Grace Community Church: Painted Post, Corning

We were created to be reflectors of God’s glory, not projectors of our own glory. God’s goodness, God’s grace, God’s plan, God’s power becomes our glory. This doesn’t shrink us, it enlarges us.

No church and no believer is perfect. We can and should put up with a lot. Imperfect believers, imperfect churches, we should show patience, grace, and charity. We must not have a hair trigger reaction and call every imperfect situation spiritually abusive. But where we find spiritual abuse we must not put up with it.

Keep it simple saint. Is that leader, teaching, movement, friend, or impulse in your heart leading you to unfolded, simple, pure devotion to Jesus?

The Difference Partnership Makes in a Local Church

In Christ, by his word, and through His Holy Spirit we have power to demolish lies and build firmly on the truth of Christ. He is the rock who won’t roll, the foundation that lasts forever.

May we also see beyond the surface, even of people who criticize and treat us ill, and see what the power of God could do to them ??" building them up, not tearing them down!

Resurrection Sunday... Living hope redeeming our past, assuring our eternal future, and guarding us in the here and now. All through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. What a day! What a hope! What a Savior!

The cup of God’s wrath has been emptied. Our debt has been paid in full. We have been rescued from death and for eternal life. What blessed words: It is finished!!!

The saddest harvest is a life that’s all about us. That’s where the sinful map in our hearts wants to take us. Pride can make that feel pretty fulfilling for a time, but in the end, it’s empty. It’s vain glory, empty glory. The harvest of righteousness is seeing that it’s all about God. Our joy, our hope, our meaning, our life is God.

When we find our Christian experience feeling smaller and smaller, shrinking and unfulfilling, there’s a good chance that the answer isn’t getting more, it’s giving more.