Thursday, February 11, 2010

LOVE - FOUNDATIONS - FEAR - LIAR - PRAYER - SURVIVOR


I absolutely love Sundays here at Grace Church! Preaching here at Grace in conjunction with all the elements of the service week in and week out is the highlight of my week every single week. And coming up we have some amazing message series’ planned. Here is a quick preview:

LOVE: GO FOR THE GOLD – This is our current series wrapped in a Winter Olympic theme from Matthew 22, Luke 10 and Matthew 5 as we look at what it means to live out Jesus’ Gold Medal commandment to love God and His silver medal commandment to love others. This 4-week series runs February 7-28.

FOUNDATIONS – This is our theme for this year’s Vision Month in which we look to get everyone who is part of Grace Church on the same foundation in 8 areas including purpose, vision, salvation, baptism, giving, serving, connecting and fasting. This 4-week series will run March 7-28.

FACE YOUR FEARS – This is the theme for our series which will start on Easter weekend as we look at 6 fears that we all face and how we can deal with each of them and find hope in the midst of them. These fears, which were picked by our church family last November, include the fear of death, the fear of broken relationships, the fear of sickness, the fear of disappointing God, the fear of financial failure, and the fear of being alone. This 6-week series will run Easter weekend (April 3-4) through Mother’s Day (May 9).

LIAR – This will the theme of our series in which we study verse by verse through the book of Second Peter. First Peter is all about protecting ourselves from persecution from without while the book of Second Peter is all about protecting ourselves from false teaching that comes from within. We will see in the first half of the book how to protect ourselves from false teaching while identifying false teaching. The last half of the book will show us that in spite the lies that come from the false teachers, God has not lied to us about the promise of Jesus Christ to return. This 7-week series will start on May 16th and run through the end of June. It is our hope on the final Sunday of this series, June 27th, to have one large outside combined service under a massive tent here on our property.

PRAYER – During the month of July we will return to the topic of prayer as part of our Year of Prayer. In this series, which is yet to be named, we will look at the examples of four people from the Bible and see what we can learn from their prayer lives. We will see the example of Daniel and the need for courage in our prayer lives. We will see the example of Enoch and the need for intimacy in our prayer lives. We will see the example of Solomon and the need for selflessness in our prayer lives. And we will see the example of Samuel and the need for listening in our prayer lives. This 4-week series will run from July 4-25.

SURVIVOR: OLD TESTAMENT - This series will take us back to 6 of the most exciting stories from the pages of the Old Testament. These stories will be picked as part of our “Face Your Fears” series. This 6-week series will run from August 1st through September 5th.

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