Grace Downtown

God reveals himself through the world generally and then through his Word specifically. Pastoral fellow Andrew Russel shows us why these facts should lead us to sing.

We all want the things we spend our time on to matter, but how much of a legacy can we really expect to secure for ourselves or our families?

Pastor Glenn continues our series looking at the attributes of God as described in the psalms.

One of the darkest, most depressed passages of the Bible is also one of its most stirring statements of faith in the goodness of God...even when that goodness seems hidden by darkness.

How do we reconcile the fact that we don't want to be judged with the fact that we often want to see judgment passed upon others?

Matt Miller takes us through Psalm 63, what the wilderness means for our humanity, and what the psalm tells us God means for our experience of the wilderness.

Pastor Mike continues our series exploring the ways in which the Old Testament Psalms teach us to celebrate Jesus.

How can we lament and respond to the chaos of the past few weeks?

In the wake of violence and despair, does the Bible offer any kind of comfort, wisdom, hope or paths forward?

Hopes that have gone unfulfilled. Prayers that seem to have gone unanswered. If you made a list of God's attributes, would "generous" be on there?

Pastor Glenn continues our series on the Psalms.

We're mixing it up this week: We taught Lectio Divina in our 2013 prayer workshops and then again in our recent class on praying privately, but it's a difficult exercise to go through on your own. This week's Grace Downtown podcast gives you prompts for the four readings that make up Lectio Divina, and spaces them out appropriately so that you can have time for the necessary reflection in between. Use this week's podcast as a way to structure your devotional time or as a way to help prepare yourself for longer periods of prayer.

Amid storms of suffering, tragedy and struggle, does Christian faith offer any substantial hope or comfort?

Our appetites, ambitions and tendencies toward short-sightedness have the potential to undo us. Pastor Mike kicks off a new series on the psalms by looking at the ways in which Jesus saves us from ourselves.

In the final sermon in our series on 1 Thessalonians, Pastor Glenn follows a look at Christianity's ultimate promise by examining our ultimate response to that promise.

The Christian faith's final claim isn't just that Jesus gives us new resources for living a different life now, but that God can deliver on his promise of a different and better future for us and our world than we can build ourselves.

Work is an integral part of the Bible's vision for what it means to be human, but that vision actually sketches a relationship between the believer and work that is unlike anything else our city posits.

In an era when most conversations about sexual ethics begin and end with discussion of consent, is a broader and more pro-active understanding of sexual health possible?

The way you conduct your life sends a message to the people around you about where you look for value and validation.

What does it mean to believe that the Bible is "the Word of God?" What do we mean when we use that phrase and why are we able to use it with confidence? And if we're right when we use it, how does that change the way you understand the Bible?