Grace Point Sermons

When God doesn't meet our expectations, the temptation is to let go of Him in an attempt to hold onto control. However, since God is always working, we not only should onto Him...we can because He is God Almighty and there's nothing too hard for Him.

Since God never fails and never forgets, we can trust Him to keep His promises, even when it takes longer than we want it to.

Q & A covering questions from Genesis 8-14.

When we chase the world's prosperity at the cost of God's peace, there's only one way to have that peace restored & that's to accept it as a gift from our gracious God. Thankfully, as we struggle to believe this truth, God uses even the tensions in our lives to teach us to trust Him.

As "glorious ruins," we all to remember that God's blessing is based on His promises, not our performance. Because that's true, we can focus on Jesus instead of ourselves, receiving His gifts of faith, faithfulness, and even failure as demonstrations of His kind and severe mercy.

When we fight against God, He always wins. The only question is whether or not we'll joyfully surrender as He accomplishes His purpose through us?

Fear is one of the most common responses of the human heart when we're waiting on God to work. When this happens, we need to be reminded that our God always remembers us, even when we forget Him. Because that's true, He invites us out of fear and into confidence as we trust Him to keep His promises.

Encore is a space for thoughtful, unhurried engagement with the book of Genesis. As we study through Genesis together in "The Overture," we are looking are large sections together to get a big picture of the story God is telling. However, we often can’t explore every question, theme, or theological implication in depth during our worship gatherings. Encore exists to bridge that gap.This first session covers Genesis 1-7, from creation to the flood. Together, we’ll examine the text more closely—asking questions, tracing themes, clarifying doctrine, and strengthening our understanding of God’s character, His design for humanity, the entrance of sin, judgment & grace.

Left to ourselves, humanity always gets worse instead of better. One thing that means is that we're always in need of God to save us from the downward spiral of our own self-destruction. Thankfully, the God who judges is also the God who saves, and He invites us to step out of our sin-cycle and rest in His mercy.

The story of Cain gives us an unsettling anatomy of unbelief. As we dissect this story, we learn that while true worship comes from total belief in God & His promises, unbelief always starts with pride and leaves a legacy of pain.

When we pursue good apart from God, we end up losing both. Thankfully, God's mercy is stronger than our sin, so judgment never gets the last word in the lives of those who put their trust in Jesus.

When God created us, He designed us for worship. We only fulfill that design, however, when we are: (1) Receiving God's blessings; (2) Reflecting God's character; & (3) Pursuing God's calling.

In His word, God gives us Himself. When we've lost sight of this truth, we need to be reminded what God's word is & what God's word does, both of which inspire us to discipline, desire & dependence.

When faced with misplaced guilt and shame, God alone is our refuge. In those moments, we hold onto hope by crying out to Him to send out His light and truth to lead us back into His presence, which is our exceeding joy.

Where there's no joy, there can be no peace. But how do we fight for joy in God when we're not experiencing it? In Psalm 42, the Sons of Korah leave us a map to follow as struggle to find our satisfaction in God alone.

We find peace in the face of irrational fears as we fight the lies of Satan with the truth of Jesus.

Jesus invites us to follow Him through the brutality of the cross into the beauty of the new creation. When we do, He gives us new purpose, new passion & new power. But none of this is possible until we stop trying to earn what can only be received as a free gift.

In our endless search for hope, we often take the well-worn detour into wishful thinking. Unfortunately, despite the promise of freedom and peace, wishful thinking can only ever lead us to despair. That's why it's so important for us to let God's word shape reality and commit to embracing Biblical thinking over wishful thinking.

The more we try to tame our flesh with rules, the more we learn that we must kill the flesh or it will kill us. Thankfully, the Holy Spirit promises to put our flesh to death, and as He does, we learn that we can trust Him to change: (1) What we love; (2) How we live; & (3) Who we are.

"For freedom Christ has set us free." In Christ, we've been set free FROM our old way of life & set free TO live as servants to Jesus and His people. But that freedom will always be challenged, which is why we must stand firm in grace against every threat raised against it.