GCI Sermon

A New Light, A New Beginning John 1:1-18   Happy New Year! We are lovingly gifted by God with another year to worship him and to be a blessing to each other. Every hour for a 24-hour period, people around the world watched their clocks strike midnight and brought in the new year with fireworks, […]

  Jesus the Disruptor Luke 2:41-52 ESV Disruptor is a fairly new term that has become part of daily use, especially in business. A disruptor is someone who brings an innovation that upsets a whole industry. This person invents something or tightens a process that means that the old system is broken for good. In

  Just the Right Kind of Crazy: John the Baptist Luke 3:7-17 ESV Have you ever had one of those friends who was maybe a little strange? An eccentric who lived out of sync with the rest of the world. Someone who perpetually wore styles a decade old? Went barefoot in the winter? Was always

  Is Seeing Believing? Luke 3:1-6 (NRSV)   In 2015, a picture of a dress became a global topic of discussion. Was it white with gold stripes, or was it blue with black stripes? [show picture of the dress] The dress was going to be worn by Cecilia Bleasdale to her daughter’s wedding. She snapped a

On Permanent Sojourn Luke 21:25-28,29-36 25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world.  For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  27 And

Jesus Is Not a Co-Pilate John 18:33-37 (NRSV)   You have probably seen the bumper sticker that says, “God is my Co-Pilot!” On the surface this sounds like a good thing. It sounds spiritual, like someone has their priorities straight. But sometimes these little bumper sticker clichés may reveal something theologically flawed in our thinking.

To Enter Boldly Hebrews 10:11-25 ESV   The first thing you run into at Fort Knox, Kentucky, home to about half of the U.S. gold reserves, is the steel fence. Make it over that and you must deal with who-knows-how-many landmines in the surrounding field and apparently a machine gun that is laser-activated. There are

The Real Footstep in the Hallway Hebrews 9:11-15   Kids are consummate imitators. They are wonderfully, sometimes manically creative, but they also very much enjoy “being like mommy and daddy.” Costumes of a police officer or a firefighter or a soldier are universally popular in toy stores. If you look at ancient toys from millennia