Grace Community Church Memphis Podcasts

Luke 2:21-40:In this passage, Luke introduces us to the child, Jesus Christ, to tell us that He is Righteous, the Savior, and a Dividing Point in the world.

Luke 2:1-20:In this telling of the Christmas story by Luke, we see that when we understand the message of Christmas and of the gospel, it changes us and sends us out into the world as heralds of good news.

John 1:1-14:The Christmas story is the story of God becoming man, of God condescending to man and becoming vulnerable by taking on flesh. When this truth impacts our hearts, it transforms us to be able to freely enter into relationships with authenticity and vulnerability.

1 Corinthians 8:1-9:In this passage, Paul uses the gospel story to encourage his readers towards generosity. As we see the generosity of Jesus in the Christmas story, who "though he was was rich, yet for [our] sakes he became poor, so that [we] through his poverty might become rich", we find freedom to be radically generous in our lives.

Mark 10:32-45:In this passage, Jesus explains the reason for his coming: "not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." As this truth of the Christmas story and the gospel breaks upon us, it sets us free to be radically transformed servants of others.

Psalm 113:1-9:This Psalm describes God as being both high and lowly, and in doing so, takes us to the Christmas story and teaches us how Jesus' humility in the incarnation can free us to be humble.

John 8:31-59:In this concluding sermon for a sermon series on Jesus’ “I Am” statements in the gospel of John, Nathan talks about how Jesus’ claim to be “I Am” is His claim to be God Himself. When that shocking reality settles upon our hearts we are finally set free to struggle and can give up our struggle to be free in this life.

John 15:1-8:In our most sober moments, we all want the hope of change and transformation. In this sermon Nathan talks about Jesus’ claim to be the true vine and how connected to Him we grow and change, pruned by the Father.

John 14:1-10:Everyone has a deep hunger for the beatific vision. In this sermon Nathan talks about Jesus’ claim to be the only way to the Father. Jesus claims to have come down from heaven to reveal the Father to His Creation. By coming to the Father through Jesus, our hunger for the beatific vision is satisfied and brings real transformation into our lives.

John 11:1-6; 21-44:In this sermon Nathan explains Jesus’ claim to be the resurrection and the life. Oftentimes Jesus delays in the healing of our immediate pain, but His delays are always perfect, creating wonder that makes the words of praise louder when we finally see Him enter into our pain to deliver.

John 10:1-18:In this passage, Jesus claims to be the good shepherd. By “good”, Jesus isn’t speaking here of His moral excellence but of His beauty, nobility, or excellence. His beauty is revealed in His calling His sheep, in His care for His sheep, and His intimate knowledge of the sheep.

John 10:1-10:In this sermon Nathan talks about Jesus’ claim to be the gate and how that exclusive claim drives the righteous and the unrighteous to deal with Jesus according to His grace.

John 8:12-20:Everyone has a deep desire for freedom. In this, the second of Jesus’ “I Am” statements, Nathan talks about Jesus’ claim to be the light of the world and how that shocking claim leads us to a sobering revelation of the darkness of our sin. Finally, Jesus’ claim to be the light of the world means that if we come to Him and follow Him, we can possess the light of life and be transformed.

John 6:24-42; 51: In this sermon, Nathan talks about the first of Jesus’ “I Am” statements in John’s gospel. Jesus claims to be the bread of life. To have our hunger pains satisfied, we must know the reality of our hunger, recognize how we misdirect our hunger, and come to Jesus to find ourselves satisfied in Him.

John 8:54-59; Exodus 3:1-15When Jesus uses the words “I Am” in the gospel of John, He is using language that points the reader back to the Exodus story when God revealed His name to be “I am who I am”. Jesus’ claim, by using these words, is that He is the God of the burning bush; as the God of the burning bush, Jesus came to burst categories, solve contradictions, and send into mission.

Introducing the "I Am" statements of Jesus found in the gospel of John, Nathan explains that John wrote his account of Jesus' person and work so that we could have life in Jesus. We find life when we deal with Jesus, meet Jesus, and fall before Him in worship. Passage: John 20:24-31

Guest Minister, Rev. Dawson Bean expounds this passage in Galatians where Paul considers the wonder of our adoption by God.