Weekend Messages at Grand Point Church

You think you know Jonah — the prophet, the storm, the whale. But this week's message adds one word that changes the whole story: disobedience. In this episode of Weekend Messages at Grand Point Church , part of our series The Voice on the minor prophets, we walk through the book of Jonah and find a man who heard God clearly and ran the other way, a God whose mercy was bigger than his enemies...

God is still speaking — but pride, fear, and bitterness can fill the line with static. In this week's message from our summer series The Voice , Pastor Lawrence walks through the book of Micah, an Old Testament courtroom drama where God takes the bench as Judge, His people stand as the defendants, and the verdict bends toward mercy. We'll meet a small-town prophet with a nation-sized mes...

Everybody's an expert on what's wrong with the world — but Amos had a harder question. In week 3 of The Voice , our summer series through the Minor Prophets, Pastor Lawrence introduces us to Amos: a shepherd and fig farmer with no prophetic pedigree, called by God to confront a prosperous, comfortable people who loved hearing about everyone else's failures. When Amos turned the spot...

What if the messiest love story in the Bible is actually the clearest picture of how God loves you? This week on The Voice , we open the book of Hosea — the prophet God asked to marry, lose, and then buy back an unfaithful wife. It's a living portrait of relentless, pursuing love that points all the way to the cross. We'll talk about spiritual adultery, the cost of being purchased back,...

The Book of Joel reads almost like a horror story — round after round of locusts stripping the land bare. But it doesn't end that way. In this episode, we launch The Voice , our summer series through the Minor Prophets, with a message on the Book of Joel called "From Horror to Hope." We walk through the locust plague as a divine wake-up call, the urgency of the "Day of the Lord...

Romans 8 ends with some of the most quoted verses in the entire Bible — but familiarity doesn't always mean understanding. In this week's message, we take a close, honest look at what Paul actually means when he writes that "all things work together for good" and what it truly looks like to be "more than conquerors." We sit with the gap between the promises we hold an...

Welcome to Weekend Messages at Grand Point Church. This week is Youth Takeover—a weekend dedicated to giving our students the platform to lead, serve, and speak into our church family. In this episode, host Mitch Benedict sits down with the three youth pastors of Grand Point Church to talk about what makes Youth Takeover so meaningful, why student leadership matters, and the stories of students st...

Romans 8 is a chapter worth reading slowly — and this week's message gives you every reason to do exactly that. Pastor Lawrence walks through Romans 8:1-30, unpacking the two great promises that anchor the chapter: no condemnation at the start, and no separation at the end. Between those bookends is a rich portrait of the Holy Spirit's work in the life of a believer — giving life, transf...

If you've ever felt the frustration of giving your life to Jesus and still losing the same battles — this episode is for you. In this week's message from The Gospel series, we open Romans 7 and sit with one of the most honest passages in all of Scripture. The Apostle Paul doesn't sugarcoat the Christian life. He describes it the way most of us actually experience it: a war between t...

Everyone serves something — the question is who. In Romans 6:16–23, Paul uses the image of slavery to cut through the illusion of self-sufficiency and get honest about a truth we often avoid: there is no neutral ground. You're either moving toward life or toward death, and the master you choose makes all the difference. This week's message also answers three of the hardest questions peop...

If you've ever wondered why the Christian life can feel like a constant uphill battle — even after giving your life to Christ — this episode speaks directly to that struggle. Pastor Lawrence opens Romans 6:1–14 to show us that lasting transformation doesn't start with willpower. It starts with understanding what actually happened to you the moment you placed your faith in Jesus. Paul&apo...

In this week's message from The Gospel series, we work through Romans 5:12-21 — one of the most theologically dense and personally relevant passages Paul ever wrote. Two men. Two choices. Two consequences for all of humanity. The word "one" appears eleven times in this passage, and Paul means every repetition. One man brought death into the world; one man brought grace that overflow...

Most of us treat the gospel like a starting line — something you cross once and then move on from. But Romans 5 tells a different story. In this week's message from Romans 5:1–11, we dig into three things that are already true for everyone who has been justified by faith: you have peace with God (not just a feeling of peace — the real thing), you have a reason to hold on through suffering, an...

Easter lands right in the middle of Romans 4 this year — and it turns out, that's exactly where it belongs. In this week's message, Pastor Lawrence opens up the story of Abraham: a man who received an impossible promise from God and waited 25 years for it to come true. Along the way, he stumbled, he doubted, he took matters into his own hands. And yet — his faith was credited to him as r...

What would you put on your spiritual résumé? In this week's message from The Gospel Series, we open Romans 3:27–31 — a pivotal passage where the apostle Paul answers four questions that strike at the core of human pride, self-reliance, and what it truly means to be justified before God. The law isn't your enemy — it's a mirror. And when you look honestly into it, your boasting dies...

Two words carry the weight of the entire Gospel: "But now." After weeks in Romans establishing the depth of human sin and the impossibility of self-righteousness, Pastor Lawrence arrives at the hinge point of Paul's letter — Romans 3:21–26 — and unpacks six essential facets of God's righteousness. This episode covers justification, redemption, and atonement with clarity and dep...

What if the things you've leaned on most in your spiritual life — your church attendance, your Bible knowledge, your Christian heritage — aren't what actually make you right with God? In this week's message from Romans 3:1–20, we work through one of Paul's most searching passages: a raw, honest description of the human condition. No one is righteous. No one truly understands. N...

What's the difference between religious performance and genuine faith? In this week's message from Grand Point Church, we walk through Romans 2:17–29 — one of the most uncomfortable and convicting passages in all of Paul's letters. The Apostle Paul confronts the religious insiders of his day with a bold accusation: their outward religiosity was actually making things worse. Paul ide...

In this week's message, we take a hard look at Romans 2:1-16 — a passage that confronts the self-righteous tendency in all of us who are quick to judge the world while ignoring our own hearts. We explore four truths about God's judgment: it rightly falls on hypocrites, it is stored up for those who presume on His kindness, it is rendered impartially, and it will expose the secrets of eve...

In this week's message, Pastor Lawrence digs into Romans 1:18-32 to show us that the best news ever actually starts with some bad news. God — the Great Physician — has given us a clear diagnosis: our world is sick, and we are the cause. But understanding what's wrong is the first step to receiving what's right. This episode explores the wrath of God (and why it's actually a sig...

What is the gospel — and why does it still matter? In this week's message, Pastor Lawrence opens a powerful new series through the book of Romans, beginning in Romans 1:1-17. From Paul's dramatic transformation to the unifying power of the gospel, this message lays the foundation for an awakening in your life and community. In This Episode What the gospel actually is (and why it's d...

What's preventing you from becoming everything God created you to be? This week's message challenges us to identify the ONE THING we need to let go of in order to press forward into the life Christ has for us. The Apostle Paul, despite his impressive religious credentials and painful past experiences, made a powerful declaration: "One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and stra...

What's the one gift you'd ask for above all others? In Psalm 27, King David reveals his ultimate request—and it changes everything. Surrounded by enemies, facing betrayal, and dealing with impossible circumstances, David could have asked God for safety, victory, or vindication. Instead, he asked for the one thing that transcends all of life's chaos: God's presence. In this epis...

"One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." What do you really KNOW about Jesus? In this compelling exploration of John 9, we discover three profound journeys that reveal what it means to truly "see" Christ. Join us as we examine the healing of a man born blind and uncover how three different groups responded to the same miracle—some moving from blindness to sigh...

What's the difference between feeling sorry for someone and showing true biblical compassion? This weekend, Pastor Lawrence unpacks the profound meaning of compassion in Scripture and challenges us to move beyond sympathy into life-changing action. Drawing from the story of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10, we discover that compassion isn't just an emotion—it's a call to get physically...