Grace Baptist Church - Wilmington, NC

The sermon centers on the story of Job as a profound exploration of faith amid inexplicable suffering, emphasizing that true faith is not rooted in transactional blessings but in trust in God's infinite character. Through Job's trials—loss of wealth, family, and health—the preacher highlights how human understanding is limited, and how even well-intentioned friends misrepresent God by reducing His...

A special Christmas Eve message from Pastor Jay.

Why is it our culture is so desperate to disprove that there is a God. It is simply that they do not want to obey God and live by God's created order. This sermon uses the symbolism of Christmas lights as a powerful metaphor for Jesus as the light of the world, drawing from Isaiah 9 to reveal that humanity's deepest need is not merely festive cheer but spiritual deliverance from darkness. The pass...

If you could only choose one Christmas decoration what would it be? One that stands out in particular is the lights. The lights are not merely not meant to illuminate a tree they are meant to teach us that Jesus is the light of the world.

The account of Christmas is filled with layers of people and each one teaches us something. Even the most mysterious group we find in the account might be the group we call the Magi teaches us something immensely important.

Guest speaker Steve Pettit shares God's word with us. The sermon, drawn from James 1:1–5, presents a transformative perspective on trials as divinely orchestrated experiences designed to refine faith, cultivate steadfastness, and produce spiritual maturity. It emphasizes that trials are not random or merely burdensome but are diverse, inevitable, and uniquely tailored by God to expose and purify b...

With the 2024 election just a few days away we pause to remind ourselves of 5 important truths from God's word about how Christians are to respond to the culture around us.

Genealogies are an often overlooked part of the Bible, and yet they still there for a purpose. As we look at the genealogy of Enoch we are invited to pull back the curtain and see how God uses specific people at specific times for his specific purposes.

Is religion really bad for society? Genesis Chapter 4 shows us what a society looks like a part from God.

We are all worshipers, we are created to worship something, so the question is what are we going to worship? In this sermon Pastor Jay walks us through the familiar account of the first murder. A sin that came as result of wrong worship.

As we come to Genesis chapter 4 we are get a glimpse of parenthood for the first time. We can picture Adam and Eve holding their child for the first time with no Idea how it worked, the joy and the magnificence of it, but because we know how that first baby turned out we can often over look the importance of this moment in human history.

Because of the sin in the garden our world is left in a state of brokenness. The consequences were both immediate and perpetual. In this sermon Pastor Jay looks at 3 of those perpetual consequences.

The sermon centers on the profound consequences of sin as revealed in Genesis 3, illustrating how Adam and Eve's disobedience immediately shattered their relationship with God, leading to fear, shame, and the instinctive response of hiding rather than seeking reconciliation. Drawing from the narrative of their concealment among the trees, the message highlights the universal human tendency to cove...

Why is it our culture is so desperate to disprove that there is a God. It is simply that they do not want to obey God and live by God's created order. Join us as Pastor Jay walks us through creation day 6, the day that God created his most personal creation, humanity bearing His image. The sermon centers on the profound theological significance of Genesis 3, presenting the fall of humanity not as...

We all ask the question "why?" and the older we get they become more legitimate. We start asking questions like; "Why am I here?", "Where did I come from?", "Where am I going?". We even ask questions like, "Why does evil exist?'. In this message Pastor Jay walks us through the reason why evil exists.

Marriage is not merely a social construct to be tampered with. It is a divine institution that was made before any society.

In all of creation the only thing that God deems as "not good" is that Adam was alone. Foundational to God's design is that humanity was created as social beings, as modeled by God in his Triunity.

Genesis chapter 1 gives us the events of creation, so why do we have Genesis chapter 2 that seems to say the same thing? In this sermon Pastor Jay helps us understand that Genesis 2 gives us a fuller understanding of Genesis 1 and see that in Genesis chapter 2 we get a theological perspective of man.

Day 7 of creation stands apart from the other days because it is the only day to receive God's blessing and consecration. In this sermon Pastor Jay walks us through God's design for rest in the creation account and how we can use it as the blue print for rest in our own lives.

Why is it our culture is so desperate to disprove that there is a God. It is simply that they do not want to obey God and live by God's created order. Join us as Pastor Jay walks us through creation day 6, the day that God created his most personal creation, humanity bearing the His image.

When we look at the account of creation the first three days are about God creating the world and the last three days are all about God filling the world he made.

Creation was done in a fantastically ordered way with a divine purpose. The created order not only proves God's existence, but it also allows us the opportunity to enjoy the majesty of His creation.

Our Youth Pastor Dan Snyder shares some of the highlights from the Student Ministry Trip to Ecuador and shares the heart and prayer for this trip.

Making distinctions becomes more important as we move through the text of God bring order out of Chaos.