This is the Sunday that Grace Community Bible Church sends out Doug & Rose Crawford to plant a new church, Risen King Bible Church. In this post you will hear Tony share his heart about the church and why the church should plant churches. Doug Crawford also shares from his heart about becoming the pastor of this new church.

In this advent sermon Tony leads us through Hebrews 1, but in a very unique way. He wants you to “pretend” like you know nothing about God, Jesus or the Bible. Hebrews 1 is the only writing you have ever seen about God and Jesus. What do you learn? What do you see? 

As humans in a fallen world, we desire to be autonomous. We want to be a law onto ourselves. This, of course, is a distortion of the authority that God granted to Adam and Eve in Eden. We must be mindful of our desire to rule over a kingdom we have no authority to rule.

In this first Sunday of advent, 2024, sermon Tony helps us see what Gabriel said to Mary is truly the gospel, the good news, that Jesus is the eternal King of Israel and the world. 

When Paul says we are supposed to "give thanks in all circumstances" that sounds good when things are going well, but how do we thank God when so much is a struggle? We take a look at moments throughout scripture where people gave thanks in every circumstance. By God's grace, if they can, we can too!

On this podcast, we are very pleased to share with you a special Sunday we had with a guest from Ukraine. He is a pastor, a church planter, and former military officer in the Ukrainian airborne forces. His name is Vasily Povoroznyuk. Vasily is the pastor of Compass Church, which he has led for 22 years. He leads a ministry to the families of fallen soldiers, widows and those orphaned. Vasily also serves as a chaplain on the front lines of the war, while overseeing the chaplain program for all of Ukraine. Pastor Tony sits down with Vasily, along with an interpreter, to hear his story and how God is using him to further the gospel and minister to the lost and hurting in the midst of the war in Ukraine.

Waiting on God is an essential aspect of the Christian life. In fact, it is the Christian life. In this sermon Jonathan explores what it is to wait on the Lord. 

This is Tony’s final sermon in the gospel of Luke, a series he began about 5 years ago. Luke ends his gospel with Jesus commissioning His disciples to go and be on mission and blesses them. Tony hopes you see this as the greatest story ever known and how you are called into the story, you have a part!

In this last of a short two part series on living aware of the presence of Jesus with you, Tony takes us through various scriptures encouraging us to live the “new life” that God has given us, making “joyful choices” each day to live the life of Christ, fully present to His presence with us.

Many did not recognize Jesus after He had been raised from the dead, and for various reasons. Tony has decided to camp on this for a couple of sermons. The reality is, God’s people today do not recognize His presence with them - is He with them? How? What does this mean? What are the implications of this? That is what part 1 of this two part series is all about.