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Did you miss this past Sunday and want to hear what you missed? Did you miss something in the sermon or want to listen to it again?
Did you miss this past Sunday and want to hear what you missed? Did you miss something in the sermon or want to listen to it again?
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches from Luke 5:17-26 in our series "Who's Your One?"
In Luke 4:31-41, Jesus goes to Capernaum, where He teaches them with authority, casts out a demon, and heals sicknesses.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches the church is the network (the economy) of relationships between you and I, our children and families interacting by which the rule of Jesus takes roots and we become an outpost and a representative of the Kingdom of God.
After His baptism, Jesus goes to the wilderness to pray and fast, where He is tempted by Satan.
Join Aaron Davis as he teaches that Jesus shows us that the only way that we can overcome our circumstances, our temptations, and ourselves is the Word of the Lord.
The Holy Spirit is the active presence of the Lord in the world. How do we discern what is the Spirit?
Join Pastor Josh as we examine several texts in Scripture to answer four questions and a point of pressure.
Luke gives us the account of Mary and Joseph bringing Jesus to be presented at the temple. It is there that they encounter two faithful individuals: Simeon and Anna.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that we gossip about Jesus when we are in awe of Jesus.
The Mission and Vision of every church is found in the Great Commission. Many of us forget that people make up the church because we focus on the church as an organization rather than the individual lives.
Join Pastor Josh as he gives the vision for 2023 of Simplicity and being a people who pursue the Master.
As disciples of Christ, our lives are about submitting to King Jesus. This memes the entirety of our lives is to be through the filter of Jesus. We have all time, talents, and treasures.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches we are to line in the Truth and be transformed, or if we do not live in it then you won’t.
As we prepare for Christmas, Advent is preparing us for the coming of Christ the King who is like no other king. In Luke 1, the angel Gabriel comes to Mary to deliver her a message that she will bear a child who is this King.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that the King who has come opposed the proud and pours out Grace on the humble.
In the Gospel of Luke, Luke tells us about Zechariah holding his newborn son and being inspired by the Holy Spirit speaks about the promises and prophesy of the tender mercy of God.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches repentance is not just turning from bad stuff, but coming to the King. He has come to deliver and save calling to Him all who are weary and heavy laden.
We can often get distracted from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. As we begin the Advent season, Luke 1 shows us that God sent a message that John the Baptist was going to be born.
Join Jamie Barnett as he teaches on how we are to turn our hearts toward Christ and try to help others see Him as well.
What if there is a life significantly more fulfilling than being a consumer? Jesus goes through Samaria and encounters a woman at the well. He touches the tender spot and does not skip over her sin and shows He is the living water. She is affected and runs to the town to tell people about Jesus.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that our job as a disciple is not to attend but to behold and become like Jesus.
While Paul is in Athens, idolatry is everywhere and he encounters the people worshipping their “unknown God”. Paul takes the opportunity and enters into their rhythm to be able to speak to them about Christ.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches how we are to be intentional about being on mission with Jesus.
In John 15, Jesus uses a metaphor of a vine and branches to teach His disciples about pruning and abiding in the vine.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that we are to stay connected to the vine by making Jesus the center of our life.
As people we continually reject Jesus and His teachings. We fear man more than we fear God. We should instead be seeking to find freedom in Jesus.
Join Jonathan Crain as he helps us see Jesus as the answer for our life.
We live in a culture of narcissism, where people know everything because of their accessibility to technology and can just search for an answer. They can’t hear because of their pride. In the Gospel of John, a blind man meets Jesus and through his beholding is transformed.
Join Pastor Josh teaches that Jesus opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
The masses are following Jesus looking to be fed with physical food again, but Jesus shows them that they should be seeking spiritual food and He is the bread of life.
Join Daniel Cates as he teaches us that Christ Himself is the nourishment and sustenance of life.
In John 2, Jesus turns water into wine and cleanses the temple. The miracle is not the water into wine, but the person that comes to say you no longer come to wash yourself but Christ cleanses. At the temple, those who gathered compromised and allowed it to become a shopping mall. Jesus rebukes them and reveals that His body is the temple.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that there is no longer a temple or a place of sacrifice because there is Jesus.
What does it look like to be what God has called us to be? What does humility look like? What should our quiet times look like?
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that glorious changes in life does not come from more mediation or practice, but BEHOLDING Christ, looking at the face of our King.
The greatest danger for the Church and the ploy of the enemy is that he wants you to go after other men and things that takes your affections from Christ.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that our all consuming occupation is the pursuit of Jesus Himself.
In a world of opportunities and technology, we know what it means to be distracted, we have so many things pulling for our attention. What if those distractions have lead us to be un-formed?
Join Pastor Don as he teaches from the story of Martha and Mary that sitting at the feet of the Jesus and worshipping Him is the only necessary thing to focus ourselves as disciples.
Why does it seem that so many of those who once were “saved” no longer follow Jesus and have tapped out? In Luke 14, Jesus teaches on the cost of discipleship.
Join us as Pastor Josh explores one of the greatest reasons we may not see the changes in our life we expect.
As we conclude our series in Daniel and how to thrive in Babylon, chapter 6 is a familiar story for most about Daniel and the Lions’ den.
Listen as Pastor Jamie explains how Daniel was able to face such a difficult time with faith and how we can too.
Thriving in Babylon means that we will be tempted to listen to the influences of this world. John warns us that if something isn't pointing us to Jesus, it may be pointing us somewhere else. John points us to our identity in Christ as "Beloved". This was the very concept that Daniel hung on to in Babylon.
Join our Pastor Apprentice, Robert, as he teaches how we are valued and treasured because of who we are, not what we're doing.
Daniel 4 is an interaction between God and King Nebuchadnezzar. King Nebuchadnezzar has another dream and Daniel interprets his dream once more, revealing that King Nebuchadnezzar will be humbled.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that Christ’s kindness comes to us that it might bring us to the end of ourselves.
In Daniel 3, King Nebuchadnezzar builds a statue of gold to show that he is not temporary, but permanent. He commands all the people to worship this statue or be burned in the fiery furnace. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are called to compromise their worship of Yahweh, but they refused.
Join Pastor Josh as he teaches that in Babylon, we will be called to compromise, but Jesus is the only one worthy of our worship.
This week in the Wildfire series, we covered the everyday struggles that men in our church experience by showing how the truth of God's Word speaks to questions submitted by men in our church.
Join Pastor Josh as he discusses the questions submitted.
This week in the Wildfire series, we covered the everyday struggles that women in our church experience by showing how the truth of God's Word speaks to questions submitted by women in our church.
Join Pastor Josh as he discusses the questions submitted.
In Luke 11, Jesus teaches the disciples about prayer. As Christians, we can attempt to live life without prayer. We can get consumed in our busyness, forgetting that prayer is our approach to God.
Join Pastor Josh as he shares the realities we find in prayer.
Today's generation is the most anxious generation than any other. In Matthew 6, Jesus talks about the how to overcome anxiety.
Join Pastor Josh as he proclaims our need for mastery and overcoming our anxiety through Christ and His kingdom.
A disciple is a learner. A hunger for the Word (the truth) is one of the greatest evidences you are born again. In Mark 4, Jesus tells a parable about soils to the crowd.
Join Pastor Josh as he challenges us to evaluate ourselves and others in light of this parable.
Forgiveness seems to be hard because we do not understand what it means. Forgiveness is a process. At the center of most of our lives, forgiveness never goes away and never stops. There will always be the necessity of forgiveness.
Join Pastor Josh as he challenges us to understand that forgiveness must be real because your forgiveness is real.
Devoting yourself is to say "no" to many things in order to say "yes" to a few things. In Acts 2, the Early Church devoted themselves to the essentials that mattered.
Join Pastor Josh as he shares the rhythms that give us life.
Wildfires require the perfect conditions to produce a probability of certain things taking place. If these conditions are fostered, then God's power and fruitfulness cannot be stopped.
Join Pastor Josh as he challenges us to be obsessed with the conditions of faithfulness and dependence.
How could anybody believe in the resurrection from the dead? But what if there’s evidence that changes everything? Would you want to know it?
The death of Jesus Christ is the darkest day that has ever been and ever will be in history… And yet it’s called good? Join us as we visit the details of the suffering that reveal the beauty of his love.
We see three versions of Jesus as King in scripture. A celebrated King for the people, a condemned King on the cross and the almighty King of Kings prophesied in the end times. Why did the followers on the first Palm Sunday eventually turn away from their King?
Listen as Pastor Aaron dives into each of the three and helps us to see Jesus for who He is.
n 1 Timothy 4, the apostle Paul gives specific instructions to pastors and how they apply to every believer.
Join Pastor Jamie as he challenges us with the steps we can follow to have more opportunities for sharing the Gospel.
The book of 1 Timothy is one of the Pastoral Epistles that Paul writes to the leaders of specific churches. They serve as a blueprints for the purpose of building the church. Paul begins his letter to Timothy with a charge to remain in Ephesus.
Join Pastoral Apprentice Jonathan Crain as he discusses departing from the faith, how to live in a culture that wants us divided, and what to do with life when bad things happen.
Listen in as Pastor Josh explains the importance of family within the gospel and why we sometimes don't always want to go to church.
As we continue our study through 1 Timothy, Paul gives the qualities of Deacons. Often the role of deacon can be misunderstood, however, deacons have an important role in the church and should possess certain qualities.
Join Pastor Don as he explains that Deacons are to be servants and shock absorbers.
Hear from Pastoral Candidate, Josh Maciel as he breaks down Colossians 1 that describes the preeminence of Christ.
The church voted immediately following the service to unanimously appoint Josh as our next Lead Pastor.
Paul describes the kind of pastor that Timothy should be appointing in the Church of Ephesus. This is the same qualities that we should appoint for our church today.
Join us as we share in the ordination of Pastor Jamie and Pastor Steven.
Join Joey as he gives us the three instructions of how God desires order in the church through our service to God, how we conduct ourselves in the church, and with our relationships to our spouses.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. That was Jesus' purpose. Listen to learn more about how the purpose of the church should line up with the reason Jesus came into the world.
The Book of 1 Timothy is one of the Pastoral Epistles that Paul writes to the leaders of specific churches. They serve as blueprints for the purpose of building the church. Paul begins his letter to Timothy with a charge to remain in Ephesus.
Join Pastor Don as he examines the foundation of the church, the charge to Timothy, and the charge to us at Grace Church.
The church is called to live amongst a community of believers. Community is how we implement Christ's calling to make intentional disciples.
The mission that must take place out in the world must first take place within the home. Intentional Discipleship starts with a family on mission—a mission to love the Lord with everything you got.
This week we continued our Intentional Discipleship series by focusing on discipleship in our marriages focusing on Ephesians 5.
Join Pastor Jamie as he gives us some practical ways to improve discipleship in all of our relationships but especially in Our marriages as they point to Christ.
In our new series “Advent: Preparing for the Christ”, we look at Isaiah 9:6. This passage points us to a promised king and shows us that we must be a people of hope today.
Listen to Pastor Don explore four questions regarding this hope.
In Matthew 18, the disciples ask Jesus, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?". This question is a "me-oriented" question and shows that the disciples have lost the vision.
Listen to Paster Steven as he shows us two things that cause this "me" mentality and how we can find Kingdom Vision.
Jesus and the disciples are back in Capernaum. This week, we hear a familiar story of how Peter is questioned about Jesus paying the Temple Tax. Jesus displays His deity to Peter and provides the tax through a coin in a fish's mouth.
Listen to Pastor Don as he examines the story, reveals the heart matter, and calls us to action.
Christ came to die for our sins. We must not forget the essential truth of the gospel that as sinners, we have offended a Holy God and have hope in a resurrected savior. Listen in as Pastor Aaron expands on this truth.
How we started our wealth reveals a lot about our spiritual health. The book of James describes warnings that James gives to the rich. Listen as Pastor Johnny describes these four warnings and gives us some thoughts to consider as we look at our finances and resources in light of the gospel and God's kingdom.
The book of James is a book on wisdom. Pastor Johnny pulls from James 5 to show how to live out the gospel and how the gospel works in the hearts of Christians. Listen below as he gives us 8 questions to help figure out where the Holy Spirit needs to start his help in living out the gospel's message.
This week we heard from James 5 that we need to be patient and wait for God to complete his work, not only in us, but in others also. Listen to Pastor Jamie to learn five things that we can actively be doing while waiting patiently for God.
Pastor Johnny gives us the reasons why we need God to help us filter our mouths. Listen in to learn how can better accomplish this.
How can we have Christ centered relationships? Listen as Pastor Johnny describes what God gave to man before he gave a person.
James warns us about God's opposition to the proud. He follows with an offering of grace that anyone can attain and we see Jesus as a perfect example of rebuking the proud but offering grace to the humble. Listen in as Pastor Aaron explores this with us.
Pastor Johnny challenged us in a continuation from Father's Day on how to put Christ in the center of your home. Listen this week as we hear how to have a Christ-centered family.
Pastor Johnny began a two-part Father's Day sermon series on putting God at the center of our work and our home. Listen in to hear how to put God at the center of your job.
This week, Pastor Johnny reminded us that faith without works is useless. One of the bare levels of works that is evidence of our faith is our commitment to church and her mission and vision. click on the link below to hear more about committing your life to kingdom causes.
The Book of James connects our love for our neighbor with the unity of the Church. Join Pastor Johnny as he describes how we cannot love our neighbor as we should without Christian unity.
As a society, we can become consumed by our future and making our plans without God. The Book of James continues to challenge us to look inwardly to see our attitude towards the future. Join Pastor Don as he reveals that we have become practical atheist and the antidote to our pride.
It is unfortunate that the church today shows as much favoritism and partiality as they did in the first century. Listen as Pastor Johnny describes what favoritism is and gives us the cure.
The book of James declares that Christians should be hearers and doers of the word. And if we maintain both, we then should see signs of growth. Pastor Johnny gave 3 signs that our relationship with God is real and loving. Listen as he challenges us to keep our faith real and loving in 3 special ways.
The Scriptures declare that we cannot just hear the word of God but we must apply and do what the word of God tells us to. The difficulty is that we don’t always understand what we read. Join Pastor Johnny as he shows us through the book of James how to be hearers and doers of the word of God.
We live in a world that is offended or outraged by everything. How does a Christian who is looking to have a stronger faith navigate through a culture that finds our faith offensive? Join Pastor Johnny as he shares a formula that he has used in order to help him navigate through this.
Often times when we are walking through trials of varying kinds we will be tempted to sin. Trials are opportunities to grow in our faith or opportunities to sin. Listen as Pastor Johnny gives help to us as we seek to conquer those temptations and then shows us how we ought to walk through trials toward growth and maturity.
Our desire is to have stronger, more mature faith. Because this is a desire, we must realize that God has a process to help get this desire accomplished. God's primary way is to use differing and various trials. Join Pastor Johnny as he walks us through the design to use trials to help us endure and mature in faith.
Concluding his letter to the Galatians, what is the one thing Paul wants to leave us with? You are not that great - and that's ok, because Christ is. Boast in Him.
Jesus said that if we abide in him we will bear much fruit. Paul says that the fruit of the Spirit have certain attributes. Listen as Pastor Johnny ties the abiding with Jesus together with the walking by the Spirit and shows how we are to live out the gospel in the world.
A life well lived is a life led by the power of the Holy Spirit. Listen to Pastor Johnny as he teaches us about the ministry of Holy Spirit in our lives.
A crucified life is a free life. Join Pastor Johnny as he teaches three key freedoms we can enjoy as we walk by faith in Christ.
As an ambassador of Christ, there are three things we can do well to advance the gospel. One of the most powerful things is the decision to do the right thing. Listen in as Pastor Johnny teaches us how.
Are you bogged down by the weight of poor decisions? Holiness cannot be transferred, but unholiness can. True change begins in the mind with the decision to do what is right. Listen as Pastor Johnny explains the benefits of a changed mind.
God's people became discouraged while rebuilding His temple, and like we often do, became weary in obeying Him. Join Pastor Johnny as he teaches us how to receive encouragement in the every day, often mundane living of life.
We continue today in our study of Haggai 1:12-15. God has called his people to rebuild his temple. Join us to learn how confession of sin and obedience to God brings His power and enablement to properly and powerfully do what he has called us to do.
The people of God was told by God to obey in one critical area and that was to build His temple. However, they people didn’t listen and focused more on themselves and building their own homes instead. Join Pastor Johnny as he shows how this story is similar to where we find ourselves and how to evaluate our life to make sure we are more obedient to his calling.
The past year has been tough and forced us into many changes. We are still being held back by recent events but regardless of what’s going on in the world, we are commanded to move forward with what God has commanded us. Looking back at the early church, we can see that we as a church still need to be characterized by Love, the Gospel, Discipleship, Fellowship, Prayer, and Generosity. These things don’t change because of a pandemic or anything else. Listen in as Pastor Jamie gives walks us through how we can be more like a New Testament church.
Elijah was a man just like you and me. His life and example shows that the people of God can experience amazing miracles as well as lose sight of what is really important. Join Pastor Aaron as he walks through Elijah's life.
Join Pastor Don as he shares the three ways we are to give gifts and gives insight on how we are doing as a church.
We just finished our 4 weeks of Advent and as Christmas draws closer a little reminder of the gifts God gave us: (In addition to Jesus) • A New Identity • The Holy Spirit • A Family (a huge family, my favorite) • Heaven
Join Pastor Johnny as he reveals these gifts that God have to us.
Joy is one of the most sought after feelings around Christmas. However, there are some things that could steal and rob us of our joy. Join Pastor Johnny as he looks at those joy stealers and reminds us what joy truly is and how we can keep it.
The Christmas season is often a very tough and discouraging one for most people. With COVID-19 cases spiking again, discouragement is all around us. Join Pastor Johnny as he shows us how to anticipate the coming of Christ and get a hope that sticks during the holiday season.
With 2020 almost over and more than likely turning out to be a year that we all want to forget, there are still ways in which we can be thankful to the Lord. Join Pastor Johnny as he shows us how to intentionally build habits into our life in order to become more grateful.
In order to walk through life well there comes times where we must rely on the framework that we build in our faith to walk through suffering in a mature, Christlike manner. Join Pastor Johnny as he gives us 4 things to consider as we walk through the storms of life.
Maturing in faith is not easy or quick. There are lessons that we can learn from Jesus is walking on water. Join Pastor Johnny as he gives 8 lessons on how to keep maturing in your faith
When obedience is difficult the gospel is at work in the life of a Christian that is seeking to grow. Join Pastor Johnny as he describes for us for reasons that we should walk in obedience.
We enter the process of life in anxiety, we exit the process full of peace and in the middle of it all is worship. Join Pastor Johnny as he navigates us out of worry, stress and anxiety.
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand" is a description of Jesus coming to make all things right. Jesus tells stories not to make a cute description of a fairytale, but to give us a peek at what judgement will look like and to turn our worldview upside down. Join Pastor Johnny as he looks at the Parable of the Weeds.
Jesus often tells a story that is a revolutionary way of seeing a heavenly concept. There are four soils that he mentions in a parable that describes the heart of mankind. Join Pastor Johnny as he describes the condition of the human heart and what to do about it once we've identified what soil we are.
Unity is not sameness. It is distinctiveness going in the same direction to accomplish a common purpose. Join Pastor Johnny as we seek to understand unity and the implications of not having it.
Sometimes life throws all sorts of things at us that causes anxiety and we struggle and toil with finding our bearings to know what to do next. Join Pastor Johnny as he navigates us through Psalm 131 to help us walk with calm and quietness in our soul.
Ever feel hopeless? Ever question whether God is with you during your struggle? That’s exactly how the church at Philadelphia felt as they were waiting for God to move in their midst. Join Pastor Johnny as he describes the church at Philadelphia and how that church 2000 years ago has a lot to say to us today
Does truth matter anymore? In a world that lives by feelings, God's word stands as an objective truth. How do we navigate life when our feelings clash with God's word. Join Pastor Johnny as he walks through a church that was compromising its faith on every front.
The church is a gigantic family and sometimes we forget that there are family members who are being persecuted for their faith.
God doesn’t have any negative to say to the church at Smyrna but wants to encourage them to be faithful and not to be afraid during tribulation. Join Pastor Johnny as he breaks down this church so that we as a church in America can pray for the persecuted church and be faithful ourselves.
Has your faith grown cold or complacent? It’s never too late to jumpstart your heart!
One of the greatest churches in our scripture when it comes to their intellect and knowledge of Bible. But they abandon their first love. And this is so easy to do. Listen as Pastor Johnny describes for us how we can get back to the love we had for Christ at first.
Listen as Pastor Don preaches from the book of Acts. He speaks on the Mission Field after returning from his recent mission trip to Romania and brings a charge to the church.
There are times in which God will use crisis and a broken heart to draw us closer to Him. This was the story of Hannah as she grieved not being able to bear a child. Join Pastor Johnny as he shows us how to grieve well and how to trust God even through painful situations.
Last week we learned that we should not quench or grieve the Holy Spirit. We learned that wherever we go, or listen to, or see, we take the Spirit of God with us. How then should I live in a way that allows me to walk more faithfully with the Spirit of God?