Garden City Church

Garden City Church Pittsburgh
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Garden City Church

Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for Garden City Church in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find and listen to messages from our weekend worship gatherings here. It's our hope that these messages encourage you to know and love God more, and to live out your faith well in your local communities.

  1. Jesus Alone

    1月5日

    Jesus Alone

    This week, Pastor Dennis Allan kicks-off our new series, Hold Fast. It's the new year and so many things are shifting and changing around us. A new president will soon be inaugurated, there are wars raging across the world, and in our own personal lives many of us are welcoming new babies, changing jobs, dealing with health issues, and walking through difficult seasons with parents, siblings, grandchildren, and friends. In the midst of all this, we're still trying to go to work, pay our bills, and maintain healthy relationships. As Jesus once said, the cares of this world loom large. So, how can we hold fast to Jesus when things feel unsteady and uncertain, and we feel anxious and fearful? The author of Hebrews starts their letter by focusing on Jesus. Because, when things are swirling all around us what we most need to do is fix our eyes on Jesus alone.

    37 分钟
  2. Our King has Arrived

    2024/12/24

    Our King has Arrived

    This Christmas Eve, Julia talks with the kids about the way God arrives into our world as a baby, born to simple parents in the middle of nowhere. And, not only that, but the first people God told about this baby were a bunch of nobody shepherds. But in His arrival, God made clear that He sees us, knows us, and loves us. That He will come for us and rescue us. Pastor Dennis, then, talks about the prophet Isaiah's foretelling of Jesus' arrival. How the prophet speaks of a coming hope, a rescuing power, who will turn darkness to light, war to peace, and corruption to justice. In Jesus, God's great reversal begins where the mighty are brought low and the low are lifted high. No matter how we find ourselves this Christmas, Jesus has come for us.

    33 分钟
  3. Love

    2024/12/23

    Love

    This week, Pastor Shaq discusses the Advent theme of love. Mary's Magnifcat is a call to every person who has been overlooked, margianlized, exploited, oppressed, or cast aside that the Messiah is coming. He will scatter the proud, bring down rulers from their thrones, lift up the humble, fill the hungry, send away the rich, and extend mercy to all who seek it. In Jesus' arrival, God's children will be welcomed home. They'll find unexpected community, where they'll experience God's love and care.

    25 分钟
  4. Joy

    2024/12/15

    Joy

    This week, Carrie Buckner continues our Advent series. The crowds are coming to John at the Jordan asking to be baptized. He warns the crowds to bear fruit in keeping with repentance, and when asked what they must do John replies by instructing them to do the work of justice. He tells them to set right things that have been made wrong. In essence, he foreshadows in Jesus' arrival the Year of Jubilee. God, in and through Jesus will deal with the oppressor, rescue the lame, and gather the exiles. He'll bring joy to those who mourn. This is also a vulnerable space for many people as joy can sometimes be difficult to experience, especially in the lead up to Christmas. Carrie demonstrates how Jesus meets us right where we are and loves us.

    26 分钟
  5. Hope

    2024/12/01

    Hope

    This week, Nick Ventresca, pastor of The Barn Community Church in Doylestown, PA visited to talk through the hope we can find and revel in through the Advent season. We talked through one of Jeremiah's prophecies to God's people - that one day hope would break-in to their world and deliver them from oppression. It's a prophecy that reminds us hope is hard won and fought for. It comes to us and for us in seasons that are challenging, difficult, dark, and troublesome. Yet, the promise is real and it's for everyone - God is coming for His people.

    24 分钟
  6. Lament and the act of trusting God

    2024/11/24

    Lament and the act of trusting God

    We don't lament enough. When people hurt us, when we experience distress, when we feel insecure or vulnerable, when we've been hurt, wounded, or discarded, when we experience abandonment, when we feel like we're surrounded by evil and see or experience oppression or exploitation, we're invited to turn to God and trust Him to do what only He can and should do. But, lament is not a practice we frequently engage. Instead, we oftentimes try to push through and solve whatever problem we're facing in our own strength and wisdom. But, Psalm 120, the first of the Psalms of Ascent, provides a framework for how we can lament in the face of difficult, frustrating, and trying times. We can turn to God, name our complaint, ask God to intervene, and choose to trust Him.

    33 分钟
  7. We do the work of repair and renewal

    2024/11/09

    We do the work of repair and renewal

    The Presidential election was this past Tuesday. It's true the election of Donald Trump as President for the second time will shape the context in which individual Christians and the church are to live out Jesus' mission in meaningful, tangible ways. Yet, the church's mission remains the same. The person who wields Presidential power doesn't have power over Jesus or the work Jesus' people do. This week, Pastor Dennis talked about how, through our homes and in our neighborhoods, we're still to build active Kingdom outposts that take on Jesus' work of reconciliation, repair, and renewal. It's work that is inefficient, slow, and oftentimes foolish, where sometimes only one good deed out of every thousand seems to make an impact. Yet, the slow work of repair and renewal is ours to do, day after day, week after week, year after year, until we return home to Jesus.

    31 分钟
  8. Jesus is the hope of the world, not America

    2024/11/02

    Jesus is the hope of the world, not America

    This week, Dennis Allan talks through the ways Jesus' "city on a hill" language has been co-opted by American political leaders, both Democrats and Republicans, to ascribe to America a divinely mandated role in the world similar to Old Testament Israel. But, Jesus wasn't talking about Israel, and he certainly wasn't talking about any modern nation-state, including America. He was talking to His closest followers, the disciples, about their individual and communal lives. He was talking about how they were to live out their faith in a way that every person could see. He was inviting them to live distinctive, counter-cultural, revolutionary lives rooted in the Kingdom's subversive ethics outlined in the Sermon on the Mount. We must never ascribe to America (or its political leaders) divine mandate Jesus never gave to it. Instead, it's the church who is now supposed to be like a "city on a hill" for all the world to see because Jesus is the hope of the world, not America.

    38 分钟
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Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for Garden City Church in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find and listen to messages from our weekend worship gatherings here. It's our hope that these messages encourage you to know and love God more, and to live out your faith well in your local communities.

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  • 创作者
    Garden City Church Pittsburgh
  • 活跃年份
    2021年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    123
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © Copyright 2025 Garden City Church Pittsburgh
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    Garden City Church

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