Τα καλύτερα Grace Mills River podcast (2024)

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Peace For You Too

7d ago

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The angels were sent to pronounce the best news the world has ever heard. And who was the first stop on the tour? Shepherds, which was code back then for an everyday, normal person. This is heaven's gospel for a certain kind of person, someone we...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Keep the Peace of the Heart Before Everything

14d ago

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The first promise in the arrival of Christ is “peace on earth.” Peace plays a big part in Luke’s explanation of Jesus’s ministry, operating on several fronts. One of those: the human heart. As elusive as it is to experience an abiding peace, so the...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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In All Things

21d ago

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With due respect to our first Presidents who established days of thanksgiving–and then Lincoln who made it a regular annual national observance–there is a sadly ironic analogy to be drawn. If one day in three-hundred-sixty-five is set aside to reflect...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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We Live or Die By Encouragement

28d ago

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By it we grow, persevere, and recover. Those who offer it are like skilled surgeons, excising what’s necrotic and fostering healing. We underestimate its power and its necessity. We’re talking about encouragement. Among the many words of wisdom in...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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First Executive Order

1M ago

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Last week we considered from a letter to exiles what is the mandate for us all, irrespective of how this week’s election turned out. This week we consider, let’s call it, our “first executive order.” Some are elated–others angered. Still others, just...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Come What May (Nov 2024)

1M ago

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Historians will decide whether this election season has consumed a nation unlike previous national referenda. Come what may, what is our mandate, and the promise upon which it rests?Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Reformation Sunday

2M ago

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We are familiar with the so-called “humblebrag”--the subtle attempt to prop oneself up by appealing to one’s ostensible lowliness. We are too well attuned to that move and find it galling. What Paul will say in this passage is his most self-effacing...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Our First Love

2M ago

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As we close our series through I John, we are reminded that God is the source of love and only as we see His great love for us in the finished work of Jesus can we then move in gratitude to love others and flee from idols that can never love us like Him.Από τον Craig Lotz

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Finding Purpose in Suffering 34:36

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As we look for hope and strength after the storm, Paul reminds us that as we are comforted through Christ in the midst of suffering, we can then be compelled to reach out to others with the same gracious comfort we’ve been given.Από τον Chip Jones

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Sermon 10.06.24

2M ago

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Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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God Our Rest

3M ago

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CENTRAL TEXT: Psalm 621 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.3 How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning...Από τον Andrew Shank

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Sermon 09.15.24

3M ago

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CENTRAL TEXT: 1 John 4:1-6Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus...Από τον Gregg Stashenko

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Love: A Foil & The Hero

3M ago

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In the second half of chapter 3, John returns to a familiar theme of loving one another but this time we hear a new counter melody featuring Cain from the tragic story in Genesis 4. Cain had a love problem. And it turns out we are more like Cain...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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What in the World?

4M ago

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CENTRAL TEXT: 1 John 2:28-3:10And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices...Από τον Brad Owen

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Reclaiming Desire and Resisting Deception

4M ago

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As we make our way deeper into 1 John, we hear an exhortation and a warning. The exhortation is to not love the world or the things of the world--that which goes against our Messiah's way. Then we hear a warning to not be deceived by...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Knowing We Know God

4M ago

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After sounding the initial notes of fellowship with God and others as the song for practicing the way of Jesus, a new theme emerges in the second chapter of 1 John: How we know we know God. The call to obedience, the call to love all others as Christ...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Fellowship Restored

4M ago

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On the heels of considering the person and work of the Holy Spirit for many months, we spent the better part of a year on the power and privilege of prayer. God is moving us to practice his presence in more places and spaces in our lives as a church...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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The Waters We Drink

4M ago

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Our nagging, broken and barren hearts wake us up each morning and send us all on a perpetual quest for satisfaction, joy, fulfillment and completion. As we bounce around from thing to thing and person to person in an attempt to achieve this wholeness...Από τον Brian Land

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His…Forever

5M ago

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As we consider the final words of the Lord’s prayer, we will also take a quick look back at our entire series on prayer. His kingdom, power, and glory. Forever.Από τον Craig Lotz

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Temptation & Evil

5M ago

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After the call to the marathon that is forgiveness, we move to the final petition in the Lord's Prayer. You don't need a pastor to tell you that temptation and evil are ubiquitous today. But we do need clarity as to what God does for those...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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On Forgiveness

5M ago

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This week, guest speaker Chas Morris (Pastor at Grace Blue Ridge in Hendersonville) will continue in our study of the Lord's Prayer: forgiveness of our debts and forgiving others.Από τον Chas Morris

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Daily Bread

5M ago

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Only after we've looked up at our holy and heavenly Father does Jesus invite us to look around at what we need from him. Our daily bread is the most tangible of the petitions, which, of course, reminds us that our Father sustains us, body and...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Your Will Be Done

6M ago

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The final God-ward petition, “your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” may be the most difficult petition for modern people to pray. When “you do you” is our basic modus operandi, doing our Father’s will may feel like forcing the proverbial...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Your Kingdom Come

6M ago

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In light of our gospel privilege to commune with our Father in prayer, we turn our attention back to Jesus' prayer to the second God-ward petition, “Your kingdom come”. To a curious Pontius Pilate Jesus reveals that he is the King of a kingdom...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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The Privilege of Prayer

6M ago

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Prayer is so much better than a duty. It is an amazing privilege to be able to come at any time into the presence of God to worship Him and to share our hopes, dreams, hurts and needs. We would give anything to have this privilege were it not already...Από τον Ken Downer

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Hallowed Be Your Name

6M ago

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As we continue to look at The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus leads us to meditate on God’s holy, beautiful, and superlative character & name; which permeates all of creation and is ultimately displayed in the finished work of Jesus. Given a new name and...Από τον Craig Lotz

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Start with the End 37:10

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From how not to pray—masquerading as someone else before God and others—Jesus shifts gears: “Pray then like this,” he says, “Our Father in heaven…” These potent first four words will be supplemented with his teaching later in his sermon about a...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Performance vs. Hiddenness

7M ago

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Our final focus in our sermon series on prayer shifts to the Lord's Prayer. Right out of the gate, Jesus shows us how not to pray. Jesus reveals how a certain sin can lurk subterranean in our prayers, one that is so mainstream in our culture...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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The Prayer of Lament is a Calling

7M ago

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We’ve tried to explain a sadly too prominent kind of necessary prayer: the prayer of lament. It is our desperate act of appealing to a good God amid what often feels anything but good. We’ve said it is at bottom a longing, and also a journey. But we...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Between Here and Hope

7M ago

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Those who place their trust in the Lord are not immune to hardship, nor to the loss of hope we might associate in our day with depression. The experience of hopelessness is reportedly on the rise in many places and among several demographics, and with...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Prayer in Despair

7M ago

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Psalm 88 is the bleakest of all the psalms. It shares the same sorrow as other psalms of lament, but it lacks any of the resolution or hope. What does such a darkened word of prayer have for us? From it we learn what we will all have the occasion for...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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What Jesus Wants for Us, Part 2

8M ago

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st week we asked what Jesus wants for us. In that we find His prayers for us. And in what He prays for us we find not only what to pray for ourselves also, but perhaps a new motivation, born of him endearing himself to us in what he wants and prays...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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What Jesus Wants for Us, part 1

8M ago

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You can learn something about a person by what they want from you. Even more by what they want for you. For the next three weeks we will look at what is known as Jesus’s High Priestly Prayer, in which we will hear what he most wants for His own by...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Prayer After Easter

8M ago

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Easter changed everything. How did Easter impact the prayers of God’s people? By exploring the first recorded corporate prayer after the resurrection, we are (re)oriented to the kind of prayer the risen Jesus intends for his people.Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Resurrection Sunday, Easter 2024

9M ago

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The idea of resurrection is, contrary to conventional thinking, not confined to religious tradition. It has found its way into human intuition among even the most formidable minds with commitments to rationality just as strong. We’ll hear from one and...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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The Prayer of the Sobered

9M ago

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We’ve said there is no true repentance without praying. To that we add a corresponding truth that how you pray, the heart you cultivate in your praying, will have bearing on the life you then manifest. How you pray and the heart that is formed in the...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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A Sinner’s Prayer

9M ago

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Isn’t it curious that one thing we might most fear is precisely the way into new freedom? I’m talking about the confession of sin. Psalm 32 is a sinner’s prayer, highlighting the path from the place of sorrow and inner strife to the place of gladness...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Prayer is a Learned Conversation

9M ago

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Prayer is a learned conversation. What is our goal in prayer, God's goal in prayer?Από τον Jim Pearce

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True Repentance Depends on Prayer: A Sufferer’s Prayer

10M ago

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Lent is that season in the church calendar meant to underscore what has no season, what is necessary in every season–namely, repentance. It is a life. During these next weeks of Lent until Easter we’re going to look at several prayers that are...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Seeking God’s Face

10M ago

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Prayer is in right now. In fact, prayer and meditation are on the rise even as the American church is in decline. While most of us pray, we need a refresher course on what prayer is. In Psalm 27, God is out to redefine, reclaim, and rekindle our...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Practice Begins Here

10M ago

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We do not pray for the sake of praying. It is ordered to an even greater end. It is part of a good life. While Psalm 1 begins the prayerbook of Israel it is the only utterance that is not a prayer. But as it describes the fact, the character, and the...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Pray for your Lives

10M ago

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The first recorded address of God by humanity--the first “prayer”--comes in the context of humanity’s tragic choice–what we know as the fall from grace. And while that moment offers no explicit or intended teaching on the warrant, substance, or...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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The Spirit and Speaking

11M ago

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What was it all for? Why devote close to a year learning from and about the Holy Spirit? So much of what we considered focused on his purposes for us personally and communally. We want to conclude our particular attention to the Spirit with a focus on...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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The Spirit and the Sacraments–II: The Table

11M ago

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Humans have always been ritual-making creatures. We establish patterns, habits, and traditions which form our sense of identity and offer us meaning. The Lord’s Supper is one more example of our inclination to meaning-filled ritual. But its power lies...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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The Spirit and the Sacraments – I: Baptism

11M ago

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The sacraments of baptism and Lord’s Supper are neither magic nor are they mere moments that invoke a memory meant to move us. If not like those, what are they? What are they for? And if they involve something inward–something spiritual–then how, if...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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What’s the Spirit up to in a Sermon?

11M ago

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We round out our study of the Holy Spirit with a final stretch of sermons on the activity of the Holy Spirit in our private and public acts of worship. This week we consider what the Spirit is “up to” in the human act of preaching.Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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A Spiritual Renewal

11M ago

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Spiritual renewal and revival are buzzwords both inside and, in recent times, outside of evangelicalism. What is spiritual renewal and what is it for? We’ll turn to one of Paul’s final letters as we seek spiritual renewal for ourselves and for the...Από τον Andrew Kerhoulas

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Glory Changes

12M ago

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This time of year the impulse to make changes for the good is high. And like the morning frost that impulse disappears in the sunlight. We are not saved by change, but we are saved for it. What kind of change and what motive must be behind the change?...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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There’s a Glory in Play

12M ago

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**Please note: There will be no regular Sunday morning worship service on Christmas Eve. We invite your family to join us for our Christmas Eve service at 4:30pm on Sunday, December 24. We look forward to celebrating the Incarnation with our GMR...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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Glory made and meant for comfort

12M ago

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This season solicits merriment–some might say almost mandates it if you wish to fit in. But often the mirth belies the burdens so many of us carry. We all naturally seek comfort in such times. The glory of God, far from being an abstract idea, is...Από τον Patrick Lafferty

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