Grace Church Waco Sermons

Genesis 8:20-9:17 // The surest balm against anxiety, the problem of the future, is the provision of the promises of God. Through God's covenant with Noah, we find the promise of preservation for the earth, the promise of dignity for all mankind, and the promise of grace for God's people.

Genesis 8:1-19 // God doesn’t just protect Noah from the flood. He remembers Noah after the flood, bringing him out to new life and new purpose. As Noah represents the archetype of salvation, we believe the truth that as we cry out to Christ for remembrance, he will never forget us.

Genesis 6:1-7:24 // This text reveals a world fully given over to sin and therefore justly subject to God’s judgment, yet in the midst of that judgment God makes a way of salvation—preserving Noah through the very waters that destroy. 

Genesis 4:17 - 5:32 // All humanity stands under the same verdict—“and he died”—yet Genesis 4–5 reveals two ways of being human: building civilization without communion with God, or calling upon the name of the Lord in dependent faith. True humanity is not found in what we build, but in being restored through God’s saving grace—a salvation that ultimately comes to fullness in Christ.

Genesis 4:1-16 // As Cain follows the way of sin, we see how the flesh presumes upon God's grace, objects to God's justice, and breeds an indifference of death. The way out of the flesh is looking to Jesus, our keeper and protector, who took on flesh to rescue us from the enemy within.

Genesis 3:8-24 // If the LORD God drew near to Adam and Eve in humanity’s very first sin, why would we expect Him to do otherwise with us? The God who comes near does so deliberately—meeting our sin with real consequences, yet never without mercy. Even now, He moves toward us not to abandon or destroy, but to seek, to cover, and to restore.

Genesis 3:1-7 // The heart of temptation is found in the enticement of a desire for freedom, a desire for power, and a desire for pleasure. Christ shows us the way out of temptation, and breaks bread with us so that we may not be led into it.

Genesis 2:18-24 // 

Genesis 2:4-17 // We were created to work, but our work in the world is not for the purpose of production and advancement—but for creative cultivation with God. To regain our ability to work with joy and meaning, we must learn to see it as a stewardship from God leading to faithful trust in God's own work in Christ.

Genesis 2:1-3 // By examination of God's Rest, we find how we are invited into it. Rest is not simply the stopping of work, but is a positive good. Resting in God is the end (goal) of life. Rest is a contemplative enjoyment and a gift. To learn to rest we must unharden our hearts, runs to Christ's work, and embrace the joys of the soul.