If you ever wonder if God is working in your life, here is a simple way to know. Are you seeking to increase and elevate yourself in some way, or are you seeking the increase and elevation of Jesus in your life and in the lives of others? Moving from the...

Dear Congregation, It’s been a while since I used this Words of Grace space to call us to a weekend of prayer. Today is a great day to return to this theme. This weekend, let’s pray for Grace Community Church. Let’s pray for the word of Christ to richly dwell...

Sometimes we use the account of Jesus cleansing the temple as cover for our anger and justification for doing destructive things. The problem is, we don’t keep reading the record to see behind his actions the unique, redeeming love of Jesus that led to his death and resurrection (John 2:13-22)....

Sometimes when we are trying to make a point, we end up undoing another point that needs to remain. I really don’t want to do that. So, let me say up front that the point I want to make about ongoing, growing, deepening faith is not meant to undo the...

In one chapter of the Gospel of John we take a journey from the eternal Word who is God to Jesus Christ talking to one man who sat under a fig tree. Jesus gets personal. The Gospel of John opens with lofty words about the Word (John 1:1). This sounds...

Last Sunday we began the Gospel of John as the next sermon series at Grace Community Church. In John 1 we were introduced to the Word who is God from all eternity, and who became flesh and lived in time.  The Word was identified as Jesus Christ. This week we...