GracePoint Kitsap Podcast

HORIZON (Part 4) • ”Fear vs. Faith” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: God is a test-giving God. Why? Because His tests reveal our faith and the condition of our heart. The two primary ways that God tests us is in our trust and obedience. The most practical test of our faith and heart is how we honor God with our finances. It takes faith to give FIRST. It doesn’t take faith to give LAST.

 

Key Phrase: “Remember how the Lord your God led you…to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart.” Deuteronomy 8:2

HORIZON (Part 3) • ”Inward vs. Outward” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: As sinners, we are hardwired to have an inward focus. It comes natural to us. However, it requires work and a steadfast effort to have an outward focus on other people. Every church has a gravitational pull towards becoming an inward-focused church. This will eventually cause a church to die. This was never God’s design. It is estimated that 75 percent of churchgoers go to church for the first time because someone invited them.

Key Phrase: “The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother… and he brought him to Jesus.” John 1:41,42

HORIZON (Part 2) • ”HORIZON Initiative” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: Initiative is a powerful word with an impactful definition. God took initiative in loving and saving us. We need to take initiative in our response to Him. So, what are you asking God to do? What are you imagining God to do? For whose glory are you asking? The Horizon Initiative can only be accomplished if we take a step of faith and ask God to do what only He can do!

 

Key Phrase: “To Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power…” Ephesians 3:20

HORIZON (Part 1) • ”First Priority” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: The horizon is a beautiful picture from our Creator. They are symbolic for hopes, dreams, and a future. To see a horizon, we must look up, out, and beyond ourselves. The COVID season has caused many to look down, around, or within themselves. As believers at GracePoint, we need to refocus our attention. We need to recast our VISION and lift our eyes and see the HORIZON God has before us.

 

• This Week: God understands there are lots of important things in our life. However, God deserves and desires to be the FIRST PRIORITY in our lives, our homes, our relationships, and our finances. God blesses us when we do. God withholds blessings when we don’t.

 

Key Phrase: “…so that in everything He might have supremacy.” Colossians 1:18

JARS • Bob Valles

Welcome to GracePoint Church! This place is filled with a bunch of regular people living in the real world. We’re glad you are here! We believe that all of us are on a journey with God. We want to help you move forward on the path He has for you! We don’t have it all together and we don’t have all the answers, but we can point you to the ONE who does.

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Christmas Service • THE THRILL OF HOPE (Part 3) • Barry Bandara

• This Series: In the Bible, HOPE is not a wish, a dream, or a Lottery Ticket. The hope we have in Christ is tied to God's promise and God's faithfulness. Therefore, hope is a promise that will be fulfilled by a promise-keeping God. Because of this, believers in Jesus Christ approach life, disappointments, uncertainty, and the future differently than those who don't have the hope found in Christ.

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Welcome to GracePoint Church! This place is filled with a bunch of regular people living in the real world. We’re glad you are here! We believe that all of us are on a journey with God. We want to help you move forward on the path He has for you! We don’t have it all together and we don’t have all the answers, but we can point you to the ONE who does.

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• https://www.gracepointkitsap.com/give • Find us online at: https://www.gracepointkitsap.com https://gracepointkitsap.info Facebook: http://facebook.com/GracePointKitsap/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracepointkitsap/

THE THRILL OF HOPE (Part 2) • ”Hope Leads Us to Joy” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: In the Bible, HOPE is not a wish, a dream, or a Lottery Ticket. The hope we have in Christ is tied to God's promise and God's faithfulness. Therefore, hope is a promise that will be fulfilled by a promise-keeping God. Because of this, believers in Jesus Christ approach life, disappointments, uncertainty, and the future differently than those who don't have the hope found in Christ.

 

• This Week: Because of the hope in Christ, Paul could choose joy – even when he was imprisoned for preaching about Jesus. The hope we have in Christ leads us to something way better than being “happy” – it’s being joyful! Like the carol says, “the thrill of hope the weary world rejoices.”

 

Key Phrase: “Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again, rejoice!” Philippians 4:4

THE THRILL OF HOPE (Part 1) • ”Hope Leads Us to Worship” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: In the Bible, HOPE is not a wish, a dream, or a Lottery Ticket. The hope we have in Christ is tied to God's promise and God's faithfulness. Therefore, hope is a promise that will be fulfilled by a promise-keeping God. Because of this, believers in Jesus Christ approach life, disappointments, uncertainty, and the future differently than those who don't have the hope found in Christ.

 

• This Week: The Thrill of HOPE leads us to worship. What is the one gift Jesus wants from you that only you can give? Your Worship.

Key Phrase: “We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” Matthew 2:2

ESCAPING THE COMING APOCALYPSE (Part 11) • ”Let Eternity Begin” • Barry Bandara

• This Series: It is obvious the world is in trouble. All over the globe we see the pain and confusion of everything coming apart at the seams while evil continues unabated on its march. This fall we’ll walk through prophesied scripture that were written nearly 2000 years ago for these uncertain times. We will see the wrath of God unleashed followed by the victorious return of Christ who will finally set up His Kingdom.

 

• This Week: Imagine living forever without pain, death, evil, tears, and sorrow! Heaven will be forever absent of these and anything that is the result of sin. We will begin to really live in this eternal paradise!

 

Key Phrase: “There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” Rev 21:4

ESCAPING THE COMING APOCALYPSE (Part 10) • ”Judgment Day”

• This Series: It is obvious the world is in trouble. All over the globe we see the pain and confusion of everything coming apart at the seams while evil continues unabated on its march. This fall we’ll walk through prophesied scripture that were written nearly 2000 years ago for these uncertain times. We will see the wrath of God unleashed followed by the victorious return of Christ who will finally set up His Kingdom.

• This Week: The final judgment arrives. Sin and Satan are vanquished forever, never to rise again! All those who rejected Jesus Christ are forever separated from God.

Key Phrase: “I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne.” Rev 20:12