The one reason for leaders to lead in congregations and for congregations to follow leaders is endurance in faith and faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Jesus is supreme. All things are for his glory and the service of his purposes. God has designed congregations to have leaders...
Hebrews 13:8 says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." The verses that follow in Hebrews 13 tell us that since Jesus remains the same, we are to remain with him. Here at the close of Hebrews, the message of...
"Let brotherly love continue." - Hebrews 13:1 The message this Sunday at Grace will be from Hebrews 13:1-6. Here we are told to let love endure. We are to let love continue to come from our lives in very practical ways. The expressions of love in...
We often view the worship of God as an event that we attend on Sundays. But there is a greater reality to our worship than what we do during the worship service. We worship God because Jesus brought us to God. God himself has sent out the...
The experiences of faith-testing struggles can cause faint-heartedness or be faced with faith-heartedness. Hebrews 12 shows us the way of faith. Jesus endured hostility from sinful people in this world. That hostility eventually led to his crucifixion. But his suffering was meaningful. He proved himself completely...
How? We have been asking that question all of our lives. From tying our shoes to solving a math problem to navigating the adult world of career, family, and finances, we need to know how to do it. At Grace we have been talking about living by...
Over 300 years ago, John Bunyan sat in a prison cell and wrote about endurance in the Christian life. He had been sentenced for preaching the gospel without a license from the established church. He was experiencing understandable bouts with doubt, emotional stress, and depression....
According to Hebrews 11:17, Abraham's faith was tested when God told him to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering (a sacrifice). You will want to read the account in Genesis 22. As I read it again today, I could feel the tension in...
Abraham and Sarah are presented to us in Hebrews 11 as examples of faith. When you read the account of their lives in Genesis 12-21, they look like examples of stumbling and bumbling humans like us. So what do their lives teach us about faith? They do...
Since I don't think we can separate our faithfulness to Jesus from the realities and relationships of our lives, I believe we can apply the passage from Hebrews 12:1 to endurance in marriage: "Laying aside every weight, and the sin that so easily entangles us,...
