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Who was John Huss and what got him killed by the Roman Catholic Church? Join Pastor Steve as he looks at the man and his ministry that led to the Protestant Reformation 100 years later.

1. Justification is necessary for mankind (vs. 23) 2. Justification is only through faith (vs. 21-22, 26, 28) 3. Justificaiton is manifested through faithful living (vs. 27, 31)

According to the Canadian Bible Forum, in 1996, 21% of the Canadian population engaged with the Bible on a weekly basis. In 2013, their research showed this weekly Bible engagement in Canada had sunk to 11%. This fits with the trend that Canada is moving from a Christian to a post-Christian culture. As we begin a new series titled “TheGreatestBOOK”, we start with one foundational question: “Why Trust The Bible?”

October 31 is . . . Reformation Day! But how many observe it? What we as Americans observe is, and what we have been preparing for, which seems like weeks, is . . . Halloween. Did you know that "Halloween" has Christian roots? How so? And how far back does it go? And why is there so much focus on death on October 31? What is it all about? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover the bad, the good and the glorious elements of Halloween.

According to the Canadian Bible Forum, in 1996, 21% of the Canadian population engaged with the Bible on a weekly basis. In 2013, their research showed this weekly Bible engagement in Canada had sunk to 11%. This fits with the trend that Canada is moving from a Christian to a post-Christian culture. As we begin a new series titled “TheGreatestBOOK”, we start with one foundational question: “Why Trust The Bible?”

Generosity. It's a good word. But it seems to have achieved buzzword status in the church--a word that currently means "financial resources", In that we need to give more to God. After all, we are the richest country in the world. Also, God told his people in the Old Testament to tithe. What is a Christian to do with all this? Come with the Grace United crew as we talk about developing and maintaining a generous testimony in front of the watching world.

In 1517, Martin Luther questioned the works-righteousness that was being taught by the Roman Catholic Church. Today, we ask the same questions.

How would God have us respond to anti-Biblical tyranny?

Luther wasn’t right to hate God, but He was right to fear God’s wrath. If you’re not in Christ, then you’re under God’s wrath, and God’s wrath is a terrible thing. To fall into the hands of the living God is a dreadful thing, Hebrews says. Ananias and Sapphira dropped dead. The earth swallowed up Korah,…

John 1, in the apostle’s own unique and Spirit inspired way, gives us a before and after picture of Jesus. He sets us up, in fact, for what seems to be a climactic discussion later in the gospel, in John 8. In that chapter, the themes of John 1 come back. Jesus calls himself the Light of the world. His…

Paul sounds awfully American today, doesn’t he? His watchword matches that of our own founding documents: freedom! With these words you can almost see Paul lying right there next to William Wallace in Braveheart, getting disemboweled, yet holding on to that one and only thing worth holding on to, shouting…

“How great is the love that the Father has lavished upon us,” John writes. More literally, John says, “See what kind of, or what sort of, love the Father gives to us.” The inspired apostle asks us to open our eyes. He spends much of this letter writing about love: the love that Christians have for one…

John knew a secret. Well, not a secret, more like an unpopular truth. And it’s not that he knew it while others didn’t. He knew and accepted that he was, in the big picture, nothing. That’s why he didn’t stay in Jerusalem to preach. That’s why he didn’t invest in fabulous clothes and a gourmet diet.…

Man makes images and calls them gods. The gods we craft barely escape our own image. They rage and roar. They stumble and fall. The images we call “gods” are just as sinful and self-centered as we are. We see these gods and see only sex and power and a lusting after both. Again, not so different from…

To all appearances, Baptism looks pretty shabby. A little bit of water poured or sprinkled upon a baby’s head and this, in the poetry of Jaroslav Vajda’s hymn, means that the child of nature we brought to the font “home we take a newborn creature”? This past weekend I got to thinking, as I poured this…

Lutherans are sola fide people. Faith alone. Typically, when we talk about faith alone, we talk about salvation, that is, that we are saved by faith alone, faith in Jesus Christ. We think of Romans 3, which we heard a couple weeks ago, “We maintain that a man is justified by faith, apart from observing…

Our minds constantly recall things to memory: usually the bad stuff. You’ve safely tucked into the farthest corners of your minds those embarrassing or shameful deeds of yesteryear, and then, before you know it, they roar back at the weirdest moments. I think occasionally of a girl’s watch I broke screwing…

Martin Luther felt like throwing away much of what he wrote. Among the handful of things he wished kept was a book from 1525 called De Servo Arbitrio, “Concerning the Bondage of the Will.” Luther wrote this to answer a European scholar named Erasmus who argued for man’s free will: that we must be able…

Laying Up Treasures EBC Wednesday Night Bible Study 6/16/04 I. The Command A. Last command Jesus told us how to give. We are to do it secretly as a gift to the Heavenly Father not for the applause of people. B. This command tells us why to give. He wants our treasures to last throughout eternity not…

Romans 1:16-17: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it {the} righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "But the righteous {man} shall live by faith." (NAS)…

John Currier, a man who couldn’t read or write, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1949. Later his sentence was commuted and he was transferred from prison and paroled to work for a wealthy farmer near Nashville, TN. In 1968, his sentence was terminated. State Correction Department…