Grace Community Church
Sunday Morning Worship 7.6.25 (2)
July 6, 2025
Locations & Times
Grace Community Church
625 S Division St, Boone, IA 50036, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
Today's Sermon:
Through the Roof
Pastor Tim Trudeau
Through the Roof
Pastor Tim Trudeau
-Rachel DenHollander
In our early hearings. you brought your Bible into the courtroom and you have spoken of praying for forgiveness. And so it is on that basis that I appeal to you. If you have read the Bible you carry, you know the definition of sacrificial love portrayed is of God himself loving so sacrificially that he gave up everything to pay a penalty for the sin he did not commit. By his grace, I, too, choose to love this way.
-Rachel DenHollander
You spoke of praying for forgiveness. But Larry, if you have read the Bible you carry, you know forgiveness does not come from doing good things, as if good deeds can erase what you have done. It comes from repentance which requires facing and acknowledging the truth about what you have done in all of its utter depravity and horror without mitigation, without excuse, without acting as if good deeds can erase what you have seen this courtroom today.
-Rachel DenHollander
If the Bible you carry says it is better for a stone to be thrown around your neck and you throw into a lake than for you to make even one child stumble. And you have damaged hundreds.
-Rachel DenHollander
The Bible you speak carries a final judgment where all of God’s wrath and eternal terror is poured out on men like you. Should you ever reach the point of truly facing what you have done, the guilt will be crushing. And that is what makes the gospel of Christ so sweet. Because it extends grace and hope and mercy where none should be found. And it will be there for you.
I. Christ Came to Proclaim the Gospel
II. The Gospel is a Message of Forgiveness
What does God do when forgiving? Consider the various metaphors Scripture uses:
· God doesn’t “reckon sin” (Romans 4:8; Psalm 32:1 – 2)
· God “covers” sin (Psalm 32:1; Romans 4:7).
· God puts our wrongdoing “behind [God’s] back” (Isaiah 38:17)
· God removes our transgression from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12)
· God “blots out” our sin (Isaiah 43:25)
· God “[sweeps] away” our sins “like mist” (Isaiah 44:22)
· God doesn’t even remember our sins (Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:12; 10:17)
-Miroslav Volf. Free of Charge
III. Forgiveness is Received by Faith
IV. Christ IS the Gospel!