Grace Assembly Sermon Series

Today's message was given by  Pastor Roy "Buddy" Denton - with his wife Cheryl, missionaries to the Slavic communities in the United States. buddy speaks to our need to LUI, live under the influence (LUI) of the Holy Spirit. While things like DUI kills,  LUI brings life. Going to the word, Pastor Buddy lists six characteristics that demonstrate LUI.

Today's service took an unexpected turn. While we waited on the Lord, He reach out to us and said He was waiting on us. He waits on us to turn back to Him. He stopped service - just for you.

Returning to a concept he mentioned last week almost in passing, Pastor John goes to 1 Timothy 6:1-21 to explain what the Bible says about fighting the good fight. The  Word tells us how to fight, what we're fighting against, and, as an alternative, what we benefit from by pursuing it.

Pastor John starts with a word of encouragement to the body.  God wants to, and is, using His people - including you. Therefore, make sure you are grounded in His word and walk in obedience.

Then going to Mark 9:14-29, Pastor John reminds us since God's word will never pass away,  we are  invited to believe, to have faith in Jesus.

Sharing a message birthed during the recent mission trip, Pastor John talks about how the Lord helps us to go to higher grounds and deeper depths in Him. It will take faith - not logic, reasoning, or holding on to the past. Embracing the latter will harden our hearts.

This weekend we welcome back a host of our members who were busy abroad. This includes the Youth returning from the 2023 Camp and the missionaries who served in Kenya. We celebrate their return and all the Lord did while we were apart!

Pastor John Blomberg speaks today about obedience. It's a big deal and subsequently a big problem. John takes us back to the garden so we can understand the impact even today of us listening to something other than what God says.

There is a fine line between obeying and disobedience and we have to decide every day, every minute, how and if we will obey.

Happy Father's Day to our physical and spiritual dads!

Pastor Richard Oti goes to scripture to demonstrate how no one knew God as father in the Old Testament. He was many things and had many names but not father. It was only after He was revealed through Jesus that this changed. Now we know Him and can call Him "Abba, Daddy!"

Today's service starts with recognizing and praying over our four high school graduates - Joslyn Blomberg, Madi Grace Edwards, Hannah Williams, and Christian Cleghorn.

We then pray over and send out our missionaries heading to Kenya to serve with Pastor Michael Masambu and his local body.

Pastor John then continues his study on what scripture means when it calls someone blessed. Today he focuses on the “secret” of being called blessed. Have you strayed? Are you struggling? Do you need to do something different? Be careful as it is possible to experience something deep in our mind, flesh, emotions, or soul and it will lead us astray. Instead we need to listen to the Spirit since it is tied to the Lord. 

After all, the “one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does (James 1:25).”

Returning to the Beatitudes, Pastor John again seeks to correct / reinforce our thinking on what Jesus means by being blessed. Having a correct understanding of this concept will help us in our work of faith. After all, Jesus not only gives us a roadmap for our walk of faith, His words tell us how to triumph over evil.