In one chapter of the Gospel of John we take a journey from the eternal Word who is God to Jesus Christ talking to one man who sat under a fig tree. Jesus gets personal. The Gospel of John opens with lofty words about the Word...
Last Sunday we began the Gospel of John as the next sermon series at Grace Community Church. In John 1 we were introduced to the Word who is God from all eternity, and who became flesh and lived in time. The Word was identified as Jesus...
Psalm 1 gave us a picture of a healthy Christian in the image of a fruit-bearing tree planted by streams of water. Psalm 78 tells us that these Christians grow in healthy congregations. Our mission at Grace Community Church is to bring glory to God by being a healthy...
God has graciously given us his thoughts in language that we can understand. He has created us with the amazing and helpful ability to read, reason, and make comparison. In literature we use simile to stir the mind’s imagination to get at the nature of...
It’s graduation season. Young people around the world are wide-eyed and ready to go do something with their education. When I was in school, I spent as much time thinking about getting out and what I would leave behind as about entering into the future. The closer...
In his meditation on Psalm 81, Charles Spurgeon says the divine voice speaks warnings, promises, and precepts. All three are necessary and good aspects of the word of God. Sometimes we emphasize only one aspect of God’s word. We can hear only the warnings and become fearful...
This Sunday at Grace Community Church we will continue with the theme of congregational ministry, from Romans 15. This week, the focus will be on our ministry beyond ourselves. I sense that this focus on our ministry beyond ourselves is especially important in these days. So...
The central command of Romans 14-15:13 is to welcome one another in the church even when we hold different opinions over nonessential issues of the faith. We have been considering this long section of Romans for a few weeks at Grace Community Church. We have put the vision...
For several weeks we have been considering how God’s mercy in Christ transforms us. When Paul makes an appeal to us by the mercies of God, he is reminding us that God saved us for a purpose (Romans 12:1). The first appeal is that we...
The ice will melt, and the effects of COVID-19 will subside. . .someday. The question is not when will we come to church, but how? As a congregation, we are walking through Romans 12 in prayer and in preaching. This chapter opens with a reference to...
