Grounded In Grace

Christ Church of Clarkson
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Grounded In Grace is the teaching ministry of Tony Bartolucci, Minister of Preaching at Christ Church of Clarkson, New York. He has an M.A. from Phoenix Seminary and is a doctoral candidate at Whitefield Theological Seminary.

Episodes

  1. 1D AGO

    Principles of Biblical Church Leadership: Elders (Part 1) | 1 Timothy 3:1a

    Principles of Biblical Church Leadership (Part 1) | 1 Timothy 3:1a ---------------------------- Sermon Outline-------------------------------- Introduction and Overview of 1 Timothy:                           I. The Elder’s Call to Serve (1)     A. Historical Background     B. What is an “Overseer?”         1. Eiskopē (to oversee / office of overseer) and Episkopos (an overseer / guardian)         2. Elders / Pastors / Overseers = same office             a. Acts 20 and other N.T. passages         3. Why are there different words for the same office?             a. Elder             b. Overseer             c. Pastor         4. What they do? Conclusion:

    58 min

  2. MAR 8

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 9) | 2 Peter 1:10-11

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 9) | 2 Peter 1:10-11 -------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------ Introduction:                           III. Salvation's Surety: The Believer's Assurance (10-11)     A. Being Certain About Your Calling and Election         1. What Does It Mean? (v. 10)         2. What Is Required of us in that Regard? (v. 10)         3. What does it Mean "you will never fall"?         4. What is the Goal? (v. 11)     B. Some Thoughts as to a Theology of Assurance         1. Four Questions to Ask Yourself: “Am I in the Faith?”             a. Do I Have True Knowledge?                b. Do I Have a Real Faith? (trust)               c. Am I in the Battle?             d. Do I Hate My Sin?         2. How Can I Have Greater Assurance of My Salvation?             a. By Spending Time in the Word             b. By Spending Time with the People of God             c. By Cultivating a Relationship With God             d. Be Sure that Christ is the Foundation of Your Assurance             e. Have as your Goal  to Have a "Happy Death" Conclusion:

    58 min

  3. FEB 15

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 8) | 2 Peter 1:8-9

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 8) | 2 Peter 1:8-9  -------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------ Introduction: Testimonies and Truth . . .    II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)     B. Staying Out of the Danger Zone (8-9)         1. A Positive Exhortation (8)         2. A Negative Warning (9)             a. Change in grammar from plural to singular (hypothetical example?)             b. No such thing as a totally fruitless Christian             c. Spiritual blind-spots in our lives Conclusion:

    57 min

  4. 12/14/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 7) | 2 Peter 1:8

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 7) | 2 Peter 1:8 -------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------ Introduction and Quote by Lloyd-Jones . . .    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)     A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3)     B. An Inheritance Grounded in God's Call (3b)     C. An Inheritance Guaranteed  to Sanctify (4) II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)     B. Faithfulness Contrasted with Vice (8-9)      1. A Positive Exhortation (8)             a. Note “useless and “unfruitful”             b. Matthew 13             c. Back to “true knowledge” in 2 Peter 1 Conclusion . . .

    45 min

  5. 11/23/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 6): Excursus on “The Almost Christian Discovered” | 2 Peter 1:7

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 6): Excursus on “The Almost Christian Discovered” | 2 Peter 1:7 and Selected Scriptures --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- A LONG Introduction: The Almost Christian Discovered by the Puritan Matthew Mead    In Mead's Introduction - he gives his central thesis: "There are very many in the world that are almost and, yet, but almost Christians." Should true Christians despair of hope / assurance?     1. "How far may a man go in the way to heaven and yet be but almost a Christian?"     2. Section III. A man may have a high profession of religion, be much in external duties of godliness, and yet be but almost a Christian     3. Section IV. To come yet nearer, a man may go far in opposing his sin [even hate his sin] and yet be but almost a Christian ("All sin may be chained and yet the heart not changed")     4. Section VIII. A man may be a member of the church of Christ, he may join himself to the people of God, partake with them in all ordinances, and share of all church privileges and yet be but almost a Christian     5. Section IX. A man may have great hopes of heaven, great hopes of being saved, and yet be but almost a Christian     6. Section X. A man may be under great and visible changes, and these wrought by the ministry of the Word, and yet be but almost a Christian     7. Section XI. A man may be very zealous in the matters of religion and yet be but almost a Christian      8. Section XII. A man may be much in prayer. He may pray often and pray much and yet be but almost a Christian. So did the Pharisees whom yet our Lord Christ rejected for hypocrites.      9. Section XX. A man may do all as to external duties and worship that a true Christian can and, when he has one all, be but almost a Christian.  II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)     B. Faithfulness Contrasted with Vice (8-9)         1. What lies in our hearts?          2. Boil it down to two basic areas:             a. What do you believe?             b. How do you behave? Conclusion . . .

    45 min

  6. 11/23/2025

    The Almost Chrisitan Discovered | 2 Peter 1 and Selected Scriptures

    The Almost Chrisitan Discovered | 2 Peter 1 and Selected Scriptures --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- A LONG Introduction: The Almost Christian Discovered by the Puritan Matthew Mead    In Mead's Introduction - he gives his central thesis: "There are very many in the world that are almost and, yet, but almost Christians." Should true Christians despair of hope / assurance?     1. "How far may a man go in the way to heaven and yet be but almost a Christian?"     2. Section III. A man may have a high profession of religion, be much in external duties of godliness, and yet be but almost a Christian     3. Section IV. To come yet nearer, a man may go far in opposing his sin [even hate his sin] and yet be but almost a Christian ("All sin may be chained and yet the heart not changed")     4. Section VIII. A man may be a member of the church of Christ, he may join himself to the people of God, partake with them in all ordinances, and share of all church privileges and yet be but almost a Christian     5. Section IX. A man may have great hopes of heaven, great hopes of being saved, and yet be but almost a Christian     6. Section X. A man may be under great and visible changes, and these wrought by the ministry of the Word, and yet be but almost a Christian     7. Section XI. A man may be very zealous in the matters of religion and yet be but almost a Christian      8. Section XII. A man may be much in prayer. He may pray often and pray much and yet be but almost a Christian. So did the Pharisees whom yet our Lord Christ rejected for hypocrites.      9. Section XX. A man may do all as to external duties and worship that a true Christian can and, when he has one all, be but almost a Christian.  II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)     B. Faithfulness Contrasted with Vice (8-9)         1. What lies in our hearts?          2. Boil it down to two basic areas:             a. What do you believe?             b. How do you behave? Conclusion . . .

    45 min

  7. 11/17/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 5) | 2 Peter 1:6b-7

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 5) | 2 Peter 1:6b-7 --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- Introduction . . .    I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4) II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)         1. Moral Excellence (5)         2. Knowledge (5)         3.  Self control (6)         4. Perseverance (hupomonē) (6)             a. Eternal Security and Perseverance of the Saints         5. Godliness (6)         6. Brotherly kindness (7)         7. Love (7) Conclusion . . .

    57 min

  8. 11/10/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 4) | 2 Peter 1:5b-6a

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 4) | 2 Peter 1:5b-6a --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- Introduction: Themes of God’s Calling, Election, and Assurance of Salvation I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4) II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. Faithfulness Demonstrated Through Seven Virtues (5-7)     * In your faith / faithfulness “supply” these virtues         ** “Supply” = verb epichorēgeō (noun = chorēgos)             *** 1st c. plays and the role of the chorēgos (“supplier”)             *** Peter uses a literary device known as sorites . . .         1. Moral Excellence (5)         2. Knowledge (5)         3.  Self control (6) Conclusion . . .

    57 min

  9. 10/12/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 3) | 2 Peter 1:5a

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 3) | 2 Peter 1:5a --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- Introduction: I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)      A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)          1. What being graced with everything pertaining to life and godliness doesn’t mean: •                Life will be easy . . .             •    We won't suffer emotionally . . .              •    We don't work at living the Christian life . . .             •    We aren't resourceful . . .         2. By God’s promises we escape the corruption that is in the world II. Salvation's Service: The Believer's Faithfulness (5-9)     A. How the Passage Unfolds (cf. Colossians 1:29)                     B. We Are to be Diligent in the Power of the Spirit Conclusion: Quote by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

    55 min

  10. 09/28/2025

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 2) | 2 Peter 1:3-4

    Confirming Your Calling (Part 2) | 2 Peter 1:3-4 --------------------------- Sermon Outline------------------------------- Introduction: Truth Matters I. Salvation's Sufficiency: The Believer's Inheritance (3-4)      A. An Inheritance Granted by Grace (3a)         1. The challenge to apply truth to our lives (comes down to two things):             a. Belief             b. Discipline     B. An Inheritance Gained Through a Knowledge of Christ (3)     C. An Inheritance Grounded in God's Call (3b)     D. An Inheritance Guaranteed  to Sanctify (4)         1. This gift of our inheritance includes precious and great promises (4)             a. Positively: We become partakers of the divine nature (4)                    (1) Union with Christ             b. Negatively: We escape the world's corruption (4) Conclusion: Quote by John Piper

    55 min
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Grounded In Grace is the teaching ministry of Tony Bartolucci, Minister of Preaching at Christ Church of Clarkson, New York. He has an M.A. from Phoenix Seminary and is a doctoral candidate at Whitefield Theological Seminary.

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    Christ Church of Clarkson
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    10
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    © Copyright 2026 Christ Church of Clarkson
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