Grace Reformed Church Sermon Audio

Text: Micah 5

Sermon: Big Hope

The place of hope
The King of hope

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Text: Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon: A New Christmas Filter

You need a different lens 
God's Christmas filter 
God really wants us to see

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Text: Genesis 3:15

Sermon: God’s Promised Friendship

Are we friends?

2, You can’t be friends! 

We Know we’re friends.

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Text: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Sermon: Giving Thanks

What giving thanks looks like 
Where giving thanks comes from

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Sermon: God’s Word is Life

Text: Psalm 119:105-112

God’s Word is life
I need more of God’s Word
The Bible is our heritage

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Sermon: Me or My Things?

Text: Exodus 33:1-11

Why God felt used
How God revealed who they loved more
Learning to love God more than his gifts

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Text: 2 Corinthians 10:1-22

Sermon: What is the Lord’s Supper?

The Lord’s Supper is communion with Christ
The Lord’s Supper produces unity in the chuch
The Lord’s Supper helps us flee idolatry

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Text: 2 Corinthians 13

Sermon: Passing the Test

What is the test?
How to pass the test?
How to grow Jesus-centered rather than me-centered relationships

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Text: 2 Corinthians 12:11-21

Sermon: What if they don’t repent?

How did it get this way?
How do we know we’re at the point where it’s time to part ways?
How do we part ways in a manner that pleases Jesus and leaves the doorway to repentance open?
What do I do with my broken heart?

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Text: 2 Corinthians 12:1-15

Sermon: God's Power made perfect in Weakness

Why boast in our weakness? 
The vision and the thorn in the flesh
Learning how to boast in our weakness

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Text: 2 Corinthians 11:16-31

Sermon: Christ-like Leadership

Abusive Leaders 
Why they put up with them?
The kind of leadership Jesus wants for his people and why?

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Text: 2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Sermon: Choosing Sides

What false Christian ministry does  
What true Christian ministry does

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Text: 2 Corinthians 10

Sermon: How Jesus' Authority Feels

Christian ministry feels weaker than it should
The nature of Christian authority is meekness and gentleness
Is this Us?

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Text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-14

Sermon: Cheerful Giving

God's joy in cheerful giving
God's plan to sow our righteousness
God's plan to harvest praise

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Text: 2 Corinthians 9:1-5

Sermon: Ready as a Willing Gift

The Spiritual Formation of Church Giving
Generosity grows by practice
Generosity grows by example

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Text: 2 Corinthians 8:8-15

Sermon: Learning Generosity from God

The free-will diaconal offering being collected
How God responds to envy, jealousy, discontentment, and fear
How God wants us to respond to his generosity
God's gifts are for our blessing and transformation

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Text: 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon: Open Hands, Open Hearts

1. How generosity connects to forgiveness

How generosity connects to God's providence

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Text: 2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon: Godly Grief

1. Paul’s great pride in the Corinthians  

Godly grief produces salvation without regret
How Godly grief shows itself in practice
Confidence for the future

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Text: 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

Sermon: Christ-shaping Christian Communities

Who are the unbelieving? 
The Impossibility of communion
The promise God will be with us

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Text: 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:13

Sermon: Be Reconciled to God

Be Reconciled to God
Working Together with God
Open Wide Your Hearts

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Text: 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10

Sermon: Staring at Things Unseen

Facing the toll of carrying the death of Jesus in our bodies
Staring at the glory of what Jesus will give us
Staring at the glory of what Jesus is giving us

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Text: 2 Corinthians 2:1-11

Sermon: Healing Pain

The painful punishment by the majority
The joy of forgiveness
The freedom of reconciliation
Outwitting Satan's designs

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Text: 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4

Sermon: A Church We Can Boast About to Jesus

Building relationships we want to boast to Jesus about
Jesus’ continual Yes to building those relationships
The difficult choices we prayerfully have to make to have those relationships

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Text: 2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Sermon: The Comfort of Jesus’ Mercy

God’s name as the Father of Mercies and God of All Comfort
Sharing in Christ’s afflictions
Sharing in Christ’s comfort.

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Text: Acts 1:1-11

Sermon: What Is the Ascension?

Thy Kingdom come (vv. 3-5)
Thy will be done (vv. 6-8)
On earth as it is in heaven (vv. 9-11)

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Text: Revelation 4

Sermon: Our God Is Holy

Worship shows us God’s holiness
God’s holiness humbles us
God’s holiness restores us

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Text: Genesis 16 and Luke 7:36-50

Sermon: Our God Sees Us

Blindness and powerless (Genesis 16 and Luke 7)
God sees us (Genesis 16)
Jesus’ call to us (Luke 7)

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Text: Exodus 34:6

Sermon: Our God is Gracious, Forgiving, and Sanctifying

Learning the Lord’s name (Exodus 1-34)
The Lord lives with us in forgiveness and mercy (vv. 6-7)
The Lord lives with us in sanctifying grace (v. 7).

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Text: Psalm 82

Sermon: Our God Is Just

God’s concern for his justice (vv. 1-4)
The catastrophe of bad discipleship (v. 5)
How God’s justice brings salvation (vv. 6-8)

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Text: John 20

Sermon: Following the Resurrected Christ

Mustard seed faith (vv. 1-10)
The resurrection changes how we live with Jesus (vv. 11-18)
The resurrection changes how we follow Jesus (vv.19-31)

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Text: John 12:9-36

Sermon: Jesus and Our Desires

The crowd’s desire (vv. 9-21)
Jesus’ challenge (vv. 21-35)
Following Jesus when we’re confused (v. 36)

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Text: John 11:17-44

Sermon: I Am the Resurrection and the Life

Jesus is the resurrection and the life (vv. 25-26)
Jesus is the life (vv. 20-35)
Jesus is the resurrection (vv. 38-43)
Jesus calls us to give his life and resurrection hope to each other (v. 44)

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Text: Colossians 2:6-15

Sermon: What is Baptism?

Jesus has filled us with all we need (vv. 9-10)
Jesus fills us with his death (vv. 11-12, 13b-14)
Jesus fills us with his life (v. 13a)
Jesus fills us to free us (vv. 6-8)

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Text: Romans 5:18-19

Sermon: What is the Covenant of Grace?

Why does one man’s sin lead to death? (Genesis 2:15-17)
Why does one man’s righteousness lead to life? (Genesis 15)
God loves us back to life (Romans 5:18-19)

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Text: 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, 4:1-15

Sermon: What is the Church?

The way we want to “welcome” back repentant people who sin against (4:1-3).
Jesus calls us to speak new creation words (3:1-6).
Jesus calls us to new creation deeds (4:1-7).
How this new creation life actually affects us and the world around us.

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Text: John 14:15-30

Sermon: What Is Christian Love?

Pastor Matthew Barker

Jesus wants us to know his and the Father’s love.
The Holy Spirit uses our obedience to bring Jesus’ love to people
What does keeping the commandments look like in practice?

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Text: Hosea 14

Sermon: What are Faith and Repentance?

Pastor Matthew Barker

Repentance is God’s way out of sin’s corrupting power
Repentance is words and deeds of righteousness
Faith trusts God to honor our repentance with life

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Text: Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon: What is Sanctification

Sanctification means seeking the things that are above.
Sanctification means putting our sins to death.
Sanctification means putting on Jesus’ character.

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Text: Romans 3:21-28

Sermon: What is Justification?

Why we need justification?
How Jesus accomplishes our justification?
How we receive justification?

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Text: Psalm 19

Sermon: What is the Bible?

The Bible restores life
The Bible creates a way of life worth passing on
The Bible can help us grow in holiness and love

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Sermon: The Response-Seeking God

Text: Jeremiah 18:1-12

Jesus power is absolute
Jesus uses his power responsively and responsibly
Our response depends on whether or not we believe in that Jesus means what he says

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Sermon: When Jesus Tears it Down

Text: Jeremiah 4:5-31