Pursuing God with Gene Appel

We don’t have to ‘clean up our act’ in order to earn God’s love. The truth is God loved us before we ever loved Him. And that love sent Him to the cross on our behalf. 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 discov...

In John 3:16, we read “For God so loved the world.” His love is for everyone , and he lavishes his love on us. He is generous with His Love without us having to do anything 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, eac...

We see from the teachings of Jesus that lost people are valued and loved by God. If God has the capacity to look beyond the sins of the people gathered around Jesus and deeply love and treasure them, then He can look beyond your sins and love and treasure you. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in Scripture and shaped...

We must continually strive for Christ-like character. People who are pursuing spiritual growth are marked by a transformed character. God wants us to experience spiritual metamorphosis resulting in spiritual maturity. 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 i...

Good relationships involve getting to know others. The same is true for growing in our relationship with Jesus. We must spend time with Him through Bible reading and prayer. 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...

Difficult times produce our greatest spiritual growth. We have to persevere through challenges because maturity doesn’t come without effort. 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 activ...

God has put His potential into each one of us to be transformed and drastically changed by His power working in us. 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 desires us to receive his grace and produce fruit. That is God’s goal for all of us who follow 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 discover God’s presence and activity in your life.

When faced with a prompting from God, run it through the filter of God’s Word and seek wise counsel for your decision. We need to obey the Holy Spirit’s leadings, even if it involves risk.  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...

Most often, the nudges I sense from the Holy Spirit are not the big major life decisions but rather they come as a gentle whisper or quiet prompting about the more ordinary things in life. Friend, those little nudges come from the Holy Spirit every day and especially when you live daily with an openness to His activity in your life. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God,...

The Holy Spirit led the Apostle Paul into an incredible personal transformation. That is still how the Holy Spirit leads us. This is why so many of us get confused about being led by the Spirit because what we’re looking for is insider information in the hope of personal success rather than the Holy Spirit’s guidance toward Personal Transformation. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help...

The Spirit’s guidance is not about gaining personal success, but about developing personal transformation. Sometimes, the Holy Spirit’s guidance will be uncomfortable or even painful…because God is more interested in transforming us into the best version of ourselves rather than just giving us professional or financial success. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build...

If we hope to be led by God’s Spirit, we have to be committed to following God’s Son. Following God is an adventure. Let’s discover Him 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...

Nothing releases the power of the Holy Spirit in your life like a life of obedience. Galatians 5:16 says, “So I say, live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” The more you obey, the more you welcome the Holy Spirit to fill and control your life. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassion. Grounded in...

The Holy Spirit gives us a personality makeover.  Galatians 5:22 says, When the Holy Spirit controls our lives He produces this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. These are qualities that we all want to control our lives and transform our personalities. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, buil...

In Luke 11:13 Jesus said, “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” So when we say, “Lord, I want to be filled with your Spirit,” we shouldn’t brace ourselves for a worst-case scenario. He knows what is best for us. And the best thing that could happen in our lives is to be f...

Being filled with the Holy Spirit means allowing the Lord to completely control and take over the leadership of your life. To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be so dominated by the Spirit of God that He is the one controlling you. 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...

When you are given an assignment you also need the resources to accomplish the assignment. When God gives us an assignment, He always supplies the resources to accomplish the task. That’s the work of the Holy Spirit! 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...

When you’re full of anxiety, one of the most powerful things you can do is to find a promise in Scripture that fits your problem and what you’re anxious about… and pray it over your life. You can go to Google, type in what you’re anxious about and then add these 2 words - “BIBLE VERSE.” You will find many Bible verses that will be helpful. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursu...

None of us were designed to go it alone. Fifty-nine times the phrase “one another” is used in the New Testament. We need one another's prayers and encouragement. That’s why I say SPECIFIC PRAYER, for our anxieties almost always involve other people in the answer. When we do life with people, our anxiety will go down. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build commu...

Paul writes in Philippians 4: 6-7 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Peace is activated when our prayers move from general to specific and that’s a move toward experiencing God’s peace. Pur...

Peace is found between the pillars of God’s goodness and God’s control. Paul’s teaching on peace begins in Philippians 4: 4-5, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” When we find ourselves living between the idea that God is good and God is in control, it’s not that we’ll never be anxious, but our anxiety will be temporary, and ultimately, we’ll experience His peace. Pursuing...

Fear sees a threat and reacts. Anxiety imagines a threat and can’t move forward. Anxiety has been described as a tidal wave of “what ifs” that rushes over us. The good news is we don’t have to live in a constant state of anxiety. Keep listening this week as we talk about God’s remedy for anxiety. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursue God, build community, and unleash compassi...

Many people view church as if it were a restaurant. When people talk about the new church they’re attending, they say, “We wanted to be in a place where we could be fed more.” But spiritual growth and spiritual progress happen much more quickly in the kitchen than at the table. That’s why it’s vital to be in community with other believers. Pursuing God with Gene Appel is designed to help you pursu...

Here's my prayer for us - that we will be a spiritual family where people genuinely build community together. I pray that we would have a family mentality when we come together and that we would put each other’s needs ahead of our own. 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 convic...