Called - Book of Ephesians (Teaching Series)
God has called His people together in unity, both Gentiles and Jews, to those far off and close, to bring the Hope of Christ to all. This call is not new but has extended back to the beginning as God had them look up to see His hope for the future.
God has called His people together in unity, both Gentiles and Jews, to those far off and close, to bring the Hope of Christ to all. This call is not new but has extended back to the beginning as God had them look up to see His hope for the future.
Reading Plan
Read around the readings for Sunday
1-21-24 Abraham
Genesis 12:1-9
Ephesians 1:3-14
Mark 1:4-20
1-28-24 Moses
Exodus 3:1-12
Ephesians 2:8-22
Mark 2:14-17
2-4-24 Paul
Acts 9:1-9
Ephesians 4:1-16
Mark 3:13-19
2-11-24 Here I am Send Me
Isaiah 6:1-13
Ephesians 6:10-20
Mark 6:6b-13
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Matthew Chapter 4a Bible Study
The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 4a
The Gospel of Matthew
Watch our overview video on Matthew 1-13, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Matthew, Jesus brings God’s heavenly kingdom to earth and invites his disciples into a new way of life through his death and resurrection.
![[Sunday] Baptism Of Our Lord](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5852f18a20099e30cd2c01dc/1705078623113-46Y1DOXTJJFX6KJV5QF3/Weekly6a.jpg)
[Sunday] Baptism Of Our Lord
God is pleased, not because the Jordan River is great (it's not); not because Jesus is from an important town (He is from the sticks); not because Jesus has done anything great yet. God is pleased because the creation is being made new, not with greatness or power, but in grace.
God is pleased, not because the Jordan River is great (it's not); not because Jesus is from an important town (He is from the sticks); not because Jesus has done anything great yet. God is pleased because the creation is being made new, not with greatness or power, but in grace.
New Song This Week.
His Mercy is More
Above “Song for this week” has Grace’s Recording
Original Lower
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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Email Blast 1/13/24 - Gettin Baptized at Grace this Sunday
See the email from this Week
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Walther League photos
Great time with one another
We had 7 People!
We will see you next time 2nd and 4th Fridays
Haiti Update, Girls Start School
Exciting news from Haiti.
Meshac is back from Haiti with some updates!
The Girls Started School!
Here are their pictures from their frist day. Their Dresses where new and made for them.
New 2nd Story Addition on to the Clinic.
When we were in Haiti there was just a staircase up to the roof. There is now a new addition which will funtion as a kitchen.
We had wanted teh Clinic to open in January but have faced a few setbacks. The main doctor we were going to hire died last week. Please pray for his family and friends.
New Song "His Mercy Is More"
New song this Sunday!
On January 14th 2024 we are singing
His Mercy is More
1.
What love could remember, no wrongs we have done
Omniscient, all-knowing, He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Chorus
Praise the Lord ˅
His mercy is more ˅˅
Stronger than darkness
New every morn’
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
2.
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more (Chorus)
3.
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more (Chorus x2)
Matthew Chapter 3 Bible Study
The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 3
The Gospel of Matthew
Watch our overview video on Matthew 1-13, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Matthew, Jesus brings God’s heavenly kingdom to earth and invites his disciples into a new way of life through his death and resurrection.
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[Sunday] Odd Epiphany - Emmanuel: Joy in the Midst
Under Epiphany's odd light, a star guides foreign Maji’s steps to Bethlehem, A jewish King looks like Pharaoh caring nothing for the messiah, and The holy family seeks refuge in Egypt. This light of the kingdom exposes the normalized oddity of God’s salvation.
Under Epiphany's odd light, a star guides foreign Maji’s steps to Bethlehem, A jewish King looks like Pharaoh caring nothing for the messiah, and The holy family seeks refuge in Egypt. This light of the kingdom exposes the normalized oddity of God’s salvation.
New Song This Week.
Above “Song for this week” has Grace’s Recording
Original Lower
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Epiphany as the Other Christmas
Epiphany—is for the Gentiles, those who were once not God’s people, but who now, by the grace of God in Christ have become the people of God
Read the Whole Article at Epiphany as the Other Christmas (1517.org)
https://www.1517.org/articles/epiphany-as-the-other-christmas
Epiphany is an extension of Christmas, a sort of Christmas 2.0. It’s conspicuous place following the nativity narrative in Matthew’s Gospel presents it as the “other Christmas,” the “Christmas of the Gentiles.” At the first Christmas we find a swaddled baby in a manger visited by shepherds from the fields summoned by angels. In the “other Christmas” we find a toddler at his mother’s feet in a house visited by “Magi,” wise men from the East guided by a star. The first Christmas was announced to Israel, the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham; the second Christmas was for the world, the nations, the Gentiles, the fulfillment of God’s promise to Adam.
“Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising,” God said through Isaiah (Isaiah 60:3).
The Greek word “epiphany” means “appearing,” and in ancient times it was used usually about the appearing of a god or a great king. Lutheran theologian Charles Cortright notes that some kings thought they were gods. For example, Antiochus IV, an ancient Syrian king, took the name “Epiphanes” after he defeated the Egyptians to placard his divine prowess. But his mortality was soon exposed as the Maccabean Revolt in Jerusalem evidenced his all-too-human vulnerabilities. Notwithstanding, there were divinely-inspired biblical prophesies and imaginative pagan mythologies that set expectations for a miraculous appearing of a God-king.
The Magi had come from the east to Jerusalem guided…………………….
Read the Whole Article at Epiphany as the Other Christmas (1517.org)
https://www.1517.org/articles/epiphany-as-the-other-christmas
Matthew Chapter 1-2 Bible Study
The Gospel of Matthew Chapters 1-2
The Gospel of Matthew
Watch our overview video on Matthew 1-13, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Matthew, Jesus brings God’s heavenly kingdom to earth and invites his disciples into a new way of life through his death and resurrection.
New Song "All Glory Be To Christ"
New song this Sunday!
On January 7th 2024 we are singing
Kings Kaleidoscope - All Glory Be To Christ
1.
Should nothing of our efforts stand
No legacy survive
Unless the Lord does raise the house
In vain its builders strive
To you who boast tomorrow's gain
Tell me, what is your life?
A mist that vanishes at dawn
All glory be to Christ
Chorus
All glory be to Christ our king
All glory be to Christ
His rule and reign we'll ever sing
All glory be to Christ
2.
His will be done, His kingdom come
On earth as is above
Who is Himself our daily bread
Praise Him, the Lord of love
Let living water satisfy
The thirsty without price
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
All glory be to Christ [Chorus]
3.
When on the day the great I am
The faithful and the true
The Lamb, who was for sinners, slain
Is making all things new
Behold our God shall live with us
And be our steadfast light
And we shall e'er his people be
All glory be to Christ [Chorus 2 times]
Matthew Bible Study 2024
The Gospel of Matthew Chapters 1-2
The Gospel of Matthew
Watch our overview video on Matthew 1-13, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. In Matthew, Jesus brings God’s heavenly kingdom to earth and invites his disciples into a new way of life through his death and resurrection.
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[Sunday] Simeon - Emmanuel: Joy in the Midst
Emmanual was worth the Wait.
Emmanual was worth the Wait.
Worship With Us.
Sundays
8:30 & 10:15AM
Live Stream 10:15AM
What Had happened at Grace this week.
A Different Kind of New Year
Waiting, in hope, for someone else to arrive.
Read the Whole Article at https://mbird.com/holidays/advent/a-different-kind-of-new-years/
If you were to ask me what my least favorite holiday is — and trust me, I am a children’s minister and mother of three, this is not the weirdest question I’ve been asked this week— I would most likely reply New Year’s (both Eve and Day, to be specific). Part of it feels overly celebratory for a simple turn of a calendar page. Some of it is that I am expected to stay up past ten p.m. and not be grumpy. A large part of it is that somehow, with the flip of the page and the tick of the clock, I am supposed to be a newer, fresher, better version of myself at midnight. Expecting anything of me after midnight is ridiculous.
I am supposed to have more energy and interest in self-improvement. Things are supposed to get better not worse. This year will be different because this is the year, after forty others just like it, that I will finally have more self-control. I will have learned from all of my previous mistakes, errors, failures, flops and non-wins. Nothing will be left as it was. This year, I will have it all together.
Christmas Eve Photos at Grace
Photos of Silent Night. Christmas Eve
Thanks For the Great Christmas Season.
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[Christmas Day] Light - Emmanuel: Joy in the Midst
Born from the womb of darkness, God dared to paint the nascent universe with light. Centuries later, that celestial brushstroke moves in the wonder of Christmas where every dark place shines the light of God With Us
Born from the womb of darkness, God dared to paint the nascent universe with light. Centuries later, that celestial brushstroke moves in the wonder of Christmas where every dark place shines the light of God With Us
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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[Christmas Eve] Silent Night - Emmanuel: Joy in the Midst
Amidst the unending clamor, Emmanuel orchestrates a silent night.
Christmas Eve Candlelight 4&7pm
Amidst the unending clamor, Emmanuel orchestrates a silent night.
What Had happened at Grace this week.
We are called to walk in love, just as Isaiah sees he is a sinful man among a sinful people, and he yet is sent cleansed. God cleanses us to walk in love and gives us the defense of His armor.