Grace Church Abu Dhabi Sermons

The book of Isaiah show a familiar pattern, Israel and Ahaz live against God's good laws, God calls them to repent, they don't, and God allows their sin to be punished. Despite this repeated pattern beginning with Adam, God has always had a plan, and his plan is to save his children through the bruising of his Son.

To be gripped by the wonder of Christ's birth, it's important to understand who Christ was before he was born.

We all know that Jesus calls us to be fishers of men, but for some reason we miss the amazing promise he makes to us about this.

In this passage God calls us to not settle for shallow, trivial fellowship, but to understand and pursue the life-changing fellowship God has for us.

This sermon exploreis the urgency of serving others based on 1 Peter 4:7-11, emphasizing the importance of love as the driving force behind selfless service and highlighting the transformative power of God's grace in fulfilling our highest calling—to bring glory to the One who is worthy of all praise, honor, and adoration.

In Romans 12:3-8 Paul warns us of a danger we will face when we pursue spiritual gifts, and also tells us how we should go about pursuing them.

As Grace Church faces a trial, we take this Sunday to look at what God promises about our trials, and how we should respond to our trials.

In 1 Corinthians 13 Paul says there will come a time when certain spiritual gifts will cease. So when is that? And what does this mean for us?

One of our convictions is that God calls us to be a worshiping church. In this passage we learn why David worshiped, and how David worshiped, so we can grow together in worship.

Romans 8:31-39 shows us that we can be sure of our salvation in Christ and certain of God's love for us in Christ.

In this sermon we will dig into what it means to suffer with Christ, and the five reasons Paul gives for why suffering with Christ is worth the glory that will experience in Christ forever.

Paul describes the difference between those who live according to the flesh and those who live according to the Spirit. He assures us that those who are in Christ by faith are also in the Spirit. We now enjoy the Spirit's life giving presence and the hope that one day, through the Spirit, God will give life to our mortal bodies.

Paul brings the previous chapters to a conclusion by celebrating that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because everyone who is in Christ has had their sin condemned in Jesus' flesh and has this confirmed by the Spirit's work of freeing them from sin.

To show how powerful sin is, Paul describes how hard sin is to battle against.

Paul has said some negative things about the Law of Moses, and so explains that the problem is the way our sin has responded to God's Law. He wants us to understand that the Law is holy, righteous, and good.

All of us were enslaved to sin because we were born under the law and had no righteousness of our own. Through Christ, we are set free from the bondage of our sin and through the power of grace, live holy lives in submission to God. Grace's reward is eternal life and sin offers death.

Through Jesus's sacrifice, we die to ourself and experience new life, and through Jesus's resurrection he redeems us in the next life. Now, we are called to die to self in order to be god's righteousness instruments for his kingdom.

In this message we dig into why those who have died to sin cannot continue living in sin, by showing how we died and rose with Christ. We also explore what exactly Jesus does to free us from sin's power, and how we can experience this in an ongoing way today.

To magnify what Christ has done for us, Paul spells out what Adam's sin did to humanity, and how Jesus saves all who trust him.

Paul explains why the hope of heaven will not put us to shame or disappoint us, and the reason he gives is because God has shown his love for us on the cross.

We have many reasons to rejoice in Jesus; even in our suffering!

Man-made religion tells us to try to earn blessings from God by obedience. But in this passage Paul explains why that is impossible, and why it's only faith that brings God's grace which guarantees his promises to us through Christ.

In this passage Paul tells us how ungodly Abraham was counted as righteous before God, and about the blessing that brings to all who experience it.

Now that Paul has helped us When we are amazed at being justified by faith, we will stop all boasting in ourselves, and boast only in the Lord.