Discovery Church: Grand Rapids

While the Christian’s calling includes not conforming to the world, we do live life touching the world. We are not to be in isolation from the influences of the world but live out what it means to bring God’s grace and love to the world. In this way we serve as priests to those who need to see our Jesus. Verse: Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. (Hebrews 13:1)Watch the full service on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O9bAIhAtuoA

We had technical issues recording July 7's talk, so please enjoy this rerun instead.Deuteronomy 4:5-8Being a community is more than a gathering of people. It is living out together the wisdom and ways of God. As a faith community does just this, its neighbors see God and His people as something they need and want. Living out God’s way of life together results in being on mission together with God.View the full service on our YouTube channel.

In Hebrews 11 we see people demonstrating incredible faith, we see God showing up in incredible ways, and we begin to think that there is a causal relationship between our faith and God’s actions. But what happens when one doesn’t have incredible faith? Or what happens when one does have faith and God doesn’t come through as we want Him to? Sometimes God uses our weak faith and leads us into victory. Sometimes God sees our strong faith and leads us into suffering.Hebrews 11:32-40Watch the full service on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ITAmGpnVC_Y

Once per month, Discovery has a Discipleship Emphasis Sunday which focuses on a video from The Bible Project instead of a talk. Therefore, there is no new talk this week. The talk we're sharing today was preached June 5, 2023. Ephesians 3:14-21“The gospel is inherently selfless and builds a community where we are all able to thrive.”View the full service on our YouTube channel.

Moses’ faith, beginning as it did with his parents who by faith gained some inkling of the child’s destiny, (Moses’ faith) compelled him to forfeit the immediate for the future, the seen for the unseen, to choose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than enjoying the pleasures of sin for a moment. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt. Moses had faith in the God who would fulfil His purpose and His promises, and through Jesus God did just that.Hebrews 11:23-28View the full service on our YouTube channel.

Hebrews 11:8-13Having spent decades growing stable faith in Abraham and Sarah, we see how stable faith works. In four instances, God calls this couple to move forward in faith based on the promises God gave to them. Because these promises will be experienced in part and not in their totality, their faith trusts God to ultimately fulfill all His promises, which He does in Jesus. Verse: All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. (Hebrews 11:13) Watch the full service here: https://youtu.be/Ga4iHQrN5Vo