In Acts 18 Christ said that he has his people in the city of Corinth. When we read 1 Corinthians we see the kind of people who are Christ’s. Human values like wealth, power, and intelligence are not contributing factors to being called by Christ...
You may have heard someone say with great zeal that they would love to be like the early church, but that was likely said without knowledge. At least one church, the one in Corinth, gives us pause to consider if we really want to be...
This time through Galatians 5, I was reminded of a reality of the Christian life that, if missed, can put us back into the bondage of self-generated righteousness. The qualities being cultivated in our lives are the fruit of the Holy Spirit in us, not...
Scott Patty preaches on Luke 1:5-25, 57-80. 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...
God created a physical world to communicate the glories of his grace. Sunrise, with its colorful illumination of all matter upon which we live and from which we derive resources for life, is a spectacular display of God’s revelatory ways. God makes things visible through...
In this episode, Scott and Josh discuss the difference between the responses we see at Stephen’s trial and in Acts Chapter 2. One crowd repented, and the other was enraged. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at...
Stephen was a man who glorified Christ in life and death. His martyrdom gives testimony to the power of Christ to change people and to set them on a path of faithfulness to the end. Today, as we consider the death of Stephen, let us...
Before Jesus ascended into heaven, he commissioned his apostles concerning their work in the world. Knowing that they were inadequate in themselves for this work, Jesus promised them the Holy Spirit, who would give them power. He promised that they would fulfill their call to...
For this week’s Word of Grace, I will let J.I. Packer speak to us on revival in the book of Acts. For almost thirty years I have read and re-read this passage from Packer. I have prayed for the aspects of revival he writes of here....
Our service in the church includes praying for each other and pleading with each other. We pray to God on behalf of one another. We plead with each other on behalf of God. Praying keeps us in the truth. Pleading comes in when someone wanders...
