Welcome to our original blog! As of 2022, our current blog, Words of Grace, is hosted on Substack. We hope you are encouraged by our posts from 2017-2021.
Pray the Opposite of What You Feel
God made us to be both thinking and feeling creatures. While both our minds and our emotions have been affected by the fall, our emotions in particular have a tendency to undercut the assurance that truth should provide. We need not dismiss our feelings (they are...
God’s Amazing Grace
Grace...what comes to mind when you hear that word? Forgiveness? A pardon? An excuse? Favor? The name of our church? Beneath the Surface It seems to me, that as believers, we are quick to receive grace, but slow to give it. And that makes me wonder if we are...
Spiritual but Not Religious: Why Bother With 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...