Grace Community Church

How does the wrath of God shape the way a Christian lives? This message explores how a right understanding of God's wrath—seen in Scripture and ultimately borne by Christ on the cross—transforms the believer's life. When Christians grasp the wrath they deserved and the grace they received, it humbles them, deepens gratitude for the gospel, and changes how they treat others. It reshapes marriage, softens the heart toward forgiveness, and removes the impulse to keep a record of wrongs. Seeing that Christ drank the cup of wrath for us produces patience, mercy, and humility in every relationship.

Originally published in 1836. This edition has been revised for readability. Greed rarely announces itself. It settles quietly into the habits of church life—into what we excuse, what we overlook, and what we learn to call "normal." It can hide behind respectability, careful budgeting, and even religious busyness, while love grows cold and generosity becomes optional. In Greed: The Church's Quiet Sin, John Harris exposes the subtle ways covetousness reshapes a congregation—how it dulls prayer, weakens compassion, distorts priorities, and slowly turns God's people inward. With sober clarity and pastoral urgency, he brings Scripture to bear on a sin that many believers fear to name, yet feel daily. This is not a book for pointing fingers at the world. It is a call to the household of faith: to repentance without despair, to stewardship without legalism, and to a renewed joy in laying up treasure in heaven.

A sermon on Mark 13:24–31 showing how Jesus speaks of near and far horizons (AD 70 and the final return), why cosmic "collapse" language signals divine judgment, and why believers must anchor their lives in Christ's words—because they alone will remain when heaven and earth pass away.

A sermon from Deuteronomy 34 on the death of Moses—focusing not only on Moses' final moments, but on how he lived in light of a pending, certain death. The message traces the context of Moses' exclusion from the Promised Land (Numbers 20), the seriousness of sin as a denial of God's holiness, and the reality that forgiven sin can still carry temporal consequences. It then highlights Moses' steady faith after God's firm "no" (Deut. 3), showing how true reward is ultimately found not in earthly blessings but in "seeing Him who is invisible" (Heb. 11). The sermon closes by emphasizing God's sovereignty over life and death, the right place of grief, and the believer's hope of final resurrection and seeing Christ face to face.

Jesus confronts a Pharisee-like mindset by showing that He did not break God's law—He broke man-made tradition. In Matthew 9:9–13, He calls sinners, eats with them, and declares, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice," exposing self-righteousness and calling His people to extend the same mercy they have freely received.

Jesus' warning in Mark 13 is both difficult and deeply practical: judgment is real, deception increases in desperate times, and God calls His people to be watchful, prayerful, and ready to flee to His appointed refuge. This sermon walks through the "abomination of desolation," connects Daniel's prophecy to Jerusalem's destruction, and presses home the urgent gospel call to flee from wrath and run to Christ.

Mark 13:9–13 is some of Jesus' most pastoral end-times teaching: not a timeline to obsess over, but a call to spiritual readiness. This sermon lays out four themes—vigilant watchfulness, the cost of faithful witness, the Spirit's help when you're put on the spot, and endurance as the evidence of true discipleship. It also warns against drifting into deception or fear as culture grows more hostile, and calls believers to cling to Christ, who keeps His people to the end.

A call to identify and avoid those who fracture the church, while guarding the unity the gospel creates.