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Weekly sermons from Grace Mills River Church in Mills River, NC which is near Asheville, NC. Grace Mills River is a mission extending the Gospel of Jesus Christ to western North Carolina including Asheville, Hendersonville, Brevard and Tryon Foothills by using culturally relevant communications and the arts. Bringing Good News to the Mountains!
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Hallowed Be Your Name
As we continue to look at The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus leads us to meditate on God’s holy, beautiful, and superlative character & name; which permeates all of creation and is ultimately displayed in the finished work of Jesus. Given a new name and...
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Start with the End
From how not to pray—masquerading as someone else before God and others—Jesus shifts gears: “Pray then like this,” he says, “Our Father in heaven…” These potent first four words will be supplemented with his teaching later in his sermon about a...
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Performance vs. Hiddenness
Our final focus in our sermon series on prayer shifts to the Lord's Prayer. Right out of the gate, Jesus shows us how not to pray. Jesus reveals how a certain sin can lurk subterranean in our prayers, one that is so mainstream in our culture...
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The Prayer of Lament is a Calling
We’ve tried to explain a sadly too prominent kind of necessary prayer: the prayer of lament. It is our desperate act of appealing to a good God amid what often feels anything but good. We’ve said it is at bottom a longing, and also a journey. But we...
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Between Here and Hope
Those who place their trust in the Lord are not immune to hardship, nor to the loss of hope we might associate in our day with depression. The experience of hopelessness is reportedly on the rise in many places and among several demographics, and with...
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Prayer in Despair
Psalm 88 is the bleakest of all the psalms. It shares the same sorrow as other psalms of lament, but it lacks any of the resolution or hope. What does such a darkened word of prayer have for us? From it we learn what we will all have the occasion for...