GracePoint Sermons

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It is common after a big life event to ask, Where do we go from here? When the dream vacation ends or the commencement is over, people sometimes feel a little lost. We find ourselves wondering what happens next. GracePoint Church recently concluded an 8 day “Summit” revival conference, and maybe some of us are wondering the same thing. After such a spiritual “high,” where do we go from here? In th...

What do you think of when you hear the word “restoration”? A worn out piece of furniture? A work of art? A dynastic line (for you history buffs)? In Psalm 85, we learn that the Lord wants to restore our spiritual lives. This sermon focuses on four directions we need to look to prepare our hearts for spiritual renewal.

If you're going to grow a garden, the condition of the soil is really important. You can have the best seed, plenty of sunshine, and the perfect amount of rain. But if you don’t have good soil, you won’t have a good garden. According to Jesus, this same principle applies to the human heart. If we’re going to respond the right way to God’s Word, we need to pay attention to the condition of our hear...

How should we respond to the Resurrection of Jesus? Mark’s description of the response of the first people to hear about it offers a surprising answer. In this Easter Sunday sermon, we focus on four emotions that the first witnesses to the empty tomb experienced. Their response on that first Easter morning in turn helps us understand how we should respond today.

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition,” the 18th century philosopher Voltaire wrote, “but certainty is absurd.” Based on the closing verses of First John, it appears the Apostle John would disagree! In 1 John 5:13-21, John concludes his letter by focusing on five things Christians know with certainty because of their faith in Jesus.

As he gets near the end of his letter, John returns once more to one of the main themes of First John – the importance of believing in Jesus. In the first 5 verses of chapter 5, John focuses what we experience when we put our faith in Jesus. But in vv. 6-12, he turns to the content of our faith. Yes, we should believe in Jesus. But what exactly are we supposed to believe? And just as important, ho...

At the beginning of 1 John chapter 5, John comes back to one of the letter’s major themes – the necessity of believing in Jesus Christ. In this sermon, we explore the connection between our faith in Jesus and the lasting joy that John talked about in the letter’s introduction.

3 Ways Habakkuk Teaches Us to Handle Life's Struggles

As we continue in our study through First John, this sermon focuses in on the connection between abiding in God's presence and the blessings of God’s love. Here at the end of chapter 4, John walks us through three blessings we experience as we abide in God’s presence.

Many people spend a lot of their time asking Why? There is just something about the human mind that needs to know the reason for things. This impulse to ask why helps us understand 1 John 4:7-14. In these verses, John explains the reason for the often-repeated command in this letter for believers to love one another. This sermon explores why God wants us to love one another by focusing not on our...

“Do not believe every spirit,” we read in 1 John 4:1, “but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.” This sermon unpacks what this command means for us today by walking through three tests that we can apply to figure out whether a particular doctrine or idea is true.

Look both ways before you cross the street… brush your teeth everyday… always bring a jacket. Those are just a few of the basic rules for life that parents pass down to their children. In 1 John 3:11-24, God gives us one of the basic rules for His children – our Heavenly Father wants us to love one another. In this sermon, we go “back to basics” by considering four basic ways people relate to each...

In 1 John 3:1, the apostle invites us to gaze upon the awe-inspiring love of God. “Behold,” he writes, “what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us” (NKJV). In this sermon we focus on three expressions of this love and explore how they help us more fully experience God’s joy as we walk with Jesus Christ.

Counterfeits are a big problem in the modern world. Whether it’s money, drugs, art, designer handbags, or – most recently – N95 masks, the proliferation of convincing counterfeits causes all sorts of trouble. This sermon focuses on an even more dangerous counterfeit – counterfeit doctrine. In 1 John 2:18-27, God warns us about the danger of counterfeit doctrine and equips us to defend ourselves an...

When we come to Jesus, we come to Him completely. That’s what so many New Testament passages focus on the way Jesus changes us – including this passage in I John chapter 2. In this sermon, we focus on how Jesus reorders the things we love. There are some things we don’t love that we should and other things that we do love that we shouldn’t. When we come to Jesus, He wants to change that – He wants...