Grace Church Waco Sermons

Psalm 24 // How do we get to creator God? This is the question Psalm 24 answers: only with clean hands and pure hearts open wide to the King of Glory.

Psalm 19 // When we wonder "What does God say about ___", we find that he reveals himself generally in creation and specifically in Scripture. Ultimately God's revelation points us to Jesus, the incarnate Word of God, and leads us to confession and petition in response.

Psalms 1-2 // We see two ways, two paths before us. One is the path of foolish individualism and self-rule. The other path is the path of God’s instruction and God’s rule and reign. If we choose the path of heeding God’s way and God’s reign, then we head toward eternal happiness, and that choice makes all the difference.

Revelation 7:9-17 // Ministry resident Chase Strickland unpacks the picture of our eternal future. In the midst of our Christian suffering, our hope is that God will redeem and restore his people.

Lamentations 5 // After the initial pain of sorrow passes, the effects often linger. How does lament teach us to wait and long for total restoration?

Lamentations 3 // Lament Ask, Sees, and Cries, but ultimately it Hopes. Biblical lament becomes transformative for the Christian when it takes sorrow and transitions carefully and purposefully towards hope in the covenant love of God.

Lamentations 1-2 // The book of Lamentations is a series of poems that teaches us the Biblical art of suffering. Biblical lament asks the hard questions, sees the world and God rightly, and cries out to God in the night with the gospel of Jesus Christ in view.

Acts 2:22-41 // We have a serious problem: we killed the God-man, Jesus of Nazareth. But the one we killed could never stay dead, and in his resurrection is proven to be both Lord and Christ. This gospel news is the key to unlocking both forgiveness and new life.

2 Corinthians 13:1-14 // In Paul's final exhortation to the Corinthians, he gives a warning, a test, a charge, and ends with a Trinitarian gospel blessing to prepare them for his return. Through our time in 2 Corinthians, are we better prepared for Christ's return?

2 Corinthians 12:11-21 // As he prepares to come back to visit the Corinthians, Paul reminds them of three aspects of the paradox of weakness: 1) it is essentially apparent, 2) it is for your upbuilding, not your burden, 3) it is meant for unity and repentance.

2 Corinthians 12:1-10 // The very part of you that is most humiliating may just be your greatest gift to glorify God. Your hidden, normal life, and your constant, remaining thorns: that is the power of Christ in you.

2 Corinthians 11:16-33 // Paul begins his satirical "Fool's Speech", teaching us the foolishness of self-boasting and the glory of suffering, weakness, and dependence on Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:1-15 // In our natural state, we are inclined towards a slow slide into deception and loss of trust in the true Jesus. Listen as Paul gives us two warnings to keep our devotion to Jesus pure and sincere.

2 Corinthians 10:1-18 // Following Paul's example as he follows Christ, we are called to take every thought captive and to act with humble boldness in our obedience to Jesus, all the while seeing the gospel go out though our partnerships and planning.

2 Corinthians 9:6-15 // When we give sacrificially of our resources and our lives, we are sowing into a harvest of righteousness where God provides sufficiently for his people and receives glory and thanksgiving from his people.

2 Corinthians 8:16-9:5 // While the first half of 2 Corinthians 8 helped us understand why we give, this passage shows us how we give. Paul helps the Corinthians understand that true Christian giving happens not in isolation, but in community, producing integrity and accountability with money for our good and to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 8:1-15 // Christian generosity uniquely models the person and work of Jesus through sacrifice and joy as communities of Jesus followers care for one another's needs.

One of the primary ways that God gives his people joy in every circumstance is through fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. When honest community is paired with godly grief, comfort multiplies to all and results in joy.

2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 // The book of 2 Corinthians has all been pointing to this command: do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. What does it mean to desire holiness in a world full of idols?

2 Corinthians 6:1-13 // God appeals and commissions us to work with Jesus in gospel ministry; by his authority, God commends and empowers us to reflect Jesus’s character; and by his love, he commands us to love each other with the love of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:11-21 // By the glorious work of Jesus Christ, God has made a great exchange—our sin for Jesus' righteousness—reconciling us to God and sending us out with a ministry of reconciliation as ambassadors of God.

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 // The Scripture teaches that our earthly bodies are like tents: temporary, uncomfortable, and not meant to last. But a future and eternal home is coming, a new body when Christ comes age to bring the final resurrection for his people. As we wait for our future, we live by faith in Jesus Christ that pleases God and will be judged as righteous when Christ returns.

Psalm 45:1-7 // This psalm is a love song to the king. In the incarnation of Christ, the promised king comes to reign and we come to worship him—a king who is excellent, powerful, and eternal.

Isaiah 49:1-6; Luke 2:25-35 // The anointed servant of God showcases us the promise, surety, and glory of salvation, all found in Jesus Christ at the advent of his incarnation.

Isaiah 61:1-11 // The anointed messenger has come from God to proclaim a promise of everlasting joy through freedom, comfort, restoration, faithfulness, and righteousness. At Christmas, we draw our hearts to remember that Jesus Christ is the promised messenger at the proclamation of his birth is the advent of gospel joy into the world.