Posts from February 2023

Dear Grace Family, Somehow, we’ve already made it through 6 weeks of our Wednesday night study for the semester. I found it hard to believe as I checked the last February date off my sheet last night. What are some of the themes you’ve noticed uniting the various prayers we’ve studied together? There are 4 words I keep coming back to as my thoughts return to our time together each midweek – literacy, humility, dependency, urgency. What do I mean…

Dear Grace Family, I want to try and cover two things today being as brief as possible with each of them. First, as the busyness of the holiday season and transition into the new year have passed, I want to make sure y’all are in the loop on our 2023 church budget. Second, I want to give just a few introductory comments on the book of Acts to help prepare us for our upcoming sermon series that will begin this…

Dear Grace Family, As your pastor, I often think through the question of what our identity is as a church. Or to put it another way, if you had an elevator ride with someone and they asked you, “what is Grace Pres like?” what would you say? I think it’s important for all of us, not just me or the officers, to think through who we are as a church and what it is that keeps us coming back. There…