Lent Services at Grace 2018
Wednesdays at 7pm!
Wednesdays!
Potluck 6pm
Service 7pm
Sundays 10AM
Sunday School 8:45am
Holy Week! 2018
Maundy Thursday
6pm Service, Dinner out afterworlds.
Good Friday
Noon Service
7pm Service
Easter Sunday!
Sunrise 7AM
Breakfast 8:30 (after the Sunrise service)
Easter Sunday Service 10AM
Ash Wednesday 2018
Photos From Ash Wednesday
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WIhoOZ4qwuIl8Cez2BUn-ML5sW83tNn4Mduv9Z5_ibc/edit?usp=drivesdk
Eye For an Eye - Mis"Quoted"
Exodus 21:23-25 - But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Today February 11, 2018
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 8:45 pm
Worship 10:00 am
Fellowship Immediately following the service
Korean Church Worship 1:00 pm
Women’s Community Bible Study 4:00 pm
AA 7:30 pm
This Week
Via de Cristo @ Bocks home 2/12, Monday, 6:30 pm
MOPS 2/14, Wednesday, 9:15 am
Mahjong 2/14, Wednesday, Noon
Ash Wednesday Dinner 2/14, Wednesday, 6:00 pm
Ash Wednesday 2/14, Wednesday, 7:00 pm
Bible Study @Perkin’s Restaurant 2/15, Thursday, 7:00 am
Scripture Narration 2/15, Thursday, 11:00 am
Korean Prayer Meeting 2/17, Saturday, 6:00 am
Watch the Latest Photo Video!
What Had happened at Grace this week.
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Photos Feb 10th. Real Life Children's Ranch Pancake Breakfast benefit.
Benefit Pancake Breakfast
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for the pancake breakfast benefiting Real Life Children's Ranch.
Pancake Breakfast to benefit Real Life Children’s Ranch on February 10th from 7:00 am till noon. Come join us. Contact Judy Fredrich or Vivian Barto for tickets.
Why Can't We Make Images of God
Only in the person of Jesus do we see God! He is literally “God with us,” the true image of God
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ”
Commands like this one in Exodus 20 sound strange. What a harsh thing for God to say. If God is invisible, why not have pictures, statues, or images? We are visual creatures after all.
God grounds his reasoning for this command in what he has done for Israel in redeeming her from slavery. This second commandment flows from the first. The Lord gives such commands because he is holy, just, and good. He deserves our respect, love, and obedience not only because he has the “superior firepower,” but because he has created us for love and obedience.
Religions in the Ancient World
In the ancient world religion, magic, and superstition were often intertwined. It was very common to attempt to control a deity through secret names, incantations, and idols. Controlling divine powers, so you could have better crops or a large family, was a primary objective in religion.
The Lord makes the second commandment in this specific context. He cannot be confined by anything or anyone; he cannot be coerced to give grace or love. It was through images and idols that the ancient world sought to control their gods. To make such an image is to do violence to God and his character (Deut. 16:22; Lev. 26:1). That is why creating idols comes with such harsh-sounding punishments (Ps. 97:7). The unique authority and transcendence of God is a proper basis for his commands since he alone can decide how to be worshiped.
Grace Email Feb 8th
Email for Feb 8th
Ash Wednesday
7 pm February 14th
I’m so excited for Valentine’s Day this year! Every year, I always struggle with this holiday. I always want to do something meaningful and special for my wife, Coli. As I attempt for the perfect Valentine’s Day, the restaurants always seem full, and cooking at home was never my strong suit! But this year it’s different, and I want to invite you to be in on the joy!
This February 14th , Grace Lutheran PSL has you covered! After much thought, we would like to cordially invite you to the Ash Wednesday service at 7:00 pm. We promise it will be one of the most memorable Valentine’s Days of recent history.
Join us for dinner beforehand at 6 pm.
Game Night Friday!
Come join us Friday at 6pm for games and treats.
Pancake Breakfast
Pancake Breakfast to benefit Real Life Children’s Ranch on February 10th from 7:00 am till noon (at Grace). Come join us. Contact Judy Fredrich or Vivian Barto for more information.
Listen to the Scriptures
Thursdays 11 am
Exodus 18-23
Join us as we listen to the story of God’s people in the wilderness.
Article to Workout Your Faith
When Doctrine Becomes Idolatry
Christian doctrine in the hands of the old sinner becomes a megaphone that he uses to proclaim, “Listen to me, I’ve got all the answers.
https://www.gracelutheranpsl.com/news/when-doctrine-becomes-idolatry
Sermon From Sunday
MisQuoted
Matthew 19:26
Matthew 19:25-26 - When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Watch it today!
https://www.gracelutheranpsl.com/news/misquoted5
Read Scripture 2018
Read the Bible in 2018
Get ready! We have a plan to read the scriptures through next year. This plan will include videos to help explain what is going on as you read through the scripture.
The finishing touches are currently being made to the plan now, but if you would like to get started, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/read2018
See you Sunday!
When Doctrine Becomes Idolatry
Christian doctrine in the hands of the old sinner becomes a megaphone that he uses to proclaim, “Listen to me, I’ve got all the answers.
I’m a drug addict. Specifically, a recovering drug addict. More specific, a grateful recovering drug addict. And as I sit here now, clear-headed, I can reflect on what it was like just before drug use pushed me over the edge of sanity and I hit bottom. I remember that my preferred daily cocktail of chemicals was cannabis, hallucinogens, and prescription narcotics. Then, thank God, they threw me into a ditch of hopelessness that I couldn't crawl out of, and I knew it. I’d used up all my tomorrows. No more free day passes. I was awoken to the fact that I hadn’t been using drugs, drugs had been using me, and they’d used me up.
The revelation that I was powerless over my addiction, that my life had become unmanageable, drove me, eventually, to get clean. I found a twelve step meeting. I relapsed several times. In the in-between times though, I didn’t recognize that I was using my “drug problem” to hide my “reality problem.” Even though I attended meetings, listened to other addicts tell their story, and shared my personal tales of insanity, I still, all too often, transferred my addiction onto other stuff I imagined could give me relief. One example was when I threw myself into cycling. Four hours a day on a bike. Six hours a day on weekends, until my wife demanded I choose between her and our son or go semi-pro to make a living racing. And that’s the way it went for years. Until I dedicated myself to working a program of recovery I flitted from one new addiction-feeding distraction to another. Not surprising, the result was still the same. Self-destructive tendencies. Relationships neglected. Responsibilities put off, self-justifications, self-preservation at all costs, everything custom designed to escape having to deal with reality as it is, not as I would have it be.
Matthew 19:26 - Mis"Quoted"
Matthew 19:25-26 - When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Today January 28, 2018
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 8:45 pm
Worship 10:00 am
Fellowship Immediately following the service
Korean Church Worship 1:00 pm
Women’s Community Bible Study 4:00 pm
AA 7:30 pm
This Week
LWML 2/5, Monday, 1:00 pm
Via de Cristo @ Bocks home 2/5, Monday, 6:30 pm
Weekly Revelation Bible Study 2/6, Tuesday, 11:00 am
Carrabbba’s Annual Fundraiser 2/7, Wednesday, 11:00 am
Mahjong 2/7, Wednesday, Noon
Bible Study @Perkin’s Restaurant 2/8, Thursday, 7:00 am
Scripture Narration 2/8, Thursday, 11:00 am
Foster Grandparents 2/9,Friday, 10:00 pm
Game Night 2/9, Friday, 6:00 pm
Korean Prayer Meeting 2/10, Saturday, 6:00 am
Real Life Ranch Pancake Breakfast 2/10, Saturday, 7:00 am
Watch the Latest Photo Video!
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Email 1/31/18
Ash Wednesday
7pm February 14th
I’m so excited at Valentine’s Day this year! Every year, I always struggle with this holiday. I always want to do something meaningful and special for my wife, Coli. As I attempt for the perfect Valentines Day, the restaurants always seem full and cooking at home was never my strong suit! But, this year it’s different, and I want to invite you to be in on the joy!
This February 14th , Grace Lutheran PSL got you covered! After much thought, we would like to cordially invite you to the Ash Wednesday service at 7:00 pm. We promise it will be one of the most memorable Valentine’s Day of recent history.
Dinner Beforehand 6PM
Pancake Breakfast.
Feb 10th Morning at Grace
Buy you tickets early for this Fundraiser benefiting Real Life Children’s Ranch.
Talk to Judy or Vivian.
Read Scripture 2018
Read the Bible in 2018
Get ready! We have a plan to read the scriptures through next year. This plan will include videos to help explain what is going on as you read through the scripture.
The finishing touches are currently being made to the plan now, but if you would like to get started, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/read2018
Listen to the Scriptures:
Thursdays 11AM
Exodus 13-18
Join us as we listen to the story of the crossing of the Red Sea.
SARAH’S KITCHEN Eighth Annual Carrabba’s Luncheon
It will be held on Wednesday, February 7th from 11:00 am till 2:00 pm at 1900 SW Fountainview Blvd. PSL. Tickets are $20.00 per person. For ticket information call Julie at 772-834-2818.
Article to Workout Your Faith
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE A CHRISTIAN?
Faith is not a feeling, even though it is often accompanied by profound experience. But is created in us by the external announcement of the gospel..
https://corechristianity.com/resource-library/articles/what-should-you-do-when-you-dont-feel-like-a-christian
Sermon From Sunday
MisQuoted
Isaiah 55:8
Isaiah 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Watch it today!
https://www.gracelutheranpsl.com/news/misquoted4
See you Sunday!
What Should You Do When You Don't Feel Like a Christian
Faith is not a feeling, even though it is often accompanied by profound experience. But is created in us by the external announcement of the gospel.
In my last year of seminary, almost everything went wrong. I was about to graduate with no job prospects. I was in debt. My wife had just miscarried, and finals were about to begin. My wife wanted me to finish; she wanted us to move out of that stage of life. I didn’t want to let her down, but I felt guilty for studying. As Sunday approached, I didn’t want to go to church; I didn’t feel like a Christian. My faith felt weak.
I had the right answers. I knew the theology. I had received a good education, but I had such a hard time praying. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe God was there, or that I believed God didn’t care, or that God was not good because he had allowed evil to come my way. It was much more complicated. I just didn’t feel well; I knew God wasn't to blame.
I blamed myself. That semester was stressful. In the rush to study and finish strong while trying to secure a job and complete my internship responsibilities at my local church, I was constantly frustrated, exhausted, and irritable. I brought these feelings home to my wife. I caused her a lot of stress as she worried about our future, a future for which I had failed to adequately prepare. This is what I told myself; I couldn’t help it. I remember that as we sat together in the hospital, all feelings of hope dissipated.
As Sunday approached, I didn’t feel like a Christian, but I went to church anyway. My plan was simple. I was going to keep trying to be a Christian. I was going to keep trying to pray, but I wasn’t going to pretend that everything was okay when it wasn’t...................
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Ash Wednesday Service
Febuary 14th 7PM
7pm February 14th
I’m so excited at Valentine’s Day this year! Every year, I always struggle with this holiday. I always want to do something meaningful and special for my wife, Coli. As I attempt for the perfect Valentines Day, the restaurants always seem full and cooking at home was never my strong suit! But, this year it’s different, and I want to invite you to be in on the joy!
This February 14th , Grace Lutheran PSL got you covered! After much thought, we would like to cordially invite you to the Ash Wednesday service at 7:00 pm. We promise it will be one of the most memorable Valentine’s Day of recent history.
Dinner Beforehand
Isaiah 55:8 - Mis"Quoted"
Isaiah 55:8 - For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Today January 28, 2018
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 8:45 pm
Worship 10:00 am
Fellowship Immediately following the service
Korean Church Worship 1:00 pm
Women’s Community Bible Study 4:00 pm
AA 7:30 pm
This Week
Via de Cristo @ Bocks home 1/29, Monday, 6:30 pm
Weekly Revelation Bible Study 1/30, Tuesday, 11:00 am
Mahjong 1/31, Wednesday, Noon
Bible Study @Perkin’s Restaurant 2/1, Thursday, 7:00 am
Brownies 2/1, Thursday, 6:60 pm
Scripture Narration 2/1, Thursday, 11:00 am
Korean Prayer Meeting 2/3, Saturday. 6:00 am
Watch the Latest Photo Video!
What Had happened at Grace this week.
How to ‘Deny Yourself’ Without Destroying Yourself
letting go of our hoped-for outcomes and sitting in the space of powerlessness with ourselves and for the world.
““Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” ”
Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who was too demanding? Perhaps they wanted so much of your attention that you felt like you were slowly vanishing? This kind of co-dependency can be toxic. So what do we do with the demands that Jesus extends to His followers? Does He ask too much of us? Does following Jesus require us to be self-deprecating?
Consider this passage from the middle of the Gospel of Mark, the climax of the story. Jesus asks His disciples who people are saying He is and what they think about his mission. Then He asks them who they think he is. Peter answers, and his answer is right on. But as one of my Pepperdine theology professors would tell us, small theological boats should stay close to shore. Peter should have quit while he was ahead.
Jesus begins to elaborate on Peter’s answer, and Peter quickly corrects Him, earning sharp words from Jesus. But the story doesn’t end there. It ends with an invitation. You can’t follow Jesus by doing anything less than losing your life. Jesus is saying that through weakness, powerlessness and death grow victory, strength and life. That what might look nonsensical or like a stumbling block or scandal actually holds the key to being a follower of Jesus and being part of transforming the world we live in.
When I first presented these ideas in a course I was teaching, my students challenged this self-denial. Many of them were familiar with relationships that seemed to suck the life out of them and asked why endorse a Christian idea that simply enables unhealthy relational dynamics? And they were rightly cautious of a “depraved” view of the self that in the name of self-denial felt simply like self-deprecation. I am a Christian so I have to give up everything including myself. So the question is how does this spiritual call of denial not become co-dependency or self-deprecating?
Let me clarify. Co-dependency is what we call it when someone attends to the desires and needs of another person at the expense of one’s own needs, often found in relationships. Co-dependency is often found where addiction and violence are present...........................
Here We Are Now. Entertain Us.
When our affections find rest in the preaching of Christ, we are divinely 'entertained' by the gospel. Our souls find grace upon grace. Our restless hearts will come again and rest in God.
BY PAUL DUNK
Do you remember way back in May 2007, Charlie and his brother Harry were sitting on a chair when Charlie bit Harry's finger? The little guys broke the internet.
Do you remember the double rainbow of 2010?
Here we are now - entertain us. ~ Kurt Cobain
Like myself, you probably laughed at Charlie, the double rainbow and the innumerable amount of funny videos that went viral since.
Needless to say, these two videos are old news and the next big thing is being uploaded as I type this.
We love the next big thing.
The next innovative thing.
The next money making thing.
The next fashionable thing.
The next technological thing.
The next entertaining thing.
The next fitness thing.
The next dietary thing.
The next funny thing.
Here we are now. entertain us.
As preachers, we have to deliver a message every seven days. As worshippers, you are on the receiving end those messages - every seven days. We all come to worship - every seven days.
Now, according to Jesus and the New Testament, He's supposed to be smack dab in the centre of our worship - every seven days. Gathering around the same thing seems like a pretty tall order for people who are always in search of the next big thing.
Now, if us preachers present the gospel repeatedly in anticipated ways, with predictable phrases and pithy go-to sayings, we are inviting you to nod off.
Here's the challenge. If, for fear of your impending boredom, we don't preach about Jesus - every seven days, we've abandoned our call.
Preaching is, quite literally, proclaiming Christ and Him crucified. It's supposed to be our jam. So if we aren't speaking about Him, there's someone more qualified to speak to you about the topic we decided to speak to you about.
Full disclosure here: if us pastors get off the Christ Alone bus, we're of very little value to you. We're not as inspiring as Margaret Thatcher, we don't have the business acumen of Ken Blanchard and we're not nearly as entertaining as Jimmy Fallon.
As Jared Wilson states in his book Gospel Wakefulness, "We must routinely present the unchanging gospel in a way that does justice to its earthshaking announcement. This doesn’t mean we need to set it up with a power ballad or dress it up. It means we present it like life or death stuff."
If it's not important to us as worshippers that Christ is presented weekly from the scriptures, or that our children grow up learning God's law and God's gospel, we will come into our churches like viral video junkies, tired of yesterdays-news-Jesus, looking for the preacher to give us our next double rainbow.
If Christ doesn't need to be central, then any talk that inspires us to be better people is cool beans. Jesus got airtime in the last series, so this next series is about me? Perfect. Hearing about Jesus every seven days seems like overkill anyhow. Besides, I don't care if my kids are taught the actual bible, so long as the teaching helps them develop good morals and ethics. Plus they like the roller coaster in the world class children's program.
Here we are now. Entertain us.
Over in the other ditch, our ears can itch in a different way. In that ditch we're so bored with the Lord, we assume Christ, bypass His grace and go straight to intellectual stimulus via academic lectures that are so theologically nuanced, Christ ends up playing the background to the finer points of theology. While our airtight doctrine is presented with a level of accuracy that would rival the church fathers who crafted the Westminster Catechism, the power of Christ and His grace can still be conspicuously missing from those types of sermons.
We can puff our chests out because our children memorized the catechisms, but if Jesus isn't front and centre, they can grow up to be like mechanics who know where all the bolts go but have never experienced the joy of driving with the wind in their hair. They're bored with the Lord too.
Here we are now. Entertai... meh. Intellectually stimulate us............................
Matthew 18:20 - Mis"Quoted"
Today: Matthew 18:20 - For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.
Watch the Latest Photo Video!
What Had happened at Grace this week.
Email January 18 2018
Click for the January News Letter
Pancake Breakfast.
Feb 10th Morning at Grace
Buy you tickets early for this Fundraiser benefiting Real Life Children’s Ranch.
Read Scripture 2018
Read the Bible in 2018
Get ready! We have a plan to read the scriptures through next year. This plan will include videos to help explain what is going on as you read through the scripture.
The finishing touches are currently being made to the plan now, but if you would like to get started, go to www.gracelutheranpsl.com/read2018
Listen to the Scriptures:
Thursdays 11AM
Exodus 1-6
Join us as we Listen to the Story of Moses and how God saves his people.
Article to Workout Your Faith
JUST BECAUSE YOU FORGIVE, IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO TRUST AGAIN
As you discuss the future, you clearly delineate what your expectations are, what limits you will set, what the conditions will be, or what the consequences (good or bad) of various actions will be.
https://www.gracelutheranpsl.com/news/just-because-you-forgive-it-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-trust-again
Sermon From Sunday
MisQuoted Jeremiah 29:11
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Watch it today!
https://www.gracelutheranpsl.com/news/misquoted2
Thursday, September 4 at 5:45 PM at St Lucie Draft House- 6630 Federal Hwy, Port St Lucie