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YOUTH EVENT
Just a reminder we will have a gathering of our Youth and Youth Parents, Wednesday May 6th ay 6:00 p.m. We will all enjoy some great food, a lot of fun, and will be talking about the road that lies ahead for our Youth, including Summer Camp opportunity. Please try to attend. We should be wrapping up before 8:00 p.m.
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The First Friday monthly intercessory prayer meeting will be held at Grace House this Friday evening, May 1, at 6:30 p.m. at Grace House. The meeting will be led by Teena Buchannan. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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The following is also on our Meetings page but I wanted to make sure everyone gets a glimpse of it.
Grace Groups Meetings
Sunday Afternoons — Grace House Youth meet for various activities at various places. Leaders — Matt and Kimberly Standridge
Monday Evening at 7:00 p.m. (Starting April 6th) David Clark will be leading a time of prophetic intercession. A brief teaching segment following by prayer and worship. Everyone invited.
Tuesday Morning — Grace House Men meet at Eddie’s House at 6:30 a.m. for coffee, fellowship and the Word. Just come! We live at 760 County Rd 27 in Florence. Just Google Map us!
Tuesday Ladies Bible Study Luncheon–(Begins April 7th) Mikki Lawrence will be leading the class. She explains below:
I am planning on leading a women’s Bible study called: TrueFaced: Trusting God and others with who you really are
It is a study on grace and relationships. I plan on meeting at Grace House on Tuesdays at 12 noon and be finished by 12:50. This will allow for women to come from work. I am going to invite the ladies to pick up a lunch or bring one from home - whatever - and meet once a week. This study will last 8 weeks. Each lady will need to purchase the workbook which is very inexpensive. I am planning on beginning April 7.
Wednesday Evening — A group or primarily young married couples led by Todd Bullard meet to connect to grow in relationship with Jesus and one another. Childcare provided. Currently meeting at the home of Yancey and Jan Ownby at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday Evening– A special Bible Study class led by Jim Bevis and Kevin Creekmore meet at 7 p.m. to teach and discuss "What On Earth is God Doing?"
Thursday Evening — The Grace House Worship team meet to fellowship and rehearse. Led by Ross Smith
Friday Evening — The first Friday of each month, Teen Buchannon leads an intercessory prayer group to pray and seek God together.
Coming Soon! — Ladies Exercise Group led by Rhonda Hoffman. More details posted soon.
Other Group Meetings:
Vicki Sledge occasionally hosts a meeting of Grace House ladies in order to build relationships.
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Our Youth Center is being painted this week and the molding finished up. Next step will be to have flooring installed. We are excited about this additional space which will also be wonderful multipurpose space for us.
We are hoping to be able to add furnishings fairly soon and equipment. It is beautiful and a first class facility for our young people to enjoy. Thanks to all of you who are giving to Grace House to make all this possible. It is amazing what has transpired in just three short months. Everything is paid for which is allowing us to continue to move forward.
Additional furnishings for the Nursery area are being purchased this week. We also are having additional work done on the serving area in the Lobby. We should be using it this coming Sunday to serve our weekly Sunday morning breakfast to all our folks.
The Children’s area continues to flourish. We had a wonderful appreciaton luncheon for our children’s leaders this past Sunday.
We have placed the order for a new church sign to be placed on the front of the bldg. It should be up in about a month.
We are looking into purchasing sound equipment as well.
Blessings!
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Just a note to let you know that all the messages that are preached at Grace House at our Grace Gatherings are available on CD as well as this website. Just contact Mike Sledge at sledgems@comcast.net and he will be happy to give you the details. We appreciate the work that Mike does withour Media.
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I hope you enjoy the following post by Duane Carter. Duane is a gifted writer and faithful part of our Grace House family. Thanks Duane for sharing this with us.
Blessings.
Eddie
I recently attended a marriage conference that totally rocked my world. I mean, it didn’t just rock my marriage world, it rocked my entire sun-up to sun-down and all-the-darkness-in-between world. And if I had to pick out one thing that stuck deeply in my heart, it would be the fact that I learned that God has set up this world to thrive in relationships, and in those relationships He has set up this world so that we can find Him in the face-to-face conversations we have with others. We are all created in His image, so we all bear His image. I can find God if I am looking for Him in others during a face-to-face conversation, and I can hear Him and see Him there. What is fascinating here is that in the stories people tell, we can find God in the midst. Just like the Bible has stories that we hear multiple times, but they contain infinite truth so we can learn something new every time, so it is with the stories we all carry. Some of the most beautiful and necessary truths for my life are wonderfully hidden in the stories of my wife and my children. Some of God’s most incredible truths are buried within the stories of my friends. Some of God’s most incredible surprises are found in the words of a stranger. I simply have to take the time to behold the face. I simply have to take the time to behold the face and listen. The conversation might not be pleasant and there may even be a problem that isn’t resolved, but if we will look and listen we will find God in the midst of it. Why does He do this? So we can learn to treasure each other and to treasure His truth. It is the glory of God to hide a matter, and it is the glory of kings to find it. When we find Him in our conversations with others He is glorified and we find more glorious treasure that makes our lives and others lives more wondrous and beautiful. Everyone we meet has treasure from Him.
Let’s discover Him.
Duane Carter
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Please remember that Song will be showing a DVD Thursday night, March 12 by Rob Bell called Everything is Spiritual.
At 5:30 p.m., prior to the DVD, there will be pizza for the youth.
Please help us pass the word for the youth and encourage them to come. If you know how many of your youth will be attending, let me know so we’ll have a better idea on the number to buy pizza for.
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Enjoy this devotional shared recently with us by Todd Bullard. Thanks Todd for a great job.
“That I may know Him…”
Know - Strong’s G1097: ginōskō Pronunciation: gē-nō’-skō
1. to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel
a. to become known
2. to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of
a. to understand
b. to know
3. Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman
4. to become acquainted with, to know
John 14:8,9
Philip said to Him. Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us [and we’ll be satisfied.”
And Jesus said to him, “Philip, how long have I been with you and yet you have not known me.”
Knowing God presumes much from our mere humanity, doesn’t it? How could Philip and the other disciples not have known Him? Can past experience alone qualify us as ones who “know Him”? Evidently, even the confession of who He is isn’t enough. They had heard Peter’s confession and believed (Matt 16), but was there more?
I’ve been a Christian for 26yrs. In that time, I have enjoyed the blessings of God, walked in the favor of God and experienced the presence and gifts of God, but have I truly known Him? Can I presume to know Him anymore than Philip and the other disciples?
Matt 7:23
"Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ "And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me’. You who practice lawlessness.”
It’s interesting to me that many of the things we long to see and experience today are the very things that Jesus mentions. Don’t get me wrong, I believe that signs and wonders should and will follow believers, but evidently there is more to knowing Him than experiencing those things.
Part of it could be our good ol’ religious upbringing. Always approaching God with what we need from Him, like He’s some kind of spiritual vending machine. For many of us, it started with salvation. Did we accept Christ as Lord to lead a life of discipleship, or did we sign up just to escape the big fire? I guess my point is that much of our Christian experience has been a pretty one-sided transaction; God always doing, we always asking. And since salvation, much of our doctrine, official or otherwise, has been a gospel that has more managed our disappointments in ourselves and in God than it has cultivated relationship with Him.
So how do we truly begin to know Him?
Philippians 3:10
That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Knowing Jesus, requires that we die to the areas of our life where self is still enthroned, so that through the power of his resurrection, we may find life with Him. In the dying, there’s a place in the fellowship of His sufferings where we truly come to know him. Even in the midst of our current struggles, dreams, disappointments and failure, there’s a call to die and an invitation to know Him and His resurrection power.
How deeper could our relationship with Him be if we can learn to die to systems of thought (I Cor 2:16), the deeds of the flesh (Rom 8:13) and perhaps even our own dreams and desires?
Consider Abraham (Gen 22): Abraham was willing to kill the very dream God had given him. The very promise that was spoken to him was placed on the altar of submission and obedience.
Are we constantly laying down our dreams and our very lives for His? Martin Luther called it, “the great exchange”.
I think Jesus would call it, “knowing Me”.