Grace Church Waco Sermons

Genesis 1:14-31 // The world is alive with the glory of God, if we are awake to see it. Throughout he creation narrative we see how God creates enchanted time, enchanted abundance, enchanted dignity, enchanted stewardship, and fulfills it all with "very good".

Genesis 1:3-13 //  The song of creation draws us towards God in two ways: 1) Creation is deeper than you see; 2) Creation is better than you believe. 

Genesis 1:1-3 // Distance from our story means distance from meaning. If we get the beginning wrong, we are in danger of getting the whole thing wrong. So let’s answer two questions together: 1) Why Does God create?; and 2) How Does God Create?

Jude 17-25 // Jude exhorts us to keep ourselves in the love of God. We can do this because of (a) our distinctly holy devotion to Him and (b) His assurance to wholly keep us in him to the end.

Jude 5-16 // Salvation is at stake in our  vigilance over life and doctrine. No one persists in faith by accident. Jude gives us three negative examples of how not to keep awake and aware, so that we might learn how to stay vigilant.

Jude 1-4 // Because God keeps His people by grace, the church must lovingly and courageously contend for the once-for-all gospel whenever it is quietly redefined or slowly surrendered.

Revelation 21 // Contemplation of heaven is God’s ammunition for our unsteady hearts. In this teaching, we will answer three questions: 1) what is heaven?; 2) what won’t be in heaven; 3) what will be in heaven?

Revelation 20 // Advent and Christmas teach us that second coming, the judgment of Christ, the final battle, the end of the world: these are not simply far away events, but they have their beginning now, the axe started swinging in the first advent, even if the tree won’t fall fully until the second. Christ's kingdom has been inaugurated, Satan is bound, and it will all soon come to a close in his great judgement.

Revelation 19 // Revelation 19 reveals the victory of the Lamb who conquers through faithful love, giving His people a new song, a new identity, and a new courage that expose Babylon’s illusions.

These gifts become the foundation for the endurance we need both now and in the days to come, as the hallelujahs of heaven and the marriage supper of the Lamb assure us that God’s restoring justice and unshakeable joy will have the final word.

Revelation 17-18 // The prostitute Babylon goes by many names and takes many forms, but in our day and place she may be best represented by the greed of comfort and the lust of power. How do we recognize Babylon and come out from under her influence and away from her coming destruction?