Grace City Eugene

Why do I keep doing the very thing I hate? In the first message of our new sermon series, The War Within, Pastor Chris Zauner opens Romans 7 to explore the internal battle every believer faces between the flesh and the Spirit. In this sermon, Why Do I Do What I Hate?, Pastor Chris teaches that the Christian life is not free from struggle, but the struggle itself can be evidence that God is at work...

In the third and final sermon of our series, Why Can't We Be Friends?, Pastor Casey Olsen shares a message called The Kind of Friends You Need, exploring how our friendships shape who we are becoming and how Christ-centered community helps us grow in faith. Looking at Colossians 3:12–17, this message reminds us that we were made for friendship with God and with others, but not every friendship...

What does real friendship actually cost? In Week 2 of our series, Why Can't We Be Friends?, Pastor Casey Olsen explores Galatians 6 and challenges us to move beyond convenient, surface-level relationships into the kind of friendship Scripture calls us to embrace. While many of us long for deep, meaningful friendships, true friendship is forged through sacrifice, consistency, humility, and burd...

We live in a world more connected than ever, yet many of us still feel deeply lonely. In week one of our new sermon series, Why Can’t We Be Friends?, Pastor Casey Olsen explores what true friendship really is and why we were created for relationship with God and with one another. Looking at John 15, we see the incredible invitation of Jesus: “I have called you friends.” Friendship with God is not...

Before leaving for a three-week seminary intensive in Manila, Pastor Chris shared a vision for the summer centered on a powerful truth from Ephesians 2: Jesus takes people who should never belong together and makes them family. He began by observing that our world is deeply divided. People often build their identities around political, cultural, economic, or generational differences. Yet this stru...

In this powerful closing message of our Prepare for Rain Campaign, Pastor Chris reminds us of the spiritual importance of remembering what God has already done. Preaching from Joshua 4, he calls us to pause, look back, and recognize the faithfulness of God in our lives, our church, and our future. Just as Israel gathered twelve stones after crossing the Jordan River, we are invited to “pick up our...

Celebrate Pentecost Sunday 2026 with Pastor Casey Olsen’s message, The Harvest of Pentecost, as we explore Acts 1 and Acts 2 and discover the powerful meaning behind the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In this sermon, we look at how Pentecost was not a random moment in Scripture, but the fulfillment of God’s redemptive plan as the Holy Spirit empowered the early church for mission, witness, and gos...

In the sixth and final week of our series How to Ruin Your Faith, Pastor Chris Zauner preaches a powerful message titled “Make It About You Again” from Galatians 6. In this sermon, Pastor Chris challenges us to examine the subtle ways self can move back to the center of our lives. Paul’s warning to the Galatian church reminds us that faith begins to drift when Christianity becomes about performanc...

Pastor Chris Zauner continues week 5 of our series, How to Ruin Your Faith, with a powerful sermon titled Abuse Freedom. Teaching from Galatians 5, Pastor Chris challenges us to understand that the freedom Jesus gives is not permission to live for the flesh, but an invitation to walk by the Spirit. In this message, we are reminded that Christ has set us free from condemnation, shame, religious str...

In week 4 of How to Ruin Your Faith, Pastor Casey Olsen continues through Galatians 4 with a message called Forget Who You Are. Paul reminds the church that in Christ, we are no longer slaves but sons and daughters of God. Yet many believers still drift back into performance, striving, and spiritual exhaustion because they forget the identity God has already given them. This sermon explores how sp...

In Week 3 of our series “How to Ruin Your Faith,” Pastor Chris Zauner unpacks a powerful message from Galatians 3, confronting a subtle but dangerous shift many believers experience: trading faith for performance. What begins as a grace-filled relationship with Jesus can turn into striving, pressure, and spiritual exhaustion. This sermon explores how the Galatian church drifted from trusting in Go...

What if the greatest threat to your faith is not false teaching, but the pressure to fit in? In Week 2 of our series, How to Ruin Your Faith, Pastor Chris Zauner walks through Galatians 2 to show how spiritual drift often begins quietly. It does not usually start with openly rejecting Jesus. It starts when the wrong voices get louder than the truth. Through Paul’s confrontation of Peter, this serm...

In this first week of our series, How To Ruin Your Faith, we’re reminded that faith doesn’t usually fall apart all at once—it drifts. Like swimmers slowly carried by a current, nothing feels wrong at first. Everything seems normal. But over time, we can find ourselves far from where we started. In our walk with Jesus, drift is subtle. It shows up in small shifts—less time in Scripture, less prayer...

In this powerful 2026 Easter sermon, Pastor Chris Zauner delivers a compelling message titled “Come Alive,” exploring what it truly means to be restored to life through Jesus Christ. Centered on Luke 15 and the parable of the prodigal son, this message reveals a deeper truth about our relationship with God: that you can feel far from Him whether you are running away or simply going through the mot...

In the final week of Escape the Trap, Pastor Chris Zauner brings a compelling and deeply challenging message on reconciliation—inviting us to move beyond simply understanding forgiveness and into actively living it out. This message presses into the reality that while offense is inevitable, remaining trapped in it is not God’s plan for our lives. Through the words of Jesus in Matthew 5, we are rem...

We’ve all been hurt. Offense, betrayal, and wounds are unavoidable—but what we do with that hurt determines whether we live in freedom or remain trapped. In Week 5 of our Escape the Trap series, Pastor Casey Olsen unpacks a powerful truth: the only way out of the trap of offense is forgiveness. Through Matthew 18, this sermon confronts one of the hardest teachings of Jesus and reveals why forgiven...

The Revenge Trap | Escape the Trap – Week 4 | Pastor Chris Zauner In Week 4 of our Escape the Trap series, Pastor Chris Zauner unpacks one of the most dangerous spiritual traps believers face: the trap of revenge and self-vindication. When we are hurt, misunderstood, or treated unfairly, our instinct is often to defend ourselves, retaliate, or seek justice on our own terms. But Scripture calls us...

In week three of our series Escape the Trap, Pastor Chris Zauner explores one of the hardest kinds of offense to deal with—being hurt by someone in authority. Whether it’s a parent, pastor, boss, or mentor, wounds from leaders can shape how we view trust, leadership, and even our relationship with God. Through the story of David and King Saul, this message shows how David chose to trust God instea...

In this special one-off message, Pastor Chris Zauner brings a timely and prophetic word for our final worship gathering in this space as we prepare to move into our new location. Titled “Crossing Over,” this send off sermon isn’t centered on nostalgia or simply changing buildings, but on the faith required to step from what’s familiar into what God has promised. Drawing from Joshua 3:12–17, Pastor...

Week 2 of our Escape the Trap series, “When Life Feels Unfair,” features guest pastor David Hermes from Hope Valley Church in Denver, Colorado, delivering a timely message on learning to live unoffendable in a world where wrongs are real. Using the story of Joseph in Genesis and focusing on Genesis 45:5–8, Pastor David explores the difference between life simply going wrong and the deeper pain of...

Pastor Chris Zauner launches week one of our Escape the Trap series with a sobering message called The Snare of Offense. In a world where hurt, conflict, and relational strain feel unavoidable, this sermon exposes the hidden danger of offense and why Jesus treated forgiveness as a matter of spiritual warfare, not just emotional health. Starting in Luke 17, we see the disciples stunned by Jesus’ co...

In week 4 of The Mission series, Pastor Chris Zauner delivers a powerful and challenging sermon titled The Church’s Mission, calling the church to wake up, look up, and recognize what God is already doing all around us. Preaching from John chapter 4, Pastor Chris unpacks Jesus’ words to His disciples that the fields are already white for harvest, confronting the mindset of delay, procrastination,...

Week three of Grace City’s series The Mission centers on the message “The Spirit’s Power,” preached by Pastor Casey Olsen. Drawing from John 20:19–23, this sermon invites us into the locked room where the disciples hid in fear on the evening of Jesus’ resurrection and reveals how the risen Christ meets his people not in strength, but in weakness. Pastor Casey walks us through the surprising realit...

In Week 2 of our series The Mission, Pastor Kore Bendix shares a powerful message titled The Son’s Sacrifice, centered on John 12:27–33. This sermon unpacks the heart of God’s mission—the cross of Jesus Christ—as the defining moment where love, holiness, and sacrifice meet. Discover how the cross reveals that we are more sinful than we realize and more loved than we’ve ever dreamed. Pastor Kore ex...

Welcome to Week One of our new sermon series, “The Mission,” where we explore God’s heart and His redemptive purpose for the world. In this opening message titled “The Father’s Love,” Pastor Chris Zauner challenges us to consider the foundational truth behind all of God’s activity: His love for a broken world. Preaching from John 3:16–21, Pastor Chris unpacks one of the most well-known verses in S...