Grace Church Southern Pines
by Grace Church Southern Pines
A weekly podcast from Grace Church, located in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Featuring sermons and topic based podcasts ranging from scriptures to parenting advice. For more information on our church's mission and beliefs, please visit: http://www.gracechurchsp.org
Episodes
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Seek Week: Pursuing God’s Presence | ryan peterson
11.1.2026 WE CANNOT OUTSOURCE THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY! We are watching a generation face unprecedented darkness, and the Church cannot afford to remain complacent. We cannot outsource the spiritual future of our city to programs, elections, schools, or someone else’s prayers. The responsibility is...
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Managing Your Household – Sabbath | ryan peterson
10.25.2026 God never designed you to live exhausted or driven by the endless demand to produce. From the beginning, He established the Sabbath as a holy rhythm—a day to stop striving, remember His goodness, and encounter His presence. While culture measures your worth by what you produce, the...
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Managing Your Household – Parenting pt. 2 | ryan peterson
10.18.26 The Biblical call to parents is to raise children who are grateful for God’s abundance rather than entitled by it, remembering that every good gift comes from Him. Through clear responsibilities, meaningful choices, and the weight of outcomes, we help our children develop maturity and...
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Managing Your Household – Parenting pt. 1 | ryan peterson
10.11.26 The three marks of a disciple are: strengthen yourself in the LORD, manage your household, and fill your city with Jesus. We’ve been looking at managing our household like a GREENHOUSE. In Ephesians 6:1–4, Paul addresses both children and parents and their responsibilities toward one...
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Managing Your Household – Marriage | ryan peterson
10.04.26 Marriage is not an isolated subject—it is part of the greater story of God. Ephesians 5 reveals that marriage begins with hearts awakened to God. Before Paul ever speaks to husbands and wives, he calls us to be filled with the Spirit and submit to one another out of reverence for Christ....
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The Greenhouse Pt. 2 | ryan peterson
9.27.2026 Your greenhouse holds multiple gardens representing different relationships: marriage, children, friendships, and extended family. Each has unique soil requiring specific nutrients to flourish. Even a right action done at the wrong time can cause harm. When we discern hearts, step into...
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The Greenhouse Pt. 1 | ryan peterson
9.20.2026 What’s in your heart is displayed in your home. God designed the home to be a greenhouse—a place where His presence cultivates an environment of life and life abundantly. To manage our households means to be present, intentional, and actively involved in the well-being of those God has...
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Family on Mission | ryan peterson
09.13.26 The picture we see of family in the Old Testament is a grim one, yet a source of hope to use as a blueprint. It’s a wonder how a family survived after you look at the depth of the dysfunction that has been passed on for generations. We see rampant sins piled up that are deep and wide.…
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Lessons from Ruth: Redemption, Reconciliation, & Restoration | Dan Lyle
09.06.26 This week we follow the story of Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz and see a physical representation of a spiritual truth: there is possibility for true redemption (freedom), reconciliation (peace), and restoration (wholeness), no matter how difficult life’s circumstances. In this process, we learn...
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Baptism: A Great Cost | Keith Golightly
08.29.26 Water baptism is much more than a symbolic act—it is a costly declaration that Jesus has our complete allegiance. Following Jesus requires us to surrender our reputation, relationships, resources, rights, control, and ultimately ourselves. But the cost of following Christ is not…
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Abundance and Acceleration: Part 2 | ryan peterson
08.23.26 John 2 reminds us that Jesus can take what normally requires a long, rigorous process and accomplish it in a moment. In a season of acceleration, God is inviting us to slow down enough to recognize His activity, trust His character, obey His voice, and participate in what He is doing.…
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SEEK WEEK: Seek First | Keith Golightly
08.16.26 What does your daily pursuit reveal about what you actually live for? We spend endless energy chasing direction, security, purpose, and answers, yet rarely stop to ask if we are seeking anything of eternal value. Scripture reveals that seeking God isn’t a panic button reserved for…
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Abundance and Acceleration | ryan peterson
08.09.26 Over the past season, God has been taking us through a Holy Transition—from crowds to commissioned, from acquaintances to intimacy, and from waiting to birthing—and now He is inviting us into a season of abundance and acceleration. But biblical abundance is never about personal comfort…
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Is God Enough? | Thomas Toguchi
08.02.26 Is God enough, or do we value His gifts more than His face? How easily do we distort the gospel, turning God into a mere tool to get heaven, peace, or purpose? 1 Peter 3:18 and John 17:3 remind us that God Himself is the gospel. Every good gift—family, career, provision—is meant to point...
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Walking In the Presence of God | Jimmy Coxe
07.26.26 To truly abide in Christ, we must learn to live entirely in the present moment. God is eternal, meaning He exists outside of linear time—He lives in the “now.” Therefore, the only place we can actively encounter and experience God is in the present. Are you awake to His presence now? Do...
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The Fear of God: Does My Sin Cost Others? | Randy Thornton
07.19.26 We often forget that we serve a Holy God by emphasizing His love over His holiness. Fearing God is not living in terror, but existing in such awe of His holiness that we hate what separates us from Him—sin. When we lose this fear, we minimize sin and mistake His patience for permission....
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The Faithfulness of God | Dan Lyle
July 12, 2026 This week we continue our Character of God Series by considering the Faithfulness of God. His faithfulness means that He is completely true to His character, His promises, and His covenant. This message focuses on His covenant faithfulness by learning from the covenants of the Old...
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The Fatherhood of God: Abiding with Him | Steve Booker
07.05. 2026 Earthly experiences shape our view of fatherhood, but Jesus revealed a radical truth: God is not a distant judge, but a loving Father who desires relationship. In Matthew 6, Jesus invites us to approach God as Father—our Abba who acts as our Source, Sustainer, Protector, and Provider....
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The Overwhelming Generosity of God | Keith Golightly
06.28.26 What if God is far more generous than you’ve ever imagined? If He truly is a Giver who delights in blessing His people, why then do so many of us struggle to experience His abundance? In this message, you’ll discover that the issue may not be with God’s willingness to give, but with what...
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Experiencing God’s Love in the Exchanged Life | Jerry Daley
06.21.2026 Building on the premise that true success is loving others like God loves, we explore the “How” of Christ’s life: the Exchanged Life. While Jesus declared, “I am the Way,” He modeled a life free of self-reliance, doing only what He saw the Father doing. Human pride fails us, leading to...
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The Kindness of God | Hector Ortiz
06.14.2026 Part of God’s character is defined by kindness—His goodness and mercy in action. By choosing the single forbidden tree over God’s abundant provision, humanity succumbed to the enemy’s deception, trading divine good for a sinful nature and breaking their spiritual connection with God...
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The God-Centered God | Dan Lyle
06.07.2026 This week marks the beginning of a new sermon series where we’ll be examining the Character of God. There are no greater questions that we can ask than, “Who is God, and how can I relate to Him?” Throughout this series we’ll hear from different pastors, addressing God’s kindness, love,...
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Baptism Weekend The Changed Life
May 31, 2026 Sermon Summary Baptism is an important step of obedience that shows others we personally trust Jesus for our salvation. Jesus was baptized when He was on the earth, and we do this to follow His example. When Christians are baptized, they are immersed in water to identify with Jesus…
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Authentic Community and Suffering | ryan peterson
May 24, 2026 In conclusion to our series on suffering, we look at the necessity of authentic community. We were never meant to endure life alone. Real community is not supplemental—it is essential. Not mere proximity to people, but a deep heart-connection formed through an intentional…
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E̶x̶p̶l̶a̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶G̶o̶d̶ Encountering God | ryan peterson
05.17.2026 SERMON NOTES This week we come to the climactic scene that the book of Job has been building toward: the powerful encounter between God and man. Job comes off the bench with a 2–0 victory over the enemy, exhausting rounds of discourse with friends, has his mind renewed for six…
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Discrepancy Between the Reality of GOD and Our Low Experience of Him | ryan peterson
May 10, 2026 There is a great disparity between the reality God offers us through the Bible and our limited experience of it. He tends to offer life, peace, joy, and a beauty that is unparalleled, or otherworldly. Yet we continue in the slums of this routine we call life, and don’t experience the...
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The Function of Suffering | ryan peterson
May 3, 2026 We are in our third installment of the book of Job covering the universal, yet unpopular, topic of suffering. Week one we discussed how God uses suffering and week two how we are to respond. This week we will explore the function of suffering. Does God have a design in suffering? Has...
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Becoming Valiant for the Truth | Ben Goodman
April 26, 2026 Becoming Valiant for the Truth: Training for Life’s Challenges Life involves inevitable challenges, but Christ provides the foundation for overcoming them. Recognizing that TRUTH is the primary battleground of spiritual warfare, we must rely on spiritual training rather than…
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Rejoice in Suffering? | ryan peterson
April 19, 2026 Suffering is the shared language of humanity—never chosen, always felt. In this series, we look at Job, a man acquainted with its depths, to understand what pain reveals in our lives. Suffering is not random but should be viewed through the lens of God’s sovereignty. Difficulty is...
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How Suffering Can Transform the Heart | ryan peterson
April 12, 2026 There are certainly common experiences that we are all guaranteed to walk through in life. One we do not choose, but somehow finds all of us is suffering. If life is consistent about one thing, it’s delivering hard circumstances for us to walk through. The prevailing question,...
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Who Is This? | ryan peterson
April 05, 2026 Once a year, people across America pack the church. For many, it’s a glorious day of crowds, beautiful outfits, full stomachs, and busy calendars. But for Jesus, seeing His Church filled is a reminder,“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but...
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Passion Week | Dan Lyle
March 29, 2026 This week as we prepare our hearts for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection, we’ll pull from three stories within the last week of Jesus’ ministry prior to the crucifixion: The Donkey, The Journey, and The Decision. From these stories we get an amazing perspective on the person…
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What Does Success Look Like? | Jerry Daley
March 22, 2026 What is success according to God’s Word? Our culture is always attempting to define and redefine what success is. For some it is wealth, others popularity, others climbing the corporate ladder, and yet others it fame or what they create. Jesus teaches us with the example of his…
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Contend for the Faith | ryan peterson
March 15, 2026 The Church is filled with so many different people. All of us are at different points in our faith and seasons of life; we are walking through different things and facing different challenges. However, the Word calls us to consider putting the interests of others above our own.…
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Baptism: A Total Surrender | Keith Golightly
March 08, 2026 In 1 Peter 3, baptism is compared to the Old Testament story of Noah and his family. Just as Noah surrendered full control to God the moment he shut the door to the Ark, baptism symbolizes a total handover to God’s direction. It’s more than escaping a storm; it is trusting God to...
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The Surprising Blessing | Dan Lyle
March 01, 2026 All of us are on our own journeys, and many times the path God asks us to travel leads us to unexpected routes with unforeseen difficulties, distractions, and discouragements. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and outmatched–but thankfully, that’s not the end of the story. This week...
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Mission: Renew | ryan peterson
February 22, 2026 Some Churches ask people to get involved in their project in fulfilling their goals, but we are asking you to get involved at Grace so that we can equip you to discover your call and live out your destiny in God’s great story. In this final installment of our Vision and Mission...
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Mission: Fill | ryan peterson
February 15, 2026 Filling your city with Jesus comes by empowering the willing to come fully alive in God’s presence. This is how cities are being renewed: by first strengthening ourselves in the LORD, then managing our households as greenhouses that cultivate life and multiply into your city…
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Mission: Manage | ryan peterson
February 08, 2026 As we continue the Vision and Mission series, we are discussing the second facet of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. The first aspect of a disciple is to ‘strengthen yourself in the LORD,’ and the second is to ‘manage your household.’ To manage your household…
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Mission: Strengthen | ryan peterson
January 29, 2026 We are all together in one family, united in the vision to fill your city with Jesus and live out the mission of empowering the willing to come fully alive for the renewal of our cities. In this Holy Transition that is taking us from crowds to commissioned, pregnant to birthing,...
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Mission: The Willing | ryan peterson
January 22, 2026 In week three of our Vision and Mission series, we’re focusing on our call to make disciples. While this is the Great Commission for the global Church, we carry a unique assignment at Grace Church that will result in seeing more than ten cities filled with Jesus and renewed. Our...
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Vision: The Church | ryan peterson
January 18, 2026 We are entering week two of our Vision and Mission series, where we are exploring the realities of our future, today. This week, we are looking at the identity and function of the Church. As we examine the story of Gideon in Judges 6-8, we find a small remnant of 300 people who...
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Vision: Holy Transition | ryan peterson
January 11, 2026 We’re kicking off the new year with our vision and mission series from January through February. As we take the time to know and clarify where we are, where we’re going, and how we plan on arriving there, it will take all of our family to accomplish the audacious promises God has...
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The Baptism of the Holy Spirit | Keith Golightly
January 04, 2026 The baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire is not a spiritual accessory designed for charismatic circles; it is God’s appointed means of empowering His people to live and witness beyond human ability. Jesus Himself did not begin His ministry without the Spirit, showing that mission...
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The Gift and Call of Oneness
December 28, 2025 Whether you’re married, single, widowed, or divorced—oneness is God’s desire for you. You can find this weeks sermon notes and groups guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides To take a deeper dive into this message with Pastor ryan peterson and Dan Lyle…
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What Are You Striving For? | Dan Fearnside
December 28, 2025 God has always had a plan of redemption for us through Christ. We need only to have faith in the grace extended to us through the Cross and submit to a loving Father who empowers us by the Holy Spirit to not be focused on the temporary but instead the eternal. Are you distracted...
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True Satisfaction | David Horne
December 28, 2025 The world makes a lot of promises in offering ways to satisfy our desires and bring us fulfillment. Many look for the secret by changing their circumstances or seeking success as the world defines it. Others get off track through the peaks and valleys of life. Paul shows us the...
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The Supremacy of Christ | Dan Lyle
December 21, 2025 This week we continue our close look at the character and nature of God. The prophet Isaiah had a life-changing, dangerous encounter–behind the veil of the temple–with the profoundly holy God of angelic warriors. In this encounter he came undone, believing himself to be doomed...
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The Reckless, Unrestrained, and Excessive God | ryan peterson
December 14, 2025 Our tendency is to read the Bible as if we are the main character. We read it to affirm what we already know, infer our own presence as the hero of the story, and get our ego stroked by false affirmations. Instead, the Word offers another function in reading: it trains, it…
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Responding to God’s Call and Destiny | Randy Thornton
12-07-25 In this message, we explore what God is doing in our generation and how He is calling His people to step into His purposes with clarity, boldness, and surrender. We are called to recognize that God is raising up a new movement marked by holiness, prayer, flexibility, and a readiness for...
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