This message is from October 4, 2020. It is looking at Isaiah 58 to answer the question: What does it look like to cultivate faithfulness?

Practices like fasting are designed to bring us to a place where we are so attentive and responsive to God’s presence in our lives that it produces an inward peace. And out of that inward peace proceeds outward goodness and generosity in the lives of other people. That’s the kind of faithfulness we’re trying to cultivate. -Gary Franklin

This sermon is from September 27 , 2020. It is titled Following Godly People, and the scripture is Philippians 3:15-21.

Maybe one of our biggest challenges as we disciple others…in whatever arena we find ourselves in, is when we assume personal responsibility for changing the ways people think. It’s when we seek to convince people that our way of thinking is correct or to get people to agree with us even when it’s wonderful truth - like Biblical truth.

What Paul is modeling for us here is actually a great gift. He is modeling a peaceful trust that we can rely upon God to guide people in their personal understanding. We can trust God to be the one who is shaping and guiding people. -Gary Franklin

This sermon is from September 20 , 2020. It is titled What is Jesus Worth to You, and the scripture is Philippians 3:7-14.

Much of the spiritual journey is learning to allow our self-referenced way of living to give way to a Jesus-referenced way of living. -Gary Franklin

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This sermon is from September 13 , 2020. It is titled Pay Attention to Misplaced Confidence, and the scripture is Philippians 3:1-6

How easy it is us followers of Jesus to look to things other than Jesus for our well-being and confidence. It’s so embedded into our being human that we fail to notice it. -Gary Franklin

This sermon is from September 6, 2020. It is titled An Invitation to Prayer & Fasting.

"Fasting and prayer is the way we surrender our anxieties and our agendas, to seek God’s presence and purposes. With a posture of open hands we release the self-directing, self-protecting desires…we release our cravings, our ambitions , our distractions, and we release the habits that occupy and control our lives." -Gary Franklin

A short segment of Gary’s message on September 6, 2020. He introduced

Prayer & Fasting. This is the nuts and bolts of Monday Prayer & Fasting

will work for Grace Church.

This sermon is from August 30, 2020. It is titled Follow Leaders Like These (Philippians 2:19-30).

We need (and trust) the humility of spiritual leaders who speak from a place of dependence upon God, not anxiety or anger. We need spiritual leaders who faithfully serve us in the shadows with little visibility or attention…who love us deeply and keep the interests of Christ in view. We need spiritual leaders who remain faithful when their best efforts don’t end up like they hoped and when other express disappointment or disapproval. -Gary Franklin

This sermon is from August 23, 2020. It is titled It's Time To Stand Out...Gladly! (Philippians 2:12-18).

“The church ‘should’ be a place where questions can be explored and  differences of opinion discussed in honest and safe ways as we study the Scriptures together. That’s the nature of the discipleship journey.” -Gary Franklin

On August 16, 2020 Susan Stohrer delivered this blessing to Grace Church

This sermon is from August 16, 2020. It is titled The Stuff of Humility.

“Humility expresses itself outwardly in the words and gestures of a soul completely surrendered to God. So much so that we no longer need to protect our interests because we are confident that God will.” -Gary Franklin

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