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Sight is one of our most valuable senses, but there is a blindness that is worse than physical blindness: spiritual blindness. Physical blindness, even though it could affect one’s entire lifetime, is not as bad as spiritual blindness that can lead to an eternity separated from God. This week we remember Palm Sunday, the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds cheering him on—the sam...

How does God heal when we feel betrayed? How does He heal Peter who betrayed Him? This is a sermon on the effects of betrayal trauma and how it has come up in our own community at large and what it is and how God might want to heal it in our lives. Video played at end of sermon by Common Hymnal called "He has Time" from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaWo0KN19YE Read More and D...

Recently I had the privilege of traveling with a team of missionaries to South Africa, taking the Gospel message to the public schools. The message was powerfully received and changed thousands of lives. The Gospel is incredibly powerful and yet seemingly simple to proclaim.  The Apostle Peter, writing to exiled Jewish believers, wrote the book of 1 Peter about the fact that suffering and persecut...

Pastor Athol Barnes  1 Peter 1:1-9  Read More and Discover More Sermons at https://gpchurch.us/

 Athol and Adam Report Back TX and South Roots Outreach to South Africa 2024  Read More and Discover More Sermons at https://gpchurch.us/

When Jesus Spits...  Teacher Eric Spady  2.11.2024 Read More and Discover More Sermons at https://gpchurch.us/

In Luke 18, Jesus was walking with his disciples heading to Jerusalem, teaching them as he went. In the first section of chapter 18, Jesus tells them a parable to teach them about prayer, encouraging them in verse 1 to, “…always pray and not lose heart.” To pray is like breathing for a Christian, it is essential for our life.  Without prayer, we will lose heart, we will grow spiritually weak. Unle...

In this day, when there is so much attacking the truth and the enemy is ravaging families inside and outside the church, we need to get serious about prayer. It is our primary source of power. It is an invitation from the Lord. We have an invitation from the Lord to come into His presence. He invites us to bring our praise, thanksgiving, confession, and petition before the throne of the Almighty G...

Pastor Athol Barnes Don’t we all desire to live a life of eternal impact and to finish well for the glory of God? Ultimately only God defines our impact; as a result, a life of impact for God must come out of a life of intimacy with God. Sadly, so many people who start out well in life don’t finish well. So how do we finish life well? The Apostle Peter writes this incredible statement in 2 Peter 1...

1: Fellowship with Jesus In his time on the earth, Jesus trained twelve men to go out and train others. He was equipping and sending them.  He started by building a close relationship with them.  In our busy culture, we wrestle with this. In our minds, busyness equals effectiveness, but that is not the way of the Kingdom of God. Fellowship comes before effectiveness.  Your effectiveness for God is...

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A sermon by Travis Hamm delivered at Grace Point Baptist Church on 12.31.2023 Read More and Discover More Sermons at https://gpchurch.us/

The waiting is over! It’s Christmas. Two thousand years ago, the nation of Israel had been waiting for the Messiah for hundreds of years. The waiting was over, the Messiah was born. Living in the church age we miss the significance of what it meant to wait for Jesus. For us it is a historical fact.   But when Jesus did arrive, many people missed him. They missed his coming because they were expect...

Do you like waiting? Waiting can often be painful, in fact, some of the greatest pain we face in life is because we are waiting. Waiting for dreams to be fulfilled, waiting for God to break through and answer our prayers. But God is never in a rush, He is always on time, and we struggle with that. Maybe you are in a season of waiting, and it seems that God is not hearing your cry.   Before the bir...

As we celebrate this Christmas season, we celebrate our savior who took on flesh to free us from sin. But more than freeing us from the bonds of sin, Jesus also came to bring healing and restoration. Healing for the sick, the broken hearted, and the abused. God sent His son to provide a way for sinners to be forgiven and for those who have been sinned against to be healed. During our lives, we fin...

Do you remember a time in your life when God felt distant. A season when you were tempted to wonder if God was even concerned about the things that you were struggling with. Maybe you are there right now. The Bible frequently deals with the theme of God’s perceived absence. Many times, in the Bible, people wondered if God’s promises to them were still valid. Perhaps God had forgotten them.    The...

 Several years ago, I read a book that really challenged me regarding experiencing joy in life. According to the author, Andy Andrews, a grateful spirit is a powerful deterrent against self-pity, writing, “the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.”  Often, we find ourselves complaining about seemingly mundane aspects of life when we should really be grateful. For instance, inst...