A Return To Radicalcy
June 28th, 2009
Sermon Title: A Return To Radicalcy
Sermon Text: James 5:12-18
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Garrett Lee, Leadership Team Member
Date Preached: June 28, 2009
Living in Light of Christ’s Return
June 21st, 2009
Sermon Title: Living In Light of Christ’s Return
Sermon Text: James 5:7-11
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Jonathan Matías, Pastor
Date Preached: June 21, 2009
A Biblical View of Money & Possessions
June 19th, 2009
Sermon Title: A Biblical View of Money & Possessions
Sermon Text: James 5:1-6
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Jonathan Matías, Pastor
Date Preached: June 14, 2009
A Sample of Our Sunday Worship
June 8th, 2009
Curious what a Sunday morning worship service is like at Grace Church of Alexandria? Take a look at a recent order of worship below.
On Sunday morning, a guide to worship like this one is handed out to everyone in attendance. Public prayers & Scripture readings are interspersed throughout our corporate worship. We sing a mix of old songs and new. The preaching of a text of Scripture stands as the centerpoint of our worship as we let God’s Word shape our lives. We regularly observe the Lord’s Table. Every Sunday we gather to resound with praise to the great God who made us and redeemed us!
So What Are You Doing Tomorrow?
June 7th, 2009
Sermon Title: So What Are You Doing Tomorrow?
Sermon Text: James 4:13-17
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Ben Wright, Pastoral Assistant at Capitol Hill Baptist Church
Date Preached: June 7, 2009
Candid Shots of a Critical Christian
June 4th, 2009
Sermon Title: Candid Shots of a Critical Christian
Sermon Text: James 4:11-12
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Garrett Lee
Date Preached: May 31, 2009
Why Do You Desire Heaven?
June 2nd, 2009
Why do you yearn for Christ’s coming? Is it to be free from the ravages of sin’s curse…disease, hardships, temptation? Is it so all on earth is made right by the Risen Christ? I’m listening to an album of songs sung by Ken Bartholomew, a friend and brother-in-Christ. I’m reminded to yearn for heaven, for the new heavens and new earth because God is there. God himself is the great treasure of the believer’s life to come.
Ken Bartholomew went home to be with Christ last fall. I mourn his passing. His singing in this album “Finally Home” is living on and causing me to search my heart. It’s a collection of songs he sang over the years during worship at Heritage Bible Church where he was a member. Many songs he was well-known for singing had as their theme the abiding presence of Jesus and his yearning to live with Christ in glory. I’m reminded anew of the incredible relationship with Father, Son, and Spirit that the cross has purchased for me, a lowly sinner who deserves only hell and separation from a Holy God forever.
What is it about the coming kingdom and eternity that I should long for? The New England theologian Jonathan Edwards helps me see more clearly:
“What is it which chiefly makes you desire to go to heaven when you die? Indeed some have no great desire to go to heaven. They do not care to go to hell; but if they could be safe from that, they would not much concern themselves about heaven. If it be not so with you, but you find that you have a desire after heaven, then inquire what it is for. Is the main reason, that you may be with God, have communion with him, and be conformed to him? that you may see God, and enjoy him there? Is this the consideration which keeps your hearts, and your desires, and your expectations towards heaven?”
(from Edward’s sermon, “God, the Best Portion of the Christian,” preached in April 1736)
In John 17:3, our Lord himself declared the same, when he defined eternal life: “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to know Ken, a heavenly-minded worshiper, who has helped me treasure and thirst for you anew. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
We’ve Fallen In Love With Our Captor
May 30th, 2009
Sermon Title: We’ve Fallen In Love With Our Captor
Sermon Text: James 4:5-10
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Jonathan Matias, Pastor
Date Preached: May 24, 2009
Trading Treasures For Mud Pies
May 19th, 2009
Sermon Title: Trading Treasures For Mud Pies
Sermon Text: James 4:1-5
Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Jonathan Matias, Pastor
Date Preached: April 5, 2009
Speaking For The King
May 6th, 2009
Sermon Text: James 3:8-12 Series: The Gospel Driven Life
Speaker: Pastor Jonathan Matías
Date Preached: April 26, 2009
How can we use our talk to serve the King? James 3 shows us how to deliberately use our words to magnify God.
Audio is not available for this week’s sermon, but you can read the sermon here (.pdf):
