The Grace Grand Bay Pulpit

Date: September 6, 2026 Text: John 4:1-26 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jesus went to an unexpected place to meet with a woman no one would have expected, and she was given an unexpected perception of who this man was and is, and this encounter gave her a new and unexpected perspective on all of life!

Date: August 30, 2026 Text: John 3:22-36 Speaker: Paul Meredith John the Baptist set a great example for us in how to have true joy in this life. He was content with God's will for His life and he found his joy in Christ's glory.

Date: August 23, 206 Text: John 3:17-21 Speaker: Paul Meredith God has made Jesus, and His saving work on the cross, the great divide between all men, women, boys, and girls. Those who trust in Him and His saving work on the cross have eternal life. Those who do not believe face eternal condemnation in hell.

Date: August 16, 2026 Text: John 3:16 Speaker: Paul Meredith God invites men and women, boys and girls, to receive salvation and avoid eternal hell by trusting in His Son, and His saving work on the cross.

Date: August 2, 2026 Text: John 3:9-15 Speaker: Paul Meredith Nicodemus, whom Jesus called THE TEACHER OF ISRAEL, learned a lot from Jesus that night he came to meet Him and speak with Him. Among other things, he learned who Jesus claimed to be, and what Jesus came to do.

Date: July 26, 2026 Text: John 3:4-8 Speaker: Paul Meredith In His encounter and conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus continued to impress on him that salvation is a regenerating work of God in which a person's sins are washed away and they are brought to life spiritually by the Spirit of God!

Date: July 19, 2026 Text: John 3:1-3 Speaker: Paul Meredith Nicodemus came to Jesus because deep down he knew something was missing in his life. Outwardly, he seemed to have a life that was put together in every way, but he had a nagging, gnawing feeling that something wasn't right spiritually. Jesus looked into his heart, and saw his need, and began to deal with his spiritual need.

Date: June 28, 2026 Text: John 2:23-25 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jesus demonstrated His deity in His omniscience - He knew all men. He knew all about man. He knew what was in man. And He still does!

Date: June 21, 2026 Text: John 2:12-22 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jesus demonstrated His strength as a man and His supernatural omnipotence when He cleansed the temple area of those selling animals and the money changers.

Date: June 14, 2026 Text: John 2:1-11 Speaker: Paul Meredith The first miracle of Jesus at the wedding in Cana, when He turned the water into wine, brought great joy to those gathered for the occasion. It also marked the beginning of joy-filled times - times in which Jesus would bring great joy throughout Israel with His miracles that touched so many times. Special note: this account is used to ju...

Date: June 7, 2026 Text: John 1:35-51 Speaker: Paul Meredith When Andrew and John wanted to know where Jesus dwelled, He told them to "Come and see". When Nathanael asked Philip if anything good could come out of Nazareth, Philip said to him, "Come and see." All believers have at least one someone who invited them to "come and see". And after we have seen and believed, we are responsible to tell o...

Date: May 31, 2026 Text: John 1:19-34 Speaker: Paul Meredith After his introductory prologue, John began his proof "that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God" (see John 20:31) by calling John the Baptist to the witness stand, as it were. John the Baptist gave a humble testimony that Jesus is "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" and He is "the Son of God".

Date: July 20, 2026 Text: Philippians 1:6 This sermon was preached at the funeral service of Scott Wesson which was held at Radney Funeral Home in Mobile, Alabama. Speaker: Paul Meredith, Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Grand Bay, Alabama

Date: July 12, 2026 Text: Luke 18:9-14 Speaker: Richard Burton Many people are trusting in their own righteousness - their own good deeds, their own keeping of the law, their own efforts to please God, for their salvation. In this parable, Jesus makes it clear our self-righteousness will never be enough to make us justified, right with Him.

Date: July 5, 2026 Text: Romans 4 & 5 and selected Scripture Speaker: Terry Downey Very simply, the Gospel comes down to faith in Christ and the blood He shed so God can forgive our sins and make us eligible for heaven. This is salvation.

Date: May 10, 2026 Text: John 1:14-18 Speaker: Paul Meredith John looked back to the time some 50 years earlier when he spent those years with Jesus and he emphatically claims with certainty that He was God in human flesh!

Date: May 3, 2026 Text: John 1:6-13 Speaker: Paul Meredith John presents Jesus as the Light that came into the world. In this text, we see how He was received.

Date: April 26, 2026 Text: John 1:1-5 Speaker: Paul Meredith John begins his gospel with a very powerful statement about the deity of Christ - that Jesus is God!

Date: April 19, 2026 Text: John 20:30-31 & Selected Scripture Speaker: Paul Meredith The Apostle John states his purpose for writing his gospel - that his readers may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they may have life in His name.

Date: April 12, 2026 Text: Selected Scripture in the Gospel of John and other Gospels Speaker: Paul Meredith This sermon is the introductory sermon to a series of messages on the writings of the Apostle John in the New Testament. It presents an overview of the life of the Apostle as given in the New Testament.

Date: March 29, 2026 Text: Genesis 12:1-4 & Selected Scripture Speaker: Paul Meredith An overview of the first book of the Bible, especially as it revealed God's redemptive plan for sinful mankind.

Date: March 22, 2026 Text: Genesis 50:1-26 Speaker: Paul Meredith Looking back over his life, Joseph understood that God had been at work through it all to bring about the fulfillment of His covenant promises - the promises He had made to his great-grandfather, Abraham, his grandfather, Isaac, and his father, Jacob.

Date: March 2, 2026 Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and Selected Scripture This sermon was preached at the funeral service of Mrs. Betty Smith who was a faithful member of Boe Road Baptist Church in Grand Bay, Alabama where she and her husband, Gordon, and their daughter, Wendy, attended faithfully for many years. Later, she was a member of Grace Baptist Church, also in Grand Bay, although she was unab...

Date: March 15, 2026 Text: Genesis 49:1-33 Speaker: Paul Meredith On the last day of his life, Jacob addressed his sons and pronounced judgment on them, thus providing a living illustration of the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Date: March 1, 2026 Text: Genesis 48:1-22 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jacob demonstrated great faith at the end of his life by promising the sons of Joseph their inheritance in the Promised Land, even though he lived the final 17 years of his life in Egypt. He also recognized, looking back, how good God had been to him.