We have already heard the devastating news that through sin death spread to all people because all have sinned. We know from experience the power of sin in our lives. Now we cry with the Apostle Paul, “Who will deliver us from this body of death?” The gospel tells us that God himself has done the work to deliver us from the power of sin. He sent his Son to break sin’s condemnation by the power of his cross. He gave us the Holy Spirit to break sin’s dominance by his power now at work in us. Let us live in freedom from sin by the daily reminder of the cross of Christ, and the daily surrender to the leadership of the Spirit.
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Grace Community Church is committed to building spiritually healthy people for ministry in the world. We are a disciple-making church with God-centered worship and biblical teaching, mutual encouragement toward spiritual growth, and engagement with the world through evangelism, missions, and service.
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Sunday Oct 04, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Scott and Justin look back at Hebrews 10 and ask one question: How can we be praying during the unique season we find ourselves in?
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Christ has made the way to God. He has brought us with him into God’s presence by his death on our behalf. Now Christ stands with us before God and over us as the people of God. We have come to Christ by faith as the Spirit of God has drawn us to him. There is great reward and the promise of life that awaits us. So, let us endure! Let us remain in Christ, with Christ’s people, and in the things of Christ which will matter in eternity. The Christian and the congregation that endures will be of great benefit to people in times of turmoil. When God turns their hearts to Christ, we will be standing with Christ to welcome them as we ourselves have been welcomed by him.
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Rob Tims preaches on Romans 7:7-24. When the law of God outside our hearts and the sin inside our hearts collide, an epic battle rages that we simply cannot win. God’s law exposes our sin, and sin exploits the law and stirs us up to sin all the more (7:7-13). Yet when the law of God is written on our sinful hearts by the Spirit, an epic battle rages that we simply cannot lose, and the ongoing battle is a sign of the Spirit at work in our life (7:14-24).
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Life in Christ is lived by the Spirit and not by the law. To live by the law is to have our old sinful nature aroused and exposed by the moral standard that we fail to keep. The result is sin and death. To live by the Spirit is to be raised with Christ as a new person with a new heart of love for God. The result is obedience to God from the heart until we enter the fulness of life to come. The encouragement for us from this passage is to think of ourselves now as united with Christ and being led by the Spirit to serve God in this world. Let us trust in Christ that he delivered us from the penalty of breaking God’s law, and be led by his Spirit in this new way of serving God.
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
The book of Romans has laid before us God’s gracious plan of salvation. Now, in the sixth chapter, we read the first direct commands. We are called to engage our minds and use our bodies to live in obedience to God. In our minds we consider to be true the spiritual realities of being dead to sin and alive to God. Then, we use our bodies in ways that reflect those realities in everyday activity. The mind and body of the Christian is where union with Christ is lived. This is practical holiness.
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
Sunday Aug 30, 2020
As soon as Paul says that God’s grace abounds over sin, the question about sin and the Christian arises. Shall we, can we, continue in sin in light of God’s saving grace? This passage addresses sin by showing us how God’s grace results in the death of our old self that was in sin, how we are no longer under condemnation of death for our sin, and how we live free from sin’s dominance over our minds and bodies. God has freed us from sin, so let us live bound to him.
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Scott, Justin, Jason, and Josh discuss the plans for continuing discipleship this fall.
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
This week, Justin and Scott discuss the importance of our union with Christ and how it fuels our joy and strength.
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
By the grace of God a new reality defines our lives which we call union with Christ. Union with Christ is rooted in his death and resurrection, in which God considers us to be included. Union with Christ determines the new way we relate to God in our bodies. The result of union with Christ is holiness (a life resembling Christ), and eternal life (a life of fellowship with God forever). Union with Christ is the great truth all Christians should understand, remember daily, and draw from for strength to live freely for the glory of God.