Posts from May 2023

Dear Grace Family, The more ground we cover in Genesis and Acts, the more the similarities are rising to the surface between the earliest stages of the “proto” Church of the patriarchs and the infant Church in Acts. People called to drop everything they were doing and reexamine everything they thought for the sake of the Triune God. For most of us, even if we haven’t been Christians from our earliest memories, we’ve at least had a close acquaintance with…

Dear Grace Family, Please consider the following article and reflect on it as we both prepare for this coming Sunday, but also think about all of our Sundays. I was convicted and challenged. Humbly yours, Seth The Ministry of the Pew: Sunday Morning for Normal ChristiansArticle by Greg Morse The first step is to survive the coordinated attacks from the children. An ex-nihilo stain suddenly appears on my daughter’s dress. An episode from my son responding to his sister’s “help.”…

Dear Grace Family, I wanted to keep y’all in the loop on a few things, as we are in the yearly transitional phase of school year to summer break. First, I wanted to let y’all know that rather than coming back on the diaconate from his sabbatical, Tom Jackson has decided to step away from the diaconate at this time. Tom is being a dutiful son and son-in-law to his mom and mother-in-law. He is serving them by taking them…

Dear Grace Family, How do you spend your downtime? Or are you like me and respond to that question with, “what is downtime?” As far as the life of our church goes, May is a month of downtime. We have a limited number of volunteers pulling off an exhaustive amount of ministry, so May, August, and Christmas are natural times we’ve built into our life together to take a break. However, not all of you are at the age/stage in…