by Aaron Syvertsen | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Easter Events, Service
The Gospel of John is the only gospel to record the various teachings Jesus gave to his disciples during the Last Supper, the day before he was crucified. Isn’t it true that we tend to especially remember the “final words” someone gave? During this Holy Week, I’ll...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Apr 1, 2020 | Anxiety, Blog, Christian Living, Church History
*The following is an email that Pastor Aaron sent out to Grace Church earlier this week, and we wanted to share it on the Grace Blog* Grace Church Family, As we get deeper into this pandemic, and the mixture of emotions and fears seems to intensify with each passing...
by Andy Steen | Mar 11, 2020 | Faith, Gospel, Holiness, Sound Doctrine
If you’re anything like me, you’ve read an article or two about what precautions you can take to avoid contracting the novel coronavirus. And all of those articles start with the same advice: wash your hands. We now all know that in order to clean our hands properly...
by Mary Capalbo | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Daily Life, Faith and Fear, Obedience, Remembrance, Sermons, Trust
I read a crazy but relatable story this morning. Let me give you a brief summary: The story revolves around this little town, and unfortunately the people who live there are pretty evil. There is a guy in that town named Jeremiah who has spent most of his life...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Christian Living, Commitment, Daily Life, Discipleship
Are we done talking about New Years resolutions until 2021? How we all doing? A popular new years resolution for people in general and Christians in particular is to read the Bible more regularly. And for good reason! No book has been read, studied, printed, and...
by Charity Cordell | Feb 19, 2020 | Christian Living, Community, Gospel, Prayer
Have you ever had an encounter with someone stronger in the faith that entirely changed your method of living out the gospel? For me, her name was Judy, and we were standing in the boxed food aisle of my local grocery store. I knew Judy from church. She was all at...
by Mary Capalbo | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Contentment, Daily Life, Encouragement, Faith and Fear, Perseverance, Prayer, Sovereignty of God, Surrender
I was recently having a conversation with a close friend and she said something that has kept echoing in the back of my mind ever since. We were discussing frustrations in life and she said, “Our culture is so focused on being comfortable, that the moment...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog, Discipleship, Faith and Fear, Life and Death
There are certain days in history that get remembered as, “Where were you when you heard ____?” Unfortunately, it’s typically associated with tragedy and loss. For previous generations, it was Pearl Harbor and the assassinations of JFK and MLK. In my lifetime, the...
by Charity Cordell | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog
The Holy Spirit is pretty amazing. He continually holds my interest by allowing spiritual epiphanies at the strangest of times. My most recent revelation came as I watched an episode of Hoarders. It’s a television show that exposes the lifestyle of hoarding physical...
by Andy Steen | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Christian Living, Daily Life
I’ve been getting lots of mediocre advice on Facebook lately about being myself. A typical example goes something like this: “Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself so that the right people will love you.” Okay, there’s a nugget of truth...
by Mary Capalbo | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
We are over a week now into the new year. How are your resolutions going? There are probably three responses to that question. You feel proud and want to tell me that you’ve kept your resolutions every day so far and it’s been amazing. You groan...
by Aaron Syvertsen | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Christian Living, Church History, Encouragement, Sound Doctrine
Christians are, by their nature, a bookish kind of people. The all-powerful, all-knowing, all-sovereign God of the universe who created all things for his Glory chose to reveal Himself through, of all things, a book. The written Word is the single unified story...