Grace Presbyterian Church - Sermons

When seeking to live for God’s will do be done we can experience fear and trepidation. In this passage God speaks to Joshua and us and says we are to be strong and courageous because God will be with his people.

We know the human heart is faulty, since even the good things we affirm we often don’t do. Thankfully God has promised to give a new heart and Spirit to his people.

Our tendency as Christians is to plan out our lives and ask God to make our plans happen. But as we see in this passage, God has his big story that he is unfolding and he invites us into his story. And marvelously, he declares that he will be our God...

Jesus knows what will be going on in his disciples’ lives after he is gone; he knows their hearts will be troubled. Not surprisingly we too can be troubled and anxious about what our future holds. Jesus assures them by telling them that though he is...

This sermon, Bijan Mirtolooi addresses the condition of spiritual dryness: what it is, how it comes upon us, and finally, the remedies that can be found in Psalm 42.

There is something about the word ‘obedience’ that causes us to bristle. And yet, there is nothing more important to Jesus Christ than that his followers do what he says. If we believe Jesus is Lord, then we must obey him.

Jesus challenges many people’s conception of him as the teacher of peace when he asks his disciples, “Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth?” In this passage Jesus teaches us that his life and ministry will be full of rejection and that...

People came to Jesus for many different reasons. Many left him for many different reasons. When Jesus’ first two disciples begin following Jesus he questions their purpose in following him by asking – What are you looking for? It is a question that...

While we might define “home” differently, we all long for it because we were built for it. In this passage from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus challenges Peter’s understanding of home.

Though Thomas missed Jesus when he appeared that first Easter night, Jesus graciously sought him out. Thomas who would not believe in the resurrection unless he sees for himself models for us how Jesus takes us from confusion to confession.

Many look at Jesus’ life and death and simply see a tragedy – a good man caught up in a world gone wrong. But in the story of his arrest we see that Jesus was powerfully and obediently fulfilling his heavenly Father’s plan of salvation.

Sometimes we find ourselves gripped with fear due to the storms of life. In calming the great storm Jesus demonstrates to all who follow him that faith in him drives out fear.

The gospel gives us new eyes through which to see many things including friendships. The friendship between Jonathan and David is a model of covenant friendship that finds its truest form in Christ and his church.

The tendency all humans share is to live for this world as if it is the ultimate gain. Jesus shows us that to truly gain life we must follow him.

People tend to think they are loving, but Jesus show us that people typically love only those who love us as in return. Jesus shows his disciples that God’s standard of love commands that we must love all people including our enemies.

After catastrophes people often wonder how and why such horrible things happen to others. Jesus challenges his listeners that when others perish it is a time to examine their own mortality and need of repentance.

In asking the Rich Young Ruler “Why do you call me good?” Jesus challenged him as to his conception of goodness – moral goodness and existential goodness. In this sermon we contemplate the elusiveness of goodness, the gift of goodness and the life of...

In the very beginning of scripture we read that God made us in his image for relationships; God is a relational God. Since we have been made for relationships we should pursue one another in the power of the gospel.

We all tend to live for the present world and so worry about the future. But truly worshipping God gives us an eternal perspective that frees us from anxiety.

We turn to many different things in this world in order to find security, and all of them will fail us. But God desires that we find our peace in him.