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What is our faith known for within our American culture? What should it be known for, and how can we work towards that?

In Revelation 2 and 3, Jesus tells seven churches what they are known for. If Jesus were to address Grace, what would He say we are known for? What would we hope He would say?

We all want our families to be successful. But what if true success actually looked more like health than prosperity? What if all of our families were known for being healthy?

What are you known for?   What do you want to be known for?   More importantly, what does God want you to be known for and why is it so important?

God designed and intended family to be the primary delivery system for His love and good news. But what do we do when our family hasn't quite done that for us? Perhaps the answer lies in the good news of Christmas?

Christmas is fundamentally about noticing the unnoticed. Jesus spent His entire life doing this. So what better way to honor the arrival of our savior than to continue His example of seeing the unseen?

Sometimes life can make us feel as if we are all alone. Like God may have forgotten about us, and no one sees our plight or our struggle. But Christmas reminds us that God sees us and we are not alone.

The prayer of Psalm 139 is one of the most beautiful and intimate descriptions of God and His relationship to His people that can be found in all of scripture. As we are reminded, through this prayer, exactly how God sees His people – and the depths of which He loves us – it becomes much more frivolous to seek identity and worth through any other means.

As we near the end of our series on powerful prayers, we ask how we can become more powerful in our praying as well.

What do we do when it seems like our prayers aren't answered?

David's sin with Bathsheba is perhaps the most famous and "biggest" sin in the Bible. This week we wonder what we can learn from the prayer that follows this great sin.

In this great prayer from Paul, we unpack what he prays over his churches again and again. And when we pay attention, what he doesn't pray for speaks almost as loudly as what he does ask for.

In the final week of our series about the traits that define Grace, we discuss Grace's approach to discipleship.

At Grace we don't have members, we have partners. This week we talk about that distinction and why it is so important to us.

We say often that the single greatest habit anyone can have is to wake up every day and spend time in God's Word and time in prayer. This week, we talk about why we believe that.

Being a gleeful recipient of freely given grace allows us to gleefully give the grace we freely get!

Everyone is building a kingdom. Whose are you building?

We finish up our series with the story of the 10 Commandments. It's an incredibly simple story with an incredibly profound impact.

We've all marveled before at the story of Jesus calming the storm. It reminds us that our Jesus still calms storms. But what if we are asking Him to calm the wrong ones?

Gideon's story is equal parts incredible and inspirational. It forces us to ask "what happens that causes Gideon to shift from timid hesitancy to confident clarity?"

The story of Samson is certainly one of the most confounding stories we come across in the Bible. What lessons are there to learn from this "hero" of the faith?

In the story of Daniel in the Lions' Den, we find a man so tethered to his faith that he chooses to continue to pray to his God, knowing it will lead to him being thrown into a den of lions. This type of heroism seems almost otherworldly, but a deeper look reveals that it is Daniel's consistent obedience to God that allows the Lord to make a miraculous impact through him, when the time was right.

The themes in the story of The Fiery Furnace echo the themes of the rest of the stories within the Book of Daniel: God is in control, and Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel have complete faith in that truth. Today, we look to discover what gives these men the faith to stand together, in the face of death, to glorify God.

This week we hear the story of a rebellious prophet who sparks one of the largest revivals in human history. But wait until you hear how it happened! (It's a bit fishy...)

Have you ever met someone with unshakable faith? It's inspiring when you see someone continue to trust God and do what He leads them to do, especially when it doesn't seem to be helping. This week we look at Joshua and examine how he kept his faith in God when he didn't see anything that gave him a reason to.