Grace Baptist Church Cumberland MD

1/31/2021 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Consider the Real Jesus: The Real Barrier. This week's message: Jesus communicated to us that we need to both recognize and repent of our nastiness and know that the Father wants to lavish on us His unconditional love. Bible Scripture: Matthew 11:16-24

1/24/2021 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Consider the Real Jesus: Becoming the Least. This week's message: The most wicked person, the biggest moral failure standing in the righteousness of Jesus is more ravishing to God than the person standing in their own good merits. Bible Scripture: Matthew 11:4-15

1/17/2021 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Consider the Real Jesus: Confronting the Offenses of Jesus. This week's message: There is no way to accept the gift of Jesus without dealing with the offensiveness of Jesus. What are your expectations about Jesus? Bible Scripture: Matthew 11:2-6 ***Note*** We apologize for the audio - please listen with your sound turned all the way up. There was a problem with the microphones. Also, apologies for the video hiccups - we have no clue what caused those.

1/10/2021 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Consider the Real Jesus: He Came to Be Our Righteousness. This week's message: Jesus did what we could not, he fulfilled righteousness so we could become His righteousness. Bible Scripture: Matthew 3:13-4:11

12/27/2020 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Gift of Righteousness. The greatest gift we can possibly receive is the righteousness that comes from heaven through faith in Jesus and Jesus’ obedience to his Father. Bible Scripture: Romans 1:13-17

1/3/2021 This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Consider the Real Jesus: Jesus the God Man. This week begins a new series "Consider the Real Jesus". This week's message: The real Jesus in showing all the traits of being both God and man, was able to become the mediator between God and Man. Bible Scripture: Hebrews 2:14-3:2

12/24/2020 - Pastor Keith Aguila and a Christmas Eve message. Christmas - a special time of the year when we celebrate Jesus' birth. The greatest gift we've ever been given by God. Bible Scripture: Luke 2:1-20

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Profound: Christmas Worship. This is Christmas: an extraordinary, majestic, and righteous God, takes on the ordinary, un-esteemed, and despicable form, so that ordinary, un-esteemed, despicable people can enjoy and be enjoyed by an extraordinary, majestic and righteous God. Bible Scripture: Luke 2:15-20

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Night Before Christmas: Christmas in Heaven. The heart of the Christmas message is rooted in the intimate relationship between the Father and the Son and the Son's passion to obey His Father. Bible Scripture: Hebrews 10:5-10

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Light Overcomes: Christmas Witnesses. Amid the common rhythms and the difficulties of life, God is working His greatest plan but in the most seemingly obscure way. Bible Scripture: Luke 2:1-14

A Thanksgiving devotional, prayer, scripture, and the Lord's Supper. Praise God and offer thanksgiving to Him. Bible Scripture: Psalm 100

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Kingdom of God: The Priority of the Kingdom. Kingdom living is a combination of a mindset on God's provisional nature and a heart fixed on God's priorities. This concludes the Kingdom of God series. Bible Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Kingdom of God: Thy Kingdom Come. Kingdom people understand the temporary nature of this world and are looking forward to the promised kingdom, built on a solid foundation designed by the Ancient of Days. Bible Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16

Today's sermon is about Life and Death. Pastor Keith's mother passed away last week and he is preaching this sermon remotely. He apologizes for the sound quality. Please turn your volume to high.

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Kingdom of God: The Durability. Human kingdoms, countries, and dominions come and go, but kingdom minded people understand that we live for a permanent kingdom that goes beyond what we can see with our physical eyes. Bible Scripture: Daniel 7:11-14

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Kingdom of God: Kingdom Growth - On Hearing the Word. So just how does the Kingdom of God grow or advance? On hearing the good news of God's salvation, Jesus offers us tests to help us evaluate the response of our heart toward God's word. Bible Scripture: Matthew 13:18-23

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Misunderstanding the Kingdom of God - Unobservable Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is not and observable organization, institution or government; rather, it is a miracle transformation of hearts that become passionate for Christ and obedient to His teachings. Bible Scripture: Luke 17: 20-21

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – Misunderstanding the Kingdom of God - The Ancient Mystery. The Kingdom of God is an ancient mystery hidden out in the open: precious to those who know it, foolishness to those who don't. Bible Scripture: Matthew 13:10-17

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People – Understanding Persecution. One outcome of a kingdom person is the persecution they receive for following Jesus. Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:10-12

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People – Unattainable Purity. Kingdom people are continually transparent with God about the impurity of their heart and that leads to godly repentance and therefor cleansing. Why is it important that the heart is pure? What is the main problem that gets in our way from a pure heart? How does a kingdom person become pure? What is a kingdom person's source of mercy and purity? Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:8 Note: We apologize for the quality of the video going out of focus off and on, and some cut-out of audio. We thought we had this solved, so we are working on it again.

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People – Peacemakers. The peacemaker spirit does not flow from the good natured person, but from the heart that once was at enmity with God but has now experienced His true peace. Practically speaking, what does a kingdom peacemaker look like? Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:9

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People – Spring of Mercy. God is the only true source of mercy and it flows through His people who are broken, mourning, and humble. What exactly is mercy? Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:7, Isaiah 58:1-12

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People - Humility. Those who will ultimately rule the world will be the ones who are the most humble. Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:5

This week’s sermon with Pastor Keith Aguila – The Kingdom of God: Kingdom People - Passion from Ashes. From brokenness, mourning, and humility the foundation is laid for godly passion. What drives Kingdom people? What forms the desires of Kingdom People? How could anyone have a strong desire for a right relationship with God without at the same time strongly wanting to do right? Bible Scripture: Matthew 5:6

This week's sermon with Jon Dewey - A Third Way. Even though we may not see it, there are always options. Bible Scriptures: Matthew 22 We apologize for not being able to Livestream and not being able to post the sermon video on Sunday. Due to technical difficulties, the LiveStream sermon didn't work due to internet issues. The record function on the phone also didn't work. Pastor Keith was out of town and Jon Dewey gave today's in-person sermon. We were able to obtain the recorded copy of today's sermon, but as you will see, there are technical difficulties. However, we hope you enjoy the message. We should have the issues sorted out before next Sunday. May God bless you today, this week, and always.