Idaho Grace Sermon Podcast

Here's my message for prodigals and Pharisees: You can come home. You can come in. Come to your senses. Prodigals, look around at where you sin has taken you, what it's taken from you. Pharisees, look at what your self-justification has done to you. The irritation, the hard heart, the critical spirit, the anger at sinners. You have a father who is not abusive, hard to please, or distant. You have a Father who runs with arms wide open.  

Being a good neighbor begins by coming into the kingdom yourself.  The transformation of regeneration.  But a citizen of the kingdom always has a calling.  To speak the gospel, share it with words.  To show the gospel, share it by being a merciful catalyst of change.  Will you receive it?  Will you do it?  Will you be it? 

Join Pastor Matt Ritchey for the fourth episode of the series Moral of the Story, looking at Matthew 25 and The Parable of the Talents. 

In Matthew 25, Jesus made it clear that His return would be obvious. However, he also made it clear that it will be unexpected. We are to be watching and waiting in eager anticipation. Are you ready?

Forgiveness is unnatural.  And if you only deal with it at the surface level, then you'll settle for an artificial forgiveness that isn't real and is only temporary.  Real forgiveness comes only from a changed heart.     

Join Pastor Keith for the first episode in a new series titled "Moral of the Story," beginning with the parable in Matthew 13.

Your story says that you're in the middle of an impossible circumstance, but your Savior says that nothing is impossible with me.  Your story says that you are dead, but your Savior says I came back to life and conquered death and specialize in bringing dead things to life.  Don't let you story define you, let the Savior define you.  Because, as long as you look to your Savior there is always hope!  This is why we can celebrate: Jesus is alive! 

Join Keith Waggoner once more in Mark 8 as he explores practical steps on the journey of discipleship.

There are three reoccurring themes that show up in Mark: Who is Jesus? Why did Jesus come? How should we respond? You're going to see these three themes in this week's passage, Mark 8, as we continue to focus on our response to who Jesus is and what He has done. 

Join Keith Waggoner in Mark 10 as he addresses the big question, "Is Jesus Enough?"

Join in for episode 4 of the Best News Ever as Pr. Keith looks at Mark 15 and the significance of the cross.

Join Pr. Matt Ritchey for the 3rd episode in the series Best News Ever.

Join us as we move into the second sermon in the series Best News Ever.

The war is over, we are freed, our future is changed, and our headline is rewritten! This is all because of the gospel, the good news that God saves sinners, no matter their story, through Christ. It is good news for everyone!

Just as Joshua made a choice, so must we. Are we going to be a Christian home in name only, blending in with the culture, or will we be a Christ-centered home? Let's make our choice: we will serve the Lord.

One by one, the victories will be read and celebrated. The scoreboard will tell the story. But it's not going to talk about how great we were. It's going to tell the incredible story of how great God was.

Post-surrender, we walk in the Spirit.  What's that mean?  We constantly depend on His strength, remain aware of our need, stay confident in His work and submit to His leading.  Guess what happens?  God shows up again.  His promises are there again. 

Our openness to and desire to follow God and to his people is a preview into our future fate. Are you hiding behind walls or gathering up people to protect? 

God doesn't just call us to things we expect to be called to. Sometimes, He leads us to things that we feel unequipped or ill-equipped to handle. Things way outside our comfort zone. 

Before you take the land, before you move forward, before you fight, do this:  Remember.  Remember what God has done.  Build a monument.  

We don't prepare for the coming of the Hebrews, but we do live with an eye toward the second coming of our Joshua (Jeshua)—Jesus Christ.  God's grace offers you hope and a future.  Stop holding yourself back if God is calling you forward. 

The same incredible, powerful force that raised Christ from the dead will turn every “I can't” into “I can't, but God can.”  Yes, every saint has a past, but every sinner has a future.  God is calling us forward.  What's holding you back?  Kill the excuses.  Let's go!

A new year is an intuitive time to do some self-assessment, to set goals, and to focus on what could potentially bring the transformation we long to see.

Jesus is the central point of history and your story.  Have you come to know him?  That's what God has been saying to you, even in all of your pain or in chasing after pleasure.  He's trying to get you to see that life is fragile, and that there is no joy on earth that can sustain you or fill you.  You were created for something more.  There is a love and a joy from outside this world that will transform your life if you will receive it and His name is JESUS. 

What is the best way to deal with sin?

Join us as we wrap up the Royalty Disguised Series

Join us for our special Thanksgiving service!

Stop sinning.  Start serving.  Am I ready for the return of Christ?  Is my life lived for my glory or am I living my life for His glory? 

Have you shared your story? Are you ready to share your story? Part of being a witness is your story of faith and how God has been faithful to you.

Are you living out your name?  It's what leads to the blessed life.  The blessed life begins with a right attitude.   

We welcome guest speaker Dr. Mike Avery

Join us as we continue our series, "Royalty Disguised".

Join us as we continue our series, "Royalty Disguised".

What a waste that would be.  Are you wasting God's gift to you?  God in love has called us to holiness.  God in love has provided everything we need for holiness.  Which means that you and I can walk in obedience to God's Word and live a life of holiness.  Holiness isn't just expected by God; it's a promise from God for you.  “Be holy as I am holy.”  Don't be scared.  Be thankful.  He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it.

For the last month and a half, we've been breaking down Paul's teaching in Colossians 3, looking at this chapter specifically in a family context.  Paul makes it clear that if we have been truly saved our lives are hidden with Christ in God, but the fruit of that life is not hidden.  It's visible.  It's most visible in our relationships with other people.   

Harmony.  It's the instruments playing the intended notes together, something that results in beautiful music.  It's two people who have stopped fighting with God and have begun working together to both keep and make peace.  This is the Good Life! 

Join us as we continue our series, "The Good Life".

Guest speaker, Aaron Duvall, continues our series, The Good Life.

Don't live reactively; live proactively.  Your identity is in Christ.  Your destiny is to be with Christ.  Your priority is to live for Christ. Is there something for which you've dropped the cross so you could pick up something else? As a spouse, parent, grandparent, or single adult where do you feel the pressure to be conformed to the world? Deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow Christ. 

Yet, if your joy is in the God of your salvation, "Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls," you can rejoice in the LORD. 

If God could do something, why doesn't He? We have all felt this tension at some point: Why do the wicked prosper? Why should someone who is an unbeliever hove it good while you suffer?