Sermon Media & Review
Father's Day
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Your Life God's Way
- June 19, 2016
- Audio Video Notes
God Needs All of You.
Last week's sermon discussed the three parts of a person: body, soul, and spirit. These parts are evident from the creation of man in Genesis 2:7. God formed Adam's physical body and breathed in a living spirit, forming the individual soul that He named Adam. Each part of the human person has a responsibility to God. Those who look to you as an example need to see you following the Lord with the whole of your being.
Genesis 2
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Your Life God's Way
- June 12, 2016
- Video
The Whole of Us Is to Be All of God's.
Selected Passages on the Blessed Hope
- Pastor Ed Nelson
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- June 5, 2016
- Audio Video Notes
The Blessed Hope.
The classic passage on the "blessed hope" of Christians is Titus 2:11-15. Paul is instructing Titus as his apostolic delegate in Crete and Corinth. He trusts and depends on Titus to teach sound doctrine and the importance of adorning it with one's pattern of life.
Paul refers to two phases of future history in verse 13. The "blessed hope" is the rapture of believers to meet Christ in the air. The "glorious appearing" is when Christ comes again to establish His millennial kingdom.
Memorial Day
- Pastor Kent Hobi
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 29, 2016
- Audio Video Notes
The Importance of Remembering.
On days of remembrance, the reality is especially poignant that our freedom is never free. In the history of this country, God has not primarily used religious or political leaders to safeguard liberty; He uses the sacrifices of men and women in the armed forces to secure our freedom.
Spiritual liberty, too, was bought at a high price. Jesus Christ paid his life for our eternal freedom.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
- Pastor Tim Potter
- Category: Your Life God's Way
- May 22, 2016
- Audio Video Notes
God Has a Plan for That!
Our theme this year is "A Zeal for the Church." We at Grace Church want to have an all-consuming desire for this local body to succeed spiritually. Anyone God has saved, He has a plan to use in the church. Our heart, soul, mind, and strength are to be utilized in living for His purposes. Paul calls this being sanctified "entirely" or completely.
Ephesians 4:14-16
- Pastor Matt Walker
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 15, 2016
- Audio Video Notes
The Necessity of Interdependence to the Spiritual Life.
Special Speaker: Pastor Matthew Walker from College Park Baptist Church in Cary, NC.
God has ordained that the Christian life is to be lived not in isolation, but in conjunction with the community of saints. So how is it that Christians, particularly here in America, have become used to amputating limbs off of the body of Christ (which is the local church)? In 1 Corinthians 12:12-26, the Apostle Paul refers to the Corinthian believers as being eyes and ears and noses—body parts. This is the same kind of language that Paul uses in Romans 12:5 when he writes that we are members one of another.
The Bible teaches that Christians are to be mutually reliant upon each other. This doctrine is incredibly important and should be a major heading in our ecclesiology (doctrine of the church). However, it has been almost entirely lost in American evangelicalism. Possible reasons include the American way of life that emphasizes independence and the rejection of denominationalism. American Christianity has become a complex collection of isolated congregations and an even more divided and isolated collection of Christians.
Mother's Day 2016
- Category: Holidays & Special Services
- May 8, 2016
The divine nobility and merciful simplicity of a godly woman.
1 Timothy 6:18-19
- Category: The Pastoral Epistles: 1 Timothy
- May 1, 2016
1 Timothy 6:17-19 forms the conclusion to Paul's letter to the churches in the prosperous city of Ephesus. These verses can be divided in three sections: disposition, anticipation, and participation. Our disposition must be a humble one that does not try to out-think God's plan for our lives or the mission of the church. Our hope is not in the American dream that could disappear overnight. We place our hope in God's unchanging promises and blessings.
