Sunday Morning Sermons: Recent Episodes
Grace Community Church
These are messages preached on Sunday mornings at Grace Community Church of Maryville, TN. Our sermons are generally exegetical in nature, so we will normally cover books in the Bible slowly and methodically
The time for salvation is now. Once the Master shuts the door, all opportunities cease.Keywords: Salvation
Paul, Silas, and Timothy’s love for the church displayed in their sacrifices for the benefit of the body in Thessolonica. An exhortation for all believers to strengthen and encourage one another in their faith and a reminder that afflictions are from the hand of our sovereign, loving, and merciful God. Keywords: Love, sovereignty of God, afflictions, encouragement
When we fail to respond properly to God in the midst of difficult circumstances, He is faithful to comfort us, gently confront us with the truth of His word, and call us to faithful obedience. God continually comforts, confronts, and calls His people to faithful obedience.Keywords: Elijah, Depression, Theophany, Comfort, Commission
The Lord God of the Bible is the One True God who alone is worthy of worship and who hears and answers His people when they cry out to Him in humility and faith.Keywords: Elijah, Baal, Prophets, Fire, Idolatry, Revival
Jesus is the King, the prophecy-fulfilling Messiah who was virgin born to a righteous, obedient couple, faithfully awaiting their long-expected Redeemer. Jesus is the only Savior for a world of hell-bound sinners.Keywords: Joseph, Christmas, Incarnation, Righteousness
Christ honoring male headship requires the exercise of true authority in overseeing the Christ-exalting direction of the home, but must be expressed with the consuming, sacrificial love of Christ. A man’s headship has as its motivation and model the sacrificial love of Christ.Keywords: Headship, love, husband, wife, leadership
God is a just, loving, and righteous God who must and does bring judgment and discipline on His children who violate His holy standards, thus we must humbly examine our lives and lay aside any sin in which we are entangled. God holds his chosen people accountable for their sin. Keywords: Idolatry, Judgment, Punishment, Typology
In order to become a slave to all men, the believer must exercise self-control in every area of life which enables them to run the race of the Christian life in a prize-winning fashion. Discipline yourself to run and win! Keywords: Discipline, Race, Crown, Reward, Self-Control, Slave
The true believer builds his entire life around the good news concerning the person and work of Jesus Christ always being ready to give up his personal desires, rights, and privileges to fulfill the stewardship of the gospel message entrusted to Him by Christ. We make ourselves slaves of all men so that they might know Christ and Him crucified. Keywords: Slave, Evangelism, Law, Contextualization
Christians are called to use their knowledge of God to turn away from idols, to grow in their love for God and for others, and to worship God alone, through Christ, as the one, true, Creator and Lord. True knowledge of God defeats idolatry in the heart of the believer. Keywords: Love, Knowledge, Pride, Idolatry
The command to make disciples of all the nations involves preaching the gospel for the purpose of seeing a solid local church established in every community. The great commission is about the establishment of local churches. Keywords: Evangelism, Church Planting, Church
The shepherds of the church must design the ministries of the church for maximum spiritual effectiveness in equipping the saints to accomplish the work God has given them to do. Effective shepherds equip the saints for maximum spiritual ministry.Keywords: ministry, equipping, service
God has so designed the church that when the elders faithfully equip the saints through the ministry of prayer and the Word, the church reaches full maturity and is properly guarded against error. God has ordained elders to equip the church to accomplish the work of the ministry.Keywords: Sheep, Shepherd, Equip, Service, Maturity, Body, Growth, Saints
God has ordained elders to be the primary means through which the members of are equipped to exalt Christ by being conformed to His image. Elders exist conduits through which the Greatness of Christ is magnified.Keywords: Shepherd, Elder, Overseer, Pastor-Teacher, Gifts, Evangelist, Apostle, Prophet
One of the blessings of pursuing singleness is that one who is not married has a unique opportunity to live with an eternal perspective which enables them to more easily cultivate single-minded devotion to Christ. Singleness provides a unique opportunity to live in light of eternity.Keywords: Singleness, Grief, Weeping, Rejoicing, Materialism, Eternity
God has specifically called us into every circumstance of life and He will actively strengthen, encourage, and guide us into faithful, loving, Christ-exalting obedience. Where God has sovereignly called you, He will faithfully keep you.Keywords: Will, Sovereignty, Circumstances
God has sovereignly ordained and placed the believer in every life condition and circumstance and thus we are expected and empowered to live fully for Christ within that circumstance. Every circumstance of our life is a unique calling from God. Keywords: Circumcision, Legalism, Obedience, Slavery, Sovereignty
Be encouraged because of Christ's eternal salvation. Five encouragements in the glorious nature of Christ's eternal salvation: its certainty, its anticipation, its prize, its transformation, and its result.Keywords: Eternity, Salvation
God has sovereignly ordained and placed the believer in every life condition and circumstance and thus we are expected and empowered to live fully for Christ within that circumstance. Every circumstance of our life is a unique calling from God.Keywords: Justice, Circumstances, Sovereignty, Calling, Predestination
Jesus is the King and thus He demands, deserves, and empowers complete loyalty and total sacrifice in return for eternal salvation and infinite, joyful satisfaction. The true follower of Christ loses all to gain infinitely more! Keywords: Discipleship, Cross, Deny, Cost
Jesus is the King of Kings whose worship is the wisest use of our lives and the consuming focus of this season and all eternity. To understand Christmas is to worship Jesus.Keywords: Christmas, Worship, King, Bethlehem
God’s design for marriage is that it would be the permanent union of one man and one woman for life, yet in His grace He has made provision for the dissolution of a marriage in which an unbeliever is destroying their spouse and family. God allows divorce when an unbelieving spouse leaves the home or is destroying it. God hates divorce, but He also hates abuse while loving and protecting the afflicted.Keywords: Marriage, Divorce, Abuse, Remarriage, Separation, Elders
God has designed marriage to be a special means of dispensing His blessing on His people and proclaiming His greatness to the world and this remains true even if one person in a marriage is an unbeliever. Being married to an unbeliever does not remove God’s blessing from your marriage.Keywords: Marriage, Unbeliever, Sanctification, Authority
Five Scenes that display the power and authority of Jesus Christ over the spiritual world that you might worship Him with joyful fear and carry out His mission with deep gratitude.Keywords: Evangelism, Great Commission, Fear of God, Demons, Spiritual Warfare
4 scenes that give us perspective on world history and the Lord of it all.Keywords: Great commission, world, history, sovereignty, kingdom, millennium, church planting, evangelism
God has designed marriage to be permanent, one man with one woman for life, however, God’s allowance of divorce in the case of adultery is a gracious provision which serves to highlight both the sanctity of marriage and His care for his people. God hates divorce and He also hates adultery. Keywords: Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, Adultery
God has carefully gifted each believer for life of either singleness or marriage and we must joyfully glorify God in whatever state He has called us to. Both singleness and marriage provide unique ways to glorify God. Keywords: Marriage, Widows, Singleness, Unmarried
God has uniquely designed human sexuality to reflect the character of Christ and any perversion of it causes devastating harm to the core of our being and steals from the glory of God. God has not designed us for sexual immorality but as temples of the Holy Spirit. Keywords: Immorality, Holy, Spirit, Temple, Body, Glorify, Price
God has uniquely designed human sexuality to reflect the character of Christ and any perversion of it causes devastating harm to the core of our being and steals from the glory of God. God has not designed us for sexual immorality but for union with Him through the Holy Spirit. Keywords: Immorality, Union, Resurrection, Body
God has uniquely designed human sexuality to reflect the character of Christ and any perversion of it causes devastating harm to the core of our being and steals from the glory of God. God has not designed us for sexual immorality but for purity and intimacy with Him. Keywords: Sexual, Immorality, Freedom, Body, Slavery, Sin
The Christian is a new creation in Christ who has been set free to cast off the chains of unrighteousness and pursue the holiness and joy that true salvation produces. True Christianity produces a joyful harvest of righteousness. Keywords: Sanctification, Justification, Regeneration, Washing, Salvation, Righteousness, Holiness
The Christian is a new creation in Christ who has been set free to cast off the chains of unrighteousness and pursue the holiness that true salvation produces. True Christianity produces a joyful harvest of righteousness. Keywords: Sin, Righteousness, Homosexuality, Holiness
The church is a loving family whose members are willing to suffer their own hurt in order to protect the love and unity of the body and thus properly reflect the glory of Christ to a watching world. True love lays down its rights to take up the cross. Keywords: Lawsuits, Court, Defraud, Sue
Contentment is the Holy Spirit empowered state of Christ-like peace that trusts in God and humbly accepts His will in our lives. Knowing it is for our good and His glory.
A sermon on the importance of preparing for one's death/departure/eternity/coming of Christ. Keywords: Death, Eternity, Appearing of Christ, Motivations
True believers have been given spiritual wisdom and insight which must be carefully exercised to properly deal with difficulties and disputes which arise in the church. Believers don't sue one another, the love one another. Keywords: Lawsuits, Suing, Ruling, Judgement
Christ died so that the church would be holy, therefore we must remove the unrighteous from the church, even as we remain among the unrighteous of the world evangelizing the lost. We are called to bring judgment in the church, not the world. Keywords: Moralism, Righteousness, Witness, Judgement, Judging
Christ died so that the church would be holy, therefore we must work diligently to deal with sin in our midst so that the whole body is not tainted and Christ’s sacrifice dishonored. Keywords: Sin, Leaven, Passover, Unleavened, Feast
God designed us, male and female as sexual beings and designed marriage between a man and a woman to be the only proper expression of sexuality, thus we ought to rejoice in God’s good plan and guard our sexuality through careful spiritual discipline. Christians delight in God’s good plan for sexuality and refuse to pervert it in any way. Keywords: Sin, Incest, Immorality, Discipline, Purity, Marriage
God designed us, male and female as sexual beings and designed marriage between a man and a woman to be the only proper expression of sexuality, thus we ought to rejoice in God’s good plan and guard our sexuality through careful spiritual discipline. Christians delight in God’s good plan for sexuality and refuse to pervert it in any way.
Keywords: Pornography, Immorality, Incest, Adultery, Fornication, Homosexuality, Transgenderism
We have nothing other than what we have been graciously given by God and so we are to live lives of humble, thankful, sacrificial service. We are not the cream of the crop; we are the scum of the world. Keywords: Apostles, Scum, Eschatology, Church, Leadership, Scripture
The Christian worker is nothing more than a humble servant and steward who lives his life in anticipation of the final evaluation of His Savior and Lord. Keywords: Stewardship, Servanthood, Faithfulness, Evaluation, Judgement
All in the church have received everything in Christ who provides us with all wisdom and is our Master and Lord. Keywords: Christ, Humility, Leadership
The church must be built with the proper building material - gold, silver, precious stones, not wood, hay, straw.
The definition and function of the local church and the foundation, Jesus Christ, on which it is built.
The response to the resurrection by the first disciples to arrive: Mary, John, and Peter.