[Sunday] Prioritizing Prayer - Being Challenge

Praying to God gives us direction in a confusing world. That means it helps me on the inside. It doesn’t only help internally but also externally because it spills over into this world. And what goes into the world has an amazing chance of changing it.

Days This week.

• Tuesday Was Day 15 in your book.

• This Sunday is Day 20

Home Group Video and Questions

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Hurricane Ian Damage at Grace (not much) Plus Bob Cat

2 Trees in back of Grass Parking Lot Fell Over.
We Put them Back up!

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Lots of flooding of perimeter of property. Lots of Scattered debris around.
No building damage

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Big thanks to Patty, Pam, and Ken for Cleaning up the scattered debris.
Also big thanks to Katie, Jon and Meschac for helping put the trees back up!

Plus Bob Cat on Church Property.

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Finding Grace Within The Walls Of Leagalism

Read whole article at Finding Grace within the Walls of Legalism - Mockingbird (mbird.com)

He leaned back in his chair, its squeak distracting him from what he wanted to say. He leaned forward, his hands folded on his desk next to his little sign: President So And So. He was that important, I don’t even remember his name.

Gosh this is formal, I thought.

“Well Janell, I called you in here because I’m concerned about what kind of Bible you’re using.”

Oh. Right. This again.

Fresh out of my private Christian high school in the fall of 2001, I willingly and knowingly admitted myself into an Independent……………………………………………………………

Baptism of Titus Larose

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Week 3 Being Challenge Together: Studying Scripture

Pastor Cris’ Together Group Meets

Monday Starts at 7PM at Pastor’s House
Thursday Morning at 11am
Video recording releases Friday mornings.

Together Group Video Week 3

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Discussion Guide | Week 3

[Sunday] Commit to Community - Being Challenge

Remember how he burst into the room for the disciples and opened up the Scriptures, explained it to them, then sent them on their way? As we open up and explain the Scriptures, they help us to realize that everything else in this world falls short of knowing Jesus and being with Him

Days This week.

• Tuesday Was Day 8 in your book.

• This Sunday is Day 13

Home Group Video and Questions

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

It's Not Just Me (It's Everybody)

Read the full article at It's Not Just Me (It's Everybody) - Mockingbird (mbird.com)

The car radio can be a dangerous thing. You’ll be running errands or about to pick your children up at school when, all of a sudden, a song takes you by the hand and says, “It’s time for a good cry, don’t you think?” For me, the latest song to do such a thing is the new single from Weyes Blood, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody.” 

Sitting at this party
Wondering if anyone knows me
Really sees who I am
Oh it’s been so long since I felt really known…………………………………………….

Week 2 Being Challenge Together: Committing to Community

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Pastor Cris’ Together Group Meets

Monday Starts at 7PM at Pastor’s House
Thursday Morning at 11am
Video recording releases Friday mornings.

Together Group Video Week 2

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Discussion Guide | Week 2

[Sunday] Commit to Community - Being Challenge

We will get tripped up, make mistakes, and annoy one another at times, but we are better together. Let’s commit to one another, let’s let His example guide us, His grace compel us, and His love transform our lives.

Days This week.

• Tuesday Was Day 1 in your book.

• This Sunday is Day 6

Home Group Video and Questions

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

ONE BIG (UNHAPPY) FAMILY?

Let me tell you the one line that will send me screaming from any new church I visit.

It’s not: “Would you like to join the property committee?”

Nor is it: “Our organist Ethel has been with the church for eighty years and she’s still going strong!”

It isn’t even: “We went through a kind of split lately but it’s really OK because those people were saying and doing these things and honestly we’re better off without them.” (Well, I might run from this church, too.)

The one line that raises my hackles and sets me on high alert is to all appearances innocuous, innocent, and charming.

It’s this: “Our church is one big family.”

Noooooooooo!

What’s wrong with this? Let me count the ways………………………..

Week 1 Being Challenge Together: intro

Above is pastors together group

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Welcome to Week 1 Contents.

• Pastor Cris Together Group Video

  • Meets Thursday 11am: Video Releases Friday Morning

• Together Group Video

• Discussion Guide

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Pastor Cris’ Together Group Meets
Thursday Morning at 11am
Video recording releases Friday mornings.

Together Group Video Week 1

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Discussion Guide | Week 1

[Sunday] Keystone Habits- Being Challenge

The challenge begins this week as we introduce 5 keystone habits which are found in Jesus' teachings and life. The hope is for the habits to become part of who you are and that they would deepen your "being" with Jesus.

Days This week.

• Tuesday is Day 1 in your book.

• Sunday is Day 6

Home Group Video and Questions

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Being Challenge! New Series in September

The most important target to hit as a disciple of Jesus is BEING in a relationship with Him.

We know what it’s like to have the desire to grow in our relationship with God and yet feel stagnant. Being Challenge leads readers to a stronger relationship with God through simple challenges that focus on the 5 keystone habits of Jesus: community, scripture, prayer, solitude and church.

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• September 11 Intro

  • Day 1: Tuesday

• September 18

  • Commit to Community Day 6

• September 25

  • Study Scripture Day 13

• October 2

  • Prioritize Prayer Day 20

• October 9

  • Seek Solitude Day 27

• October 16

  • Choose Church Day 34

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September 11th we are starting the Being Challenge.

Red Letter Challenge is a dynamic 40-day experience that helps people more effectively follow Jesus Christ!

• Practice the Habits of Jesus

• Find Joy in Relationship with God

• Discover Purpose Being with God

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Purchase the Workbook

• Grabe a Workbook.

  • The books can be shared but feel free to grab what you need

• The church has ordered some Being books.

  • The books cost the church 25$ Per Book

  • As with everything if 25$ is too much please take one.

• Both Amazon and RLC both are selling the book

  • both links are included.

    • Amazon may be faster,

    • RLC will be cheaper.

Buy the Book on Amazon

Being Challenge: A 40-Day Challenge to Be Like Jesus

By Zach Zehnder

Buy on Amazon

Buy the book on Red Letter challenge Site

Being Challenge Together Groups

New Together Group Weeks Released Sunday at 11am

We are stronger together and any challenge is better when helped.
I encourage you to meeting with other people to watch each week’s video and go through the discussion questions.

[Bible Study] Galatians Chapter 5-6

Where We Were Always Meant To Be

Read whole article Here at Mbird.com

my book group spent this past summer reading through Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, a fictional book of strung-together memories and reflections of a wizened old barber in the small town of Port William, Kentucky. The book is filled to the brim with thoughts on “rootedness” and “place.” Jayber Crow hasn’t ever left the state, and he’s barely left the small town, but the story should serve as a reminder that you don’t have to travel the world to think deep thoughts and reflect on what it is to love……………………..

[Sunday] The Staff- Missio Dei

God came into the world not in power but as a baby born in poverty. When God set his people apart, he did not find a powerful ruler but a man who had no son. When God looked for a new king, he picked the one that was left in the field. And when God was asked how "How will they know I came from you?" He said, "Bring your staff, Moses."

Questions for the week

1. What causes you to groan in life? What is your staff of Moses?

2. Read 2 Corinthians 5:11-21.   What does a ministry of reconciliation look like in your life?

3. Focusing on verse 21, what assurance do you have from Jesus in the middle of groans and sins of life?

4. How might you encourage someone in the groans of life?

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What Had happened at Grace this week. 

Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast

I have talked about this Podcast a few times now. For the last year we have talked about power. This podcast is about that and its corruption in one of the biggest churches in the world. Its very interesting.

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill | Podcasts | Christianity Today

Founded in 1996, Seattle’s Mars Hill Church was poised to be an influential, undeniable force in evangelicalism—that is until its spiraling collapse in 2014. The church and its charismatic founder, Mark Driscoll, had a promising start. But the perils of power, conflict, and Christian celebrity eroded and eventually shipwrecked both the preacher and his multimillion-dollar platform.

[Bible Study] Galatians Chapter 3-4

[Sunday] The Reset - Missio Dei

The head Pharisee yelled at the guard for not capturing Jesus, “Has the whole world gone after Him?" Frustrated, this head Pharisee desperately needed a win, but not just a win; winning was his entire goal, and that goal blinded him to the heart of God in the world. We are no different. We need a reset.

Questions for the week

1. Think of a time when you took wanting to win too far.  How did that affect you and the relationships around you?

2. Read John 8:21-20.  Jesus speaks of “being lifted up.”  What does this mean?  Why would that be divisive?

3. As you read through the gospel of John, how does Nicodemus understand what it means that Jesus is lifted up?

4. How has Jesus reset and restored you?

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What Had happened at Grace this week.