Sermons

Our Sending God

GPBC's 2021 annual Global Partner Emphasis

Our Sending God: Around the World & Across the Street

John 20:21 “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."

General

Investing In Eternity

GPBC's annual Global Partner Emphasis

Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

(From Randy Alcorn)

We Christians in America desperately need such a radical paradigm shift. A new way of seeing. We need to capture a vision for eternal treasure, to become energized by it.

God doesn’t just raise up donors, he raises up disciples. Their lives are so filled with a vision for eternity that they wouldn’t dream of not investing their money and their time and their lives where it will matter most. Once they see the treasures of eternity and become consumed by them, nobody will be able to keep them from giving.

The only joy I know comparable to leading a person to Christ is giving generously to the kingdom of God, that people might be won to Christ, that the hungry be fed and the suffering be helped in the name of Christ. There is a joy, an exhilaration in that beyond comprehension.