Best Grace Dorcas Podcasts (2024)

In thinking about Lydia’s story, five divisions seemed to emerge. Lydia’s destiny, Lydia’s career as a dye merchant Lydia’s desire to establish her own household The dream God gave Paul to evangelize in Macedonia And the dignity God settled on women in first century Palestine, and on Lydia, and the dignity the Apostle Paul also conferred on women a…

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Church life together 27:25

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Acts 4 verses 32-37By Andrew Morrice

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Tabitha (Dorcas) 21:43

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Tabitha’s story begins in Joppa, an ancient seaport along the Mediterranean. This is harbor city as the place Jonah fled to when he heard God’s call to Nineveh. Joppa’s international anchorage so well represented, Jonah knew he could board a ship to the farthest reaches of the west—in the opposite direction of Assyria—as soon as he arrived. Further…

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A heart for God

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Bruce Lockhart from SU shares from Mark 2:1-12By Bruce Lockhart

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Mary of Bethany 23:31

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Martha, Lazarus, and Mary were all disciples of Jesus, people who loved and followed Jesus, opened their home to Him, shared their table with Jesus in fellowship and enjoyed Jesus’ friendship as well as lived by Jesus’ teaching. Each had their own unique relationship with the Lord, yet together, as a family, they displayed all the aspects of a chur…

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A praying church 27:44

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Acts 4 verses 23-31By Andrew Morrice

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Martha of Bethany 22:15

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Years and years ago, when I was in a high school writing class, we were asked to write our own obituary. I remember us all laughing nervously, it sounded so macabre! But it was the teacher’s sideways device to get us to write about our hopes and dreams. What would we want to be remembered for someday? And it made me wonder what Martha would have wa…

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Tell… 19:41

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Acts 4 1-22.By Jack Macdonald

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: The Woman at the Well 24:23

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The story of the woman at the well comes right after Jesus made a blockbuster statement to the Pharisee and Sanhedrin member Nicodemus: God loves not just Pharisees, not even just Judeans, but the whole world. And, to illustrate this very point, Jesus made his way to some of the most despised people in the region, the Samaritans. Now, as Jesus and …

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What I do have I give you 31:56

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Acts 3By Andrew Morrice

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Women Disciples, the Conclusion 13:04

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Matthew, Mark, and Luke acknowledge the women who traveled with Jesus. Matthew and Mark do not mention these female disciples until they are found at Jesus’s cross. Luke gives more details about them, describing them as ministering to Jesus, and along with Jesus, from their own resources and ability. These women received teaching and revelation fro…

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Mary of Magdala, a Disciple of Jesus 28:07

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Though Mary of Magdala is a well-known figure in the gospels, she is not introduced by name until Jesus’s crucifixion in John’s Gospel (John 19:25). John doesn’t explain who she is, or what her relationship is to Jesus or his family, but there she is, with John and Mary, Jesus’s mother. That alone says how important she was to Jesus’s inner circle.…

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The Great Commission

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Matthew 28 verses 16-20By Andrew Morrice

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: The Samaritan Woman, A Disciple of Jesus 26:03

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This is a six-part series, and this is the fourth installment, exploring how the calling narrative found in the Gospel of John, chapter 1 is repeated in the story of the Samaritan Woman in John chapter 4, and in Mary of Magdala's story at the end of John's Gospel, chapter 20. There are twelve calling elements to Jesus's call to discipleship and apo…

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Listening And Talking with God 19:59

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1 Thessalonians 5 19-28By Jack Macdonald

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Twelve Marks of Jesus Call to Discipleship 25:52

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We don’t often think of Jesus gathering disciples together as a rabbi starting a school, but the shape of what Jesus did very much is the shape of a school. Jesus did depart from the traditional rabbinical model of his day in a few significant ways. For instance, unlike other schools, Jesus kept his table fellowship open to everyone, people in ever…

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Final Instructions 25:38

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1 Thess 5 12-28By Jack Macdonald

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Did Jesus Call Women to Discipleship? 22:10

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Did Jesus call women into discipleship in the same way Jesus called men? Or did women simply start following Jesus of their own accord, with no formal call? Can we say, for instance, that Mary of Bethany was actually a disciple, or was she simply acting like a disciple when she sat at Jesus’s feet? In the same way, was Mary of Magdala only acting l…

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The day of the Lord

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-11By Andrew Morrice

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Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Women Disciples, an Introduction 15:00

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The debate continues as to whether Scripture endorses, or at least permits, or rather forbids women from certain roles within the Body of Christ. May women be deacons? May women be elders? May women be pastors? May women be bishops? May women teach or lead in church? At stake, of course, is how to live rightly before God, how to do what God has in …

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: Jairus's Daughter 23:04

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The story of Jairus’s daughter and the woman who suffered from a bleeding disorder are told together in all three of the synoptic gospels—the gospels that more or less track with each other, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. I am going to be teaching out of Mark’s gospel, who has the most detailed account of these two stories. I believe this to be a true st…

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The Easter Hope 21:52

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Luke 24 36-53By Jack Macdonald

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: Mary of Magdala 21:44

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Throughout his ministry, Jesus gathered around him men and women who became a community of 120 people joined in their love for and faith in Jesus. And one of those women was Mary of Magdala. She is mentioned fourteen times, in all four Gospels, and her name is almost always placed first, seemingly implying she was first in service, first in support…

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: The Cross, Symbol of Victory 17:43

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Is the cross a symbol about death or life? defeat or triumph? humiliation or glory? Or all those things? As I searched for answers, I became drawn to how Christians depicted crosses a thousand years ago and more, and that search became this fifteen minute video on the ancient symbols of Christianity. From the eight-hundred-year old Batllo Majsty, n…

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Palm Sunday

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Luke 19 v28-44By Andrew Morrice

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: The Wife of Pilate 22:32

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Of the several influential women in the Bible who are not given names—Job’s wife, comes to mind—the wife of Pilate is perhaps the most shadowy. All that is known of her from the scriptures is her relationship to the Procurator Marcus Pontius Pilate, and the message she sent to him while he was sitting on the Seat of Judgment in the Praetorium the m…

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A Sure and certain hope in times of grief

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18By Andrew Morrice

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: The Widow's Mite 36:49

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In the passage just before this one, Mark talked about the scribe who had asked Jesus about the greatest commandment and was impressed with Jesus’ answer. Jesus was also pleased. He told the scribe he was very close to entering the kingdom of heaven. With such a warm endorsement from a scribe, this was a rare teachable moment, the right moment, in …

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Pleasing God 22:05

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1 Thessalonians 4 1 -12By Jack Macdonald

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: The Sinful Woman 22:35

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We don’t know this woman’s backstory at all, whether she was young or old, her culture or clan. Some in our Bible study thought perhaps she was the woman who had committed adultery and was forgiven privately by Jesus after everyone had left (John 8:11). Maybe! We really have no information on her at all but what is given in this text. Back in 591 A…

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Standing Firm, Love and Holiness

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1 Thessalonians 3verses 6-13By Andrew Morrice

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: Woman Caught in Adultery 25:38

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Most Bibles point out that the earliest manuscripts do not include this story, and sometimes it appears in Luke However, Jerome, in 383 AD, included it in his translation of the Gospel of John, right after chapter 7, where it is usually found today. Jerome noted that many ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts at his disposal had this story, in its us…

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A pastors Heart

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1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:5By Andrew Morrice

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Season 6, Christ's Ministry: Herodias 24:32

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Herodias’ story is introduced in both Matthew’s gospel and Mark’s with Herod Antipas hearing reports about Jesus’ astonishing miraculous powers. "Some were saying, 'John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; and for this reason these powers are at work in him.' But others said, 'It is Elijah.' And others said, 'It is a prophet, like one of th…

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Be Genuine 22:48

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1 Th 2 1-6By Jack Macdonald

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Season 5, Kings and Queens: Esther 21:55

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There is some debate as to whether the book of Esther is historical, or possibly written as a play or allegory. Haman’s seventy-five foot gallows, the difficulty in establishing which king—and more notably, which queen—Esther’s story describes, and the depiction of a few unlikely scenes such as a massive, three-day civil war which is completely abs…