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Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 25 views • 37:37
We were in New York City a couple of weeks ago, and at one point I was riding a bus from LaGuardia airport to our hotel in Queens. As a Jesus follower, I want to consider others better than myself, and make room for others, so I went to the back of the bus, took a window seat, and piled my bags on my…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 285 views • 57:17
A community on mission is devoted to a common life and has a public grace. There is an internal aspect along with an external aspect of their life together. The external aspect was an open door for others to enter into the common life. In what ways are we devoted to a common life? Where do we have a…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 29 views • 1:10:59
For we who live in a country who fought a war to free ourselves from a king, it might be hard to think about the Christian life as being fundamentally a citizenship in a monarchy, a kingdom. How are we to live and think in that context? What is our primary responsibility as citizens of the Kingdom of…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 58 views • 36:50
It’s New Year’s Day. Are you ready for a new start? We will make resolutions, begin new books, new diets, new exercise regimes, make new plans for our year to come. Maybe New Year’s resolutions aren’t as successful as we would like. But we all like the chance for a new start. At the New Year, we also…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 194 views • 53:15
God is. This is the central truth of the universe. But why is it important to our lives? It is important because this one truth has massive implications for our being, our identity, our purpose, and as we will see, every choice we make either moves us closer or farther from our own flourishing and wholeness.…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 60 views • 49:26
What are some things you did as a kid to seek the approval of your parents? In a concert we attended once, the musician Michael Card told us about his memory of childhood including days spent outside the door to his father’s office trying to get his father’s attention. He would draw pictures and slide…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 38 views • 49:59
What is the meaning of life? Where is everything going? How would you tell the human story? We believe the Bible is God’s telling of that story from His perspective. I’d like to tell that to you. Then show you what it means for your life. If we start at the beginning, we see God creating the world In…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 21 views • 43:35
Have you ever had all your support and comfort taken away and found yourself stronger as a result? In our passage today, we’ll see that God uses discomfort to purify a remnant of believers who will work for restoration in our world. Isaiah prophecies disaster brought on by Israel’s sin, but also the…
Psalms 1-8
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 37 views • 1:04:34
I don’t know if you noticed, but the war in Ukraine has taken over the news. So much so that they now have to run stories to explain that not everything else in the news relates to the war in Ukraine, like the high gas prices. I DO NOT want to minimize this horror. All I want to say is that with all…
1 John, Counter-Cultural Living
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 33 views • 45:43
Karen and I had a residence director in college named Phil. Phil is one of those people that is so comfortable being himself that it’s off-putting for a young man very full of himself but totally insecure. Phil never argued with anyone. If he knew the truth, he was at peace whether or not you accepted…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 38 views • 43:37
They say in times of intense pressure, what’s inside comes out. When you and I are afflicted, mistreated, persecuted, what’s inside will come out. What’s inside you and me? Is it the life of Christ that comes out in times of trouble as joy? Or is it jealousy, selfish ambition, fear, desire for control,…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 1,212 views • 45:33
When we look back at the people who have changed the world, they share a common trait. They are bold enough to do or say what no one else will. And when we look back at the people who have changed the world for good, overcoming evil, establishing the kingdom of God in justice, righteousness, faithfulness,…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 102 views • 37:55
This was one of those weeks that left me feeling like we are surrounded by problems that no one can fix. Everything is broken and you could run around all day trying to avenge every injustice and rescue all the lost people and wear yourself out trying to show others how to live right. And maybe accomplish…
1 John, Counter-Cultural Living
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 39 views • 40:50
What would this world be like if every person who called them self a Christian, and every church that claimed to be the body of Christ, loved one another so completely that the world outside the church noticed? And what if we loved our enemies so completely that they thought we were on their side? You…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 44 views • 54:52
When we visited my sister in Colorado this September, she took us to Estes Park. It’s a beautiful resort town at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It has a grand vista around every turn, a quaint downtown filled with cute shops, and the world’s biggest outdoor playground for a back yard.…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 26 views • 51:10
What are some ways you have experienced the power of grace in your life? What happens when you are given great grace? You become more humble, thankful, gracious, more wholehearted. You become more filled with grace. What can happen through the life of one person who has a whole heart, filled with God’s…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 172 views • 33:33
Where were you when... Kennedy was shot The last Americans left Vietnam The Challenger exploded The Berlin Wall came down The World Trade Centers were attacked America shut down for the pandemic of 2020 All of these are events we will remember forever because they mark the downfall of some system we…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 1,578 views • 34:22
Christmas, whether you are religious or not, is a time to assess the year that has past, look forward to the new year coming, and be renewed. We all want to take joy in what we do. We all want to live life to the fullest. We all want to know that our labor is not in vain and that our lives have purpose.…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 130 views • 47:56
If you could build something that would last forever, what would you build? Nothing in this world seems to last, so it’s tempting to think that any work we do to seek good in this world could just be a waste. Three voices speak in our passage today to show us the way God is working in our world to establish…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 58 views • 54:52
When our kids were small, the beach was a favorite place for us. One particular afternoon when Karen was at work, I took two of our kids there to play. A game of tag turned into a disaster when one of them tripped over a barnacle-covered rock. She was scraped from three inches above the knee to three…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 423 views • 1:54:14
Isaiah’s prophecy is a wake-up call. Yahweh, the Ever-living God is everything, idols are nothing. Give up your idolatry. Return to God with a whole heart, listen to His voice, and He will turn your wastelands of sin into gardens of eternal life. Because there is so much talk about turning from idols,…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 41 views • 1:01:33
In helping to prepare the residential program at the Transformation Project, I was introduced to Restorative Justice. This is an approach to criminal justice that places more emphasis on restoration of a criminal offender to a fruitful life in their community rather than retributive justice that can…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 219 views • 54:57
49:1-3 - The Servant’s identity called from the womb - identity comes from God (what are the sources we look to for our identity?) - this calling is connected to speaking for God, words that will act as a sword or an arrow, driving God’s words home into the hearts of those that hear Him Jesus’ identity…
Community on Mission
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 15 views • 50:44
When was the last time you did something so bold or unexpected that people around you demanded an explanation? Are our lives so unusual in a good way that people around us demand to know what got into us? Is it possible to experience the power of God so fully that you could change the course of history…
Isaiah
Ken MacLeod • Community of Grace • Sermon • • 72 views • 1:02:57
“We are told in the history of India, that Mahmoud — who conquered a great portion of India hundreds of years ago destroyed all the idols in every town to which he came. In time he laid siege to the great city of Guzurat. Forcing for himself an entrance into the costliest shrine of the Brahmins, there…