While home sick this morning instead of worshipping with GC, I prayed for God to move in power through Romans 10, and read a sermon by Voddie Baucham.
Anytime we have to miss church, or are assigned to work in the nursery, let's seek to listen to the sermon online (or your techno audio gadget) as soon as we're able...
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Abraham lived roughly 2000 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Yet, according to Jesus, Abraham saw Christ's day, and upon seeing Him, was glad. How so? Because, "before Abraham was born," Jesus IS...
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Now that Grace Church has walked through the first four parts of our current nine-part series titled, "Toward a Christ-Centered Theology of the Bible," I thought it might be helpful to give a brief word of review to help us all know where we've been, and to peek forward to where we're heading.
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Christmas and Easter are easily the two most popular dates in the Christian Church. Tommorrow represents another important, but far lesser known date - Ascension Sunday.
Christ ascension is important to our salvation because He, "...will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven." Christians are looking for the physical, bodily, return of Jesus Christ!
Jesus ascended to heaven 40 days after His resurrection from the dead, which means He would have ascended on a Thursday. Throughout history though, since churches have met on the Lord's Day, they've celebrated Christ's ascension the following Sunday, which this year, is tomorrow.
Think about the significance of Christ's ascension in the following verses...
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As those who are preparing to attend Grace Church tomorrow morning seek to ready hearts, here are a few suggestions.
See you in the morning, Lord willing
(Please also pray for me this afternoon. I'll be preaching at a special event at the truck stops in West Memphis. For those who might not know, West Memphis, AR is truck-stop capitol of the world -- Being the city where Interstate's 55 and 40 intersect).
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Grace Church has been exponentially blessed by the prayers, love,
support, and encouragement from many other churches, individuals, and
organzations.
This week the people of Grace sent specific words of thanks to them. Now, I want to express public gratitude to the Lord for them as well.
In these first two-plus years of our existence, Grace Church has been enabled to come this far because of God's kind provision in answer to your prayers, and through your generous support. Thank you all! "May the Lord indeed bless and keep you..."
Below you will find summaries of how several churches and organizations have blessed us. These summaries were also displayed last Sunday for the people of Grace so they too could join in giving God the glory for the ways He's used each of them to serve and support us.
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How in the world can I know what's going on at Grace Church?
Fair questions...
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Immediately after Sunday's sermon, Jim Suggs and I were talking about the immutability of Christ's divine nature.
One truth that landed on us heavily is the good news that we can be saved because Jesus is God, and therefore He doesn't change! See Malachi 3:6 compared with Hebrews 13:7. Amen!
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Eternally significant things have happened in prison--like the writing
of books of the Bible (Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, Philemon)!
Although the biblical canon is complete, God is still doing great things in prisons across the world...
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Lord willing, this Sunday Grace Church will be considering the many ways the Bible reveals Christ from eternity past.
I hope you will be able to join us, and will prepare your heart to encounter Jesus in the Scriptures...
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In about a month we hope to begin our Fellowship of the Burning Heart Reading Groups. The name and purpose derive itself from these two areas:
Luke 24:32 They said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?"
and the other area is a quote from The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too easily satisfied religionist, but justified in the happy experience by the children of the burning heart."
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