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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Welcome to GracePoint Church! This place is filled with a bunch of regular people living in the real world. We’re glad you are here! We believe that all of us are on a journey with God. We want to help you move forward on the path He has for you! We don’t have it all together and we don’t have all the answers, but we can point you to the ONE who does.
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Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Welcome to GracePoint Church! This place is filled with a bunch of regular people living in the real world. We’re glad you are here! We believe that all of us are on a journey with God. We want to help you move forward on the path He has for you! We don’t have it all together and we don’t have all the answers, but we can point you to the ONE who does.
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
• This Series: In many ways, hymns are the oral history of our faith. Like the Psalms in the Bible, they are passed from generation to generation and sung in cathedrals, chapels, churches and sometimes around a family piano. This How Sweet the Sound series delves into some of those classic hymns and explore the story behind these songs. We hope it will also breathe new life into their melodies to illuminate the hope they have for us today.
• This Week: Horatio Spafford was a successful lawyer in Chicago. His son died of pneumonia prior to Horatio’s financial disaster in the wake of the great Chicago fire of 1871. Desiring rest for his wife and four daughters, he planned a European trip for his family. Unexpectantly, he needed to remain in Chicago as he sent off his family on the ship with plans to join them shortly. On the way, the ship is struck by another ship, sinks and all four daughters drowned in the accident. His wife, Anna, survives and taken to Wales where she sends her husband a telegram that says, “Saved alone. What shall I do?” When Horatio comes upon the location where his daughters drowned, in spite of his pain, he pens the lyrics to It is well with my soul. Powerful words that tell us how God is with us in the middle of our pain.
Key Phrase: “Cast all your anxiety upon him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
• This Series: In many ways, hymns are the oral history of our faith. Like the Psalms in the Bible, they are passed from generation to generation and sung in cathedrals, chapels, churches and sometimes around a family piano. This How Sweet the Sound series delves into some of those classic hymns and explore the story behind these songs. We hope it will also breathe new life into their melodies to illuminate the hope they have for us today.
• This Week: Irishman Joseph Scriven lost his fiancé in a horrible accident the day before to their wedding. In his grief, he moved to Canada. Later, after he came to know Christ as his Savior, he fell in love with another woman who ended up dying of pneumonia weeks before their wedding. He never loved another woman again. When Joseph received news of his mother’s impending death, he wrote her a poem since he couldn’t afford to travel home. Years later, his friend found his poem and put it to music that would later be known as, What a Friend We Have in Jesus.
Key Phrase: “Cast all your anxiety upon him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
• This Series: In many ways, hymns are the oral history of our faith. Like the Psalms in the Bible, they are passed from generation to generation and sung in cathedrals, chapels, churches and sometimes around a family piano. This How Sweet the Sound series delves into some of those classic hymns and explore the story behind these songs. We hope it will also breathe new life into their melodies to illuminate the hope they have for us today.
• This Week: A Swedish editor and future politician, Carl Boberg, encountered a tremendous storm while walking home one day. As Carl ran for shelter, he was awed as the lightning flashed, thunderclaps shook the air. When the storm relented, he rushed home and wrote a simple poem about this event. This poem was called O Store Gud which means, O Mighty God. This poem became a song that was then translated into German and Russian before finally translated into English. It lived in rather obscurity until a singing cowboy evangelist in India heard it and brought it back to the United States. In 1949 it received a new title. In 1954, George Beverly Shea introduced it to Billy Graham who loved it so much he brought to his New York City Crusade where 93 million people heard it. Elvis Pressley sang it and won a Grammy and Carrie Underwood topped the chart with her rendition of it in 2011. It is now regarded as the #2 all-time favorite hymn in the world - How Great Thou Art.
Key Phrase: “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars, which you have set in place…” Psalm 8:3
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
• This Series: In many ways, hymns are the oral history of our faith. Like the Psalms in the Bible, they are passed from generation to generation and sung in cathedrals, chapels, churches and sometimes around a family piano. This How Sweet the Sound series delves into some of those classic hymns and explore the story behind these songs. We hope it will also breathe new life into their melodies to illuminate the hope they have for us today.
• This Week: When John Newton was young, he worked on a slave ship. He had such a hatred of God that he was referred to as the “Great Blasphemer.” During a horrible storm, he cried out to God for mercy. Surviving, he began to read the Bible and accepted Christ as Savior. He then penned one of the most famous hymns of all time: Amazing Grace.
Key Phrase: “You were… but God…by grace…” Ephesians 2:1-5
Monday Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
• This Series: The first letter to the church at Thessalonica is a relevant letter for our day. These believers were worried and a bit stressed that they had somehow missed the coming of Christ. Today, many believers are worried and stressed that the coming of Christ is not coming fast enough. This study through this intimate letter will help prepare us for the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
• This Week: Before takeoff, every pilot has a series of things to check off before the airplane can take off. Paul finishes this personal letter by giving the Thessalonian believers a detailed checklist for them to do before meeting Jesus.
Key Phrase: “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances…” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Monday Jul 26, 2021
Monday Jul 26, 2021
• This Series: The first letter to the church at Thessalonica is a relevant letter for our day. These believers were worried and a bit stressed that they had somehow missed the coming of Christ. Today, many believers are worried and stressed that the coming of Christ is not coming fast enough. This study through this intimate letter will help prepare us for the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
• This Week: There is still a raging theological debate regarding a word that is not even mentioned in the Bible: Rapture. However, I will give you reasons why I believe scripture points to the rapture of believers prior to the wrath of God called the Tribulation.
Key Phrase: “We who are still alive and are left will be caught up together…” 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
• This Series: The first letter to the church at Thessalonica is a relevant letter for our day. These believers were worried and a bit stressed that they had somehow missed the coming of Christ. Today, many believers are worried and stressed that the coming of Christ is not coming fast enough. This study through this intimate letter will help prepare us for the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
• This Week: Because of Jesus Christ and what awaits those who have placed their faith in him, we shouldn’t view death like everyone else in this world. In our post-Christian culture, death is the end. To the believer, death is just the beginning of eternal life. Both Jesus and Paul do not refer to death as death. Instead, it’s just “sleep.”
Key Phrase: “We do not grieve like those… who have no hope.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
• This Series: The first letter to the church at Thessalonica is a relevant letter for our day. These believers were worried and a bit stressed that they had somehow missed the coming of Christ. Today, many believers are worried and stressed that the coming of Christ is not coming fast enough. This study through this intimate letter will help prepare us for the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
• This Week: The will of God is pretty clear in this passage: be sanctified in our sexuality! One of the clearest and most powerful testimonies we can have in our sex-crazed culture is to live with sexual self-control. It is unheard of, crazy, out of this universe kind of living that please God. Paul goes point by point in what God wants in this area of our life.
Key Phrase: “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified…” 1 Thessalonians 4:3