Grace Presbyterian Church - Sermons

What is your life about? Or another way to ask this same thing: what reality does your life bear witness to? How would you answer that question- Working hard? Helping others? Glorifying God? Something else? Now, imagine an independent, objective...

It is not enough that the people of God experience a reformation from God, they need revival as well. It is not enough to have a renewed will but the old sin nature, the flesh, as the power to pursue it. Thank God that he pours out his Spirit in his...

In this passage, Isaiah shows us that God is 100 percent committed to restoring his people. In love, his reformation remakes us and reshapes us to be more and more like our savior, Jesus Christ. And so, we must embrace this good work of God in or lives.

This world isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. There is discord and corruption withing the very fabric of the universe, and in us. And mankind will never succeed in making this world all we long for it to be. But all is not lost. God has a Servant, his...

The world we live in is unrelenting in that life is seemingly one dreadful even after another. And especially for the Christian, as our lives are to be lived as strangers and exiles in this unrelenting world. But God is committed to his people, for he...

Waiting is hard. And it can be especially hard for the people of God to wait upon the Lord. We get antsy. We fall into despair. But God teaches us something of critical importance in this passage. Isaiah wants us to see that when we wait of the Lord...

The Hebrew word for ‘glory’ conveys heaviness. God is heavy. For many though, God is small, and he is relegated to the margins of life. And so, Isaiah challenges the people of God to see God from God’s perspective. Isaiah helps us to come under the...

Every day of our lives there are countless voices vying for supremacy in our lives. But Isaiah wants us to hear is God’s voice. God speaks to his wayward people, and it is not harsh words of rebuke. God say, comfort, comfort my people. And this means...

We tend to be surprised as Christians when trials come our way, but this is not to be our proper response. Peter helps us to see that the Christian life is a surprising life because the same God who wills our trials calls to us to entrust our souls to...

When Jesus is born, the ones who "should be" worshipping him, aren't, and the ones who "shouldn't be" worshipping him, are. The birth of the Messiah challenges our understanding of the kingdom of God. We'll be...

No matter how much we achieve, earn, enjoy in this life, it never seems to be enough. We can have all we need and still be in want, or we can want but still never seem to have it. Is it possible to be content in this life? The Apostle Paul says yes...

It is often said that God is more interested in our holiness than our happiness, but this is a false dichotomy. God is deeply concerned about your joy. But even with a head full of truths about God, joy can be elusive. Thankfully, Scripture offers us...

What does it mean to be free? What is the scope and purpose of freedom? To be free in a post-modern culture is to supersede all authority, and to indulge without inhibition. Therefore, in an individualistic culture, the scope and purpose of freedom is...

“Just as a meal is all the sweeter when you’re with someone whom you love, so much of the quality of an experience depends on in whose presence you are. And when you’re at God’s right hand, there are pleasures forevermore!”

By now, the reader of Peter’s letter is likely puzzled. God’s call to be a blessing to those who curse, and to live like a merciful priest in a hurtful and hostile world, and to pursue righteousness and suffer persecution AND rejoice, this call is...

Peter helps us to understand that even when we live with righteousness we can be persecuted for the sake of Christ, and that suffering and blessing are not mutually exclusive. So we must expect God’s blessing when persecution comes.

Peter writes that we have a calling to follow in Jesus’s footsteps and live in gentle submission to those in authority, be it at work or in the home. Though this is a hard teaching, we are also rewarded when we follow in his steps.

Ever since God has had a people, his people have been persecuted. As Peter says in this passage, “they speak against you as evildoers.” And yet, God has called his people to be sojourning servants in this hostile world so that God will be honored and...

As Jesus fulfilled the three offices of prophet, priest and king, so too as Christians, we serve in these three areas as well. The problem is, we tend to wear the prophet hat most; and we wear it in an inappropriate way. We tend to respond to the sins...

We now turn to mercy. What does it mean to be merciful? What does it mean to receive mercy? How can a church be defined by mercy while maintaining its pursuit of righteousness?