Word of Grace Church

Jump into the Christmas Season with us in this episode, where we look at the coming of Christ as fully God and fully human, and what that means for us right here in our moment. 

The final message of our Landscapes series looks at one featured landscape in scripture that can even connect them all, the River that appears time and again. 

We keep rolling in our Landscapes series, and consider the Desert... the place where Jesus was led and the wilderness to which He returned and invites us to go with Him.

Our second look into the landscapes of scripture brings us to a place we all have a frame of reference for - the valley. The Word shows us several different valleys where the trouble lurks for God's people, but the same God of the mountain is the God of the valley. He is the one who transforms our valleys into places of growth and blessing.

We take a look at the significance of mountains in the ancient world and in scripture, and in particular, we look at the three stories around the Mountain of God and what they mean for us as we approach God's Presence. 

Pastor Randy Young joins us to wrap up our Known series and examine the access to His Presence that God makes available for us!

Pastor CJ dives into one of the Bible's foremost focal points, the Love of God, and how we can be ambassadors of His Love.

The masterful creativity and brilliance of our God is on display in Creation, in moments in the Word and through the entirety of the Bible itself. Pastor Ryan helps us to consider God the Artist, how Jesus makes this part of God known, and how God has created each of us as His works of art.

In this message from our series, Known, we take a look at how Patient our Good Father has been with us, how Jesus embodied the patience of God, and how we are called to be patient with others as well. 

In this message, we explore God's Father Heart toward us. We all bring our own experiences with earthly fathers to this conversation, but God is the perfect Father, and we look at some of the ways Scripture invites us to depend on Him and trust Him as our Good Father.

Dive in with us to the nature of God that He reveals about Himself, and the paradox of a God who is 100% Justice and 100% Mercy at the same time.

As we study the character of God that He chooses to reveal in scripture, we focus in on Jehovah Shalom - The God of Peace. 

Our finite minds can't begin to comprehend our i nfinite God... except for the fact that He chooses to make Himself known to us, and that's what matters. 

It's amazing what happens when someone with the vision and tools gets a hold of old film or original recordings of symphonies. With stunning clarity and beauty, these ancient artforms can be restored to their original intention and design. In the same way, with our lives, when we allow God to be the master, we see just how much He can do in our lives, but the question remains throughout all of scr...

We are diving one last time into what it means to be created in God's Image, and the primary place where we step into this identity - in our Work.

Pastor CJ jumps in to share a special message with us from John chapter 13, as we model our lives after the Servant King. 

Pastor Ryan brings us back into our discussion on what it means to be made in God's image, Royal Priests.

Pastor Ryan takes us back to one of the most important messages for the church in all of scripture, and reminds us of who we are called to be, together, as Image Bearers of God.

We've been on quite a journey with Jacob, and now we're coming into land. Join us as we wrap up our study - The Ladder - one last time. 

We are all Jacob, and we have one final thing to learn as we look at the end of Jacob's life. God had blessed him indeed, but had yet to make him a blessing. Pastor Ryan unpacks how God put him in a place to fulfill the covenant.

Digesting the huge moment of God wrestling with Jacob causes us to really consider what God wants to wrestle with in us! Join Pastor Ryan as he mines this famous passage in Genesis 32, the turning point in the life of Jacob. 

Pastor Randy Young joins us to talk about the moment that changed everything for Jacob - the wrestling match with God.

In our last Sunday message we unpacked a key turning point for Jacob, and not exactly a comfortable one! The actions of his brother Esau are a shocking example of the Grace and Mercy of God, and stand in stark contrast to so many of Jacob's actions. In this episode of the Ladder Sessions, we're taking a look at this story and our own and asking the question - "Who is the hero here?"

Just when Jacob has escaped the clutches of Uncle Laban, Jacob goes out of the frying pan and into the fire, with Esau, the jilted older brother, coming straight for him. Pastor Ryan unpacks for us how, when God gets involved, this moment of reckoning turns into an unprecedented reconciliation.

The thing about Jacob's Story is that you can catch glimpses of it throughout the Word of God. Sometimes it is just the pattern of the people that came from Jacob, or the heritage that the Lord sustains for them, but sometimes it is more blatant than that. Pastor Ryan looks at the echo of Jacob that comes straight from the mouth of the Savior himself, in perhaps the most famous story he ever told....