GracePoint Church
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Ep 81Adversity: Friend or Foe
Pastor Steve concludes our series, From Here to There, with a message about adversity and how we handle it as a follower of God.
Ep 80God's Timing
Pastor Aaron bring a message exploring how to thrive in a season of waiting, when it seems like our plan for our life is on pause.
Ep 79God Doesn't Need Our Cleverness
We continue our series with a message exploring the trappings of being clever when dealing with adversity, instead of simply following God’s ways.
Ep 78Faith in Adversity
Pastor Steve begins the final leg of our “From Here to There” series. The main emphasis of these last messages will be Adversity: Friend or Foe? We will see that, instead of questioning God when facing adversity, we need to ask ourselves how it can be used to produce Christ-likeness in our lives.
Ep 77Fear to Faith
In this message, Pastor Steve addresses the question "will fear immobilize you or will you have faith that overcomes?" The people of God are to become ones who “fear not” for the Lord is with us.
Ep 76Failure to Faith
Pastor Steve brings a message about failure and how it can either derail you or it can be a tool to push you deeper into dependence on God. We look at how King David "failed forward" into faith.
Ep 75Overcoming Faith
Continuing our series, From Here to There, we take a look at 5 faith destroyers and 5 key attributes of overcoming faith from the example of Caleb in the Old Testament book Numbers.
Ep 74Piece of Cake
Ep 73There Will Be Hard Days
Pastor Steve kicks off the third leg of our series "From Here to There, looking at what it means to have a prevailing faith. In this particular message, Jeremiah is our example of what it means to stay faithful even when life is difficult.
Ep 72Bricks and Mortar
Pastor Steve brings a message identifying some bricks and mortar of a right heart. These include awareness that: God has a plan for your life, God is always with His children, and God equips you for the calling He gives you.
Ep 71God's Heart for People
Pastor Aaron continues our series, From Here to There, with a message looking at the mission God has called us to and how we can take steps to live it out.
Ep 70Getting to the Heart
Pastor Steve brings a message looking into how God wants a heart attitude in His followers that sees life as a precious gift of His grace, and to be invested wisely.
Ep 69A Heart for God – Part 2
Pastor Steve Norby brings the second part to last week's message, "A Heart for God,"continuing to look at King David as an example of what it means to have a heart for God.
Ep 68A Heart for God – Part 1
The decisions we make today radically affect our lives tomorrow. This week Pastor Steve Warner brings a message looking at the life of King David and, through David’s example, how to gain a heart rightly aligned with God.
Ep 67Radical Trust
Pastor Steve finishes the first leg of our journey through our series From Here to There, with a message encouraging us to be followers who trust God radically.
Ep 66Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Sometimes on the journey towards spiritual maturity we encounter difficult places. This week, Pastor Aaron brings a message of how to respond faithfully to God when our lives are turned upside down and we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place.
Ep 65When Your World Turns Upside Down
Pastor Steve starts our new series, From Here to There, with a message about developing the same attitude as Jesus. When your world turns upside down, let it drive you to God, seeking a deeper revelation with Him.
Ep 64The Dead Do Rise
Pastor Steve brings a message about the Resurrection and it being the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Jesus was raised from the dead as the first fruits of the harvest to come.
Ep 63Obstacle or Opportunity
Pastor Steve brings a message for Palm Sunday, looking at the cross Jesus bore. With all of the implications, if rightly embraced, is an opportunity, and if wrongly understood is an obstacle.
Ep 62Rules of Realignment
Pastor Steve wraps up our Colossians series with a message looking at how the Holy Spirit transforms us in a way that is contrary to the sin nature.
Ep 61Life Giving Raiment
Pastor Steve continues our Colossians series with a message of clothing ourselves in such a way that we look like Jesus. What God calls us to do, He will equip us to become.
Ep 60Setting the Right Trajectory
Continuing our Colossians series, Pastor Steve brings a messaging about aiming our lives right, matters. Small misdirections can result in big misses.
Ep 59Freedom From The False
Pastor Aaron continues our Colossians series with a message looking at Paul's warning to the Colossians to continue in their spiritual journey, rooted and built up in the faith they have received.
Ep 58The Supremacy of Jesus
Pastor Steve kicks off our new series Colossians with a message about the supremacy of Jesus, explaining that in all ways and for all situations Jesus is adequate and able.
Ep 57Holy Obedience
Finishing up the Intentional Life series, Pastor Steve brings a message looking at the critical link between obedience and love. Jesus told us that if we love Him we will obey His commands. The follower of Jesus should default to obedience.
Ep 56Motivation Matters
Pastor Steve continues the Intentional Life series with a message of how we as a followers of Jesus are to have a radical response of love toward others, even to those who hate us.
Ep 55Intentional Relationships
Pastor Aaron continues the Intentional Life series with a message about intentionally investing in relationships. We look at the three important relations we all need: the shepherd, the student, and the friend.
Ep 54Boldness and Risk
Pastor Steve continues our Intentional Life series with a message about taking bold, Holy Spirit-led risks, as a follower of Jesus. This is to be the normal way of life in Jesus.
Ep 53Proximity
Continuing the Intentional Life series, Pastors Steve Norby and Aaron Cloud bring a message looking into how intentionality in the follower's life begins in proximity to him or her. This involves ownership of your own spiritual well-being and ownership of the spiritual well-being of those near to you in space, time and relationship.
Ep 52Go: Live as a Sent One
Pastor Steve kicks off our new series, The Intentional Life, with a message that dives into how to be intentional and how we are called to be a part of building God's Kingdom.
Ep 51Surviving Setbacks
Pastor Aaron speaks a message of how to survive seasons of setback and failure, and how God may actually use them as seasons of formation in our lives.
Ep 50Peace on Earth
Pastor Steve closes out our Advent series with a message about the problem of anxiety. God’s people have peace available that transcends the troubles of this world.
Ep 49Joy That Sings
Continuing our Advent series, Pastor Steve Norby brings a message looking at how joy should find its way into the heart of those who understand what Jesus has done for them.
Ep 48Love
Pastor Aaron continues our Advent series, Stories of Christmas, with a message examining Mary's story and exploring how love reframes the way we think about obedience.
Ep 47A Problem or an Opportunity
Pastor Steve starts our Advent series with a look into the life message of Joseph, whose problems provided the opportunity for a new, hope-filled relationship with God.
Ep 46Thinking Temporary
Pastor Steve speaks about how this world is our temporary residence and how to live with a "heaven as home" perspective.
Ep 45Vision is Vital
Pastor Steve brings a message looking at a three level vision that is essential for our well being as followers and as a church.
Ep 44Seizing the Moment
Pastor Steve wraps up our Remnant series with a message exploring the idea that station in life is not as important as understanding the times and being willing to step out in God as you have opportunities.
Ep 43A Time to Submit, A Time to Resist
Pastor Steve continues our Remnant series with a message giving insight into the tension that God's people must deal with when it comes to resisting and submitting, and how to move beyond the confines of tension to becoming ones who lead others toward God.
Ep 42Committed to Generosity
Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve brings a message about the generosity of God. In the margins, God's people bear witness to another reality when they reflect His generosity.
Ep 41Committed to Integrity
Continuing the Remnant series, guest speaker Steve DeNeff, brings a message teaching the importance integrety. A cheating culture exists when “everyone does what is right in his own eyes.” In our day, there is a sense that everyone is cheating – and justifying it – so that cheating in return is thought a matter of survival. Before the mayhem destroys us, we will need a community who live simple, transparent lives, who risk being taken advantage of because their trust is in God. Against this culture of hidden agendas and spin, the Remnant will be people of integrity.
Ep 40Called to Be Civil
Pastor Steve continues the Remnant series with a message of being civil in uncivil times, choosing to be others-oriented and show respect. This is a tangible way we can live out the command to love our neighbors.
Ep 39Restraint Among the Unrestrained
Pastor Steve continues our Remnant series with a message of how the follower must show restraint in the midst of a culture that is continually demonstrating less. As a faithful remnant showing restraint, with eyes fixed on Jesus, we have a message that is timely for our days.
Ep 38Forward to the Future
Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve talks about the kind of people "Remnants" should be, forward-looking people engaged in what God is up to. They are often God’s first component of building for the future.
Ep 37A Right Relevance
Pastor Steve continues the Remnant series with a message addressing a big question that people of God face when they find themselves in remnant status, in the margins of culture: How are we to be relevant?
Ep 36Life in the Margins
Continuing the Remnant series, Pastor Steve speaks about how "out in the margins" the follower has to be concerned as much about being assimilated as eliminated. In the margins, disposition will prove to be as effective, or more effective, than having the right position in reaching those far from God.
Ep 35Remnant Status
Pastor Steve kicks off a new series entitled, The Remnant. We are called to face the times we are in squarely, with honesty and courage, trusting that the Sovereign God is in control.
Ep 34Great Faith
Finishing up our For Such a Time as This series, Pastor Aaron looks at how we, as believers, can live with great faith in these times.
Ep 33Avoiding Pitfalls
Pastor Steve continues the series, For Such a Time as This, warning followers of God to avoid pitfalls like loophole thinking, lip service or listening to the wrong sources.
Ep 32Finding Your Way Out of Civilized Christianity
Pastor Steve continues our series, For Such a Time as This, with a message of the importance to find our way out of civilized Christianity, because it is about comfort, convenience and safety. God calls His people to a walk in Him that is greater than civilized religion.