Grandview Church Sunday Sermons

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, November 27, 2022. Three Things Nice People Need to Know About the Judgment of God (Romans 2:1-16). Paul has just described in Romans 1, the pitiful state of the pagan world where wickedness abounds and is celebrated. He hears an objection raised by a religious Jew or moral pagan who agrees with him. They confess that...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, January 8, 2023. Is God Fair? (Romans 2:12-16). Is God fair? If faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation, is it fair for God to judge or be offended by people who have never heard His rules or the name of Jesus Christ? In Romans 2:12-16, the Apostle Paul explains the fairness of God and why every effort must...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, January 15, 2023. Teaching Yourself: The Danger of Hypocrisy (Romans 2:17-24).  Being a Christian is both a privilege and a responsibility. The Apostle Peter says we are born again into a “Royal Priesthood”. The Apostle John says we are the “children of God”. The prophet Isaiah imagined the day when God’s people would...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, January 22, 2023. When Religion Ruins (Romans 2:25-29). The Christian religion keeps people out of heaven… when it is reduced to mere ritual and rule-keeping. At the heart of Christianity is the gospel, which calls sinners to repent and receive by faith a righteousness that only God can provide. Religion makes us prou...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, October 30, 2022. Salvation: It’s More than We Think (Romans 1:18 -32).  Salvation or being “saved” has little appeal to people who live charmed lives. If they do show any interest in religion, it is to add just a little extra to their lives, like extra butter on their breakfast toast. Such people have great difficult...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, September 25, 2022. The Gospel of God According to St. Paul (Romans 1:1-7). The gospel is a good news message of what God has done. It is what makes Christianity unique among the religions of the world. What has God done? He has sent His one and only Son to suffer the consequences of our sin. All who truly believe and...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, October 2, 2022. The Faith That Encourages (Romans 1:7-13). The Apostle Paul longed to meet the believers in Rome. It was enough for him that they were loved by God and called to share in holy fellowship with him as God’s beloved people. He had heard stories about their faith from second-hand sources but wanted to be...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, October 16, 2022. The Power of God’s Gospel (Romans 1:14-17). The message of the gospel is arguably the greatest manifestation of the power of God ever. At creation, a tiny demonstration of His power was manifested as He merely spoke heaven and earth into being. In the gospel, however, we behold His power to save sinn...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, October 23, 2022. Saved by Faith (Romans 1:16-17). Everyone has a time coming when they stand accountable to God. How are we to prepare for it? What shall we plead if not justice? Will God be merciful and if so on what basis? These are disturbing questions that persist in the conscience of every thoughtful person. The...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor from the new Romans series, September 11, 2022. Living in Gospel Power (Romans 1:16-17). The Epistle of Paul to the Romans has been called his theological “Magnum Opus”. Its pages are in the words of William Tyndale, “a light and a way into the whole scripture”. Nowhere is the gospel message better articulated than in...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, September 18, 2022. The Conversion and Calling of the Apostle Paul (Romans 1:1-7). In typical first-century letter writing fashion, the Apostle Paul introduces himself and identifies his readers. Atypically, however, but not for Paul, he “digresses” into an irrepressible “aside” explaining the gospel and his associati...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, June 16, 2024. Waiting for the Chief Shepherd (1 Peter 5:1-14). In his final words to the scattered churches, the Apostle Peter is mindful that the end of all things is at hand (1 Pt. 4:7) and that Jesus, the chief shepherd will soon return. He concludes his first Epistle with some timely words so that the scattered c...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, June 9, 2024. Armed with Attitude: Keys to Holy Living in Hostile Lands (1 Peter 4:1-19). Edward J. Murphy was a longsuffering aerospace engineer whose frustrations in research and development led him to codify what has come to be known as Murphy’s Law(s): - Nothing is as easy as it looks. - Everything takes longer th...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, June 2, 2024. Fruitful Christian Living - In Hostile Lands (1 Peter 3:13 -22). Christians are saved by faith in what Christ has done for us, and we live by faith in what Christ has yet to do, this is our hope. In the meantime, we live in a world that is hostile to Christ as sojourners. The Apostle Peter wants us to un...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, May 19, 2024. Our Christlike Calling (1 Peter 3:8-12). Christians are a new race of humans in the world. When we believed the message of the gospel, we were born again into the family of God and came to possess a new nature that orients us to Jesus Christ. In the epistle that bears his name, the Apostle Peter tells us...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, May 12, 2024. The Strength of Submission: A Key to Holy Living in Hostile Lands (1 Peter 2:13 -3:7). The Christian understands that the world is filled with God’s laws and that He ordains human institutions to apply them. To the great delight of Jesus, the implications of this concept were grasped and articulated by a...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Tim Mudde, May 5, 2024. The Heartbeat of the Church (1 Peter 2:1-10). What is at the heart of God's desire for the church? Is it programs, preaching, evangelism? While all of these and more are important, the Apostle Peter describes perhaps a greater calling for the church than mere programs and teaching. Join us this Sunday as we wal...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, April 28, 2024. Strategies for Holy Living in Hostile Lands continued... (1 Peter 1:17 -25). Christians are called to live uniquely and with purpose in a world filled with superficiality. In this present world, we are like pilgrims, not settlers, en route to our heavenly home. As we pass through, we leave in our wake...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, April 21, 2024. Waiting for God (1 Peter 1:13 -21). In Samuel Becket’s play “Waiting for Godot”, two boys wait in futility for the arrival of someone who never comes. In the 1950s, Existentialist playwrights like Becket were obsessed with philosophical meaning and the stark prospect that there may be none. Their plays...

Grandview Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Message by Pastor Bob MacGregor, April 14, 2024. Holy Living in Hostile Lands (1 Peter 1:1-12). Easter Sunday is historically an event on the Canadian calendar where Canadians engage in activities, remote as they may be, about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is the core of the Christian gospel and a unifying feature drawing attention to our C...