Grace City Church

Yasmin and Brian sit down after a full weekend with Zach Meerkreebs: the Saturday prayer lab, his Sunday sermon "Awakened for a Purpose" from Luke 15, and 70 people coming forward for prayer during the response time. They talk about how a growing church can drift into maintenance mode and miss the mission, and why presence and mission aren't two tribes: if you're doing presence r...

Awakened for a Purpose | Luke 15What if God isn't waking up his church just so we can enjoy his presence, but for a purpose? Guest speaker Zach Meerkreebs, who preached during the Asbury Outpouring, calls Grace City to be a church awakened not just for encounter but for mission. Walking through the three parables of Luke 15, the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost sons, he shows the heart o...

Yasmin and Brian sit down after Sunday's sermon on Acts 6 and 7 and the life of Stephen, the church's first martyr. They start with the messy reality of the early church (widows overlooked, leaders reorganizing) and what to do when you get hurt in a local church, because you will. From there they ask Sunday's big question, what is my life pointing at, through eulogy virtues versus resume virtues,...

If you keep living, thinking and acting the way you are right now, where will your life end up? What will it leave behind? Stephen preached the longest sermon in the book of Acts, but he started his ministry by waiting on tables. Pastor Brian Owen walks through the life of Stephen, the church's first martyr, in three movements: a life available to Jesus, a life centered on Jesus, and a life surren...

Max and Brian sit down after Sunday's sermon on Acts 5 and the hard story of Ananias and Sapphira. It wasn't a giving talk, but it was a talk about giving: their problem wasn't the money they kept, it was the lie they told to look as generous as Barnabas. They talk about what open-handed, everyday obedience looks like in a culture that rewards a curated image, why Max walked away from...

A Jesus Church: The Danger of Performative Spirituality | Acts 4:32 - 5:11 What happens when we care more about looking holy than actually living holy? The early church was of one heart and mind, so generous that there was not a needy person among them, and Barnabas sold a field and laid the money at the apostles' feet. Then Ananias and Sapphira sold land too, kept part of the proceeds, and li...

What happens when God moves? In this message from Acts 3, Peter and John head to the temple for prayer — and end up at the center of a miracle that stops Jerusalem in its tracks. A man lame from birth is lifted by the name of Jesus, Peter refuses the credit and points the crowd to Christ, and the same people who denied Jesus are offered wiping-clean repentance and "times of refreshing." The name o...

What if we've been asking the wrong question? Instead of "What is God's will for my life?" — what about "What is God's life for my will?" In this episode of The Follow Up, we unpack Chuck Bomar's sermon "Life Before the Plan" (John 15:1-5): what it means to abide in Jesus the true vine, why our algorithmic age is uniquely engineered to enthrone the self, and how grace both champions your personhoo...

Guest Teacher and author Chuck Bomar joins us as he addresses a frequently asked question: God, what is your will for my life? By looking at John 15:1-5, we see how grace forms the life God intended, it doesn't improve the life we've created.

Pentecost was never meant to be the finish line. In this episode of The Follow Up, we dig into Acts 2:42–47 and what happened after the Spirit fell, as the early church was formed into a people devoted to the Word, to one another, to the table, and to prayer. We talk about the danger of chasing God's presence without being formed by it, and how that leads to shallow discipleship and a proxy ex...

What happens after Pentecost? The Holy Spirit doesn’t simply give the early church a powerful encounter with God—He begins forming them into a new kind of people. In Acts 2:42–47, we see a church devoted to Scripture, one another, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer; filled with awe and expectation; and radically generous toward those in need. The question isn’t simply whether we admire the early church...

How could something seemingly insignificant and small lead to the largest movement that we're still feeling the ripples of today? What started with 120 disciples gathered in the upper room led to the birth of the Church and the Gospel being carried forward to the ends of the earth. In this episode of The Follow-Up, Yasmin and Brain talk through the Upper Room discourse, and what this means for the...

At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled a small group of Jesus’ followers, and the church began to grow. In Acts 2, Peter explains what the crowd has witnessed, proclaims Jesus as Lord and Messiah, and calls them to repent. This sermon asks what it means for us to depend on the Spirit, speak about Jesus, and respond when God moves.

Why the book of Acts? Because Acts shows us what happens when the Church is centered on Christ, empowered by the Spirit, and sent on mission. In this episode, we introduce our journey through Acts and explore what it means to recover the vision of a Spirit-empowered church. Acts reminds us that Jesus is still at work through His Church, calling ordinary people to be His witnesses through the power...

What did Jesus intend His Church to be? Acts 1 takes us back to the beginning of the Church and gives us a picture of the movement Jesus started—a people centered on Christ, empowered by the Spirit, and sent on mission. The Church was never meant to exist simply for itself. Jesus gives His people the power of the Holy Spirit and sends ordinary men and women into the world as His witnesses. As we b...

What kingdom should we look forward to? Why were the visions in the book of Daniel so potent?

It’s one thing to say you follow Jesus. It’s another thing to make decisions shaped by the Kingdom of God when obedience actually costs you something. In Daniel 3 and Daniel 6, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel face defining moments where their confessional faith has to become convictional faith. Their stories remind us that every follower of Jesus will encounter moments of testing—big and s...

This week we explore the life of Nebuchadnezzar and the cost of building our own kingdoms.

How do you remain faithful to Jesus in a culture constantly trying to shape you? In Daniel 1, Daniel and his friends are immersed in Babylon without assimilating to Babylon. They seek the good of the city while refusing to compromise who they belong to. In this message, we explore what it looks like to live with humility, confidence, and courage—determining in our hearts to be formed by Jesus whil...

What does it actually mean to follow Jesus? At the conclusion of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:13-29, we explore Jesus’ invitation to follow Him through the narrow way – a life not marked by simply being inspired by the words of Jesus, but by putting His teaching into practice and obeying the will of the Father. Jesus shows here that obedience starts with knowing God and being known...

In one of the most misunderstood passages in the Bible, Jesus says, “Do not judge.” Does that mean Christians should never confront sin or speak truth? In this message from Matthew 7:1–6, we discover that Jesus isn’t calling us to moral relativism or harsh condemnation; He’s calling us to humble discernment. Learn how to remove the “log” from your own eye, approach others with gentleness, and beco...

Anxiety has become one of the defining struggles of our generation. We worry about our finances, our relationships, our health, our future, and countless “what ifs.” But what if anxiety isn’t just something to manage? What if it’s pointing us to something deeper? In Matthew 6:25–34, Jesus doesn’t simply tell us to stop worrying—He reveals why we worry and invites us into a different way of living....

Our guest teacher Danny teaches from Matthew 6 to show how Jesus cares about our inner life. Danny teaches us how Jesus wants our inner life to inspire our outer actions, but helps us resist the acting or performing that Jesus was correcting around him.

This week, Max teaches on one of Jesus' most revolutionary teachings: loving your enemies.

As we continue teaching through the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew 5:21–30 , we explore Jesus's call to become people whose hearts match their actions. David teaches rather than settling for outward obedience, Jesus invites Kingdom People to examine their desires, pursue reconciliation over anger, reject lust at its source, and use imagination for good.