Dec 29, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor HOW TO BE DIFFERENT Colossians 4:2-6 1. Pray differently, v. 2 Three aspects to our prayers… a) steadfastly- refers to our inward posture when we pray b) being watchful- alert, don’t get lazy Two ways you know you are not watchful in your prayers… 1) you say the same thing without much thought or emotion. 2) you think more about the people in the room hearing you pray than the God you are praying to. c) with thanksgiving- grat...
Dec 30, 2024•33 min
Dec 22, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor What Love Makes Us Love I John 3:11 -24 1. Love the message, v. 11-15 Zoe is the absolute fullness of life, both essential and ethical. Life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new and better experiences; including a more perfect body which will last forever. 2. Love the o...
Dec 22, 2024•39 min
Dec 15, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor What To Do While We Wait Luke 12:35 -48 1. Be ready, v. 35-36 Ephesians 6:15 2. Stay awake, v. 37-38 2 Peter 3:1-4 2 Peter 3:8-10 Signs we are falling asleep spiritually: 1) no appetite for spiritual things 2) prayer is an afterthought 3) reduce Christianity to conversion only 4) rationalize sin as an expression of personal power 5) fail to prioritize your faith 6) more opinions than experiences 7) often offended but rarely co...
Dec 16, 2024•46 min
Dec 8, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Clyde Copeland, Worship Pastor The Way Of Peace Luke 1:67-79 1. God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. v. 67 -Luke 1:6 Three miracles in Zechariah’s family a. Conception of John the Baptist b. Zechariah loses his speech c. Zechariah could speak again “The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -GK Chesterton 2. You can’t understand Jesus without the Old Testament, v. 68-74...
Dec 09, 2024•37 min
Dec 1, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor How To Be Hopeful To The End Hebrews 6:10 -12 Hopelessness is a feeling of despair or lack of hope that life can feel better than it has been. The people progression of hopelessness… PARENTS..…PEERS..…SELF…..GOD…..NIHILISM Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life has no meaning and therefore is hopeless. Hebrews 6:13 -20 1. Faith Few thoughts about faith… a) our faith is not in ou...
Dec 01, 2024•38 min
Nov 24, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Christopher M. Brooks Pastor to Pastors | Local Church How to hear the voice of God 1 Samuel 3 NIV How God speaks How to hear God when He speaks How to know if it is really God speaking HOW GOD SPEAKS • His word (Hebrews 4:12 ) • People (Acts 9:10 -18) • And they don’t always agree (Acts 21: 4-6) . • Circumstances (Romans 8:28 ) • Creation (Psalm 19:1-2) • Music (2 Chronicles 20) • Thoughts and Impressions (1 Cor 2:16 ) • Pictures and Images (Psalms/...
Nov 25, 2024•46 min
Nov 17, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Components of Biblical Faith - Part 3 The Final Judgment Acts 24:24 -25 Introductory thoughts… a) Being nonjudgmental will not get you out of judgement. b) The final judgment is good news. c) The final judgment reminds us that evil won’t triumph. d) The final judgment explains the Gospel. e) The final judgment is forever. Four Things About The Final Judgment 1. The dead will be raised Acts 24:14 -15 2. Everyone is being judged...
Nov 17, 2024•46 min
Nov 10, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Components of Biblical Faith- Part 2 Self-Control Galatians 5:16 -25 Introductory thoughts… 1. There is a difference in self-control and self-discipline. 2. Thinking about this should cause us to think deeper about our salvation. 3. Self-control requires a power greater then self. 1. Walk by the Spirit, v. 16 To walk by the Spirit is what happens when the desires produced by the Spirit are stronger than the desires produced by the flesh. The Holy Spirit ...
Nov 11, 2024•50 min
Nov 3, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Sam Storms Enjoying God Luke 12:32
Nov 04, 2024•37 min
Oct 27, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Components of Biblical Faith- Part 1 Acts 24:22 -27 1. Righteousness As it relates to man it refers to the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved by God. When it comes to righteousness man is … A. By nature unrighteous B. By effort self-righteous Self-righteous quiz... Do you ever think of yourself as better than others because of what you do or don’t do? Do you ever relate to God as if nothing ba...
Oct 28, 2024•43 min
Oct 20, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Communion I Corinthians 11:23 -32
Oct 21, 2024•13 min
Oct 13, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Christopher M. Brooks, Pastor to Pastors | Local Church Hello Trouble! (or The Christian Response to Trouble) Psalms 69:13-18 What do you do when you are in trouble? Most Underquoted Promise of Jesus John 16:33 2 things you can be sure of when you get into trouble: • The devil wants to destroy you • God wants to develop you What is the Christian Response to trouble? Name it, explain it, and ask for help • Name it - I am in trouble • Explain it • Ask ...
Oct 14, 2024•36 min
Oct 6, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor How To Keep Going When You’re Spiritually Tired Acts 22:30 - 23:11 1. Remember your audience, v. 1 To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God. Psalm 139:7-16 Two things I want you to see here… a) there is not place you can be where God is not b) there is not a day of your life for which God doesn’t have a plan 2. Remember what it’s all about, v. 6 Acts ...
Oct 07, 2024•46 min
Sep 22, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. Sam Storms Pastor Emeritus, Bridgeway Church The Two Most Glorious Words a Sinful Soul Can Hear Romans 8:1-4
Sep 22, 2024•43 min
Sep 15, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Defending The Gospel Without Being Defensive Acts 21:17 -36 1. Let your actions go before you, v. 17 “The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times,...
Sep 15, 2024•39 min
Sep 8, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Julian Solis, Spiritual Formation Pastor Living On Mission Acts 21:1-16 1. Live on mission, selflessly with your Church 2. Live on mission to your church 3.Live on mission for the name of Jesus Acts 19:21 21 Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” Acts 20:22 -24 22 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit...
Sep 08, 2024•41 min
Sep 1, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor What You Should Expect From Church Leadership Acts 20:17 -38 1. Knowable, v. 18 2. Servant, v. 19 3. Honest, v. 20 4. Spirit-led, v. 22 5. People with an “if only…", v. 24 6. Kingdom driven, v. 25 7. Gospel intentionality, v. 26 8. Materially content, v. 33-35 Mental worship… 1. Based on this morning, how are you led to pray for our church leadership? 2. What about the way Paul served the church most resonates with you? 3. What...
Sep 08, 2024•46 min
Aug 25, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor How To Experience Encouragement Acts 20:1-12 1. Keep the proper perspective, v. 1 2. Work towards a balance, v. 1-2 Encouragement does five things… a) provides awareness b) creates belief c) builds confidence d) improves attitude e) promotes action 1) Election (God’s choice of people to be saved) 2) The gospel call (proclaiming the message of the gospel) 3) Regeneration (being born again) 4) Conversation (faith and repentance)...
Aug 26, 2024•44 min
Aug 11, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor The Disruptive Nature of the Gospel Acts 19:21 -40 1. Jesus Christ is the only way, v. 23 2. The Gospel threatens the status quo, v. 24-26 “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say “Where is their God?” Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have...
Aug 11, 2024•42 min
Aug 4, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH The Prevailing Power of God’s Word Acts 19:8-20 1. Gospel saturation, v. 8-12 The pattern of apostolic preaching we see in Paul… they reasoned and persuaded people in dialogue they were bold the focus was the Kingdom of God they expected resistance “They eventually descended to attacking in public what they did not want to embrace; and they did this simply because they wanted, if possible, to have everyone share in their impiety.” -John Calvin 2. Gospel i...
Aug 04, 2024•39 min
Jul 28, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Ian Weber, Student Pastor The Peace of God Philippians 4:4-9 I. What to do when peace is lacking v.4-7 a. Expressed he is in prison 1:7 & 1:12 -13 b. That some of his peers only preach Jesus out of rivalry with Paul. 1:15 & 17 c. That his own execution is a real possibility 1:20 & 2:17 d. That he has endured different forms of suffering 1:30 & 3:7 e. He has endured the near death of a close friend 2:25 -29 f. He has left behind his former...
Jul 29, 2024•36 min
Jul 21, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Sam Storms, Pastor Emeritis at Bridgeway Church When No One Cares for My Soul Psalm 142
Jul 22, 2024•39 min
Jul 14, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Blake Hardcastle, Equipping Pastor Why did Jesus Leave? John 14:26 -31 1. We were made for Peace v.27 v.27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Hope in fake gods not the real one. The internet is my refuge My house is my shepherd My family is my light. Comfort is my portion. “Not yet” is my rock. Alcohol is my strength. Not failing is my salvation 2. The Spirit is our source of peace. 26-27 26 But the H...
Jul 14, 2024•36 min
Jul 7, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Wade Burgess, Executive Pastor Freedom Romans 6:1-23 Freedom From Freedom From Sin-vv 2 & 7 Freedom From the past - vv 4 & 13 Freedom To Freedom to be a new creature - vv 5 & 6 Freedom to take our directions from only one source - v 16 Freedom to love - v18b Freedom For 1. Righteousness - v 22 2. Holiness - v 22 Mental Worship 1. Is there anything you are in bondage to? 2. Are you being influenced by any source other than God, His Word, His pe...
Jul 07, 2024•36 min
June 30, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Gospel Modeling Behaviors Acts 18:18 -28 1. Vows, v. 18 A vow is an informed expression of understanding that one submits themselves to in order to express gratitude, need or understanding. “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a ...
Jul 01, 2024•44 min
June 23, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Acts 18:1-17 How To Ward Off Spiritual Discouragement 1. Good friends, v. 1-5 2. Good message, v. 5-8 “All of Scripture builds to the climax of God’s revelation in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Christ-centered preaching doesn’t search to find Jesus in every text; it exposits where texts stand in relation to Jesus and where they find fulfillment in him.” -Walt Nilsson 3. Good doctrine, v. 9-11 Election is God’s choice o...
Jun 23, 2024•44 min
Jun 16, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor Acts 17:22 -34 What Unbelievers Need to Understand 1. Religion worships the wrong things, v. 22-23 Syncretism is the process by which aspects of one religion are assimilated into, or blended with, another religion. This leads to fundamental changes in both religions. 2. Christianity is the worship of the one true God, v. 24 3. God’s nature makes Him knowable, v. 24-28 1) He is Creator, v. 24 “For the wrath of God is revealed f...
Jun 17, 2024•46 min
Jun 2, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor How To Become More Gospel Fluent Acts 17:16 -21 1. Know yourself, v. 16-17 “Profound compassion is the motivation behind true apologetics.” -Michael Green a) this is what he did- “So he reasoned…” b) this is where he did it- “in the synagogue …and in the marketplace” c) this is when he did it- “every day with those who happened to be there." “Your anger is both brilliant and appalling. The shifting line between good and evil pl...
Jun 02, 2024•41 min
May 26, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Clyde Copeland, Worship Pastor Why You Brought Your Bible To Church Today Acts 17:10 -15 1. Be eager for the Word, v. 11. -1 Corinthians 15:3-4 -Genesis 3:15 , Genesis 12:3; 2 Samuel 7:12 -13; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 12:40 2. Examine the Word, v. 11. a. Sufficiency b. Necessity c. Clarity d. Authority "Everything,...You see tragedies, but you also see so many beautiful things … heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes and dreams, women who look to the...
May 26, 2024•37 min
May 19, 2024 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor The Power of Connection Acts 17:1-9 1. Connect with people, v. 1 Gospel capacity + Gospel responsibility = Gospel experiences 2. Connect people to the story of God, v. 2-3 Helpful verbs in telling the Story of God… a) reasoning- to mingle thought with thought b) explaining- to cause one to open their mind c) proving- to place evidence before 3. Connect people to the intellectual integrity of the Faith, v. 3-4 Two things Paul l...
May 19, 2024•49 min
