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Grace City Church Ottawa 7/2/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 7/2/22

Miracles: Jesus Raises Lazarus to Life (Part II)

Jesus’s raising of Lazarus had a profound impact on John, the writer of the New Testament gospel that carries his own name. John, like Lazarus, knew what it was like to have a deep friendship with Jesus. Christians can often think of Jesus as Lord and Saviour, but he is also friend. The true story of Lazarus being raised shows us the compassion Jesus feels towards his friends who suffer as a result of living in a world broken by sin. And this story also shows us the power of Jesus to do something about it.

Grace City Church Ottawa 6/26/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 6/26/22

Miracles: Jesus Raises Lazarus to Life (Part I)

The name Lazarus is synonymous with resurrection, but there’s much more happening in this true story than a dead man being raised to life. Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, are presented as two women who trust Jesus, and Mary in particular is shown as one who has a profound appreciation and understanding of Jesus’s glory.

Grace City Church Ottawa 6/19/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 6/19/22

Miracles: Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son

As Jesus is passing through the city of Nain, he comes across a funeral procession on their way to bury the son of a widow. Jesus, instead of just passing through; is filled with compassion for the widow and then raises her son to life. This same Jesus is filled with compassion for you, and he is willing to show his immeasurable power in your life.

Grace City Church Ottawa 6/12/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 6/12/22

Miracles: Mercy for Believers with Unbelief

In Mark 9, Jesus heals a boy who has an unclean spirit inside of him. That's no small miracle in itself, but there's another amazing miracle displayed in this story; the mercy Jesus shows to the boy's father who cries out, "I believe; help my unbelief!" Christians are saved by grace through faith, but faith doesn't mean there are no more questions. There's mercy for believers who cry out to Jesus for help with their unbelief.

Grace City Church Ottawa 6/5/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 6/5/22

Miracles: The Woman at the Well

The story of the Samaritan woman at the well has many features that can be lost of on us, including just how despised Samaritans were by the Jews of Jesus’s day. With this in mind, the fact that Jesus chose to go through Samaria to for a divine conversation with the woman at the well is nothing less than a miracle itself, as is Jesus’s knowledge of key details in the woman’s life. She went to the well to gather water, Jesus went there to transform her life.

Grace City Church Ottawa 5/9/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 5/9/22

Miracles: The Cursing of The Fig Tree

The miracle of Jesus cursing the fig tree is seen by many to be obscure. Why would Jesus - our perfect, loving Saviour curse rather than bless? Could Jesus have been using this miracle as a real-time parable to teach us about fruitfulness?

Find out as Francis Holtken takes us through this fascinating passage revealing to us the unseen depths of this miracle.

Grace City Church Ottawa 5/1/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 5/1/22

Miracles: Jesus's Glory & Our Freedom

The transfiguration of Jesus can seem like a distant event, even mythical in its nature. However, seeing Jesus as he is, both fully God and fully man, can cause us to see everything else in our lives in their right perspective. Jesus is both radiant and near, both holy and moved in mercy and compassion towards sinners like us.

Grace City Church Ottawa 4/17/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 4/17/22

Miracles: The Miracle That Matters Most

The resurrection of Jesus stands alone as the greatest history shaping event the world has ever known. Despite its significance, it can be easy to live as though this miraculous event has no bearing on life today. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Grace City Church Ottawa 4/10/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 4/10/22

Miracles: Jesus Heals the Physically Blind & Spiritually Blind

After healing a blind man, Jesus begins to tell his disciples about the cross. It's too much for Peter, who has no room for a cross in his expectations of who Jesus is and what he came to do. Even today, the cross can be seen as a gruesome and inconvenient historical footnote in the Christian life, rather than the central place upon which all of history has turned. Is there room for the cross in your life?

Grace City Church Ottawa 3/27/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 3/27/22

Miracles: 'Sweetheart, it's time to get up.'

Mark 5 tells us about Jesus miraculously healing two women; one who had a constant heavy period for 12 years and the other being a little girl who became very sick and died. Like all of Jesus's miracles, these true stories are about a greater story - about a holy and compassion filled Saviour entering into our world filled with impurity, disease, and death.

Grace City Church Ottawa 3/20/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 3/20/22

Miracles: Jesus - With You in the Storm

Contrary to those promising health and wealth, Jesus called his followers to take up their cross and to follow him. This means the Christian life will often have more storms than the ones faced by those who do not know Jesus. However, the miracle of Jesus calming the storm shows us that we’re not alone in life’s darkest moments. The safest place to be during the storms of life is with the one to whom the storms obey.

Grace City Church Ottawa 3/13/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 3/13/22

Miracles: Jesus Pays Our Debt

Matthew 17 records a miracle that’s easy to miss because of its brevity, but astounding in its significance. Jesus pays a tax he was under no obligation to pay, and he pays Peter’s tax as well. This is the gospel - our debt paid by the One who owed us nothing, yet gave us everything.

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