GL First - Weekly Messages

This four-week Christmas series examines four common life experiences that test our patience and threaten to take away the joy the comes with the gospel story. Whether it’s heading off to college, getting married, waiting for Christmas morning, or the birth of a child, we find ourselves longing for the big event. Christmas reminds us that God is at work even in the struggle and beauty of life. In week 2, Pastor Anthony looks at how we can grow through the process of waiting.

This four-week Christmas series examines four common life experiences that test our patience and threaten to take away the joy the comes with the gospel story. Whether it’s heading off to college, getting married, waiting for Christmas morning, or the birth of a child, we find ourselves longing for the big event. Christmas reminds us that God is at work even in the struggle and beauty of life. Despite difficult circumstances, Christmas is, and will always be, a gift of hope.

Oh the irony of Thanksgiving in 2020. In this weeks message, Ironic Thanksgiving, Pastor AJ teaches us how gratitude can bring peace, humility and sufficiency.

Nobody likes to feel unappreciated. In this weeks message Pastor Anthony unpacks the Power of Appreciation and gratitude.

In the midst of such turbulent times in our world, we are in need of grace and need to offer grace more freely than ever. In this weeks message Pastor Anthony explores the nature of grace and why it matters so much.

This message was shared by Pastor Paul Goedert last November 1, 2020. Between the first advent and the second advent of Jesus Christ, believers are to be building up the kingdom of God and therefore both awaiting and hastening the coming day of the Lord. In this message, Pastor Paul identifies the ways we are both waiting for the coming of the Lord and working to build up his kingdom here on earth. We hope that this message uplifts you and bring you closer to God. Please tell your friends about us, this may be the right message for them. Visit our website at GLFirst.org. If you have any questions or concerns email us at [email protected]. Thank you so much!

This is the week 3 of our series Intentional Jesus shared last 10/25/2020. This is the story of Jesus feeding the Five Thousands and how Jesus was intentional to people. Jesus never did anything on accident, He lived an intentional life. In this series Intentional: Unique Lesson from the Life of Christ, we look at how Jesus shaped His ministry and life and being intentional. Jesus taught is not to look at what we are missing, but to use what we already have. We hope that this message uplifts you and bring you closer to God. Please tell your friends about us, this may be the right message for them. Visit our website at GLFirst.org. If you have any questions or concerns email us at [email protected]. Thank you so much! 

We continue the series Intentional Jesus, this is the week 2 of the series. In this message Pastor Anthony talked about the importance of waking up early in the morning and how Jesus did this in practice. Are you a morning person? This message was shared in our Sunday gathering 10/18/2020. We hope that this message uplifts you and bring you closer to God. Please tell your friends about us, this may be the right message for them. Visit our website at GLFirst.org. If you have any questions or concerns email us at [email protected]. Thank you so much!