Raise The Praise

10/19/2026

✨ This Week's Sermon: "What You Can't Earn and Can't Lose: Understanding the Grace That Changes Everything"

Grace may be the most used word in Christianity — and the least understood.

We sing about it. We put it on signs. We say it before meals. But for a lot of believers, grace is still more of a theological concept than a daily reality.

This week we're in Ephesians 2 — and we're asking the question most of us are afraid to really answer:

Do I actually live like I'm covered by grace? Or am I still trying to earn something I already have?

3 things we unpack:
🙌 Grace is not what you earn — it's what you receive
🙌 Grace received must become grace extended
🙌 Grace is not a license to do whatever you want — it's the power to live differently

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God." — Ephesians 2:8

You can't earn it. You can't lose it. You can only receive it.

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/what-you-cant-earn-and-cant-lose-understanding-the-grace-that-changes-everything

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10/12/2026

🏃 This Week's Sermon: "Still Running: How to Keep Going When the Race Gets Hard"

Everyone starts well. The energy is there on day one. The conviction is real.

The problem isn't starting. The problem is staying.

This week we're in Hebrews 12 — the image of a stadium full of witnesses, a race stretched out before you, and the question every believer eventually has to answer:

Will I still be running when it counts?

3 things we unpack:
✅ Perseverance is not willpower — it's perspective
✅ The cloud of witnesses changes what quitting feels like
✅ Everything that slows you down has to go

"Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus." — Hebrews 12:1-2

The race has your name on it. Keep going.

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/still-running-how-to-keep-going-when-the-race-gets-hard

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10/05/2026

🙏 This Week's Sermon: "Teach Us to Pray: What the Disciples Knew That Most Believers Are Still Missing"

Most Christians believe in prayer. Most of those same Christians will also admit their prayer life isn't what they want it to be.

Not because they don't believe. But because somewhere along the way, prayer started feeling like talking to yourself.

The disciples had a different problem — they watched Jesus pray. And what they saw in him, they knew they didn't have.

So they asked: "Lord, teach us to pray."

This week we look at what he taught them — and what changes when prayer becomes a real conversation instead of a religious routine.

3 things we unpack:
🔑 Prayer is a conversation, not a performance
🔑 Prayer aligns you with what God is already doing
🔑 The invitation to ask is itself the answer to your doubt

"Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened." — Luke 11:9

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/teach-us-to-pray-what-the-disciples-knew-that-most-believers-are-still-missing

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09/14/2026

🔓 This Week's Sermon: "The Prison You Build for Others: Why Forgiveness Is the Key to Your Own Freedom"

There are people who have been saved for 20 years who are still carrying unforgiveness toward one person.

Not because they don't want to forgive. But because no one ever explained what forgiveness actually is — and isn't.

This week we're in Matthew 18 — the parable of the unforgiving servant. The man who was forgiven an impossible debt and immediately went and threw someone into prison over a fraction of what he owed.

Jesus's words at the end of that story are sobering. And clarifying.

3 things we unpack:
🔑 Forgiveness is NOT excusing what happened
🔑 Unforgiveness punishes YOU more than them
🔑 The capacity to forgive comes from having been forgiven

The prison you build for the person who hurt you? You're locked inside it too.

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/the-prison-you-build-for-others-why-forgiveness-is-the-key-to-your-own-freedom

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08/31/2026

🙌 This Week's Sermon: "You Were Made for This: Finding Purpose in the Life You Already Have"

Does your life matter? Not your career. Not your title. Your actual everyday life — the Tuesday mornings, the quiet routines, the ordinary moments you almost overlook.

This week we're in Jeremiah 29:11 — words God spoke to people in exile, people who felt forgotten. And the message is the same for you today:

You were not born by accident. You were placed here — in this city, this family, this moment — on purpose.

3 things we unpack:
✅ Purpose is rooted in identity, not achievement
✅ Purpose works through ordinary days (not just big moments)
✅ Purpose survives every season — including the hard ones

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/you-were-made-for-this-finding-purpose-in-the-life-you-already-have

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08/24/2026

🙏 This Week's Sermon: "In All Circumstances: The Gratitude That Doesn't Wait for Good News"

Give thanks in ALL circumstances — not just the good ones.

Paul wrote those words from prison. And yet his letters overflow with joy and praise.

This week's message from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 unpacks what it really means to have a grateful heart — not as a reaction to good news, but as a posture toward God that holds through every season.

3 things we cover:
✅ Gratitude is a posture, not a feeling
✅ "All circumstances" includes the hard ones
✅ Thankfulness is God's will — and it's available RIGHT NOW

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🔗 https://www.raisethepraise.net/weeklysermons/in-all-circumstances-the-gratitude-that-doesn%E2%80%99t-wait-for-good-news

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08/09/2026

🙌 This Sunday's Sermon is Live!

"Overflow: When Hope Isn't Just a Feeling — It's a Force"

📖 Romans 15:13 — "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

Hope anchored in God doesn't rise and fall with your circumstances. It holds you in place when everything around you is moving.

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https://www.raisethepraisenetwork.com/weeklysermons/overflow-when-hope-isn-t-just-a-feeling-%E2%80%94-it-s-a-force

07/27/2026

🙌 This Sunday's Sermon is Live!

"The Command to Be Courageous: Why God Doesn't Suggest It"

📖 Joshua 1:9 — "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

Courage isn't a personality trait — it's a command. And God doesn't command what He hasn't equipped you for.

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https://www.raisethepraisenetwork.com/weeklysermons/the-command-to-be-courageous-why-god-doesn-t-suggest-it

07/11/2026

🙌 This Sunday's Sermon is Live!

"When You Can't See the Road: Trusting God in the Unknown"

📖 Proverbs 3:5-6 — "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

God doesn't ask for your understanding. He asks for your trust.

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https://www.raisethepraisenetwork.com/weeklysermons/when-you-can-t-see-the-road-trusting-god-in-the-unknown

06/21/2026