The Grace Grand Bay Pulpit

Date: July 5, 2026 Text: Romans 4 & 5 and selected Scripture Speaker: Terry Downey Very simply, the Gospel comes down to faith in Christ and the blood He shed so God can forgive our sins and make us eligible for heaven. This is salvation.

Date: May 10, 2026 Text: John 1:14-18 Speaker: Paul Meredith John looked back to the time some 50 years earlier when he spent those years with Jesus and he emphatically claims with certainty that He was God in human flesh!

Date: May 3, 2026 Text: John 1:6-13 Speaker: Paul Meredith John presents Jesus as the Light that came into the world. In this text, we see how He was received.

Date: April 26, 2026 Text: John 1:1-5 Speaker: Paul Meredith John begins his gospel with a very powerful statement about the deity of Christ - that Jesus is God!

Date: April 19, 2026 Text: John 20:30-31 & Selected Scripture Speaker: Paul Meredith The Apostle John states his purpose for writing his gospel - that his readers may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing they may have life in His name.

Date: April 12, 2026 Text: Selected Scripture in the Gospel of John and other Gospels Speaker: Paul Meredith This sermon is the introductory sermon to a series of messages on the writings of the Apostle John in the New Testament. It presents an overview of the life of the Apostle as given in the New Testament.

Date: March 29, 2026 Text: Genesis 12:1-4 & Selected Scripture Speaker: Paul Meredith An overview of the first book of the Bible, especially as it revealed God's redemptive plan for sinful mankind.

Date: March 22, 2026 Text: Genesis 50:1-26 Speaker: Paul Meredith Looking back over his life, Joseph understood that God had been at work through it all to bring about the fulfillment of His covenant promises - the promises He had made to his great-grandfather, Abraham, his grandfather, Isaac, and his father, Jacob.

Date: March 2, 2026 Text: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and Selected Scripture This sermon was preached at the funeral service of Mrs. Betty Smith who was a faithful member of Boe Road Baptist Church in Grand Bay, Alabama where she and her husband, Gordon, and their daughter, Wendy, attended faithfully for many years. Later, she was a member of Grace Baptist Church, also in Grand Bay, although she was unab...

Date: March 15, 2026 Text: Genesis 49:1-33 Speaker: Paul Meredith On the last day of his life, Jacob addressed his sons and pronounced judgment on them, thus providing a living illustration of the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Date: March 1, 2026 Text: Genesis 48:1-22 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jacob demonstrated great faith at the end of his life by promising the sons of Joseph their inheritance in the Promised Land, even though he lived the final 17 years of his life in Egypt. He also recognized, looking back, how good God had been to him.

Date: April 5, 2026 Text: Luke 24:1-12 Speaker: Paul Meredith The morning of Jesus' resurrection from the dead was indeed a marvelous morning!

Date: February 22, 2026 Text: Genesis 47:13-31 Speaker: Paul Meredith The people of Egypt were willing to surrender everything to Pharoah for the salvation of their physical lives that Joseph gave them. We must be willing to surrender everything to God for the salvation of our eternal souls that Jesus has given us.

Date: February 15, 2026 Text: Genesis 46:28-47:12 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jacob gave two testimonies summing up his life. One focused on himself - the brevity and difficulty of his life. Seventeen years later, having had time to reflect a little further, his testimony focused on the goodness of God throughout his life and the mercy and grace of his Redeemer.

Date: March 8, 2026 Text: James 1:1-4:10 Speaker: Eugene Conway God gives warnings, instructions, and promises to believers through the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Date: February 8, 2026 Text: Genesis 46:1-27 Speaker: Paul Meredith Jacob obeyed God and moved his family to Egypt, knowing that this was the hope he had for the future. For believers, this text opens up for us the way we, too, can have hope for our future.

Date: February 1, 2026 Text: Genesis 45:1-28 Speaker: Paul Meredith We see in this Scripture text the foundations that enable us to forgive others who have wronged us, and the foundations that enabled God to forgive us for our sins.

Date: January 25, 2026 Text: Genesis 44:1-34 Speaker: Paul Meredith God has provided the way for us to be right with Him.  

Date: January 18, 2026 Text: Psalm 105 & 106 Speaker: Paul Meredith These two Psalms go together. In 105, we see the "mercies of God" - His goodness, faithfulness, and lovingkindness in keeping His covenant with His people. In 106, we see that the people forgot the mercies of God.

Date: January 4, 2026 Text: Psalm 104:35b-105:15 Speaker: Paul Meredith As the elect of God, we are called to worship God with our whole heart.

Date: December 28, 2025 Text: Matthew 11:20-24 Speaker: Craig McCarter Jesus lovingly confronted those in northern Galilee who had experienced the great light of His early ministry (His teaching and miracles), but who had quietly rejected Him. He reminded them that with great privilege comes great responsibility.

Date: December 14, 2025 Text: Genesis 43:1-34 Speaker: Paul Meredith In this chapter, we see an Old Testament illustration of the transforming grace that brings conviction and conversion to those chosen by God.              

Date: December 7, 2025 Text: Genesis 42:1-38 Speaker: Paul Meredith God's intentions toward His people are always for their good and His glory!  

Date: November 30, 2025 Text: Genesis 41:1-57 Speaker: Paul Meredith Joseph was a man who illustrated for us what it is like to live with a Biblical worldview. He had a Biblical worldview before there was a Bible!

Date: November 23, 2025 Text: Genesis 40:1-23 Speaker: Paul Meredith Joseph was able to discern the will of God for the lives of two men who were in prison with him, because God gave him the interpretation of their dreams.