Grace Covenant Church Roanoke VA
Grace Covenant Church ROA
These are the weekly sermons and content from Grace Covenant Church in Roanoke, VA with Pastor Zack Hensley and guests. For more info about us head to: gccroanoke.com.
Episodes
Walk In The Light | Walk In The Light
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Walking in the light isn't about trying harder to do the right things—it's about understanding who you are in God's eyes: loved and set free from darkness. Discover how knowing His love transforms the way you live, love others, and walk with Jesus.Scripture Reference:1 John 1:5–7Ecclesiastes 1:1–14For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Word is Real | Walk In The Light
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Christianity isn’t just an idea to believe—it’s a person to experience. Discover how the reality of Jesus transforms our lives with His grace, truth, freedom, peace, and joy.1 John 1:1-4For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Our Family Conference with John | Walk In The Light
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Guest Speaker Phil House.1 John 1:1-10For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Reach | Beautiful Church
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.If we truly believe the story of Jesus, it should be evident in the way we live. Discover how God’s love and goodness can flow through us as we become salt and light in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and everyday lives.Matthew 5:13–16Colossians 3:23–24For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Grow | Beautiful Church
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.We see what we are, but Jesus sees what we can become. Discover how staying close to Jesus—and staying connected to His people—leads us into the process of becoming more like Him.Ephesians 4:14–16John 15:5For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Pursue | Beautiful Church
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.We will radically pursue God when we discover how radically He loves us. Learn what it means to abide in His love, see yourself through His eyes, and let His love awaken a deeper pursuit of Jesus.John 15:9Psalm 27:4Philippians 3:7–9For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Becoming a Beautiful Church | Beautiful Church
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.A beautiful church isn’t defined by what happens inside its walls, but by how its people live out the love of Jesus. Discover how we can pursue God, grow together, and reach our city by becoming the hands and feet of Jesus wherever He has placed us.Matthew 5:14–16Acts 2:42–47For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Transformers: God's Work Does Not Stop With Us
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and guest speaker Dr. Matthew Cowley.God's work in you is meant to overflow into the lives of those around you. Discover how abiding in Christ and allowing Him to transform you can bring His life, grace, and love into your family, workplace, and community.Hebrews 5:5-9Hebrews 10:11-18John 15:1-5For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Wisdom's Invitation | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Jesus invites us to lay down the burdens we were never meant to carry and learn His way of living. Discover how surrendering our own way and following Jesus leads to true rest for our souls.Proverbs 9Matthew 11:28–30For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Calling of Humility | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.The way of Jesus begins with admitting that we need Him. Discover how humility frees us from self-reliance and teaches us to surrender our lives, trust God’s wisdom, and let Christ live through us. Proverbs 3:34Matthew 5:3Galatians 2:20For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
More Than Able
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.God's plans for your life are bigger than your imagination. Discover how fixing your eyes on Jesus gives you the faith to pray bold prayers and trust the God who can do immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine.Ephesians 3:16-20Hebrews 12:1-2For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Wisdom, Knowledge & Love | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Guest Speaker: Phil HouseThe God who created the world with wisdom is the same God who invites us to live by it. Discover how God's wisdom, knowledge, and love are woven into creation—and how Jesus came to restore us to the life He designed.Proverbs 8:22–31For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Get Your Roll On: Commit Your Work to the Lord | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Guest Speaker: Dr. Matthew CowleyYou were never meant to carry the weight of your life on your own. Discover what it means to roll your work, your burdens, and even the outcomes onto the Lord—and let Him shape both your future and your heart.Proverbs 16:3For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Watch Your Words | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant ChurchGuest Speaker: Rochelle HouseYour words have the power to bring life or death because they reveal what's happening in your heart. Discover how God's wisdom transforms our speech as we grow in spiritual maturity and learn to speak with grace, truth, and self-control.Proverbs 18:21Matthew 12:34–37James 3:1–12For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Keep Your Heart | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Keeping your heart is making it able to receive the work God is already trying to do in you. Discover how tending the soil of your heart allows God's Word to take root, transform your life, and produce lasting fruit.Proverbs 4:23Matthew 13:3–23For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Beginning of Wisdom | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.The fear of the Lord isn’t about living in fear, it’s about living in awe. Discover how trusting God above yourself becomes the foundation for wisdom, humility, and a life that honors Him.Proverbs 3:5–7For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Three Levels of Knowledge | Wisdom: The Summer in Proverbs
Sermons from Grace Covenant ChurchGuest Speaker: Phil HouseWisdom is more than knowing the right things, it’s learning to live them. Discover how God leads us from knowledge, to applied knowledge, to discernment so we can recognize His truth and walk wisely in everyday life.Proverbs 2:1–11For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Becoming a Living Sacrifice
Guest Speaker: Jeremy CarpenterRomans 12:1-2For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Gift of Sabbath
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Sabbath isn’t a rule to follow—it’s a rescue God keeps offering. Discover how rest becomes an act of trust, worship, and renewal in a world that never stops demanding more.Exodus 20:8–11For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Live and Work as Chris | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Discover how the life of Jesus within you can transform your work, your relationships, and your daily routines into a powerful witness of His grace.Colossians 3:23–24For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Reign of Peace | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.If Jesus is truly supreme, then His peace, His Word, and His rule must shape every part of our lives. Discover what it means to let Christ reign over your heart in the middle of fear, pressure, and everyday chaos.Colossians 3:14–17For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Clean Out Your House | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.You’ve been given a new life, so don’t keep dragging the old one with you. Discover how Christ calls us to clean out the patterns of our old life and fill our hearts with the character of Jesus.Colossians 3:5–17For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Set Your Mind Above | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.You can only live from Christ to the measure that you think about Christ. Discover how setting your mind on Jesus reshapes your perspective, anchors your life, and empowers you to live from Him daily.Colossians 3:1–4For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Jesus Over Everything | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Everything in life is meant to come under the loving rule of Jesus—not Jesus plus something else. Discover how to keep Christ at the center and walk in Him in a world full of competing voices.Colossians 2:6–23For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Christ The Center | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.When Christ lives in you, He becomes the center of everything. Discover what it means to stop striving for Jesus and start living from His power and presence within you.Colossians 1:27For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Christ Is Supreme | Christ In You
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.When you truly see Jesus, you don’t just admire Him—you order everything around Him. Discover how the supremacy of Christ lifts our eyes above the chaos and reorients every part of our lives.Colossians 1:15–20For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Hope is Alive | How Deep the Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensly.For God so loved you that He sent His Son to die for us. We have a living Hope because of Jesus' death and resurrection.John 3:16Romans 5:8For more info head over to gccroanoke.com
What Does it Mean to Love Yourself? | How Deep The Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant ChurchGuest Speaker: Phil HouseFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Children of God | How Deep the Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.At the cross, God didn’t just forgive you—He brought you home. Discover the depth of the Father’s love and what it means to live as His child, secure in His family.1 John 3:1Galatians 4:4-7For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Letting the Cross Serve Us | How Deep the Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.The cross frees us from the curse of being to the beautiful blessing of becoming. Discover how Jesus serves us through His sacrifice and invites us to receive the future God is shaping for us.John 13:1–15For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
How God Displays His Love | How Deep the Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.God doesn’t just say He loves us—He shows it. At the cross, Jesus stepped into our brokenness, took our sin and shame, and made a way for us to be alive and free in Him.Romans 5:6–8For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
How The Father Loves His Lost Kids | How Deep the Father's Love
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.All of us are wrong — and all of us are deeply loved by the Father. In this message from Luke 15, we see the heart of God for both the rebellious and the self-righteous, and we’re invited to stop living like servants and come home as sons and daughters.Sermon NotesLuke 15:11–32For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Gospel Transforms Relationships
Sermons from Grace Covenant ChurchPhilemon is a letter which demonstrates that the Gospel transforms relationships with ourselves, with one another and with the world.Philemon 1:8-16For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Maintaining the Unity of the Spirit | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant ChurchGuest Speaker: Rochelle HouseEphesians 4:3For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Maintaining a Bond of Peace | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Peace is not something we wait for — it’s something we make. As followers of Jesus, we are called to live peaceably, pursue reconciliation, and work to preserve the bond of peace in our relationships.Sermon NotesRomans 12:18For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Instruments Of Love | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.We see that the love of Jesus is not just something we celebrate, but something we imitate. As we learn to bear with one another in love, our lives become instruments of His love to the world.Sermon NotesEphesians 41 Corinthians 13John 13:34For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Bless The Lord
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.Due to inclement weather, Grace Covenant Church held an online Zoom call for church service. Zack shared about Psalm 103. There was an open discussion afterwards where people could share what was on their hearts.Psalm 103
More Than We Can Ask or Imagine | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this message from Ephesians 3:20, we’re reminded that God is able to do more than we can ask or imagine. A life of faith trusts God’s bigger dreams, lays aside what holds us back, and fixes its eyes on Jesus.Ephesians 3:20Hebrews 12:1-2For more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Upside Down Life: Humility | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this message, we explore the upside-down way of Jesus and discover that humility isn’t weakness — it’s freedom. As we learn to lay down pride and trust God’s ways over our own, we find grace, rest, and a life shaped by His love.Ephesians 4:1-6Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
What Does the Christian Life Look Like? | A Life Worth Living
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.We turn to Ephesians 4 to ask a foundational question: What does the Christian life actually look like? Walking worthy of our calling means representing the love and mercy we’ve received from Jesus to everyone, in every part of our lives — growing in humility, gentleness, patience, unity, and love as we learn to live more like Him.Ephesians 4:1–6Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Letting Go of the Past and Embracing God's Future
Guest Speaker: Jeanette BrewerJeanette shares about the Samaritan woman at the well and her encounter with Jesus.John 4For more info head over to gccroanoke.com
Joy: Good News of Great Joy | The thrill of Hope
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this fourth week of Advent, we focus on Joy — the good news of great joy given to us at Christmas. This joy is not dependent on circumstances, but rooted in Jesus Himself. Looking to Christ, the joy set before us, we discover a joy strong enough to help us endure anything we face.Luke 2:8–14Hebrews 12:2Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Possibility of Peace | The thrill of Hope
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this third week of Advent, we explore the possibility of peace made real at Christmas — peace with God, peace within ourselves, and peace with others — all because God is truly present in Jesus, the Prince of Peace.Luke 2:13-14Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Gift of Unfailing Love | The thrill of Hope
Guest Speaker: Ryan BushkarThis week we look at the unfailing love of God revealed in Christ. For more info visit gccroanoke.com
Hope: Remember Christmas | The thrill of Hope
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this first week of Advent, we remember that real hope broke into the world at Christmas—light dawning in our darkest places, a Savior who came as servant, friend, Lord, and Christ.John 14:1Luke 2:8-14Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Test of Patience | The Everyday Gospel - The Book of James
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.In this final message from The Everyday Gospel series, we look at James 5 and see that the final test of genuine faith is our ability to remain patient in hard things — a patience rooted not in passivity, but in confidence that God can do what we can’t.Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
Taming the Tongue | The Everyday Gospel - The Book of James
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.This message in the James 3:1-12 calls us to consider the power of our words — reminding us that the tongue is small but immensely powerful, accountable, and ultimately in need of God’s grace to tame.Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com.
The Imitation of Jesus | The Everyday Gospel - The Book of James
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.This message from our Everyday Gospel series in the book of James reminds us that our admiration of Jesus must be seen in our imitation of Him — living without favoritism, elevating the lowly, and showing mercy that triumphs over judgment.James 2:1-13Sermon NotesFor more info, head over to gccroanoke.com.
Authentic Faith | The Everyday Gospel - The Book of James
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack Hensley.This week’s message from James 1:19–27, challenges us to move beyond words and live a faith that listens, receives, and acts.Sermon NotesFor more info, head over to gccroanoke.com
God Is With You | The Everyday Gospel - The Book of James
Sermons from Grace Covenant Church and Pastor Zack HensleyWe begin a new series on the Book of James.James 1:1-18 Sermon NotesFor more info head over to gccroanoke.com