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[Sunday] Roots and Shoots: The Full Flower - Resurrection Eyes

A plant cannot be healthy unless it has strong roots and healthy shoots.  This Sunday we learn more about the roots of resurrection.


A healthy plant, like a healthy Christian, is always reaching for the Light and growing toward the Son.  The flowering we call resurrection manifests who we are as people of God.


What Had happened at Grace this week. 

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[Sunday] Roots and Shoots: The Tap Root- Resurrection Eyes

A plant cannot be healthy unless it has strong roots and healthy shoots.  This Sunday we learn more about the roots of resurrection.


We had a streaming issue this Sunday. This video is from a last min camera which was set up.

A plant cannot be healthy unless it has strong roots and healthy shoots.  This Sunday we learn more about the roots of resurrection.

Thought for the Week: RESURRECTION EYES: Roots And Shoots: The Tap Root

Something strange is happening — 

There is a great silence on earth today, a great silence, and stillness.  

The whole earth keeps silent because the King is asleep.  

The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began.  God has died in the flesh and the underworld trembles with fear.  

--- from an ancient Holy Saturday Homily






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St Lucie Mets Game - June 19th

Fun at the mets game

Tons of Fun!   Join us for a Mets baseball game on Thursday, June 19th, from 6:00 – 9:00 PM
                          Doors Open 5:30pm

Clover Park (Mets Stadium). We will have shaded seating upward left as you walk in the main center entrance (3rd Base Side).   Playing the Palm Beach Cardnials

Enjoy $2 hot dogs, $2 soda, and $2 popcorn as well as $2 draft beer at the concession stands. 

Tickets are General Admission.
Just show up and purchase a ticket and meet us at the seats.

Fun Announcement: Mound ball (innings 2-6) - exclusive for GLC patrons only.

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Baptism of Haven

On May 18th 2025 we Baptized Haven as a child of God!

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[Sunday] Roots and Shoots- Resurrected Eye

A healthy plant has strong roots and strong shoots.  The same is true of a healthy child of God.


A healthy plant has strong roots and strong shoots.  The same is true of a healthy child of God.

Thoughts for the Week: RESURRECTION EYES: ROOTS AND SHOOTS from - Maccabees

2 Maccabees 7:14

[I] cannot but choose to die at the hands of evil men AND to CHERISH THE HOPE THAT GOD GIVES OF BEING RAISED AGAIN BY HIM.  BUT FOR YOU THERE WILL BE NO RESURRECTION TO LIFE!”

2 Maccabees 7:22 - 7:23

“I do not know how you came to be in my womb; it was not I who gave you breath and life, nor was it I who arranged the elements you are made of. 

Therefore, since it is the Creator of the universe who shaped the beginning of humankind and brought about the origin of everything, HE [THE LORD], IN HIS MERCY, WILL GIVE YOU BACK BOTH BREATH AND LIFE, BECAUSE YOU NOW DISREGARD YOURSELVES FOR THE SAKE OF HIS LAW.”


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[Sunday] Seeing Emmaus- Resurrected Way

On the road to Emmaus the disciples realized that Jesus saved them from so much more than their small vision could ever see.


On the road to Emmaus the disciples realized that Jesus saved them from so much more than their small vision could ever see.

Questions for the Week: Resurrected Way: Seeing Emmaus

  1. TheWhat image of Jesus comes most easily to your mind?  Does that image feel complete, or are there other ways you might now think about what Jesus was all about or who he really was?

  2. Read Luke 24:13-35.  The disciples on the road to Emmaus had a specific idea of what Jesus was supposed to do to redeem Israel.  They were mistaken.  What's a time in your own life when you might have had a specific expectation of how God would work, but it turned out differently? 

  3. The disciples' "eyes were kept from recognizing" Jesus. Can you think of a time when you might have missed seeing something important because of your own assumptions or expectations? How can we try to have "open eyes" to the way of Jesus in our daily lives?

  4. The moment the disciples recognize Jesus during the breaking of bread. How does coming to the Lord’s table, receiving his body and blood, open our eyes to the way of Jesus?


What Had happened at Grace this week. 

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[Photos] Mother’s Day, New Members, and Graduation

So many great things happening at grace on Mother’s Day!

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[Sunday] Song of the Gardener - Resurrected Way.

Through song’s recreated breaths, John's resurrection narrative sings of a renewed creation, where the risen Jesus embodies a peace that transforms a world marred by anti-shalom..

Through song’s recreated breaths, John's resurrection narrative sings of a renewed creation, where the risen Jesus embodies a peace that transforms a world marred by anti-shalom.

Questions for the Week: Resurrected Way: Song of the Gardener

  1. The sermon talked about the "song of creation." Can you think of a time recently when you felt a sense of joy or a new beginning, like a little burst of that song?

  2. Read John 20:1-23.  John's gospel draws strong connections between the resurrection and creation. How does understanding Jesus as the embodiment of God's presence, bringing "shalom," reshape our understanding of what the resurrection means?

  3. Mary Magdalene mistook Jesus for the gardener, connecting him back to the Garden of Eden. Why do you think that image of a gardener is a powerful way to understand Jesus's role after the resurrection? How does it show God's care for us and the world?

  4. Jesus breathed on his disciples, similar to how God breathed life into Adam. What do you think it means for us to receive that "breath" of the Holy Spirit today?


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Situation in Haiti

Aid coming into Haiti

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[Sunday] Amazed - Kingdom Way - Mark 16

Mark's account unveils a resurrection marked by amazement, revealing God's presence in unexpected bursts of glory. Mark 16

Mark's account unveils a resurrection marked by amazement, revealing God's presence in unexpected bursts of glory.

Questions for the Week: Resurrected Way: Amazed

  1. The sermon talked about the women at the tomb being filled with "astonishment and amazement." Can you recall a time recently when you felt genuinely amazed by something? What was it, and what made it so surprising or wonderful?

  2. Read Mark 16:1-8. The sermon connects moments of amazement throughout Mark's Gospel (healings, calming the storm, etc.) to the amazement at the resurrection. How do these earlier moments prepare us for the ultimate amazement of Jesus's resurrection?

  3. We see that amazement is a sign of God "breaking in." Where do you see signs of God "breaking in" or bringing forth the amazing in the world today, even in ordinary circumstances?


What Had happened at Grace this week. 

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Photos of Guys Night and Grace Hello

Fun and Tail Gators and great new member class

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Baptism of Ozias

On April 27th 2025 we Baptized Ozzie as a child of God!

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Resurrected Way (Teaching Series)

Uncover the transformative Resurrected Way, illuminating the personal and powerful implications of Christ's victory over death and reshaping our understanding of life, hope, and mission in the world.

Resurrected Way

Uncover the transformative Resurrected Way, illuminating the personal and powerful implications of Christ's victory over death and reshaping our understanding of life, hope, and mission in the world.

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[Sunday] Backwards Beautiful - Kingdom Way - Matthew 28

A call to make disciples, rooted in Jesus's enduring love, empowers even the doubting to share a love that defines the very heart of the church. Matthew Chapter 28

A call to make disciples, rooted in Jesus's enduring love, empowers even the doubting to share a love that defines the very heart of the church.

Questions for the Week: Kingdom Way: Backwards Beautiful

  1. Read Matthew 28:16-20.  Making disciples is really about loving people. Can you think of a time this week when you showed love to someone? What happened? How did it feel?

  2. We all doubt ourselves sometimes,just like Joseph and even the disciples. When have you felt unsure about whether you were the right person for something? How did things turn out? What does it mean to know that God can work even in our doubts?

  3. In what ways does the church today prioritize principles over people, and what are the consequences?

  4. Jesus' final promise was "I am with you always." When have you felt God's presence with you, even in a small way? How does knowing that God is always with us encourage us to go and love others, even when you might doubt?


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Easter 2025 Photos

Thanks for the great Easter in 2025

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