Ice Breaker from Last Night

This last Sunday, September 14, 2008, I got the opportunity to speak to my churches youth and young adults about God’s grace. I wanted to speak about Grace, because I have learned of how great it is, and I wanted to share that with anyone who wanted to further their walk with Christ.

Through Grace I have gotten a much more complete understanding of who God really is. Romans 6:23 tells us that, “the wages of sin is death…” and even though Romans 3:23 says that, “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God,” God still lets us live. He continues to poor out blessings on us every day, and he even, as Jesus Christ, died on the cross to forgive us of our sins.

I have attached the audio from last night. I hope that through it you can come to a greater and more realistic understanding of your salvation and who God is. I also have included a video I used from Mars Hill Church’s media library on John Newton.

Through studying this I obviously needed to use some books to help me out. So my first book I used as a reference was Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. Grudem has several chapters that really help you undersand God’s grace. As a second point of reference I used a book which I haven’t even finished. It is a biography on John Newton, and it is called John Newton: From Grace to Disgrace written by Jonathan Aitken. And lastly, I used a quote from the great book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller.

Enjoy!

To download or listen to the audio from my sermon on God’s Grace click the following link: God’s Grace presented by Joey Francis

 
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