Grace Matters

This episode captures the conversation with two families on different ends of the missions experience - one family has returned home after 12 years overseas, and one family is preparing to go serve refugees. This conversation is a great encouragement to be a good neighbor as a means of sharing the love of Jesus.

This conversation picks up after a viewing of the documentary film Lifted: A Dying Tribe Encounters New Life. www.twr.org/lifted - https://youtu.be/5DjyBZdHoxY?si=uAnXsoXjwxYA8hsl

Pastor David follows up with 3 of the panelists to answer questions that were submitted during the live discussion in the previous month.

This panel discussion seeks to equip parents with information about the 3 main streams of education in our local context: Public, Private, and Home education.

In conversation with Keisha Culbreth (Children's Ministry Director) and Kyler Martin (Next Generation Pastor), Pastor David helps demonstrate the blessings of intergenerational ministry at GCC.

To supplement the teaching ministry of Grace Matters, the Young Adult team at GCC hosted a One-Day Conference on Apologetics. This is the opening session from that conference.

The Q&A session that ended the One-Day Conference on Apologetics

In this breakout session from the One-Day Conference, guest Pastor Don Sandberg demonstrates what a reasonable dialogue about a controversial topic might look like

Pastor Kyler Martin tackles the apologetic issues in a Christian's response to politics and government in this breakout session

Neal Manning leads this breakout session, considering the important balance between articulating faith and demonstrating faith in apologetics

Chris Kerns shares an approach to theodicy, or the problem of evil in the world, in this breakout session

Dr. David Calvert gives some categories to help understand what is going on in the background of language and apologetics

Conversations with the Young Adult team who went to Italy and the Student Ministry team who went to Cuba on short-term mission trips in July 2023

After viewing a short film developed by TWR Motion, David Calvert facilitates a discussion with TWR staff/missionaries on the ways media is changing, the ways we share the gospel, and what it's like in Bonaire. Check out the short film, The Best Possible Idea, on YouTube or by clicking the link in the description notes.

David catches up with Stephen and Rebecca Kelly, members of the FAM Leadership Team, to talk about lingering questions from the FAM Panel Conversation and hear some of their story in the journey of fostering.

This panel discussion introduces the FAM team, with special guests from Baptist Children's Homes of NC. More info will be coming for the Foster & Adoption Ministry throughout 2023

Neal Manning facilitates a discussion with Lee Williford and Mike Sowers (Great Commission Catalyst for NC Baptists) about the demographics in the specific areas around Grace Community Church. See the attached files for all the nitty-gritty details and numbers.

This Grace Matters panel discussion focuses on how our local church might respond to life after the Roe v. Wade and Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court. Guests include Tonya Baker Nelson, CEO of Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Centers, Mike Sowers, Great Commission Catalyst for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, and Neal Manning, one of our elders and father to an adopted son.

Our Grace Matters panel discussion welcomed Rick Gutierrez from Anthem Church and Dr. Edward Fubara from New Breed Church. Through our conversations, we challenged assumptions, questioned narratives, and sought to listen well to each other as we focused on the centrality of the gospel.

In this month's Grace Matters panel discussion, Neal Manning moderates a discussion around the issue of domestic abuse. Jamie Criswell, Stacey Thompson, and Pastor Brad Talley are the panelists, who share personal and professional experience with the topic at hand. Attached to the episode on graceccnc.org is the PDF of the resources referenced and shared during the panel

Now that we've moved to fifth Sundays of a month, we hosted the panel discussion on the week following Memorial weekend. Our panelists reflected on the importance of the doctrine of inerrancy for our church and for the believer.

A brief episode offering an update on the most recent Grace Matters panel and the upcoming episodes flowing out of it.

Neal Manning continues his conversation with Father James Gurgis, priest of the Eastern Orthodox church in Fuquay-Varina

This is part 1 of a 2-part conversation between Neal Manning and Father James Gurgis. Neal is an elder at GCC and the content director for Grace Matters, and he sat down with Fr. James to explore Eastern Orthodoxy and its relationship with church history and evangelicals.

This episode continues our followup conversations from the panel on Contextualization. Pastor Rick Gutierrez from Anthem Church in Angier gives insight to his experience as a church planter and Angier native.

Following up on the panel discussion on Contextualization, David sits down with Geo and Alaya who are both on staff with Campus Outreach, serving at Campbell University. They consider the kinds of contextualization that go into the task of being a domestic missionary.

July's panel discussion, held via Zoom, focused on the issues of Contextualization in various ministry contexts. Special guests included Rick Gutierrez from Anthem Church, Terry Manahan from Fellowship Bible Church, and Geoffrey Thompson & Alaya Reynolds from Campus Outreach at Campbell University.

David Calvert and Neal Manning discuss the purpose of Grace Matters, where it came from, and where it may go over the rest of 2020 and beyond.

David meets with Griffin Gulledge via Zoom - Griffin has given workshops for parents and youth groups on social media and app usage and provides a helpful theological perspective for technology and the family.

In this follow-up episode, David sits down with Sarah Painter to get a parent's perspective on the place of technology in the family.

David Calvert sits down with Pastor Jeff Kelly to talk more about the theological background for engaging technology in our families. This episode follows the panel discussion on Technology and the Family

Our first virtual panel discussion - certainly appropriate since the panel discusses Technology and the Family. Hosted by Neal Manning, with David Calvert, Jeff Kelly, and Sarah Painter as contributing panelists. If you have any followup questions, send them to gracematters@graceccnc.org for supplemental episodes coming soon.

In this episode of Grace Matters, David Calvert talks with Dr. David Dermott about the practice of psychology from the perspective of a Christian. This episode supplements the panel discussion on the Christian and Mental Health.

To supplement our most recent panel conversation on the Christian and Mental Health, David met with Jamie Criswell to continue the conversation about her experience in marriage and family therapy. For more info, see www.foundationsft.com - and check out www.shorturl.at/mNOR1 for definitions to some of the key terms.

David sits down with Dan Clement, Associate Pastor at Triangle Community Church in Apex NC, to discuss "biblical counseling" and how to understand it in terms of discipleship.

This episode includes the Grace Matters panel from 1-29-2020, featuring Ben McGuire (representing biblical counseling), Jamie Criswell (representing faith-based therapy), and David Dermott (representing clinical psychology) as they discuss the stigma of mental health and the various terms that need to be clarified.

Grace Matters: Conversations establishing believers in the truth. This conversation supplements the October 2019 panel discussion on adoption and foster care.

Grace Matters: Conversations establishing believers in the truth. This conversation supplements the October 2019 panel discussion on adoption and foster care.

This Grace Matters panel discussion from 10-2019 features Donnas Kinton, Jessica Hughey, and Steven Eisenberg reflecting on the task and privilege of caring for orphans.