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How well do you know some of your fellow church members?  I don’t just mean their name, that on most Sundays they’re doing “good”, and a few standard facts about them.  I’m not advocating for knowing more about people.  I’m suggesting that it’s time to invest ourselves into deeper relationships with our family in Christ!… Continue reading What It Means to Be Community

Have you ever noticed how doing something wrong gets a little bit easier every time?  The first time committing a particular sin, our conscience may burn within us!  But if we manage to explain away that guilt and pep-talk ourselves into another go, we can surely work ourselves into a comfort zone with certain sins! … Continue reading Warning! Harden Not Your Heart!

Each morning before leaving home, the typical person will look in the mirror to check his appearance and ensure that they look presentable.  Some traits can be adjusted, such as bedhead or food on our faces; others are simply a part of who we are, like my freckles and stubborn cowlick.  It’s important for us… Continue reading How to Have Beautiful Feet

Thank you, Lord, for our All Nations Praise last Sunday at Grace Baptist Church, in which you were honored, and your Word challenged us all to be continually praising you, in a way that would influence the lost world around us to know the good news of Jesus!  Thank you for calling us out to… Continue reading A Prayer for Our Church

We live in a world that is saturated with the pursuit of comfort, and that comfort is especially one in which we have familiarity and ease.  As I study the Bible, I am more and more convinced that God wants to challenge us in our comfort, and move us out of our comfort zone for… Continue reading Beautiful Diversity

I wish I had it all together.  I wish I had all the answers so I could get myself together.  How I long to know the secret to life!  There is a weariness all around right now.  Are you weighed down with daily regrets, relationship struggles, and spiritual weariness? I am learning that there is… Continue reading The Bible is Simple

The Lord tells us, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3).  That invitation and promise sounds exciting… but perhaps you share the common sentiment: “I’ve tried praying… and it doesn’t work.”  Maybe that outlook is reflected in your dissatisfaction with your… Continue reading The Church Must Pray Together

How was your time reading the Bible today?  Do you remember what you read?  Did it transform your attitude or perspective?  Did it move you to worship?  Or was it a struggle to push through and maintain focus as you read the Word of God?  Or did you pause from your busyness to spend time… Continue reading Daily Devotion and Worship

The hardest thing a parent will ever have to do is to watch his child suffer.  We love our children and want the best for them!  How difficult it is to be helpless amidst our own child’s suffering… and if we are able to stop the suffering and rescue them, how driven we are to… Continue reading The Suffering Child and His Father