A steady sermon on assurance, abiding in Christ, and the hope of glory.
This sermon opens the new year by tying two hymns to 1 John and treating assurance as something rooted in abiding in Christ, not in a passing feeling.

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Recent sermons from Men of the Word, a ministry of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed instruction turns biblical interpretation from an aspiration into a repeatable practice, with sermons, panels, and Q&A connecting doctrine to conduct.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast treats careful Bible study as a discipline that can be taught. Its sermon-length lessons move from the authority and coherence of Scripture to a four-stage method of orientation, observation, interpretation, and application, explaining each step…
Strong's numbers meet self-examination: bring your Bible and your willingness to change.
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A steady sermon on assurance, abiding in Christ, and the hope of glory.
This sermon opens the new year by tying two hymns to 1 John and treating assurance as something rooted in abiding in Christ, not in a passing feeling.
A serious sermon on assurance that connects private faith with the shared life of God's people.
This sermon follows assurance through John Bunyan and Scripture, moving from Christian's burden and release at the cross to the claim that certainty about God's love returns in the life of God's people.
Assurance grows by learning how to test the voices that claim Christian authority.
This sermon treats assurance as a matter of discernment, not mood. John works through 1 John 4:1-6 to show why believers need to test voices that claim Christian authority.
A narrow claim, handled with pastoral seriousness and tied to life after Christ's departure.
This sermon treats John 14:6 as a pastoral claim, not a slogan. It stays close to the upper room, where Jesus speaks to 11 men who already believe in him and are facing his physical absence after his death, resurrection, and ascension.
A sober, text-first look at assurance tied to persevering obedience.
The episode treats assurance as something to be tested rather than assumed, and it keeps the link between confidence and persevering obedience in view.
A marriage panel that keeps covenant faithfulness and Christ-and-church imagery at the center.
This panel treats marriage as a serious covenant, not a side topic. Three married elders answer practical questions for men who are married, preparing for marriage, or trying to be a good influence on married men around them.
A sober, text first sermon that links assurance to love, Cain, and the contrast between two kinds of life.
Assurance and the Lifestyle of Love is a sober, text first sermon on 1 John 3:11-24. It treats love as a test of spiritual reality and moves through Genesis 4, then back through Genesis 3, to show how fast sin spreads.
A careful Bible study that builds its case step by step.
This episode is a careful Bible study on 2 Timothy, and it stays focused on how Paul’s last letter fits into progressive revelation and the continuity of Scripture.

Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.




The sermon opens 1 John 2:18-27 and frames it as a study of assurance and steadfastness in truth.
The episode opens with Paul’s final letter to Timothy and treats it like a last will and testament.
Christian starts in the city of Destruction.
The panel starts with a clear aim.
The study stays in 1 John 3:11-24.
This is the final installment of a multi-part series on the doctrine of Scripture, focusing on the fourth stage of Bible study: application.
A detailed expository sermon on 1 John 2:3-6 examining how obedience to God's commandments serves as a test for assurance of salvation.
The sermon opens a new year by tying hymn lyrics to the Christian hope of standing face to face before Christ.
John opens 1 John 4:1-6 and treats assurance as something that has to be guarded by discernment.
The moderator opens by taking the questions and handing most of the answers to the other men.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast’s "Assurance and the Hatred of Evil" centers on 1 John 2:12–17 and John Bunyan’s Vanity Fair in The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Assurance is the question.
The sermon centers on Jesus' claim in John 14: "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The message sets that line in the upper room, where Jesus is speaking to 11 men who already believe and preparing them for what comes after his death, resurrection, and ascension.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast episode “The Pillars of Marriage, Pillar Four” argues that marriage is covenantal, not contractual, and uses Matthew 19, 1 Peter 3:7, Malachi 2, Ecclesiastes 5, and Matthew 5 to make the case.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast frames Assurance and the Historicity of Christ around 1 John 1:1-4 and 1 John 5:13.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast opens a mini-series on “the pillars of marriage” after pausing a study of assurance in 1 John.
It begins by revisiting the doctrine of Scripture, the interpreter's posture, and earlier hermeneutical principles.
Let's dive into creative financing—non-traditional funding methods for real estate deals.
A men's Bible study teaching on the complementary nature of marriage, arguing that husbands and wives are equal yet have different God-designed roles.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast, 'I Am the Resurrection and the Life,' centers on John 11:25-26 and repeats the question, 'Do you believe this?' The speaker pairs Jesus’ words with two Old Testament cases: David’s child in 2 Samuel 12 and Job’s losses in Job 1-2, using both to argue that God gives life, takes it away, and remains good.
The episode opens a continuation in the study of the doctrine of God and, in particular, the study of the Word of God, beginning with Psalm 119:129-136.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast’s “The Pillars of Marriage, Pillar One” argues from Genesis 1–2 and 1 Corinthians 7 that marriage is God’s design, not a cultural construct.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast’s “The Pillars of Marriage, Pillar Five” explains marriage as “connotative,” meaning it points beyond the personal relationship to fruitfulness, blessing, family, and other larger meanings.
Men of the Word Sermon Podcast studies 1 John 2:7-11 in “Assurance and the Love of One’s Brother,” opening with Fyodor Dostoevsky’s line about loving humanity while hating individual people.
A detailed expository sermon on 1 John 1:5-10 examining the relationship between God's perfect holiness and the Christian's response to sin.
You can know all the right things, say all the right things, look perfect in church—and still be spiritually dead inside.
A sermon discussing the transition from doctrine of scripture to practical Bible study, focusing on personal prerequisites for fruitful study.
A sermon teaching on Jesus as the Good Shepherd from John chapter 10, emphasizing the shepherd's role and character.
A sermon transitioning from doctrinal study of Scripture to practical Bible study methods, encouraging men to cultivate dedicated Bible reading.
This episode discusses the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library and the early Christian Gnostic texts, contrasting them with canonical scripture.
A sermon exploring Jesus as the door of the sheep, using the metaphor to teach about salvation and belonging to God's flock.
A sermon discussing the doctrine of God's grace and contrasting it with the corrosive attitudes of entitlement and self-sufficiency.
A sermon exploring the biblical definition of God's righteousness as His perfect moral character.
A sermon encouraging listeners that feeling ignorant about God may actually indicate spiritual growth.
A sermon exploring the doctrine of God's love as the crown jewel of His perfections and its importance in Christian life.
A sermon on Exodus 33-34, exploring Moses' request for God's presence after Israel's sin.