Grace House Church

About Grace House Church

Grace House Church is a group of House churches located in the Central Valley of California. These are the stories, scripture readings, sermons and insights from the community of Grace House Church. We are a diverse group of people who endeavor to see our neighborhoods loved the way we have been loved. The gospel of Jesus Christ is foundational and inescapable in our doctrine and how we live as a church body shaped by a culture of grace.

Publisher

Grace House

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Feb 2023

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026

   My Last Sermon (Part 1) Mark 6:30-32

   Pastor Josh introduces his very personal sermon, “My Last Sermon,” from Mark 6:30–32, explaining it was his final message as lead pastor after being slowly excluded by the church community he planted, a wound that drove him into anger, isolation, and spiritual famine. In that exile, he describes the Father pursuing him, entering his “pit,” lifting him out, and turning the place of shame into a garden, reshaping his view of church culture and performance and learning to finally live as a child of God. Returning to the text, he frames Jesus’ command, “Come away,” as rescue from busyness, success, and the temptation to trade being with Jesus for doing for Jesus, insisting that “withness precedes witness.” He anchors the call in God’s delighting love and adoption, warns of distraction and ministry-as-identity, and closes with the gospel: Emmanuel, God with us, Christ’s lonely cross, and restored rest and communion with the Father.

2. 

   26 Jul 2026

   Meek Sauce (Matthew 5:5) The Beatitudes

   Pastor Josh preaches on the beatitude, “Blessed are the meek,” arguing meekness is not weakness but strength governed and calibrated for healing. Drawing from Galatians 5’s prautes and Greek images of a healing salve, a steady wind, and a bridled stallion, he describes meekness as power under control, embodied supremely in Christ. He then shows meekness lived out in John 18, where Jesus faces arrest with authority, protects his disciples, rebukes Peter’s violence, and heals Malchus, choosing the Father’s cup over retaliation. In John 8, Jesus disarms a legalistic trap with “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,” exposes prejudice and entrapment, releases the woman with “Neither do I condemn you,” and calls her to “sin no more,” presenting grace that precedes change and points to Christ, the one who could throw the stone, instead letting the stone be thrown at Him, bearing her condemnation. Pastor Josh concludes that believers become meek by yoking themselves to Jesus, finding rest and freedom under his good and sovereign rule.

3. 

   14 Jun 2026

   The Girl Nobody Wanted (Genesis 29)

   Pastor Josh preaches from Genesis 29, beginning with the realism that relationships are hard and cannot bear the weight of ultimate fulfillment. He traces Jacob’s broken family line, his flight from Esau, and his hopeful arrival at the well where he meets Rachel, only to be manipulated by Laban, who exploits Jacob’s longing and his love-sick bargain. After seven years of labor Jacob is deceived into marrying Leah, then serves seven more years for Rachel, and the sermon lingers on the haunting phrase, “in the morning, behold, it was Leah,” as a picture of human disillusionment and idolatry. Leah, unwanted and unloved, names sons for being seen, heard, and attached, until she turns and says, “This time I will praise the Lord,” naming Judah. God sees Leah’s affliction, and through Judah brings the Messiah, pointing to Jesus as the bridegroom who comes for the bride nobody wanted.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings