Grantham Church Podcast Grantham Church
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- Religion & Spirituality
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The weekly sermon podcast of Grantham Church. Grantham is an intergenerational, convergent, third way congregation with the Brethren in Christ US, and located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Visit us online at granthamchurch.org.
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A Towel, Basin & Two Swords
On Thursday of Holy Week, after a day of relative calm, the forces of darkness begin to descend upon Jesus and his disciples. Everything is now moving quickly. He will wash his disciples’ feet, change the meaning of the Passover meal, give a new commandment, be betrayed with a kiss, rebuke Peter for using a sword against their enemies, and be arrested. In the fifth message of our series, Pastor David invites us to follow Jesus’ command to love as he does, even when all hell breaks loose.
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Two Roads: Which Way Will I Go?
On Wednesday, in the middle of Holy Week, we encounter the quietness of three private scenes. And each of these scenes reveal different ways of responding to Jesus and his approach to pursuing peace. We’ll find that two roads emerge: a path toward Jesus and a path away from him. In the fourth message of our series, Pastor Melissa encourages us to consider what is underlying our responses to Jesus and challenges us to follow in his way of peacemaking.
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Traps, Truth-Telling & Traitors
After Jesus cleared the temple on Monday, he returned there the next day to teach and challenge the hypocrisy of the religious leaders. They try to trap Jesus with their baited questions, hoping that the crowds would turn against him. But they fail. Instead, Jesus tricks them into entrapping themselves. In the third message of our series, Pastor David invites us not to overlook the words of Jesus on Holy Tuesday so that we can adopt his approach to waging peace when our enemies try to entrap us.
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The Whip of Christ
Perhaps the most misunderstood action of Jesus in Holy Week is when he went into the temple with a homemade whip, turned over tables, and drove out animals and money changers. This event on Holy Monday has been used by some misguided Christians to justify a self-indulgent anger toward oppressors and violence against evildoers by others. In the second message of our series, Pastor David helps us to make sense of Jesus’ actions and then apply the Lord’s example to our own lives.
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A Hammer or a Lamb?
The first day of Holy Week is known as Palm Sunday. It’s the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey while being lauded as Messiah. But while many people celebrated, Jesus wept. The crowds didn’t understand who Jesus was, and they rejected his way of peacemaking. In the first message of our series, Pastor David challenges us to see the triumphal entry as the key to understanding Holy Week, and then he invites us to open our hearts to the way of the sacrificial Lamb.
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Overcoming a Critical & Judgmental Spirit
It’s not just our upbringing and experiences that make us critical and judgmental of others. The inclination to accuse and assume the worst about others, and to judge them in your heart, is rooted in our fallen human nature. So, as disciples of Jesus, we’re called to resist those evil impulses and choose love over judgment. Because you can’t love people and judge them at the same time. In today’s message, Pastor David shares how we can overcome a critical and judgmental spirit with love.