Grace Presbyterian Church - Sermons

The society we live in proclaims: “It’s your body, do whatever you wish with it.” And the Corinthian culture was just as hyper-sexed as ours, even more so. But the gospel changes everything for us, including how we view our bodies and use them to...

Holidays like Christmas are made special by the people we get to share them with. Unfortunately , these same people can also bring tension, conflict, and agitation. Agitation may be unavoidable, but Paul shows the Ephesians how we can respond beautifully.

At the end of his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul gives three commands: rejoice, pray and give thanks. Why does God command us to pray? Because we need to be commanded, and he commands not to burden but to bless.

Christians can suffer from gospel amnesia, that is, we forget who we are in Christ. Paul confronts the Corinthians in how they have not lived out who they are already in Christ Jesus. And Paul helps them to recover their gospel identity.

Finally, in chapter 5, Paul lays into the church in Corinth with a heavy, but loving, hand. The church had been neglecting a most important mark of a church, church discipline. Paul calls the church out for their failings, but also calls them to a...

The church in Corinth will be stuck in immaturity unless they come to embrace Paul’s authority over their lives. So too us. Jesus has established authority in his church, but will we recognize our great need for godly authority or will we reject it.

The church in Corinth was wrongly elevating its leaders based upon worldly expectations and desires. So, Paul challenges them in order to get them to evaluate how they evaluate, so that they would develop a gospel way of judging things, especially...

Paul elevates our understanding of the church. The church is nothing less than the temple in which God dwells on earth and it is built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ. And Christ is building his church through his people!

We Christians are pretty good at noticing spiritual immaturity in others; we are slow to recognize it in ourselves. In this passage from 1 Corinthians, Paul shows his readers that spiritual maturity is a gracious work of God, therefore we must grow up...

An amazing biblical truth is that the very wisdom of God is given to God’s people by the Spirit of God. And that God freely gives his wisdom. But the Christians in Corinth had a maturity problem that caused them to not access the wisdom of God for...

As Augustine, Luther, and Calvin guarded and reformed the Church, we must watch over and be continually renovating our hearts and minds.

We often think we should handle small problems ourselves and let God take care of the big ones, or that God helps those who help themselves. Psalm 121 teaches us that our true help comes from the Lord, the Creator who sustains everything. This message...

God’s wisdom and God’s power appear foolish and weak to this fallen world. And yet, this simple, seemingly foolish message—that God’s son died on a cross for our sins—is God’s powerful wisdom that saves all who believe.

Paul addresses an issue in Corinth where members of Christ’s body were divided over earthly leaders. There were divisions and quarrelling instead of unity in Christ Jesus. But Christ alone is to be our highest good, for he alone is able to care the...

Jesus has called the church to be disciples who make disciples, for discipleship is how we grow in Christlikeness and manifest his glory and his kingdom on earth! And since discipleship is Jesus’s top priority for his church, discipleship is the top...

Christians are not Pharisees. But Christians often live with Pharisaical tendencies. That is, we can live as if we are saved by grace but need to live by works to maintain our acceptance before God. In this parable, Jesus helps his people to rest in...

What we see in all this is that Jesus is more than we ever imagined he could be.

The God of the Old Testament often gets characterized as a judgmental, overbearing, unreasonable God, but a closer examination of the events shows that He is the God of unwavering promise and commitment to His people and promises. It is because of His...

Our natural sinful impulses cover us like grimy, decrepit clothing. When we cast off our old self and put on the new self, our new clothing of humility and love will transform every personal relationship in the joy of the Lord. But changing clothes...

One of the Bible's most beautiful depictions is God's covenant loving-kindness. We see this in the Old Testament through His gracious dealings with His people, and it is ultimately fulfilled in Christ, who invites us to experience the...