Pastor Joshua Manning | Lead Pastor

December 14th, 2025

Grace Chapel, Prosper TX

Advent Series: Immanuel - Here and Now

Sermon Title: Pursuing the Presence

Pastor Joshua Manning | Lead Pastor

December 7th, 2025

Joshua Manning | Lead Pastor

November 30th, 2025

This powerful message reframes our understanding of Advent as more than a countdown to Christmas—it's a wake-up call to spiritual alertness. Drawing from Matthew 24:36-44, we're challenged to distinguish between living in fear and living in anticipation. The sermon explores how Jesus doesn't invite us into anxiety about unpredictable timing, but into readiness and presence.

Pastor Joshua Manning

Lead Pastor

Genesis 16:7-13

Abraham is remembered as the father of Isaac, but no one ever talks about his other son—Ishmael. Hagar’s story reveals that even when families dismiss, erase, or mistreat, God sees and blesses the forgotten. God’s family is always bigger than we think.

Sometimes the one we fear or reject is the one God calls to be a witness. No one is beyond God’s redeeming power.

Reverend Kerry Dueholm, LPC

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Mark 5:1-10, 18-20

Crashin' Out - The One That Got Away: Rahab’s story shows us how God makes room for the people everyone else overlooks. There’s a place for outsiders in God’s family.

Pastor Joshua Manning; Matthew 1:5; Joshua 6:22-25

Guest Preacher: Rev. Bryant Phelps;

This powerful message confronts one of our deepest struggles: shame. Drawing from 2 Samuel 6:21-22, we encounter David dancing before the Lord with such abandon that he embarrasses his wife Michal, who believes he has acted undignified for a king. But David's response is revolutionary—he declares he will become even more undignified, even more shameless in his worship. This sermon challenges us to examine what we're ashamed of: the shame we bring on ourselves when we act out of character, and perhaps more significantly, the shame we feel when we fail to meet others' expectations. The central revelation is profound—we only bring shame upon ourselves when we try to be everything other than who God created us to be. When we're caught up in God's presence and secure in our personhood, we stop performing for others and start living authentically. This message invites us to release the burden of others' opinions and embrace the liberating truth that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, with nothing to be ashamed of.

Sermon Title: The Man in the Mirror

Sermon Series: Crashin' Out

Pastor Joshua Manning

2 Samuel 12:1-10