06.12.2025

Sermon Summary

Comfort is killing our courage. The book of Nehemiah describes a massive transition that he went through from the comfort of the palace into the thick of the challenges of rebuilding. Nehemiah left the complacent yet lush culture of being an assistant to the King of Persia and went to a desolate city in ruins, all because he wept over what God put in his heart. The church finds itself in a similar season of shedding security to rise up and build our city. Renewal of our city comes out of the burden of revival in our hearts. We must leave the comforts that have led us to be dormant and stoke the fire of God again to hear His agenda for our city. We are called to use both of our hands—battling with one hand, building with the other. Let’s gather together and discover how we can lay bricks and pick up our swords for the good of our city.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides/

Event Highlight | Summer Serve

• We’re excited that so many of you have joined a team for Summer Serve!
• It’s not too late to serve! We invite you to step in and serve just three times over June, July, and August in gKids, Production, or Guest Services! We think once you try it, you’ll love it!

Scan the QR code or visit gracechurchsp.org/serve to join a team!

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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06-05-2025

Sermon Summary

During this Baptism Weekend we’re looking at Acts 8, which tells the story of an unexpected encounter between Philip, an Ethiopian diplomat, and the Holy Spirit. To this point in the diplomat’s life, he’s never been welcomed into the inner circles of worship. But during this life-changing chariot ride, he learns that there is nothing about him that disqualifies him from relationship with Jesus, and after he confesses belief in Jesus, he is joyfully baptized as an outward declaration of an inward transformation. This is one of the beautiful things about baptism: the only requirement for water baptism is faith in Jesus.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides/

Event Highlights

• Group Leader Foundations Class is a “101” level class for people who may be interested in leading a Group. Look for us on the 4th Sunday of each month at 11:15 in Room 202.
• Parent Pop-Up Night on July 24 for parents of rising Kindergarteners to learn what happens during elementary programming.
• Go to gracechurchsp.org/events for more information.

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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#fillthecitywithjesus

05-29-2025

Sermon Summary

In the fast-paced, calendar-driven world in which we live, it is imperative that Jesus’ followers intentionally leverage creative ways and means to engage our cities. And sometimes the creativity required is simply a “reset”—a “back to the basics” mentality that boldly declares that there is no law against loving our families, neighbors, co-workers, employers, and employees well with the consistent, clear-eyed vision that this is what Jesus calls us to do. Soon enough, we’ll be able to cast the seed of the Gospel; but cultivating the hard soil of the soul with prayer and love is a necessary first step.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides/

All things Camp EXP: gracechurchsp.org/exp

Summer Serve: gracechurchsp.org/serve

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus

05-22-2025

Sermon Summary

Revival is in the air. It’s not only being talked about, we are seeing it across the nation. A desire and genuine hunger for the things of God in people’s lives are being stirred up. This revival that’s coming, which we are seeing glimpses of, is unlike what we have encountered before. It’s not characterized by mass gatherings but by decentralized, scattered pockets showing up in cities, not stadiums. Jesus had a strategy for carrying revival–discipleship. The question is, where will this revival take place? The answer? In cities, not auditoriums. This isn’t a new plan, but the original plan restored. This week, we will talk about where revival is taking place, so we don’t miss this next great move of God.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides/

Event Highlights

Baptism Weekend

• Water baptism is an incredibly important moment in every believer’s walk with God. It is the outward declaration of an inward transformation.
• If you would like to be baptized, we invite you to attend Baptism Orientation. This orientation provides an opportunity for you to learn more about what baptism is and why it is important.
• No need to register, just show up! You can find the dates and times on the events page here: https://gracechurchsp.org/series/baptism-weekend/
• National "Baptize America" Day! Join thousands of churches across America in the world's largest synchronized water baptism. https://baptize.org/

Summer Serve

• Are you thinking about serving this summer?
• We invite you to step in and serve just three times over June, July, and August in gKids, Production, or Guest Services! We think once you try it, you’ll love it!
• Visit gracechurchsp.org/serve to join a team!

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus

05-15-2025

Sermon Summary

This week, Pastor Ben Goodman emphasizes the critical importance of understanding our identity and purpose and that God's answers to the fundamental questions of “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?” are paramount. As we walk through Scripture, examining God’s relationship with humanity, we see that God created us for good works, owns us, and that He is absolutely singular: an all-wise God who provides guidance through His word. And the most amazing thing of all? He loves us as a father. This is transformational. Will you step into that love and follow Him?

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Guide here: https://gracechurchsp.org/resources/sermon-guides/

Find out more about our guest speaker, Patrick Lai HERE

Register for baptism orientation HERE

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus

05-08-2025

Sermon Summary

Daniel says the people who know their God will be strong and carry out great exploits. We say that we are all called to do great exploits by living out our destiny, but our destiny is not realized until we know our identity. We cannot live out our identity or our destiny until our hearts are healed. Your heart is the filter through which all of life comes in and out. That’s why Solomon says to ‘guard it’ because what we hear, see, and experience comes in through our heart, and what we say and do goes out from our heart. If our hearts are a little broken, we will have a distorted life. The key to our identity and destiny is our heart being healed. We'll explore a story in Scripture to learn how our hearts need to be healed.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Sermon Discussion Guide here.

Freedom Weekend info and registration here.

True North VBS info here.

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

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Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus

05-06-2025

Pastor David Pratt is currently the Director of Care Ministry at Grace Church, overseeing pastoral care, prayer and prophetic ministry, and support groups. Listen to learn more about Pastor Pratt's life as a young man, what brought him to Christ, his roles in the church, and what prayer is in the life of the believer.

To learn more about Freedom Weekend and to register, go here.

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

——

Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus

05-01-2025

Sermon Summary

The renewal of 10 cities comes from revival in our hearts. We are continuing to explore what it looks like for us to do good works, great exploits. Instead of just focusing on the action, the doing, and the exploits in our city, we are focused on our foundation–our identity. What good is knowing our destiny and purpose without having the identity to carry it out? Jesus taught his disciples this lesson, and as his students, we must catch this too. There is joy that comes with knowing who we are. This alone is what we should boast about, not what we do, not just our great exploits, but who we are, our identity in God.

You can find this week's sermon notes and Groups Guide here

Event Highlight Links:

Summer Serve Link

VBS Volunteer Link

Freedom Weekend Link

Fill the city with Jesus. This is the vision not just for our church, but for our people. The city is not just a physical location, but a collection of our family members, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances. How can you bring Jesus to your city?

——

Stay Connected

Website: http://www.gracechurchsp.org

Grace Church Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gracechurchsp

Grace Church Instagram: @gracechurch_sp

#fillthecitywithjesus