by AJ Graves | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog
-This week on the Grace blog, James Zilenziger is guest posting about his experiences as a volunteer peer counselor at Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center. I sat across from Nick* and Jackie* in our private counseling room and muttered a prayer in my head as our...
by AJ Graves | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog, Contentment, Discipleship, Gospel
This past Monday night, I had the opportunity to speak to a group of college athletes within the Athlete Intervaristy group of my alma mater, TCNJ, on the topic “How to Find and Praise God in Defeat”. My guess is if they all knew the topic I was assigned ahead of...
by AJ Graves | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog, Faith, Perseverance
There are times in my routine Bible reading where a certain phrase or verse will stop me in my tracks. I may try and keep reading to get to the end of the chapter or passage, but my mind stays on that phrase. This recently happened to me as I read through a chapter...
by AJ Graves | Sep 12, 2018 | Blog, Commitment, Community, Member of Church, The Church
There is no shortage of studies from both faith-based organizations and secular ones that point to declining church membership across the country, especially amongst millennials. While this often gets overblown as a talking point (at Grace, our fastest growing...
by AJ Graves | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Christian Living, Discipleship, Encouragement, Holiness, Obedience, Perseverance
There’s no shortage of cleverly worded phrases that are spoken often amongst the people of God that are meant to encourage, exhort, and equip. This isn’t a problem in and of itself, of course, but it starts to become dangerous when phrases that are not in the...
