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Welcome to the weekly audio sermons from Grace Chapel in Englewood, Colorado. You'll hear from Senior Pastor Josh Weidmann as well as many others. Our hope is that you'll be encouraged, equipped, and blessed through these sermons. You can find more information at gracechapel.org
Jesus is not simply a good man who is gone and dead. He is the Christ, chosen by God to pay the price for our sin. After His death, Jesus was exalted as Lord over all creation. This is true—whether we believe it or not. In this message, we will identify the implications for us to believe and trust Jesus as both Lord and Christ.
Today we will talk about husbands, wives, and application for anyone who is in a family, which is all of us. Single or married, we all can find great application from the proverbs about what it means to have a family that is wise for the moments we find ourselves in uncharted waters.
The last few months have been anything but normal. Have we been interrupted or disrupted? In this weekend’s message Pastor Josh will share four spiritual lessons from quarantine and what we can learn from God “stopping us” in Acts 16.
The Bible is clear that we are to “Get Wisdom” (Proverbs 4:7), but where do we even start? In this message, we are going to identify what it means to fear God and why this is the foundation of wisdom. If you start with the right view of God, the rest of wisdom will follow
Spend some time in prayer. Pray that God will remove all distractions from you during this time. Ask God what HE specifically has in store for you to learn from this message.
We all struggle to understand how a good God can allow bad things to happen. Is He standing by watching? Does He not have the power to step in? Why/how is it loving to let our pain go on? In this message we will tackle this hard question and see the application to help us through our pain and doubts.
At some point in our life, we all ask, “Is God Real?” No one escapes it and, at some point, everyone has to answer it. In this message, we will talk about that question and how it was answered by the Apostle Paul in Acts. 17:16- 33
This year if feels like Easter has been taken away from us – but no one can take it from us because it already happened (nearly 2000 years ago). Our salvation and hope is sealed in Jesus Christ and His resurrection.
Today’s message is about The Power of Contentment. By studying Ruth 4:13-22 we will gain an understanding into the power that comes from being satisfied in Christ and rejecting an entitled attitude of entitlement.
As Christians we often talk or sing about being ‘redeemed’. What does that mean? Are we nothing more than game tickets turned in for a cheap prize? Even worse, is Christ just a token exchange for us? We will allow the Old Testament story of Ruth to show us the power of redemption and how we too can avoid a hopeless wrong ending if place our faith in Christ, daily.
When we find ourselves in times of waiting, where we can’t understand what God is doing and how or when He is working... what are we to do? We are to wait. Waiting is not wasted time, it is purposeful in the hands of a redeeming God. While we wait we trust. It is faith that pleases God. One of the things we rest in is that God is working during our waiting.
People who talk of chance as a causal agent for good or bad things happening in our life disclose a level of atheism by rejecting God as sovereignly in control. We must sweep the church clean of the notion that God is not involved in all things, including the afflictions, calamities, and trials we face. By looking at the story of Ruth, we see that God is in control of all circumstances and situations.
Loss in life is the deepest pain we will feel. Suddenly, all the things we once valued seem meaningless when we no longer have someone we love. In this message, Pastor Josh identifies how we can handle grief ourselves and how we can help those around us who are hurting.
No one had to grapple with the reality of God’s silence as much as Naomi in Ruth’s story today. There are seasons of silence from God in our lives, but He is always active and present. In this message, we will look at the first six—tragic—verses of Ruth and identify four reasons God can feel silent and what our reaction should be.