Sermons From Grace Baptist Church of Richmond Hill

God has entrusted you with unique gifts, talents, and opportunities, but what you believe about His character determines what you'll do with them. Our view of God either paralyzes us with fear or propels us into faithful action. This message explores how understanding God's grace frees us from regret over missed opportunities and empowers us to invest our lives for His kingdom.

Our vision of God radically impacts every part of us; a distorted view of God leads to a distorted life. If we are to be all God wants us to be, we need to see Him for who He really is: our great and good God, who knows, sees, and loves us perfectly.

Most of us are dehydrated and don’t know it. The same is true for our souls—we recognize our soul’s need for wholeness, satisfaction, and relief, and often seek to find them in anything but God. Psalm 42 helps us seek out the real source of our soul’s thirst, how we can satisfy that thirst, and how preaching to ourselves rejuvenates and invigorates our worship and spiritual life.

Anything we do regularly can lose its meaning. When that happens with church, our hearts can begin to drift from God. This message helps us recapture a vision of gathered worship that rekindles our desire and stirs our anticipation.

We so often allow our lives and priorities to be defined and shaped by all sorts of external phenomena; but what if God’s design for worship was the method by which we are shaped into all that God has called us to be? David’s Psalm 16 calls us to declare and rejoice in all that God is and what He’s done for us—to be shaped by our worship of Him.

The Tenth Commandment is like the final exam. What is it about envy that grips us so strongly? Why does what you have make me feel worse about what I have? This message examines the contentment at the heart of God’s command not to covet.

In an era many call “post-truth” because of the rise of alternative facts and the popularity of fake news, do lies matter anymore? This message examines God’s passion for truth that underlines the Ninth Commandment.

In a world that’s fixated on more, it’s easy to gain for yourself at the expense of other people. Honouring God involves respecting what other people have and stewarding what you’ve been given. This message looks at the relationship to other people’s property that’s highlighted in the Eighth Commandment.

In a world where suffering is real and social justice is often reduced to slogans, Jesus calls us to something deeper. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, we discover that true compassion pushes us to see, feel, and meet the needs of others. This Sunday, we explore what love really does.

In a culture that trivializes intimacy and blurs lines of morality, the sexual ideals that the Bible calls for can feel outdated and restrictive. This message looks at the purity and faithfulness emphasized in the Seventh Commandment.