The Lord commissioned the prophet Jonah to call out against the evil of the Ninevites. Jonah did not want to. So he went the other direction, as far from Nineveh and the presence of the Lord as he could (or so he thought). The Lord...
If we are supposed to live with a mission mindset all the time, why are we emphasizing missions in November? Here are three reasons: We need to be reminded of what's important. Busyness can be detrimental to priorities. The important can be sacrificed for the urgent....
"For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God." - 2 Corinthians 4:15 This verse is a massive reminder of what God is really doing in our lives and in...
Jason Miller, Pastor of Children and Families, will preach at Grace this Sunday on the worth and dignity of human life and our calling to protect it. Also, the elders of Grace will present the Statement on the Sanctity of Life that they passed in...
In 2 Corinthians 4:7, the Apostle Paul said, "we have this treasure in jars of clay." The jar of clay is a metaphor for the weakness and ordinariness of our humanity. Don't miss this. Paul is saying that God has entrusted the gospel of the...
The Apostle Paul said, "We do not lose heart." Really? It seems like we are always losing heart and getting discouraged. I can think of a thousand reasons Christians lose heart. Two reasons are found in 2 Corinthians 4. We lose heart over the perceived weakness...
We started our church-wide discussion on love several weeks ago with 1 John 2:15, "Love not the world nor the things of the world." Now we read in John 3:16 that God loves the world. Shouldn't we love what God loves? Should we love,...
Whenever I hear people say they love their church, I wonder if they really mean that they love something about their church. I assume that they like something about the style of music, the preaching, the building, or the demographic makeup of their church. I...
"To know the love of God is indeed heaven on earth. The New Testament sets forth this knowledge, not as the privilege of a favored few, but as a normal part of ordinary Christian experience, something to which only the spiritually unhealthy and malformed will...
"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." - 1 John 2:15 "The love of the world cannot be expunged by a mere demonstration of the world's worthlessness. But may...
