Saving Grace

(Guest: Mark Rae) Did you know that a rich, full life is available to believers, even in the direst circumstances? How can that be?  The Psalmist David provides some answers in Psalm 34.  Today, the Reverend Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace School of Theology, and Executive Director of the Grace Center for Spiritual Development, will continue the Songs of Praise series with the Psalmist David’s answers to abundant living, regardless of circumstances. To make the most out of this episode, we are making available to you a free study guide. Download your copy today.   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) Whether you are fearful, doubtful, angry or sad, the Psalmist David has been there, and wrote a song to tell about it. Over the next six weeks you will have opportunity to hear powerful and insightful messages based on Psalms, entitled, Songs of Praise. Today’s message, based on Psalm 3, will no doubt turn your heart to praise! Our speaker is the Reverend Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace School of Theology, and Executive Director of the Grace Center for Spiritual Development. To make the most out of this episode, we are making available to you a free study guide. Download your copy today.   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Pastor Scot Pollok) Ephesians 2:10 says we were created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Scot Pollok is back today to conclude our series on grace as he explains how grace is the seed that leads us to do good works, not for salvation, but for spiritual maturity and growth. Scot Pollok is the lead pastor of Faith Bible Church of the Woodlands, TX and author of the booklet, Grace – Simple – Profound You may download the booklet by clicking the button below:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Pastor Scot Pollok) You would likely agree that it is easy to love those who love us, those who are like us, but Jesus said, “Love your enemy.” What if someone has badly hurt us or those we love? Jesus said to love them. How do we do that? Today, Scot Pollok, our guest and lead pastor of Faith Bible Church, shares another gift inside of grace that will help us to love even our enemies. Scot has written a booklet called  Grace – Simple. Profound. If you want a copy of the booklet , please click below:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Pastor Scot Pollok) God’s gift of Jesus should remind us of who we were without Him. Only God’s grace gives each of us a new identity in Christ. He is the one who justifies. Yet so many relationship problems today are rooted in pride. Today we will see how a gift of God’s grace may well be the healing balm needed, in our relationship with others, and our fellowship with God. Back for the third episode in our series is Scot Pollok, lead pastor of Faith Bible Church of the Woodlands, TX and author of the booklet, Grace – Simple. Profound. You may download the booklet by clicking the button below:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Pastor Scot Pollok) Are you certain you will spend eternity with Jesus? Many people, including those who profess to be Christians, will answer that question, “Well, I hope so.” Because of God’s grace, we can know so! Today’s message from Scot Pollok, lead pastor of Faith Bible Church, may be the most important message you will ever hear since you first believed in Christ for salvation. Scot is making available the booklet that he wrote for this series, Grace – Simple. Profound. If you want a copy of the booklet, please click below:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Pastor Scot Pollok) Beyond the wonderful truth that we are saved by grace through faith, there is much more to know about God’s amazing grace. Over the next few weeks we will have opportunity to take a fresh look at God’s transforming power in our lives, because of grace. Today our guest Scot Pollok will focus on the Grace Gospel, how man can be made right with God, apart from works of the law. This episode will open our fresh new podcast series entitled Grace. Scot is the lead pastor of Faith Bible Church of the Woodlands, TX and author of the booklet that we’re also making available for you, Grace – Simple. Profound. You may download the booklet by clicking the button below:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) Does your past record – the things you have done – haunt you with guilt and a broken spirit? Is your life like a broken record? One in which your past is replayed over and over again? In this final message of Strong at the Broken Places podcast series, Mark Rae will be dealing with our broken records – the records of our past lives that can break us and bring us to our knees. The beauty of this is that Christ had a broken record as well. His broken record is your broken record and my broken record. In fact, He was broken to save us from our past record. He came to restore and heal our brokenness and did it by becoming our broken record for us. What an amazing truth. Let’s listen to Mark as he shares the incredible truth of Jesus Christ becoming broken to heal our brokenness. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) Perhaps one of the most debilitating parts of life can be summed up in one word – doubt. Doubt can destroy faith, trust, belief, and confidence when it is left unchecked and unresolved. The disciple Thomas and even John the Baptist experienced doubt that could have shattered their faith and trust in Jesus. But as we will see, Jesus brought them face to face with their doubts and showed them Himself as the One who was big enough to dispel their doubts strengthen their faith and dependency in Him. Let’s listen in as Mark Rae shares with us how doubt in the lives of Thomas and John, were lovingly dealt with by Jesus bringing about peace, faith, grace, and patience. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) Have you ever gone through the painful experience of loss? Either personal loss or material loss? Loss of this magnitude can break us and leave us shattered but God meets us in the middle of this loss and can put the pieces back together. In fact, God provides abundantly and magnificently in the midst of loss if we will look for Him. Mark Rae shares with us today that God provides a Person – His Son; a Process – to see His healing in loss; a Place – the hope of eternity; Perspective – that only comes from loss; Purpose – richness in life now and in eternity; and Perfection – God provides exactly what you need in times of loss. God gives us above and beyond especially in times of loss. Are we open handed to receive His gifts or are we closefisted to His goodness for us? Let’s listen as Mark shares with us about loss and what we can gain in these difficult times. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) In the last two podcasts we have looked at trials and failures as things in life that can break us. We have seen the beauty, joy, and strength that God can bring out of those circumstances. In today’s podcast Mark Rae will share about the difficulties of suffering – the reasons for them and the responses to them as seen through the characters of Peter, David, Paul, and Christ. Dr. E Stanley Jones said, “Christianity is the only religion that dares ask its followers to accept suffering as a gift from God, because it is the only religion that dares say God too has suffered.” Let’s listen in as Mark shares with us the lives of these unique characters and the ultimate suffering of Jesus on our behalf. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) Have you ever experienced failure? If you have spent any amount of time in life on this earth, you have failed, and those failures can break you. If there is one person who understood failure in full measure it would be the Apostle Peter. Time and time again he failed spectacularly but through those failures he experienced wisdom, faith and grace in abundance. As Mark Rae, VP of Community Development and Executive Director of Grace Center for Spiritual Development, shares three incidences in the life of Peter, perhaps you can identify with Peter’s failures. If so, then listen to what Peter experienced out of those failures in his life. They can also be your experiences as God can teach us that failure is not fatal. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Mark Rae) “Life breaks us all”, so says Earnest Hemingway, “but many are made strong at the broken places.” The truth of this statement can be seen throughout the Scriptures not only on what we are taught but also in the lives of certain biblical characters. In this 6-week study, we will journey together through things in life that can break us and what God does in our brokenness to strengthen us and to bring beauty and joy out of our broken places. In this first podcast we will take a look at trials and see what James tells us is the reality of trials, the response we are to have to trials and the result of our response to those trials. Let’s listen as Mark Rae, Vice President of Community Development at Grace School of Theology and Executive Director of Grace Center for Spiritual Development shares with us the beauty and joy that God can bring out of trials. Study Guide link: We have developed a free study guide for Strong at the Broken Places that you can download for personal or group use as you listen to the podcast series. Download it here:   Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Roger Fankhauser) In God’s power and provision, we have the ability to experience purity. This podcast concludes our series on Stormproof Men, as we consider the importance of preparing for the storms of temptation that are sure to come. Our guest is Dr. Roger Fankhauser, author of “Stormproof Men: Sexual Purity for Christian Men in a Sex-Saturated World.” Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.

(Guest: Roger Fankhauser) Many passages of Scripture talk about the importance of sexual purity. But what does sexual purity look like? How do I make godly choices? What happens when I fail? In this podcast, we get answers to those questions. Continuing our 3-part series is our guest, Dr. Roger Fankhauser, author of “Stormproof Men: Sexual Purity for Christian Men in a Sex-Saturated World.” Questions: We look forward to interacting with you and the opportunity to address your questions on the podcast. Email your questions to savinggrace[at]gsot.edu. Stay Connected: You can also reach out to us on Twitter @savinggracecast and like Grace School of Theology’s Facebook page. These are great ways to stay up to date with news related to the podcast.