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Plainspoken Hebrews teaching for tested faith.
Growing Thru Grace presents expository Christian teaching with a plainspoken, sermon-room feel. Recent lessons move through Hebrews 11, drawing practical lessons from Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and the pressure points of faith.
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Growing Thru Grace is a Christian Bible-teaching program with a direct, sermon-style rhythm. Recent episodes work through Hebrews 11, often called the hall of faith in the lessons. The show is not built around interviews, debate, or panel conversation. It centers on a teacher opening a passage, setting the scene, and pressing the text toward application. The tone is warm and conversational. It can also be blunt when the subject turns to fear, obedience, compromise, or spiritual endurance. Moses becomes a study in faith over fear. Abraham becomes a study in waiting, testing, and trusting God when the command seems overwhelming. Isaac, Jacob, Esau, and Joseph are treated less like stained-glass figures than complicated people inside family pressure, weakness, promise, and consequence. The teaching likes movement. A passage is summarized, a biblical moment is retold in ordinary language, and then the point is carried into work, reputation, marriage trouble, public confession, or private hesitation. The humor is dry but functional. It breaks tension without softening the seriousness of the argument. The show regularly returns to a simple concern: faith has to act when sight, comfort, and immediate results are not enough. Recent lessons frame fear as a force that keeps believers from obedience. Waiting is treated not as dead time, but as one of the places faith becomes visible. The teaching also emphasizes future hope, especially in the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Listeners hear a lot of biblical names and cross-references, but the register stays accessible. The show suits people who want Christian instruction that feels like a Bible study rather than a polished studio conversation. Its best moments come when familiar passages are made human, tense, and practical again.
Made for: For Christians who want direct Bible teaching with clear application, especially around faith, fear, obedience, waiting, and endurance. It best suits listeners comfortable with sermon-style exposition and frequent scripture references.
What sets it apart: Growing Thru Grace makes biblical exposition feel conversational without turning it into casual chatter. Its distinct pull is the way it retells familiar faith stories as lived pressure, then ties them back to practical discipleship.
Growing Thru Grace is the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Jack Abeelen from Morningstar Christian Chapel in Whittier, California. Join Pastor Jack as he teaches through complete books of the Bible with the hope of drawing you closer to Jesus.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patient verse-by-verse teaching turns Hebrews into a practical account of faith, spiritual growth, grace, and obedience.
Growing Thru Grace works patiently through Hebrews, with Pastor Jack Abelan moving verse by verse before carrying each passage into Christian practice.
Hebrews gets a verse-by-verse reckoning, so your faith has nowhere to hide behind slogans.
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A direct sermon on faith over fear, with Moses as the central example.
Pastor Jack frames Hebrews 11:27-28 around faith over fear, with Moses as the steady example of someone who keeps moving under pressure. The sermon is blunt about how fear can stop obedience before it starts, then carries that warning into ordinary life: speaking up for the…
A direct Noah sermon that treats faith as action before proof.
The review centers on Noah in Hebrews 11:7 and Matthew 24, using him as a plain example of faith that moves before results show up. Jack Abelian keeps pressing the same idea: trust in God appears in obedience, even when the outcome is still hidden.
Noah is used as a direct, no-frills lesson in faith before there is any proof.
Hebrews 11:7 turns Noah into a plain lesson in faith: the warning comes before the rain, and the response has to come before proof. Pastor Jack stays on that tension. God speaks about a flood no one has seen, Noah believes, and that belief becomes action.
A brisk, plainspoken walk through faith, assurance, and the witnesses that make Hebrews 11 land.
Hebrews 11 is treated as a working definition of faith, not a slogan. God is the object, his Word is the assurance, and what cannot be seen is made concrete enough to shape a life.
A sharp warning about spiritual immaturity, brought from Hebrews into everyday practice.
Growing Through Grace takes on a hard and familiar problem: believers who have heard enough to grow, yet have grown slow to hear and slow to learn.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Jack Abelan's "Growing Through Grace" focuses on Hebrews 11:27-28 and Moses at age 80, after 40 years on the back side of the desert.
This episode continues a sermon series on Hebrews 11:23-26, focusing on Moses' faith-driven choice to follow God's call despite worldly pleasures.
This episode concludes a Bible study on Hebrews 11:20-22, focusing on the legacy of faith passed down from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, with Pastor Jacob Ehlen teaching lessons from their examples.
This episode is a Bible study on Hebrews 11:20-22, focusing on the legacy of faith as taught by Pastor Jack to encourage Hebrew saints facing suffering.
This episode continues a sermon on Hebrews 11:17-19, focusing on Abraham's unwavering faith and obedience when tested by God to sacrifice his son Isaac.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews 11 about Abraham's test of faith, exploring biblical faith through the story of Isaac.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews 11 on the faith of Abraham and the homeland of the faithful.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews 11 about the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their future hope.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews 11 about Abraham's example of faith and obedience to God.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews 11 about the faithful life of Abraham as an example for believers.
Pastor Jack Abelian finishes a teaching on Hebrews 11:7 and Noah's faith.
Pastor Jack opens Hebrews 11:7 after finishing Abel and Enoch and places Noah in the Hall of Faith.
Pastor Jack opens Hebrews 11:1-3 and makes faith feel concrete.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through Hebrews chapter 9, explaining how Christ's death provides redemption for sins under the Old and New Covenants.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 9 about the earthly tabernacle and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through the book of Hebrews, explaining the context and meaning of the text for believers.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 8, comparing the old covenant of the law with the new covenant through Christ.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through Hebrews chapter 8, explaining Jesus' heavenly priesthood and its superiority over the earthly tabernacle.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches about Jesus as an unchangeable high priest and draws a parallel to the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 7 about Jesus as the great high priest and intercessor.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 7 about the new priesthood of Jesus compared to the Levitical priesthood.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through Hebrews chapter 7, emphasizing God's desire for fellowship with believers.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches about the Levitical priesthood and Jesus' unique priesthood from the order of Melchizedek.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through Hebrews chapter 7, examining the Melchizedek priesthood and its relation to Jesus.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches through the Bible, focusing on God's promises and oaths as an accommodation to human weakness.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 6 about God's promise to Abraham and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches on the internal assurance and external proof of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
Pastor Jack Abeelen teaches from Hebrews chapter 6 about the need for Christians to move beyond basic teachings to maturity in faith.
Pastor Jack Abelan opens Hebrews 5:11–6:8 with a warning that believers can become “dull of hearing,” stop learning, and stay dependent on milk instead of solid food.
This episode explores how Jesus serves as the perfect high priest who offers a once-and-for-all sacrifice to remove sin, contrasting with the constant offerings of Old Testament priests.
This episode is a Bible study on Hebrews 5:1-10, focusing on Jesus as the great high priest and its significance for both Jewish and Gentile believers.
This episode continues a Bible study on Hebrews 4:12-16, focusing on how God's word exposes human motives and Jesus serves as our interceding high priest.
This episode features Pastor Jack Abelan teaching from Hebrews 4:12-16, focusing on the power of God's Word and Jesus' role as our High Priest.