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Summer Ministry – Please Read

March 12th, 2012 Dear church family or friend of Springs of Grace, Grace and peace from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This past year the Lord has challenged us as a faith family with several truths. Through the young lady, Jehoshabeath who leveraged her influence as the sister of the king to rescue the…

Criticism

“I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said about me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten thousand angels swearing I was right would not…

Criticism

“I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said about me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten thousand angels swearing I was right would not…

Meditating on the Love of God the Father

Tim Challies posted this quote of John Owen. I don’t know if there is any truth more powerful than this. Here is a beautiful and powerful quote from John Owen who calls on you to rejoice in the love of God (It is taken from Communion with the Triune God). Owen says rightly that knowing…

Forgiveness – Asking and Giving

Tim Challies had a great blog post about forgiveness. It was birthed out of an incident in his own life where he had to ask for forgiveness. I found it very helpful for me and as I work on it in my life, perhaps the Lord will let it become the norm in our faith…

Just going with the flow = discrimination and racisim

I am reading a book by Carl F. Ellis Jr. titled “Free at Last?”. It is about the gospel in the African-American Experience. Carl Ellis is president of Project Joseph, a ministry dedicated to the reformation and renewal of the church. He also serves as director of development for Oxford Graduate School in Crystal Springs,…

Better to Honor God Than to Win

Dr. Jim Hamilton, the guest teacher the past two weeks at Preacher School, wrote a good article about sports. I’m having my kids all read it and plan to forward it on to teams I coach. Hope it is a blessing to you. Better to Honor God Than to Win by JMHon March 8, 2011in…

ANTICIPATING A GREAT DAY

Please plan on joining us for worship this Sunday. I can not remember a passage that has been as difficult as 1 Corinthians 7 and yet has yielded as much practical food for my soul and what I believe will be much benefit for our faith family. Pray that we will get all that God…

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