Category: Sermon Prep (LM)

In the era of Twitter, blogs, and podcasts there has been a proliferation of what are often called celebrity pastors, preachers who have either intentionally sought out or unintentionally found themselves with a large platform and audience.

This Sunday we begin a new preaching series from First Corinthians called Seeing Everything Through a New Lens. To a church with some serious relational conflict, moral compromise, and theological confusion, Paul responds with “the word of the cross,” ...

This week at Grace, we are blessed to have Dr. Paul Felix preaching to us. Dr. Felix is the Senior Pastor at Fairview Heights Baptist Church in Inglewood, and also serves as President of The Los Angeles Bible Training School. We are grateful to have LABTS as one of our Grace Partners.

In September we will begin a new book series in First Corinthians called Seeing Everything Through a New Lens. Our reading service will be September 1. For the next two Sundays we will be bringing in two special guests to preach for us.

This Sunday in Philippians we will get a powerful reminder of a gospel truth that is easier to affirm than it is to live out. Paul reminds us that in Christ we are those who “put no confidence in the flesh.” Where are we to rest the full weight of our faith that God’s love...

We are almost halfway through Philippians with one final section of chapter two to go. At first read, after the glorious description of Christ’s humble condescension and sacrificial redeeming love (2:1-11) and then the strong encouragement to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling” (2:13-18), what comes next might seem quite a bit less...

One of the questions we ask each week as we prepare our order of worship, choosing songs and scripture, is, “What sorts of hearts will our passage be addressing or confronting this week?” Fearful hearts? Idolatrous hearts? Weary hearts? Proud hearts? Numb hearts? Self-righteous hearts? If you read our text for Sunday (Philippians 2:12-18), what...

This past Sunday, Randy posed the question, “Is your approach to church me-centered or we-centered?” As we begin Philippians 2 this Sunday, we could ask a similar question, “Is your approach to church me-centered or you-centered?” Or as I sometimes ask my kids (and frequently need to ask myself), “Are you operating from a me...

Grace Family, let’s not forget that it is “through our prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:19) that God will present each one of us mature in Christ. Let’s be lifting up our brothers and sisters at Grace in prayer this week by name! With the last few verses of...