Ben Chally preaches on Luke 1:39-56. 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...
What comes to mind when you think of the Christmas season? For me, the word that comes to mind is anticipation. A simple definition of 'anticipate' is to believe that something will occur in the future. We live in a state of anticipation every day. We anticipate...
Jason Miller preaches on Luke 1:26-38. 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 Christmas season is one of great anticipation. Children can’t wait for Christmas Day to arrive. They hope that time will speed up and shorten the days until they can rip open the presents under the tree and begin enjoying the toys that have been...
Scott and Josh talk about the practice of viewing our lives within God’s larger story. In the same way Zechariah situates John in the unfolding story of God’s redemption, Christians are called to see our own identity as rooted in that story. The Words of Grace...
This Sunday at Grace Community Church, we will consider the martyrdom of Stephen from Acts 7:54-60. This paragraph is worth a weekend of meditation to mine all its encouragement for our living and dying in Christ. John Stott said that Stephen’s death was full of Christ....
As Stephen stood before the council accused of speaking against the holy things of God, he spoke for Jesus of Nazareth who is the Righteous One sent by God and announced by the prophets. He then brought a charge against the members of the council....
While reading in Acts 7 the sermon Stephen preached as his defense against the accusation of blasphemy, I was struck by his strategy. He gave his opponents a history lesson that ended with Jesus. The accusation against Stephen was that he had spoken against the law...
Scott and Josh talk about what it means to be an ordinary Christian who is filled with the Spirit. 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...
The account of the accusation, defense, and martyrdom of Stephen is long enough for us to consider in three weeks. Today, we introduce Stephen as a man filled with the Holy Spirit. Through Stephen's life and death, we see a God who carries out his...
