Grace Presbyterian Church - Sermons

In writing to Christian churches in Asia Minor that are experiencing hostility for their faith, Peter teaches something surprising and spectacular: Our response to hostility is holiness. And Peter shows us that this holiness is by grace. That God not...

Jesus’ Parable of the Sower helps us to examine whether the Word of God is continuing to take deep root into our hearts by inviting us to examine its harvest in our lives.

The world provides countless things in which people place their hope, but they all, in the end, fail us. Thankfully, God gives this world a Living Hope – the Lord Jesus Christ!

The Christian life is a seesaw of faithfulness and failure. At the end of Book One of Isaiah the faithful King Hezekiah’s life ends in failure. Hezekiah’s failure provides both a warning and a longing. A warning against pride, and a longing for the...

At times, the Christian life is like being in a crucible where the Lord refines us like precious metals. God’s goal is to make us more like Christ for his glory. For this we need steadfast courage as we trust God to complete his work in us.

Christians live by faith/trust in God. The challenge is, we cannot live by yesterday’s trust; yesterday’s trust is for yesterday. Each new day presents challenges in which we must answer the question: In whom do you now trust? And so we must live with...

We now look at the hungering and thirsting for righteousness. While our impulse is most likely to view this pursuit in a cold, abstract way, Christian theology provides us with a different approach. In light of God's love for us, we pursue...

Every human being longs for justice, but most don’t long or a God of justice who will judge them. Isaiah shows us that without the judgment of God there can be no salvation of God.

Sadly, we want what only God can give, but we want it without getting it from God. Self-sufficiency is our downfall. But thankfully, when we get to the end of our rope, God meets us there, and he becomes our All-Sufficient Lord.

We are quick to believe in all kinds of resurrections, like the resurrection of career or marriage or finances. But the one resurrection that gives meaning to all other resurrections is the resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. But it can be...

We now look at the next two beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount: meekness and the pursuit of righteousness. Was Jesus truly meek? What does that mean and how does it mesh with a vibrant pursuit for righteousness?

God wants his people to know him, not just conceptually, but relationally. Not just with our heads, but with our hearts. In the circumstances of life, he invites us to taste and see that the LORD is good.

The life God gives to his people is a hidden life. The world cannot see it nor understand it. But by God’s grace his people come to experience the hidden life in Christ, from whom all blessings flow.

Sometimes God does not make sense to us. In chapter 29, Isaiah presents us with the unavoidable bigness of God so that we would become meek before him.

We begin Jesus's most famous sermon: the Sermon on the Mount. From it we will learn how we are to live in the Kingdom of God.

For as long as there has been a people of God there has been a people who doubt and wonder it God really has his hands upon the levers of life. In chapter 28, Isaiah show us that God alone is worthy of our trust.

Paul is beginning his final journey in Acts. He will interact with people at the top of the hierarchy and at the bottom and, in both cases, he finds people equally in need of Christ. "For there is no distinction..."

In chapters 24 – 27, Isaiah tells a tale of two cities: The City of God and the City of Man. The City of Man represents fallen humanity’s pursuit of life apart from God. The City of God represents redeemed humanity’s pursuit of life devoted to God. To...

What things must happen in order for you to come to life spiritually, to be born anew? What is your part in this process and what is God’s part?

Injustice is so ever-present on this earth that we tend to feel it is just a normal part of life. When you think of all the injustice in the world, it overwhelms the mind. And when we soberly reflect upon it all, we begin to wonder, “Is there...