Join us for a series of 14 sermons that unpack and explain some of the hard sayings of Jesus – the hard-to-understand and hard-to-apply-to-life teachings and stories of Jesus that seem to raise more questions than they answer. We need to understand these truths so we can live full and free lives in Jesus Christ.
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Does God Tempt Us?
This weekend, we launch a series of 14 sermons that unpack and explain some of the hard sayings of Jesus – the hard-to-understand and hard-to-apply-to-life teachings and stories of Jesus that seem to raise more questions than they answer. We need to understand these truths so we can live full and free lives in Jesus […]
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How to Forgive
This weekend, we continue in our series Unfiltered Jesus. This series seeks to unpack and explain some of the hard sayings of Jesus – hard because they are either difficult to understand or tough to swallow. This weekend’s sermon falls into the category of tough to swallow. Jesus asks his followers to forgive. What does […]
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How Jesus Taught Us to Pray
This weekend, let’s talk about prayer and how it works. If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of questions about prayer and possibly even some frustration with prayer. In fact, one of Jesus’ most concentrated teachings on prayer is in Luke 11:1-13. For many people, it has been hard to understand because it […]
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What Is The Unforgivable Sin?
This weekend at GCC, let’s talk about fence-sitting. Not the literal kind of fence sitting where you actually sit on a fence, but the fence of indecision or the fence of non-commitment. There are many areas of life where fence sitting is perfectly acceptable, but there is one area of life where fence sitting is […]
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How to Follow Jesus Over All Else – Take Up Your Cross – Mark 8:31 – 9:1
“Everyone has a cross to bear.” Maybe you’ve heard that expression; maybe you’ve used it. It has its origin in the Bible but it has found its way into our common, everyday language where it isn’t usually used in the way Jesus intended. From ingrown toenails to annoying neighbors to giving up chocolate for lent, […]
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Does The Bible Really Say I Should Hate My Family? – Luke 14:25-27
“if anyone comes to me and does not HATE his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters – yes, even his own life – he cannot be my disciple.” Did Jesus really say that – that we should hate the ‘nearest and dearest’ in our lives? Isn’t this ‘hate speech’? What […]
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The Peace of God
Over the past several weeks, GCC has been working through a series called “Unfiltered Jesus.” This series unpacks and explains several of Jesus’ hard sayings. One of those hard sayings is found in Matthew 10:34, “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace […]
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Fan or Follower?
Read the Gospels. You can’t help but notice that Jesus had a lot of fans. He drew large crowds. He attracted many spectators. As long as he was performing miracles and preaching against the sins of others, the fans were happy. But when his preaching hit close to home, when his teaching was hard to […]
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The Last Step
The best and most accurate way to describe the story in Mark 10:17-31 is that it is a story about a man who was but one step away from a personal and eternal relationship with God. Jesus showed him the step to be taken, and Jesus invited him it. It was a step of surrender. […]
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The Afterlife
Do you believe in the afterlife? The AFTERLIFE is defined as our life after death. That such life exists is a central doctrine of the Christian faith and a favorite topic in Jesus’ teaching ministry. In fact, the AFTERLIFE is even a popular topic beyond the church where creative and wishful thinking have, at times, […]
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Are You Faking Faith?
In Mark 11:12-25, Jesus curses a Fig tree, upsets tables, bars people from making sacrifices, and casts out the buyers and sellers at the Temple marketplace. Then says something so outrageous I’m surprised it found its way into the Gospel of Mark, “if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and […]
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The Precious Blood – Mark 14:22-24
The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ “has freed us from our sins by His blood” (Revelation 1:5). “By his blood.” Three simple words that describe the powerful, saving work of Christ accomplished through His death on the cross. Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross and died to pay the price for our sins. […]
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Grace Like Jesus – Luke 22:47-53
This weekend and on Good Friday, we wrap up our series “Unfiltered Jesus.” In this series, we unpacked several hard sayings of Jesus. Let’s face it, sometimes, what Jesus said was hard to grasp. However, this weekend, we will look not at what Jesus said but rather at something Jesus did that is simply hard […]
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