Twin Cities Grace Fellowship Sermons

What does it mean that God has “now made manifest” truths He kept hidden for ages—and why does that matter for how you live today? In this concluding message of the series “That Which May Be Known,” Pastor traces God’s progressive revelation from before the foundation of the world to the present dispensation of grace, focusing on Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 3. He explains how God’s eternal counse...

Are the “ordinary” commands of Scripture shaping the daily life of your church and your walk with Christ? In this closing message from 1 Thessalonians 5:12–28, we trace how Paul brings his letter home with a series of compact, practical exhortations that define congregational life and personal devotion. The sermon unpacks our call to esteem faithful leaders, pursue peace, wisely care for the unrul...

Are you living as a child of the day—or drifting as if you still belong to the night? In this sermon from 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11, we explore Paul’s contrast between those in darkness who will be overtaken by the Day of the Lord, and believers who are “children of light, and children of the day.” Building on Old and New Testament passages about the Day of the Lord, the message highlights how our se...

What if the entire Bible is telling one unified story through two intertwined threads—God’s plan for glory in Christ and His plan to redeem sinners? In this sermon from Isaiah 42, “Centuries of Witness,” we trace how God has progressively revealed His eternal counsel “bit by bit” across the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets. We explore the “eternal purpose” thread—God’s plan to place all authority...

Are you living like a child of the day—or drifting along with a world that thinks it’s safe in the dark? In this sermon from 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11, we explore Paul’s teaching on “the day of the Lord” and how it connects to the broader biblical storyline in both Old and New Testaments. Pastor unpacks the meaning of “times and seasons,” the imagery of the day of the Lord coming “as a thief in the n...

How does the whole Bible fit together as one unified plan in Christ rather than a collection of disconnected stories? In this sermon from the series “That Which May Be Known,” we trace God’s eternal counsel from before the foundation of the world into history through progressive revelation. Beginning with Babel and the call of Abram in Genesis 11–12, we see two main threads emerge and develop: God...

What difference does it make, in real grief, that Jesus really rose from the dead? In this sermon on 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, the focus is not merely on the timing and mechanics of the rapture, but on Paul’s primary purpose in the passage: comforting sorrowing believers. Pastor Josh unfolds how the “patience of hope” thread running through the epistle reaches a climax here, as Paul corrects the Th...

What if creation isn’t just a backdrop to history, but God’s first great act of revealing His eternal purpose in Christ? In this message, Pastor Josh Strelecki launches the third part of the series “That Which May Be Known,” titled “God Hath Revealed,” showing how God’s counsel before the world began begins to unfold from Genesis onward. Starting from Luke 24 and Ephesians 1, he traces the “eterna...

Are you confident you know how to walk and actually please God—or do those phrases feel vague and unattainable? In this sermon from 1 Thessalonians 4:1–12, we explore Paul’s call not just to walk in a way that pleases the Lord, but to “abound more and more” in that walk. Building on Romans 8 and 12, the message unpacks the basic mechanics of the Christian life: how the Spirit uses God’s Word to re...

Is redemption really the ultimate goal of God’s plan—or is it serving something even greater? In this message, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, walks through Romans 3, Ephesians 1, Hebrews 10, and other key passages to show that God’s eternal purpose is to gather together all things in Christ through adoption, and that redemption is the wise, pre-planned means to that end. Before the foundation of...

How do you keep loving and caring for fellow believers when you’re no longer with them—and especially when they’re under pressure and suffering? In this message from 1 Thessalonians 3, we trace Paul’s “labor of love” for the Thessalonian church after his forced departure. We see his restless concern in absence, his costly decision to send Timothy, and the specific mission to establish and comfort...

What is God actually doing with all of history—and how does your ordinary, repetitive life fit into that eternal plan? In this message from the series “That Which May Be Known,” Pastor Josh explores Ephesians 1 to show that God’s ultimate purpose is to gather together all things in heaven and on earth in Christ. Before the foundation of the world, God purposed a divine family under the headship of...

What really happens when God’s Word truly enters a life—is it just a decision, or does it produce lasting, visible fruit? In this sermon from 1 Thessalonians 2:13–20, we explore how the Thessalonians received Paul’s message “not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God,” and how that Word then “effectually worked” in them. We trace the radical, though often unseen, change that oc...

Have you ever started your view of God’s plan with yourself, your needs, or even with sin and redemption—rather than with Christ Himself? In this sermon from Colossians 1:15–17, we explore the “determinant counsel of God” before the foundation of the world and learn that everything God purposed began not with man, but with the exaltation of His Son. Christ is revealed as the image of the invisible...

What do people see and experience when you first enter their lives with the gospel? Drawing from 1 Thessalonians 2:1–12, this message explores Paul’s “entrance” among the Thessalonians as a model for how believers should approach evangelism and relationships with unbelievers. We see the integrity of the messenger—boldly proclaiming the pure gospel without deceit, manipulation, flattery, greed, or...

What anchors your life when everything familiar can change in a moment? This message launches part two of the series, “That Which May Be Known,” shifting from how God reveals Himself to what He has eternally purposed—the “determinate counsel of God.” Beginning from Acts 2:23 and tracing through Romans, Ephesians, Proverbs, Isaiah, and Colossians, the sermon defines “counsel” biblically, contrasts...

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Drawing from Deuteronomy 10 and other key passages, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, highlights that God is utterly unique as the “God of gods and Lord of lords,” possessing incommunicable attributes such as eternity, aseity, immutability, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. These belong to God alone, showing Him to be self-existent, unchanging, beyond time and space, and limitless in power...

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explains that while humanity cannot discover God on its own, God has graciously revealed Himself through both creation (general revelation) and Scripture (special revelation). From Isaiah 46, he emphasizes that God alone is God—there is none else and none like Him—who declares the end from the beginning and has both the intention and the power to bring His counsel t...

What does it look like when the gospel doesn’t just save a church, but shapes its entire manner of life? In this sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1:1–7, we explore how Paul’s gospel came to the Thessalonians “not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance” — and how that message produced a distinctive way of living. By tracing Paul’s own “manner of men” among them, we...

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explained that God has chosen to reveal Himself, because man cannot discover God by intellect, wisdom, or research alone. He distinguished between general revelation—what we can know of God through creation—and special revelation—what God has specifically spoken about Himself, His will, and His purpose in Christ. Using Psalm 19, he showed that creation testifies to...

In this message, Pastor Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, walked through 1 Thessalonians 1:5 to show how the gospel first came to the Thessalonians and what that means for us. He highlighted that Paul’s “our gospel” arrived “not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” The gospel is not mere religious talk or human wisdom; it is the very power of God unto salva...

In this recap session of the series That Which May Be Known, Pastor-Teacher Josh Strelecki returns after a month away to bring the congregation back up to speed before pressing forward. Drawing from Hebrews 1:1–4, he outlines the three-part structure of the series — finding out God, the determinate counsel of God, and what God hath revealed — and briefly reviews the ground already covered: that ma...