Posts in Sermons
Grab Bag: Kat Armas

We are so excited to welcome a brilliant and insightful writer and speaker to GracePointe this weekend! Kat Armas is not only an important voice, but she’s also a fellow GPer! You won’t want to miss what she shared in this sermon! 

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Grab Bag: The Beatitudes

Our next installment of our summer series, “Grab Bag,” draws our attention to a series of “blessings” Jesus pronounces in the Gospel of Matthew. Known as “The Beatitudes,” these blessings are announced to people in unlikely situations - we don’t often feel blessed when mourning, hungry, or persecuted, for example. What is Jesus doing with these blessings? What do they teach us about Jesus’s vision for the world? Josh explores this and more in this week's message!

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Pride Sunday

It's time for PRIDE! Each year during Nashville Pride we take some time to reflect on the importance of Pride - what is means and why it matters for a church to celebrate it together. This year we were so fortunate to hear from a panel of our own GPers about what Pride means to them and their journey. This is a powerful conversation that you won't want to miss!

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Grab Bag: Is Jesus Our Savior?

This week we continued our “Grab Bag” series by turning to an important question: Is Jesus our savior? To uncover that we explored the meaning of salvation in Scripture, and the wider culture of Roman Imperial theology. The teaching concludes with a helpful conversation between Josh Scott and Stan Mitchell about the meanings of salvation in Progressive Christianity.

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Grab Bag: The New Testament

Our summer series, called “Grab Bag,” continued last Sunday with a focus on the New Testament/Christian Scriptures. Just like with the Hebrew Bible, we explored, not just the who, when, and why of these texts, but also the practical questions of why they matter and how we can best engage them.

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Grab Bag: The Hebrew Bible

This weekend our “Grab Bag” summer series continued with a focus on the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. We explored questions about why and when the Bible was written, and why the Hebrew Scriptures are still important for the Christian Tradition.

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Grab Bag: The Council of Nicaea

This Spring/Summer marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. While many Christians have some sene fo the significance of this first church council, the details can be a bit murky. What happened at Nicaea in the year 325 CE? What didn’t happen? Why does it matter all these years later? Join us as we explore this together!

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Grab Bag: Faith and Citizenship

Last Sunday at GracePointe we had an important conversation about the relationship between our faith and our citizenship. Josh was joined by Founding Pastor Stan Mitchell, and our dear friends Doug Pagitt and Rob Ryerse of Vote Common Good for this timely, urgent discussion.

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