Grace Church Waco Sermons

John 14:16-20 // The Spirit of Jesus is presently intimate with all those who follow Jesus, which means 1) you are never alone; and 2) you are always seen.

Psalm 143 // Prayer is our spirit reaching out to God's Spirit for life. We pray in the Spirit when we are surrounded, guilty, spiritually thirsty, in need of wisdom, and full of hope. Prayer in the Spirit looks like crying out to God like a child for his help, and calling on God to be true to his character through faith in Jesus.

Judges 6:11-24 // You have a Spirit-given call and purpose, and the Spirit gives you everything you need to fulfill your call and purpose.

Genesis 1:1-2, 2:4-9 // The Holy Spirit is present and active in creation, new creation, and in your life.

Hebrews 13:20-25 // At the end of Hebrews, we find a prayer that an exclamatory truth (Jesus lives!) leads to an exclamatory result (you can please God!) and an exclamatory response (Praise Jesus, forever Amen!).

Hebrews 13:1-6 // If we are the inheritors of an unshakable kingdom—what are the ethics of that kingdom? With brotherly, familial love, which leads to hospitality for those outside the kingdom, a concern for the justice of the oppressed, a high regard for the glory of marriage, a freedom from love of money, and a confidence in God's help.

Hebrews 12:18-29 // All throughout Hebrews, we have seen two ways to come to God. In this passage, the two ways are represented by Sinai (the shakable way) and Zion (the unshakable way). What are the markers of trying to come to God by way of Sinai, and why is the way of Zion so much better?

Hebrews 12:3-17 // God’s great comfort to us—the evidence that he is for us and working in us to make sure we make it to the end and achieve our prize of life with him—is his discipline. We can endure and even rejoice in his discipline because it teaches us to trust him as Father, it shapes us to share in his holiness, and it prepares us to make it to the end together.

Hebrews 12:1-2 // Life is a race—but not just any race—it's an agonizing struggle. In order to make it to the end to see God, we need endurance, but our problem is our fragility, our natural inclination to blame-shift, heap-on, and quick-fix. If we are going to run well, we must fix our eyes on the ultimate goal of life: Jesus Christ who has gone before.

2 Samuel 7:1-22 // God's gifts to us prepare us to give back to God, and our gifts to God prepare us to receive even more gifts from God. 

Hebrews 11 // Faith is the common ground we all stand on, Faith precedes outcomes, Faith is our contribution to God’s redeeming story, and Faith endures us through difficulty and suffering.

Hebrews 1:1-6 // What is faith? The writer to the Hebrews gives the church a two-old response, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1) Faith is forward and future, it gives substance to our hope. Faith is why Christian hope is more than wishful thinking on a cosmic scale. Faith is also holistic and demonstrative. Faith pulls events of the wi...

Hebrews 10:26-39 // The Christian life is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are in need of endurance. This text shows us three necessary steps for endurance in Christ to the end: 1) know the stakes; 2) recall the race; 3) trust the righteous one.

Hebrews 10:19-25 // In Christ, we have both access to God directly, and a great Advocate to help us in our time of need. Knowing this, we can be confident to draw near to God by faith, hold fast our hope in the gospel, and stir one another up towards love and good works.

Hebrews 10:1-18 // Far too many of us, far too often, live in constant remembrance of our sins. As we approach God's presence, we can live with a greater remembrance: the perfectly efficacious work of Jesus Christ, wherein God "remembers" our sins no more.

Hebrews 9:23-28 // In the face of the certainty of our death and the judgement to come, we can eagerly await the return of Jesus. Why? Because in his death he has already judged your sin once for all—when he returns it won't be to condemn us, but to save us totally.

Malachi 3:1-18 // The coming day of the Lord, Christ's second Advent, will be terrible and awe inspiring, as God promises to purify and cleanse the world of unrighteousness like a refining fire or bleaching solution. But for those who turn to God in faith, the day of the Lord will be full of grace, a relief of suffering, a cleansing of sin, and a final positive answer to the question: "has God for...

Malachi 1:1-14 // We all have asked the question: "Am I Truly Loved"? To know the answer, we must trust the love of God—which means honoring him and worshiping him rightly, in awe of his sovereign grace for all nations.

Hebrews 8:1-13 // Only through Jesus, and through the superiority of his new covenant, can we move from the shadow of God’s blessing to the substance of it. Jesus came to bring us into a whole new relationship with God, infinitely better than the old, where the blessing of the presence of God goes from black and white to color. 

Hebrews 7:1-28 // There are all sorts of priests we turn to deal with the weight of our sin—like blame, penance, or apathy—but only Jesus Christ is the perfect priest of a different tribe, who due to his eternal intercession can deal with our sin fully and finally.

Hebrews 6:13-20 // Do you trust God? In his kindness, God has given us surety that all of his promises can be trusted by faith. He never changes, he has sworn by himself, and in Jesus he has anchored us to Heaven.

Hebrews 5:1-10 // We have an essentially universal desire for the ministry of a high priest - to be represented faithfully before God, and therefore to be known by God. Within that desire we can recognize that we desire a high priest who is like us; one who understands our life and situation because he has similar experience. At the same time, one who is not like us; one who has been clearly calle...

Hebrews 5:14-16 // We have an advocate, a great high priest - Jesus, the Son of God. As we have come to experience in the book of Hebrews, we see in 4:14-16 that Jesus is not a high priest like any other. Just as Jesus is declared to be better than angels, and better than Moses, the author begins to show us that Jesus is better than the Aaronic high priests of the OT. He is a great high priest. As...

Hebrews 4:1-13 // Where do we find true heart rest in the midst of the storm? True rest looks like trusting in the future promises of God, trusting in the presently finished work of Christ, and trusting our insecurities to our faithful high priest.

Hebrews 3:7-19 // Finding true rest is all about the heart. If we cannot soften our hearts before God, we will not enter into his rest now or in eternity. The good news of the gospel is that in Christ God has softened and is softening our hearts through his warnings, his church, and through simple faith.