Who’s Afraid of the Problem of Evil?

Our Sunday afternoon series over the past 8 weeks at Grace Fellowship Church has been focused on trying to help Christians learn how to interact in thoughtful, loving, and engaging ways with people of other worldviews. We began by thinking about our own worldview, and how it is grounded in the gospel. We also examined ...

Are You a Man?

Someone recently recommended the ministry of Matt Chandler to me, so I decided to give him a listen. Immediately I was drawn to a series of sermons he did a few years ago on ‘The Role of Men’. Over the past few days I’ve been listening to these three sermons, and have sensed God doing ...

The Messiah They Never Imagined

This morning we looked at the two Sabbath controversy stories in Mark’s Gospel (Mk 2:23-3:6). What we saw is that Jesus continues to ‘burst the wineskins’ of Jewish expectations for their Messiah (Mk 2:18-22). As with demons, disease, forgiveness of sins, and association with sinners, Jesus continues to take every opportunity he can to proclaim ...

Sermon from Week 3

Okay, so as backward as this may seem, here is the audio from week 3, Mark 1.21-45: The Powerful Mercy of God on Display. Due to some technical difficulties, the posting of the audio was delayed until now. This is the sermon from January 30. As with the others, use the player below to stream, ...

Sermon for Week 4

Hopefully I’ll include a more detailed update on the church plant this week, but for now, while we continue to work on the church website, I’m still uploading the sermons here. Here is the file for week 4, Mark 2:1-22. Use the player or right click on the link below to download. 04 – Mark ...

The Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Today I had the privilege of preaching the beginning of the Gospel according to Mark in our second week as a church. Rarely, if ever, in my study for preaching have I been so floored by the wisdom and the plan of God as he puts the gospel of Jesus into action. Rarely, if ever, ...

Our First Sunday!

About 2,000 years ago the very first church was started. It was relatively small and insignificant. But when the Holy Spirit came with power, the hearts of people were turned to their God, souls were saved, and many were added to their number. The story of the church ever since that day has been one ...