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As those who are united to Christ in his death and resurrection, now sharing his life and awaiting his glory, we put to death the sin in us. Putting sin to death is possible because we have died with Christ to sin and have been...
As those who are united to Christ by faith, we share in his death and resurrection. Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. We will share in his glory when he appears. Now, we seek Christ and set our minds on him. The spirit...
By grace through faith we are brought into personal union with Christ, which includes participation in his death to sin, resurrection life, current reign in heaven, and future return in glory. We contribute nothing to Christ’s accomplishments, but we experience them in him. Our union...
The best safeguard against being taken captive to vain philosophy and empty religion is knowing and treasuring Jesus Christ and all that He accomplished for us. Grace Community Church exists to build spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. One of the ways that we...
We all believe something about life and how we are to live it. What we believe determines how we live. The gospel of Jesus Christ is truth we believe from which we live. In this passage, the Apostle Paul is confronting teachings about life and...
Josh Hussung preaches on Colossians 2:6-7. 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...
Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 1:24-2:5. 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...
Scott Patty preaches on Colossians 1:24-29. 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...
Our past, present, and future as Christians are represented in this passage, and reconciliation to God is the gift of grace that makes our lives complete in Christ. Once we were alienated from God, but now we are reconciled to him. As those who are...
In the beloved Son of God we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. Now we hear who this Son is. This passage shows us how Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is preeminent over creation and the church. May the vision of Christ put...
A regular theme in the New Testament is gratitude for God’s grace to us in Christ. Paul expresses this gratitude in his prayer in Colossians. This passage gives us a deep and wide understanding of the grace of God that will expand our prayers and...
The prayers of the Bible are always relevant and we should always be praying them. In this one, we see that the knowledge of God’s will is for the purpose of living for God’s pleasure. Pleasing God is bearing fruit in good works, enduring by...
Paul gives thanks for the evidence of the gospel’s grace and power among these believers. Faith in Christ and love for each other, rooted in the hope laid up in heaven, are the new and increasing qualities of these Christians and their congregation. This is...
Modern greetings have become casual to the point of carrying little meaning and adding almost no value to our conversations and correspondence. But when Paul opened his letter to the Colossians, he made bold claims about Christ that called his readers to believe. Today, we...
Today we begin a series of sermons from the letter of Colossians by asking three questions. What are we holding in our hands? What is the message of this letter? What should we anticipate in the months ahead? Answering these questions will help to increase...
The work of Christ will continue until he returns. He has given his Spirit to his church to be his witnesses in the world. The Book of Acts is the history of Christ’s work in the decades after the cross and resurrection. It ends with...
Discipleship did not end when Jesus was crucified. Jesus was raised from the dead and is alive. He has gathered and commissioned his disciples who follow him today. Our discipleship continues as we follow Jesus filled with his Spirit, as individuals who now form a...
Jason Miller speaks on Mark 14. 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...
Josh Hussung speaks on Mark 9:42-50. 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...
Elder Bill Maynard preaches on Mark 9:30-37. 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...
The most important part of Jesus’ call to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow him, is that he is the one who is calling. Disciples come to see who Jesus is, and they follow him as he is. Jesus Christ, the Son of...
In this encounter with religious leaders, Jesus teaches us that discipleship is not a matter of keeping traditions established by man for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a relationship with God. Discipleship is obedience to God’s word that comes from a heart of love...
By calming the storm Jesus gave his disciples the reason for their faith. Their faith, and ours, is based on the authority of Jesus over all things. Faith in the authority of Jesus is the source of our comfort in this life. May we see...
Jesus put before his disciples the foundational principle of spiritual receptivity to the word of God. All of discipleship is dependent on hearing and accepting the word, and the word bearing fruit in our lives. Our responsiveness to the word depends on the condition of...
Discipleship is the term we use to speak of our lives as followers of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Mark is a manual for discipleship. The first chapter of Mark reveals Jesus as the Son of God who brought the kingdom of God to us....
The final chapter of Isaiah once again gives us a vision of the greatness of God. The stunning reality is that this great God takes notice and shows grace to the humble and contrite person who trembles at his word. We hear a final exhortation...
God stands before us in Jesus Christ and says, “Here I am.” Now we must respond to him. In this chapter, we see two responses to God from two kinds of people that lead to two different outcomes. The rebellious turn from him and go...
As we approach the end of Isaiah, it is as if an intercessor looks back on all that has been prophesied previously and offers up a loud cry to God, “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down!” This is a prayer for...
Isaiah 61 prophesies the coming of an Anointed One who will preach good news. As history unfolds, we see this One is Jesus Christ. We also see that Jesus accomplished what he proclaimed. He ushered in the age of grace with its open door to...
Isaiah 60 gives us a vision of the future for God’s people. It is a future of glory as he shines upon us and dwells with us. Isaiah tells us to hold that vision firm in our minds because it provides the strength we need...
