At this time every year, we can count on another round of posts and podcasts telling us how to make and keep New Year's resolutions. And we fall for it again. With renewed inspiration, we resolve again to start, stop, change, or adjust something that...
Jason Miller preaches on Romans 5:1-11. Grace Community Church exists to build spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. One of the ways that we pursue this mission is by gathering each Sunday for corporate worship, prayer, and biblical teaching. The corporate nature of this...
The three means of grace the Holy Spirit has used to keep me in faith, and the three practices that I have employed to keep myself in the way of the Spirit’s work are prayer, reading the Word, and participating in the church. You can...
Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 3:16. Grace Community Church exists to build spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. One of the ways that we pursue this mission is by gathering each Sunday for corporate worship, prayer, and biblical teaching. The corporate nature of this...
Starting the new year with a Bible reading plan has become cliché. But don’t let that stop you from doing it anyway. The legalists may say they will not plan to read the Bible in 2025 because they need to break the “should” cycle in their lives. The...
The peace that Christ accomplished for us through his death on the cross is ours through union with him. Now we live with his peace ruling in our hearts to settle us before God and guide the way we relate to one another in the...
As I shared earlier this week, the Lord has used the simple practices of prayer, Bible reading, and participation in the church to keep me growing in grace and following him since the day of my conversion. As we approach 2025, I encourage you to make growing...
In this week’s episode, Scott and Josh discuss the differences between personality traits and Christlikeness. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at Grace Community Church. From time to time we will address other topics. We hope these...
We become a new self in Christ by the grace of God through the work of the Holy Spirit. We become like Christ as the Spirit of God gives us the power to put on the characteristics of the new self. Putting on these qualities...
Images are used to help explain realities, but it’s important that we interpret them well so that we know what is real. This is the case with Colossians 3 and the clothing imagery used to communicate the new self in Christ and the practices that are...
