Grace Community Church Newsletter, Sunday, 23rd September, 2012
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Dear Church, “I keep asking…” Ephesians 1:17 The three emphases that we set out at the AGM back in April this year were Community Groups, Evangelism and Prayer; in different ways we have sought to promote all three in the life of the church. Today I feel drawn once again to write about prayer, because prayer under …
Dear Church, “Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.” A W Tozer In today’s world we are governed by the impressions of our senses. We live our lives by what we see, hear, smell and touch. We find our security in what we deem to be these concrete realities and our …
Dear Church, *Once upon a time people lived in community. Entertainment was found in conversation. When people were in difficulty they helped one another out. Their lives depended on that because there was no welfare state or NHS. Nowadays we rarely know the neighbours, never mind the rest of the street. We get our entertainment …
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Dear Church, And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.” Mark 9:28-29 When Jesus came down from the mountain where He had been transfigured, He was immediately faced with …
Dear Church, The Prayer of Nehemiah in Nehemiah chapter 1 Last Sunday evening we began our series on the great prayers of the Bible with Nehemiah’s prayer in Nehemiah 1. We saw that if we think of prayer only in terms of requests, then Nehemiah’s whole prayer boils down to one simple request in the …
Dear Church, Why is prayer so important to us at GCC? As children of our Father we are called into a relationship with Him. Relationships cannot survive where there is no communication and prayer is first and foremost the way in which we conduct our relationship with God. In prayer we express our love for …