Messages from Grand Parkway Baptist Church in Richmond, Texas.
Aug 10, 2025 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
Thinking Through The Questions
Matthew 3:13-17
1. What does it look like to be missional? v. 13
2. Why does Jesus get baptized?
Four reasons Jesus gets baptized…
a) identifies with the people
b) submits to the will of the Father
c) practices what He preaches- Matthew 28:...
Aug 3, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
The Kingdom And The Power Thereof
Matthew 3:1-12
Purpose of Matthew
a) tell the story of Jesus
b) apologetic and evangelistic
c) explore the reality of the Kingdom
d) catechetical- to teach the truths of Christianity and their ethical implications
1. The proportionality o...
Jul 27, 2025
Blake Hardcastle, Equipping Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
Essentials of a Biblical Fit
Psalm 77
1. Put your heart in your mouth. v.2-5
Selah = pause, reflect, meditate.
2. Throw your fit to the right audience. v.1-2
3. Burn the house down. v.5-9
4. Borrow Hope. v.10-18
• v.10-12
• Psalm 46:1
• Hosea 11:8-9 ...
Jul 20, 2025 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor Clyde Copeland
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
What Kind of Love Is This?
1 John 3:1
1. "See…"
2. "…what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God…"
-Five kinds of God’s love
a. God’s love for God.
b. God’s love for His creation
c. God’s loving and salvific stance toward a fa...
Jul 13, 2025
Ian Weber, Student Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
The Purpose of Salvation
Titus 2:11-15
1. What is the purpose of Salvation v.12-13
A. To renounce ungodliness and worldly passions v.12
⁃ Isaiah 5:20 - moral confusion
⁃ Romans 1:18 - suppresses truth
⁃ Jude 1:4 - deny Jesus Christ
⁃ 2 Timothy 3:1-5
⁃ 1 John 2:15-17
B....
Jul 6, 2025
Julian Solis, Spiritual Formation Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
Created For Glory
Genesis 1:26-28
Embrace Dignity
• Genesis 1:26-28
• Psalm 8:5-6
Confront the Curse
• Genesis 9:6
• James 3:9
Think I forgot how to be happy
Something I'm not, but something I can be
Something I wait for
Something I'm ma...
Jun 29, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
The Balance of God
Jonah 4:5-11
1. The direction of disobedience, v. 5
Here are some examples from Genesis of how eastward movement symbolizes departure from God’s will…
a) Adam & Eve are put out of the Garden on the east side
b) Cain settles east of Eden
c) The buil...
Jun 22, 2025
Wade Burgess
Executive Pastor
The Cure for Circumstantial Amnesia
Psalm 136
His steadfast love endures forever
His - God
• Psalm 23
• Psalm 90
• Psalm 103
• Psalm 139
• Psalm 145
Steadfast - a firm, unwavering commitment and determination
Love - God’s love is the only one experienced from a perfect being with...
Jun 15, 2025 GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
Jonah 4:1-5
God’s Freedom To Be God
1. God’s nature doesn’t conform to our emotions, v. 1
Four things about anger…
a) anger is a secondary emotion
b) anger doesn’t earn me the right to be in charge
c) anger turned inward becomes depression
d) anger is an invitation to identify yo...
Jun 8, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
The Essence of Biblical Repentance
Jonah 3:3-3:10
1. The message you preach informs the response, v. 3b-4
Romans 3:23
Romans 3:21-25
2. There is a difference in repentance and appeasement, v. 5-9
Notice what they did…
a) they believed God, v. 5
b) they were sorry, v. 5
c) they went into a complete fast
d) they ...
May 25, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Grand Parkway Baptist Church
The Glory of Disobedience
Jonah 1:17-2:10
Introductory thoughts…
a) We have consumed Jonah upon our comfort theology
b) The book of Jonah was not recorded as they were happening. The first part of our passage is descriptive and then there is this long psalm of thanksgiving from ...
May 18, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
How To Solve A Problem
Jonah 1:4-2:1
1. What is the nature of the problem? v. 5-6
Jeremiah 23:18-22
Three kinds of response to the problem…
a) spiritual- “each cried out to his god”
1) polytheism- the belief or worship of more than one god.
2) monotheism- the belief that their is only one God. Dt. 6:4
...
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
The Motivating Power of God’s Nature
Jonah 1:1-4
Introductory thoughts on the book of Jonah…
a) Jonah is a prophetic narrative
b) Jonah is not an allegory
c) Symbolic use of geography and climate
1. Hearing the Word of the Lord comes with a responsibility, v. 1
2. God sees things as they are and as they will be, v. 2
3. God can be patient in re...
May 4, 2025
How to change spiritual numbness
1Samuel 3:1-18
1. Believe that God wants to speak to his people. v.1-4
How God speaks
A. The Spirit
B. The Scripture
C. The Church
2. Know God must reveal himself. 4-7
3. Remember God is patient but not a pushover. 11-14
Obstacles to hearing God
A. Sin
B. Inexperience
C. Expectation<...
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Holy Week Afterthoughts
Romans 8:31-39
1. God is for us, v. 31
Romans 1:1-7
2. The Cross is an indication of God’s posture towards us, v. 32
”graciously”- to freely give and to give generously
3. God’s mind about me is unchangeable, v. 33-34a
“There is unspeakable comfort – the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates – i...
Apr 20, 2025
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
God’s Big Picture Plan for Resurrection Sunday
Luke 24:36-49
1. That something hard to believe would happen, v. 36-43
Two responses to Jesus…
a) doubt, v. 38
b) disbelieved for joy, v. 41
“"If Christ is not risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is risen, nothing else matters.”
...
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
Three Truths That Transform
Luke 19:28-44
1. God has a plan for everything and our lives find fulfillment in God’s plan, v. 28-35
• Zechariah 9:9
• Luke 19:32
2. Worship accompanies what God does, v. 35-40
• Three stages to worship…
• what God does
• who God is
• what I do
3. Peace ...
Apr 6, 2025
Dr. Chris Brooks, Pastor to Pastors | Local Church
This sermon explores the “terrible word” of God’s judgment and the “terrific opportunity” of salvation, as seen in Zephaniah 3:14-17. We often forget that God is not a distant deity, but a mighty warrior who saves, comforts, and delights in His people.
The prophet Zephaniah reveals that God’s salvation comes even from Hi...
Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor
The Cure For Church Hurt
Ephesians 4: 1-15
1. This is what we do, v. 11-12
a) equip the saints for the work of ministry
b) building up the body of Christ (church)
2. This is the goal for what we do, v. 13
a) to the unity of the faith
b) knowledge of the Son of God
c) maturity
d) fullness
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