Grace Valley Church

Do you believe that there is a constant battle for your soul, each and every moment of your life? It may sound dramatic, but it's true. Think about how hard it is to make the right choice sometimes. How much temptation you are faced with on every level in every waking moment. How everything and everyone is trying to get you to pledge allegiance. Trying to seduce you into to pledging your likes, yo...

Jesus is the epitome of strength cloaked in gentleness. All throughout the New Testament, we witness what it looks like to be a faithful servant in every aspect of our lives. Whether under persecution, when confronted with a hurting friend or when asked tough questions about His faith, Jesus never waivers and He always brings a deep, confident power into every encounter. Join us as we walk through...

Tune in this week as we hear from Pastor Phil Tadros as he walks us through Luke 15:11-32.

In a world that is constantly screaming for our attention and worship, we must always be aware of who exactly we're following. Jesus invites us to follow Him down a path that does not require us to do anything except believe in Him. We don't have to trip over ourselves trying to prove our devotion to Him and we don't have to work ourselves to the bone trying to earn our worth. Who and what we wors...

This week, we hear from Dr John Span, a missionary who works at Mukhanyo Theoligical College in KwaMhlanga, South Africa. Dr Span walks us through two passages that highlight the goodness of God. In the passage from Luke, we see a very human reaction from Simon Peter when confronted with the goodness and provision of our Lord.

We're re-launching some of our older Clearer Thinking Podcast Episodes, beginning with a series called "Calvinism For Cool Kids" which highlights and unpacks the 5 points of Calvinism.

This week, we take a hard look at our own motivations for being kind to one another. Kindess doesn't always look like how we think it looks and true kindness is never easy. Join us as we walk through Titus 3:4-8 with Kevin deJonge.

Patience is so much more than just breathing deep in a traffic jam or choosing to use every relaxation technique you've ever heard while teaching a child to tie their shoes. Biblical patience is an intentional heart posture that leads you towards a deeper relationship and dependence on God. This is not easy to do, especially if you are waiting for medical test results, or you have been waiting for...

Cultivating the fruit of joy isn't something that can be done over night, but it is something that every Christian should practice in their every day life. While happiness is an emotional response to external stimuli, joy resides deep in our hearts and cannot be changed by the weather. Listen in as Pastor Paul takes us through Philippians 4:4-9 and we learn how to refocus our thoughts towards joy...

Why are we so obsessed with love? Our art, our songs, our movies, our television shows all revolve around the topic of love in some shape or form. In this sermon, Pastor Paul unpacks the reasons why our hearts and minds are so focused on love and what that says about our Creator.

This Sunday we follow along with Josiah Ling as he takes us through Matthew 9:35-38. Even though it's a privilege to be invited to share the gospel with others, it can be really intimidating. But the Holy Spirit has got our backs and all we're called to do is show up as God instructs. Join us this week as we learn more about how evangalism works and how we can be a part of God's great harvest.

Have you ever done something you swore you'd never do? So did apostle Peter. It's not hard to imagine the shame he must have felt and the the utter certainty that he was a failure of a human being. But when he encounters the risen Christ, after denying his Lord three times and crumbling under pressure, what does he do? He dives right into the sea and swims headlong right into Jesus' arms. Jesus ca...

Here was the Mary who had been possessed by seven demons. The one whose uncontrolled, demonic rage had made her an outcast and an object of scorn and fear. Here she was, a woman whose fragile heart had been broken yet again because the one who told her He'd never leave her, was indeed gone. He'd died on a criminals cross and there was nothing she could do about it. But here was Mary, her eyes wide...

In this incredible story of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, we learn that all is not as it seems. While the crowd was looking towards this outcast of a man to save them from Roman rule, shouting "Hosanna!" and laying their clothes at His feet, Jesus was preparing Himself for what was to come - His ultimate rescue mission. A mission that was far from addressing the immediate concerns of the...

This week, Pastor Paul unpacks John 12:1-8 and we see how Mary, sister of Lazarus, responds to her encounters with Jesus Christ.

In this encounter with Jesus, we see one of the most beautiful descriptions of who Jesus is and how He relates to us as hurting, broken human beings. We have a warrior and a protector who gives us eternal life and a man who weeps with us in the meantime. Tune in this week as Pastor Paul unpacks John 11:17-44 and witness how Jesus rages against death itself and how He is our ultimate comfort and ho...

Many people today will say that our culture has moved "beyond" Christianity. That we know better than we did "back then." In the west, our pursuit of scientific exploration and our material wealth has lulled us into a false sense of security. We've figured it out. We were blind, but now we see. But Jesus Christ is telling us that unless we see Him as our saviour, we are just as blind as the man we...

What is freedom, really? We're all enslaved to something - our mortgages, our desires for marriage, the approval of our bosses or our children. Jesus calls us to true freedom. Freedom that untethers our souls from the sinful servitude to the idols in our lives. When we serve Him, we're free from the relentless pursuit of things that will simply not satisfy our perpetual need to be filled. This wee...

We don't get very many glimpses into the early life of Jesus, but John 7:1-9 gives us an interesting peek into Jesus' earthly family, specifically His brothers. Being a brother of Jesus must have been pretty strange. Most people thought Jesus was a nice guy, but kind of weird, and they didn't know what to make of Him. Certainly very few of them believed He was the true Messiah and Jesus' brothers...

This week, we are reminded that Jesus welcomes us with open arms but we need to make sure our hearts are postured in the right way or we run the risk of becoming false Christians. It's okay to come to the Lord with our wants, needs and weaknesses, but if we start seeing Him as simply a means to our own end, it can lead us down the wrong path. The folks we meet in John 6:22-35 were looking for brea...

In this encounter with Jesus, we see Jesus healing a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years. It's easy to lose sight of the true miracle in this encounter because how amazing would it be to see this guy walking on by with his mat after all those years of misery and pain? But Jesus doesn't heal the man simply because He has the power to do so. He heals Him so that we might see the greater healing...

"I'll believe it when I see it." That's the way most people who were beginning to hear about Jesus' miracles were thinking as they began to seek Him out to see what He could do for them. It's no wonder, and we can't really blame them. After all, so many of my own prayers revolve around asking Jesus to heal, comfort, provide and protect me and my loved ones as well. But in this story, we meet an im...

In this remarkable meeting with a shamed and outcast woman, Jesus reveals not only the kindness and compassion He has for people who are hurting, but He reveals His divinity for the very first time. Join us as we learn more about how our Lord treats us in our brokenness and how He chooses the least likely people to help spread the Good News.

In this season if waning commitment to New Years resolutions, one thing is likely clear: no amount of positive self talk or beating ourselves up will ever cause true and lasting changes in our lives. The human heart is a fickle and easily tempted thing and it takes something outside of our own physical experience to truly change us. God gifted us with the Holy Spirit to guide and strengthen us in...

Remember when Jesus told Nathaniel that he would see greater works than the one he'd just witnessed? (John 1:50) Jesus is true to His word as He turns water into wine while attending a wedding in Cana. But why does Jesus use this particular time to do this particular miracle? Find out by tuning in this week and join us as we walk through John 2:1-11 together.