Grace Filled
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We are saved by God's grace, not by our own works, as highlighted in Ephesians 2:8-10. Grace is a free gift, and while our works do not earn salvation, we are saved for good works that reflect our faith. The message challenges believers to both embrace God's grace and extend it to others, living as a grace-filled church.
Grace Saves
Works Don’t
The Saved Work
Life Group Discussion:
In what ways do we, as Christians, struggle to extend grace to others, even though we have received it freely? What challenges do you face in being grace-filled?
Cooper shared the powerful story of Ike Brown Sr. forgiving and adopting his son's killer. How does this story of forgiveness challenge your perspective on grace and forgiveness in your own life?
In what areas of your life do you feel "bumped" or tested by others? How can you be more intentional about responding with grace when you are bumped?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Here's Creek, it is so good to be with you with an on microphone this morning. |
| 0:05.0 | I feel like every morning for the past month I have woken up and pinched myself |
| 0:09.0 | because I cannot believe that I get to be on mission alongside each and every one of you as a staff member of this church. |
| 0:15.0 | It has been the greatest blessing truly. |
| 0:18.0 | Like, I'm not just saying that. |
| 0:20.0 | Like, I have absolutely loved my time here. |
| 0:21.4 | I love what I get to do with our youth ministry here. And so as you think about us throughout the |
| 0:26.4 | week, man, would you pray for the students? Specifically, our mission statement for Harris Creek |
| 0:31.4 | youth is that we exist to help students take ownership of their faith. So as you pray for us and for |
| 0:37.0 | the students of this body, would you pray that they would take ownership of their faith. So as you pray for us and for the students of this body, |
| 0:38.2 | would you pray that they would take ownership of their faith? We got some students in the room this |
| 0:42.4 | morning. It's good. It feels like home court advantage a little bit. But it is so good to be with |
| 0:48.9 | you guys this morning. I figured I'd start by telling you all a little bit about my family. So we've got |
| 0:53.4 | a picture for you here. |
| 0:54.4 | This is my beautiful family, myself, obviously, and then that's my wife, Bree. |
| 1:00.4 | Bree actually used to be on staff here at Harris Creek, and she would do announcements. |
| 1:05.0 | She was on the college team, and if you watched her over the course of her time doing announcements, |
| 1:09.5 | she was getting progressively |
| 1:11.0 | bigger and bigger in pregnancy, in pregnancy. And then 10 months ago, Lewis, our boy, Lewis was born |
| 1:19.5 | and man, it has been the greatest joy of our lives to get to bring Lewis into this world, |
| 1:25.0 | to teach him and learn from him in all his goofy and silly ways. |
| 1:29.3 | A couple of important milestones for you to know about Lewis is he has six teeth, so top four, |
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