I’ve never been very good at predicting the future. I’ve missed picking the outcomes of elections and ball games so many times I’ve stopped trying. I can't name a trend or movement in culture that I saw coming. The one thing I have learned about the future...
This week, Scott, Justin, & Josh sit down to discuss why it's important to grasp the depths of our depravity from Isaiah 59. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at Grace Community Church. From time to time...
Isaiah 59 begins with sin, continues with sorrow, and ends in salvation. The message is that God graciously intervenes to save sinners and renew his people. This is a timeless message and broad in its relevance. Still today, the individual person needs to be saved,...
This blog post was originally posted on January 20, 2023. When a congregation gathers on the Lord’s Day to read from a portion of the Bible and give its attention to what is read in the form of a sermon, what is happening? From one perspective, it...
As Scott and Justin look at Isaiah 56-58, they discuss the importance of the act of worship and how it fosters a lifestyle of worship. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at Grace Community Church. From time...
In this passage of Isaiah, the Lord sends a message for his people who are back in their homeland and free to worship him. He calls them to keep their worship pure by keeping their hearts humble and close to him. This is a message...
I often use this Words of Grace opportunity to call us to prayer. This Friday morning as I reflect on our member information meeting last Wednesday and project ahead to our gathering for worship on Sunday, this is one of those calls. As I write to...
How does the hope of an eternal future change us today? How does it help us as we seek to live out our faith? These questions are addressed in today's podcast as we look back at Isaiah 54-55. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify,...
This prophecy gives us reasons to rejoice and to respond to the work of the Servant who reconciles us to God. We hear his grace that reverses the results of sin and that calls us to come to him for all that satisfies our soul....
The thing about holidays is that when they are over, whatever it was that we celebrated tends to diminish in our minds until the next year when its day comes back around. But we rose from the bed on Monday morning to the reality that Jesus...
