Sermons – GraceLife Church: Deltona, FL

Our God uses people to reach people. From the very beginning, He has chosen a group to go out and bless the world. But the Bible is full of humans failing to live up to this divine calling. One of the most iconic and ironic examples is the prophet Jonah. Join us this Sunday to see how even polytheistic, pagan sailors reflected God's heart more than Jonah did.

God is GENEROUS. The kingdom of heaven is funded by the generosity of the King as opposed to the earnings of its citizens. Citizens are rewarded in surprising, upside-down, last-shall-be-first kinds of ways in order to highlight the super-abundance of the King.

As Christians we are called to do everything to the glory of God. Every aspect of our lives should be glorifying to him and we should be worshipping the Lord in all that we do. If we are honest though, sometimes we forget that suffering is included in that. How can we suffer to the glory of God? How can we suffer well? Join us Sunday as we explore the beautiful truths of scripture that show us what it means to suffer well.

What's your definition of success? The way you answer that question will reveal a lot about what you value and how you see the world. In the story of Joseph, we get a very surprising snapshot of what true success looks like. Jospeh experiences back-stabbing betrayal and disgraceful injustice. So there's only one way his story be described as a success: God's favor is not fragile.

A few years ago, a little girl told me about the teacher at her school who kept scolding the class with these words, “Shame on you!” Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. It’s the terrifying feeling that we don’t measure up. We’re unpresentable. Unwelcome and unwanted. The bad news? Shame sticks to us like a bad batch of slime. We can’t wipe it off and we can’t drive it away. The good news? Someone came who can take your shame away—someone who can say, not “Shame ON you!” but “Shame OFF you!”