Grace Bible Church, of Seabrook, MD Sermons
427 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe are a simple, biblical community of faith striving to love God, to love people, and to serve them both. We attempt to impact our community not only by equipping people to lead ministry and impact the world for Jesus Christ but also to embrace the demographics of where we live (Acts 17:22-31) as God ordained. That is, as our community is composed of people from many countries and backgrounds, we make efforts to ensure all are welcome and all can worship our Lord freely and together. https://gracebc.com
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March 19, 2023 Worship Service: A Prepared Soul
March 19, 2023 23:49How well do you initiate self-change? How well do you process pain? Can you learn through loss? Do you age well? Are you a prepared soul? https://youtube.com/live/lWk5Y-AcXzc
March 15th Pastoral Connect: Change Bad; Change Good
March 15, 2023 21:09Deep soul change is not surface change. Change may be a simple addition. Often, what we call "bad change" is what drags our trust and control issues to the surface, so we stare down those demons. Sometimes bad change is needed for good change. https://youtu.be/m9UrUCZE_Bw
March 12, 2023 Worship Service: Risky Business
March 13, 2023 19:17Life is a risky business. Over time, many stop venturing out. They count scars instead of creating opportunities. In the name of safety and prudence, they cave and settle. Be courageous. A person of grace takes noble risks. https://youtube.com/live/nF-zqW16s2Q
March 5, 2023 Worship Service: Truisms That Help the Medicine Go Down
March 06, 2023 00:54An already hard life is made harder when we claim knowledge but ignore time-tested truisms. Professing wisdom, we become fools. We tear down faulty structures and build on their ruins utopian castles . . . . . . made of sand. https://youtube.com/live/aJA-bE8tAL8
February 26, 2023 Worship Service: Talented and Gifted Vanity
February 27, 2023 01:07Virtue that needs to be noticed lacks virtue. Virtue signaling is an oxymoron. Life is found in who you notice, not in who notices you. The willingness, even initiative, to remain unseen can launch a powerful catharsis for our souls. https://youtube.com/live/gBN14_wFty0
February 22nd Pastoral Connect
February 22, 2023 21:38Maybe what we notice and admire says more about us than we care to admit. https://youtu.be/7tUWrF1dmNo
February 19, 2023 Worship Service: Into the Void
February 20, 2023 00:50https://youtube.com/live/st0fFI1k7tE Death is violent, and Satan is the original Violator and Nihilist. The nihilism of death does not care about your peak experiences or achievements. Death is neither fooled by your attempts to convince yourself you are happy nor impressed by how much you tell yourself you have accomplished. Death is the last enemy. Believe. The ledge of rationality is crumbling into the void, and God will leave us there until we collapse into it or discover a differ...
February 12, 2023 Worship Service: The Leap
February 13, 2023 21:08Much wisdom is really about self-preservation. So, wisdom becomes a self-righteous way to mask our fears and insecurities. Maybe we need something that can't be proven by wisdom to make even wisdom wise. Believe. https://youtube.com/live/nIExoISIBmk
February 9th Pastoral Connect: Wisdom's Highs and Lows
February 08, 2023 21:33To the pure, all things are pure. But nothing is automatically pure. Not even wisdom. Everything is directional. Which way is your wisdom taking you? If we’re not careful, we’ll get where we are going. https://youtu.be/gwZdTGiycY8
February 5, 2023 Worship Service: Power Plays
February 06, 2023 00:46We can’t control nature. We can’t stop death. Some process this wisely and end in a hopeful, self-controlled place. Some do not. Then they spend what paltry control or authority they have controlling others, to everyone’s hurt. Eccl. 8.1-9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MotWwWsHZ-k
February 2nd Pastoral Connect: Free Bird
February 02, 2023 15:34What might be the sign of a broken, imprisoned soul? https://youtu.be/94Hu2b6Paw8
January 29, 2023 Worship Service: Winning is Everything
January 29, 2023 21:20Life is RAW, but life is also more than we can ask or imagine. So is death. When it comes to true life and true death, winning IS everything. Train accordingly. Main Idea: There is only one way to win at this thing called life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvSpQ0P7hUQ
January 22, 2023 Worship Service: Unpredictability, Agency, and the System
January 23, 2023 00:41Children legitimately need safety and predictability. Mature adults provide that while embracing and navigating an unsafe, unpredictable world. Are you maturing yet? https://youtu.be/yCmxJQND8II
January 15, 2023 Worship Service: In Security, Insecurity, and Agency, pt. 2
January 16, 2023 00:40We live in our heads, haunted by ghosts of our own making and battling entrenched, unhealthy ways of processing life. What drives this? How do we beat it? https://youtu.be/bP7q0ARyK9o
January 11th Pastoral Connect: Wisdom's Blessed Limits
January 11, 2023 20:37Some things really are too deep for us. That's a good thing. We're arrogant and stubborn enough as it is. https://youtu.be/SeIof_fjKvw
January 8th Worship Service: In Security, Insecurity, and Agency
January 09, 2023 00:46Wisdom involves processing life well so we can act effectively. What stops you from acting? https://youtu.be/JdgcI_tq9JU
January 1st, 2023 New Year's Worship Service: In Security, Insecure
January 03, 2023 16:49The goal or summit is attainable, but some questions must be explored to get there: If we are secure, why are we so insecure? Can we change our relationship with fear? https://youtu.be/_aAHUmn-dRw
December 28th Pastoral Connect: In Security, Insecure
December 28, 2022 22:12In security, insecure. Trust in this twilight, liminal place is beautiful. Don't stop believing! https://youtu.be/7XK_5E7bOnc
December 25, 2022 Christmas Worship Service
December 28, 2022 20:18The birth of Christ embodies the One who is the turning point. The darkness is passing. The true light is already shining. Believe. https://youtu.be/Jbap1AgxPnA
December 18, 2022 Worship Service: Based Peace
December 19, 2022 21:45What hinders you more than your own divided heart? (Thomas a’Kempis) When the True Peaceful Warrior (Isaiah 9.7) reconciles our divided hearts, we gain well-being and become a means of grace-based peace to others as they mirror what they see in us. https://youtu.be/cCjmCUM5M8o
December 14th Pastoral Connect: Peaceful Wonder
December 14, 2022 20:27Peace includes wondering at the wonderful. https://youtu.be/qL6uLC0yNeQ
December 11, 2022 Worship Service: Joy in the Darkness
December 12, 2022 20:20Joy is the rhythm of heaven. That is the source of our strength. It energizes us, encourages us, and defies our small-minded and fearful need to make everything functional and sensible. Heaven does not need us. But it wants us and breaks into our world with invitations to its happiness. Depression and sadness are real, but not innately virtuous. Resist the pathological desire to make sadness “deep” and happiness shallow. Joy is deep. It is an eternal virtue, being a facet of God’s inner st...
December 4, 2022 Worship Service: Faith Candle
December 05, 2022 01:00As Christ's followers, our job is to keep believing what was believed in the world before Christ ascended. Many will not. Keep your faith candle blazing, even if you feel alone, like you are “one Athanasius against the world.” Do.Your.Job. https://youtu.be/L6JLQP3ugts
November 30th Pastoral Connect: Faith Candle
November 30, 2022 21:22As we approach Advent, remember that your 'faith candle' is a sacred trust. Light the darkness, even if you suffer for the effort. Jesus gets it. https://youtu.be/OoSAs9MhwYI
November 23rd Pastoral Connect: Gratitude Therapy
November 23, 2022 20:43We are all experiencing God. Gratitude is an essential step of healing that helps us consciously honor that experience and find joy in it. https://youtu.be/J-j4LO-MOhk
November 20, 2022 worship service: Becoming healthy, thankful souls in an unpredictable world.
November 21, 2022 00:30Better to lose and learn how to process loss than to die refusing that process, and so end up in an eternal process of loss. Losing is winning if it turns you around. Through sadness, the soul can find unconquerable, thankful joy. https://youtu.be/gRvt-j48JVQ
November 16 pastoral connect - Wise hearts heal
November 16, 2022 20:51"Never grieved, always grieving. Grieve that you might not grieve." https://youtu.be/tdwDtwRERmo Ecclesiastes 7.3-4
November 13, 2022 worship service: Agency and meaning in an unpredictable world
November 15, 2022 20:19“Name” How we process God (the I AM) and this world (what is) tells us everything we need to know about ourselves (our name). We are enamored with potential (the day of birth). What really matters is who you have shown yourself to be when all is said and done (the day of death). The day of death reveals more than the day of birth. We are all fighting a long defeat against death. How we fight tells us who we really are. Choosing life for others even when it seems like a death for us sa...
November 9 pastoral connect: vision's desire and desire's vision
November 09, 2022 22:00Ecclesiastes 6.9 summarized: The vision includes but transcends the earthly, embodied experience by which it came. What, if anything, is your experience anchored to? https://youtu.be/POU6cJwaO_c
November 6 worship service: Futility, vanity, and joy
November 07, 2022 16:20The ability to enjoy what you already have is a triumph of grace. Don’t waste your life lamenting what you do not have. Accepting what is enhances one’s capacity to enjoy the I AM. https://youtu.be/D0ZS4VfMU2U
November 2 pastoral connect: Guarded steps
November 02, 2022 20:50We should worship with more intent to listen and hear the Spirit than to speak and make our voices heard. That's a tough challenge for a preacher like me! Be that as it may, what steps can we take, day in and day out, to make sure our worship, whether individually or communally, is not a sacrifice of fools? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrqQspP_yI
October 30, 2022 worship service
October 31, 2022 20:09Leadership can’t make people change. Rather, toxic people demand influence because of their control issues. Though rare, the pure of heart are true leaders, for the lust for control has no control over them and the lure to power has no power over them. https://youtu.be/p4r55cba8Og
October 26 pastoral connect: Breaking broken cycles
October 27, 2022 17:52“Mysticism and revolution are two aspects of the same attempt to bring about radical change.” – Henri Nouwen Oppression screams for change, but new systems bring their own oppressions. Being oppressed does not make you righteous. That is a brutal truth, but a truth nonetheless. How do you break a broken cycle that Solomon observed almost 3,000 years ago? We are full of false certainty. We have unmerited confidence in our ability to improve complex systems. Is there another way? Maybe th...
October 23rd worship service: Warking hard is hardly working
October 23, 2022 23:47We are full of false certainty. We have unmerited confidence in our ability to fix complex systems. When we finally admit our theory of better is not working, the better way appears. https://youtu.be/JysLem38fqM
October 16 worship service: seasons and eternity
October 17, 2022 15:49Can you find beauty in both ease and dis-ease? The light is shining. https://youtu.be/Wd2fzsSL7qM
October 12 pastoral connect: the beautiful and the beastly
October 12, 2022 21:33Does the rotting eclipse the beautiful in your heart? It shouldn't. Maybe we are trying to control what cannot be controlled rather than feel what really lies beneath it all. https://youtu.be/GWbURkMYOjE
October 9 worship service: futility's blessing
October 10, 2022 00:13Directly, joyfully, and fully engaging in the present with good, simple things is deep. Chasing peak experience, achievement, and knowledge is not. https://youtu.be/OA5h_Zq4IqE
October 5 pastoral connect: Rotting fruit?
October 05, 2022 20:37We were made to ask, to seek, and to knock. But what are we searching for? Is searching doomed to diminishing returns? https://youtu.be/pyAneuiDsJU
October 2 worship service: Vanity and our ways
October 03, 2022 20:48Knowledge. Pleasure. Achievement. As you stare into the void and feel like nihilism is winning, which of these sandy pillars do you lean on to tell yourself your life has meaning? This world crucifies meaning. Quite literally and historically. https://youtu.be/NwopWQgX78w
September 28 pastoral connect: The problem with potential
September 28, 2022 18:55We are enamored with potential and giftedness wherever we see them. Consider beauty, intellect, or athleticism as examples. Such potential is not impressive, for we will never be the source of our own potential or gifts. Intent, attitude, and faithfulness are what make all such things potentially good or potentially bad. To the pure, all things are pure. https://youtu.be/eXlC5nTRLCY
September 25 worship service: Intro to Ecclesiastes - preaching dust in the wind
September 26, 2022 18:22Can we hear hard truths? Why do we choose labor over lilies? What price will we pay as we chase satisfaction? https://youtu.be/9xWoEMniq3s
September 21 pastoral connect - Preaching dust in the wind
September 21, 2022 20:22To say the least, it's not exactly a prosperity Gospel. Severe mercies bring truth and healing in the end. https://youtu.be/BkYZOW_GjpA
September 18 worship service: Living on mission
September 19, 2022 15:59A challenging word about living out the good news we profess. https://youtu.be/9BdeNVAdlZk
September 15 pastoral connect: Vanity, chasing likes
September 15, 2022 21:08Hope feels good. But what is the reason for your hope? What things will you chase to feel good? https://youtu.be/0CzcOX5iXK4
September 11 worship service: "Apology."
September 11, 2022 23:52Dear People of Grace: Hope is prophetic; it challenges all of us to defy the seemingly inevitable arc of entropy. But do we merely hope in hope? https://youtu.be/jxsDka4KwzY
September 8 pastoral connect: Bad will-Good will
September 08, 2022 19:23Most people are not targeting you with malice. But when you are a target, what you most revere will be revealed. Do you see that opportunity as a bad thing or a good thing? How bulletproof is your blessing? https://youtu.be/PcxW3SE8YTc
September 1 pastoral connect: Sorry-not sorry
September 01, 2022 20:23The greatest truths are paradoxical. Can you be bold and unapologetic in your faith (not sorry) but radiate compassion, gentleness, and respect (sorry) at the same time? https://youtu.be/xg4TMqb_HwE
August 28 worship service: noble fire
August 29, 2022 21:08How is your soul doing? Is it burning with a noble fire? And, how do we keep it there or get it back to good? https://youtu.be/zBcEqa-vbDs
Pastoral Connect - Temperature check
August 24, 2022 20:33How is the candle of your soul burning? Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/CT7-Q72CF6E
August 21 Worship Service
August 23, 2022 20:18Dear People of Grace - The Word. Life. Light. So much richness and hope in these three words from John 1.1-18. Here is the link for last Sunday's worship service: https://youtu.be/fY57GCZjoLM