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May 12th, 2024 | Freedom by Submission | Grace Valley Church, Dundas, Ontario by Grace Valley Church

Join us as Pastor Paul unpacks 1 Peter 2:13-17 and we discover what it looks like to live a 'good' life. To live a life where your behaviour is such that it makes others take notice. As Christians, there is something that drives us that is abnormal in todays social landscape, and that something is our love for Jesus. Our behaviour certainly going to make us enemies and it possibly might make us friends, but the only way to live a good life in the eyes of the Lord is to follow Him with our whole hearts, minds and souls, as God's elect and chosen people, no matter what the "world" says.
~KT

It's easy to get caught up in feeling like everyone is sizing you up everywhere you go. Your boss, your friends, your coworkers, even the pizza delivery guy. But in God's eyes, we are all the same. He judges the super model, the fry cook, the prime minister, the pastor and the garbage man the same. All of us sinners, all of us in need of grace. God's children are chosen because of God's desire to save us, not because we are amazing human beings. We can rest in the fact that we can't do anything to earn that grace, it is just given to us because we are deeply loved by our heavenly father. Listen in as Pastor Paul unpacks 1 Peter 2:9-10 this week, here at Grace Valley Church.
~KT
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This week we hear from Pastor Moses Lee as he leads us through Mark 6:30-44.

This week's sermon focuses on two things: not only do we have a new foundation for our lives as believers but we are also so deeply, deeply loved. It's easy to hear those words and let them skim off of our hearts, but how often do you truly reflect on the love that the Lord has for you? How often do you pray for a soft enough heart to let those words sink right into your core, past all the skepticism or projections of human weaknesses that we can sometimes attribute to the Holy God?

Sometimes I have a tendency to think that God has accepted me into His kingdom almost begrudgingly, more because He said He would and less because He actually loves me enough to want me around for eternity. It sure is a long journey to get to the point where we can accept God's genuine love just as He's offered it. But once we do accept His love, we will see a new foundation in our lives that is slowly built up on the solid ground of His gift of grace. It is sure, true, trustworthy and it is freely given.
~KT

What does growing up in our spirituality look like? Does it mean that we do more and more good works? Possibly. But our motivations for why we do the good works will come from a different place than they did before. This week, Mark Hordyk unpacks 1 Peter 22:23-2:3 and we learn what it looks like to grow and become more and more spiritually mature.