Grace Community Church Sunday Morning Messages Grace Community Church, Loveland, Colorado

Sarah’s life was full of waiting and confusion mixed with adventure and trust. In the midst of her waiting she had moments of great faith and great doubt, she laughed in disbelief at God’s ability to keep His promise and laughed with faith and joy when God kept it and gave her a son! 

The Hero of this story is God who protected His special promise to Abraham and Sarah when their fear got them into trouble. There is no perfectly faithful human, only a perfectly faithful God. God has the power to do the impossible, nothing is beyond His ability to accomplish and He always keeps His promises! This is the foundation and source of our hope!

It can be hard to trust God when we are waiting on a promise. God is faithful to keep all His promises and to intervene when we are going the wrong way. He helps us to trust, enables us to wait, and meets us in our fears and doubts. 

The Bible is full of stories, and every story tells us something about God and His character. In 1 Kings 18-19 we see that God helps Elijah through ups and downs, in Jonah we learn how God shows compassion to the people of Nineveh. Jesus’ work on the cross shows us God’s justice and His great love for us. (John 18-20). In the book of Acts we see how far and wide God’s love and reach goes – all people of all nations are invited into relationship with God through Jesus. When Paul brings this good news to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia, a Roman colony, a businesswoman named Lydia is the first to believe and her home becomes one of the first churches. (Acts 16:11-15)
 
Join us this week as we uncover truths about our Amazing God through these varied stories.

The Bible is full of stories, and every story tells us something about God and His character. In 1 Kings 18-19 we see that God helps Elijah through ups and downs, in Jonah we learn how God shows compassion to the people of Nineveh. Jesus’ work on the cross shows us God’s justice and His great love for us. (John 18-20). In the book of Acts we see how far and wide God’s love and reach goes – all people of all nations are invited into relationship with God through Jesus. When Paul brings this good news to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia, a Roman colony, a businesswoman named Lydia is the first to believe and her home becomes one of the first churches. (Acts 16:11-15)
 
Join us this week as we uncover truths about our Amazing God through these varied stories.

Throughout life, we find ourselves in seasons of getting well, getting strong, or getting going as sent ones living on mission. Healing unfolds as we are transformed in our heart, mind, and soul by the love and saving Grace of Jesus. We are strengthened when the various parts of Christ’s body work together building up His people and His church. As brothers and sisters in Christ we are given the privilege of going into the world as participants with Christ in His work of healing, strength, and reconciliation. This is how we as a church know Christ and make Him known.

Join us as we dive into how Jesus is at work to heal, strengthen, and equip us for His glory and our good.
Prepare for the message by reading: Luke 4:16:21, Eph 2:1-7, Rom 12:2, Col 3:13, 1 Tim 4:7-8, Phil 2:12-13, Eph 2:8-10, Matt 28:18-20

This final chapter in John is the account of Jesus’ 3rd appearance to the disciples after He was raised from the dead. The scene begins with a miracle that mirrors the way He called the first disciples: Simon (Peter), James, and John. (Luke 5:1-11) Then we move to a gathering around a fire and a conversation with Peter that feels a similar to another recent time Peter sat at a fire (John 18:15-27). We end the book with an intimate conversation between Peter and Jesus alongside John’s final summary of all he has told us.
 
Be encouraged with us by Jesus’ personal, specific, and restorative action and conversation with His closest friends. Prepare for this week’s message by reading John 21:1-25 with Luke 5:1-11 & John 18:15-27.

The empty tomb, what did it mean? John tells us that they didn’t yet understand from the Scriptures that Jesus would raise from the dead – rather they seem to think Jesus is still dead and his body is now missing. Jesus had told the disciples at least twice (Matthew 16:21 &17:23) that he would die, be buried and on the 3rd day be raised. When John enters the empty tomb and sees the grave clothes lying there, he believed. The rest continue to look for Jesus’ body. Jesus could have left them all to put the pieces together on their own. But He doesn’t. First, He talks with Mary and helps her understand. Then He visits the disciples and helps them understand (except for Thomas who wasn’t there at the time). Then He visits the disciples again and helps Thomas understand.
 
Grow in your own understanding of the resurrection of Christ and prepare for this week’s message by reading John chapter 20.