Tom Groelsema

  • Confessing Sin

    Oh God, as we turn to this part of your word that lays out before us Ezra’s confession of sin, as we think about our own confession, we pray, God, that we would not fail to remember – that we’d keep in mind through this text, through this sermon – that even though our sins…

  • My Helps Come from the Lord

    I invite you to turn with me in your Bibles tonight to Psalm 121. Psalm 121. As – if you’re a member of the church, you know; if you’re a visitor, we’ll let you know that we are in the evenings going through what we call pastoral favorites. So, our pastors are picking passages of…

  • Oaks of Righteousness

    Let’s open our Bibles together to the Book of Isaiah.  Isaiah 61:1-3 is our test tonight and we’re going to especially focus upon verse 3.  Kevin mentioned this morning that our evening services for the next number of months are going to be pastor favorites and I actually picked this text not so much because…

  • His Glory and Our Good

    Please turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Peter 4.  We are picking up where Chad left off with us this morning so we’re picking up at verse 12.  1 Peter 4:12-19.  I hope you have been blessed by our study of 1 Peter this summer.  We often, of course, don’t stay in one…

  • Christ Our Conqueror

    Well please turn with me in your Bible to 1 Peter 3.  We are going to be studying today verses 19 to 22, 1 Peter 3:18-22.  I don’t know if you’ve been reading ahead or not in your Bibles as we’ve been making our way through 1 Peter, but if you have, then you realize…

  • Hope and Holiness

    CHRIST COVENANT CHURCH Sermon Transcript Tom Groelsema 1 Peter 1:13-21 Hope and Holiness Date of Sermon: 07-13-2025 AM Let’s turn together in our Bibles to 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 13 to 21 is our text this morning.  If you happen to be visiting with us, last Sunday we began a series in 1 Peter…

  • Worship Matters

    Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Malachi.  Two Sunday nights ago we started our study of this book and picking it up again this evening and we’ll carry it on over the next number of Sunday evenings, working our way through each of the chapters.  We’re looking tonight at Malachi…

  • The King’s Cross

    Father in heaven, we gather here on this solemn night remembering your passion night that leads into the day of your crucifixion. Father it is a solemn night and yet it is a glorious night for believers, and so Lord as we hear from Jesus the purpose of His life, the purpose of His suffering…

  • The High and the Lowly

    Let’s turn in our Bibles tonight to psalm 113. Kevin mentioned this morning that we are starting a short series tonight, a series that will take us through psalm 118, so psalm 113 through psalm 118 will wrap up that series I think the Sunday after Easter, so these are leading up towards Good Friday…