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Motivated by God's Grace -  Part 1Principle 6, Titus 2:11-14To help Christians live godly lives, we should motivate them by clearly teaching the wonder of God's saving grace.NEW! - Let us know what you think of the program! Support the show

Motivated by God's Grace -  Part 1Principle 6, Titus 2:11-14To help Christians live godly lives, we should motivate them by clearly teaching the wonder of God's saving grace.NEW! - Let us know what you think of the program! Support the show

Rhythms of Grace: Part 1 Who am I Becoming? by

This week we pick up where we left off in Matthew chapter 23 where Jesus is rebuking the religious leaders of the day. As you hear these woes allow it to encourage you to be a speaker of truth in love. Jesus models this for us beautifully. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1368/29

As the student questions series continues, I'm talking through ideas for conversation inspired from a text we use in Core Theology class at Concordia University-Irvine–Called to Believe by Steven Mueller. In this episode we continue with chapter 12, which discusses the means of grace. Some thought prompts for discussion: Neither closed nor open communion are consistent with the will of God or His good message.  Is there an alternative? No human being has the authority to forgive sins Leavened vs. unleavened bread Fire vs. water--how do we think about Christianity? Giver vs. gifts

First Community Church 06.29.25 Glen Miles -Sermon Grace Part 2 You Too! The Search for Something More by First Community Church

As the student questions series continues, I'm talking through ideas for conversation inspired from a text we use in Core Theology class at Concordia University-Irvine–Called to Believe by Steven Mueller. In this episode we continue with chapter 12, which discusses the means of grace. Some thought prompts for discussion: I've heard it said, "We baptize babies because they can't believe."  What would be a helpful response to this?  The phrase "born again" does not occur in the Bible.  Is this a surprise? The Bible teaches "believer baptism".  What does that mean? "You can't be saved unless you are baptized." What are we to do with this? What about the argument that it's not possible for Jesus to give us His body and blood to eat and drink?

As the student questions series continues, I'm talking through ideas for conversation inspired from a text we use in Core Theology class at Concordia University-Irvine–Called to Believe by Steven Mueller. In this episode we turn to chapter 12, which discusses the means of grace. What are the means of grace?  And how do we respond to the claim that the sacraments are only symbolic?

Ruth, Finding Favor in the Field of Grace Part 05 - Dr. Lynn Hiles dynamically teaches on the finished work of the cross, the message of God's never-ending love, and His grace which causes us to have an abundant life. www.lynnhiles.comThe Revelation of Jesus Christ: Paperback Bookhttps://a.co/d/5flSbY5Last Days Study Guide: A Victorious Eschatologyhttps://a.co/d/86AlNpyGiving: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7NJ2V7SAJGYV8

Because God's grace has saved me from sin, I must continue to live in His grace to live a life pleasing unto Him, looking ahead to His glorious return.

Today on The program, pastor Al Pittman continues his study of Galatians, and has us turn to the fifth chapter. It's here that the apostle Paul combats the legalists of his day with the message of God's grace. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1425/29

Pastor Al Pittman will show us today what the apostle Paul was referring to when he told the Galatians “They have fallen from grace”. And as we go along in this section of Galatians, we'll receive a very strong but needed warning not to pursue self-righteousness. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1425/29

Ruth, Finding Favor in the Field of Grace Part 04 - Dr. Lynn Hiles dynamically teaches on the finished work of the cross, the message of God's never-ending love, and His grace which causes us to have an abundant life. www.lynnhiles.com

Here in America, we consider it a courtesy to open and close a door for another person. Some of us guys forget that about the fourth or fifth year of marriage, right? Today, we'll observe God opening and closing doors for His children, and specifically the apostle Paul. God sovereignly orchestrates the events of our lives, and that can be a great comfort to know. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1425/29

In Part 2, we start off talking about the underground nature of trans and drag safe spaces such as Compton's back in the Sixities, and well before that. Because of this, precise records of places and events are often hard to come by. Saoirse also speaks to the human psychology of needing other people to act in order to justify joining an action. Of course, everyone's threshold for this varies. Shane joins in to talk about how queer history is the story of fighting back against hate when there's nothing left to lose. Folks on the frontlines of these battles don't always plan the fights that end up happening. Case in point—the events at Compton's Cafeteria that form the basis of the play. Then we shift the conversation to talk about Compton's Cafeteria Riot and how the play came about. Mark Nassar (Tony and Tina's Wedding) saw the Tenderloin Museum's (TLM) exhibition on the riot at Compton's and soon got in touch with Donna Personna and Collette LeGrande through a project the two were working on at the time—Beautiful by Night, a short documentary about their lives as trans people and drag queens. Over the course of about a year of periodic meetings at Mark's house, where Donna and Collette shared their stories of Compton's and the riot, the three weaved together enough personal stories to create an immersive play. Katie Conry at the Tenderloin Museum told the group that if something ever came out of what they're doing, to let her know. Shane shares her story of the first time she saw Donna Personna perform. Prior to that, Shane thought that drag was a young person's thing. She'd never seen someone of Donna's age do drag. But she was blown away and was able to meet Donna. That night, Donna hinted to Shane about the project she was working on with Mark Nassar and Collette LeGrande. She told Shane that when the time came, when they had something ready, she'd let her know. About a year later, Shane was at Mark's house reading for the role of Rusty, the character based on Donna. Some of this story has already appeared on Storied: SF, in the podcast on Katie and TLM. The museum helped bring the play to life by getting a space for the production. It was 2018. They were doing it. The first run of Compton's Cafeteria Riot lasted several months. It was deemed a success and the plan was to bring it back in 2020. But the universe had different ideas. Prior to the pandemic, the biggest challenge was securing a space. But then, Shane says she was at Piano Fight in February 2020 for an event to sign a lease on a new spot. Just a few weeks later, the first shelter-in-place orders were handed down. Shane speaks to what it means, now more than five years down the road and in a very different political and social environment, to get the play staged. And Saoirse talks about how honored she is and how personal it is for her to portray an actual living legend (Collette LeGrande). I ask Shane and Saoirse to respond to this season's theme on Storied—”keep it local.” Saorise then shares the story of being targeted and harassed by right-wing bigots (is there any other kind?) right here in San Francisco. She tells this story to emphasize that, even in The City, trans people are not safe from fascist transphobia and violence that are spreading across the nation and the world. She also speaks to the massive wealth disparity here in SF and The Bay. All of this to say that for Saoirse, keeping it local requires engaging with all of these truths. Shane begins by riffing off of Saoirse's response. She works for The City and County of San Francisco and wonders whether some of her coworkers know what's at risk. She points to right-wing groups coming to SF to hold “de-transition” events. She then ends the episode by cataloging the many reasons she loves The City and wants us all to fight for it. For more information and to buy tickets for Compton's Cafeteria Riot, please go to comptonscafeteriariot.com. And follow the production on Instagram @comptonscafeteriariot. We recorded this episode in the Compton's Cafeteria Riot play space in the Tenderloin in May 2025. Photography by Mason J.

Today, Pastor Al Pittman will urge us to do live by faith. Galatians chapter four will be our text for today's teaching. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1425/29

Because God's grace has saved me from sin, I must continue to live in His grace to live a life pleasing unto Him, looking ahead to His glorious return.

Saoirse Grace was one of the first successful in vitro pregnancies in Massachusetts. In this episode, Saoirse is joined by her Compton's Cafeteria Riot play costar, Shane Zaldivar. The two share short versions of their respective life stories and how they got to the Bay Area and San Francisco. Then we dig into the history of the Compton's Cafeteria riot, followed by a conversation on the play about the riot, their roles in it, and the actual lived experiences of trans people today. Saoirse, who plays Collette in the play, was born in Boston and grew up a little there, and a little in San Diego. But she got into some trouble in school and was sent to reform school in Austria, near her ancestral homeland in the Dolomites. After high school, not exactly wanting to come back to the US, she went to France for college, where she studied Spanish language literature. This whole time, Saoirse was a professional actor. She started acting in third grade. By seventh grade or so, she knew that acting was something she loved to do. After about a decade of just acting, Saoirse joined an aerial circus, where she was a trapeze artist for a group in Texas called Sky Candy. After a few years in Austin, working and doing circus performances, Saoirse came to San Francisco to go to law school. She says, perhaps half-jokingly, that she still wanted to perform, but to do so in a way that made more money than acting. She went to USF and did some police accountability work, but ultimately, practicing law didn't work out. And so, after a short time in Las Vegas doing porn and sex work, Saoirse came back to The Bay to do a PhD program to become a professor. It was another opportunity to have an audience, but to also make more money than other performing careers. But that also didn't pan out. This run with the Compton's Cafeteria Riot play is Saoirse's first foray back into acting in more than a decade. Backing up a little, I ask Saoirse about her first move to San Francisco and what she thought of it. She shares the story of leaving Austin, packing up as much as she could fit on her bicycle in Seattle, and riding down the Pacific coast to get here. Wow. At the end of that roughly 1,000-mile ride, she arrived in The City during the Pride parade in 2013. The timing! She soon found work as a bicycle mechanic, something Saoirse still does more than a decade later. Then we get to know Shane Zaldivar, who plays Rusty in Compton's Cafeteria Riot. Shane was born and raised in Florida, where she spent time between there and Belize, where a lot of her family is from. Her mom had Shane when she was relatively young, and so she spent a lot of time with her mom's family, both in Belize and in the US. Life in Florida was rough for Shane. She was bullied a lot early in life for her femininity. She says that when she visits now, she gets no joy out of the place except to be with family members. Belize was much more hospitable for her. She went to middle school and high school in the Central American country. But she ended up getting a scholarship to attend college at Florida International University, which she says is a diverse place. It was at college that Shane had several awakenings—her sexuality, her love of doing drag. But she says her biggest realization, the one that led her to the Bay Area, was around cannabis. Where she had previously bought into the idea that weed was this terrible thing, from the first time Shane tried it, it changed everything for her. Shane set out to learn everything she could about the plant and its medicinal, healing properties. She took a college class in Florida on hallucinogens and in that class learned about a school in Oakland called Oaksterdam University. That's what led Shane to The Bay. She raised money for the flight and registration at her new school. Once here, she patched together a liberal arts degree in Oakland, studying such topics as hospitality, theater, and anthropology. It was 2014, and she lived in Oakland, too. But it dawned on her later that San Francisco was only a bridge away. After moving around from hostel to hostel, she found an affordable place of her own in The City. It didn't take Shane long to fall in love with the Bay Area. She soon discovered events like Folsom Street Fair and spots like The Stud. She got a job in the Ferry Building and found a place to live, a place she still resides in 10 years later. She says that San Francisco is where she really got to explore her art and her activism. In addition to being in a band, Shane is the Pop-up Drag Queen, a local fixture who performs al fresco, usually in front of the Ferry Building. Then we talk about her foray into acting, something that came about relatively recently in Shane's life. From the first time she acted, back in Florida, she felt an intense joy that has stayed with her. It marked the first time she played with gender. Today, she identifies as a trans woman. The first run of Compton's, back in 2018, was her return to the art and her first really serious acting gig. We wrap up Part 1 with the historical event behind the Compton's Cafeteria riot, the basis of the play. It was August 1966, so nearly 60 years ago. No one is sure of the exact date, but it was a weekend. “The Tenderloin at the time was the Vegas of San Francisco,” Saoirse tells us. The neighborhood was also the only place that drag queens and trans women were allowed to exist. There was less of a distinction between the two back then—something important to understand, both in this conversation and also in the play. Similarly to the story of Stonewall in New York (which took place two years after Compton's), police did their best not to let these folks exist. The cops commonly conducted raids and sweeps, both on the street and in otherwise safe spaces, which Compton's Cafeteria was. But on that day in August 1966, a trans woman at Compton's decided to fight back, throwing a mug of hot coffee on an officer. Her tight-knit community had her back, as did Vanguard (a radical queer and trans youth organization), and the riot had begun. Check back next week for Part 2 with Shane and Saoirse. And find tickets to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot play here. We recorded this podcast inside the performance space on Larkin in the Tenderloin where Compton's Cafeteria Riot is having its 2025 run. Photography by Jeff Hunt

Ruth, Finding Favor in the Field of Grace Part 03 - Dr. Lynn Hiles dynamically teaches on the finished work of the cross, the message of God's never-ending love, and His grace which causes us to have an abundant life. www.lynnhiles.com

Larry Connelly Sunday School 6/8/25

As Pastor Ken continues to teach through the book of Hosea, he'll be challenging you to return to your first love and to do those good works you first did when you fell in love with Jesus. Our first love is the love Christ gives us for God and each other. Don't allow your love relationship to cool into mere religion. You should be zealous for the truth, but that zeal should be tempered so that you are always “speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ”.  

Ruth, Finding Favor in the Field of Grace Part 02 - Dr. Lynn Hiles dynamically teaches on the finished work of the cross, the message of God's never-ending love, and His grace which causes us to have an abundant life. www.lynnhiles.com

Larry Connelly Sunday School 6/1/25

Today, Pastor Ken will explain that there is overwhelming evidence for the existence of Jesus, both in secular and biblical history. The greatest evidence that Jesus did exist is the fact that literally thousands of Christians in the first century AD, including the twelve apostles, were willing to give their lives as martyrs for Jesus Christ. People will die for what they believe to be true, but no one will die for what they know to be a lie. Remember, if Christ was not raised from the dead, believers will not be either.

Today, Pastor Ken will remind you that God is the Designer and Craftsman of everything in the universe, and He created human beings a step above all the rest. By breathing His own life into that man, He created the man and woman “in His own image”. That means that human beings are more like God than any other created thing. We have an eternal spirit, just as God has. The wise person bows before the Creator and willingly submits himself or herself to the only One who truly knows how we are made. 

In this episode of the Relational Recovery Podcast, hosts Wes Thompson and Austin Hill continue their conversation about the role and importance of grace in recovery.

Ruth, Finding Favor in the Field of Grace Part 01 - Dr. Lynn Hiles dynamically teaches on the finished work of the cross, the message of God's never-ending love, and His grace which causes us to have an abundant life. www.lynnhiles.com

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We hope you enjoyed this episode.For more information regarding Equipt Conference, check this link: https://clcmemphis.life/equipt-conferenceIf you haven't yet, make sure to leave a review and let us know your thoughts on the content this week. Also, make sure to add our podcast to your library if you haven't yet, so you don't miss our weekly content. Also, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠seedgiver.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and consider becoming a part of this missions initiative. With your spare change, you can change the world!

Paul: A Man of Grace and Grit

Paul: A Man of Grace and Grit