Grace Capital City Podcast
Weekly sermons from Grace Capital City, a church in Washington, DC - Partnering with God in establishing His Kingdom through the raising and releasing of disciples.
Episodes
305 episodes
GCC Christmas Special // Advent Messages
In celebration of our Lord and King Jesus' birthday, 5 members of our church spoke in front of the congregation to share their advent message on: Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. Merry Christmas to everyone listening and may the light and life of Jes...
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Prophecy Fulfilled // Light to The Nations
In this message, Justice and Operations Director Hannah Martha Cohen Banks leads us in discovering Jesus' identity as the light to the nations. Using the prophecies of Isaiah, the story of Hanukkah, and Jesus' own self-declarations in John, she...
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Prophecy Fulfilled // The Suffering Servant
The revelation of God in Jesus was not what any of us could have expected. Jesus came as a King and reigns still as King, but not like the Kings of our world, in the Kingship of Jesus we learn what true heavenly power can look like as its lived...
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Prophecy Fulfilled // The Reigning King
This Advent, we begin a new series, Prophecy Fulfilled, exploring how Jesus perfectly completes the Old Testament’s promises. In this message, Pastor Olu focuses on Isaiah’s prophecy of a coming King and its fulfillment in Luke’s announcement o...
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This Much I Know // "Is There Life After Death?"
As we conclude this series Pastor Chris unpacks one of the most asked and pondered questions of all human history; what happens when we die? The Bible has much to say about this, and the promise of Jesus that death is not the end is one of the ...
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This Much I Know // "Does the Church Still Matter?"
Continuing our series, This Much I Know, we explore a foundational question: "Does the Church still matter?" In a moment marked by collapse, disconnection, trauma, and burnout, what does Jesus say about the future of His Church? P...
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This Much I Know // "Can I Trust the Bible?"
A message from Pastor Holly, continuing our series looking at pillars of our faith and the questions that often arise around them.
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This Much I Know // "Is the Tomb Empty?"
In this message, Pastor Chris explores the central claim of the Christian faith that Jesus rose from the dead. He unpacks why this pillar is so important to our faith and teaches on both its truth and its power.
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This Much I Know // "What Is The Gospel?"
This Sunday, guest speaker Pastor Bruce Goodwin from Light City Church continues our series, This Much I Know, exploring a foundational question of our faith: What is the Gospel? Through the story of Nicodemus in John 3, Pastor ...
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This Much I Know // "Why This God?"
After answering the question; is there a God? We now come to the question; ‘Why this God?’ Why the God revealed to us in the Bible? Why the God revealed to us in the person of Jesus Christ?In this message Pastor Chris explores the centra...
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This Much I Know // "Is There a God?"
This week we're addressing the question: Is there a God?Justice and Operations Director Hannah Martha Cohen Banks uses a multi-disciplinary approach to argue for the existence of God. Ultimately, though, she challenges us to pray a coura...
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This Much I Know // A Foundation of Truth
As we kick off our new series, Pastor Chris asks the question: How do we build our lives on a foundation of truth? Looking at the parable of the Wise and Foolish Builder, this message explores the nature of truth, our prayers for this coming se...
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Living Stones // Kingdom Adventurers
In the concluding message of the Living Stones series, Pastor Chris dives into what it means to be a Kingdom Adventurer. He reminds us that "success" in the Kingdom is us continuously becoming more like Jesus, demonstrating the Kingdom of God h...
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Living Stones // Compassionate Neighbors
As part of our Living Stones series, Pastor Olu explores the story of the Good Samaritan and what it teaches us about becoming Compassionate Neighbors. Genuine spiritual growth isn’t about busyness or religious checklists—it’s about ha...
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Living Stones // Courageous Homemakers
Did you know the concept of “Home” and “Making” has existed before the world began? In this message, Pastor Holly dives deep into our second Living Stone, Courageous Homemaker, challenging us to broaden our view of “homemaker”, a mostly America...
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Living Stones // Relentless Worshippers
In this message Pastor Chris begins our new series exploring the calling on our House to raise and release disciples, or ‘Living Stones’. Each week we’ll be looking at one of the unique areas God is raising up ‘Living Stones’ in our House and w...
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Anointing and Commissioning Service // Touched to Transform
In this week’s sermon, we explore Isaiah 61:1-4, unpacking how the Spirit’s anointing empowers ordinary people for extraordinary mission—binding up the brokenhearted, lifting the afflicted, and rebuilding ruined cities. The invitati...
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // A Sacrifice of Praise
How do we live holy lives regardless of the season we find ourselves in? How should we live if we believe that Jesus is better? College Director, Faith Anderson, teaches through Hebrews 13 that our lives are meant to be in response to the excel...
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // The Discipline of God
What do we mean when we talk about the discipline of God? What role does it play in our lives, and how is God using it? In this message Pastor Chris unpacks Hebrews chapter 12 and this very important topic of God’s discipline.
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // Living By Faith
In this week's message Katelyn Curran challenges us from Hebrews 11 to be faithful stewards for the generations to come as we live "by faith" here and now.
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // Power in the Blood
In this message Pastor Chris explores the power availability to us through the blood of Jesus. It is so easy for us to fall into the trap of our own self sufficiency and miss the glorious invitation to be a people who are not only in need of a ...
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // What is Better?
Whether it’s advertising, news, social media, or people we know, there are many voices that try to say, “This is better!” or “No, this is better!” In this message from Pastor Holly, we focus on who we let define “better” and the things that oft...
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // An Anchor For Our Souls
In Hebrews 6 the writer describes the hope we have in God as an Anchor for our Souls. In the midst of so much uncertainty, change and turmoil in our world, it is so important to be continually reminded of how God’s promises can be the anchor th...
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Hebrews: A Call Persevere // Spiritual Maturity
What does it mean to grow up? It seems that the writer of Hebrews has some frustrations with this community around the fact that they haven’t really matured or grown spiritually. Why is that? Whats going on here? And what does it mean for us to...
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Hebrews: A Call to Persevere // The Great High Priest
Throughout history God has made a way to draw closer and closer to his people. But when facing adversity the temptation for us to turn to other things besides Jesus is real. In this message, Pastor Holly shows how Jesus as our perfect High Prie...
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