Allegiances and Faith - Abridged

Pastor Stan addresses the complex but important matters of God and country, church and state, faith and earthly allegiances. More...

The Art of Blessing

Pastor Melissa Greene discusses what it means to bless others, and some practical ways to "Be a blessing." More...

Questions and Response

Pastor Stan discusses questions submitted by members of GracePointe Church. More...

Created for Relationship, How does that make you feel?

Pastor Chris Hilicki discusses Mental Wellness and how that relates to our spiritual journey. More...

Salvation and the Spritual Journey

This series looks closely at the process by which a person recognizes and develops their relationship with God. What are the defining moments? What does salvation mean? When does it happen? How does it begin? We look at terms like - "age of accountability", "making Je - More...

Present Risenness

This Sunday continues our celebration of the Good News of the Resurrection - Christ's and ours. Certainly, we celebrate the significance of Christ's resurrection historically. The fact that it truly happened is one of the strongest defenses of our faith in the Incarnation. - More...

Resurrection

Easter Sunday at GracePointe! (Please note, due to copyright restrictions, the music is not included) More...

The Blessed Life

Annually, our community of faith joins with literally hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide in a contemplative journey toward Easter; we call this journey the Lenten Season or the season of Lent. From the earliest days of the Christian Church we were led to set aside - More...

Join the Journey

Volunteer Sunday 2011 at GracePointe! A message on getting involved with your local Church. More...

Jesus, The Man

It does not take a careful reading of the gospels to see that Jesus was, in the strictest sense of the word, an inclusivist. Over and again, He welcomed the rejected, dined with the outcast and touched the untouchable. Throughout the history of our Judao-Christian tradit - More...

The Table

What if there really was a place at the table for everyone? An equal place... What if we really welcomed everyone who sat? What if we saw worth in everyone who sat there? What if we valued their opinion or what if we simply just vowed to listen, to hear their story, their l - More...

A New Year's Message for 2011

A two part message for the new year. More...

Surpise! It's God

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Advent: Thy Kingdom Come

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Threads of Scripture

Pastor Stan discusses six major themes woven throughout the pages of Scripture. More...

Your Story

Pastor Stan discusses the stories our lives tell, and the process we all go through in the telling of those tales. More...

Deeply Christian

Pastor Stan shares his Spiritual Journey with the congregation of GracePointe. More...

The Contemplative Life

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The Law of Christ

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Crucified with Christ

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Wisdom

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Do you want to be well?

Pastor Stan Mitchell and Pastor Chris Hilicki discuss wellness, mental health, and the question Jesus asked, "Do you want to be well?" More...

Meeting God Again, and Again, and Again...

Each Sunday of the fifty day period following Easter is celebrated as a "Sunday of Easter", concluding with Pentecost Sunday and the celebration of the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit. During this season we reflect on the monumental transition the earliest followers of Chri - More...

Who is GracePointe? Three Loves and Nine Streams

The Three Loves and Nine Streams that constitute the core belief system of GracePointe Church. More...

The Gift of a New Year

Having enjoyed (and survived!) the Christmas season, it's always good to get back to the comfort of our normal routines, part of which is Sunday worship. It is also true that there are some parts of our normal routines that we don't want to get back to - bad habits, regre - More...

The Gift of Ordinary

Coming out of the Christmas Season, it is important to reflect upon the memories created, but to also embrace the ordinary seasons in our lives. More...

Advent: The Story of Two Comings

Not to be confused with the season of Christmas, Advent encompasses the four to five week period leading up to Christmas day. While on Christmas we celebrate the Incarnation (the coming of God to earth in human form), during Advent we focus on our collective desire for Chri - More...

Church As It Was Meant To Be

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The Heart of a Servant

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The Tale of Two Esthers

In this message we remembered and employed the famous biblical story of Esther. Of particular note in her story, we focused our attention on a profound reality she experienced - the capacity of a stressful/high-pressure circumstance to dramatically alter one's life for the - More...

Healing the Wounds of the Father

Guest Speaker Gordon Dalbey. Visit www.abbafather.com for more information. More...

The Power of Words

This message employed several proverbs to help us with the subject variously referred to as the tongue, speech, talk, conversation, etc.; i.e., the power or influence of our words. Proverbs 25:11 says, "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver." W - More...

The Great Value of a Good Name

Proverbs 22:1 says, "A good reputation and the respect of others is more desirable than great riches." This message focuses our attention on the great value found in having a good name. The Bible is filled with anecdotes and principles which speak to this very releva - More...

Everything We Need

Second Peter 1:1-9. Last week I spoke about the strength of God which is accessible to humans; a strength which affords us the potential to do great things - even more than we would suppose. This week we carry that theme a little farther, addressing some of the more pra - More...

Hope

Two of the most powerful forces we encounter in my dealings with people are the opposing forces of hope and hopelessness. This sermon is all about ministering hope to our hearts. In scripture, anecdote and song we renew and celebrate the hope we have in Christ. If you cou - More...

Honesty and Humility

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Heaven

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The Home of God

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Serenity

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Generosity

Living a generous life. More...

Grace Maximized

Have you ever had someone give you a break, a gift of mercy, let you off the hook, or otherwise just grace you with an unexpected gift? Whenever that happens to me I usually remind myself to make good use of the gift; to not waste it in other words. Not infrequently, I hea - More...

Process

There is a bumper sticker that reads, "Been there, still there." Like most pithy phrases, that one-liner is certainly subject to multiple interpretations. Life is a journey and none of us are so accomplished or completed that we can claim to be done with the process or in po - More...

Soul to soul

In this lesson we directly deal with the question, "How do I know/sense/experience God's presence?" Admittedly, there are a lot of takes on this compelling subject and it can be a confusing one. Hopefully, we'll be able to address this important matter and dispel some of th - More...

Pentecost

This Sunday we join hundreds of millions of our fellow Christians, from every corner of the earth, in the annual celebration called Pentecost (the fiftieth day). Our Jewish forbears began the celebration, also called the Harvest Festival or Shavuot, to commemorate the givin - More...

You Can Get Home From Here

Pastor Stan teaches from one of his favorite texts in the Hebrew scripture, Hosea 11. More...

Personal Evangelism

Our text for this message is found in the eighth chapter of the book of Acts. The story goes that a Christian by the name of Philip encountered a man who was returning from Jerusalem to his home in Ethiopia. Through their exchange the Ethiopian became a follower of Jesus a - More...

Love In Action

Interestingly, immediately following his initial appeal (1 John 3) to us that we should lead godly, pure lives, John fleshes out for us one aspect of Godliness - our love for one another. It's reasonable to assume that his choice wasn't arbitrary; rather he chose an example - More...

Roots

This Sunday, our scripture text is I John 3:1-7. From this incredible text, Sunday's focus will be our afore-mentioned role in the process of personal change. All of us want to be better, stronger, deeper people, so... what part of that growth is God's responsibility? Wh - More...

Changes

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Searching for Jesus

On that famous/infamous Friday, God underscored the eternal truth that, ultimately, good is bigger than bad, love is more powerful than hate, and life is larger than death. As the Apostle Paul would later say, "Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound!" And again, it - More...

Illuminate

We examine the incredibly important idea of truthful living. What does it mean to "walk in darkness" or to "walk in the light"? We are going to ponder sub-themes like confession and what constitutes true Christian fellowship. You might be surprised where these texts take - More...

A Chair in the Sky

The scripture for this sermon is from the second chapter of John's gospel, the story of Jesus cleansing the Temple in Jerusalem. It is obvious from the story that Jesus believed the Temple was being inappropriately used by some very unscrupulous people for their financial ga - More...

Saving Your Soul

In this message we will delve into these statements and questions: 1) "Whoever desires to be my disciple, let them deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me." 2) "Whoever tries to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for My sake will save it." - More...

Lent: An Opportunity for Holiness

Our scripture text for this sermon is Mark's account of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness (Mark 1:9-15). For centuries the Christian Church has used this event from the life of Jesus as inspiration for our forty days of preparation prior to Easter. In this sermon, - More...

Transfiguration and the Lenten Journey

Per the Christian Church's calendar, this Sunday's sermon is the last of the Epiphany Season. Remember, the Season of Epiphany is the period of time between Christmas and the Lenten Season (Lent being the 40 non-Sunday days leading up to Easter). While epiphany generic - More...

On Cleansing and Shame

Mark 1:40-45 reads: 40 A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. 41 Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” 42 Instan - More...

Stillness and Motion

The legendary Dutch physicist, Neils Bohr, said, "The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth." What a great insight this is. So much of life expresses itself, to use Pastor Mark's recent sermon, - More...

The Kingdom of God

After Christ's baptism, temptation in the wilderness and a short ministry in Judea (southern Israel), He headed north some 80-90 miles back to his home-country of Galilee. There in Galilee, Jesus would do the majority of his earthly ministry, healing the sick and teaching H - More...

When Saints have Second Thoughts

This week our reading from the Psalms is Ps. 62:5-12(NKJV) with our focus chiefly on verse 5 which has David musing, ''My soul wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from him.'' Many translations render that first line, ''My soul, find rest in God.'' This week - More...

Nazareth

A study on John 1:43-51, especially verse 46. Nathanael replies to Philip's invitation to meet Jesus by responding, "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?". Stan looks at the exposes our prejudices, and how they surreptitiously affect our lives. He asks the questio - More...

Baptism

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Epiphany

Traditionally occuring on the twelve days following Christmas and preceding "Ordinary Time", this series discusses the traditional Church calendar time of "Epiphany". We take a look at what it means, and how we apply the time of Epiphany to our everyday lives. More...

The Gift Certificate - Christmas, 2008

Stan discusses the true gift of this holiday season, and what redeeming that gift really means. More...

Peace

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Living with the Tensions of Life

Pastor Mark preaches on the tensions we live with and face every day, and the balance needed to use them to further our relationship with God and those around us. More...

Broken Church - Guest Speaker John Fischer

Special guest, John Fischer discusses what it means to be a broken church. More...

Contentment

Stan discusses what true contentment looks like. He also takes a look at what we value, and how that affects our lives. More...

Called A Saint

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Psalm 23

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Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian, Set 3

The final six sermons in the series Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian. Parts 15-18: Difficulties with the Bible Parts 19 & 20: Hell and Eternal Punishment More...

Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian, Set 2

The second 7 sermons in the series Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian. Parts 8-14: The Joint Problems of Suffering and Evil More...

Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian, Set 1

The first 7 sermons in the series Losing Jesus: Confessions of a Scared Christian. Parts 1-4: Series Introduction Parts 5-7: The Flaws and Failures of God's Representatives. More...

Love

A series by Pastor Stan which looks at the many characteristics of love. :: Loving God, Loving Self, Loving Others :: More...

Our Story - A Christmas Message

Celebrate Christmas this year with a Christmas Message from Pastor Stan. More...

The Virtuous Life

Virtue is a discussion of the virtues that we should all strive to have as integral parts of our lives. More than just a look at the Fruit of the Spirit, this series takes a step back and asks the questions, "What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? What does that look - More...

Lessons Learned Down In Egypt - Series 3

The third and final series, "Lessons Learned Down in Egypt - Series 3", contains sermons 13 through 18 of the 18 part series in Pastor Stan's expository on the Israelite’s captivity in Egypt. More...

Lessons Learned Down In Egypt - Series 2

"Lessons Learned Down in Egypt - Series 2" contains sermons 7 through 12 of the 18 part series in Pastor Stan's expository on the Israelite’s captivity in Egypt. More...

My Name Is Samuel - By BeBe Winans

BeBe Winans gives us an inside look at his struggle with God's purpose and plan for his life. More...

The Body of Christ

Pastor Nate Larkin looks at what comprises the Body of Christ. He also shares with us how to be an effective and growing member of that Body. More...

Lessons Learned Down In Egypt - Series 1

"Lessons Learned Down in Egypt - Series 1" contains the first 6 sermons of the 18 part series in Pastor Stan's expository on the Israelite’s captivity in Egypt. More...

A Matter of the Eyes

A look at perspective. More...

Honesty

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Give Him the Key

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Church, Why Bother?

Do we need church? Why attend? What's the point? Pastor Stan discusses these questions. More...

The Paschal Mystery: A Cycle of Rebirth

Paschal is an old English word which finds its roots in a Hebrew word which essentially means "Passover." Of course, Passover is that central Jewish holiday which annually celebrates the deliverance of the Hebrew nation from Egyptian bondage some fifteen centuries before Ch - More...

Caring for Your Conscience

A closer look at the A to Z Continuum: This series examins how our conscience is shaped, i.e. how we develop our sense of right and wrong. It also looks at how our adult conscience responds when exposed to better ideas or new and more mature ways of viewing the world. An - More...

The Dark Night of the Soul

If you, like I, have ever experienced a time in your soul’s journey where the old ways of relating to God no longer worked, I’m sure this subject will be a great help to you. If you haven’t experienced a time of spiritual disorientation, hang on, you most likely will. Eith - More...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Pastor Stan looks at the life of Martin Luther King Jr. From The King Center at www.thekingcenter.org: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a vital figure of the modern era. His lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. The move - More...

Desire

A sermon for the new year. More...

Esther

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The Christmas Story

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Infrequently Asked Questions

This series attempts to address issues and questions that many Christians have never considered before. Listen in as Pastor Stan takes on some very difficult issues and encourages us to start thinking about life and our relationship with God and others in new and exciting wa - More...

Vocation

Inspired by the Real Life: Matters series, Pastor Stan takes a deeper look at what vocation means. Does one have a vocation, even if their job is not their "calling"? Listen in as we discover what God's word says on the matters of work, employement, and calling. More...

Compassion Sunday

Reaching out to the poor was integral to the ministry of the early church. Ministering to the poor was as important to the church as evangelism! The book of Galatians talks about this in chapter 2, verses 7-10. When Paul sought permission from Peter, James and John to tak - More...

Real Life Matters

A study of Christianity as it pertains to real life situations. More...

Lent: A Time for Change

The season of Lent is a time for reflection, rethinking, and realigning. Through the lens of Christ's final days, prior to His crucifixion, this series looks at Paul's words to the Romans, "Let God transform you into a new person, by changing the way you think. Then you wi - More...

The Questions of Jesus

We are so used to immediate satisfaction that we are prone to settle for satisfying falsehood rather than remain on the diligent and difficult search for often unsatisfying truth. Again and again in the gospels and in our own lives, Jesus calls us away from easy, quick answe - More...

Vocabulary of Faith

The Christian faith, as with any faith system, has a vocabulary; a set of words that indicate or point to spiritual, living realities. These words are not exempt from a danger that all words face; the hazards of becoming trite, cliché, and threadbare through continued use (n - More...

Forgiveness

Join Pastor Stan and the GracePointe family as they take an in-depth look at the life of Joseph, specifically his long, difficult journey to forgive his own brothers for their heartless betrayal of him; a betrayal that resulted in years of estrangement, privation and even wr - More...

God's Will

What does it mean to be in God’s will? Does God have a plan for my life? How specific or detailed is that plan? Does it include where I live, what I do vocationally, who I marry, and how many children I have? How does my choice (i.e. free will) affect His plan? Are my choice - More...

Prayer

For many people prayer is a confounding subject, with the net effect of the confusion being a life of halting, unsatisfying prayer at best, or worse, a life of complete prayerlessness. Prayer can be so much more than this! Open your heart and listen in as Stan deals with que - More...

God at War

Rev. 12:7-9 7 Then there was war in heaven. Michael and the angels under his command fought the dragon and his angels. 8 And the dragon lost the battle and was forced out of heaven. 9 This great dragon--the ancient serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the w - More...

Meeting God Again... For the First Time

God doesn't ask us to live vicariously through the experience or testimony of others. He doesn't wish to be known by rumor or reputation. Nor does God ask us to rely solely on our previous ideas of or encounters with Him. His gift to us is a dynamic, ever expanding, experien - More...

The Lenten Journey, 2005

Join Pastor Stan as he takes the GracePointe community on an 8 week contemplative journey toward Easter. Beginning with Jesus setting His face to go to Jerusalem and culminating at the open tomb, each week's lesson will focus on a different point in the historical narrative - More...

GracePointe, a Little Deeper... Loving Others

GracePointe, A Little Deeper is a detailed examination of our Vision Statement: Loving God, Loving Self, Loving Others. This "Little Deeper" look wades into how these 3 loves are reflected in 9 classical streams that have always been a vital part of the historical Christian - More...

GracePointe, a Little Deeper... Loving Self

GracePointe, A Little Deeper is a detailed examination of our Vision Statement: Loving God, Loving Self, Loving Others. This "Little Deeper" look wades into how these 3 loves are reflected in 9 classical streams that have always been a vital part of the historical Christian - More...

GracePointe, a Little Deeper... Loving God

GracePointe, A Little Deeper is a detailed examination of our Vision Statement: Loving God, Loving Self, Loving Others. This "Little Deeper" look wades into how these 3 loves are reflected in 9 classical streams that have always been a vital part of the historical Christian - More...

Redemption and Recovery

In the Biblical plan of redemption, God purposes for His children, not only a full recovery of our relationship with Him, but also a full recovery of our health and humanity. This process of Complete Redemption and Recovery is nowhere spelled out more clearly than the Twelve - More...

Living the Life of the Beloved

Acknowledging that we know: God's love for us is so passionate that He refused and yet refuses to give up on His human creation, providing a plan in Christ's atoning life and death whereby the Edenic relationship might be restored. The bottom line is, for love of us, He ref - More...

You Are The Beloved

God's love for us is so passionate that He refused and yet refuses to give up on His human creation, providing a plan in Christ's atoning life and death whereby the Edenic relationship might be restored. The bottom line is, for love of us, He refuses to live without us and h - More...

In the Beginning God

This is the foundational series in the life of GracePointe Church. Using the first phrase of the Bible, "In the beginning God...," this fledgling congregation reminds itself that God is ultimately prime, the source of all things, not just new churches but every aspect of lif - More...