Grace Road Church

In honor of Mother's Day, Kevin Maloney skips ahead this week to Matthew 20:17-28 and unpacks the request made by the mother of the sons of Zebedee. She asks Jesus if He would assign her sons important positions in the kingdom, seated at His right and left hand. Jesus uses this request to demonstrate real greatness in the kingdom of God: a path antithetical to the way we view success in this...

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the final days before Christ's death and resurrection. To commemorate, we are skipping ahead in our Matthew series to look at Matthew 20:29-21:17 and the depiction of Jesus' famous entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey. What is the significance of this event in the life of Christ? What do Jesus' next actions in the passage tell us abo...

This week, Cody Wilbanks unpacks Jesus' words about marriage and divorce in Matthew 19:1-12.

This week, Kevin concluded our three-part deep dive in Matthew 18, exploring what the life lived in Christian community should look like for believers. In the final verses of Matthew 18, Jesus teaches about forgiveness through the parable of the unmerciful servant. Are Christians required to forgive? How can we grow to forgive those who have wronged us?

Our deep dive into Matthew 18 continues this week with a look at verses 12-20. This passage begins anchored in Jesus' self-description as the Good Shepherd of the sheep: as He shepherds us, so should we strive to be like him in shepherding each other with concern and care. As Jesus is eager to restore and reconcile sinners, so should we be eager to restore and reconcile with one another. How...

This week, we begin a three-week deep dive into Matthew 18, examining what life in Christian community looks like. Jesus' words in Matthew 18 are full of challenges to the defenses and expectations we bring to our interactions with others. Yet love calls us to be vulnerable, even as vulnerable as little children. How does humility drive us into the arms of Jesus? How does His relentless compa...

In Matthew 17:14-23, Jesus makes a surprising promise to his disciples: faith in God has real power. How do we get the kind of faith? Is it something we muster up, or is it simply an empty hand ready to receive? Kevin walks us through the three-fold dimensions of faith: knowledge, trust, and ascent.

This week, Cody Wilbanks walks us through the significance of the Transfiguration, a unique event in the life of Jesus. In Matthew 17:1-13, Jesus takes his disciples up a mountain and is transformed before them in the presence of God. What do the reactions of the disciples, especially Peter, show us about our own engagement with this event? How does the Transfiguration point us to the promise of C...

This week, Kevin takes us through Jesus' call for his followers to take up their cross and follow Him in Matthew 16:21-28. Like Peter, we are all challenged by the centrality of the cross. From church movements that decentralize the gospel to our own lack of trust in it, we often look to other things to be our main power source. Jesus' death on the cross is not only sufficient for us, bu...

This week, Kevin walks us through Jesus' warning to his disciples not to eat the leaven of the Pharisees. Kevin examines the significance of the prior miracles Jesus chooses to reference in this passage, and then looks at pharisaical "leaven" we consume instead of the Gospel today. Jesus, our bread of life, is much greater than the substitutes we consume instead.

This Sunday, we are blessed to welcome theologian, professor, and ecclesiological historian Dr. Carl Trueman. Trueman walks us through the meaning and significance of the Transfiguration, an important moment in the life and ministry of Jesus. As he breaks down the various themes and historical context of the scene, Trueman shows us that the purpose of the Transfiguration is threefold: 1) Jesus is...

In this sermon, "Great Faith," Kevin walks us through Jesus' unique interaction with the Canaanite woman. As she cries out for healing for her daughter, Jesus' responds in surprising ways, ultimately deeming her faith 'great.' What can the Canaanite woman's faith teach us? How does Jesus' compassion invite us to set aside our feelings of our unworthiness? Jo...

In this sermon, Kevin Maloney examines Jesus' rebuke of the Pharisees for using their traditions to avoid following God's law. Jesus tells us that sin comes from the heart, not from external sources. We need God to give us a new heart. Kevin breaks down the different fruits that come from sinful hearts and what they affect, and shows how the Gospel is the cure.