Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,I wanted to write a few brief words to you about Critical Race Theory that come from my own personal thoughts and prayers. Up until recently – my knowledge of Critical Race Theory was limited to four or five attempts at reading an article or listening to someone speak about…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
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Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace. I hope and pray you have had a blessed week. I hope you have walked in the joy of the gifts in the inheritance that Jesus has left us of the Holy Spirit and His peace this past week. I’ve really been helped by the passage at…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace. I hope the Lord is keeping you and blessing you. I have prayed for our church family several times this week out of the letter of 1 Thessalonians. “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace.I am thankful to the Lord and to you to get to serve you as one of your elders and to get to preach to you most weeks. I am richly blessed to preach and pastor a group of people that are striving so hard to love the…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,I wanted to write a few brief words to you about Black Lives Matter that come from my own personal thoughts and prayers. There seems to be some attempt to lump every negative thing about the organization “Black Lives Matter” onto every person who expresses the biblical sentiment that black…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace.God, in His providence, has placed our city at the epicenter of the political and social world this weekend. I joined with several men in our church on Wednesday evening to pray for our city and then joined many from our church family and neighborhood at the prayer…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace. We will be live stream only again tomorrow. You can participate in the service through this link: https://youtu.be/prb2gJ9nKZgThe message tomorrow is from John chapter 12 and entitled “For Lovers Only”. I am excited about what the Lord might teach us through it and praying that we might…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace. Tomorrow is a special Sunday in the life of our church. We will be taking our summer ministry offering that will be used to fund bringing in our interns for the Community Response Team this summer and to help with the extra efforts of love to our…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family,Grace and peace. I hope you are planning on joining us in one of three ways tomorrow. We are taking these steps week by week and trying to love well. A small few of us will gather at the church building for worship (only if you signed up by Friday),…
Dear Springs of Grace Church Family, We are thankful for God’s mercies over the past couple of months and as elders and in consultation with the medical community in our church and in seeking counsel and prayer, believe that the Lord has given us some guidance for our return to worshiping together. Our goal is…