'Grace' Tagged Posts

We May Stumble, “But God” Does Not (Rick Hackett)

Passage: Titus 2:11-15 Thus far, in our sermon series through the book of Ephesians, the reality of “But God” has been made clear. God does for us what we could never do for ourselves. It is only because of God’s grace that man has any hope whatsoever. In today’s sermon we will build on the […]

Purposeful Grace

Passage: Ephesians 3:7-13 We (rightly) tend to hold Paul in the highest regard, but he had no delusions about his own weaknesses or his sinful past. Paul’s humility led to amazement that God would choose to use him to bring the hope of Christ to the Gentile world. He realized that he was a recipient […]

The Good News: But God!

Passage: Ephesians 2:4-7 Having set forth the bad news of humanity’s condition without Christ, Paul now begins to rise in praise as he proclaims the good news of what God has done to save us in and through Christ. These are possibly the two best words in all of scripture: But God! Our hopeless condition […]