Grace Community Bible Church

Jesus ushered in the era of witness when He ascended to heaven. The apostles were witnesses like no one else could, but we too are called to witness for Him.

Tony pauses in his series in Acts to preach this sermon on waiting for the Lord. He made some comments about this in last week’s sermon and got so much feedback that he felt led to spend a week on the subject - God has many of His people in the waiting room, it is so hard, but it is the way the Lord deepens His people. 

Acts 1:1-11 represents a summary of Jesus’ 40 days, post-resurrection, with His apostles. There are some important, interesting things to see in Luke’s account and Tony begins to point a few of these out in this sermon.

Tony is beginning a new series in the book of Acts. In this introduction he helps us understand the book of Acts as a whole and lays the groundwork for beginning our journey through Luke’s second volume! 

We all live out of our hearts. So, how do we keep them?

Before you can keep the heart, you need to understand the heart. What is the heart? 

In Tony’s final sermon for 2024, he takes us to Psalm 90 to ponder, ponder what Moses wrote that could have powerful implications for us in 2025.

This is the Sunday that Grace Community Bible Church sends out Doug & Rose Crawford to plant a new church, Risen King Bible Church. In this post you will hear Tony share his heart about the church and why the church should plant churches. Doug Crawford also shares from his heart about becoming the pastor of this new church.

In this advent sermon Tony leads us through Hebrews 1, but in a very unique way. He wants you to “pretend” like you know nothing about God, Jesus or the Bible. Hebrews 1 is the only writing you have ever seen about God and Jesus. What do you learn? What do you see? 

As humans in a fallen world, we desire to be autonomous. We want to be a law onto ourselves. This, of course, is a distortion of the authority that God granted to Adam and Eve in Eden. We must be mindful of our desire to rule over a kingdom we have no authority to rule.

In this first Sunday of advent, 2024, sermon Tony helps us see what Gabriel said to Mary is truly the gospel, the good news, that Jesus is the eternal King of Israel and the world. 

When Paul says we are supposed to "give thanks in all circumstances" that sounds good when things are going well, but how do we thank God when so much is a struggle? We take a look at moments throughout scripture where people gave thanks in every circumstance. By God's grace, if they can, we can too!

On this podcast, we are very pleased to share with you a special Sunday we had with a guest from Ukraine. He is a pastor, a church planter, and former military officer in the Ukrainian airborne forces. His name is Vasily Povoroznyuk. Vasily is the pastor of Compass Church, which he has led for 22 years. He leads a ministry to the families of fallen soldiers, widows and those orphaned. Vasily also...

Waiting on God is an essential aspect of the Christian life. In fact, it is the Christian life. In this sermon Jonathan explores what it is to wait on the Lord. 

This is Tony’s final sermon in the gospel of Luke, a series he began about 5 years ago. Luke ends his gospel with Jesus commissioning His disciples to go and be on mission and blesses them. Tony hopes you see this as the greatest story ever known and how you are called into the story, you have a part!

In this last of a short two part series on living aware of the presence of Jesus with you, Tony takes us through various scriptures encouraging us to live the “new life” that God has given us, making “joyful choices” each day to live the life of Christ, fully present to His presence with us.

Many did not recognize Jesus after He had been raised from the dead, and for various reasons. Tony has decided to camp on this for a couple of sermons. The reality is, God’s people today do not recognize His presence with them - is He with them? How? What does this mean? What are the implications of this? That is what part 1 of this two part series is all about.

In this sermon Tony leads us through the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the question that rises is “Jesus is alive, so what? What bearing does the resurrection of Christ have on our lives day by day?"

We only get one verse to explain Jesus' life from age 12-30. If we are to live like Jesus, we should also grow as He grew, not matter our age. How can you grow in wisdom, stature, favor with God, and favor with people?

The community of Jesus Christ is a community of burden bearing. What does that mean? How do we do that? 

Did you know that the cross is “your story?” Did you ever think of Jesus’ crucifixion as your story? It is. Gloriously, it is the way we are forgiven for our sins. But it is more. The cross ushers us into new life, just like a marriage ceremony leads you into a new life. 

We have reached the cross of Christ in our study through Luke. But before we look at it, Tony spends this sermon showing what God’s plan was for the cross and why the cross was the only answer God had to love us.

In this sermon Tony walks us through Jesus’ last two trials, before Herod and Pilate. It is a violent, chaotic, unjust, unlawful, scene. But there is something bigger happening than all that we see or perceive. There is a much bigger story, eternal, supernatural, story unfolding which has been authored by God. God is the architect of everything that is happening to Jesus.