self and becoming alive to 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...

The prison warden in Acts 16 is an example of repentance - turning away from his old way of life and heading to a new direction. True repentance says, “yesterday I beat these prisoners, and today I tend their wounds.” What a powerful story of true repentance. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped b...