Sermons, follow-up, and Spirit-led formation.
Grace City Church offers sermon teaching and companion conversations from a Boston church community. The show is warm, direct, and practical, moving from biblical texts into prayer, repentance, spiritual gifts, skepticism, and everyday discipleship.
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Grace City Church is built around the teaching life of a Boston congregation. Its main shape is simple: Sunday sermons, then follow-up conversations that keep the argument moving after the room has emptied. The tone is warm. It is also insistent. Recent episodes return again and again to the claim that Christian faith is not only a set of ideas, but a life empowered by the Holy Spirit and practiced in ordinary obedience. Brian’s sermons often begin with a broad framing question, then narrow toward scripture, context, and application. He speaks to believers, skeptics, and people who arrived because someone brought them. That range matters. The show does not treat doubt as an interruption, especially in the Easter material on resurrection proof and power. It argues that the resurrection is credible, central, and demanding. The Follow-Up episodes give the feed a second register. They are less formal, with Yasmin, Max, Brian, and David talking through sermon leftovers, church events, and the practical weight of doctrines that can otherwise stay abstract. The series on spiritual gifts is a good example. It tries to name both the promise and the discomfort of being led by the Spirit, especially for people who have seen spiritual gifts misused or avoided. Prayer is another recurring anchor. Easter prayer rooms, 24-hour prayer, hidden devotion, and congregational response are described as practices that shape the church rather than accessories around preaching. The teaching on repentance and consecration is similarly concrete. Habits are presented not as ways to earn God’s love, but as space-making practices for life with Jesus. Some episodes take on heavier moral territory, including evil, violence, justice, and the severity and kindness of God. The feed is best suited to listeners who want church teaching with explicit Christian claims, a high view of scripture, and direct pastoral application. It is not detached religious commentary. It is local, doctrinal, and meant to form people.
Made for: Best for Christians, church seekers, and thoughtful skeptics who want substantive teaching with clear pastoral application. It especially suits listeners interested in scripture, prayer, discipleship, resurrection, and the Holy Spirit.
What sets it apart: The feed combines full sermon teaching with companion conversations that revisit questions, context, and practical next steps. Its strength is the bridge between formal biblical argument and the lived rhythms of a local church community.
Grace City Church is located in the city of Boston, MA. We exist to proclaim the way of Jesus for the good of the city.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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David and Max approach spiritual gifts without making them a measure of salvation.
David and Max open their church's Gifts of the Spirit series with a tension many congregations know: spiritual gifts can become a test of faith or a subject people avoid.
A Bible-rich sermon frames spiritual gifts as a daily call to ministry.
Grace City Church opens its Gifts of the Spirit series by presenting the Holy Spirit as the living power behind Christian life and ministry. Moving through Paul, 2 Peter, and Colossians, the sermon also draws on Sam Storms to frame spiritual power as an ordinary part of faithful…
A post-Easter conversation about resurrection belief and how to meet questions with humility and kindness.
The Follow-Up returns to Gray City's Easter Sunday worship and the hosts' conversation about the resurrection. They ask listeners to take the evidence seriously, while treating other people's questions with humility and kindness.
A clear sermon on Jesus as the contested and compassionate King, without making faith sound easy.
Grace City Boston's sermon follows Jesus toward Jerusalem in Luke 19, where public praise meets religious anxiety and the shadow of Rome. Brian ties the crowd's language from Psalm 118 to Jesus being received as a coming King, then presses against any version of faith that turns…
A sober sermon that lets God's severity remain difficult before turning toward mercy.
Grace City Boston's sermon turns God's severity into a searching reflection on evil, justice, and divine kindness. David, Grace City's community lead, begins with unusual candor about teaching in unfamiliar territory, then grounds the question in two memories: hearing a…
Yasmin and Max discuss spiritual habits, secure love and repentance as a doorway to freedom.
Can prayer or service bring someone closer to God without turning into a test of whether God loves them? Yasmin and Max take up that tension through justification, consecration and repentance. In their account, justification is already settled.
An earnest prayer-centered conversation about citywide ministry, revival memory, intercession, and spiritual awakening.
Pray Boston opens with Yasmin of Pray Boston in conversation with Harvest Grapevine of Pray ATL, centering worship, prayer, and the hope that God would awaken cities.
A practical sermon on prayer, witness, and heavenly citizenship for the renewal of the city.
Max presents evangelism and mission as the next step in Grace City's Habits of Renewal series, moving from scripture, fasting, and prayer into a more public expression of faith.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Yasmin hosts Harvest Grapevine, leader of Pray ATL, to discuss prayer and revival.
Max, who leads the college ministry at Grace City Church in Boston, delivers the fourth sermon in a series called 'Habits of Renewal', focusing on evangelism and mission.
A pastor and host discuss the three-part structure of the New Testament church from Ephesians 2 and 4: collective identity, equipping grace, and habitual reformation.
Brian and the host discuss 12 practices to deepen one's relationship with God in 2026, following a sermon series on Luke leading to Easter.
Grace City’s “A Jesus Church: Formed Together” reads Acts 2:42–47 as a pattern for a church shaped by Jesus.
Grace City Church's "The Follow Up: The Gift is the Spirit" opens a new "Gifts of the Spirit" series by tying it to 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 and the church's goal of being "word and spirit" focused.
Grace City Boston's Brian opens "The Gifts of the Spirit: The Gift of the Holy Spirit" by contrasting Jesus' resurrection, 40 days of post-resurrection ministry, and his ascension with a made-up "leadership formula" that would keep him in Jerusalem.
Grace City Church’s The Follow Up: Belief in the Resurrection is Possible centers on a post-Easter conversation about why the sermon took an apologetics route.
A pastor discusses the challenge of articulating the significance of the resurrection for Easter, welcoming skeptics and believers alike.
This episode discusses Easter week preparations, including prayer rooms and 24-hour prayer, emphasizing the importance of prayer in fueling the Easter gathering.
Grace City Boston lead pastor Brian delivers a Palm Sunday sermon on Luke 19:28-38, arguing that the Triumphal Entry is Jesus's definitive public declaration that he is King — not merely a good teacher or spiritual voice.
Grace City Boston pastor David delivers a sermon on Luke's Parable of the Vineyard Owner, placing it in the context of Jesus teaching before the Sanhedrin — a 71-member religious and legal council led by high priest Caiaphas — during Passover week, immediately after the Triumphal Entry and the clearing of the temple.
In this Follow-Up episode from Grace City Church, hosts Yasmin and Max recap Encounter Night, an upcoming Hearing the Voice of God course led by Kenton, and the Latin motto from 1 Kings 8:57 printed on the church's Pray Boston hoodie.
The hosts discuss their church's digital fast and share personal anecdotes about navigating a snowstorm.
A church podcast discussing 12 practices to deepen one's relationship with God in 2026, following a sermon series on Luke leading to Easter.
Yasmin from Pray Boston interviews Harvest Grapevine about worship, prayer, and awakening cities to Jesus.