Sunday Sermons – Pace Campus

We pick back up from where we left off last week. The growing population of the Hebrew people inside Egypt is becoming a growing concern for the king of Egypt. So Pharaoh’s plan of overworking the Hebrew men was not slowing down the population growth. So he improvised a new plan...

Moses is credited for writing the first five books of the Old Testament, and the mass quantity of these five make up 1/7 of the Old Testament. Genesis bleeds right over int Exodus. Genesis starts with Creation, including the man and woman who don’t take long to fall into sin. Sin was the problem then, and it’s the problem now. God let’s the man and woman know that He has a solution to the sin prob...

There has been a continuous emphasis upon the attentiveness and the hardworking ethic of the Good Shepherd throughout this Psalm. It is evident that the sheep doesn’t have a chance of surviving much less thriving without the effort of a diligent shepherd. These sheep have the blessing of belonging to the Good Shepherd as opposed to the poor sheep on the other side of the fence to a negligent sheph...

The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want. There is so much in that little statement that we have already covered. Perhaps something different stood out to each of us as we are in different seasons of life. Maybe it is boasting that God himself is my shepherd, and therefore I'm good, no matter what. Or it's just belonging to him because we have the basic need of belonging. This week we look deeper...

In studying this psalm it must always be remembered that it is a sheep in the Good Shepherd’s care who is speaking. Basically, it is a Christian’s claim of belonging in the family of God. As a sheep, the Psalmist boasts of the advantages of this relationship. One might ask, “If the sheep is in a relationship with the shepherd...if a person is in relationship with God, then why do they need to be r...

We learned last week how important it is to belong to a good shepherd. We really can navigate the trials and tribulations in this journey called life, if we belong to the Good Shepherd. There are some things we can learn from this whole shepherd/sheep relationship that help in our walk as believers, and hopefully bring others into the fold.

How can I know that God really loves me? How can I get that through my head so that it transforms my life so I can live for Him? How can I live for Jesus in a world that is constantly nipping away at my faith? Our hope for this series is not that we all memorize Psalm 23 but rather that we know the Lord, our Good Shepherd, in such a way that it is transformational.

Love is ACTION. Pastor Jeff Cranford continues our "Faith, Love, & Hope- The Wonder of it All" sermon series this week as we focus on love.

Christmas is a story of faith, love, hope, and plenty of mystery, leaving us in wonder of it all. Faith is woven throughout the Christmas story as well as this week's sermon.

The Bible is not a book you read and then put on the shelf. Whether you read the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John... the Jesus’ story doesn’t end there...

I left you with a teaser last week saying that there’s only one thing more sure than the death of Jesus… Well, we come to that today.— It is the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus Christ fulfilled hundreds, even thousands of years of prophecies...

As we come across the finish line of the Gospel of John, we realize that this is the greatest love story ever told. — Jesus has brought His message to the Jewish people, and now it is time for Him to die. He has prepped His disciples for the fact that He’s gotta die… it is the will of the Father, but there’s no way they really comprehend the way things are going down. - We’re now at the point in t...

At this point, Jesus could not have told His disciples anymore to encourage or prepare them for all that was about to occur. It’s time. We’re going to do something a little different as we make our way through chapter 18. We will look at all the questions and answers mixed inside the passage.

After putting the disciples on notice that life was about to be turned upside down, causing them to be visibly “troubled”, He said, “I have overcome the world.”—We pick up in the aftermath of that conversation...

John 16 // Last week, we went over the last of the “I am” statements from Jesus and read where He told them to abide in Him so they could persevere in ministry. Our “intro” today will be from the last half of Chapter 15.

John 13-17 was Jesus' private teaching to His disciples taking place in the Upper Room less than 24 hours before He was crucified. So, we are looking at some of Jesus’ most important words to His inner circle. All believers should read and meditate deeply on these promises. In general, John 14 deals with our Hope in Heaven, and John 15 deals with our Help on Earth. The location of the talk in John...

We have been talking a lot about Jesus… the Gospels tell His story. But as His time on earth comes to a close…He lets His disciples know that the mission does not end with His departure…in fact, things are just getting started. The best is yet to come.

As Jesus is troubled in spirit…He knows what looms. The disciples don’t know exactly, but I bet they do not like the way He is beginning to talk. Surely, they could see in His body language that He was visibly troubled. I suspect He wasn’t one to hide His feelings. So, He has told them that He is about to go away, and they can’t go with Him. In fact, He told them that things were about to get so b...

We finished last week's message with Jesus trying to draw people out of darkness, making it clear that He is the Light of the world. He has come to save people from darkness. Those who reject Him will be judged for that. Those who believe receive eternal life. He couldn't have made it more simple. We pick back up in Chapter 13...

The large crowd was filled with anticipation, and now they were excited as Jesus was about to enter. They prepare the way of the king with branches of palm trees (explain), crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” They sure sound like they are all in...

The plot thickens to kill Jesus as the Passover draws near. Passover celebrated the Jewish exodus from Egypt and their freedom. So they would come from all over to Jerusalem to celebrate because the temple was there. This annual celebration commemorated the original Passover when the Angel of the Lord passed over the homes of those who marked their doorposts with lamb's blood. The Passover lamb is...

Jesus brings Lazarus back to life. What’s next? How do people who had been wrestling with who Jesus was respond? — Do they fall at His feet and call Him Lord? I mean what do they do?

Jesus has been going through what seems a never-ending back-and-forth dialogue with the religious Jews, plainly telling them that He was the One to come, the One they were looking for, the Messiah, and they kept demanding a sign…a greater sign. He told them they had enough to go on (it ought to be embarrassing, even a blind man believed). So we turn to John 11, where we will see that all doubt sho...