Grace Downtown

Rev. Mike Park continues our short trek through the Messianic Psalms.

The poets sang about Jesus before we ever met him. This brief series looks for signs of Christ in the music of the Old Testament.

In commemoration of our Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration, we welcomed Dr. John Hutchinson to offer a sermon on memory, hope and the gospel. For more photos, videos and recordings from our Ten-Year Anniversary Celebrations, visit gracedc.net/downtown

This Sunday, Dr. John Hutchinson will visit Grace Downtown with a special message commemorating our Ten-Year Anniversary. Dr. Hutchinson has been a good friend to our congregation over the years, dating back to when he was senior pastor of McLean Presbyterian Church during the period when McLean helped our community get started. This week, we're bringing you the first sermon Dr. Hutchinson ever preached at Grace Downtown (then called Grace DC).

In preparation for our upcoming Ten-Year Anniversary Dinner, we are digging into the archives to bring you the sermon Glenn preached at our very first official worship service.

Rev. Mike Park continues our look at the life of Daniel, who lived faithfully in the face of a coordinated campaign of targeted marginalization and persecution. What does Daniel's life whisper to us about Jesus'?

In anticipation of Grace Downtown's upcoming Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration, we are going back to the beginning...Or at least as close to the beginning as we can get, bringing you the recording of pastor Glenn Hoburg's talk from one of Grace Downtown's earliest preview meetings. Don't forget to visit gracedc.net/downtown to RSVP for the Ten-Year Anniversary dinner. Registration closes July 12.

Pastor Mike Park discusses Old Testament believers being tossed into a furnace out of political spite on the excuse of their faith, and how the Son of God equips us to love even in hostile environments now.

Grace Downtown was planted in partnership by McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, VA, and Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. A few weeks ago, Grace Downtown hosted Redeemer's senior pastor, Dr. Tim Keller, to give a talk on church planting to a room full of DC pastors. This week on the podcast, we bring you that talk.

Pastor Glenn Hoburg continues our look at the life of Daniel and what it can tell us about living as God's people in DC today.

Pastor Glenn kicks off the final section of our series studying the lives of Faithful Ambassadors by introducing us to the prophet Daniel.

At last week's Network-Wide Members' Meeting, Rev. Glenn Hoburg discussed the role faith plays in our lives and in our communities.

Grace Downtown member Carson shares his experience struggling with doubts about God's goodness and his place in the world.

We conclude our trek through the book of Esther by exploring the story's many ironies.

At the same time that Jesus was being stripped of his clothes, his dignity and ultimately his life, he was stripping away evil’s power over those who claim him as Savior. Through the fullness of our Savior and the salvation He provides, we are set free.

We continue our look at what the book of Esther can tell us about living faithfully in a diverse city.

There are times when an event reveals the core character of a person or society. For the Jews in exile in Persia, such a moment came when a powerful magistrate convinced the emperor to wipe the Hebrews out. It was a moment of life-or-death, with two of God's people placed close to the center of the action—but decidedly on the outside.

Within months of Jesus’ crucifixion, the earliest Christians had begun forming relationships that crossed ethnic, religious, cultural and class boundaries in ways the world had never seen before. This archived sermon from 2012 asks what the earliest generation of Christians understand about the cross that made radically diverse relationships spring up in their lives? And are the things they understood still true today?

In our continuing study of biblical figures who navigated competing cultures and value systems, we appreciate the ambiguity of the book of Esther. The story presents us with a series of actions but no insight into the decision-making process that led to them. Whether it is the way we are handling work, politics or friendships, it's almost impossible to not project our own struggles and confusions into the text—and learn from it to see Christ in our own decisions.

By the time he hit his thirties, Joseph had rebounded from a youth beset by tragic injustice and had ascended to one of the most powerful jobs in the world. How he got there and how he handled it are very, very instructive...