While Gideon was hiding from the enemy with fear in his heart, God called him a mighty man and a deliverer of his nation. God views us through the call and destiny on our life, not by our circumstances. It is our tendency to look at our circumstances and feel unworthy and disqualified. We, as Gideon did, need to with the reality of what God says about us, and know that it is all about God, not all about us. Our faith is in God, not in our own strength, and our identity needs to flow from heaven to earth, not earth to heaven.

How does God measure the amount of life we have in our lives? He does this by measuring how rich our relationship with Him is. There are some practical things we can do to help us stay connected with God.

Core values are meant to be built and strengthened in times of peace so that they can be counted on in times of adversity. A clip of a family tragedy is shown and particular attention is drawn to the family's reaction to the tragedy. It is an amazing story and teaches us the lesson of working on the core values of forgiveness and compassion so that when adversity comes, we can be like Jesus who said, “Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

The Vision Statement of Grace Community Church is derived from Isaiah 61:1 which impart says: “To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound...” I believe that this scripture which was used in the very first sermon that Jesus preached in church reveals the heart of God. Jesus came to encourage, heal, proclaim liberty and open prisons to those who are bound, and so should we!

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If anyone truly experienced the pain of full intamcy with God aside of Jesus who cam to restore it, it was Adam and Eve. God's desire for us to seek him with all is clear throughout the scripture, yet with the enemy's strategy of distraction in todays battle arena, have we truly lost the understanding of how important it is seek God, and to seek Him with everything?

Due to Gnosticism and other error that has been propagated about the deity of Jesus, this teaching clarifies the truth that Jesus as a man, was fully God and fully man. He had two natures while he was a man, the nature of God, of which he laid aside the power, rank and privilages of God; and the nature of man, so that he could totally empathize with us in our temptations, and over come them all as a man. The Bible declares this to be a great mystery: God was manifest in the flesh!

After preaching on two major topics of the Blood of Jesus (Cleansing and Redeeming), I add one more sermon that wraps up the topic with a variety of verses of scripture concerning the Blood of Jesus and things that it does for us. This sermon specifies from scripture the power in the Blood of Jesus and our need to appropriate it in our lives.

Following the previous sermon on the Cleansing Blood of Jesus, this sermon is focused on the redeeming quality of Jesus' blood. All have sinned and are in need of redemption. God's plan to provide redemption was to send His Son to die for our sin. On the cross, Jesus' blood was shed, the price to redeem us was paid, and though we were ‘sold under sin' by Adam, we are now ‘bought with a price a through the blood of Jesus'.

An inspiring and informative message examining recent scientific data regarding our solar system, galaxy and beyond which God has already clearly and amazingly communicated to us through the scriptures. Nothing is too difficult for a God who is creator of the heavens and earth!