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Why Our Union with Christ Matters

In the book of Judges we see two women: Deborah and Jael. With the story of Deborah and Jael comes a lesson of judging based on appearence and unfair expectations.

When one thinks of the Law of God, holiness comest to mind. It's almost axiomtic. After all, what is religion without rules? However, God's people delight in understanding and living out holiness as God describes it. This is for a reason: that God may be exalted and glorified. Come with the Grace United crew as we discover God's "boundary markers" of holiness and are encourged to live them out.

In this 4th of July message, Pastor Joe outlines the radical and revolutionary beginnings to our country and how it was founded on the Biblical principles of Liberty, Responsibility, Godliness, and the Freedom to become what God intended us to be. He speaks about our Freedom – which isn’t really free, but infinitely valuable, and how, like our Founding Fathers, our hearts are to be inspired by Hope which is revealed and defined by Scripture!

Today Tristram had us look at 3 Questions: 1. If the cross/Christ are so important, why do some still reject it/Him? 2. Who can be saved? 3. As Christians what is our response to the importance of the cross?

By Pastor Glenn Pease In May of 1972 deacons from Baptist churches throughout Virginia gathered for a special conference dealing with the work of the deacon. The leader noted a number of women in the crowd. He welcomed them as wives of the deacons. He was quickly set straight when it was pointed out…

By Pastor Glenn Pease A young girl from a very wealthy family decided to write a story about poor people for her assignment in school. Her story began like this: "Once upon a time there was a poor family. The father was poor, the mother was poor, the children were poor, the butler was poor, the chauffeur…

By Pastor Glenn Pease In 1781 Sir William Herschel, the English astronomer, discovered the planet Uranus. He plotted the course that this new planet should follow, but for some mysterious reason Uranus did not follow the predicted orbit. Other astronomers checked his calculations and found no mistake.…

By Pastor Glenn Pease Determining the superiority of either side in either conflict is difficult since the decisive factor in gaining a victory is often hidden. This was certainly the case when the Spanish Armada sailed against England. It was one of the greatest fleets ever assembled, and the Spanish…

By Pastor Glenn Pease The question was asked of a class of Catholic girls-"What is matrimony?" One girl confidently stood and said, "Matrimony is a state of terrible torment which those who enter are compelled to undergo for a time to fit them for heaven." "No, no," said the priest, "You have given the…

Sermon on 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Title: Chumps Chosen to Laud the Lord Theme: Christians boast only in the Lord Goal: to encourage believers to only boast in the Lord. Need: we often puff ourselves up when we are told that God uses the weak and the foolish. Outline: Think of what you were when you were…

This sermon explores why the faulty exegesis and hermeneutic principles of the Restoration Movement and the earlier founders like the Campbells and 2nd generational leaders like David Lipscomb lead them to faulty conclusions regarding what was a Biblical essential and what was not: God's horizontal reconciliation of humanity for which slavery, racism, ethnocentrism were violations. I list five exegetical and hermeneutical fallacies they held that led them to make heretical claims.

Introduction: If you were a Jew, you would not have liked Cornelius. He represented everything you hated. Cornelius was an uncircumcised gentile, and he made his living in the military occupation of your homeland. Cornelius was an outsider who lived on the fringe of your community. So you would not have…