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Grace Presbyterian SpartanburgKeep GoingNovember 2, 2025Preaching: Rev. Corey PeltonScripture Reading: Matthew 9:35-38
2025-11-0236 min2025-07-1335 min
Trash TalkEpisode 10 - Holy SpiritJesus promised that He would be with His people to the end of the age, yet is not physically living here on earth any longer. How can that be? He sent the third person of the Trinity, who He calls the Helper, to be with us in His stead, yet at the same time is His very presence. Join Corey Pelton and Will Davis as they discuss some really encouraging news about the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit . . . and us.
2025-04-1731 minTrash TalkDealing With an Anxious HeartIn this 9th episode, Corey and Will dig into the wrestlings of their own hearts and how the good news of Jesus can be life-changing when we are worried, anxious, and wringing our hands. Can we find a greater trust in Him than how our hearts are currently responding?
2025-03-2119 minTrash TalkWhat is God's Law? Third use: A FlashlightThe law of God not only exposes us for who we really are, it also points us to Jesus who kept the law perfectly for those who would trust Him. Then, from a place of acceptance, Jesus points us back to the law as a way to love others.
2024-10-1119 minTrash TalkWhat is God's Law? Second use: A MirrorGod's law is like a mirror that reveals who we really are in light of God's perfect holiness. Although it reveals how sinful we really are, it also points us to Jesus who kept it for us perfectly.
2024-10-0418 minTrash TalkWhat is God's Law? First use: A RoadIn this first of a three part series we discover that God's law is like a road with lines, and stop signs, and guardrails. It keeps humanity from destroying itself as we are created in God's image with some sense of morality.
2024-09-2616 minTrash TalkEpisode 5 - Sanctification: how we grow in faithSometimes we think that we come to know Christ through faith but then we have to maintain and try hard to keep in the love of God. A biblical view of our growth (sanctification) says something much more hopeful!
2024-09-1316 minTrash TalkEpisode 4 - justificationIf you were the devil, what teaching of the Bible would you attack most aggressively? Will Davis and Corey Pelton talk about the importance of understanding the doctrine of justification.
2024-09-0527 min
Gifts and GracesCorey Pelton & Will Davis | Gone Country: Can, how, and should the PCA go rural?On this episode of Gifts and Graces, we get to hear from Corey Pelton and Will Davis on how to resource rural areas in robust theological and practical ways. Corey Pelton is the leader of Rural Church Development (RCD) in north Georgia and Will Davis is pastoring a church in Pelton’s area while also owning and running a waste collection company. This episode was originally recorded as a seminar delivered at the 2024 General Assembly. Let’s listen as Pelton and Davis explain how being “knit together” as a denomination means not overlooking small towns and rural places.
2024-08-2753 min
Growing TogetherRural Church PlantingCorey Pelton, the new Rural Church Planting Director for MNA, joins Growing Together to share his experience developing rural churches in Southern Appalachia and discuss the unique needs and challenges of ministry in small-town America. He offers insights on how churches and presbyteries can effectively engage in rural church planting and provides guidance for those considering this important work. Learn more about Corey's ministry at Rural Church Development in Southern Appalachia: https://www.ruralchurchdevelopment.com/expectationshttps://pcamna.org/growing-together/
2024-07-3023 minTrash TalkHow do we believe God's Word?Will Davis and I are back in the trash truck talking about how a person believes in God's word. Can we simply argue the evidence that it is God's Word or does is require something else?
2023-11-0614 min
Pillar & GroundConnecting with Corey Pelton, Rural Church Developer for the Tennessee Valley PresbyteryHost Wil Nettleton is joined by Corey Pelton, "circuit rider" and rural church developer for the Tennessee Valley Presbytery. Corey is one of our supported ministry partners and shares about the ways he sees God at work in the rural areas of North Georgia and East Tennessee.To find out more about Corey's work (including stories and photographs) click here.Host: Wil NettletonSpecial Guest: Corey PeltonProducer: Ben WingardMusic arranged by David Henry and performed by David Henry and Hannah Lutz.To contact Pillar & Ground or to submit...
2023-10-3032 minTrash TalkHow Does God Speak Today?Less than 20 minutes in a trash truck talking about the importance of knowing how God speaks today.
2023-10-2517 min
Trash TalkTheology: Why is good theology important?Less than 20 minutes in a trash truck talking about theology. We all have a theology and it’s important that we have a right theology.
2023-10-1817 min
Assurance of PardonS 5 Ep 43 Gage discusses rural church ministry with Rev. Corey PeltonSend us a textGage Jordan was a guest on the One Horse Town podcast to discuss Rural Ministry!One Horse Town Podcast - The Beautiful Opportunities of Small Town Ministry with Gage Jordan | Free Listening on Podbean AppLogos Bible Software offer: https://logos.sjv.io/aop Biblingo.orgdiscount code: assuranceofpardon10 www.BiblicalCounselorsSociety.comListeners can receive a lifetime 25% discount on all membership tiers with the promo code: AOP25Support the show
2023-08-2951 minGrowing TogetherCorey Pelton and The Flyover Regions of North Americahttps://pcamna.org/growing-together/
2023-07-0515 min
2023-01-1540 min2022-06-0536 min
Fish FoodMy Street - episode 3
My Street is an attempt to get to know my neighbors. Who knows what to expect with each episode. So far the surprises keep coming.
Spam chowder, sugar mills, aquarium fish, and a swamp snapping turtle hunter can all be found in this interview with the Jeansonnes.
2020-09-1522 minFish FoodMy Street - episode 2bJim and Mary are back and have some great stories about their 50 years on their street. There might be accordion involved.
2020-09-1317 minFish FoodMy Street - episode 2aThe first of a two-part interview with Jim and Mary. What a delight! This couple has been on their street for over 50 years and have seen a ton of changes. Inspiring story.
2020-09-1315 minFish FoodMy Street - episode 1My Street is an attempt for me to get to know my neighbors. I hope you'll join and be encouraged to do the same in your own neighborhood no matter if you live in an urban, suburban, or rural setting. Because we often do not know our neighbors we live with suspicion or even fear. Come along as I try to engage, learn, and seek to know those on My Street.
2020-09-1114 min
Fish FoodChurch Planting in the Mid-South: Monroe, LAEver heard of a "scratch plant"? It's when a church planter moves into a community with no existing core group with whom to start. In the first year, Harris encountered a tornado, COVID-19, and a heart attack.
2020-07-2744 min
Fish FoodMultiple Sclerosis, Jesus, and CommunityAnna Hitt is a young mother and wife. Physically, she could take me down in a second flat. A former LSU javelin competitor, she continues her fitness through Cross Fit, wrangling her daughter, and being married to a former LSU lineman.
Just a few years ago she was diagnosed with MS. How has that changed her? How has she responded?
2020-02-1924 min
Let's Do InfluencingShawna Pelton - Helping You Discover Peace and PurposeI hope you enjoy this latest episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-12-2427 min
Fish FoodGrace When our Financial Debt is GreatWill Gray seems like a very successful consultant who helps others (individuals and businesses) to navigate how to become a better version of themselves. And he issuccessful. But there was a time when he lost everything. In this episode we explore God's design in using hardship to help us become who He intends for us to be.
Will is the marketing and communications director for Fortis Riders . . . a high end chauffeur company that serves people's needs around the world. For businesses, Will has worked alongside 100+ organizations (nonprofits, startups & mid-sized companies), helping each one become a better version of it...
2018-10-0336 min
Fish FoodAutism: There IS hope
Shelby Segrest shares her story with the frustration, anger, sadness, hope, and beauty of having a child who registers on the autism spectrum.
This is the third part of a three part series with Shelby. We get to listen in as Shelby tells her story of dismay, wrestling, and coming to grips with the beauty of the image of God in her own daughter. May you be encouraged and hopeful because of what God has done and is doing in Shelby's life.
2018-09-2133 minFish FoodLosing Everything: Hurricane Katrina and God's MercyThis is part 2 of a three part interview with Shelby Segrest. Soon after her mother died in 2003 (part 1), Shelby and her husband, Hudson, moved to New Orleans. Her first child was born August 9, 2005. August 29 Katrina made landfall. In a hurry to leave and an optimistic view of the weather, they left all they owned but for three days worth of clothes and supplies.
2018-09-1245 minFish FoodCancer and the Death of a ParentOur guest on this episode of Fish Food is Shelby Segrest. Shelby is a wife and a mother living on a small farm in Alabama. On this first of a two-part interview, Shelby tells us about the heartbreak and hope of her parent's divorce and losing her mom to cancer.
For more information about Fish Food, or to support, please visit www.fishfood.me.
2018-09-0238 min
Fish FoodLoving Your Brother as YourselfMark Casson spent 15 years in prison for attempted murder. But incarceration wasn't nearly as difficult as the lack of freedom he faces in communicating his greatest love with his brother.
Mark is the executive director of Metanoia Prison Ministries. In this episode we talk about his years in Corcoran Prison, how he met his wife while there, and the difficulty of talking about Christ with family members.
2018-07-0856 min
Fish FoodFinding Grace in Loss and Transition
Dr. Timothy Lane is a counselor, pastor, conference speaker, trainer, and author. He is the Founder and President of the Institute for Pastoral Care, a non-profit that equips local churches to care for their people, and Tim Lane & Associates, a counseling practice in Peachtree City, GA.
Tim has authored Living Without Worry: How to Replace Anxiety with Peace, and co-authored How People Change and Relationships: A Mess Worth Making.
In this episode, Tim talks us through what it looks like to find mercy and grace through loss and transition as he has experienced career transition as well as loss within hi...
2018-07-0236 min
Fish FoodWeakness? Are You Sure?This week we visit with Ed Eubanks. Weakness, PTSD, rheumatological disease, community, counsel, and prayer . . . Ed walks us through how two areas of his life revealed his weaknesses in ways he would have never chosen, but how those weaknesses have become something life-giving and beautiful for himself and others.
2018-06-2636 min
Fish FoodWhen We Don't Get What We Want
This week's episode deal's with the heart struggle of when we don't get what we want. The host of Fish Food gets interviewed by Holly, his wife, regarding a desired dream job gone south and the resulting effects both good and bad.
For a print version, visit www.fishfood.me.
2018-06-1829 min
Fish FoodCan I Pray My Way Out?In this week's episode of Fish Food I am invited into the home and lives of Randall and Diane Yelverton of Florence, Alabama. We talk about 34 years of ministry in a small town in the south, coming to grips with depression, and the importance of community for longterm health. Randall has been a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and in the Associate Reformed Church (ARP). Diane was a school teacher in the public school system in Alabama.
For written exerpts of our podcasts, please visit www.fishfood.me
2018-06-1149 min
Fish FoodI Like Being Liked: Future Hope and Our Self-esteemWe all liked to be liked. What happens in our hearts when someone doesn't like us? In this episode, Chas Morris walks us through his struggle with depending too much of what others think of him. How can our future hope speak into our present struggle with being liked? Chas is the pastor of Grace Blue Ridge in Hendersonville, NC. He is a pastor, really good beer brewer, a runner, and has a love for enteraining others.
2018-06-0341 min
Fish FoodOut of Self and Into Others: a journey from self-loathing to the well-being of othersCalvin Armerding is a counselor, writer, and a musician. In this episode we hear of his struggle with belieivng that if he didn't stay circumstancially beneficial to others, they would either abandon him or die. We invite you to listen in and hear of the transformation Calvin underwent and is undergoing.
2018-05-2645 min
Fish FoodDepression, People-Pleasing, and Living for ChristIn this episode Andy Lewis walks us through his struggles as a pastor with depression and how it was related to people-pleasing and a martyr complex. Andy is the pastor of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. You can also see an edited print version at www.fishfood.me.
2018-05-2134 min
Fish Food. . . Nevertheless: betrayal, divorce, and living a life through grace - Lacey KeigleyHumble vulnerability is powerful. The greatest leaders are those who are willing to tell the stories of their struggle in order to be a help to others. Fish Food is a media company that desires to help tell those stories so that you can be encouraged, strengthened, and directed to a true and lasting hope despite the circumstances you face.
In this episode, Lacey Keigley leads us through the story of unfaithfulness, betrayal, becoming a single parent, and God's mercy through it all.
2018-05-0342 min
Pencil Kings | Inspiring Artist Interviews with Today's Best ArtistsPK 095: Corey Pelton Reveals How to Get Hired in the Video Game IndustryCorey Pelton is a senior cinematic animator at Blizzard Entertainment, creators of the hugely popular Overwatch game. In this podcast, he talks about the importance of collaborating with other artists, and explains exactly what animation studios are looking for when they hire new people.
2016-06-2225 min