Grace Auburn Church Podcast

Christ Above All - 1 Corinthians 14 - On Complementarianism

November 13, 2024 • Caroline Sasnett, Joel Sasnett, Jeff Hollis • 1 Corinthians 14

In this week's episode, Lee is joined by Jeff Hollis, Caroline Sasnett, and Joel Sasnett to discuss complementarianism, egalitarianism, and trends seen in our culture that impact leadership in the local church and in our homes. While not a primary matter of church belief - like salvation is found in Christ alone - we believe complementary (counterpart) roles of men and women in the local church is Biblical and critical for the overall health of the Church.

Christ Above All Presidents

October 30, 2024 • Kevin Briggins, David Green, Patrick Kuhlers • Romans 13:1

In this week's podcast, Lee has a round table discussion with Patrick Kuhlers, David Green, and Kevin Briggins. All of these men serve our church in a variety of ways, and all are deeply passionate about Christian responsibility to love and serve our community - including through our politics - and how we are to love our neighbors in divisive times. Christ truly is above all, and all presidents have been ordained by God (Romans 13:1); therefore, as his people, the church has a responsibility to never leave our faith at home but always carry our trust in Jesus into every conversation, especially, the difficult ones.

Joyful Generosity - What Holds You Back?

October 16, 2024 • Lee Cadden, David Green

In this week's episode, Lee is joined by David Green to discuss our posture toward the Lord when it comes to trusting him with the fullness of our stories and how the things that hold us back are often the places that He intends to grow us.

Joyful Generosity - Freedom in Christ

October 2, 2024 • Lee Cadden, Robert Ellis • 2 Corinthians 9:7

In this week's episode, Lee is joined by Robert Ellis, a member of Grace Auburn Church. He and his wife, Elizabeth have served as community group leaders, Grace Kids Teacher and are actively involved in other areas of our church. Robert shares his journey toward trusting Jesus with everything in his life and how they commitment revolutionized his relationship with giving of his treasure to the Kingdom of God.

Joyful Generosity - We all have something we treasure ...

September 25, 2024 • Lee Cadden • Matthew 6:19–20, Deuteronomy 32:9

Jesus makes it plain and simple when it comes to our hearts and the things we treasure. We can store up treasure in this life - where rust and moth destroy and thieves break in and steal, or we can store up treasure in heaven - where nothing and no one can take what Jesus has secured. So we ask the question today: "What do you treasure?" Sermon Series (2022) - Now for Then - a Life of Joyful Generosity - https://graceauburn.church/media/series/4h5hcf3/now-for-then The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard - https://graceauburn.co/conspiracy

Joyful Generosity in Corinth

September 18, 2024 • Lee Cadden • 2 Corinthians 8:1–11

In this episode, Lee introduces a new series of conversations on the topic of joyful generosity. For members of Grace Auburn, our willingness to serve the kingdom of God above the kingdom of self is evidenced by the way we invest our resources and steward the treasure that the Father has entrusted to us. This series will include interviews with members of the church that are growing in the grace of giving and trusting in the faithfulness of God to provide for his children. Quotes from Paul David Tripp are from this article at Crossway - https://www.crossway.org/articles/what-did-jesus-teach-about-money/

Christ Above All - 1 Corinthians 3 - The Foundation is Laid

August 28, 2024 • Jeff Hollis, Lee Cadden • 1 Corinthians 3:10–15

In this week's podcast, Pastors Lee and Jeff discuss all that God is doing in the life of Grace Auburn Church. We are celebrating growth, life change in and through authentic gospel communities, and believe with absolute certainty that the foundation of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is our enduring hope and constant source of life. Paul's message to the Corinthians endures to this day: who you build upon matters and what you build with matters for this life and the one to come.

Christ Above All - 1 Corinthians 1 and 2

August 21, 2024 • Lee Cadden • 1 Corinthians 1:22

In this week's episode, Executive Pastor, Lee Cadden, introduces the "Christ Above All" series on the podcast. These conversations will include reflections on Sunday's sermon, current events in the life of our church, and reflections on how the gospel, specifically Christ above all things, impacts our current cultural moment.

Operations at Grace Auburn

August 14, 2024 • Caroline Sasnett, Lee Cadden

In this episode of the Grace Auburn Church podcast, Lee is joined by Caroline Sasnett to discuss Operations within a church and how does that "behind the scenes" world evolve and grow as a church plant is established within a community. Caroline has recently expanded her role from Communications and is now serving as Operations Director at Grace Auburn.

Why Would You Want to Work for a Church - Trace Pridgen

July 31, 2024 • Trace Pridgen, Lee Cadden

In this week's episode, Lee and Trace Pridgen journey through the last 15 years of life and ministry by way of introducing Trace to our church family and asking him the same question we've asked each member on our staff team: why would you want to work for a church?

Why Would Want to Work for a Church - Raina Lanier's New Role

July 24, 2024 • Raina Lanier, Lee Cadden, Caleb Farrow

In this episode, Lee Cadden, Caleb Farrow, and Raina Lanier discuss the growth of our college ministry over the past four years and all that we are excited for in Raina's new role on our staff team. As Outreach Director, she will serve a dual role of care and leadership alongside Caleb with our college women and as a bridge for our members to serve with local organizations.

Shepherding the Church - Matt Dean

May 17, 2024 • Matt Dean, Lee Cadden • 1 Timothy 3:1

In this week's podcast, Matt Dean and Lee Cadden discuss the origins of leading our church through a team of Biblically qualified elders, the examples we had in the early days of forming the church, and why leading as both an elder and vocational pastor on our staff team is a unique responsibility.

Now To Him Who Is Able - Skyway Update - May 2024

May 8, 2024 • Matt Dean, Lee Cadden • Ephesians 3:20–21, Joshua 1

If you are new to Grace Auburn, on January 25 of 2024, we closed on our Skyway Drive property that will be our future home. We secured the building for $9.5M with a combination of our giving and financing with a Christian private equity group that partners with our church planting network. The process - from fundraising, rezoning requests, purchase, and now design for a renovation - has been one that we have kept before the church when relevant. Per our request, our architect has provided a master plan for a full conversion of the building – We asked the architect to design this building with all the potential for ministry we could imagine...from the parking lot and green spaces that would provide welcoming experiences, a lobby that could host fellowship gatherings and lingering between services, a simple and beautiful space for worship, offices for our staff, and enough space for kids, students, and our campus ministries to thrive. In this week's podcast, Lee and Matt reflect on Matt's sermon from Sunday when we shared with the congregation where we are in the process and what its going to require to move into Skyway Drive.

Skyway Update - April 2024

April 12, 2024 • Lee Cadden

In this short podcast episode, Lee Cadden updates the Grace Auburn family on where we are in the construction design process, introduces our construction team (links below) and how we came about selecting the, and discusses why we are approaching this move with a phased construction approach. Chambless King Architects - https://shorturl.at/braef Johnson Kreise Construction - https://shorturl.at/awvy6

Shepherding the Church - Jack Sommer

April 5, 2024 • Lee Cadden, Jack S • 1 Timothy 3

In this week's podcast, Lee Cadden and Jack Sommer continue the introductions of our elders. They discuss Jack and Kelly's story in moving back to Auburn in 2017, how their time in Marietta and the influence of elders in their church impacted them deeply as a young married couple starting their family, and why he desires the noble task of serving as an elder at Grace Auburn Church.