Grace City Denver

Everyone is a seeker. We're all pursuing something we believe will make us happy - will satisfy us. Many of our pursuits provide temporary pleasure followed by shame, emptiness, and more craving. Jesus invites us to a better pursuit. He calls us to seek God first as our sovereign King, our standard of goodness, and the Savior of our every aspect of our lives.

Message from Sam Sawyer on December 28, 2025

With generation after generation of God's people failing to keep the terms of their covenants with God, God promised a New Covenant. It would be enacted on better promises - and it would be unconditional. God would write his law on hearts, wipe away sin, give personal and direct knowledge of himself, and send the gift of the Spirit. Jesus ratified this New Covenant with his blood, so eternal salvation is found in him alone.

Hundreds of years after the Exodus, the Israelites decided they wanted a human king just like all the other nations and kingdoms. After a disastrous few decades under their first king, Saul, the Lord chose the shepherd boy David to lead them. And God made a covenant with David that his throne would be established forever. By the end of the Old Testament, however, centuries passed without a king on David's throne. Then Jesus came - the ultimate seed of David - to fulfill all the promises of the Davidic Covenant.

After the Tower of Babel, humanity had again lost the plot of living as God's people in God's place under God's rule, receiving God's blessing. So God essentially rebooted the storyline with one childless seventy five year old pagan man named Abram. If he trusted and obeyed God, God would make him into a great nation, give him a promised land, and bless all the peoples of the earth through him. Where Abram and his offspring doubted, feared, and failed, Jesus ultimately fulfilled the promises of this covenant.

Our true and lasting hope is rooted in the promised Seed of the woman, Jesus Christ, the last Adam who restores all that the first Adam lose.

When you move to a new area, what should you be looking for in a church? Given that a church is called and commissioned to help form you in the image of Christ, you must care about what a church believes and practices.

John concludes his Gospel with an unabashed purpose statement: he wrote these eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ life so that others would believe in him and receive his gift of eternal and abundant life.

Peter had failed and everyone knew it. He had denied Jesus three times during his darkest hour. Even if he wanted to follow and serve Jesus, how could he? He was disqualified, right? Wrong! Jesus tracked him down, forgave him, and reminded him of his calling and commission.

The disciples knew the ethical teachings of Jesus, they’d seen his exemplary life, and they even knew (from Mary) that he’d been raised from the dead. But none of these things changed them . . . until Jesus came. His presence brought the peace, the pardon, the purpose, and the power they were missing.