Grace Mills River

It’s a longstanding and regular conversation among psychologists about whether people can meaningfully change. Some approaches suggest real promise, but prove ineffective. Other ideas that no one imagined would help end up showing a real impact on...

If the “dance” of the Gospel is living in a manner worthy of our new status, both as individuals and also significantly as a community, then just like a dance it calls for learning a mature gracefulness. What is that graceful corporate life whose...

As we’ve said from the beginning of this series, song and dance are each distinct, but they are often inseparable. Melody inspires movement; the movement rests on the melody. This week we come to the “hinge” passage of Paul’s letter–the part that...

"New Year New Me.” However well-intentioned, this self-improvement mantra usually eventuates little to no lasting change. Thankfully, the Bible’s recipe for personal transformation has more to do with God’s steely resolve to change us. From...

We will hold a worship service at 10:30am on Christmas morning for those who are able to attend in person. Let's celebrate Christ's birth with a few worship songs and short devotional led by Pastor Lafferty. There will be no childcare, cafe...

We invite your family to join us for our Christmas Eve service at 4:30pm on Saturday, December 24. We look forward to celebrating the Incarnation with our GMR family & friends! Children welcome, no childcare available.

As we’ve said repeatedly, Advent recalls Jesus’s arrival on earth for the purpose of clarifying and refreshing our hope in His return. Here in this both severe and bracing passage, Jesus outlines the heart of one who waits not casually but mindfully...

Our late modern moment is obsessed with discovering who we are and what we are. But the season of advent beckons us to ponder when we are. Advent reminds us that we are living in the meantime between the once and future arrival of Jesus. What then...

Waiting upon the Lord is more than merely biding your time or maintaining an even keel. Waiting means having particular expectations–your hopes set on particular objects that then affect how you think and respond to your present circumstances. Advent...

Blues music vents the deepest struggles of human experience as it liberates the musician from the sorrows the music testifies to. In all Paul’s towering and pointed letter so far it perhaps escapes us he writes to his recipients from prison. The work...