Grace Community Church of Ramona Podcast

Two thousand years ago something critical happened in Israel. In fact, it was the most important thing to happen in human history since the creation of the world. How did God get His people’s attention?

The King Who Has Always Been There

In this sermon, I will be referring to Jesus as Yeshua. Yeshua is Jesus' name in Hebrew. It means "God saves." Referring to Jesus by His Hebrew name will hopefully reinforce the fact that Jesus is a Jew and that He came to the Jews and taught and ministered in a thoroughly Jewish context.

There are a lot of things said and done in the Bible that don’t make sense to us. There are many reasons for this. The Bible was written over a period of 1600 years beginning in about 1500BC. Its final book was finished about 100AD. We’re separated from the Bible by 2000 years of history.

Key Truth: Death is the beginning of a fantastic adventure for the Christian. If we can’t picture the future, how can we face it with joy and hope? God wants us to face our future with joy and hope. He has revealed much about the afterlife, enough to make us realize that death for a believer is the beginning of a fantastic adventure. Let’s think about the future God has for us. First, what happens to a Christian who dies?

Special Sermon: New and Improving

Phil de Martimprey

Christmas Eve Service 2018

Pastors Nate Ingvoldstad, Paul Nelson, and Phil de Martimprey

The first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, begins with Jesus’ genealogy. Matthew’s theme is Jesus, the Messiah-King. Matthew quotes the Old Testament over 60 times. He shows that Jesus fulfills the OT prophecies concerning the first coming of the Messiah-King.

Paul moves from telling the Roman brothers and sisters his hopes and plans to come see them, (15:22-33) to greeting an incredible list of people, including 26 individuals, 2 “families” and 3 “house churches”. Paul hasn’t been to Rome, but we see that he knows a number of people he has either heard about, or that he has met during his ministry, that he believes have now traveled to Rome. There are a couple things that stand out in this section.

Paul closes out the theological teaching of Romans by reminding and encouraging the believers to welcome and accept one another. Much of this letter has dealt with the differences between Gentiles and Jews, and he has just spent a considerable amount of time dealing with differences in convictions between “weaker and stronger” brothers.

Elder Commissioning of Scott Stevens