Bible Teaching

Grace City Church Ottawa 12/8/24 Grace City Church Ottawa 12/8/24

Jesus, Joseph, & Just Masculinity

What does Matthew, the gospel writer, mean when he writes that Joseph was ‘a just man,’ and what do the other brief details of Joseph's decisions show us about a biblical view of masculinity?

Grace City Church Ottawa 3/26/23 Grace City Church Ottawa 3/26/23

Depression & God’s Grace

There’s no shortage of stigma around depression, including within the church. In Exodus 6:9, we read that God’s people couldn’t hear God’s voice because of their ‘broken spirit’ (depression) and ‘harsh slavery’ (oppression). God responds not with a rebuke but with kindness, faithfully continuing his plan to free his people. God promises the same for those who have placed their faith in Jesus. There is grace and mercy for those who are depressed.

Grace City Church Ottawa 10/30/22 Grace City Church Ottawa 10/30/22

Pray Then Like This: Forgive Us Our Debts, As We Forgive Our Debtors

Jesus speaks about the cost of refusing to forgive, but will we listen?

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 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.